Broadcast vs Stereolab

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Stereolab 57
Broadcast 50


✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:06 (seven years ago)

Voting for Stereolab with more ease than expected.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:23 (seven years ago)

Yep, me too. Though i do enjoy Broadcast also.

VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:29 (seven years ago)

Emperor Tomato Ketchup and French Disko might be my favourite album/single releases by either of them, but I found myself voting for Broadcast.

The run that Broadcast had from the release of Accidentals at the very beginning of 1996 to Tender Buttons a decade later is one of my favourite runs in music ever. The way you can own every single song they did in that period (and there's barely a weak song there) so neatly on three albums and two compilations makes it so easy to return to their work and hear the beautiful progression they made. With Stereolab it's a bit more of an effort considering just how much music they made and for me once you get to Cobra Phases, they just weren't as brilliantly consistent anymore (not to say they didn't make some great albums and plenty of awesome songs in the following decade).

I was always glad that I joined here just after the St Etienne vs Stereolab poll took place. This is almost as hard as that. All three of them are in my top 10 artists list, constantly switching places.

kitchen person, Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:31 (seven years ago)

Not a lot to nitpick over in the Broadcast catalog, but they didn't exactly make tons of music either. Stereolab, otoh, made just endless amounts of great music. Yes, they fell off a bit on the last few albums, but even those were mostly very good. Take those out and you are still left with a massive stretch of nearly perfect and highly varied recordings.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:41 (seven years ago)

I doubt if there's anyone who likes one of these bands and not the other. Love both, but got into Stereolab earlier and so they're a little bit further into my psyche.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:42 (seven years ago)

Good point. I'd love to hear from anyone who likes one band and dislikes the other.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:45 (seven years ago)

Stereolab was easily my favorite band throughout the 90s, yet somehow I didn't find out about Broadcast until some time post-2000. Definitely impacts how I rate them.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 21 June 2018 04:46 (seven years ago)

This is incredibly hard. Trying to make the comparison is just making me sad as I suspect Broadcast may have won convincingly if things hadn't been cut short. While Tender Buttons felt like something of a dead-end for me, the Focus Group collaborations and trippy live performances in the final months were pretty much exactly the sorts of sounds my brain most wanted to hear.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 21 June 2018 05:04 (seven years ago)

Broadcast, opinion definitely deeply influenced by having seen them live during the Witch Cults era.

It's really hard to quantify this stuff but it feels to me like the space Broadcast mapped out was wider and deeper... Stereolab I like too but I find I can only listen to a certain amount of it before getting super fatigued (and some of their catalogue I just can't do at all).

umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 21 June 2018 05:30 (seven years ago)

Not voting today because Stereolab is perhaps my favorite band of all time but today Broadcast is hitting all the right spots and they feel superior to me in ways the groop never achieved.

Of course, tomorrow Stereolab might be my answer again.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 June 2018 05:53 (seven years ago)

Probably about once a month I think about the posthumous Broadcast album that James has talked about being a possibility, this is a holy grail release for me.

umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 21 June 2018 06:25 (seven years ago)

Hm okay "once a month" doesn't sound like I'm that keen. I'm pretty keen.

umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 21 June 2018 06:26 (seven years ago)

I probably listen to more Stereolab, and they probably put out more good music, but Broadcast have always seemed like a special band for me in a way that Stereolab just don't.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 06:29 (seven years ago)

Stereolab

flappy bird, Thursday, 21 June 2018 06:31 (seven years ago)

Could never get into any Broadcast except Work and Non Work

flappy bird, Thursday, 21 June 2018 06:33 (seven years ago)

there was a winter where i would only listen to broadcast, and there's something about the muted grandness of the noise made by people that for me is inextricable from an indeterminable feeling of approaching a precipice but not knowing where it is; at that time "come on let's go" felt like the truest articulation of moving w/in that space, and it still does. so i have to go w them

lowercase (eric), Thursday, 21 June 2018 08:01 (seven years ago)

echoing emsworth on the general long-stretch fatigue of listening to stereolab, although i like em for sure

lowercase (eric), Thursday, 21 June 2018 08:07 (seven years ago)

Stereolab for the mind and Broadcast for the heart. Can't choose, won't choose.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:08 (seven years ago)

What you mean, "Versus"?

