Yep, I shouldn't try posting to ILM without the CD in front of me.
― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
noise made by people doesn't sound anything like stereolab. i think the fact that they released their first single on stereolab's lable is where the comparisons come from. broadcast is much more classically pop than stereolab, far better too, less willing to push a bad idea for a half an hour just to prove they can.
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link
The Stereolab comparison is apt because Broadcast is to the United States of America as Stereolab is to Neu. And BTW, Broadcast is really only similar to the first song on the USA album (American Metaphysical Circus?).
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― joe byrd, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
although i must admit that first song in 3/4 is kind of charming, like a children's TV song.
― debden, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a couple of live bootlegs floating around, the best recent one for sound quality was recorded at the Cafe de la Danse, early on in the Haha Sound tour.
― steve w, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
2003. Impressed but ultimately unmoved by Ha Ha Sound. Saw them live; still impressed; still unmoved. (Although a couple of friends were in raptures.)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
"Before We Begin" seems like the PERFECT kick-off or wrapup track to a crushmix right? WRONG. For some bizarre interstellar reason, it backfires embarrassingly/frequently as "Something ABout Us." I think it's just wiser these days to take her on a lot of blingy and fun car rides and note all the songs she really likes from different CDs you play, then ask her if she wants the mix, then make it, but provide no tracklist, and when she asks for it, pull it out your pocket, put it into your fly, zip up, and sheepishly say yo while pointing at yr mangina. "Come and get it then, heh." If she bites, you're awesome. If she doesn't, prepare a campus-wide damage-control plan immediately, and never make a crushtape ever again. Why are you even reading this?
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i was asking myself that exact question
― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Today ridicule, tomorrow really cool.
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Broadcast don't have a regular drummer these days as far as i can make out, there seems to be 3 members with people being hired in to play the other instruments e.g. the drummer for the tour you saw was Julian Barnes of Bablicon/Hawk and a Hacksaw.
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Indeed, but the correct comparison should be with White Noise's An electric storm.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
i found the early stuff, work and non-work etc, all pretty sterile, antiseptic, didnt like her voice that much, it all sounded like good music, was in the style of good music, but, somehow it wasnt. so i kind of switched off, pretty much like i switched off from all those class of 97 bands in the end (jameson, electric sound of joy, mogwai, magnetaphone, plone, mahogany, fridge), because none of them really seemed to have any fizz, any life,
so, i havent really heard noise made by people, or haha sound. but, the consensus seems to be that theyve really picked up since then?
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― rockaction (rockaction), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
haha sound was better, i like about 4 tracks on that quite a lot, pendulum, man is not a bird, hawk, but...i dont know, i still just dont like her vocals at all. she sort of sounds dead
in a weird way they remind me a bit of oriental sunshine as much as they do white storm
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 11 April 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Monday, 20 June 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 20 June 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Monday, 20 June 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link
i should re-upload their ATP 2001 (or was it 2000?) show, which is gloriously messy (in a good way) but doesn't include 'Hammer Without A Master' - tho the Islington show i recorded last year does.
only on a couple of USA tracks does the similarity with Broadcast seem really apparent.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 20 June 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― zeus, Monday, 20 June 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 20 June 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 20 June 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I have half of each, I think. I don't mean to overstate the USA influence either, but there was an overlap and BC did lose out (they also overlap with the Shortwave Set and Flipper's Guitar in a way, but those aren't as direct as the more sounds upon sounds comparisons I was thinking of).
― BARMS, Monday, 20 June 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Broadcast return with a new album in the Autumn, with a limited 7" single America's Boy released in August. The new music has a darker psychedelic feel than the last album, with drumloops and tape manipulations underpinning Trish's vocals.
The album is called Tender Buttons. Sounds fun.
― Telephonething, Monday, 20 June 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― zeus, Monday, 11 July 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 11 July 2005 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
reissues coming
I guess this means my og vinyl copies won't be worth $$$ anymore :(
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
i got haha sound a couple years ago and wasn't into it, it just made me want to listen to Stereolab. but i got the work and non work comp yesterday and it rules
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 December 2016 21:33 (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