Stereolab - French Disko

[@pepesupreme3339]

Stereolab, Pavement, Guided By Voices, Sonic Youth, Beck, The Flaming Lips, The Breeders...So many champions of alt-rock in the second half of the 90s

[@briancox9357]

And Sparklehorse

[@ipiap]

These were predominantly big in the first half.

[@christiananderson6761]

BJM

[@stephenwalker850]

Your welcome

[@we.breath.water.of.the.skyfish]

@@briancox9357 no...but i promise....someday i WILL treat you good......

[@marceldee1163]

The best lead AND backing vocals 🙌👩🏻👩🏼🔥🔥😁😁💋💋😎😎🇬🇧🇫🇷♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@gregf.4814]

Our daughter’s favorite Stereolab song. She always danced to it. What a incredible and talented band. Thanks for all of the music! 🙌🏼🎶🎛

[@woiowoiow190]

In 2020 this still kills.

[@kisuryouri334]

So DOPE!!

[@LABBOYSIX]

💯💯💯

[@xpedro7036]

disagree lol

[@davidp3196]

2021

[@arjunbriggs7637]

pro trick: you can watch movies on flixzone. Me and my gf have been using them for watching loads of movies recently.

[@deedledumb790]

We miss you, Stereolab. RIP Mary!

[@laetitianolace2204]

:`(

[@teekotrain6845]

So pretty and i have always loved the name

[@87dan87]

"I saw Stereolab in Bellingham and they played one chord for 15 minutes. Something in me shifted. I brought back home belief I could create eternity."

[@denisr7710]

this actually made me get into stereolab. didn’t really know about them before

[@maximoplf]

Elverum for life

[@jamesedgewood4643]

You my friend, understand Stereolab. Your life is complete. There is nothing more for you to learn.

[@RebeccaLynnMusic]

Yes.

[@87dan87]

@@jamesedgewood4643 I take no credit. It's a lyric from Phil Elverum in his album The Microphones in 2020. You can hear it at this time stamp, but I'd recommend starting from the beginning and listening to the whole album through, then more of his stuff: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2ilnJSYe5hkl80

[@gosatta1]

I saw them kick this out at point-blank range in a tiny room above a pub in Windsor in about 1993. I've seen a lot of gigs and some huge bands, but it remains the live highlight of my life.

[@jesuschrist2284]

Saw them do a 2 hour encore once.

[@HerveBoisde]

That’s great

[@bencolemanart]

Where was that? We used to go to the Old Trout a bunch but don't remember a venue above a pub.

[@GallagherMichael]

We're going to sing in a way so cool we almost look bored, blast you with French fuzz punk Krautrock and vintage synths, and have the audacity to call it Disko. Absolute class.

[@threedeemelodies]

disko is just a title... not a descriptor

[@kenkovar2647]

yep

[@kenkovar2647]

@@threedeemelodies but ya can dance to it so it is disko

[@S.Innuendo]

Somehow i managed to discover Stereolab just a few weeks ago😮They are stunning!!! Every song I click on is completely different than the one I've heard before, but every single one is awesome. I am in love with their tunes!🥰

[@florencehenderson3707]

😃

[@EddieZedd]

Welcome! I hope you manage to savor all of it. Their music is a gift that keeps on giving.

[@Battismore-Blue]

Its 30 years old , that scares me a bit 🤪

[@sgh1963]

I love every second of this song and this video. I so loved the early 90s. Musical heaven.

[@motherlesschild102]

Have loved this song for years. Great to see the band performing it live, and especially people dancing to it!

[@cheekymonkey1979]

Shit they look so young! I remember seeing this on TV on a Friday night when I was 14, and getting on a bus to Beggars Banquet in Kingston and buying the single the next day. Pop moment!

[@paulkirby6477]

Their greatest song performed so brilliantly that it brings a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye every time I watch this😭

[@kimmiekoneko]

i can't believe i just learned about them. they could've been my favourite band the past 20 years! ah well, next 20 years it is then

[@orettero]

same!

[@macklu7657]

+1 🙂👍

[@mjproebstle]

same!

