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fake Stereolab song titles

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'transoceanic zing cadre'

'surreptitious prachanda bouquet (moist version)'

'le raggett sera éternellement imberbe'

― mookieproof, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

'le raggett sera éternellement imberbe'

hahaha

― poortheatre, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Accelerated Cloudy Bebop

― jaymc, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Polly Polymer

― jaymc, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

dymaxion loop
beanbag exit #9
katia with marmalade
third in the aluminum groop
vocational tone (tone plazm)
orchestra heliocentrique
goodbye to vegetable butter
saarinen eeroplan

― contenderizer, Monday, 11 August 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Chord of Many Colors
Helicoptic Orthodoxy
Kiribati
Froot Machine
Box-Prong Modulator
Greenstone Operative Bur

― nabisco, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Amperage Synchromies
Orphism of the Body Substitute
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Flat-Blue Bubble Swing
Semi-Colon Fantasmas

― nabisco, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

beep cosmo saladisco
erp 790zero
zerpzimotron pulse
sarah orticulator

― Fer Ark, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Harpsimode Osscilation In Blue
Glasses of Truth
One-Note Wonderbra

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

i bought a bunch of 78s from a junk shop recently, and one of them was a jazz track from the 50s called "Boptical Illusion"

― zappi, Monday, 11 August 2008 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ding Dong Derrida

― city worker, Monday, 11 August 2008 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

'moog over my ami'

― mookieproof, Monday, 11 August 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, "Masonic Boom" is a pretty good one.

― vaninadh, Monday, 11 August 2008 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2754952552_c5e4c4aa04.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 11 August 2008 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Gray Instrumentation
Weg V from White Embossings on Grey
White Line Square III
Structural Constellation

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 11 August 2008 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Bloomdido Bad de Grass
Shakti Yoni
Dingo Virgin

From their upcoming Gong covers LP

― ellaguru, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Analog Flume
Bourgeois de vivre
Harmonic Conversant
Gabba On The Jukebox

― Alan, Monday, 11 August 2008 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Fra-Fra Truck
Latin Klein Rock
Infinite "Plug"
Rainbow Clap
Trans Shoes
Paralel Safari
Midnight Afro
Diet Stigma
Fluor Flour
Ula Ula Denim
Hell Arpegio
Zip Cola Trends

― CarlosDP, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Froot Machine

-- nabisco, Monday, August 11, 2008 2:12 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

My fave.

― DLee, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

I find it really hard to believe that there's not already a Stereolab song called, or based on...

Magic Marxist

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

Moog Memory
"...are not me"
Counterphase
He and She Carnivore
Donkey Downkey
Muon
Frequent Lanfar
Inflections

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

contenderizer's are the best

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

i bought a bunch of 78s from a junk shop recently, and one of them was a jazz track from the 50s called "Boptical Illusion"

-- zappi, Monday, August 11, 2008 7:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

!!!!! would buy this from u

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Gabba On The Jukebox"

If anyone calls anything this I will marry them so hard (or maybe just buy their records).

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Neon Beanbag
One Finger Symphony
05 The Ecstatic Static
Pop Molecule (Molecular Pop 1)
Self Portrait with "electric brain"
Cellulose Sunshine
Daisy Click Clack
Vortical Phonotheque

― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahahaha

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

Quantum Electronium
Ultrasonic Radar Module
Fraunhofer Publica Lounge
Uranium Voltage Suite

― zeus, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

He stopped flanging her today

― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Audioline Again, Naturally

― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

i bought a bunch of 78s from a junk shop recently, and one of them was a jazz track from the 50s called "Boptical Illusion"

-- zappi, Monday, August 11, 2008 7:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

!!!!! would buy this from u

sorry, gave it to my pal 78MAN, who should be posting it up some time soon

― zappi, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

A Cause des Garçons

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

You realise, the one true tribute album that should be made should be by taking one each of these titles and Making them!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

invent Acid Mothers Temple album titles!!

― 69, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Shubba Bubbla WOO WOO

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

Mimi Meme

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Ondes Martinet

― dad a, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Captain Janeway

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Free from Dentistry
Mitochondrial Evening
Innervisions in the ASCII Mezzanine
Float Zoop
The Leonoids
Uncle Brass Band

― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Haha Contenderizer's are great for a specific Stereolab era, but it's kind funny how you can see different time frames in here!

