I need to buy my first stereolab albu soon. which should I get?
Ive listened to some youtube links, and its one of the "why not earlier?"- moments

ha ha i guess you should read the thread. It's fairly accurate.

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Haha. I wrote that more than a year ago, but when I saw the title of this thread again, the words "I wouldn't bother" came straight into my head again.

dots & loops, f'sho!

sayin'

'Emperor Tomato Ketchup'

by the way this is the only album by them, that I like as whole.
new one is meh. did you hear that?

This is the only one i have, and it's not too impressive. It's considered their best, so...yeah.

When I was in high school, I walked into a record store and "Golden Ball" on "Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements" was playing. I was blown away. I felt like it was something I was looking for and finally found. About the same time, I started listening to Sonic Youth, so the two are kind of linked for me. "Transient.." is their most noisy work -- their early albums, Peng, Transient... are the most Kraut rocky, then by "Dots and Loops" you see them getting more into a 'tropical modernist' sound, quoting bossanova, jazz and other forms of music.

if you like o'rourke-era sonic youf and therefore him, you could try cobra and phases etc etc (long title), which he produced & mixed & tweaked.

'cobra...' is the one i go back to the most.

i like emperor tomato ketchup

Cobra And Phaserhfhfnbvyththg hyghyhfv fjfuj
Sound-Dust
Dots & Loops
Switched On
Aluminum Tunes

i've spent some time w/ this lately...saw them last week. here's the rundown:

http://www.bigtakeover.com/reviews/s...tober-6th-2008




a lot of their stuff is pretty similar; i'd go w/ finding _Oscillons_ (best value for sure), and then get _Dots and Loops_ and maybe _Aluminum Tunes_. i will not argue against any title in particular, though (but not much up to date post-Cobra).

ok... not one stereolab album is worth ignoring.. not one... not many bands are this brilliant on a regular basis... buy any of them but my personal favourites are probaly these. although order changes a lot

transient random noise bursts... amazing album.. truly amazing
emporer tomato ketchup
margerine eclipse
chemical chords
sound dust
dots and loops

furthermore..
get the 3 switched on volumes... totally essential.....

actuually scrub that post.... buy them in order of release...

I, personally, wouldn't bother.

James Blonde suggests Peng! and Switched On.

Disregard my previous statements. Stereolab are awesome.

What helped you to wise up?