Tried to phrase that in a less cloying way but whatever. Great band.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
I wrote an essay in my head years ago but never typed it up about what they really have in common. Basically they're both amazing record geek bands with specific sets of influences that they rip off wholesale where the sum is more than the parts, and the most major difference between the bands is the differing choice of source material.
That's a simplification obviously but it makes some sense to me.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
Work And Non-Work is the one that finally sucked me in after trying with several others
my initial entry point was that Motorway Mix that went around after Trish died, I love that thing
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:42 (seven years ago) link
The Broadcast sound does seem to operate by stealth, i.e. its influences sound obvious and excessive but the more you replay the more you find deceptive side-steps that hook you back in.
Noodle Vague otm 11 years ago
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
All broadcast is good
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 08:28 (seven years ago) link
The person who made the mammoth Stereolab Origins series on YouTube also made an eight part Broadcast one - here's the first.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqhqn2CeoTw
Was lucky to see them live in 2003 and I'm taken aback at just how well all of their albums have revealed their depth. I love those last couple of albums and am still sad about what could have been.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 09:22 (seven years ago) link
The Future Crayon is as great as any one of the albums - great 'b-side' band too.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
Fantastic record covers too. I always felt like Julian House brought his A game for this band, even over the stuff on his own label.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
Broadcast played twice on Halloween in Vancouver (afaik). Trish signed my Tender Buttons poster and commented on my "green hair" (I was dressed up as a senior and the neon lights turned my grey hair green). Trish is very much missed.
― Ross, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Anyone dig "Mother is the Milky Way" their tour EP? It was one of their last releases and it showcased a more pastoral folk side that was deeply trippy. Some tracks were naught more than a guitar and Trish' voice.
― Ross, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
wait what I never even heard of that
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
1 for sale from $75.00, lol
https://www.discogs.com/Broadcast-Mother-Is-The-Milky-Way/release/1978395
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Mother is the Milky Way was very nice, felt like a continuation of the Focus Group collab LP. Just about everything they did was great, but for me Tender Buttons is their absolute masterpiece - with the help of a sentient fax machine they cranked out the most endlessly listenable collection of neon future pop ever.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, saw that same show with ET and it was truly special. As were they.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
I stand by this I wrote five years back
https://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/rip-trish-keenan-of-broadcast/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
Just about everything they did was great, but for me Tender Buttons is their absolute masterpiece - with the help of a sentient fax machine they cranked out the most endlessly listenable collection of neon future pop ever.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, December 6
I remember being disappointed with Tender Buttons when I first heard it, but over the years it's become my favourite. I'd have no problem putting it in my top 20 favourite albums ever now.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it was very much a "grower" for me too.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
xxxpost re. the 2003 N. American tour - in October 2003 CBC Radio broadcast the Vancouver live show. You can find it out there on the net. Perfect sound quality 10/10 highly recommended. (I have it on LOL minidisc)
― everything, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
wish they'd re-release that mother is the milky way CD... they've re-released the microtronics EPs so it's possible! and second tracking down one of their live shows floating around online... they're also really great.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Got into them through Work and Non-Work. Their *sound* was just like nothing I'd heard before.
As the band grew and evolved the Stereolab references got lazier and lazier imho, as they kept on sounding more like Broadcast with every record.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
I bought The Noise Made By People when it came out, put it on, thought it sounded too much like The United States of America and didn't listen to it again.
Then when Tender Buttons came out I heard a song from it that I loved so I bought that.
Then I went back and bought Ha Ha Sound.
Then I got everything else.
I think Tender Buttons is really special, I think they stripped away the references of the first two LPs, and created this stark sound that's so amazing.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
There really doesn't seem to be consensus on what their best album is. I'm guessing if we did a poll, Tender Buttons would probably win.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
I'd bet on the noise as the winner but yeah between those two.
― Moka, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
I love how popular they are on here. They won two of the best songs from the 2000s polls in the last month or so.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
Haha Sound is my favourite. Hard to beat "Man is Not a Bird".
― Ross, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
"Noise Made by People" was my first back in 2000, but I still think they improved on their sound on each subsequent release. "Unchanging Window" from NMBP vs. the EP2/Future Crayon re-imagines that song in a far less sterile way and with more of that muted bass groove. Saying that, it's hard to beat songs like "Come on Let's Go".
― Ross, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
The Book Lovers is still the one for me. I just realised it's almost exactly 20 years since I first heard it on the John Peel show. Incredible song.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Only recently discovered they'd performed that on MTV in 97. Nice to see Trish with guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrQzl3zJLs
― nashwan, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
^^ I still have that Alternative Nation episode (or at least one where they repeated this one) on Video 2000 somewhere.
(OT: MTV should upload all those AN episodes with Toby Amies somewhere, some really great live sessions)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
Co-sign the Broadcast love. This track by Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve featuring Hannah Peel comes close to scratching that itch. With a healthy pinch of Stereolab too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtev3N2HQc0
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
also check out Lake Ruth for Broadcast-style vibes
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
xxxpost re. the 2003 N. American tour - in October 2003 CBC Radio broadcast the Vancouver live show.
― city worker, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Gwenno is a bit of a welsh Broadcast
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 December 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
xpost - great clip, thanks!
― everything, Thursday, 8 December 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
vanishing twin has phil jenkins on "strange sounds"
https://v-twin.bandcamp.com/
― maura, Thursday, 8 December 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
Vanishing Twin sounds right up my alley! Thanks maura.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 8 December 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
I love how popular they are on here. They won two of the best songs from the 2000s polls in the last month or so.― Kitchen Person,
― Kitchen Person,
in case people don't understand this statement: Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2000 poll
― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 December 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Black Cat won Moka's 2005 songs poll too.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 8 December 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
that Gwenno album is excellent and I bet if she hadn't been one of the Pipettes it would have been a favourite round here
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
peluché will prob be up alleys here too
― maura, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Cat's Eyes as well, who I've mentioned but are completely ignored everywhere it seems. They even did the soundtrack to Duke of Burgundy (same director as Berberian Sound Studio).
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
Witch Cults might still be my favorite album released this century. Definitely way way up there, at least.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Duke of Burgundy seemed practically designed around an imaginary Broadcast score it couldn't have.
― Chris L, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
― boxedjoy,
Rose has made a couple of great albums too.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link