CD Album - Stereolab - The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music" - Too Pure

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Artist:	Stereolab
Title:	The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music"
Label:	Too Pure
Country:	UK
Date:	Mar 1993
Catalogue:	PURE CD 19
Barcode:	5016554701954
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Stereolab	Avant Garde M.O.R.	Sadier, Gane	Rate
02	Stereolab	Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)	O'Hagan	Rate
03	Stereolab	The Groop Play Chord X	Sadier, Gane	Rate
04	Stereolab	Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)	Sadier, Gane	Rate
05	Stereolab	Ronco Symphony	Sadier, Gane	Rate
06	Stereolab	We're Not Adult Orientated	Sadier, Gane	Rate
07	Stereolab	U.H.F. - MFP	Sadier, Gane	Rate
08	Stereolab	We're Not Adult Orientated (Neu Wave Live)	Sadier, Gane	Rate

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albert 12th May 2017		Emperor Tomato Ketchup is probably the easiest of their LPs to start on and was produced about the mid-point of their career (they borrowed the title from a wacko Japanese movie). There have been many compilation LPs of their extremely limited vinyl singles, and these would give anyone a good idea of the scope of their sound - which started like an indie-krautrock and finished somewhere near jazzy-easy-listening. Unfortunately tracking down the CDs/LPs is getting difficult as they seem to have been deleted. Laetitia Sadier is back in France and has about 5 LPs which sound like Les Swingle Singers, from what I've heard. Tim Gane is in a band called Cavern Of Anti-Matter, which sound not too dis-similar to the early Stereolab.



Magic Marmalade 7th May 2017		Audioweb! ...That's where I was getting muddled... I've been confusing these with Audioweb all these years!



Magic Marmalade 5th May 2017



Magic Marmalade 4th May 2017		(it's really growing on me now.....damn it! :)



zabadak 4th May 2017		I was and remain (although it looks like they have now split) a huge fan of Stereolab!!! :happy: I first heard about 10 seconds of a single called Low-Fi on The Chart Show. Strangely, this has not been included on any of their compilations! :sideways: They were great live. Sadly, one of their members, Mary Hansen, was killed when she was knocked off her bike in London. :sad: Main woman Latetia "Seya" Sadier has released solo work but I've not heard it... :read:



Magic Marmalade 3rd May 2017		(review revision added :)



Magic Marmalade 2nd May 2017		(Cover still needs replacing, by the way)



Magic Marmalade 2nd May 2017		Review You ever have one of those bands? ....One of those who's name you've been hearing since way back when, but you have never had occasion to check out? Stereolab were one of those for me. Always heard the name bubble through into my consciousness from time to time, and always attended with some degree of reverence and respect from those I heard about them from. And I had always imagined, what with the name, and the cover design of this, that they were some kind of Chemical Brothers / Prodigy / Massive Attack / Orb / Orbital style hard hitting electro wall levelling sound system unit that may threaten to blow my mind apart. No. ...no, .....they are not. I discovered this fact, having found this at a boot-fair the other day, and thinking: "Ah, well, I can check them out at last".... but having played it through the first time, I thought I'd got a mispressed CD, with some other artist on it, not the Roni -size / Reprazent group the cover suggested. Because this is more like some naval gazing, noodling, lo-fi stoners playing depressive flower -power music for a later age. And at 28 minutes, this short "album" (more like two E.Ps stitched together, is mostly moody filler, the kind of which Radiohead put on B-sides. It's light, fluffy, yet introspective music... not the brain destroying bowel loosening audio assault I had anticipated all these years (And was hoping for! :). So I have been more disappointed because it is not, and they are not, what I thought I was going to get, so felt a little let down in that respect.... but now giving it second listen, and on it's own terms, it's... well... O.K, I guess. But if you are like me, and have always wondered about them, then you could feasibly continue to wonder, and not enquire... as you won't really be missing an awful lot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Part 2 :) OK, having gotten over my initial disappointment, and "tuned into this" a little more, I actually quite like it now. I admit, I was wrong to dismiss it out of hand. It sounds like a bit of a bedsit electro-noodle rock demo album... understated, and a bit grungy, which I do like, in general, and Wikipedia (for what it's worth) does describe this as an "E.P.", although elsewhere, the term: "mini-album" is applied. Something to put on when you want to relax with a nice big carrot, and have some unobtrusive, but pleasant background music :) (Still maintain the cover's all wrong for what's on the disc though - false advertising if you ask me!) 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Syd Vliet 22nd Nov 2014		Somebody has uploaded the back page of the booklet as the cover. Added the correct cover plus the disc.

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