No, it's there. The tour singles are some of my favorite stuff.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
So, how much of this stuff remains uncompiled?
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Uncompiled: Low Fi, The In Sound, The Underground is Coming, and everything after Captain Easychord. And ABC (The Multitude) was only on the Japanese edition of Aluminum Tunes.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 12 July 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link
The In Sound tracks are all found on "Aluminum Tunes", just retitled. I guess they changed the names between releasing the EP and AT.
Blue Milk = Munich MadnessOne Thousand Miles An Hour = 1000 Miles An HourAluminum Tune = Golden Atoms
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 July 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Flourescences hasn't been compiled, has it?
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
It's on Oscillons
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
Blue Milk = Munich Madness
whoa, I never knew there was another song called Blue Milk??
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
I don't know why I've thought this whole time that Oscillons from the Anti-Sun was a best of set.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
There's also "Blaue Milch" on this, but I think that's unrelated to the Cobra & Phases "Blue Milk" or "Munich Madness"?
― with hidden noise, Friday, 13 July 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
Right, completely different track.
I listened to everything in order - something I've never done before. I fell in love with the krautrock of "Jenny Ondioline" (which is too short no matter show long it is) and bailed around "Cobra" when the French pop overtook the German rock. At their best, Stereolab is combining a terrific groove with lots of odd and interesting sounds - "Soop Groove" is one of the high points of what I mean. I like the title track to "Captain Easychord" but the rest of the EP is sort of goopy to me, and "Instant 0" is about half good. The tour singles are generally good with "Solar Throw Away" being the high point. But, man, everything through "The Free Design" is just so great, almost nothing I wouldn't listen to on repeat.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
This is like voting for your favourite child.
But OK, The Free Design wins as (a) Cobra era = peak Stereolab and (b) the quality is evenly high across all the songs, while covering a lot of ground stylistically.
Runners up: Super-Electric cos that's where I came in; and Rose because dual mono rules and it contains Laetitia's best lyrics.
Best individual track here = John Cage.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 15 July 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 29 July 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
"Extended Popularity Poll"
― Mark G, Sunday, 29 July 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
Fluorescences and Miss Modular EPs are unbeatable, prefer them to any Stereolab LP
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 29 July 2018 09:35 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
Great results, pretty much agree! My tag favorite of the 0 votes was "Ping Pong" which is really strong.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 July 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
I voted Low Fi but these are mostly fantastic
― sleeve, Monday, 30 July 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
French Disko 7" 0
There is no other poll where this would happen.
― Mark G, Monday, 30 July 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link