[@sidandnancy1966]

their live sound was probably the best of any uk band in the 1990s

[@lincbond442]

I have a similar dilemma, although I first heard about them in 1995 with the song "Ping Pong". I was into so many different bands at the time that I didn't really get deep into them. I did have the CD's Mars Audiac Quintet and Dots and Loops but didn't spend much time with them. Now I'm appreciating some of the music I overlooked.

[@lupodelupis3672]

This live version is fantastic...they really rocked hard in the 90's!

[@TheWildhound]

I saw them in 1999 in Germany @ the Southside Festival. There was bad weather since many days. Stereolab played on a side stage covered with a big tent. As it started hard raining again, many people from the main stage moved to side stage and filled the tent. Minutes before there were not many people as the started to play, what a shame. They played amazing. And loud, so pure. I stood in the first row, no barriers. Only Stereolab in front of me. what a gift ! I can remember they gave admission with 'French Disco'' in a approx. 20 minutes version. It blew my head away. mixed with countless Hashpipes I couldn't grasp to have that all in the first row. One of the most intensive moments in my life.

[@MrDjeipi]

Absolutely fantastic. I can't make without this tune to face life in a lightweight fashion. Thank you all the dames in Stereolab.

[@phfrixion]

Great live performance, the audience is great too. And of course the "cheesy dancers". I just love Stereolab!!!

[@literateka]

I wasn't aware of The Word show back then in the tv era, but from a few videos that I saw recently, it gives me an impression that this was the sickest music show ever, perfectly capturing the spirit of 90's

[@junghunt8645]

Lætitia Sadier. What an amazingly talented fox leading a fantastic band at the height of their powers. More amazed that they can still write great music decades after this. Aside from losing Mary, they’re still great.

[@eurekaruto4392]

2023 still goes hard

[@Gefilta]

Seeing Mary brought a tear to my eye. I met her in St. Kilda Australia. Great sense of humour. Missing you.

[@chrismcdonald1853]

Hey I put on a few wee gigs in very deep south of Spain where the commercial people will never be invited or find us, I will tell you something, this stereo lab track still makes the night whether I have a 50 year old superstar DJ or a 17 year old up and coming, I insist they play it and it always, always works.

[@stevew5146]

I just had the honor for the first time to listen to Stereolab on KZbin and my finger autonomously clicked the subscribe button before my brain could say, "just wait!" Steve- from Chicago

[@choco-une]

Kim Wexler listens to Stereolab too

[@TripCatskill]

2019 APPROVES

[@xGrumpx]

...deeply.

[@TheDemdem66]

And in 202O Aswell!

[@boelegerkes]

Not to mention 2021!

[@encrustanail]

i feel like this is by far the best live music performance i've ever discovered on youtube.

[@HerveBoisde]

It’s also because of the energy in the room. Those kids were having a great time

[@wonkyal3097]

The final minute or so of this performance is akin to being transported to the most perfect place on Earth . It's beautiful. My ears have never been treated as much. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@sidandnancy1966]

their live sound was amazing it lives on in this and the jools holland vids

[@Maddogonguitar]

Thanks Terry, this show was probably where I first heard Stereolab...I love my music and am always moving on but this band caught me on many levels, this is everything I want, crautrock, punk rock, euro disco and everything else it so wonderfully IS.... glad you put the time in to get them on, just wonderful...

[@Brixtaan]

This is the best version I've heard (rougher and raw(er?)) I hope Terry and those atThe Word realised how lucky they were. Absolutely banging

[@timhawthorn7903]

It just gets better every time I listen to it

[@Discoretrox]

Always play this on my streams today...incredible song 🎵 ❤

[@VJVIMANA]

also: from this same period they released The Free Design as well as First of the Microbe Hunters EP's and when put together make my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Stereolab "album" hands down. Their control over their Moog textures are at full power. I've never heard such stunningly beautiful synthetic soundscapes. It makes me think of beautiful German Expressionist futuristic cities with everyone flying around in jet cars (except in color! beautiful kaleidoscopic color... )

[@johnnyross5463]

VimanaRama still relevant today. Good piece.

[@TimJackson-eq6iy]

I have been listening to them for years, but this is the first time I have seen them perform.

