ALBUM REACTION: Stereolab - Dots and Loops

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  • @stephenotoole6633
    @stephenotoole6633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Flower called nowhere - a filler track ????? It’s utterly sublime.

  • @threedeemelodies
    @threedeemelodies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    their masterpiece imo, sound-dust is a VERY close second

    • @nlsantiesteban
      @nlsantiesteban 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💯 correct. Everything else is very good, but this is more refined. And Pharrell's favorite album of theirs.

  • @matthewmclaughlin7000
    @matthewmclaughlin7000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This record was produced by John McEntire from Tortoise. I think he brought a wonderful focus to their sound.

    • @markusfredscholl
      @markusfredscholl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ... he certainly also infused the Tortoise Marimba/Vibraphone patterns into their music...

    • @matthewmclaughlin7000
      @matthewmclaughlin7000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@markusfredscholl absolutely.

    • @RobertDoosh
      @RobertDoosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      John McEntire, plus Andi from Mouse on Mars on a grip of tracks. This album is a masterpiece.

    • @montauk6
      @montauk6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was Tortoise connected somehow to The Sea & Cake?

    • @matthewmclaughlin7000
      @matthewmclaughlin7000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@montauk6 yes. John McEntire and Sam Prekop were in both bands. Both bands were on the Thrill Jockey label.

  • @slateman118
    @slateman118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    10/10 album imo. one of may alltime favorites

    • @Chessbox09
      @Chessbox09 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hip hop is a my favourite genre, but this is my favourite album ever

  • @shacharh5470
    @shacharh5470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    A couple of other bands in a similar vein to this that you might enjoy very much are Broadcast and Pram. Look them up, I really think it's up your alley

    • @AlexHaitz
      @AlexHaitz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I've heard one Broadcast song that I LOVE. Want to do their first 3 albums at some point.

    • @shacharh5470
      @shacharh5470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@AlexHaitz Their first, "Work and Non Work" from 1997 is more like a short collection of early singles and b-sides than a proper album but DON'T SKIP IT, it's wonderful stuff.
      After that they released 3 standard albums (The Noise Made By People, Haha Sound, Tender Buttons) as well as another collection of singles and b-sides and a collaborative album with The Focus Group.
      Most of their output is excellent, especially Haha Sound and Tender Buttons IMO.

    • @isaiahromero9861
      @isaiahromero9861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yesss I'd also recommend Vanishing Twin, very similar vibe

  • @jelly3374
    @jelly3374 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Loving this album! Used to listen to it a lot in high school

  • @beepst
    @beepst 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is their most mature album IMO.

  • @czarmty1
    @czarmty1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is nice to know you like it 👍 / my second album i got from them... a beautubul blue and white doble marbel álbum. It brings me the pleasant memory of listening to this album alone in my room, letting life go by without any problem. I’m about to get the CD remastered to add on my collection. I can't wait to see your reaction on the next album which is my favorite.

  • @carlosbuchlein
    @carlosbuchlein 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You must include, after the great Cobra, Sound Dust, the most refined and ambitious album of these guys.

    • @threedeemelodies
      @threedeemelodies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      include margerine, fab four suture, and chemical chords while you’re at it lol

    • @carlosbuchlein
      @carlosbuchlein 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@threedeemelodies I think they are good albums, but for me the "golden period" of Stereolab ends with Sound Dust.

    • @threedeemelodies
      @threedeemelodies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@carlosbuchlein i love the 3 albums that come after sound dust personally, i think their entire discography is worth listening to at least once

    • @carlosbuchlein
      @carlosbuchlein 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@threedeemelodies i agree ☝🏽 but talking about Stereolab, also the compilations of inedit material can’t be ignored, hahaha

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MARGARINE ECLIPSE!

  • @alyosha917
    @alyosha917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can't wait for cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night up next!!! Great to hear your thoughts on this one

  • @mondegreen9709
    @mondegreen9709 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This band keeps throwing me for dots and loops.
    Oh, btw, although I've never actually tried Fruit Loops, I've always imagined it to be like eating regular cereal with orange juice instead of milk which I did try out once as a kid out of sheer curiosity and it WAS disgusting.

  • @dgetzin
    @dgetzin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    18:45 Did he just call Parsec "filler"? The song that uses a 5/4 time signature while NOT feeling unbalanced and employs the head trip of rhythmic consonance? Ticker tape of the unconscious is filler. Parsec is genius.