Get away with you...

Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:27 (seven years ago)

Good point. I'd love to hear from anyone who likes one band and dislikes the other.

I used to be that person, so...

I loved Stereolab from the first moment I heard them, whereas for years after I first heard Broadcast I found them uncomfortably... sterile, I guess? Friends said "oh, you like Stereolab, you like Warp Records, you must like Broadcast" and I'd think "really? is that what people hear when they hear Stereolab?"

They just didn't make sense to me until "Haha Sound", which unlocked what I'd been missing from their older work too. (Actually I saw them live in 2000 or '01 and enjoyed it, so that probably helped, but I didn't work my way back to the records until Haha Sound came out.)

I love both bands now, though - but I'd still vote Stereolab. (Sorry!)

a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:53 (seven years ago)

Btw I like 90s Stereolab including the early two-chord stuff way more than the post-Fluorescences stuff (which I now find OK, but I did find D&L also very cold & sterile at first) so that probably correlates with my not getting into Broadcast

a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:56 (seven years ago)

Love both bands to bits, but I have to vote for Broadcast in this one. Their corpus of work isn't as big as Stereolab's, which kind of works in their favour. Stereolab's output is consistently brilliant, but Broadcast's peaks are even higher. It's magical.

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:08 (seven years ago)

which unlocked what I'd been missing from their older work

Yeah I definitely had this type of experience with Broadcast - of the depth of their work being revealed retrospectively. In my case seeing them live sent me back to the records with a vastly deepened appreciation of what they did.

I think also the linkup with Ghost Box perhaps gave me a slightly tweaked context for thinking about them, which helped a lot too.

Before this I had definitely written them off as sub-Stereolab, for whatever incorrect reasons.

umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:09 (seven years ago)

Broadcast. Love stereolab but not sure anything they’ve done is as resonant as something like tears in the typing pool for me

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:21 (seven years ago)

This is impossible, really. Emotionally and tempermentally I think I'd have to go with Broadcast. But heard Stereolab earlier and was lead by them to a lot of music I came to love; whereas I already knew a good bit of the soundworld Broadcast were drawing from and so sort of appreciated their perfection of a context. I love them both for proving that sounds and ideas are never "finished" if there are people who still have something new to say with them, and the fickleness of popular recording tastes doesn't mean everything pulling from a tradition is "retro".

I'm one of what I take to be the small faction that prefers Stereolab's 'Dots and Loops' and after work to their more guitar-based Nue-inspired earlier work.

Soundslike, Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:32 (seven years ago)

Stereolab were better live tbh

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:33 (seven years ago)

I couldn't choose between Dots and Loops and their krauty stuff tbh. They're perfect companions, all part of the same body of work imo.

xp

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:33 (seven years ago)

Broadcast classic for playing Vancouver on Halloween
Perfect occult vibes

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:35 (seven years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSZrJ9hWkAAYtMc.jpg

The Savic Detectives (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:36 (seven years ago)

lol

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:36 (seven years ago)

This seems like a reasonable thread to mention a couple mixes I did a while back in tribute to Stereolab and Broadcast a while back. The first is an exploration for some of the music in the 60s-70s that set the stage for Stereolab and Broadcast. The second is a mix of contemporaries and bands following in their footsteps.

