Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie (Live on Later With Jools Holland)

Stereolab performing "Cybele's Reverie" from the album 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup', live on Later With Jools Holland in 1996.
Available now, Stereolab continue their album reissue campaign with the release of 1996's Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1997's Dots and Loops and 1999's Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night as expanded and remastered editions on vinyl, compact disk and digital via Warp Records and the band's own Duophonic UHF Disks | stereolab.co.uk
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[@mojopin1997]

Stereolab are the most underrated band ever.

[@xxczerxx]

Usually these comments are exaggerations, but in this case....literally.

[@souleymanediallo7128]

@@xxczerxx p

[@kohlemainen]

Nonsense. They are revered by many music lovers. They were never about selling millions of records. They are obviously not underrated by you and me.

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

probably

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

@@kohlemainen I think he meant they deserve even more attention for the quality of their music!

[@secretgardentribe9220]

I got into stereolab back in the day. A friend gave me a tape. Listening makes me want to go to France and I imagine a summertime, cycling, French villages, and French motorways.

[@mrhoffame]

The magic of Stereolab is that they make me feel so loved and depressed at the same time. It's like the real human experience taking place all at once!

[@olivere5318]

Well said!

[@danielnworb]

@@olivere5318 Yeah well said - definitely the embodiment of feeling loved and depressed at the same time.

[@souleymanediallo7128]

@@danielnworbp p

[@nohopesaloon]

really well said

[@naughtyplanet]

Laetitia and Mary make me feel as if I am floating off into outer space!

[@SimonYoungOFFICIAL]

The finest song by the greatest art-rock group of all time. Tragically overlooked, because they refuse to go with a major label. They should be household names. So very sad about the death of the lovely lady Mary. This was the group in their prime. It gives me exquisite euphoria.

[@andyprice]

They were very much on a major label in the US.

[@SimonYoungOFFICIAL]

@@andyprice Oh, sorry, I got that wrong. I wonder why they're not more famous. Their music's so melodic.

[@gregolas5873]

RIP Mary

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

Absolutely beautiful band!

[@juliusebola9389]

The vocal harmonies and the hook it creates is straight up Mamas and the Papas or Beach Boys tier.

[@winstonhuang6228]

Brilliant performance! Seeing Laetitia and Mary singing together made my eyes wet. Definitely my favourite version of Cybele's Reverie. The string section made the show stand out and unique. Wonder if the recording has a chance for a proper release (along with Les Yper Sound of the same session) in the future.

[@gelsol]

Mary rockin' the Vibraslap, love it! RIP

[@pendragonU]

Each one was delivering at their heyday best, I was impressed by Laetitia's taking risks with her voice and bringing it places, touching sky. And Mary... her quasi Baroque la's to counter and silvery embellish Laetitia's lead were pure Chantilly créme. A powerful song like only they could deliver

[@kofi9212]

This really got me feeling some typa way

[@ponyboycurtis9345]

Another one eh, Its the uplifting tempo I guess

[@marcelbakker1427]

can't believe i'm discovering this now...this is awesome

[@erickrause381]

i remember when they crammed all their equipment onto the 7th street entry stage of First Avenue in Minneapolis.. should have been a Mainroom show.. they were still fabulous as usual... those 90's were fun times musically.. Lush was super cool.. shoegaze, indy rock, manchester, speed metal.. soundgarden.. it was all so good!!

[@bigbadbillb]

I love how those two gals sing together. Such a unique style.

[@davidbidgood3987]

And partly from Maryborough, RIP Mary.

[@tonysammut3799]

Stereolab have to be up there with the greatest bands ever. Just amazing level output over a huge number of albums. This was such a great performance. Wish I could see them more often. RIP Mary.

[@edf13]

Is it weird that I like YES, Stereolab and Tame Impala?

[@Drewanize]

Really goes over my head how someone can write a so perfect song and perform it live even better

[@jfennell3954]

I’m grateful to have seen Stereolab with Mary Hansen. RIP… respect

[@oskarpetureinarsson3880]

Saw Mary's very last show in Reykjavik, Iceland, just over 20 years ago. Always regretted not going both nights (they played 2 shows).

[@pov_music]

Now for me this is absolutely one of the best live performances they ever did. The Groop at their absolute prime. Sublime version of this masterpiece

[@deanmason2022]

2020 ,,,had some great times .....miss you Mary R.I.P

[@lemongold709]

Sonic boom playing the synthesizer, i love that guy

[@saturatedneowax]

YOOOOOOO /3\

[@patrickwilliams7078]

when i used to play this album years ago people thought i was weird, Duh !!!! don't think so, the stereolab sound is timeless

[@xxczerxx]

Lol who thought you were weird? I always thought the most interesting thing about Stereolab was that they were groundbreaking/innovative and lyrically deep, but in a way that was extremely palettable and pleasant to most ears. I mean, people think I'm weird for being a huge fan of Meshuggah, but I can kinda get that because it's very abrasive, extreme music. Stereolab is not!