    • @cheerio4000
      @cheerio4000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      no wonder it stood out to me so much! it’s in 5/4

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Call flower of nowhere a filler track 🙄🤣🤣🤣

  • @MojoPin1983
    @MojoPin1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Finally an album by Stereolab that is interesting and palatable (much of it, at least), despite being unconventional. Even Gay Titwiler could probably get with this. Though I haven’t listened to any of their songs in full, and I am basing by judgements off of these snippets in your respective reactions, their previous albums were so monotonous and depressingly bland, from what little I gleaned.
    If you like glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas, etc. then you would be intrigued by a lot of Tim Buckley’s music. Its replete with spacey, jazzy motifs.
    Nice Drake meme following the final track. He recently built a ridiculously ostentatious mansion (with an indoor, regulation-sized basketball court) in our shared hometown of Toronto, which is just a few miles from my house in the most wealthy neighbourhood in Canada: The Bridle Path. Outside of his massive gate that leads into his property, he has a security vehicle sitting there, 24 hours a day. I often drive past his house, cranking Jeff Buckley and Led Zeppelin, as if to say, “here’s some real music, Drake!”
    When it comes to Physical Graffiti, play it loud. Speaking of which, how do you do your listening for your reactions? I assume that you use uncompressed, lossless audio, such as a Spotify.
    24:12 The only good thing that comes from fermentation is jenkem.
    8:32 Did you swallow a toenail?

  • @stevemaktinyue
    @stevemaktinyue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you love that bossa nova loungy stuff. Check out Isabelle Antena early stuff.

  • @threedeemelodies
    @threedeemelodies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you really should finish out their discography, or at least 2000's "The First of the Microbe Hunters" through 2001's "Sound-Dust" and capping off with 2004's "Margerine Eclipse"

  • @alexm2930
    @alexm2930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can't decide who has the more simple name, Stereolab or Radiohead

  • @Mojooverlord
    @Mojooverlord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Surprised you didn't like Rainbo Conversation better. I think it's the best on a great album.

  • @jacobjhall1974
    @jacobjhall1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You should do a reaction of Trout Mask Replica. If you haven’t heard anything about it already then don’t look up anything up before you listen. Pitchfork gave it a 10/10

    • @AlexHaitz
      @AlexHaitz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s been on my radar since I’ve gotten into music in general. It’ll be a reaction someday!

    • @jacobjhall1974
      @jacobjhall1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AlexHaitz sweet! I’m excited 😊

  • @drewlichty8091
    @drewlichty8091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't know how you do this, but you should break your videos up so it shows along the red play-line at the bottom. Intro, Brakhage, thoughts, Miss modular, thoughts, etc.
    edit: also, where are you looking to see what the instruments are? RYM isn't always consistent, but I've always wanted to know where to look for that information

    • @AlexHaitz
      @AlexHaitz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I just reference the Wikipedia page.
      I've seen other videos do that on the playbar and I have no idea how it's done. I'll look into it though, I like how it functions.

    • @AlexHaitz
      @AlexHaitz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Apparently all I have to do is add a 0:00 timestamp before the song timestamps and it automatically puts it in.

  • @davidowle3772
    @davidowle3772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don't know how much I trust someone to have an opinion on anything musical if they're only hearing dots and loops for the first time in 2021. Especially if they're reaction is just north of "meh."

  • @jasonegeland1446
    @jasonegeland1446 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still my favorite Stereolab album.

  • @nano1
    @nano1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video

  • @rapastronaut77
    @rapastronaut77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thier numer one lp

  • @sponge5417
    @sponge5417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    dots

  • @jamesferns6300
    @jamesferns6300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Trump means fart in British English. Sorry your hero lost, mate.

    • @AlexHaitz
      @AlexHaitz  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks, Jim. You're my shoulder to cry on in these harrowing times.

  • @coadmiller5010
    @coadmiller5010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where you getting that this dude is pro Trump-- Sorry your guy lost , my arse!.

    • @coadmiller5010
      @coadmiller5010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Parsec.. G O A T! C'mon!.. great horns, great vocals, great period. Love the looped organ, too. -Contrnatura, you called "farting frogs perc.." I called it " sucking frogs out of the mud with a in plunger"..

  • @rcagoon1969
    @rcagoon1969 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stereolab were average. Of that period, surely Primal Scream are on your radar? C'mon man.