Taking Sides: Pram vs. Broadcast

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I've only seen Pram live the once. but I found them very enjoyable. I'd agree that they and Broadcast plough essentially the same furrow, but Pram's sound is bit more wilfully difficult, which is probably why Broadcast are massively popular and Pram aren't.

That and the fact that every member of Broadcast is more conventionally attractive than every member of Pram.

― DV, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i love them both a lot for different reasons that occasionally converge. 'oh man, you must be so torn,' someone who i just mentioned this thread to said to me.

but i'd have to say pram, not only because i adore their loopiness, but also i don't think broadcast has done anything that's hooked me as strongly and immediately as the second side of 'helium' did—'blue,' with rosie's icy vocals, drops of horns, and the feeling of the song spiraling up up up to its we-all-fall-down ending, is one of my top ten songs of forever and ever.

― maura, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The last I heard from Pram, which must have been a few albums back, they sounded more like Movietone, only not as slick. As for Broadcast, "Noise" was a huge disappointment for me when it came out 2 years ago. Hadn't it been, like, three years in the making? It seemed kind of slight and timid, considering. But after seeing it praised without end by the swell people of ILM, I've gone back and found the love.

― Curt, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Broadcast, no contest. Pram are irritating in the extreme. The only record of theirs I can stand to listen to is the WJ 7".

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

Broadcast for sure.

Unfair to compare these bands, Rosie and trish have similar voices but arguably trish has a lot of range and nuance that Rosie does not - Rosie is more hushed and jagged. In a great way.

Broadcast albums rated

Haha sound
Work and non work
Bsides bonus track version
Tender buttons
Noise made by people
Witch cults
Berberian sound studio

Eps

Extended play two
Focus group collab study series
Mother is the Milky Way
Microtronics all versions

Best album tracks
Man is not a bird
Unchanging window (chord simple)
I look outside
Be colony
I see, I see so
Winter now
Make my sleep his song
Round and round
Be colony - dashing
Winter now
Ominous cloud
America’s boy
Tears in the typing pool
Corporeal
Theresa lark ascending
Echos answer

Papercuts
Book lovers
Anything off work and non work

Extra non album tracks

We are the works in progress

Both bands come from Birmingham afaik.

― Ross, Saturday, 11 August 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link

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