ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
In the absence of a Stereolab 'best of' album, this release covers everything in the band's 10 year career, from their first Radio 1 session in 1991, to the latest in 2001. Features versions of tracks from their album Emperor Tomato Ketchup and the album Mars Audiac Quintet. ABC Music - The Radio 1 Sessions is as definitive a collection of the band's work as you could hope to find. Strange Fruit. 2002.

Tracks:

Super Electric
Changer
Doubt
Difficult Fourth Title
Laisser Faire
Revox
Peng 33
John Cage Bubble Gum
Wow And Flutter
Anemie
Moogie Wonderland
Heavy Denim
French Disko
Wow And Flutter
Golden Balls
Lo Boob Oscillator
Check And Double Check
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Tracks:

International Colouring Contest
Anamorphose
Metronomic Underground
Brigette
Spinal Column
Tomorrow Is Already Here
Les Ypres Sound
Heavenly Van Halen
Cybele's Reverie
Slow Fast Hazel
Nothing To Do With Me
Double Rocker
Baby Lulu
Naught More Terrific Than Man

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Often derided as "shoe-gazer" aesthetes, Stereolab's dirty little secret is that they're a lively, inventive, and surprisingly aggressive live band, and have been since their 1991 inception. These 32 tracks were recorded live in the studio for BBC radio hosts John Peel and Mark Radcliffe. The early songs have a garage-rock vibe; listeners are witness to the "groop" working through their influences, which they've never really tried to hide. "Anemie," for instance, is a Farfisa-fired homage to the Faust tune "Rainy Day." As the '90s progressed, the band's recording became more genteel and intricately arranged songs. But what some songs may lose in subtlety they make up for in force. Of particular note is 1996's 10-minute "Metronomic Underground," a jagged space-age/Afro-rock workout. Fans shouldn't hesitate to pick up ABC Music, while newcomers might consider it as a playful and raw retrospective of this innovative pop band's career. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

Fabulous.......2007-05-21

This collection of live sessions from BBC Radio 1 is a fantastic retrospective of Stereolab's work from 1991-2001. They sound great throughout this two disc collection. Particular highlights for me include the extended jam on Metronomic Underground and, one of my favorite tracks from any group, Cybele's Reverie. If you are new to Stereolab, this is a great collection to give you a remedial course in their work throughout the 90's, while long time fans will surely enjoy these live recordings of old favorites. Clocking in with over two hours music, this is a good deal as well.

This is, in my opinion, the DEFINITIVE Stereolab output!!!.......2006-04-21

It has taken me a long time to get round to really connecting with this double CD workproduct from the famed Franco-British synthetic pop-music agitprop alternorock band. Ever since catching them live about ten years ago, I've considered them one of my favorite bands. I mean the live sound was so good that although I had long outgrown my penchant for ingesting mind altering substances, I caught myself longing for something really good to better enjoy the sound with AND even though I left that concert thinking it was one of the dem finest concert experiences I'd ever had--and I've attended dozens and dozens, of 'em--I still to this day wish I'd been there on a different plane of consciousness. It was just an indescribably good time. Having said that, I subsequently acquired three or four of their efforts, King Tomato Ketchup, Dot and Loops, Space Age Bachelor Music and perhaps another but they all got a couple of plays and then gathered dust. I got this double CD more from wishful thinking than from any expectations of taking aural pleasure from it. My first couple of play throughs more or less confirmed my worst expectations: just another another semi-repetitious Stereolab album with a few good bits, I thought. Then, about a year later for no reason or any reason at all I gave it another chance, by chance and you know what? It came alive for me. I have to say that this comp. of synthetic mongopopular radio frequency stage happiness is really quite good, and complete and definitely worth a purchase. If you've never heard Stereolab listen to the sample tracks above, I'm sure that they will give one a good idea of what they sound like. The music is kind of dreamy kind of funky kind of hokey kind of thoughtful kind of happy and often kind of demmed good. It is refreshing to find a band that one likes which does not sound like a whole bunch of other bands. In fact, if I were to make a comparison of Stereolab to another band I would have to compare it to a band that I haven't heard yet. This album is definitely a long term keeper.

Great Studio Sounding Live Cd .......2005-11-13

If you're a Stereolab fan then this is an outstanding double disc of "live" John Peel session cuts featuring for the most part cuts from Switched On, Peng, Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Mars Audio Quintet. Probably the most interesting aspect of the cd is that it sounds more like an alternative studion cuts compilation than it does a live cd and in fact unless you know beforehand that the cuts are indeed live you'd really have no idea. Definitely worth picking up even if you own most of the original releases.

Buenisimo.......2003-07-19

Acabo de recibir este trabajo que esta estupendamente maravilloso, Letitia alcanza un nivel maximo con su banda y logra emitir esa energia pura que tiene!
Muy bueno para escuchar con una buena compañia y un buen acompañamiento extra para la torre!

