Tim wrote:
i know it's been out for a while now but has anyone heard the new e.p. from stereolab, the first of the microbe hunters? it's some of their weaker material in my opinion. ( i know, nobody asked)the only good songs are the first and third. the rest are just there i guess, they have no real impact. my favorite so far is cobra and phases play voltage in the milky night.
Really? IMHO, Microbe Hunters is good, and I like it better than Cobra. I am a devout Stereolab fan, I even have some of their concert-only singles, and I think Cobra is their weakest album to date. Of course, I'm an Old Skool fan, and think that Peng! and Mars Audiac Quintet are their best albums, with Switched On! a close second. Come to mention it -- I rank Stereolab up with B & S in the fact that I don't think it's really possible for them to put out a bad album per se. Refried Ectoplasm and Aluminum Tunes are also great, as far a compilation albums go. I know I'm going to get flamed into obvlivion for this: but I think that "Judy is a Dick Slap" is just a Stereolab rip off, at least the first part is. I don't care much for the Legal Man EP. I like the songs, but they're too short. Can't really glean a good bit of enjoyment from them, because they're over too quickly. Am I the only one who thinks that B & S sounds like "The Left Banke" sometimes?. I'm just waiting for them to do a cover of "Walk Away Renee" on one of their EPs, or live. I could hear Stuart doing that. Except that he would change the lyrics so that she would be a rubberist with a toilet plunger and cream cheese fetish. NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE. I MEAN IT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE RUBBERISTS INTO TOILET PLUNGERS AND CREAM CHEESE. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. I *REALLY* need to get out more. ======================================== "I only buy a book for the way it looks, then I put it on the shelf again. I can tell you what I'm thinking, But it never seems to do you good. It's beyond me what a girl can see, I'm only lucid when I'm writing songs." -- Belle and Sebastian http://home.earthlink.net/~rtoad WHAT WAS I THINKING? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+