So... she apologized. You all happy now? Can we go back to the lab now?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
she built a career off being a left-wing political artist. she might not owe anyone anything, but her career is tied to her politics in a way that wouldn't be true for most artists.
― iatee, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Calzino's thing, AIUI:
https://img.cdandlp.com/2013/12/imgL/116409235.jpg
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Her apology is a bit weird though? She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute. Also she apologized like 6 months after the incident?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Amazing that people think that Stereolab are like Billy Bragg with keyboards.
― everything, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
I thought you wanted to back to the lab? (xp)
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
... go back, that is.
i still can't get over the idea of "libertarian marxists"
guess i'm relieved laetitia was only tangentially involved w/ mccarthy
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to be fair people only complained 6 months after the incident
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
because it's a reply tweet, for anyone not on twitter any tweet that begins with an "@" does not show up in peoples' timelines, you have to look in a person's replies. that's why I don't understand how she would have gone about making her "changing views" public. no one was upset, no one knew about the tweet, then she comes out and says "hey, this peterson guy, oh boy, definitely dig him, not this stuff though" - no one would ever do that, and people would still be pissed off.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
I'd be more inclined just to use it on myself these days, Tim!
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
it's also easy to forget how bad a lot of (often otherwise intelligent) people are at the internet. especially social media. and especially if they weren't raised on it.
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
https://d2ymzkn1ailq93.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/old-lady-using-computer-snapmunk.jpg
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
is this "I've never even heard of this bloody Oscar Peterson/Goebbels/Antonescu/Petain limey before " feint, more annoying than "I don't even own a TV" ? y/n.
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I do not, in fact, own Jordan Peterson's TV
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
I've never even heard of a TV.
― Alba, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
i'm Mark Perry the founder of Alternative TV
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Man I forgot how great Peng! is
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
do Stereolab have any good album's
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
hang on, we're reformatting the canon
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute.
tbf the mainstream media has been selling him in a way that if you don't pay attention he just seems like another self-help dipshit
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
"some credit for outing herself as a hapless boob"
am I too late to say "hapless boob outscillator"
outer hapless décolletage
etc etc
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
if you don't pay attention he just seems like another self-help dipshit
this is true to some extent (I followed a link to a lecture video which was kind of persuasive up until he said something annoying but not all that outrageous or political and I went "huh wait, isn't this that guy ILX are mad at?"), but, the article she was complaining about - if it was the D0rian Lynsk3y one - has a pretty thorough list of reasons he annoys people, and the first few paragraphs before it gets onto that are fairly neutral-to-positive, so...
still, glad she's backpedalled a bit, and of course it's none of my business
(and yes, I was disappointed by the Spiked retweets too)
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Also Spiked/LM types are hardwired to disagree with anything published by the Guardian - and also to support any attack on political correctness from whatever quarter.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
So, she couldn't really help herself tbh.
Duophonic reissues of the Switched On series incoming:
https://bleep.com/stereolab?utm_source=Bleep&utm_campaign=666133f9f6-Stereolab&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db8ca97389-666133f9f6-346575
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
I know what I want for Christmas
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
drooling atm
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
why must bleep always find new reasons to separate me from my money
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
The dilemma with these new remasters / colored vinyl bothers me so much. Will the remaster be good? Will there be pressing issues? Will the black vinyl sound noticeably better than the color variation. Will the color variation sell out quickly then be worth 2-3x the black vinyl.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
hi, and welcome to Stereolab
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
Clear vinyl doesn’t have inferior sound quality
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
I already have these on CD
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Also on Bandcamp where you can get coloured FLACs guaranteed to sound the same as black FLACs.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
black FLACs
This feels like a racial slur, even though I know it isn't.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Actually I think clear vinyl has *better* sound quality than black vinyl. All vinyl is clear until they put the color in it. or something. I don't know. heard that once
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
The additive that makes it black (graphite?) supposedly gives the vinyl a smoother texture or finer grain or something. So it's claimed, anyway.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
Not graphite exactly, this stuff - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black
Seems like it might add to durability if nothing else.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
All vinyl is clear until they put the color in it
https://media0.giphy.com/media/26uTsgxxplCBOasmc/giphy.gif
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
Durability of any record is much more dependent how you (and your record player) treat the record than what colour it is.
― everything, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Well there's damage from ill treatment and then there's wear which is unavoidable over time unless you use a laser stylus. Just because one might be potentially more pronounced doesn't mean the other isn't a factor and one that can be minimised.
Anecdotally coloured or clear vinyl often seems to have more surface noise but there can be other reasons for this.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
I replaced / got rid of a glitter Emperor Tomato Ketchup and a gold Transient Random Nose Bursts because they weren't too good fwiw.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
On a more practical level, finding where the tracks are on a clear vinyl Aluminum Tunes will be fun.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
So these are going to sell out in less than a week right? Can't afford any of them right now
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
My observation is that the Stereolab vinyl reissues at my local record stores never shift, while secondhand copies of CDs disappear in days.
― everything, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
Used copies of the Switched On CDs are usually priced at $5.99 round here btw, though Aluminium Tunes rarely shows up.
― everything, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
the vinyl reissues put out by 1972 or whatever are notoriously bad. mastered from CD's iirc. and yeah i've observed the same at record stores here
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
2008 reissue of Peng! (on Too Pure) has been sitting in my local store for years. And it's not that expensive - $25 I think. I doubt vinyl reissues of the albums are in the works because little demand and CDs so much cheaper. But good on them for reissuing the Switched On discs and I hope they continue with making the extraneous stuff more affordable. Hopefully other stuff that's hard to find on physical format will come out. Like a massive outtakes box and live recordings. There's few bands with such a broad range of unavailable or hard-to-find stuff.
― everything, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
I have the Peng! reissue. It's pretty terrible.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link