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
https://i.imgur.com/jAoxl46.jpg43. Forget Every TimeJohn Peel Session 6/10/1999, Compiled on Maida Vale Sessions, 2022.Audio on YouTube159 Points, 10 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
this may be my favourite new discovery of the poll
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
― 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.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Hyke4Jk.jpg42. Long Was The YearFrom The Noise Made By People, 2000Audio on YouTube181 Points, 14 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I expect there's going to be a moment in this rollout when things snap into strong melodies, rhythms, traditional songs.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
Magnificent. Is Long Was The Year their song that sounded like it could have fitted on An Electric Storm the most.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
BTW I'm also really enjoying listening to the Spotify playlist of the slightly more eccentric bubbles of music early in the rollout.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
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.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dNSMglO.jpg41. HawkFrom Haha Sound, 2003Audio on YouTube186 Points, 12 Votes, 1 First Place Vote
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
I should have voted for I'm Just A Person In This Roomy Verse.
Well. It's here now.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
"Sixty Forty" versions were bundled together for counting purposes!* goes to compare the two *
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
"Hawk" too low!
― J. Sam, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
I think everything too low at this stage. Incredible band, really don't know what is popular from here
― kraudive, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
Great results today. I cut Sixty Forty and Forget Every Time from my list last minute purely because I hadn't known them for long and felt like I should give more spaces to my older favourites. I actually heard Forget Every Time for the first time a few years ago on the TV show Good Girls. Someone working on the show must be quite the Broadcast fan as their music appeared on the soundtrack a few times. It was quite a weird moment when that one appeared as I knew it was them , but couldn't place the song. This was years before Mada Vale sessions came out. The show got a bit repetitive so my wife and I gave up on it, but I was tempted to keep on going just to see if anymore of their songs appeared.
Going to go with a too low for Phantom (probably in my own list too). I remember someone (maybe my brother who is also following this poll) saying it sounded a bit like Ghosts by Japan. Made me love it even more.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
I am really regretting not putting “Hammer without a Master” on my ballot
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
I keep giggling a little inside about offering voters more ballot slots than I have for any other artist after repeated suggestions that their output was too tiny to bother with a poll. And then CaAL opting for a gloriously comprehensive (and apparently faintly troubling lol) rollout!They were a way more interesting band than even some strains of fans are accustomed to acknowledging. All along too: 'Accidentals' and Familiar Shapes & Noises sound like basically the same (freaky) band to me.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
Incidentally, was Roj the main purveyor of samples in the band or something? They were less conspicuous in his absence. Before Witch Cults anyway.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link
I hadn't heard that Warp version of sixty forty before, it is fantastic, more of a measured studio take, I wonder when it was recorded? The melody line and lyrics sound so eerily like they could be a Broadcast composition, a slightly more minimal version would have fitted perfectly on tender buttons . Having said that, I love the way it condenses all the best aspects of spacemen 3 circa Playing with fire (thinking particularly Suicide) while the Broadcast-ness remains completely intact.
I think all my more marginal votes have now been placed so I am officially mainstream. Realising my secret hope is that no two people will vote the same number 1. Hawk was an amazing top choice.
― cw, Thursday, 2 June 2022 06:58 (one year ago) link
Rollout while I'm on holiday and barely at a computer :-(
Following on my phone when I can. Loving the images!
Some quick notes -
Haha Sound my number 1 album - didn't know it at all before because I was an idiot, as I mentioned on the main Broadcast thread:
I've liked Broadcast for what, 20, 25 years now & it's always been a drifting in-and-out thing for me - always approving, occasionally loving tracks. But in the last few weeks they've become all I want to listen to - the soundworld I suddenly need - like I'm hearing just how good they were for the first time & wondering why I wasn't paying better attention even while having their albums on & just feeling that death should fuck off.
So Haha Sound was all new and sunk in deep - the melodies, the astonishing drums, the way the swirls of sound and distortion never quite swallow it but never quite let you settle. But the other two studio albums were no distance behind.
Going to throw a too low at I See, So I See So - find myself half-singing "Solar on the heel, solar on the keel" to myself as I walk the dog on sunny days. Endless pleasure in their melodies, and there are so many of them!
Love Long was the year too - such a way to open - seems so simple, like music for schools or something, so steady and clear. Even now it usually has me waiting keenly for that top line (countermelody?) that comes in.
