''Aluminum Tunes'' is a double album collection of EPs and rarities from

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, released in 1998. It is the third compilation in a series of rarities collections following '' Switched On'' and ''

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'', 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

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) # "You Used to Call Me Sadness" - 4:00 (from the 1996 split single with

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, on Lissy's Records) # "New Orthophony"

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- 6:26 (the version on '' Mars Audiac Quintet'' is 4:34) # "Speedy Car" - 5:00 (from the 1996 split single with

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) # "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"

- Stereolab +

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'' is 7:18) # "Cadriopo" - 3:09 (from the 1996 ''Laminations'' EP) # "Klang Tone" - 5:36 (from the 1994 ''Mars Audiac Quintet'' bonus disc) # "

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" - 3:23 # "1000 Miles an Hour" - 4:32 (from the 1998 ''The In Sound'' single) # "Percolations" - 3:22 (from the 1996 split single with

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) # "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" /nowiki>Wagon_Christ_Mix.html" ;"title="Wagon_Christ.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Wagon Christ">/nowiki>Wagon Christ Mix">Wagon_Christ.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Wagon Christ">/nowiki>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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