Stereolab - Dots and Loops

[day]

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.

 

[day]

WIDE OPEN

 

[aimhighshootlow]

WIDE OPEN

I am not knowing.
gotta peep

 

[SkullLab]

i got on this late too. still had me freaking out its an amazing record.

i wonder is there anyone who actually does not like this record?

 

[On_the_Red_Clay]

Skateboard P's favorite soundtrack for receiving a bl*wj*b in the shower

(file under: really weird dutch n.e.r.d. documentary)

 

[The Raise Up]

Skateboard P's favorite soundtrack for receiving a bl*wj*b in the shower

(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

 

[jazzercism]

i got on this late too. still had me freaking out its an amazing record.

i wonder is there anyone who actually does not like this record?

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.

 

[crazypoprock]

i saw them on the dots and loops tour...high llamas opened...good stuff. but i still prefer the earlier stereolab.

 

[kitchenknight]

great fucking album. still listen to that, and Emporer Tomato Ketchup. "Metronomic Underground," is pure

 

[NewLifeTrio]

I picked this up the day it came out. I'd just moved to Manchester to study about 2 days before and didn't know anyone in the city so I'd just listen to this album for days... I loved it, and still do.

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!

 

[TheBeatGoes]

I love this album too

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

 

[hammertime]

good album. The Super Electric 10" is still my favorite of their shit though, I think.


edit: and of course Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

 

[4YearGraduate]

I was working at Rhino records when this came out and it changed my life. My passion for the lab has since faded but this album is still in my top 5 of all time. Listening to this album on drugs is the truth.

What up day? when we gonna hit that spot?

 

[Dj_Coma_Toast]

great fucking album. still listen to that, and Emporer Tomato Ketchup. "Metronomic Underground," is pure

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.

 

[edith head]

i saw them on the dots and loops tour...high llamas opened...

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

 

[parsec]

i got on this late too. still had me freaking out its an amazing record.

i wonder is there anyone who actually does not like this record?

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.


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.

 

[Aser]

the 2nd bassline that drops in for "Refractions In The Plastic Pulse", the super long track comprised of 4 songs. Really feeling that....

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.....

 

[m_dejean]

My first encounter with Stereolab was at the '97 Roskilde Festival, shortly after the release of "Emperor Tomato Ketchup". I walked into the tent by accident and they were playing "Metronomic Underground", which completely peeled the skin off my face. Since then I've been a fan, and I celebrate most of their catalogue. I saw them play again on the Sound Dust tour in '01, which was also a fantastic concert.

"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.

 

[Brian]

i will give this a listen

 

[coldcuts]

I was working at Rhino records when this came out and it changed my life. My passion for the lab has since faded but this album is still in my top 5 of all time. Listening to this album on drugs is the truth.

What up day? when we gonna hit that spot?

Thes, your article in Wax Poetics made me want to check this album out.

I have yet to do so.