― woof, Thursday, 2 June 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
And the small catalogue thing… I admit I thought I'd basically end up with about 20-25 songs off the three studio albums (plus some others). I'm pretty basic in my tastes and thought it'd just be the ones that are obviously songs - so Witch Cults and Mother… belonging in the albums.
But I kept falling in love, or like, with instrumentals and realised I was going to make 40 songs when I went from 'fine, a throwaway, slightly annoying' to 'hang on this is great' on listen 3 of 'A Man for Atlantis'. In the end 40 was pretty easy, & I missed stuff off & I'm pretty sure I'm going to find stuff I love when I go through the low end of this rollout on my return from this curséd holiday.
― woof, Thursday, 2 June 2022 08:56 (one year ago) link
I hereby second "I See, So I See So" toolowness. And yes! "A Man for Atlantis", OTM. (Half my ballot is already too low, so I'll restrict myself to seconding/thirding at this point!)
Also: I nominated that fab "I See" clip in the recent music videos poll. I think it might even have attracted a second vote lol!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
77. Locusts76. Chord Simple75. Microtronics 04=73. Bit 35=73. Dead The Long Year=71. A Quiet Moment=71. The Be Colony / Dashing Home / What On Earth Took You?70. I'm Just A Person In This Roomy Verse69. Let it Begin / Oh Joy68. What I Saw67. A Man For Atlantis66. A Seancing Song65. The Little Bell64. Belly Dance63. The Equestrian Vortex62. Teresa, Lark of Ascension61. The Aphid Sleeps60. 'What You Want' aka 'Dulcimer Jam'59. Elegant Elephant58. Small Song IV57. Mother’s Milk Means Music (At Home in the Universe)56. O How I Miss You55. Test Area54. Distant Call53. Make My Sleep His Song52. Ritual / Looking In51. Dave's Dream50. You And Me In Time49. In Here The World Begins48. I See, So I See So47. Inside Out46. Hammer Without A Master45. Phantom44. Sixty Forty43. Forget Every Time42. Long Was The Year41. Hawk
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 June 2022 10:55 (one year ago) link
The distortion-drowned hum on Hawk is fantastic, combined with the addictive motorik drums and bell melodies, it's like a snowstorm in a teacup. Unique in its atmosphere, it really stood out for me and I should probably have put it higher than sixth song from HHS.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
HHS is hella rad.
I just had a peek. 40-21 is frequently fabulous. I'll need to sleep through much of it, so please imagine me typing "too low!" in response to every second entry should things fall silent, kthx.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link
Planned to start at 12 but stuff came up. Anyway here we go!
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uKOcNbv.jpg
40. We've Got TimeFrom Accidentals single, 1996. Compiled on Work And Non Work, 1997.Fan-made video by DARI Graf on YouTube199 Points, 10 Votes
Big TOO LOW on this one, such a beautiful song.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
Groovy synth. Just occurred to me how sparingly the drummer was employed on this 1st single.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link
instantly regretting not voting for this one
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/i1MIySP.jpg
39. Still Feels Like TearsFrom Pendulum EP, 2003. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.Fan-made video by theladycandicejuarez on YouTube199 Points, 11 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:21 (one year ago) link
Hey all, I'm enjoying the thread greatly, thanks for all your effort, it's making me go back to those corners of the discography I don't often visit.
I made a folder with a couple of early gigs in it for those that may be interested.
I was at the London Forum one, and it was the first time I actually heard the band, they were supporting Stereolab iirc.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uwgy0ssya4gizht/AADAnEVGnNxjONweJc1Eukv3a?dl=0
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
Voted We've Got Time very high. It's really special to me, love that haunting synth melody and the building vocal melody
― kraudive, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
It could have been my number 1. On another day. I'm really surprised this wasn't top ten.
― kraudive, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
Ooooh, thanks Marsen3st!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:33 (one year ago) link
^ grrr, guaranteed typo in every post.
You know, #39 feels a bit lethargic to me. I guess I already outed myself as having some reservations about that EP. That's a goodly number of votes though, so maybe listener error. :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VUf9Jrq.jpg
38. Tender ButtonsFrom Tender Buttons, 2005Semi-official(?) video by Ramon Bloobmerg on YouTube201 Points, 10 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
Thanks Maresn3st for the live recordings, checking them out now.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Andrew, who recorded them is fairly dismissive of the quality in his notes, but they're really decent.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
I didn't vote for Tender Buttons even if it fits well in the album. With the number of votes available, I predict easily more than a dozen 20+ votes, I'm just wondering which it will be.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link