[@manicpanic4486]

Not heard this in years...great times these were as a 17year old ! Much appreciated post ....

[@joedisco]

The Word was fucking brilliant, and so were Stereolab. Perfect slice in time.

[@DaveWalker]

I really can’t find a single way in which this isn’t perfect.

[@DaveWalker]

Robert N. Lee ***** Tracy Popp Michael McNally

[@andrewfacherty5236]

You're so not wrong.

[@geneclart1]

Andrew Facherty ha ha!

[@pajarorokh]

I was spending time trying to understend, since i read Adrew's post

[@davidroberts1026]

Well said. I remember being literally floored when I first heard them back in the 90's on our local great radio station, KDHX 88.1. I think it was Cybele's Reverie, and I was blown away and had to lay down on the floor to take it all in! One of those "I HAVE to know who this is" moments!

[@mpontler]

I can't decide what is greater in this 90's masterpiece....the music or the lyrics which no one mentions....LA RESISTANCE!

[@GiangiacomoZaffini]

Farfisa keyboards representing Italy in such a classic cut from Stereolab ... love ... and they play at Primavera '19!

[@gscout7170]

Necro reply but that's a Vox Continental Katharine is playing. Although, I've seen her playing a Farfisa live when it was a Vox on the album... It's very confusing...

[@GiangiacomoZaffini]

@1:35 Letitia seems to be hands on allegedly a FARFISA keyboard, still major point is that this song pulls me.

[@lupodelupis3672]

@@GiangiacomoZaffini Purtroppo non ho mai avuto la fortuna di vederli...però non credo siano venuti molto spesso in Italia.

[@johneeeemarry34]

Most of the organ you hear is a Vox Jaguar.. it’s not actually a Vox but a Thomas organ , they bought Vox in the late 60s.. your both wrong but you mean well…

[@klaytonvonkluge4905]

It's strange how, so many great bands from late 80s and early 90s escape from my detection... Awesome sound and vibe!

[@sidandnancy1966]

their live sound was nothing like their lps they smashed it live

[@SlviaD]

@@sidandnancy1966 also my opinion. saw them live in Porto and they fkn killed it that night, what a vibe

[@VJVIMANA]

HEY EVERYBODY! KZbin doesn't have a replacement feature for swapping out the original uploads and keeping all the views and comments and fun stuff. SO I'M UPLOADING THEM AGAIN! In the coming weeks there'll be brand spankin' new and higher quality encodes of all your favorite videos! When you see a new upload of an old favorite (for instance you can find THIS one HERE Stereolab -French Disko (NEW)) please be sure to like it, comment on it, and share it so that it gains traction in search rankings and I can eventually replace the old versions altogether. Thank you all so very much for all the positive feedback and thanks for watching!

[@TariqBusy]

I love it!! They're Jamming!

[@kevinwhitaker119]

STILL CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO THIS SONG ❤️...2021 ... AND IT'S STILL AN AWESOME SONG,AND A TOP SLICE OF ELECTRONIC -- PUNK MASH UP...!! I'D LOVE TO SEE THE REMAINING BAND MEMBERS RE - UNITE AND REFORM

[@sidandnancy1966]

welcome to the best and great live bands of the 1990s SL smashed their lps with their live shows and below ur comet one from 12 years ago timeless live performance

[@brightonmart]

I remember watching this performance when it went out live on 'The Word' and have been a Stereolab ever since.

[@MelancholyChameleon]

This performance must be one of the best ever. I LOVE it! It really sends intense shivers down my spine...

[@Nugtroen]

damn know this songs from a movie Gunpowder Milkshake...killer kick ass song man

[@julesrandolph5687]

Great band, great song. Thanks for posting!

[@transmitterdown320]

Love this. Play them regularly on my show. - CRMK 8pm Friday UK time

[@billwierling3836]

Saw them play in San Diego years ago. Belly up tavern.

[@crh7742]

1.43 - what male strippers used to wear in medieval England.

[@Think_Up]

Absolutely incredible.

[@Kelly-Jones]

charmingly imperfect

[@matskieden511]

One of THE tunes of the 90s on one of THE most iconic shows of the 90s

[@FabriceAttali]

In 2021 this still kills.

