Stereolab
Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3
Label:  Drag City 
Date:  10/20/1998
Length:  0:00
Format:  3LP
Genre:  Rock; Indie
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Pop Quiz    
      2.  
      		 The Extension Trip    
      3.  
      		 How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight    
      4.  
      		 The Brush Descends The Length    
      5.  
      		 Melochord Seventy-Five    
      6.  
      		 Space Moment    
      7.  
      		 Speedy Car    
      8.  
      		 Golden Atoms    
      9.  
      		 Olan Bator    
      10.  
      		 One Small Step    
      11.  
      		 Iron Man    
      12.  
      		 The Long Hair Of Death    
      13.  
      		 You Used To Call Me Sadness    
      14.  
      		 New Orthophony    
      15.  
      		 One Note Samba/Surfboard    
      16.  
      		 Cadriopo    
      17.  
      		 Klang Tone    
      18.  
      		 Get Carter    
      19.  
      		 1000 Miles An Hour    
      20.  
      		 Percolations    
      21.  
      		 Seeperbold    
      22.  
      		 Check And Double Check    
      23.  
      		 Munich Madness    
      24.  
      		 Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Mix)    
      25.  
      		 The Incredible He Woman    
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      Given Stereolab's predilection for art-rocky '60s pop ditties and penchant for creating a compelling variety of absurdity, this B-sides and rarities collection manages to be less a meandering collection than glorious, mix-and-match fluff. Encompassing more of the French language than a 101 college course, Laetitia Sadier's melodic, singsongy vocals entrance the Francophile within and somehow ideally complement the fragmented nature of the typical Stereolab composition. On half-realized wanderings like "Klang Tune" and zippier pieces of melodic debris like "Munich Madness," the album flows by quickly, getting by on speedy and disjointed yet memorable flashes of structure. In fact, given the hodgepodge nature of Stereolab's musical mentality, the record feels like a serendipitous mix of content and format and treats Stereolab fans to perhaps their best album yet because of it. --Matthew Cooke