List The Direct References of Stereolab

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/JennyOndioline.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/artist/images/neu_205.jpg

http://www.metrolyrics.com/international-colouring-contest-lyrics-stereolab.html
http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/lucia.htm
http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/LP.jpg

EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066468/
http://www.gomorrahy.com/trailer-park/emperor-tomato-ketchup.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZXyQ7fAl4c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEdizQc6_U

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Stereolab/Contronatura.html
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Nature-Translation-Rebours-Classics/dp/0140440860

Stereolab - Nurse With Wound - "A Wonderful Wooden Reason"
http://www.lyricstime.com/faust-meadow-meal-lyrics.html

Stereolab · Nurse With Wound - "Simple Headphone Mind"
Alcatraz - "Simple Headphone Mind" from "Vampire State Building", recorded at Faust's studio, 1971
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10591

Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements: not one but three Perrey-Kingsley samples on one album, here are your royalties
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sound-Complete-Vanguard-Recordings/dp/B000055ZE1

Well, well, so you are an upright person, you love peace and quiet, law and order... you have worked over twenty years with the same company, your boss likes you, you have never been criticized, never any complaints... you play cards, you read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, believe in God and belong to the shooting club... you're a lieutenant in the army!... about time you were bumped off! PENG!

http://stereolab.koly.com/exhibits/images/clifforig.gif

les yper-sound: pierre henry psuedonym, 7" psyche-rock single
http://mysteryposter.blogspot.com/2007/04/les-yper-sound.html
http://bp3.blogger.com/_rDIqP2aqoNo/RiKE4XB6kbI/AAAAAAAAA6s/DiYcoHLji44/s1600-h/Yper-Sound_EP.jpg

http://www.badreputation.de/VU_murder_front.jpg

absolutely

http://www.45toursderockfrancais.net/rockfrancais/ypersound45t.htm
http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/gallery/GMZ-755.jpg

http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/i/i_feel_the_air_of_another_planet_stereolab.html
"I feel the air of another planet" / "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten", first line of the Stefan George poem 'Entrückung', set by Schoenberg to music in the last movement of his second string quartet, now regarded as the first fully atonal piece of classical music
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1426242

Stereolab - Instant 0 In The Universe
http://www.discogs.com/release/192321
Bernard Parmegiani - 'Instant 0'
from 'La Création Du Monde'
http://www.discogs.com/release/173060

I forget the 60's film poster that was used as the template for the cover of 'Sound Dust' -- I thought it was Polanski's "Cul De Sac" but can't find a direct match, I open the door

Kybernetická babicka
"Cybernetic Grandmother" by Jirí Trnka, experimental animated Czech film, 1962
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239543/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3053080331721849771

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Vannier

http://www.econ.duke.edu/Economists/Gifs/Marx.gif

Huysmans Against Nature actually has McCarthy as an intermediate step ("Anti-Nature") --

Someone has done a Youtube video somewhere of musical lifts, a couple of which are a bit "umm a I-IV-V progression isn't really a steal," but most of which are pretty obviously what they were listening to / lifting from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement)

"First of the Microbe Hunters" was a term originally applied to Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage

Lyrics from Peng!33 = from opening chapter of Cent Anos de Solidad

(I made that sound more highbrow than it actually is)

esquivel, peter thomas sound orchestra, neu!

P.S. Not just Perrey-Kingsley, but Perrey-Kingsley playing back to Brazil with "One Note Samba"

http://www.danacountryman.com/jjp1/auto/Ondioline.jpg

The Ondioline was a vacuum tube-powered keyboard instrument, invented in 1941 [1] by the Frenchman Georges Jenny, and was a forerunner of today's synthesizers.

One of their songs namedrops about 40 different Blue Jam sketches, which is pretty awesome bizarre.

looking up these links was occasionally very frustrating -- five years ago it was easy to google the direct reference, but at this point you've got to go through about sixty pages worth of stereolab lyrics pages / retail sites / review pages / playlists playlists playlists. the difference between acknowledging an influence and eclipsing the source by borrowing the title for your own successful project is growing.

the fact that the referents are baldly sitting there doesn't necessarily mean anyone thinks to look (and why would they, it's a pop band). it's not as if there's a place for endless trainspotting in most reviews but sometimes I wonder if this band has ever offered a single intuitive or non-pilfered moment or if the whole point is wholesale representation / recombination, in which case you'd expect the referents to be mentioned a little more often than they are

http://popsike.com/pix/20060911/190030441794.jpg

ok a bit of overstatement there but the depth of their borrowing sometimes leaves me a bit stunned

xpost ok if we're just going to begin posting covers of albums

http://ochtendeditie.radio6.nl/files/2007/04/tusoa.jpg

Which song is that Louis? Or is it easily Googlable?

http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/images/B00006LEPF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/jukebox.php?image=thumbnail.png&group=Stereolab&album=Oscillons%20from%20the%20Anti-Sun%20%283%29

http://popsike.com/pix/20060129/4828460304.jpg

sorry, i'm lazy.

