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Aluminum Tunes

Aluminum Tunes is a double album collection of EPs and rarities from Stereolab, released in 1998. It is the third compilation in a series of rarities collections following Switched On and Refried Ectoplasm, and was stickered with the subtitle Switched On, Volume 3.

Track listing
CD 1 • "Pop Quiz" - 4:22 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) • "The Extension Trip" - 3:43 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) • "How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight" 3:58 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) • "The Brush Descends the Length" - 3:08 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) • "Melochord Seventy-Five" - 3:39 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) • "Space Moment" - 4:20 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) (also includes the unlisted track - an instrumental reprise of "The Extension Trip" - that followed "Space Moment" on the original EP) • "Iron Man" - 3:27 (from the 1997 Iron Man single) • "The Long Hair of Death" - 4:48 (from the 1995 split single with Yo La Tengo) • "You Used to Call Me Sadness" - 4:00 (from the 1996 split single with Füxa, on Lissy's Records) • "New Orthophony" [full version] - 6:26 (the version on Mars Audiac Quintet is 4:34) • "Speedy Car" - 5:00 (from the 1996 split single with Tortoise) • "Golden Atoms" - 5:18 (recorded June 1995, also known as "Aluminum Tune" from the 1998 The In Sound single) • "Ulan Bator" - 3:14 (from the 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc) • "One Small Step" - 4:16 (from the 1996 Laminations EP) CD 2 • "One Note Samba / Surfboard" [full version] - Stereolab + Herbie Mann - 9:10 (the version on Red Hot + Rio is 7:18) • "Cadriopo" - 3:09 (from the 1996 Laminations EP) • "Klang Tone" - 5:36 (from the 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc) • "Get Carter" - 3:23 • "1000 Miles an Hour" - 4:32 (from the 1998 The In Sound single) • "Percolations" - 3:22 (from the 1996 split single with Faust and Foetus) • "Seeperbold" - 5:08 • "Check and Double Check" - 4:03 (from the 1996 Laminations EP) • "Munich Madness" - 3:48 (also known as "Blue Milk" from the 1998 The In Sound single) • "Metronomic Underground" [Wagon Christ Mix] - 7:51 (from the 1996 Laminations EP) • "The Incredible He Woman" - 3:31 (from the 1997 Iron Man single) ==References==
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