Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements

Stereolab | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 1993)
• Original Release Date: August 24, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HDV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,241 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tone Burst

2. Our Trinitone Blast

3. Pack Yr Romantic Mind

4. I'm Going Out of My Way

5. Golden Ball

6. Pause

7. Jenny Ondioline

8. Analogue Rock

9. Crest

10. Lock-Groove Lullaby

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the decade's finest albums, September 16, 1998

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This review is from: Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements (Audio CD)

Someday rock fans will look back on 1993 and shake their heads in wonder. Over the course of just a few months during that spring, what I and many others feel are Stereolab's two finest albums were released: "The Groop Played 'Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music'" and this one. Astonishingly, Stereolab rush-recorded "Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements" in a matter of weeks, under pressure from their label, Elektra, who wanted to put out their U.S. debut ASAP. No amount of superlatives will prepare you for this masterpiece: a true ALBUM, one that demands the listener follow it all the way through, like a great novel you can't put down. It's an album of many moods, of soaring chants and harmonies, with inscrutable lyrics, beeps, scratches and pops layered on top of one another, and synthesizers brimming with soul. It's trite and perhaps useless to summarize it as the "Pet Sounds" for the 1990s, but I just did.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite Stereolab album, June 12, 2000

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Terry Saundry (Keysborough, Vic, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements (Audio CD)

I bought this after reading an article in "Record Collector" (UK) in which it was described as a classic. As the group (groop!) sounded fascinating I took a chance on it. Well, now I've got all their albums, haven't I! This, however, is the one I'd keep if I could have only one. It's their most challenging and daring CD.

Since this album, slowly but surely, Tim Gane has become infatuated with Brazilian music (if I hear another song full of 'ba de daps' I'll probably throw up). Here, the drone aspects (Velvets and, apparently, Neu) were more dominant. 'Jenny Ondioline' is fantastic and my favourite Stereolab track.

The band has gone past this phase and will not return. That's fair enough. I've still got this CD, though, and they're not getting it back!

Oh, by the way, I saw them live recently and I think I'm in love with Laetitia Sadier!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Stereolab release, September 28, 2000

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"abuttons" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements (Audio CD)

Though the groop has had a remarkably consistent recording career, this is definately their best. See, most Stereolab albums have 2 or 3 songs (if not more) that range from merely ok to unworthy, but only "Pause" from this album could be in that category, and even then it works on one occasion very well. It closes the first half of the album off as a kind of breather for the 18-minute extravaganza of "Jenny Ondioline," one of Stereolab's greatest achievements. All the other tracks on the album are great, though, and a few ("Tone Burst", "Pack Yr Romantic Mind", "I'm Going Out of My Way") are classics.

Stereolab wouldn't make another album like this, probably because it simply was the culmination of their early phase. They couldn't have added anything to this in future releases, so smartly the band moved closer to pop on "Mars Audiac Quintet". Still, "Transient Random Noise bursts With Announcements" remains Stereolab's finest album statement, and one of the most important albums of the '90s.