Aluminum Tunes
Compilation album by Stereolab
Released	20 October 1998(US)
Recorded	April 1994 – August 1997
Genre	Experimental rock
Length	113:12
Label	Drag City(US) Warp(UK)
Stereolab chronology
Simple Headphone Mind (1997) Aluminum Tunes (1998) The Free Design (1999)
Stereolab Switched On chronology
Refried Ectoplasm (1995) Aluminum Tunes (1998) Electrically Possessed (2021)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork	7.0/10(1998)[2] 8.5/10(2018)[3]

Aluminum Tunes is a double album collection of EPs and rarities fromStereolab, released in 1998. It is the third compilation in a series of rarities collections followingSwitched On andRefried Ectoplasm, and was stickered with the subtitle "Switched On, Volume 3".

1. "Pop Quiz" - 4:22 (from the 1995Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
2. "The Extension Trip" - 3:43 (from the 1995Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
3. "How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight" 3:58 (from the 1995Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
4. "The Brush Descends the Length" - 3:08 (from the 1995Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
5. "Melochord Seventy-Five" - 3:39 (from the 1995Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
6. "Space Moment" - 4:20 (from the 1995Music 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)
7. "Iron Man" - 3:27 (from the 1997Iron Man single)
8. "The Long Hair of Death" - 4:48 (from the 1995 split single withYo La Tengo)
9. "You Used to Call Me Sadness" - 4:00 (from the 1996 split single withFüxa, on Lissy's Records)
10. "New Orthophony" [full version] - 6:26 (the version onMars Audiac Quintet is 4:34)
11. "Speedy Car" - 5:00 (from the 1996 split single withTortoise)
12. "Golden Atoms" - 5:18 (recorded June 1995, also known as "Aluminum Tune" from the 1998The In Sound single)
13. "Ulan Bator" - 3:14 (from the 1994Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc)
14. "One Small Step" - 4:16 (from the 1996Laminations EP)

1. "One Note Samba / Surfboard" [full version] - Stereolab +Herbie Mann - 9:10 (the version onRed Hot + Rio is 7:18)
2. "Cadriopo" - 3:09 (from the 1996Laminations EP)
3. "Klang Tone" - 5:36 (from the 1994Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc)
4. "Get Carter" - 3:23
5. "1000 Miles an Hour" - 4:32 (from the 1998The In Sound single)
6. "Percolations" - 3:22 (from the 1996 split single withFaust andFoetus)
7. "Seeperbold" - 5:08
8. "Check and Double Check" - 4:03 (from the 1996Laminations EP)
9. "Munich Madness" - 3:48 (also known as "Blue Milk" from the 1998The In Sound single)
10. "Metronomic Underground" [Wagon Christ Mix] - 7:51 (from the 1996Laminations EP)
11. "The Incredible He Woman" - 3:31 (from the 1997Iron Man single)

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