[@sidandnancy1966]

their live sound got better over the next 4 years

[@motherlesschild102]

Likewise 2024.

[@garrold1849]

Well I listened to this first time round and then all this time later. Still incomparably fucking fantastic.

[@TzadikTheManic]

So grateful to find these Stereolab uploads, thank you so much!! 🙏

[@007fiber007]

Very very good!! No question. When I read negative comments I wonders about the other musical artists that I love!! About thousands of them. No shit!! How shallow! Glad I know how to LISTEN! I'm sure millions of people feel the same way. Ahhh the listeners GOLDEN!!!

[@trancehi]

Remember seeing this when it first aired and still got it on video. Adore the girl on the left keyboard.

[@johneeeemarry34]

She’s looking extremely rough nowadays…

[@cheekymonkey1979]

This is from a show called 'the Word' which was Channel Fours flagship late night Friday 'yoof' tv show. They had all manner of bands on, from metal to hip hop, indie and dance. As a 14 year old I used to watch it every week to catch cool bands live. The crowd was always idiotic, which made for some great awkward moments like this one! I will never forget this performance, or Therapy? for that matter; they destroyed it.

[@yellowjackboots2624]

As a 13 year old, I'll never forget when one of L7 pulled her knickers down at the end of a song. The camera didn't even cut away. Good times 😄

[@motherlesschild102]

I liked watching the idiotic, awkward crowd dance!!

[@bencolemanart]

Me too- more dancing here than you normally get at a Stereolab show, where everyone is too cool for school

[@yoyohomey]

The first time I saw them was loloopalooza and I was just fin mesmerized I was like floored 45 min of sound that was like omg how do you describe it this video is how you describe it miss mary very much as I became the groupie

[@sevendaughters]

I haven't seen Stereolab live unfortunately, got a bunch of their records. I never imagined they'd sound this urgent and rocking live. Top drawer.

[@devout666]

I always comeback to this song. Superb!

[@zackkelly8174]

Awesome! this has got to be my favorite song by them. I never knew the name of it as I tend to just queue up several of their albums and let it ride all day.

[@colem1177]

Great taste, kim wexler

[@crh7742]

The Word had some great bands and provided some great moments in TV history, such as the singer from L7 showing her beaver. Stereolab were amazing. Their album Dots and Loops is a masterpiece.

[@jameslynch7826]

Had the honour of getting half pissed with him in Gt Portland St about 7 years ago What he doesn’t know about music or Man Utd isn’t worth knowing and he signed some rare LPs which I had just bought too The Word What a brilliant era

[@bryanmacleod903]

Could be my favorite song of all time

[@trainrover]

they're a good band...such a variety of characters knitting well together like this ain't fuckingly easy..! 🍸

[@paulrutherford6037]

It still sounds great today and every other day. Until the end of time!

[@philliphazell4211]

now in my 60s , this was 30 years ago , makes me feel energised watching but also old

[@pepesupreme3339]

What a priviledge it has been to grow up in that decade. Im not a nostalgic person, but when I see and hear this, Its impossible not to be nostalgic. The 90s were truly the last, great decade in terms of pop culture and music.

[@sidandnancy1966]

this is probably the greatest live tv band performance of the 1990s of a uk band

[@VJVIMANA]

Mars Audaic Quintet is the perfect album that bridges the old style (cyclical VU "Sister Ray" riff drone w/farfisa) and the modern burbling Moog-heavy sound. It's got stone cold classics like "Ping Pong", "Wow and Flutter", "Three Longers Later" and "International Colouring Contest".

[@gongfarmer201]

Their last decent album imo but then I did prefer the earlier sound !

[@stevendoss7850]

This song and dance beat has to be on anyone who runs playlist! And the girl at around 2:54 is definitely having a great time with this song!

[@TheWizardOfSmog]

The bit at 0:40 where Laetitia reaches for the note and does a little sort of frown makes my heart tremble every damn time. Awesome song, awesome performance.

[@BorlandRIP7]

I saw them live back in 1998 in France..and met TIM GANE after the show..he noticed me because I was wearing a NME C86 T Shirt..and I just told him that Mc Carthy "celestial city" song was just the most beautiful song ever..he was very kind

[@johneeeemarry34]

Very Guardian… very smug.. childish university late 80s middle class dog shit.

