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Stereolab — “Golden Ball” (version)

Here’s the studio version with better sound quality.

This is the less well-known version from the “Jenny Ondioline” EP, which is a different performance from the one on the album “Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements”. I think it was recorded later — the song seems to have developed a bit further, and I like this version better.

It seems no one’s deciphered all the words to this. Some fragments:

Within the only viable sun
The only guidable sun
…
It can illuminate within
To illuminate
To accentuate
To illuminate
To accentuate
Illuminate

From visible to invisible into
That illuminates each fragment of the screen
Put into the ball of which it’s part
Observe

There’s no above, there’s no below
Two
The only