#oscillons from the anti sun

[jt1674]

[gotankgo]

Stereolab “French Disco”

[stevenvenn]

Stereolab - Escape Pod (From the World of Medical Observations) (from The Free Design ep and also Oscillons from the Anti-Sun) I heard this track on Riley & Coe yesterday and then found this really cool video made by a fan of Apple computers. Pretty nice! Love this song and it really goes well with this video.

[agapi-kalyptei]

I've just realized some of you don't know that Stereolab goes hard and I've decided I must fix that

(youtube link)

[lastchancevillagegreen]

In Today’s Post Saturday 9 January 2021:

The Groop Played”Space Age Batchelor Pad Music” Stereolab (Too Pure/ American Recordings)

I find it very hard to believe Stereolab was on American Recordings in the US, but here is the proof!  This is an EP that came out in 1993.  discogs has it listed under albums, but everywhere else considers it an EP.  I’m psyched for my Stereolab study, but I’m first listening to all their compilations of EPs, singles and oddities.  I have the four disc series Switched On that I have begun playing this month, then I’ll move on to 2002′s two disc set of BBC Sessions titled ABC Music...Stereolab Radio 1 Sessions before moving on to 2005′s excellent three disc comp, Oscillons Of The Anti-Sun.  One reason I’m doing this is because I’m having a difficult time tracking down a reasonably priced CD of their 1992 debut album Peng!  I’ve found a couple on eBay but they are always from Goodwill shops and I know they’ll be in terrible condition.  The other option currently on eBay comes from Zuber and I refuse to give them any money.  They are overpriced vultures who don’t have things in stock that they claim to have (I know this because I got into a faux tête-a-tête with them over a disc I ordered that took them six weeks to deliver because they had to find it first (and it did not match their description either).  I believe firmly that one will crop up on discogs in the next six weeks or so and once it does, I’ll leap into my Stereolab studies!  As it stands, I could play the first volume of Switched On daily and never tire of it (or so it seems).

Anyhow, out of the three EPs wikipedia lists, this one can now be checked off the list as can Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center which they made with Chalres Long in 1995.  Those tracks can be found on Switched On Volume 2: Refried Ectoplasm which can be found in that four disc Switched On box which arrived in the post on 28 December.  That leaves only one more EP and naturally, it is flying to my home as I type. 

Finding it crazy to think that Stereolab was on American Recordings, I was shocked to learn that their last album, Not Music, which came out in 2010 came out in the US on Chicago’s Drag City label!  I’ll pick that up just as soon as I decide if I want to buy main Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier’s solo work which also was put out by Drag City.

My scans are of the front and the back of the album.  In typical Stereolab fashion, they utilize contrasting colors.  My eyes definitely have fits over their graphics so I never know what anything says!

[xhxhxhx]

I found a DVD at the bottom of my entertainment stand. It has 51 albums on it, burned to the disc between January and August of 2009.

If you like lists of music I probably once listened to, here’s something for you:

20 Greatest Hits [Diana Ross & The Supremes]

Alight of Night

Alright, Still

Beach House

Before the Dawn Heals Us

Bricks Are Heavy

Chutes too Narrow

Come Away with ESG

Crystal Castles

Dark Was the Night

Dig Me Out

Dreamboat Annie

Electric Warrior

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Exit [Shugo Tokumaru]

Franz Ferdinand

Gang of Losers

Glistening Pleasure

Grace [Jeff Buckley]

He Poos Clouds

If You’re Feeling Sinister

Isn’t Anything

It’s Not Me, It’s You

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Ladyhawke

Le Tigre

Marquee Moon

Mars Audiac Quintet

No Cities Left

Oh, Inverted World

On Fire [Galaxie 500]

Oscillons from the Anti-Sun

Playing with Fire [Spacemen 3]

Seven Swans

Someone to Drive you Home

Songs in A&E

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music

Station to Station

Stay Positive

The Hot Rock

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The Perfect Prescription

The Soft Bulletin

The Woods

Thunder, Lightning, Strike

Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcement

Two Suns

Wincing the Night Away

Witching Hour

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Young Americans

please make fun of me

[solycarne]

(via https://open.spotify.com/track/5Uo3QuPrA4TSzuzlMax3YT?si=X0Sv9rW6QoiiefaFdyCiCA)

[dolenm-blog]

I'm ok let me go.

[gypsyheartsol]

#NowPlaying Canned Candies by Stereolab

[jt1674]

[gotankgo]

Stereolab “Nihilist Assault Group (Parts 3, 4, 5)”

• Oscillons from the Anti-Sun

(from the 1994 Wow and Flutter EP)

(mislabeled as Parts 1, 2, 3)

[jt1674]

[lastchancevillagegreen]

Still Under The Quasi-Christmas Tree:

Switched On Volumes 1-3 Stereolab (Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks)

I’ve been looking from the sidelines of the Stereolab reissue program which began in 2019 tempted to leap in but knowing so little about the band that I’ve pretended it doesn’t exist.  A person can’t be involved in every reissue program and since I barely even know what Stereolab albums I do own, why add to my confusion? 

I bought two Stereolab albums in my life: the three disc box set Oscillons From The Anti-Sun in 2005 and Fab Four Suture in 2006.  for reasons that evaded even me I bought all the singles that eventually made up Fab Four Suture and then bought the CD.  I can’t swear that I still own the 45s, but if I don’t I surely gave them to my brother. 

I’ve always thought Oscillons should be a box set that I play endlessly and the fact that I haven’t is somewhat surprising to me.  I also thought my brother owned every Stereolab album but I’ve learned he prefers the band’s Krautrock years over their lounge act years (or as I call it, the Combustible Edison years).  I once owned a Combustible Edison album and although it was on Sub Pop, I’m in no hurry to get it back.  There did seem a time when that type of music was a lifestyle more than good music, so I understand my brother’s separation of the two Stereolab eras.  I’m willing to gamble on both and I’m interested in hearing the differences (I’m a Krautrock fan as well, I know the two musical styles aren’t even close musically) but I’ve always been so curious about Stereolab that I’m jumping aboard their seven album reissue program which will join my list of studies (mentioned in the entry below) that I will do in 2021.  In the next couple of days I’ll have more Stereolab than I probably need (I didn’t even know what this four disc set was comprised of until I asked my brother just a few days ago) but I’m interested in broadening my music knowledge.