Stereolab - Miss Modular

Believe it or not, Stereolab's Dots and Loops is the perfect road record. I picked up a copy of the cassette at Vintage Vinyl (who, BTW, always has great in-stores) in St Louis for a couple of bucks in 1995. Some friends and I were on our way back from a Beastie Boys show and since we had worn out their albums on the way there, we were ready for something totally different. When we finished listening to the entire album, instead of changing records, we flipped the tape over and listened to it again, and again, and again - for four hours straight.

Stereolab allows you to zone out to another world and get lost in your imagination. Subliminally, they're ingraining you with Marxist political theory, but on the surface it's just straight Space Age Bachelor Pad Music.