Aluminum Tunes

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Aluminum Tunes
Compilation album by Stereolab
Released	October 20, 1998
Recorded	Apr 1994—Aug 1997
Genre	Post Rock
Label	Duophonic Records UK Drag City US
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Stereolab chronology
Dots and Loops (1997)	Aluminum Tunes (1998)	Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (1999)

Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 is a double album collection of EPs and rarities from Stereolab, released in 1998. Included here is a collaboration with Herbie Mann on Antonio Carlos Jobim's "One Note Samba/Surfboard" and a cover of Roy Budd's "Get Carter" theme. Stereolab originals of note include "Check and Double Check," "Seeperbold," and "The Incredible He-Woman," featuring a bizarre lyric by Laetitia Sadier about The Virgin Mary morphing into Jesus.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. "Pop Quiz"
2. "Extension Trip"
3. "How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight"
4. "The Brush Descends the Length"
5. "Melochord Seventy-Five"
6. "Space Moment"
7. "Iron Man"
8. "The Long Hair of Death"
9. "You Used to Call Me Sadness"
10. "New Orthophony"
11. "Speedy Car"
12. "Golden Atoms"
13. "Ulan Bator"
14. "One Small Step"

[edit] Disc two

1. "One Note Samba/Surfboard"
2. "Cadriopo"
3. "Klang Tone"
4. "Get Carter"
5. "One Thousand Miles an Hour"
6. "Percolations"
7. "Seeperbold"
8. "Check and Double Check"
9. "Munich Madness"
10. "Metronomic Underground [Wagon Christ Mix]"
11. "The Incredible He Woman"

Stereolab
Tim Gane | Lætitia Sadier | Simon Johns | Andy Ramsay | Dominic Jeffrey | Joseph Watson | Joseph Walters
Martin Kean | Joe Dilworth | Russel Yates | Mick Conroy | Mary Hansen | Sean O'Hagan | Duncan Brown | David Pajo | Richard Harrison | Simon Johns | Gina Morris | Katharine Gifford | Morgane Lhote
Discography
Albums: Peng! | Space Age Batchelor Pad Music | Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | Mars Audiac Quintet | Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center | Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Dots and Loops | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | The First of the Microbe Hunters | Sound-Dust | Margerine Eclipse
Compilations: Switched On | Refried Ectoplasm | Aluminum Tunes | ABC Music | Oscillons from the Anti-Sun | Fab Four Suture | Serene Velocity (A Stereolab Anthology)
EPs: Super 45 | Super-Electric | Low Fi | Crumb Duck | Simple Headphone Mind | Captain Easychord | Instant 0 in the Universe