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Music : Emperor Tomato Ketchup
by: Stereolab
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075596184021 Label: Unknown Label Manufacturer: Unknown Label Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Unknown Label Release Date: April 09, 1996 Sales Rank: 11511 Studio: Unknown Label |
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Disc 1:
- Metronomic Underground
- Cybele's Reverie
- Percolator
- Yper-Sound
- Spark Plug
- Olv 26
- Noise of Carpet
- Tomorrow Is Already Here
- Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- Monstre Sacre
- Motoroller Scalatron
- Slow Fast Hazel
- Anonymous Collective
- Dots and Loops
- Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
- Mars Audiac Quintet
- Refried Ectoplasm
- Fleet Foxes
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
You want retro? Get a load of their equipment, from the vintage Farfisa and Vox organs to the ever-lovable Moog synthesizers. You want futurist? It's the sound of not-so-well-oiled machinery, churning and sputtering into space age bachelor pad heaven and postindustrial hell. You want pure pop? Dig how they mine mod sounds of the 1960s, from Burt Bacharach to Françoise Hardy, and pull melodies straight out of a bubblegum wrapper. You want avant garde? Check the blatant liftings from '70s krautrockers Neu! and Can, plus their appropriations of Philip Glass's disjointed wordplay and Ornette Coleman's jagged alto sax.
You want meaning? These are songs loaded with optimism, progressivism, humanism, and dashes of Marxism. You want nonsense? There's plenty of 'la-la-la's' to lead us into oblivion, and head vocalist Laetitia Sadier sings half the time in French.
You want a groove band? Tracks like 'Metronomic Underground' and 'Les Yper-Sound' cast a funk trance heavier than voodoo and at least as danceable as any neo-hippie tripe. You want a band that rocks? Try 'The Noise of Carpet' for its rug-burning guitar and acceleration drum whacks. Yesterday, tomorrow, now: Stereolab's the one. --Roni Sarig
Average Rating: 
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- Essentiali paid £15 for it on the High St.
Pricy compared to amazon, but Metronomic Underground is worth that price alone.
Rating:
- SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD CLASSICStereolab's finest hour. On this album, the Groop unleashed their full artillery of styles and influences and made a krautrock / lounge / chanson / moog / pop classic. Highlights include Metronomic Underground, with its hypnotic bass and Cybele's Revenge - a stunning, poptastic Stereolab gem.
Unfortunately, their output since (with the exception of Sound-Dust) has been rather bland in comparison (think muzak) but still worth a listen.
Rating:
- One of the great Stereolab albums...Stereolab are one of those bands who have been consistently great (or at worst, consistently good) - get any of their albums or compilations and let me know if you detect a dud. Contrary to some fans of their earlier so-called 'Lo Fi'-work, I have to say I prefer the stuff after - 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup' being a key album in their history. I always found releases like 'peng! and '...Space Age Bachelor Pad Music' a bit too theoretical and repetative - though I must go back and check if my tastes ... Read More
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- The last great Lab record?Nice to see this available again as for me Stereolab never subsequently reached the same heights. Here their fusion of krautrock drone n breezy gallic pop was just perfect. The next album, Dots and Loops, was disappointingly bland - starting a trend that has unfortunately continued to this day.
Rating:
- bright, lazy and delicious!Emperor tomato ketchup is a blend of various musical scents, from funky jazz to cool electronica, it always sounds refreshing, powerful, yet with a delicious touch of laziness and naivity, similar to the Gentle people's cd's.
Laetitia Sadier's french vocals are simply irresistible!
I rate this album with 5 stars because it manages to reflect the spirit of the nineties, through its electronical drive, however achieving uniqueness in its "harmless futiristic" message.
Don't miss it!
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