― nabisco, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yah, I guess it's clear that I quit listening at a certain point.

Anyway: Line 6 Nostalgia

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ocular Monotone
Delicate "Ding-Dong"
Her Eternal Crescent

― jaymc, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Minge Melodie

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, no, Contenderizer, yours don't seem to go that far back. It was mostly just that I saw "Counterphase" and that seemed like it would totally be a Peng!-era track. (I'm not certain it wasn't.)

― nabisco, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

contenderizer's are very "dots and loops" (opinions4u: the best stereolab era)

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 14 August 2008 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

d&l is sounding fantastic tonight. i thought it would sound dated because lol 1996 post-rock but it seriously sounds fresher than ever. those drums are so wicked. gonna put on 'fluorescences' next.

― strgn, Thursday, 14 August 2008 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

D&L is as superb now as it was 10 years ago. Proto-nu-lab.

I miss the electronic current in that album, and longer works like Refeactions, which is spellbinding.

― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 14 August 2008 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh back on topic:

Shoulder Rhythm
"old time" Nebula
Spiral Graph
Tennis Morning
Contestant
Nu Plus de Fromage il Sans
Hypordrone
Metal Conclusion

― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 14 August 2008 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

Don't let this thread die!

Positron Be-Bop
Adorno Disco
Hadron Supercollider
The Luminal Boom
Towards The Inevitable Heat-Death Of The Universe (Parts I and II)

(Come to think of it, I'm nicking some of these for the next Shimura Curves album...)

― Masonic Boom, Sunday, 17 August 2008 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Adorno Disco

^
lol

Read recently that Ernst Bloch, who was altogether more cheery than Adorno, accused Teddy, whose Mandarin contempt for pop culture, and taste for the high life, sat oddly with his Marxism of residing in 'The Grand Hotel Abyss' - which would be a great 'lab title

― sonofstan, Sunday, 17 August 2008 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Cat Food
The Devil's Triangle
Merday Morn

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 18 August 2008 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Polly Phenomenal
carnival du dodo
Jetson Lascaux
Crammed With Illusions
Derry Dada #5
Mod-century Midden
Refractory Lenz
les synthetiques hypnotiques

― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 29 May 2017 11:36 (nine years ago)

hardcore dilettante

― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 29 May 2017 11:50 (nine years ago)

Recherché Chemicals

― Noel Emits, Monday, 29 May 2017 12:34 (nine years ago)

lmao omg this thread

― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 May 2017 15:48 (nine years ago)

Pitch of Mass Destruction

― flappy bird, Monday, 29 May 2017 16:16 (nine years ago)

Radical Centrist Spasm

― flappy bird, Monday, 29 May 2017 17:15 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

Intellectual Dark Web

― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:37 (eight years ago)

Lobster Of Chaos

(I'll stop now.)

― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:39 (eight years ago)

Ember React Node or Vue

― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:24 (eight years ago)

Dudes and Lobsters obv

― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 August 2018 21:43 (eight years ago)

Jenny Ondiolobster

― sassysquatch (rip van wanko), Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:02 (eight years ago)

Electric Mockingdale
A Constant Metaphor
Euro Bonk-Metal
Swimmers Against Nancy Sinatra
Hypnoteque Disc Rebels
Baby Robitussin
In the Manner of Richard Rorty
Airhoven
An Eames Burlesque
Lactose Exuberant

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 3 August 2018 03:44 (eight years ago)

Tic Tac Tone

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 3 August 2018 03:51 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

Y U No Smash State?

― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 5 October 2018 01:34 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

this is the best thread i ever started

― mookieproof, Friday, 29 December 2023 05:11 (two years ago)

Lalo Gallo
Fragipane Mustard Trouper
Caroline Polacheque
The Mother Who Is Father
Le Même Du Suprème
Boom Clap Bedroom Pop
Ice Cream Cointelpro
Serge Lutens Modular
Dreamcatcher Fake Colonizer
Ma Soeur La Certainiste
Le Cocorosie

― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 09:11 (two years ago)

Master's Degree with Balloons
Sister Spook Rufus
Dust with Louis Broccoli
Harvonnes Trap Company
Serial Monk Odyssey
Umbriesque
Morse Code Palate Cleanser
My Coagulates
Dissidents in the Candy Factory
Jive Is a Given
An Archipeligo of Colorful New Sounds
I Am a Cheek Astringent

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 29 December 2023 09:43 (two years ago)

Thinking some of these could also be GBV titles

― calstars, Friday, 29 December 2023 13:15 (two years ago)

'moog over my ami'

― mookieproof, Monday, August 11, 2008 4:34 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol, incredible

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 29 December 2023 14:47 (two years ago)

The Concertina is the Concretion of the Law

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 29 December 2023 14:54 (two years ago)

Pétard Dénouement

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 15:00 (two years ago)

Master's Degree with Balloons

all i'm ever going to think of when i hear Stereolab now lol

― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 29 December 2023 15:07 (two years ago)

A Royal Korg Christmas

― bendy, Friday, 29 December 2023 17:28 (two years ago)

Multiverse Fatigue

― bendy, Friday, 29 December 2023 17:36 (two years ago)

Novel Personavirus
Chaque Corridor
Kardashian Doordash
Cool Hand Juul

― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 29 December 2023 17:59 (two years ago)

^ 'topical'

― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 29 December 2023 18:00 (two years ago)

Novel Personavirus is amazing

― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 18:46 (two years ago)

You people are amazing

Stereolab need to start making new music just so they can use these titles

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Friday, 29 December 2023 19:03 (two years ago)

Imperfect Sound Forever

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 29 December 2023 19:58 (two years ago)

I hear they are actually going to start recording new stuff in 2024

― bbq, Friday, 29 December 2023 22:05 (two years ago)

eight months pass...

The new Pixies single is called "Motoroller"! Stay in your lane.

― with hidden noise, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 09:06 (two years ago)

Last year I did a radio show with a variety of quizzes related to music. Among them was “ Stereolab Song Title or Imaginary Sci-Fi Thing”.
1. Mototoller Scalatron (Stereolab)
2. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Stereolab)
3. Celestial Armamentarium (scifi  The Dragon Masters     jack Vance      1962)
4. Analogue Rock (Stereolab)
5. Absolute Black (scifi - hitchhikers guide)
6. Lo Boob Oscillator (Stereolab)
7. Accelerated Schooling Helmet (scifi - blush - cities in flight)
8. Ecstasy Plug (scifi - niven)
9. Vonal Declosion (Stereolab)
10. Electrono mirror (scifi -  The Day We Celebrate     Bond      1941)
11. Melochord 75 (Stereolab)
12. Transona 5 (Stereolab)
13. O-220 (scifi -  Tarzan at the Earth's Core     Burroughs      1929)
14. Contronatura (Stereolab)
15. Contragravity Suit (scifi -  Uller Uprising     Piper      1952)
16. The Light That Will Cease To Fail (Stereolab)

― christopher.ivan, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 14:56 (two years ago)

On a related note, other quizzes included “Moby Song or Self-Help Book”, “Member of The Cure or Member of Parliament” and “Daft Punk Song or RV Brand/Model”

― christopher.ivan, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 14:58 (two years ago)

omg. can you please post ... all of them?

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 18:32 (two years ago)

“Emperor Tomato Ketchup” is both Stereolab and sci-fi thing iirc

― irritable towel syndrome (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 17 September 2024 18:52 (two years ago)

Sang an Octopus Lower
Dignity Falls The Culture
Are We So Noctilucent?
Modalistic Cowbell
Chart Topper/Tart Chopper
Consumptive Eager Overuse
Analyst at the Piano Factory
Scholars Fight the War on Tonya
Aura and Buffering
Peppermint Nelly
Tai Babelonia Fruit Shark

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 22:35 (two years ago)

Ormerod Calippo

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 September 2024 22:41 (two years ago)

Good titles, all

― irritable towel syndrome (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 02:07 (two years ago)

Here are those song title quizzes mentioned above - probably more fun when administered or red out to a fellow music nerd:

