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ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stereolab
Label: Koch Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 55529
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
UPC: 099923862321
EAN: 0099923862321
ASIN: B00008O310
Release Date: April 8, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 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 | | • | Seeperbold |
Disc 2
| • | 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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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fabulous May 21, 2007
S. Rogers (Spring Hill, FL United States)
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!!! April 21, 2006
Mendicant Pigeon (pdx, or United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 November 13, 2005
Schmaddio
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 July 18, 2003
Tohuko (Santa Marta, Colombia)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
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 compania y un buen acompanamiento extra para la torre!
Outstanding Stereolab! July 12, 2003
Swordfish (Wading River, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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