Didn’t Mars Audiac Quintet come out before Refried Ectoplasm? Or are we doing Refried Ectoplasm first because it’s a compilation of material that was originally released before Mars Audiac Quintet?
Yay, peak Stereolab time!
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The latter. Mars is next week.
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French Disko and John Cage Bubblegum are made for the indie dancefloor.
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My favourite song of all time
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The one-two of ‘Revox’ into ‘French Disko’ is fucking phenomenal. What a band.
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Choose a couple for the playlist.
- Harmonium
- Lo Boob Oscillator
- Mountain
- Revox
- French Disko
- Exploding Head Movie
- Eloge D’Eros
- Tone Burst (Country)
- Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)
- John Cage Bubblegum
- Sadistic
- Farfisa
- Tempter
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That alone justifies making this Refried week!
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I bloody love Refried Ectoplasm and lie to myself that’s a proper studio album. Because it came out after both Mars Audiac Quintet and Music for Amorphous Body Study Center, it was pretty obvious that the Groop had moved on from their heavy guitar/organ/motorik style and this felt like one last hurrah.
One of my favourite things about the RE tunes is the confidence and swagger, in contrast with the Switched On/Peng! period. They sound like they’re having fun and some of these tunes go hard.
It’s been great listening back this week. French Disko, Lo Boob Oscillator and John Cage Bubblegum were always great but Revox is fab (love Mary’s wordless vocals here just like on JCB)… Tempter is very Suicide, sort of motorik-without-guitars, with amazing drums to finish. Sadistic has this vocal melody that won’t leave my head and Animal or Vegetable, which I hated when I was younger, sounds amazing after listening to Faust.
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Listening to this made me want to listen to Faust and Neu again.
Get me back to my krautrock era!!
Motorik is my musical kryptonite
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God i love this album so much
Better thoughts later, but LBO, Revox and Tempter are up there in the pantheon of Stereolab masterpieces. Most of it is, TBH
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Probably the best comp ever
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Oh man this is a beautiful comp
Such a beautiful comp, I often forget its a comp
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yeah like we’re doing with Switched On 2, I just treat it as part of their main discography and their imperial phase
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That’s a good shout tbf
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Dunno why, I just pictured Donald Trump saying this
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