Nothing To Do With Me
(aka Moonflies (aka Chris Morris))

(as seen on This is the thread where you talk about Chris Morris - genius, and the finest satirist of modern times )

Does one of those links go to Gil Scott-Heron?

i'm not a huge stereolab fan, but this list is mindboggling. good work, guys.

Here's an obscure one - the title of "Animal Or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)" which was on the Crumbduck EP, is a line from a Faust song (at least the bit in brackets is).

Should also mention the later McCarthy releases which offer a neat segueway into the first Stereolab record. (eg: "The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces of Law and Order").

http://www.uh.edu/engines/switchedonbach.jpg

Does one of those links go to Gil Scott-Heron?

You're talking about the bass line to "Metronomic Underground," I take it?

Song on Aluminum Tunes:

http://www.reel.com/Content/Reelimages/hollconf/1013_getcarter.jpg

Pack Yr Romantic Mind from Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements begins with a sample from "Pop Orbite", a song on Chico Magnetic Band's album.

Obvious one, they recorded a split record with her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Fontaine
http://www.discogs.com/release/256204

I always thought Speedy Car had a bit of the Soft Machine about them.

But if you want to talk United States of America, it's Broadcast on their first album that really rips that.

On Dots and Loops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_Again_(Canned_Heat)

But if you want to talk United States of America, it's Broadcast on their first album that really rips that.

I agree, I'd prefer to keep this to direct references / uncredited samples / lyrical lifts rather than vaguer incorporated influences or else I'd just be Sylvie Vartaning it up over here

first track on Refried Ectoplasm, 'Harmonium', where the 70's DJ spools up a tape which promptly breaks and falls off the reel is lifted from an aircheck of Negativland's 'Over the Edge Vol 4 - Dick Vaughan'

Another Todd Rundgren: The Night The Carousel Burned Down

I think that "One Note Samba/Surfboard" medley was done as reparation for nicking bits of both too blatantly previously.

The bass line of Metronomic Underground is awfully close to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... hadn't really caught that before

iirc it's stolen directly from a Yoko Ono track on Appproximately Infinite Universe

got a flexidisc of "famous instrumentals" recently that had "One Note Samba" on it

Metronomic Underground/Revolution Will Not Be Televised similarity is already noted upthread.

The Yoko Ono song in question is Mind Train, from "Fly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-k0kCSJcM

thank you!

that track is so siqq

That Yoko track sounds like Can with yoko instead of damo.

I've often wondered how Ono & Lennon connected to krautrock - like, who actually gave them those records and what were they listening to - cuz its impact is really obvious on those first few Yoko records

Probably Klaus, right?

that's my guess, but I've never seen it specifically discussed anywhere

CAN seems like the most obvious thing they must have heard, maybe Faust (they initially made something of a splash in the UK press), maybe Schnitzler and Roedelius too idk

they were jacked into the German experimental art scene from the beginning

So that Hilma af Klimt exhibit... anyone else reminded of the cover of a certain Stereolab album?

https://goo.gl/images/9jynXK

(Less direct of a reference than usual, but this is so precisely up their alley)

Perhaps a reach but I want to believe

Thought I typed Klint on first post, apologies for error

https://www.discogs.com/Bart%C3%B3k-Heinrich-Hollreiser-Bamberg-Symphony-Orchestra-Concerto-For-Orchestra/release/10080747

haha wow

"I feel the air of another planet" / "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten", first line of the Stefan George poem 'Entrückung', set by Schoenberg to music in the last movement of his second string quartet, now regarded as the first fully atonal piece of classical music

Interesting because it reminds me of this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSFJXSbE90

Or, if you prefer, the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-h0hh90YcY

Makes me think it's a direct reference to an indirect reference... or something.

... a song covered, somewhat bizarrely, by Pete Townshend!

