Track Listing 1. Pop Quiz 2. Extension Trip 3. How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight 4. Brush Descends The Length 5. Melochord Seventy Five 6. Space Moment 7. Iron Man 8. Long Hair Of Death 9. You Used To Call Me Sadness 10. New Orthopony 11. Speedy Car 12. Golden Atoms 13. Ulan Bator 14. One Small Step 15. One Note Samba/Surfboard 16. Cadriopo 17. Klang Tone 18. Get Carter 19. 1000 Miles An Hour 20. Percolations 21. Seeperbold 22. Check And Double Check 23. Munich Madness 24. Metronomic Madness (Wagon Christ remix)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | PIAS UK/Sony DADC | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Stereolab: Laetitia Sadier (vocals, tambourine); Mary Hansen (vocals, Moog synthesizer); Tim Gane (guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, samples); Sean O'Hagan (organ, Moog synthesizer, bass, marimba, drums); Duncan Brown (bass); Andy Ramsay (percussion).Additional personnel: Herbie Mann (flute).Producers: Paul Tipler, Stereolab, John McEntire, Harvey Birrel.The music of Stereolab is equal parts Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine and Jean Jacques Perry, mixed with a touch of Krautrock, French pop and space age bachelor pad music. This heady mix has made for an impressive flow of albums over the years, but with a band as prolific as Stereolab, some tracks are likely to get lost in the shuffle. ALUMINUM TUNES addresses that problem with aplomb, housing rare non-album tracks from several sources under one roof. While perhaps not the definitive Stereolab recording (look to EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP for that honor), ALUMINUM TUNES serves double duty as primer for the uninitiated and fodder for the Stereolab completist. The frothy electronic pop of ALUMINUM TUNES belies the myth that rarites collections consist largely of cast-offs better left forgotten.
Editorial Reviews ...[Stereolab] concoct[s] buzzing, bouncy drones that hum with an appealing analog undertow. At its most self-indulgent, Stereolab can squeeze the life out of a melodic idea until it curdles and dies. This two-CD set of outtakes and B sides splits the difference between both extremes... - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (10/23/1998)
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