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

ha, amazing!

cf: who is the most underappreciated artist in this country?

trish: autechre. I think they’re fantastic. there’s no compromise with what they do. they’re not massive either; they’ll pull a decent crowd, like at camber sands they pulled a good crowd. the autechre fans are always boys that can’t walk properly, they’ll push your pint into you. rude, horrible boys go to autechre gigs. I always get a laugh out of it. if they wanted to do a commercial track, it would be no. 1.

t/s: small gay computer / website guys vs rude, horrible boys that can't walk properly

lol how many Neil Bullock drum solos should I include on my tracks ballot? (yes, I’ve reached 2003)

It's interesting that the procession of drummers ended up being a bit hard to keep track of, for a band volunteering (in that Sean Hughes interview above) the protracted pursuit of "what bass drum sound we want, what snare sound we want" as the first reason for TNMBP taking forever to finish.

Somewhat related: I suspect them seemingly ceasing to care much about awesome-sounding drums, beyond a track or two, is a factor in Tender Buttons being the least durable LP for me.

Long voting periods are dangerous. Now I'm pondering all over again, a month later, whether the Children of Alice compilation should be on my albums ballot!!!

Help I just listened to "Corporeal" 6 times in a row can't stop

I guess we're back to something like 3 days out from the (revised) deadline. So here's yet another excruciating reminder not to dilly-dally!

90 tracks have received the nod now. And things are still pretty tight on the scoreboard. eg. the present #10 is barely (the equivalent of) one first-place vote ahead of #20.

extend it to Autumn as that's when most of the tracks sound best ;)

xps

I've been there only recently. Corporeal on repeat loudly is so addictive. Something about the drone-warmth & melodic clarity. I just don't want to leave it.

It is autumn here, for few more days! :) I can report that they are indeed sounding good.

I'm not aware of any other ballots originating from the southern hemisphere yet though, 'strue. Though some 'strayans have visited the thread IIRC.

Official soundtrack, for this *bump*, btw: Arc of a Journey

This was a lot of fun. I've been listening since mid-97, but had to write down lyric snippets in my spreadsheet to help remember what song is what--if you'd asked me to hum a bit of "Lunch Hour Pops" a month ago I'd have been stuck. When listening to Ha Ha Sound it was "ah yes the swirly one where the balloons go outside," and it's a favorite. So now I can properly ID most songs from a band I've long cherished. And I gave more attention to Berberian, Microtronics and Witch Cults than ever before. Thanks very much for doing this poll, and also for the great spreadsheet, which was very helpful.

voted!

I received one ballot in the last few hours, which is think is Torei's. (With a special note about 'Colour Me In' -- I figure that's distinctive.) Did you definitely send yours around the time of your post, kraudive?

The one message I had overlooked days ago had been erroneously directed to my spam folder. But not this one. Perplexing!

Just tried to send again.

Yep! Got it. Thanks. :)

I'm just entering a ballot which included "Winter Sun Wavelengths". Something which hadn't really occurred to me before. I recall it was ostensibly improvised but it was definitely a recurring thing in their late sets. I'm certainly not inclined to say it's ineligible!

I guess y'all have a little less than 2 days left, so you best not let it slip your mind now if you'd been working on a ballot!

Official soundtrack for this post: Microtronics 07

I was the one who included "Winter Sun Wavelengths". It was just so mesmerizing when I saw them on that last tour...and something I will never forget. Felt like I had to include it. Probably didn't give it quite enough points unless some other people have it on their ballot.

Another thing I should mention in relation to late ballots: Familiar Shapes and Noises!

I didn't initially want to specify a lower limit on the minimum possible size of LPs/EPs, but I obviously ended up doing so where it actually mattered. This isn't "4 or more tracks" long, but I'm not particularly keen on excluding stuff, so it made its way into the results, somewhat inconsistently. Just in case anyone else really did want to list it but didn't, I'm happy to receive amendments. (And strongly-worded complaints about procedural sloppiness too, I guess.)

97 distinct tracks have received votes. We're currently nudging the 20 ballot mark. A quick check of recent polls suggests that that would put this at the TMBG or Cat Power level in terms of size of the voter pool. I actually like how a rollout would look with the current numbers, so this might even be ideal!

On the other hand, something like a dozen more people have appeared in the thread at least vaguely hinting they may vote. And up to half of ballots so far were from people I hadn't previously known were keen. So I haven't a clue what to expect.

Anyway, there's some 36 hours left!

Official soundtrack for this post: this drummer covering the drum part of Man Is Not A Bird

Voted Just made the results more conventional and boring

(Although none of their music is either so I'm probably fine)

Haha. No wrong answers innit. I seem to recall you jiggled a bunch of things around, as you'd hope.

About this time tomorrow the weekend will be over everywhere on earth. I'll close this down then.

