https://i.imgur.com/uhyv1yU.jpg56. O How I Miss YouFrom Haha Sound, 2003Fan-made video by Kent Hernández on YouTube70 Points, 5 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
this fan video is excellent, btw.
song is such a lovely Beach Boys pastiche
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2KdaX9C.jpg55. Test AreaFrom Echo's Answer, 1999. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.Fan-made video by The Mystery Machine on YouTube82 Points, 4 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
Does this thread get *quieter* during the actual rollout bits? Don't be shy lurkers, if you're out there. Your contributions will almost certainly be less stoopid my typical post. :)
Alright! Test Area (and Echo's Answer) blew me away when it came out. I'd been a fan since the first single, but it had been 3 years of waiting since Book Lovers. I'd loved those 1996 records, but they sounded so jammy and loose on Test Area in a way they hadn't before. And to put Echo's Answer out as the A-side of the first single after a 3 year wait seemed so ballsy. I got to seem them a few weeks later in NYC at a Warp 10 year thing (with Plone and Plaid) and the show put those two new songs into context with the rest of the stuff that would be coming out the next year.
― city worker, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
I think Test Area suffered in terms of votes as it doesn't really get good until the second half. those who did have it on their ballot ranked it fairly highly though.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/EdRpZhE.jpg54. Distant CallFrom Come On Let's Go, 2000. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.Audio on YouTube91 Points, 6 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Listening to the playlist of this rollout. It's a nice mixtape of their musique concret / instrumental side, in what I assume will essentially be a massive preamble to the emergence of Trish as the singular frontwoman of the group.
It's interesting to hear it this way - all the later-period stuff first. In my mind it frees this stuff from the tragic sense of loss* and instead presents it as the essential underpinning of what they're all about. It also really kills the idea that Broadcast were in any way in the shadow of Stereolab - they were clearly up to their own thing.
*I know Trish was alive for (and appears on) these releases, but her death still cast these albums in a different light - what might have felt more like a detour in their output wound up being the defining characteristic of their late period. Maybe part of why I've never really connected with Witch Cults or anything after is that I can't help but think about what was extinguished. I appreciate the albums but it's hard not to think that Broadcast went out with an extended, multi-album whimper.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
I didn't properly articulate this, because it's *not* all later-period stuff so far although a lot of it is. When you mix in some of the weird and/or brief instrumental bits from the early EPs and albums it only reveals more strongly that this element has been there all along. But the track rollout is really putting an emphasis on this element of their sound and I expect there's going to be a moment in this rollout when things snap into strong melodies, rhythms, traditional songs.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
this is kind of the opposite to how I feel about Broadcast, but I am generally much more drawn to texture than tunes, this is why I had Witch Cults down as my number one, it's all feeling with not that many tunes getting in the way. but of course it's also amazing that the same band can appeal to different people in such different ways.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
we do have some more melodic stuff coming up today, though not that soon.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PIoCgTa.jpg53. Make My Sleep His SongFrom Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009Fan-made video by HeatRayz Video on YouTube113 Points, 7 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
this is one of my favourites, from any era
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yyCyFPp.jpg52. Ritual / Looking InFrom Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009Fan-made video by me on YouTube114 Points, 6 Votes
Great looking images!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
I made the linked video for "Ritual," I am very pleased with it but nobody else seems to like it, so ymmv, etc. it's a heavily edited / processed video I filmed from the front of a tram on Hong Kong Island.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
xp thanks Moka!
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
That image from Theorem is so eerie and great, I reckon it must be a photo from the set, as I'm sure the angle is different in the film (been a while).
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
Not the last one either, should really see the film now I have a folder full of images from it.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ap8r5Mq.jpg51. Dave's DreamFrom Extended Play, 2000. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.Fan-made video by blakaraka on YouTube123 Points, 7 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
Camaraderie: your video really really works, hats off
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
Thanks, I think it needs some kind of upscaling and it may find wider acceptance.Meanwhile, Dave's Dream, you hear some music described as "cinematic" but this is somewhere way beyond that.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MrJH0GP.jpg50. You And Me In TimeFrom Tender Buttons, 2005Audio on YouTube124 Points, 11 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
wonderful little song
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Just looking at my list and I'm sad to see I had Oh How I Miss You so low. Beautiful song. Probably should have had You Me In Time higher as well, but they just have too many amazing songs.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/esrcNZx.jpg49. In Here The World BeginsFrom Mother Is The Milky Way, 2009Audio on YouTube130 Points, 11 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
I'd never heard 60 before, sublime drone and curious phrasing. I say never heard, they may well have played it the last time i saw them at Queen Elizabeth on the South Bank. Was it just the two of them in the 2010 live incarnation? I wish I had clearer memories of that show, I don't think I had heard mother is the milky way at that point and recall quite a few unfamiliar songs. And brilliant visuals.