Moby Song or Self Help Book?
1. I Will Teach You To Be Rich (book)
2. Everything Is Wrong (moby)
3. As a man thinketh (book - 1902)
4. You Can Heal Your Life (book)
5. All That I Need Is To Be Loved (moby)
6. Why Does My heart feel so bad (moby)
7. Why god why? (book)
8. When it’s cold i’d like to die (moby)
9. My Weakness (moby)
10. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (book)
11. Go (moby)

Daft Punk Song Title or Brand/Model of RV?
1. Around The World (daft)
2. Earthroamer (RV)
3. Airstream (RV)
4. The Brainwasher (daft)
5. Steam Machine (daft)
6. Cool Amphibious (RV)
7. High Life (daft)
8. Lazy Daze (RV)
9. Starcraft (RV)
10. Technologic (daft)
11. Aerodynamic (daft)
12. Dynamax (RV)
13. Voyager (both!)
14. Midwest Automotive Designs (RV)

Member of The Cure or Member of Parliament?
1. Robert Smith (cure)
2. Simon Gallup (cure)
3. Steven Flynn (parl)
4. Steven Severin (cure)
5. Andrew Anderson (cure)
6. Huw Merriman (parl)
7. Lol Tolhurst (cure)
8. Roger O’Donnell (cure)

Gary Numan Song or Cyberpunk Novel/Short Story?
(cyberpunk used a bit loosely here...)
1. Cars (GN)
2. Snow Crash (Cyber- n stephenson)
3. Are Friends Electric? (GN)
4. Bombers (GN)
5. We Are Glass (GN)
6. The Glass Hammer (cyber-k w jeter)
7. The Windup Girl (cyber - Paolo Bacigalupi )
8. Boys Like Me (GN)
9. Wetware (cyber- r rucker)
10. Engineers (GN)
11. We Take Mystery To Bed (GN)
12. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (cyber-p k dick)
13. Cry, the clock said (GN)
14. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (cyber-p k dick)
15. My Shadow In vain (GN)
16. The Stars My Destination (cyber- a bester)
17. This Prison Moon (GN)
18. The Artificial Kid (cyber - b sterling)

― christopher.ivan, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 12:05 (two years ago)

Thanks for noting that ITS - I did not know about the origin of "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" - interesting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Tomato_Ketchup_(film)

― christopher.ivan, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 12:11 (two years ago)

thanks for this thread mookieproof, i wish i'd seen it before now

― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 14:22 (two years ago)

one year passes...

The Singularity in Duopoly

― bendy, Wednesday, 18 March 2026 15:50 (six months ago)

:)

Vaguely related: I only just got around to watching The Long Hair of Death this week. It was... okayish.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 19 March 2026 01:47 (six months ago)

omg @ the moby and daft punk quizzes. not sure if that person still posts here, but thanks so much for sharing those

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Thursday, 19 March 2026 19:56 (six months ago)

Eddie Hegemony
Art of Missile Intelligence
Salesforce Killer Offer
Hungry, Angry, Loony, Tune

― Tell me who sends these infamous .gifs (bernard snowy), Thursday, 19 March 2026 20:09 (six months ago)

Panic-Buying Bop
The Wheat of Day
If Only I Had Fished For Napolean
Tiger Lemon Spotlight
Freedom Is Last Murdersession
Candy Was the Nephilim
Patreon Splatter-Fest
Zeppelin in Health and Wonder
Canadia Deadeye
It's What Smart Pharmaceuticals Would Wear
Consider the Sawtooth
Elitist Blacklung

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 20 March 2026 04:23 (six months ago)

The truth is that Stereolab themselves are the best at making up fake (but actual) Stereolab song titles. I gaped as a young adult when they titled a song Outer Bongolia

I imagined their song titling sessions as being as brisk and hilarious as a comedy writer’s room

― Crappo FX (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 20 March 2026 04:33 (six months ago)

I imagined their song titling sessions as being as brisk and hilarious as a comedy writer’s room

lol i imagined them just unemotionally throwing out banger song titles

'yes, i suppose that will do'

― mookieproof, Friday, 20 March 2026 04:39 (six months ago)

Since I'm not going to take the time right now to look at some of their lyrics, do their song titles relate to the lyrics, or are they non-sequitors?

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 20 March 2026 05:06 (six months ago)

the latter (largely)

― mookieproof, Friday, 20 March 2026 05:13 (six months ago)


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