Voted

For anyone who is putting together a last-minute ballot and suddenly facing quite how much music is there on the big playlist, here's a list of all non-big-five (W&NW/NMBP/HHS/TB/TFC) tracks which currently have at least one vote.

Witch Cults

The Be Colony
A Quiet Moment
I See, So I See So
One Million Years Ago
Let It Begin / Oh Joy
What I Saw
Ritual / Looking In
Libra, the Mirror's Minor Self
Make My Sleep His Song
The Be Colony/Dashing Home/What on earth took you?

Familiar Shapes...

Inside Out
Tuesday's Offering

Mother Is The Milky Way

In Here The World Begins
Elegant Elephant
The Aphid Sleeps
I'm Just A Person In This Roomy Verse
Mother's Milk Means Music

Berberian Sound Studio

The Equestrian Vortex
Teresa, Lark of Ascension
Our Darkest Sabbath

Microtronics

Microtronics 04
Microtronics 05
Microtronics 07
Microtronics 12
Microtronics 19
Microtronics 20

BBC Sessions

Sixty Forty
Forget Every Time

Various

Hammer Without A Master
'What You Want' AKA Dulcimer Jam
Winter Sun Wavelengths
And I'm Gone
Eyes Open
The Liminal Space
DDL

Remixes

Avril - Be Yourself (Remixed By Broadcast)
St. Etienne - Angel (Broadcast Mix)
Badly Drawn Boy - Another Pearl (The Broadcast Remix)
Miki Furukawa - Coffee (Broadcast Remix)
The Sea And Cake - Interiors (Broadcast Remix)

* checks the time at Howland Island, as one does *

https://time.is/Howland_Island

About 11 hours to vote, if ya wanna.

Ballot sent, extension appreciated!

argh I forgot Winter Sun Wavelengths, but there are several problems with my ballot anyway

^ You have space and time for it, should the oversight become unbearable!

We're sitting at 22 ballots now. 108 tracks have been given points.

I already said this, but the pool is *still* just small enough for any given ballot to make a decent splash. I get a play a little side-game, watching the rise and fall of stuff over time lol.

'get TO play', rather

ballot sent, apologies for weird formatting in my email

*thumbs-up emoji*

^ You have space and time for it, should the oversight become unbearable!

I seem to have a knack for misreading you, matttkkkk! Sorry. I now see I somehow took your post as a followup from Neue Jesse Schule.

This is likely my very last excruciating 'hurry up' post. :) If anyone else was planning to submit, the next 3 hours would be great.

I’m happy with your interpretations N!N!N! and I’m fine with my flawed ballot …

I think that's it for nominations, NNN do you have any more in the inbox?

votes not nominations gah

Nope. So the present contents of the spreadsheet are basically it.

Just submitted a ballot, hope it's not too late. No worries if it is tho!

Yep. I'm about 10 minutes from my proper computer, so I'll rush home and enter it, CaAL!

ok with me

Thanks! Apologies for the last-minuteness

That concludes the data collection, by the way. Stay tuned for the rollout.

And thanks for voting, voters! I expected a faaairly lean turnout, and hesitated for years, given the conspicuously chilly reception to the idea in the poll coordinating thread. I think it's likely I would have just let it rest indefinitely without Camaraderie at Arms Length occasionally agitating for it over there!

24 ballots is healthier than I dared to expect. A whisker short of, say, a Prefab Sprout. :)

Look there has been plenty of time for everyone to discover Broadcast, so if 24 is the most we can muster, I am actually forming a judgement of ILXors on this matter.

Haha. 24 is not really a suuuper-low turnout by ILX 2022 standards. eg. Daft Punk apparently attracted 30 participants last month and they surely shifted some serious units and made news bulletins when they disbanded!

Something that came up repeatedly (starting years ago) is the "I love them but the discography is too tiny for this" thing. I guess there aren't many ostensibly 'pop' acts who are actually NOT really that at all for half of their discography.* For some, a lot of the vocal-free stuff and messy later stuff may be almost sub-consciously dismissed at the outset. I think I get how one might end up with a pre-shrunk pool of plausible candidates.

*obligatory Stereolab comparison: I feel like they more reliably retained hummable wordless vocal melodies and driving rhythms when meandering away from the land of lyrics.

. Daft Punk apparently attracted 30 participants last month...

What do you mean apparently? No, THEY did get 30 ballots when all was said and done.

I simply meant "I just went and found a source that told me that's what happened". If I gave the impression I doubted this claim, it was not intentional. It'd be pretty peculiar thing to dispute tbh!

No harm no foul. It just stuck me as weird to put "apparently" in that sentence as if I made up some ballots or something. All is well...

Oh god, no! Nothing like that!

I'd be prepared to believe that my word choices are odd. Like, quite often. Language processing is legit a bit of a mess for me nowadays, lol.

My apologies, I should've brought it up.

Good luck with this poll, it sounds like they have a dedicated fan base. Which should make for a great poll.