Fires

Uilab | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 1998)
• Original Release Date: February 24, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bingo Records
• ASIN: B000006ENL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,243 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. St. Elmo's Fire (Radio)

2. Less Time

3. St. Elmo's Fire (Red Corona)

4. St. Elmo's Fire (Spatio-Dynamic)

5. Impulse Rah!

6. St. Elmo's Fire (Snow)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

New York-based, post-rock boogie band Ui clearly have good ideas, but lackluster execution, like Tortoise with sprained hands or lesser record collections. London-based Stereolab, on the other hand, are peerlessly interesting, always pushing the limits of their lush, gurgly-churgly, melodic, joyous sound. One of the ways Stereolab do this is by pretending they have peers: releasing tons of arcane discs by others on their own Duophonic label and inviting the most challenging electronic musicians to destroy their songs for remix records. On Fires, Stereolab and Ui--née Uilab--collaborate well, performing two pleasant, vaguely meandering originals. Then they put together and take apart one of Eno's finest rock songs, "St. Elmo's Fire"--four times, no less. It's way more fascinating than it deserves to be. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ui and stereolab cover Brian Eno and Sun Ra, June 30, 1998

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[e-mail] (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fires (Audio CD)

"Fires" has been in heavy rotation at my house all spring. The multiple treatments of Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" have a hypnotic quality, building from a pleasant familiarity on the first track to a terrific release on the later, more uptempo versions. Idiosyncratic in the best sense, this ought to ring some bells for listeners who remember the original from "Another Green World."

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Marveling Britches for a Silly Catsy, September 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fires (Audio CD)

This album has everything it needs to spin at an incredibly quick, sawblade-rotating death speed suitable for beheading even the hardest-necked carcajou. Unfortunately, the CD is made of shiny plastic, not reinforced medical steel, and so my snowed-in mountain dacha remains infested by carcajou, skunk bear, polecats, wood pusses, foulmarts, and other vicious, hungry placental carnivores.

I also love this album because I /had/ St. Elmo's Fire, undiagnosed, so hearing about it 4 times just makes me break out all over in light.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great for fans of stereolab, March 11, 2002

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Lynda (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fires (Audio CD)

it's great hearing what people can do with covers. i like hearing covers of music that are really different from the originals. this album has four different covers of the same song, so it was a very entertaining experience to hear them all. the covers are excellent and don't worry, it doesn't get tiring to hear the same tune over and over again.