Aluminum Tunes
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Released | 20 October 1998 (US) | |||
Recorded | April 1994 – August 1997 | |||
Genre | Experimental rock | |||
Length | 113:12 | |||
Label | Drag City (US) Warp (UK) | |||
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Pitchfork | 8.5/10[2] |
Aluminum Tunes is a double album collection of EPs and rarities from Stereolab, released in 1998. It is the third compilation in a series of rarities collections following Switched On and Refried Ectoplasm, and was stickered with the subtitle "Switched On, Volume 3".
Track listing
CD 1
- "Pop Quiz" - 4:22 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
- "The Extension Trip" - 3:43 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
- "How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight" 3:58 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
- "The Brush Descends the Length" - 3:08 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
- "Melochord Seventy-Five" - 3:39 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
- "Space Moment" - 4:20 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) (also includes the unlisted track - an instrumental reprise of "The Extension Trip" - that followed "Space Moment" on the original EP)
- "Iron Man" - 3:27 (from the 1997 Iron Man single)
- "The Long Hair of Death" - 4:48 (from the 1995 split single with Yo La Tengo)
- "You Used to Call Me Sadness" - 4:00 (from the 1996 split single with Füxa, on Lissy's Records)
- "New Orthophony" [full version] - 6:26 (the version on Mars Audiac Quintet is 4:34)
- "Speedy Car" - 5:00 (from the 1996 split single with Tortoise)
- "Golden Atoms" - 5:18 (recorded June 1995, also known as "Aluminum Tune" from the 1998 The In Sound single)
- "Ulan Bator" - 3:14 (from the 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc)
- "One Small Step" - 4:16 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
CD 2
- "One Note Samba / Surfboard" [full version] - Stereolab + Herbie Mann - 9:10 (the version on Red Hot + Rio is 7:18)
- "Cadriopo" - 3:09 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
- "Klang Tone" - 5:36 (from the 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc)
- "Get Carter" - 3:23
- "1000 Miles an Hour" - 4:32 (from the 1998 The In Sound single)
- "Percolations" - 3:22 (from the 1996 split single with Faust and Foetus)
- "Seeperbold" - 5:08
- "Check and Double Check" - 4:03 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
- "Munich Madness" - 3:48 (also known as "Blue Milk" from the 1998 The In Sound single)
- "Metronomic Underground" [Wagon Christ Mix] - 7:51 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
- "The Incredible He Woman" - 3:31 (from the 1997 Iron Man single)
References
- "Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3". Stereolab. All Media Guide/All Music. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
- "aluminum tunes". Stereolab Official Site. Stereolab. Archived from the original on 17 May 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
- "discography". ultra-high frequency - unofficial stereolab web site. koly. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- "Stereolab - Drag City". Stereolab discography. Drag City. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ^ Aluminum Tunes at AllMusic
- ^ Sherburne, Philip (6 October 2018). "Stereolab: Aluminum Tunes". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 July 2019.