TEARS IN THE TYPING POLL: ILM Artist Poll #114 - BROADCAST (Results Thread)

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52. Ritual / Looking In
From Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009
Fan-made video by me on YouTube
114 Points, 6 Votes

Great looking images!

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.

xp thanks Moka!

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).

Not the last one either, should really see the film now I have a folder full of images from it.

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51. Dave's Dream
From Extended Play, 2000. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.
Fan-made video by blakaraka on YouTube
123 Points, 7 Votes

Camaraderie: your video really really works, hats off

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.

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50. You And Me In Time
From Tender Buttons, 2005
Audio on YouTube
124 Points, 11 Votes

wonderful little song

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.

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49. In Here The World Begins
From Mother Is The Milky Way, 2009
Audio on YouTube
130 Points, 11 Votes

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.

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48. I See, So I See So
From Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009
Official video by Julian House on YouTube
135 Points, 9 Votes

until I found this I was sure that there were only two official Broadcast music videos

Seriously, go watch that video.

Anyway,

tine for our first first place vote!

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47. Inside Out
From Broadcast/Focus Group - Study Series 04: Familiar Shapes and Noises, 2010
Fan-made video by The Mystery Machine on YouTube
137 Points, 7 Votes, 1 First Place Vote

going to have to speed things up a little if I want to get today done

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46. Hammer Without A Master
From VA - We Are Reasonable People, 1998. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.
Audio on YouTube
144 Points, 11 Votes

The 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.

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45. Phantom
From Living Room Single, 1996. Compiled on Work And Non Work, 1997.
Fan-made video by Rune on YouTube
152 Points, 10 Votes

here's what I wrote about Phantom on the other thread

In 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.

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.

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.

Ah no, looking at the dates I had Work And Non Work first

here's one some people will be happy about

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44. Sixty Forty
John Peel Session 19/08/2003, Compiled on Maida Vale Sessions, 2022.
Audio on YouTube
159 Points, 8 Votes

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.

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?

TOO LOW!

"Phantom" and "Ritual..." did alright CaAL!

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)

This is a cover of a Nico song, right?

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

Posting fairly quickly now as I would like to be asleep by 1am if possible. These two go together anyway.

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43. Forget Every Time
John Peel Session 6/10/1999, Compiled on Maida Vale Sessions, 2022.
Audio on YouTube
159 Points, 10 Votes

this may be my favourite new discovery of the poll

This is a cover of a Nico song, right?

― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

Sure. Early eighties Nico. I should spend more time with the original. But this Broadcast version wow.

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42. Long Was The Year
From The Noise Made By People, 2000
Audio on YouTube
181 Points, 14 Votes

I expect there's going to be a moment in this rollout when things snap into strong melodies, rhythms, traditional songs.

Magnificent. Is Long Was The Year their song that sounded like it could have fitted on An Electric Storm the most.

BTW I'm also really enjoying listening to the Spotify playlist of the slightly more eccentric bubbles of music early in the rollout.

I played the playlist earlier and let it drift over me. I mostly voted for the more traditional, poppy tracks, but I was surprised how much I was pretty familiar with so far.

ok, last one for today as I really do need to go to sleep now, and it's another first place pick.

tomorrow I'll get started a little earlier and try to stick to schedule, we'll have numbers 40-21.

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41. Hawk
From Haha Sound, 2003
Audio on YouTube
186 Points, 12 Votes, 1 First Place Vote

I should have voted for I'm Just A Person In This Roomy Verse.

Well. It's here now.

For the record, my “Sixty Forty” vote was for the recording on Warp20: Unheard. Possibly this was counted separately, and that version is outside the 77. To be honest I’m not wowed by ‘Maida Vale’ the way others are.

Fascinating roll out so far.

"Sixty Forty" versions were bundled together for counting purposes!

* goes to compare the two *