[@AnotherAnonymousMan]

Mary forever

[@xxczerxx]

This performance is awesome, they usually kinda rearranged their songs back into punky things due to the records being quite ornamental.... So cool to see them with the strings, and full blown sound effects etc

[@DeltaJazzUK]

Saw this when it was first broadcast and immediately fell in love with Laetitia

[@pauloliver6813]

I'd love to pretend I was at gigs in the 90's before this, but I wasn't. I had seen Super-Electric on MTV and loved it. But it didn't really register when I came home from the pub in 1996 and switched on Jools Holland that this was the same group. But it was love at first hearing/sight. Such wonderful sounds, so cool looking. I wasn't alone in having an instant crush on Laetitia either. Thanks Stereolab.

[@williammalloy5314]

I saw them last night in Nashville and they absolutely blew my mind. I've seen so many bands over the years and they were right at the top of the list for me. Phenomenal.

[@jamesflowers1215]

delighted to have come across this piece tonight

[@alelunf1219]

❤ Stereolab❤

[@gallegalle6761]

Tuve la oportunidad de verlo en vivo Uno de los recuerdos más más lindos de mi niñez lo sigo aguardando influyó mucho en mi búsqueda de nuevos sonidos Ese sonido en ese tiempo retrofuturista extraño pero al mismo tiempo estable Siempre regresó a ti I cant Forget Forever

[@janipashkvan797]

Genius song

[@billynicgorski1]

On tour I ran into these girls on tour in the states .. the sweetest people

[@luhram]

Perfect companion por corona times. 2021 and we need to resist. Long live to Stereolab!!

[@blacklava4978]

damn that was beautiful

[@IndigenousPathways]

Wow even better than the album version! How special. Thanks very much for sharing!

[@tommotom7324]

I love Stereolab. First saw them at the 1997 Reading festival. Funny in this set how Classic TIm Gane, puts himself in the background, insists on never facing the camera.

[@salvatoreingenito5964]

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT BAND!!!

[@withallduerespectcompletely]

Happy birthday Mr Lawrence

[@richardkolarek9008]

Notre/votre génération apporte sa profonde insouciance en cadeau de relais aux jeunes générations. Merci pour votre puissance triste et tendre

[@TheSuepez]

Such a beautiful song! ♥ They are the best 😍

[@NuisanceMan]

When he said, "Let me say three words to you," I thought he was going to go, "starey oh lab."

[@Amquacktador]

"Let me say three words to you"... *points two fingers*

[@waynedarronwalls6468]

Mary...❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭

[@metenischato]

TEARS!!!! AMAZING! BRAVO!

[@tnimbus]

Back in the day I never understood why these were not huge. I don't understand even more now.

[@pendragonU]

Because Grunge-mania came and absorbed half the 90's attention, waves, promotions and payolas, etc. They were indies

[@samueldiazarteaga]

Maravilloso Stereolab!

[@gordillosoloelapellido]

Best performance ever!

[@StebsStuff]

beautiful

[@nodiggity9472]

Laetitia: "Tim, can we have a pentatonic scale?" Tim: "We have pentatonic scales at home."

[@fryksdahlstravel8983]

Lovely melody, when i first heard it it reminded me of something from way back and it is Kilburn Towers by the Bee Gees!

[@withallduerespectcompletely]

Merry Xmas, Stereolab.

[@HelderMN]

magical

[@martinsandoval8755]

Me encanta graxias por compartir... se me pianta un lagrimon!

[@MURMENLIFE]

What a great song. Greetings.

[@lazybelphegore6748]

I saw them at Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. They were great, and it was so fricking hot that day I was worried they would die up there and myself too! But they were excellent. Funny thing I noticed, I had also just seen My Bloody Valentine in Chicago. And Bilinda Butcher was on the far left of the stage, and Kevin Shields was at the far right. Like they couldn’t possibly get far enough from each other. And Stereolab did the same thing thing, with Laetitia Sadier on the far right side and Tim Gane on the far left! Now if we could only get Cocteau Twins back together, somebody tell Elizabeth Fraser that she coild stand on one side of the stage and Robin Guthrie could be all the way on the other side. They wouldn’t really have to ever look at each other or talk to each other! Actually, that would be horrible to work with someone you had broken up with; so I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

[@coldercoronet6248]

I’ve heard that Kevin and Belinda are friends now. Is that not true?

[@lazybelphegore6748]

@@coldercoronet6248 I would imagine it was probably true-at least enough to work together! They were really good too. I would love to see them again.

[@easterntrees]

I believe they play in that configuration because Mary used to stand center stage, like in this performance. they're leaving a space for her. Tim started playing stage right in the late 90s, before she died.

[@odilecroc3843]

French melancolie made this sort of magic thing...