[@pantos27]

I love the trojan dancers having it off at the background Surprisingly, they seem really into analog-kraut-rock

[@tannerin]

this feels like a transmission from an alternate universe

[@AnotherAnonymousMan]

This describes all the best Stereolab songs...

[@diegoromeo7237]

You mean the 90s?

[@raylambert3425]

I think it’s french

[@sidandnancy1966]

their live sound was amazing saw them twice best was ETK in 1996

[@thomaswarburton7101]

What Ray said - that universe would be France, thus the title of the song....

[@willparry4775]

This is the song I want played at my funeral.

[@salpuma9145]

oh Leatitia...you are a monument of a woman. I got to see 'em with Mary...God bless her. Stereolab...in their own class

[@MrMarkDerry]

I love the way they all look like they've only just woken up and have had the same clothes on for the last 3 days. Great sound.

[@1emmain]

Great to see them as they were then, wonderfully composed live playing and no pretentiousness in their performance, just focus and attention. Also a little reminder of what a perfect nob Terry Christian was (and presumably still is) - how on earth did he get a job in TV?

[@shanekennedy1480]

Gorgeous women & gorgeous sounds!!! 🙌🎇🎆🎇🎆🎈😜

[@VJVIMANA]

The next album chronologically is cited by almost everybody as the band's masterpiece: Emperor Tomato Ketchup. "Cybele's Reverie" "Les Yper Sound" and "the Noise of Carpet" are big universal favorites. You can't go wrong with these two.

[@nodiggity9472]

Had to reply to this 15 year old comment, because you're absolutely right.

[@rarefind57]

Great song, great band, total geekmeisters live.

[@jellyduck100]

This is reminds me of 60s like holy shit. Stereolab rocks but the fact.. I miss the 90s. :/

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Stereolab was influenced a lot by 60s instrumental pop music and psychedelia

[@the_letter_b]

It's really the late 70s to mid 90s that were great since a lot of underground / diy / indie bands were making it into the mainstream and there was heavy influence from the UK. By the late 90s, British influence was really on the decline and style over substance edgelord music (nu metal) and overly polished pop, r&b, and hiphop started taking over in the US.

[@NEALBEARD2]

I will always ❤️ stereolab ! Thanks for posting!

[@tommybryson2311]

Today Is the day I find this band , this song . Wonderful.

[@indiepunkdd]

the word!! but till now I didn't know anything about a stereolab appearance.great stuff.

[@dharmaseed]

Me too. I especially love the way the drummer is pounding the tar out of his snare. The bass player has a Rick, too!

[@fannycraddock99]

Thanks. I'd long forgotten all about this song.

[@final_mile_music9713]

I watched this live. What. A. Tune. peak indie.

[@scrummyvision]

I love this song

[@RomyIgoeX]

To my eternal shame I've only just discovered these. Excellent!!

[@ragtagboyrebel]

And I discovered this just now. Good thing I listen to Holy Ghost.

[@johneeeemarry34]

🏳️‍🌈

[@karlkuttup]

real musos band way before they time still bangin out albums saw these with the coucteu twins and the cure on one line up

[@EdgyNumber1]

Crikey, no way!!! :( I remember hearing this on Radio 1 (UK) on the Mark Radcliffe show in the evenings back in the early/mid 1990's. I loved it and the tune defined to me what Stereolab was about. Can't believe she's gone!!!

[@JULIOANGELURENA]

The best song in the music history. I love this video

[@sidandnancy1966]

the best live live tv performance in history

[@bloodymaria]

was a great live but Mary is always missed :( RIP

[@racorands]

Can't watch this less than 3 times!

[@douglasarthur2673]

Fucking love this version. Knocks spots off the record

[@sidandnancy1966]

their live shows were a sonic analogue wall of sound nothing like their studio sound

[@sherriff999]

when i heard this for the 1st time 20 odd years ago it blew me away, it still sounds current now.

[@rockabillyrevolution]

never gets old good to hear again

[@harrymay2528]

I remember this. Great track. Decent band.