Stereolab - Dots and Loops
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I get the DECADE LATE PASS - but this record is incredible. Like I said on the Waxidermy board (keep the crossover), I always thought of them as some Starbucks rock so I never bothered to check, but damn if this hasn't been blowing my fucking dome for the last few days.APPRECIATE BATCHES.
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I am not knowing.
gotta peep
i wonder is there anyone who actually does not like this record?
(file under: really weird dutch n.e.r.d. documentary)
ha! I saw that documentary too, Lola Da Musica right? I like that show, too bad the network won't give out any copies of older episodes
At the time that this album was released it was fairly hated on by Stereolab purists who didn't like their change of direction. Most of that scorn was directed at producer John McEntire.
Personally, I've always loved this album and 10 years later it's the only Stereolab album I still listen to.
About a week later Stereolab passed through Manchester on tour. I went to check it out by myself, got talking to the dude selling tshirts, and later got to briefly meet the band. Got Mary Hansen to sign my tour 7" too. It's an item I treasure I even more since her untimely death.
This LP brings back a lot of memories!
that really long track with a bunch of movements...when the bleeps start going bleep bleep and then the violin drops over top of it
edit: and of course Emperor Tomato Ketchup.
What up day? when we gonna hit that spot?
I always dug that track motoroller scalater off etk. Definitely got a late pass on stereolab though. One of those bands I wrote off to artschool hype, but glad I gave a listen to in the end.
i saw them on that tour as well! that was actually my favorite performance of theirs
as for dots and loops, i think i've listened to 'flower called nowhere' about 4,584 times
That was me. I remember buying Dots and Loops when it came out and selling it back the next day, I really wasn't into it. Of course now I like it...
Around the same time I bought Pavement "brighten the corners" and wasn't feeling it. But it grew on me and I love that album now.
I really thought "Magerine Eclipse" was an excellent return to form for the band. It had a stripped down simple feeling to it. I dug.....
"Dots And Loops" is often disregarded by hardcore Stereolab fans, but IMO it's a classic, artistically and sonically. Contrary to many I really like what John McEntire and Mouse On Mars were contributing to it. I can listen to that album forever and not get tired of it.
Of their myriads of B-side/45 only/sideproject thangs this is one of my favorites:
An instrumental (except for one track featuring Laetitia) album by Tim Gane and Sean O'Hagan. Analogue electronic weirdness. Must listen to this on drugs one day.
The last of their releases I've bought is the "Instant O In The Universe" triple 45 box from 2003. I need to hear some of the recent stuff. "Margerine Eclipse" sounds solid.
Thes, your article in Wax Poetics made me want to check this album out.
I have yet to do so.
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music predates Dots and Loops by 5 years.
http://www.stereolab.co.uk/discography/list.php
Well that explains it.
hi day
i bought this album when it first came out and never fully appreciated it or the band until earlier this year, i saw them in concert a couple of times but always thought they were ok but never mind blowing i pulled this particular cd out this winter and then pretty much went back and bought most of their cds that i used to own, though i love dots and loops this is my shit...
more on the jazzy side
what other bands would stereolab fans enjoy, i need more modern shit...
i know united states of america and broadcast, who pretty much stole usa's style, are similar is there anything else one should look for?
I definitely have a soft spot for the early Velvets-inspired pop drone fests.
I bought the debut LP Peng! when it came out and loved it. Back then all I knew about them was the cool name and that they were French. Fave driving tape circa 1992: side A: MBV 'Loveless' side B: Peng!
But the complex, layered production on Dots and Loops just KILLS it. 9 years later, I'm still listening to that LP. Maybe its time I dug up Peng! and gave it another listen.
i know united states of america and broadcast, who pretty much stole usa's style, are similar is there anything else one should look for?
Jessamine, Pram, Monade and Prolapse.
it's pretty cool
By the way, isn't there a part on Dots & Loops that sounds EXACTLY like the chords from Commons "Come close"? I was convinced it was a Stereolab sample at first, super sneaky style.
looks like alot of people caught the dots and loops tour, anybody catch the "emperor tomato ketchup" tour?
live they are aiight, they are definitely all about their recordings. anyone into french pop needs that "miss modular" 7". speed it up, add some high end, good playout tune as well.
i remember reading nathan heard's novel about newark ghetto reality whilst listening to dots and loops, a weird mix that totally worked. i remember my standout on that was the song that went "this is the future"
in all honesty they never got wack, i just got tired of them. but i wouldn't ever badmouth them. good shit all round.
WTF? I thought Pharrell was incapable of giving an entertaining interview but all he needed was a fat chronic blunt. Snoogins!