[@marcoalburqueque1095]

love.

[@inigovaldivielso1859]

out these 191k reproductions 30.000 are mine. The groop

[@randomprimate]

Only Stereolab song that can pretty routinely make me get a little misty, and I have no clue what the lyrics are! Also, the vibraslap hit at 3:15 is criminally under-amplified.

[@funkk]

As a francophone, believe me, the lyrics make that feeling 100x more intense...

[@williamandrewshermenegildo6886]

@@funkk What the lyrics are about?

[@gerontodon]

@@funkk I only know them from a translation, but yes, they do seem very evocative.

[@gerontodon]

@@williamandrewshermenegildo6886 About how childhood is more honest, and memories of a garden wall, or something to that effect, I think.

[@decepticonne]

@@gerontodon and what is there left to do when you've done everything, and how places keep traces of those adventures, and how in the end their silence will prevail

[@williamandrewshermenegildo6886]

Great!

[@ssm_films]

Os sonhos de Cibele Guarde essa rosa para mim Coloque a música que quer ouvir Mande a rosa para mim Coloque os sonhos para dormir A rua, os carros, o céu, o sol Os sonhos de Cibele Mate esta rosa para mim Diga a música que quer domir Jogue a rosa para mim Diga as palavras que quer ouvir O sol, o céu, os carros, a rua Os sonhos de Cibele

[@Battogtoh]

❤️❤️❤️

[@dravafox]

I'm from Canada, am a HUGE Stereolab fan, saw them again in 2022, was such an exquisite experience! ... but my comment is about this video, we didn't have Jools in Canada, but he seems like such a wanker, seriously, what am I missing here?

[@christophmoses]

Love you

[@WalkerSantosOficial]

Sempre muito elegantes.

[@Seagoatsunday]

SOOOOO good stoned! Yeeaassee

[@Yalter777]

Hello from 2020)))

[@morningface_ace]

wow

[@benjaminteisan7355]

Does anybody else remember the woman that walked onto the runway at Paris fashion week, because this was the song that was playing

[@HamptonGuitars]

Their songs are like impressionist images, kind of fuzzy and out of focus, this one captures a nice feeling and then stays there with the same repeating chord pattern.

[@dago3336]

3:17 años y años de influencia musical, the free design? can? pale fountains?

[@hernanarsuaga3219]

🙌🎓✨

[@dovic86]

imagine saying the words "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" so seriously

[@tbwatch88]

very very hard to pull off live. insane track on the LP, though.

[@kidkique]

I want to make those bubble sounds! SO far Ive learned lfo on amplitude give the bubles the trem, and high levels of resonance and fiddling with extreme cutoff frequencies can sorta approximate the bubbles, but does anyone actually know how to do it on a modular??

[@stefanandrew8546]

Try LFO to Osc pitch keep changing depth & rate

[@keithwilliams9814]

High Art Pop

[@sourceify]

Hearing this, 'la silence me penetrere'... Beautful.

[@saturatedneowax]

Hey, I have that Shure microphone!

[@TheSuepez]

Si esto tuviera 400M de views como titi de bad bunny, El Mundo sería un mejor lugar 😢 igual me encanta titi 😂

[@bubbertv3774]

Los herederos del Krautrock de Neu!

[@arrivingsomewherebut]

[@gerontodon]

I thought they were partly from Australia.

[@hoover728]

The singer on the left was.

[@0Kuzon0]

🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️

[@khambrelgreen]

What are they what are they singing about?

[@Otterysteve]

Good grief! Happily listening to this, then Nigel bloody Farage turned up in an "adverts" at the end! Ha! Glad of the mute button.....

[@stereofidelic67]

Oooh, the mixing and production of live music has moved on massively since the late 90s. Listen to how live bands sound like on platforms such as Seatle's KEXP. Maybe the Lab could perform live on KEXP this year?They are touring the States soon. No brainer.

[@mikelebischak658]

Spellbinding.

[@hogemal]

へたくそで笑 それもなぜか美しいな

[@dreez5941]

who came here after high fidelity

[@ninajoon1261]

the new one??

[@giancarlomuro6486]

Laetitia was so badddd

[@SacGeoTV]

Muggle Music for Average -Minded Homosexuals 👈🏼

[@Drewanize]

Really goes over my head how someone can write a so perfect song and perform it live even better

[@offbeat65]

I love them to bits, but honestly, Letitia's singing is cringe-inducing here.

[@andyprice]

I was thinking the same thing when saw your comment. My guess is this lineup, with new members on keys and bass since the summer 95 recording of ETK, plus Sean O’Hagen (who I’m sure arranged the strings) and Sonic Boom is why it’s so next-level.

[@MrBeatlefan123]

​@@offbeat65she gave it %110 which honestly just makes the song all that much better for me 😢

[@veridisquo9626]

wow