turns out i didn't vote for locusts lol, it was a late cut though
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
I didn't end up having any room for anything from Witch Cults, but Colony would have been my pick.
Bit 35 was one of the few Tender Buttons songs I didn't vote for. It's great obviously.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Witch cults token pop song in with a bullet at 71. the Be colony would sound glorious on any era broadcast lp and unfailingly lulls me into a false sense of security.
― cw, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
should say that this is not "The Be Colony" - it's "The Be Colony/Dashing Home/What On Earth Took You?"
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
Oh fab, the collage-y bit at the end, that's commitment.
― cw, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
I tend to forget that is the source of that wonky loop. It's somehow more associated in my mind with muffled recordings of their late live sets!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9a1ebYQ.jpg
70. I'm Just A Person In This Roomy VerseFrom Mother Is The Milky Way, 2009Audio on Youtube35 Points, 2 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jJJ5PzV.jpg
69. Let it Begin / Oh JoyFrom Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009Audio on Youtube36 Points, 3 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
the middle part of this one (Oh Joy?), with the tape coming up to speed and the choir is just a beautiful & unique bit of sound collage
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/V0377po.jpg68. What I SawFrom Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009Audio on Youtube37 Points, 3 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
think it should be fairly obvious why this track has this photo
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mQlIIu4.jpg67. A Man For AtlantisFrom Extended Play Two, 2000. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006Audio on Youtube41 Points, 3 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
Tender Buttons was my #1 album. I love the harshness and sweetness of the sound world; it was such a pleasant shock when it came out. There was at the time a question: how are they going to do it as a duo? And TB answered: like this. Very satisfying and surprising.
Building the tracks selection did make me wonder if Haha Sound was not my real favorite, though; went with the legacy choice but it could have gone either way.
I also put Maida Vale Sessions high up — the sound and performances improve on their studio versions in nearly every case, or that's how I hear it.
― Freeze Instr., Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
Afraid I am also in the small "not so fussed about Tender Buttons" camp, never really has clicked for me in the way the other albums do. maybe it will one day.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/g3yhL9d.jpg66. A Seancing SongFrom Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, 2009Fan-made video by drumgold23 on Youtube42 Points, 2 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WJYzXqI.jpg65. The Little BellFrom Haha Sound, 2003Audio on Youtube44 Points, 3 Votes"the little bell" has that NASA-processing alien information sound in the background, that stuff always kills me - some impossibly urgent message fighting against the technology of its medium to be heard, a staged battle of signal vs noise (cf. "pen expers", "to here knows when" again) - mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw) - Jun 1, 2003
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ptb6tLf.jpg64. Belly DanceFrom Extended Play, 2000. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006Audio on Youtube45 Points, 3 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
i love "the little bell," creepy little nursery rhyme
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
So far none of these made my top 40. Chord Simple and Dead the Long Year were right on the cusp for me but didn't make my ballot. I think I already mentioned upthread that in the end, nothing from Focus Group, Microtronics, or Berberian Sound made the cut for me. Songs from the various EPs made it in but none of these.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
well, you won't have either of these then either
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qZ4jP8C.jpg
63. The Equestrian VortexFrom Berberian Sound Studio, 2013Berberian Sound Sound Title Sequence on YouTube48 Points, 4 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/LMToWSH.jpg
62. Teresa, Lark of AscensionFrom Berberian Sound Studio, 2013Audio on Youtube52 Points, 5 Votes
I didn't vote for either, but good that BSS has some representation.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
Two of my lower votes there. Both rediscovered during the voting process as I found BSS fairly impenetrable before. I'll be back to it more often now, I think.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
has anyone seen the film itself? looks pretty good, not sure where I can watch it.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
“A Seancing Song” there for my daughter (age 20), she’s Broadcast-aware but not a fan per se, yet somehow this is her favourite.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Would not be at all surprised if there's a great rediscovery of Witch Cults at some point.
Ok, one last one for today.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HuAoX17.jpg
61. The Aphid SleepsFrom Mother Is The Milky Way, 2009Audio on Youtube54 Points, 4 Votes
Tomorrow we'll have numbers 60-41, including some better known tracks, and two number ones.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
I like Witch Cults and Mother is the Milky Way, but as works of sound collage I found it hard initially to zero in on "songs." It helped thinking through the lens of the things from those records they performed live as songs, i.e. Royal Chant, In Here the World Begins, Be Colony/Dashing Home/What on Earth, What I Saw
Also interesting were the few pre-Tender Buttons songs they kept around: Valerie, Lunch Hour Pops
― Freeze Instr., Tuesday, 31 May 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Ooo I love "The Aphid Sleeps"! It didn't make my abbreviated 15-song ballot, but it perfectly embodies the tripped-out storybook folk of Mother Is the Milky Way. It sounds like an Incredible String Band song!
