History Music / Stereolab

* LongTitle: They have a few, including the album titles ''The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music'', ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements'', and ''Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night''.

* AuthorTract: The majority of their lyrics push a Marxist / Situationist worldview. Some are more subtle about it [[{{Anvilicious}} than others]]. It doesn't help that the two main members of the band from time to time give conflicting statements about this, as reported by Wiki/TheOtherWiki:

* BoleroEffect: "Stomach Worm", "Golden Ball", and parts of "Jenny Ondioline" make prominent use of this.

** ''Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On, Vol. 2'' (1995) Collection of singles and rarities.

** ''Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3'' (1998) Collection of EP tracks, singles, and rarities.

** ''Electrically Possessed: Switched On, Vol. 4'' (2021) Collection of EP tracks, singles, rarities and unreleased material.
** ''Pulse of the Early Brain: Switched On, Vol. 5'' (scheduled for Sept 2022) Collection of EP tracks, singles, rarities and unreleased material.

* BoleroEffect: "Golden Ball"

They went on an indefinite hiatus in 2009, but returned to play a series of live dates for 2019-2021. They also re-released a chunk of their old discography: [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition deluxe editions]] of their albums from ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements'' through ''Margerine Eclipse'', and a BoxedSet of their ''Switched On'' compilations--then put out a new entry in the ''Switched On'' compilation series.

* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: "The Noise of Carpet" says that cynicism is just another tool that TheMan uses to keep us down.

** ''Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night'' is partly named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement) CoBrA]], a short-lived avant-garde movement, and the Phases Group, another group of surrealists. From the same album, "Blips, Drips & Strips" and "Op Hop Detonation" are both named in reference to experimental films Tim Gane read about in Amos Vogel's book ''Film as a Subversive Art''. "The Free Design" was an accidental shout-out: the title was just a reference to the song's lyrics, but the groop were aware of [[Music/TheFreeDesign the band of the same name]] and appreciated the coincidence.

** Similarly, the original CD version of ''Sound-Dust'' used an edited version of "Gus the Mynah Bird" (lasting 6:11), while the LP version had the full, unedited song (which runs for 9:05, owing to a much longer, percussion-heavy intro). For the 2019 remaster, both the CD and LP use the unedited version.
** The 2019 remaster of ''Margerine Eclipse'' swaps the original edit of "Hillbilly Motobike" for the previously unreleased full version with a new ambient section in the middle, lengthening the song from 2:53 to 4:52.

* InheritedIlliteracyTitle:
** ''The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music''. (Oddly enough, "Bachelor" was only misspelled on the front cover--the album spine and back cover spells it correctly.) Which also featured the song "The Groop Played Chord X" and inspired future album liner notes (and many a reviewer) to refer to the band as "the groop".
** ''Margerine Eclipse''. Probably spelled that way to [[PunBasedTitle work "Marge" into the title]]; this is the same album that ends with "Dear Marge".

* MultilingualSong: Most of their tunes are either completely in English or completely in French, but there are a few songs that feature both languages about equally, like "Lock-Groove Lullaby" and "Prisoner of Mars".

** From the beginning, there were two versions of ''Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night''. The 1999 vinyl issue on Duophonic Discs featured the full, [[EpicRocking 17 minute]] version of "Blue Milk"--while the CD version edited the track down to 11 minutes, since the full song would have made the album too long to fit on a single CD. For some reason, every subsequent vinyl reissue also used the CD version of the album. That is, until 2019, when they used the original vinyl version (with the full length "Blue Milk") as the basis for the remastered rerelease, both on vinyl and CD. (The extended length makes ''Cobra and Phases Group'' the only album in the remaster series that's split across two [=CDs=].)
** The 2019 remaster of ''Sound-Dust'' swaps the original edit of "Gus the Mynah Bird" for the previously unreleased full version with a completely new intro, lengthening the song from 6:11 to 9:05.
** Similarly, the 2019 remaster of ''Margerine Eclipse'' swaps the original edit of "Hillbilly Motobike" for the previously unreleased full version with a new ambient section in the middle, lengthening the song from 2:53 to 4:52.

** ''Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night'' is partly named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement) CoBrA]], a short-lived avant-garde movement. From the same album, "The Free Design" is a tribute to [[Music/TheFreeDesign the band of the same name]].

* {{Portmantitle}}: "Delugeoisie", combining "deluge" (most likely in reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_moi,_le_d%C3%A9luge a phrase attributed to King Louis XV of France]]) with "bourgeoisie".

* TheNotRemix: The 2019 reissued albums were all remastered by Bo Kondren, with Tim Gane's assistance. Both of them aimed for a mastering style that (in Gane's words) "tries to preserve the inner musicality of the audio" while "improv[ing] a little on the resolution, spaciality, and depth."

They went on an indefinite hiatus in 2009, but returned to play a series of live dates for 2019-2021. They also re-released a chunk of their old discography: [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition deluxe editions]] of their albums from ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements'' through ''Margarine Eclipse'', and a BoxedSet of their ''Switched On'' compilations--then put out a new entry in the ''Switched On'' compilation series.

** The EP ''Instant 0 in the Universe'' and the album ''Margarine Eclipse'' are both mixed in "dual mono", meaning every instrument is panned hard to one side or the other. Muting either channel results in the songs sounding radically different.

* InheritedIlliteracyTitle: ''The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music''. (Oddly enough, "Bachelor" was only misspelled on the front cover--the album spine and back cover spells it correctly.) Which also featured the song "The Groop Played Chord X" and inspired future album liner notes (and many a reviewer) to refer to the band as "the groop".

For a comprehensive discography, see [[http://www.stereolab.co.uk/discography/list/ their website]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereolab_discography the other wiki]].