Song Of the Day: November 9, 2005
Stereolab - Fried Monkey Eggs (vocal version)
From the EP The Underground Is Coming, Duophonic 1999
From the EP The Underground Is Coming, Duophonic 1999
The only artists more consistently productive than Stephin Merritt in the '90s were Stereolab, who clearly must spend 23 out of every 24 hours in the studio, taking turns napping for a few minutes underneath one of the vintage Moogs, to amass the depth of catalogue they have. In this situation, a tiny wonder like "Fried Monkey Eggs," which boils down everything that's wonderful about the group's idiosyncratic blend of ABBA, bossa nova and krautrock to just under 127 seconds of relentless forward motion, can end up relegated to the b-side of a limited-edition tour single and never be collected on one of the band's frequent odds-n-sods compilations.
-Stewart Mason
4 Comments:
Hey Stewart - I'm really enjoying these posts, since for whatever reason they tend to fill in gaps in my collection from times and formats I hadn't explored. And thanks Jon for the guest-host idea - broadens the perspective of the site.
Hey Jeff, what was that thing you wanted me to include the next time we're grouped together on the swap? I can put it up here as well or instead.
This is pretty damn cool.
stereolab were the greatest on sxx but now...
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