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
Love your work Camaraderie at Arms Length!
I probably voted for half of what placed overnight (GMT+10). Makes for a bitchin' trippy Sp*tify collage, I'm finding, with 5 seconds crossfade, after mostly not listening to Broadcast for a few weeks.
Ah, now it's wisely playing Children of Alice to sustain the mood. I heart you evil algorithm.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
Berberian Sound Studio is the only Broadcast release I don't own. Maybe it's time to give it another go.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link
Here's a rundown of day one.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 Sleepsmight get going a little earlier today as it's the only day I'm working this week and have to fit in some posting when I can.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 06:43 (one year ago) link
Yes, it's quite good. I re-watched last night. While Broadcast are playing for a goodly proportion of its duration, I'm not sure everything on the record was used. eg. #62 might have appeared as little fragments, if that. The title sequence linked at #63 is indeed the only title sequence it has, though it purports to the opening of the film within the film, The Equestrian Vortex, which is seemingly the most horrifically violent film ever. (Virtually no other footage of the fictional film is revealed; just the terrifying soundtrack they're piecing together with groovy mid-century equipment.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 07:20 (one year ago) link
Nothing from my ballot placed yesterday but in retrospect I should've voted for Chord Simple as a standalone track, it's really lovely.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link
I really like Berberian Sound Studio, the whole thing is Broadcast catnip - I'd say they are pretty deep beneath the skin of Peter Strickland (the filmaker) - he's revisiting similar audio fetish territory in his new one, Flux Gourmet. I think he was involved in Ben Wheatley's In the Earth, which explores similar Stone tapes / owl service type Broadcast obsessional themes. His Field in England is also superb. Sorry, I feel like you all know all this....
― cw, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 07:50 (one year ago) link
I don't! Though I have been taking a dive into Broadcast influences/ references as you'll be able to tell from the images so far.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 07:55 (one year ago) link
* puts Flux Gourmet and In the Earth on watchlist *
I lost track of Wheatley after 'Field' and only ever saw the one Strickland film, so this is welcome.
Likewise a film-still checklist from CaAL lol
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 08:30 (one year ago) link
Ace, if you find yourself on a Strickland Jag, Duke of Burgundy (s/t by Cats Eyes) is magnificent and In Fabric (s/t by Tim Gane) is a lot of fun.
― cw, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
Aaah, noted! I guess only got as far as a quick dip into the latter's soundtrack. Thanks.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
let's get to it with day 3, shall we?
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z9CPhAd.jpg60. 'What You Want' aka 'Dulcimer Jam'From late live performancesLive recording, Melbourne HiFi Bar, 201055 Points, 4 Votes
I'm now dreading to see my first vote appear even though I only voted for 30.I wanted to say that although I have no idea what motivated each pairing, I find many of those images positively hilarious, especially all the ones that look like 70s Czech cinema.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
There is a story behind the pictures which I won't reveal yet, but think it safe to say "Czech cinema" is very much barking up the correct tree.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
Yay for #60! This appears to be my 8th selection, now that I actually look at the list.That recording at Youtube inevitably leads, at some point, to me thinking "if she hadn't circumnavigated the whole planet to play for us she'd probably be alive today." : (
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
What You Want AKA Dulcimer Jam is intriguing, wish I'd voted for it, it sounds like a load of different things (Tender Buttons / Krautrock / VU & Nico) but also like nothing else somehow, such a shame we never got that 4th LP.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/A1Xstfz.jpg59. Elegant ElephantFrom Mother Is The Milky Way, 2009Audio on YouTube60 Points, 5 Votes
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
I swapped this out quite late, for some reason. I do like that there is a bit of support for quite a few Mother tracks. I wonder whether we would have seen fewer a year ago.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sFOiwoS.jpg58. Small Song IVFrom Pendulum EP, 2003. Compiled on The Future Crayon, 2006.Audio on YouTube61 Points, 4 Votes'Small Song IV' off the Pendulum EP is perhaps the most 'Summery' thing they've done. - Sociah T Azzahole (blueski) - Aug 1, 2005
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
Summery? Interesting. I gave some points to this one. It's not wholly unlike "Distant Call", come to think of it. With slightly more crustier, dysfunctional electronics, typical for the HHS era. I seem to be attracted to this general bed of electronics + conversational (? lol) bass template.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link