Which Stereolab songs can you play at an average dance party?

Which songs can you play at a party with a mixed audience of non-Lab-obsessed people who just want to dance, something for ordinary party-goers with ordinary tastes in music and an ordinary array of dance moves? So, no epic suites, nothing slow, nothing with an unusual tempo, nothing sad, nothing discordant. Nothing that only hipsters could manage a way to dance to it.

"Les Yper Sound" makes me want to shake my butt

Im thinking a shorter edit or a mix of "Metronomic Underground" could work with a hip hop crowd. Ditto for "Come and Play in the Milky Night".

infinity girl

Speaking of yper sound. Heres so e people awkwardly dancing to it!

http://youtu.be/6XmGrmRhQsI

Ha, I have a distinct memory of putting on "Parsec" at a dorm party in college and everyone being confused about how to dance to it.

Don't forget there is a Wagon Christ mix of Metronomic Underground

ordinary party-goers with ordinary tastes

Not sure what this means

I would go for French Disko/Pack Yr Romantic Mind/Miss Modular/Transona 5 (live)/Wow and Flutter steer clear of: Percolations

ordinary party-goers with ordinary tastes

Not sure what this means

― curmudgeon, Friday, April 5, 2013 2:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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the real answer is play whatever the hell you want, unless you actually want to play what the people at the party want to hear, then listen to them.

but i guess this is actually just a fun thread about stereolab.

^yes

They have a lot of pretty straightforwardly danceable stuff from right around 2000, like on First of the Microbe Hunters -- "Barock - Plastic" might be the best-ever answer to this question: http://youtu.be/UxUbTjPCfMc

"Op Hop Detonation," "Infinity Girl," "Household Names," all okay as well -- but obviously this stuff tends to be more along the lines of, like, cocktail-party shimmying, not super-committed clear-the-floor dancing-dancing. Not that there's anything wrong with cocktail-party shimmying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smioSKTbp6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjq9-DVdV28

You want The Super It.

My rote answer to any and all Stereolab questions: Jenny Ondioline Ping Pong.

I would go for 'Ping Pong' or 'French Disko', but bear in mind that my finger is rarely on the mainstream pulse.

just adding a big kick drum or mixing it with a dj tool could send a groop tune over the edge

Ping Pon probably their most immediate I would think.

Pong

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Emperor tomato ketchup (the song not the album) could work with an augmented kick drum.

The Solar Throw-Away / Jump Drive Shut-Out single is kind of danceable too in a funky sort of way.

the lab are boring as hell as party music, play miss modular followed by a bunch of pizzicato five tunes.

Yeah the title track on ETK is somewhere ideal between headbang motorik and something you can properly swing to.

What about Brigitte?

I'd go for The Seeming And The Meaning off Peng

Seconded to "Come and play in the milky night". I put it in the middle of a lithotripsy mix cd (a cd to play while in theatre having lithotripsy for kidney stones) and it went down very well with the doctors and theatre staff. Obviously none of us could start dancing but there was plenty of head nodding. It was mixed between "Time is tight" and "Wouldn't it be nice?" iirc.

That sounds horrid.

The operation or the mix?

It was Tracy Thorn who forgot to take a CD to the hospital for the birth of her first child, so she had to make do with what the nurses had and the child was born to where do you go to my lovely? Not sure that's any worse than everything but the girl to be honest.

I maintain that 'Where Do You Go To My Lovely' is one of the best diss songs ever written. It's vicious.

roughly half of the following albums/eps:

- emperor tomato ketchup
- margerine eclipse
- fab four suture

also, jaunty monty and the bubbles of silence

there's a reedy midrange-happy quality to cobra & phases that makes it entirely unsuited to background music, unless your speakers are superb

XXpost coincidentally a Sophia Loren film is on telly as we speak

"miss modular"

ok, now which stereolab songs can you play at an above-average dance party?

All of them.

Even Percolations?

whenever someone brings up "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" my brain first thinks of No Mercy

First of the Microbe Hunters is so lovely. Did they ever put out a "follow up" to Aluminum Tunes? A lot of great singles and stuff from that period, like The In Sound.

oscillons was a switched on-style follow up to some extent

oscillons from the anti-sun, 2005 (3cd set, half greatest hits and half rarities)

used to drop this in to DJ sets on occasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BprmKAaFM4k