I heard a radio interview with Tim Gane years ago where he played through a lot of his favourite records, I remember there being something by The Doopees in there (which is a project of Yann Tomita, ex Ippu-Do). I can hear it I guess, although this post-dates the earlier Stereolab releases so who knows who's influencing who.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT5BlCZsiCQ

I'm getting a French Disko vibe from this 70s Aussie prog plodder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmsy0UgqoA

Don't think this has been posted yet.

Koloman Moser - Woman's Head with Roses (1899). The artwork features on the picture sleeve of Rose, My Rocket-Brain! by Stereolab (2004). pic.twitter.com/PkE9l1qI0S

— Graeme McNay (@GraemeRMcNay) September 7, 2019

!!!! good catch, I own that as a 3" CD sold on tour

not a direct reference but this Eurythmics album In The Garden has some moments that sound a lot like early Stereolab to me. same kinda droney vocals and farfisa thing going on... check out “your time will come” and “all the young people (of today)”. idk has this been noted before? I’m just hearing this album.

“your time will come”: https://youtu.be/VcZjwxnscp8

“all the young people”: https://youtu.be/2xh0R5WRIwU

well, the farfisa is in “all the young people” anyway

Is Sing-Sing the one that sounds like one of the Mouse On Mars collaborations?

I've long maintained that Caveman Head sounds like Th' Faith Healers.

Agree about the first Eurythmics album. 'She's Invisible Now' sounded the most like Stereolab to me.

I’m just hearing this album.

u lucky guy, it's great, total Can action

"The Long Hair of Death":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HkESAaMDE
(Just noticed this today since it's now on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07JX589FB/ref=atv_dp_b07_det_c_UTPsmN_1_18)

I bet that "Allures" borrows its name from the Jordan Belson short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVo23jC7cs

Updated link for *Allures*

Exactly. It's worth pointing out for example that their song "The Free Design" doesn't actually sound like the Free Design, "Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela" sounds completely unlike Lucia Pamela's album of that name etc etc.

― everything

But it does! I heard “bubbles” yesterday and it seemed like the template for the Stereolab song;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thqQGV53tL8

what exactly was the in-joke/ref of the "LO BOOB OSCILLATOR" song title?

One of their songs namedrops about 40 different Blue Jam sketches, which is pretty awesome bizarre.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:09 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've had wine and only speed read this thread but what was this song? (I feel like I might be being an idiot).

"Nothing to Do With Me" from Sound-Dust, iirc.

Fact checked myself, yep, from Genius:

The lyrics to “Nothing to Do With Me” are drawn entirely of quotes from Chris Morris’s radio series Blue Jam (and its' TV counterpart Jam).

from memory, tim said it was related to some L0 8008 oscillator maybe in a synth or farfisa?

ok, from my memory it was a 800B (Korg? Oberheim?)... surely someone knows the exact reference?

uh . . . shut up, shavis

I found some references in 1960s electronic magazines. It's a beat frequency oscillator. The brand is B.S.R., and the model is the L.O. 800B.

Here's a 1952 B.S.R. ad for the L.O. 800:
https://i.imgur.com/dVhpoCs.png

And references to the 800B in a 1960 issue of Electrical Review and a 1961 issue of Wireless World:

https://imgur.com/a/KA0QHSP

https://i.imgur.com/d4rpxJx.png

Trying that second image again:

https://i.imgur.com/5Da37pa.png

Here's a history of BSR (which originally stood for Birmingham Sound Reproducers): http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Dudley/BSR.htm

That makes more sense than my crap memory

What's your favourite Stereolab song title? based on title alone, not the song it's attached to.

I love "The Light That Will Cease To Fail" (serious title) and "Outer Bongolia" (jokey title)

Thankin' U RunJMC.

xp “Outer Bongolia” not being a Sleep lyric is genuinely surprising!

hadn't seen this thread, posted this elsewhere:

posted my Idful sessions tape dub from ETK (again) with the working titles listed in case anybody wants a challenge to determine which song is which. See me on facebook or instagram.

The answers were/are....

John Barry Pop pts I+II - Brigitte

Glass Pop - Les Yper Sound

Melancholy Chords - Spinal Column

Steve Reich Pop - Tomorrow is Already Here

Ono Band - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Plastic Ono Band’s Why)

Faust Rhythm Pop - Motoroller Scalatron (J’aim Mai Aux Dents!)

Tony Conrad Bass - Anonymous Collective

Tortoise - Young Lungs

any debate?

thanks to all responders here and there (Ryan Nichols, Edmund Höbe, David Assassino, Paul Doliner)