OLD GOODY: Stereolab - "Blue Milk" Live in Rio de Janeiro

This. Is. My kinda jam! The kettle is getting hot and no one is home to take it off the burner. Uberdeliberate, slow-cooked, swelling French hypnosis in this '00 set in Rio. I remember blasting Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night in high school on my parents' stereo and my mom turning it off "because the CD was skipping." No, Mom! That's "Blue Milk!"

Stereolab have such an attitude and a swagger in this video. Andy Ramsay goes bananas on the drums; the late Mary Hansen is recruited to keep time (harder than it looks) with half-note guitar plucks; and Laetitia Sadier has a little of her usual (and great) live reserved tension, but kills it late with a one-note solo--playing off the Hansen note--on an upside down guitar, and basically turns into a fish at about 6:10. On top of it all, whoever shot and edited this video needs a medal and maybe a trophy for that zoom action.

Studio version

Such a good song. Pre-post-post-rock post-rock.