― cw, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pQynuPf.jpg48. I See, So I See SoFrom Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009Official video by Julian House on YouTube135 Points, 9 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
until I found this I was sure that there were only two official Broadcast music videos
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
Seriously, go watch that video.Anyway,
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
tine for our first first place vote!
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yWuqfGP.jpg47. Inside OutFrom Broadcast/Focus Group - Study Series 04: Familiar Shapes and Noises, 2010Fan-made video by The Mystery Machine on YouTube137 Points, 7 Votes, 1 First Place Vote
going to have to speed things up a little if I want to get today done
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NLjWxSk.jpg46. Hammer Without A MasterFrom VA - We Are Reasonable People, 1998. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.Audio on YouTube144 Points, 11 VotesThe first thing I heard from them was "Hammer Without a Master" and eventually I stopped waiting for them to make anything that good. I do think they're starting to catch up to their hype with the new album, though. - MindInRewind (Barry Bruner) - Nov 7, 2005
Inside Out is great, worthy of a first place vote for sure. I love that whole EP, best distillation of the Broadcast vs Focus Group aesthetic.
― the life of a rebo band is always intense (emsworth), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RYlbSBh.jpg45. PhantomFrom Living Room Single, 1996. Compiled on Work And Non Work, 1997.Fan-made video by Rune on YouTube152 Points, 10 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
here's what I wrote about Phantom on the other threadIn early 1996 I was in the habit of buying a few 7" singles every week from Magpie Records in Worcester, sometimes from bands I'd heard on the radio, sometimes I just liked the cover, as I did with this one.I liked 'Living Room' fine, but 'Phantom' just changed everything. Never heard anything like it before or since, that clockwork rhythm, it sounded like the 'fairground' demo tracks on my uncle's Hammond(?) organ, but with the Theremin(?) making it sound like it was possessed by mournful spirits. The portal for me not just to Broadcast but to avant-garde music.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
CaAL I just watched your video and it’s perfect, upscale my ass, the crunchy gritty video and digital stutters make it magical. Completely nails the vibe of the track.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Some great stuff here. Make Him Sleep My Song is lovely and weird. Hammer Without A Master might have been the first Broadcast song I ever heard on that wonderful compilation CD. Voted it fairly high because nostalgia. Which I feel with this band is very, very appropriate. Love this. Thanks poll runners.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
Ah no, looking at the dates I had Work And Non Work first
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
here's one some people will be happy about
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QKWyRy9.jpg44. Sixty FortyJohn Peel Session 19/08/2003, Compiled on Maida Vale Sessions, 2022.Audio on YouTube159 Points, 8 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
It hadn't occurred to me that mine ("Inside Out") was the lowest ranking of all the first-place votes lol. But then I look to have voted for almost everything placing after I went to bed (around "O How I Miss You"), so it's hardly a shock.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
Sixty Forty is wonderful and my number 2. It took me a while to figure out I rated it so high but there it is.
Shall I do it?
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
TOO LOW!
"Phantom" and "Ritual..." did alright CaAL!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
To be fair I was boosting them something rotten in the other thread (also we are still outside the top 40 so glad I did (a lot) more than that)
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
This is a cover of a Nico song, right?
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
I had connection problems and then went to bed, so I got waaay behind on Spotify. I will again now. Here's the 'collaborative' link just in case anyone had been listening in real-time and was hankering for the ability to edit, etc:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55SHnwBEbm0xw0z6b3WFB7?si=cda77ea7b1b04ed7&pt=fd13bfccba4f865d288f28ff94d04a3e
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
Posting fairly quickly now as I would like to be asleep by 1am if possible. These two go together anyway.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link