Is it enough to show how the nightmare works so the people wake up? A poll of my favorite 25 Stereolab songs

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Poll Closing Date: Friday, 1 August 2025 00:00 (in 1 month)

I pulled this together in a few hours this morning on a lark.

Captain Easychord
Cybele’s Reverie
Daisy Click Clack
Doubt
Eye of the Volcano
Fluorescences
John Cage Bubblegum
Les Yper-Sound
The Long Hair of Death
Margerine Rock
Melodie is a Wound
Miss Modular
Mountain
Op Hop Detonation
People Do It All The Time
Ping-Pong
Plastic Mile
Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
Sadistic
Simple Headphone Mind
Strobo Acceleration
Sudden Stars
Ticker-tape of the Unconscious
Vonal Declosion
You Used to Call Me Sadness


Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:19 (two weeks ago)

interesting list, went with "Mountain" - my 25 would be very different!

sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2025 15:21 (two weeks ago)

great poll. thank you for agreeing with me that "vonal declosion" is one of the very best lab songs

gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:22 (two weeks ago)

🤟🏽🤟🏽

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:23 (two weeks ago)

A no-prize to whoever first figures out what song the lyric in this poll name comes from.

Here’s a hint: I don’t love early Stereolab as much as most people do

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:25 (two weeks ago)

ha, I can see that!

sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2025 15:27 (two weeks ago)

Hey fun poll!

I actually just purchased the Oscilations box and was totally blown away by the first disc, I had thought I had heard pretty much everything 90s wise between the albums and the switched on sets!

brimstead, Friday, 6 June 2025 15:29 (two weeks ago)

I’ve been cherry-picking from the discography a lot of late and damn, you guys, Fab Four Suture is the business

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:36 (two weeks ago)

Brimstead, I need to get that box still

Thanks, sleeve!

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:36 (two weeks ago)

Oscilations is great, plus you get cool stickers

sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2025 15:37 (two weeks ago)

Would you consider creating a playlist because although I love Stereolab and have probably heard some of these songs dozens of times, the names of their tracks are so obtuse that I would be hard-pressed to put a melody to any of them

Etherwave, Friday, 6 June 2025 15:44 (two weeks ago)

It's fascinating (but apt) when you encounter someone's top 20 of an artist with zero crossover with your own.

This was my ranked ballot for the artist poll:
1 Anamophose
2 Jenny Ondioline
3 Motoroller Scalatron
4 I'm Going Out Of My Way
5 Tomorrow Is Already Here
6 Changer
7 Eloge D'Eros
8 Peng! 33
9 Crest
10 transona five
11 Golden Ball
12 the groop play chord x
13 transport sans bouger
14 The Light That Will Cease To Fail
15 Au Grand Jour (the 3:41 fast version)
16 Lo Boob Oscillator
17 Nihilist Assault Group
18 Perversion
19 You Little Shits
20 OLV 26

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:49 (two weeks ago)

It seems I prefer the Gina, Joe, MARY & Sean eras.

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:52 (two weeks ago)

(Eloge D'Eros is such a banger... carry on, lol)

imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 6 June 2025 15:53 (two weeks ago)

Etherwave, I got you

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/rays-stereolab-favorites/pl.u-EdAVRpqTaAVPjv0

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 16:02 (two weeks ago)

TYVM!

Etherwave, Friday, 6 June 2025 16:05 (two weeks ago)

Steve Shasta, your #16 came very close to making my list

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 17:49 (two weeks ago)

no Revox no credibility ;)

sleeve, Friday, 6 June 2025 17:51 (two weeks ago)

lol

Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 June 2025 17:52 (two weeks ago)


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