Come On Let's POLL - ILM Artist Poll #114 - BROADCAST (Polling and Lobbying Thread)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOobFF1mXLU

ellenmeilee
7 years ago
A little backstory for fans of this song... Trish, who I was friends with for many years, used to come to my house during the day when I was out at work to write songs. My cat, Corky, is very shy, and at first he would just poke his head round the door of the room where she was sitting, and then run away. As the day went on, curiosity would overcome him and he would finally try and make friends with her. Hence, the lyrics of the chorus. We filmed some of the vid at my house and I appear in the vid for about 2 seconds. What a thrill and an honour for me and Corky xxx

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link

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2005. Can we call them 'seminal figures' in the history of the cat video?!

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 07:47 (one year ago) link

Gee, the sound quality of this recording of a short LA set circa EP1 is ridiculously high. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzAM56YVBw

Interesting how often an orphaned version of the bloopy post-"Where Youth & Laughter Go" interlude featured in sets around this time. Makes its omission from The Future Crayon all that more perplexing.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 09:17 (one year ago) link

Started my dive back into their discography this morning with Work and Non-Work. So far, every single song from that album is in contention.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link

My feelings too, then every LP I was waiting for the drop in quality and it never came.

Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link

I love Broadcast so much and the idea of even just ranking their albums, let alone tracks, fills me with anxiety

rob, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link

Started my dive back into their discography this morning with Work and Non-Work. So far, every single song from that album is in contention.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp)

Yeah, I am absolutely voting for every track on this compilation. I am also realising that if this was a regular album, it would probably be in my top five albums of all time.

kitchen person, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link

XP: Feel free to go with unranked tracks! (Albums too, if you really want lol. I've stated 'unranked or unranked' for albums as well in the past, with shorter ballots, but there's been zero demand for it, so simply left the word out this time.)

But, yeah, I get that none of this really addresses the problem of their oeuvre being pretty solid all the way through. :)

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link

"ranked or unranked" rather, aaargh

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link

voted. my god that was tough. still second guessing myself but I honestly love every single song I put down. Its just the order I can't nail down

gman59, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link

Same for me. I love the 40 songs I have but I'm not going to ever be happy with the order. I'm still not even fully decided on my number one.

kitchen person, Thursday, 5 May 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link

I really skimped on WANW in my submitted ballot due to some spurious sense of it being a bit 'early vaguely unformed sketches' relative to later albums and then I played it this morning and was rapt for 40 mins, so, yeah. There is no way of ranking Broadcast that does not short-change massive chunks of Broadcast.

technopolis, Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link

"ranked or unranked"

this made my top 10

assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link

forgot how much I adore the outro to “Look Outside”

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link

Yes! "Look Outside" is great, but I too needed to remind myself of this fact.

LOL mattkkkk. Probably a "tide raises all boats" sort of move with this particular discography, but given we've had people ruling out voting for years now I'm happy to accommodate every possible quirk if it means an extra ballot or two. :)

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 6 May 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link

After handful of ballots, 71 distinct tracks and 14 LPs/EPs have already got the nod from voters.

Shall I send you a quick summary, CaAL?

Incidentally, if I don't acknowledge your ballot by email (hopefully within a few hours unless it was the middle of the night here) something may have gone awry, so feel free to raise it. (I'm yet to experience this, but the occasional ballot has definitely gone astray in the long history of these polls, so please excuse this most tedious administrivia!)

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link

Oh my, I just realised I didn't get mattkkkk's joke on the first pass. LOL.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 6 May 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link

according to no plan!

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 6 May 2022 07:19 (one year ago) link

Awkwardness happening to someone... in this thread. *blushes*

Incidentally, from another thread: is there a glaringly obvious reason why this emerged? (Or maybe it was instantly the favourite of the great unwashed and I was just hopelessly ignorant?)

songs that weren't a bands biggest hit, but have gone on to be their legacy song and biggest iTunes seller

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 7 May 2022 05:31 (one year ago) link

it’s been covered a few times, including by clairo

in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 7 May 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link

there’s also a terrible cover out there by the band tennis

in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 7 May 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link

Oh wow. Listening now. Thanks.

I should definitely have considered the possibility of covers after asking "Why does 'Swingin Party' have so many streams?" during The Replacements poll lol.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 7 May 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link

it’s also the band’s most conventionally pretty song, which goes a long way in some quarters

in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 7 May 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link

just remembered this band is pure magic, why the fuck would we poll them, like weighing a ghost

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 7 May 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link

I feel like the point of a poll is secretly only 18.3% about ranking stuff, and some 81.7% about eliciting such declarations of love!

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link

I wasn't sure if I'd find time to participate in the poll, thinking I'd just follow.
I'm so glad I am. I've listened to Maida Vale, and now I'm relistening the albums in order and I'm already so enthusiastic.
ILM polls are like the cherry on top of music enjoyment.

Nabozo, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link

One oddity I tossed some points is the remix of Saint Etienne's Angel. Seemingly stripping the St Et content back to little more than a vocal snippet (?), it ends in up "Accidentals" territory instead: dominated by wonky looped samples from what sound like entirely unrelated sources. Spooky!

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 7 May 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link

"ends up in 'Accidentals' territory" rather. #BrainDamage

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 7 May 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link

Voted!