Outstanding Stereolab!.......2003-07-12

This is now my favorite Stereolab album! Fans of Stereolab will love this! For folks new to Stereolab, this is a great place to start! This is high-energy pop with strong, steady, and hypnotic rhythms and nice harmonies. Certainly an "essential" Stereolab CD.

Average customer rating:

Finally a live CD(sort of...)
If you are searching for Stereolab, you need this.
We'll miss you Mary Hansen
A very worthwhile compilation of some of Stereolab's best.
One for the Old School fans

ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions
Stereolab
Manufacturer: Strange Fruit UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006J3XZ
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

Super Electric
Changer
Doubt
Difficult Fourth Title (Contact)
Laissez Faire
Revox
Peng 33
John Care Bubble Gum
Wow And Flutter
Anemie
Moogie Wonderland
Heavy Denim
French Disko
Wow And Flutter
Golden Ball
Lo Boob Oscillator
Unititled (Check And Double Check)
Working Title (The Fram Song) (Superbold)
International Colouring Contest
Anamorphose
Metronomic Underground
Brigitte
Spinal Column
Tomorrow Is Already Here
Les Yper Sound
Heavenly Van Halen (Pinball)
Cybeles Reverie
Slow Fast Hazel
Nothing To Do With Me
Double Rocker
Baby Lulu
Naught More Terrific Than Man

Album Description

In the absence of a Stereolab 'best of' album, this release covers everything in the band's 10 year career, from their first Radio 1 session in 1991, to the latest in 2001. Features versions of tracks from their album Emperor Tomato Ketchup and the album Mars Audiac Quintet. ABC Music - The Radio 1 Sessions is as definitive a collection of the band's work as you could hope to find. Strange Fruit. 2002.

Album Details

Definitive Collection of the Band's Recordings from the BBC'S Session Archive. Includes all of their Radio One Sessions from 1991 to 2001. Includes Different Versions of "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" and "Mars Audiac Quintet".

Customer Reviews:

Finally a live CD(sort of...).......2003-08-22

It hits me as ironic that this live BBC CD is so "happy" in tone,and yet one of Stereolab's members just passed-away.But that was always the tone of this bands "good time" sort of sound.It is a fitting tribute to them that, even though tragedy has struck,this Cd can still raise a smile(although a forlorne one now).
This Cd has the "punchier" guitar sound that we(all of us who had experienced the band live )knew was in the groop's sound and was struggling to be heard.
The only thing missing is that "Kraut-Rock" jam that was featured on the Emperor Tomato Catsup tour's finale....DAMN!
A nice one here though.
God bless 'em!

If you are searching for Stereolab, you need this........2003-02-12

If you are searching for Stereolab, this is the release you need. 2 CD set is excellent. It is not like hearing them live but it is not as polished as a studio album either. It is an essential addition to any long time fan's collection and serves as a very good introduction to the Groop for anyone just discovering this awesome band.

Mary R.I.P.

We'll miss you Mary Hansen.......2003-01-03

This collection comes out around the time Stereolab fans are getting the sad news of Mary Hansen's death. But these cd's serve as a wonderful tribute. Here is a lovely collection of the energy and whimsy that make Stereolab so joyful to listen to. The slightly raw, scaled back sound of the production is great and allows the different elements of the group's sound to be appreciated clearly. Recommended to long time fans who think they have all the Stereolab they need (you don't!) and to newer fans wondering what has kept us so interested these last 10 or so years.

A very worthwhile compilation of some of Stereolab's best........2002-12-20

This new double CD sort of functions as both a greatest hits collection and a quasi-live album at the same time. Compiling all of Stereolab's Radio 1 sessions, this set features songs from nearly every phase of the 'Lab's constantly evolving massive body of work. It's amazing to hear, although the more raw qualities of a band performing on the radio are definitely evident here, how polished the band sounds in these recordings. The early, more guitar-centered songs like "Super-Electric" and Laissez Faire" sound great, but it's the songs from the "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" and "Sound-Dust" eras that are most fun and revelatory to hear in this 'live' setting. The inclusion of some very good songs that you probably haven't heard anywhere else before ("Moogie Wonderland" and the awesome "Heavy Denim") makes 'ABC Music' an essential buy for Stereolab fans--even though they'll already have the studio versions of most of these songs. God, I sound like I'm working for Amazon(.com), but it really is worth getting. I have found myself preferring the songs from "Sound-Dust" on this compilation better than the ones on the actual record!

We'll miss you, Mary.

One for the Old School fans.......2002-11-06

All I really have to say is get this album for Brigitte, Spinal Column, and Heavenly Van Halen (Pinball). This was obviously put out for the fans and there are only a few tracks that you will not see on the regular albums. But it is a must for any lab fan.

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