Really tough getting these songs in order. Best band in the world.

kitchen person, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link

One oddity I tossed some points is the remix of Saint Etienne's Angel

Completely forgot about this! It deserved points yes. This was on Casino Classics (Oct 96) so pre-dates the release of Book Lovers - St Et were extremely early adopters. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they tried to sign Broadcast to EMIDisc? Thank fuck they did not succeed.

Best band in the world

This is definitely the case.

technopolis, Sunday, 8 May 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link

Princes Hill Secondary College Vocal Group wants to remind you to put the, um, bangin' Witch Cults opener, The Be Colony, on your ballot.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 9 May 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link

Still the best version of Lights Out IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDc-k9kIRRg

piscesx, Monday, 9 May 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link

It's meatier than the BBC version innit. One thing I like about this song (though it's possibly most pronounced in the familiar studio version) is how the bass and the buzzy synth line accentuate the end of each bar, almost like they're being switched off altogether. Or like they're employing a tape loop again even though that's presumably not what they're doing this time. At least until later on, lol.

Also "I want to watch the carpark empty" is heavy, man.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 9 May 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link

Which Microtronics are people thinking of voting for? I may put a few in, Microtronics 05 for example.

Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 May 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link

I think I had all of 03-07 and a couple more from the second half on my shortlist. But ended up whittling that down to just 04 in the end. Clearly ballots should have had 50 slots. :(

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 9 May 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link

*scans list for something that hasn't been mentioned yet*

Distant Call!!! Perhaps Echo's Answer's somewhat unheralded cousin, what with the icy mood and relative lack of a beat. All about the little details: bass as punctuation; the minutiae of the distortion on the synths; "I am not made of clay"; extended woozy coda. You know it makes sense.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 9 May 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link

Fun fact: exactly one track has appeared on all ballots so far and... well, it's an a good one. (Mine is one of those ballots, so of course I approve.) But I would never have guessed this track at the outset.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link

No, wait, there are two in that category! I wouldn't have guessed the second one either!

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link

A few extraordinary remixes/strays of note:

Projects, "Accidents Will Happen (Broadcast Remix)"
Gonjasufi, "The Caliph's Tea Party (Broadcast & The Focus Group DedNd Remix)"
The Sea and Cake, "Interiors (Broadcast Remix)"

Freeze Instr., Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link

People have already been talking about this, but Broadcast's live performances were awe-inspiring. The 2000 Black Session and especially the 2001 All Tomorrow's Parties performances were great, the latter especially, for example expanding the little Bonus Beat outro of "Where Youth and Laughter Go" into a monster jam.

And the two Australian shows from 2010, Melbourne and Meredith, are particularly mind-blowing. They have longer and more direct versions of Witch Cults-era songs; "A Séancing Song" turns from a bit of a trifle into something much more intense. The Melbourne show opens with an eerie 13-minute loopfest (called "Winter Sun Wavelengths" on the version I have) and both shows have the massive so called "Dulcimer Jam" — extraordinary — and "Eyes Open." And Keenan's voice has this particular next-level unearthliness, that's not reducible to the fact that these were her last shows.

Freeze Instr., Tuesday, 10 May 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link

I was at the Sydney show on that last tour and it was amazing. It was the only time I got to see them. Trish had the most joyous stage presence.

Winter Sun Wavelengths was their live (semi-?) improv soundtrack to a beautiful Julian House film, like the cumulative opening titles to every uncanny UKTV children’s serial 1965-1979.

lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link

I didn't know about that Julian House movie/soundtrack. It's a wild way to start a show. The version from Melbourne adds more vocals, feels like its spinning out of control.

I saw them in San Francisco in '09, and remember there being a lot of long, spooky, abrasive psych, like they were developing slow motion into some 1960s version of Coil, it was wild.

Freeze Instr., Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link

This is a pretty good document of Winter Sun Wavelengths

https://vimeo.com/11641209

lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link

Not long after Trish died, James was talking about finishing a final Broadcast album which I presume would have featured some of those last songs like "dulcimer jam" and "eyes open" - what a holy grail release that would be.

The version of You and Me in Time at the end of the Melbourne show is breathtaking

lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link

Cargill suggested that we demanded *some* sort of encore even they weren't set up for anything. It was rather moving to hear that he/they apparently found that final headline show particularly memorable. All the more so given Melbourne audiences have a reputation for crossed-arms and scowling lol.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link

So cool to see them play Winter Sun. And yes maybe someday for those songs... I imagine it must be totally overwhelming for him to deal with that material.

Freeze Instr., Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link

I still haven't seen a single mention of Beberian Sound studio - like me, do people tend to discount it as a release? I think a few of the demos James may have considered for finishing are there, I certainly hear Trish.

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link

I like it! Though, as with so many OST LPs, a succession of variations on a limited number of themes can be, er, challenging as one continuous program. They worked rather well in when I was shuffling that playlist up the top of the thread, for instance.

Funnily enough, The Equestrian Vortex mock title sequence was going to be the next thing I posted when the thread went quiet again. I gave it plenty of points.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link

I may be something of an outlier though!? My ballot is probably 30+% instrumental and I'd *always* liked them best when they were drawing heavily from euro soundtrack/production music less explicitly.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link


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