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/musicophilia_00_various_-_la-diffusion_1957-1975_front.jpg?w=500&h=500


Various – ‘La Diffusion’
A Tribute to the spirit of Broadcast and Stereolab (1957-1975)

SIDE A

01 [00:00] Raymond SCOTT – “The Rhythm Modulator” (Manhattan Research Co., 1957)
02 [01:12] Silver APPLES – “Oscilations” (Silver Apples, 1969)
03 [03:55] Barry FORGIE – “Dawn Mists” (Stringtronics, 1972)
04 [07:17] Jean-Michel JARRE – “Black Bird” (Rarities, 1972)
05 [10:24] Mother Mallard’s Portable MASTERPIECE CO. – “Cloudscape for Peggy” (Self-Titled, 1970)
06 [13:40] Jacques THOLLOT – “Cecile” (Quand le son Devient Aigu, 1971)
07 [15:33] White NOISE – “Your Hidden Dreams” (An Electric Storm, 1969)
08 [20:36] Paolo RENOSTO – “Confronto” (Here and Now Vol. 2, 1974)

SIDE B

09 [22:50] Ian LANGLEY – “Frantique” (Reggae for Real, 1973)
10 [25:27] Blue PHANTOM – “Equilibrium” (Distortions, 1971)
11 [29:11] Braen’s MACHINE – “Obstinacy” (Underground, 1971)
12 [32:46] Karl Heinz SCHAFER – “La Victime” (Les Gants Blancs du Diable, 1973)
13 [36:23] Jacques SIROUL – “See” (Midway, 1973)
14 [39:53] David AXELROD – “Holy Are You (Instrumental)” (Release of an Oath, 1968)
15 [44:14] Piero UMILIANI – “La Rinuncia” (La Ragazza Fuoristrada, 1973)
16 [46:23] GOBLIN – “School at Night (Lullaby)” (Profondo Rosso, 1975)

SIDE C

17 [50:00] ORGANISATION – “Silver Forest” (Tone Float, 1970)
18 [52:27] Franz AUFFRAY – “Sweet Popcorn Part 2” (Original Popcorn, 1969)
19 [55:13] Guy BOYER – “Pop Sticks” (Ballad Pour un Vibra, 1971)
20 [58:12] Ennio MORRICONE – “The Victim” (Maccie Solari, 1974)
21 [61:41] Alan PARKER & John CAMERON – “Survival” (Afro Rock, 1973)
22 [64:47] Ananda SHANKAR – “Metamorphosis” (Ananda Shankar, 1970)
23 [68:02] United States of AMERICA – “Cloud Song” (The United States of America, 1968)
24 [71:32] Billy GREEN – “The Death of Doctor Death” (Stone, 1974)

SIDE D

25 [72:58] Alessandro ALESSANDRONI – “Galleria di Immagini” (Prisma Sonoro, 1974)
26 [76:52] Alain GORAGUER – “Valse des Statues” (La Planete Sauvage, 1973)
27 [79:14] Jacqueline THIBAULT – “Le Loup Quie Pleure” (Laurence Vanay, 1974)
28 [81:12] Manfred HUBLER and Siegfried SCHWAB – “Necronomania” (Der Teufel Kam Aus Akasava, 1971)
29 [83:33] Tom DISSEVELT and Kid BALTAN – “Moon Maid” (Electronic Music, 1962)
30 [86:34] Free DESIGN – “An Elegy” (You Could Be Born Again, 1968)
31 [89:25] Philippe BESOMBES – “Theme Grave” (Libra, 1975)
32 [91:21] Gianni ODDI – “Omerta” (Style, 1974)

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/musique-du-mondetribute-series-la-diffusion-1957-1975/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/musicophilia_00_various_-_memories-of-tomorrow_1997-2015_cover.jpg?w=500&h=500


Various – ‘Memories of Tomorrow’
(1997-2015)

01 [00:00] Death and VANILLA – “Necessary Distortions” (To Where the Wild Things Are., 2015)
02 [05:55] BEAK – “Lulsgate” (Beak II Bonus, 2012)
03 [08:15] Jane WEAVER – “Argent” (The Silver Globe, 2014)
04 [16:10] Mount Vernon ARTS LAB – “The Black Drop” (The Seance at Hobs Lane, 2007)
05 [19:22] Last EX – “Trop Tard” (Last Ex, 2014)
06 [23:57] His Name IS ALIVE – “Everything Takes Forever” (Ft. Lake, 1998)
07 [28:02] The SOUNDCARRIERS – “Let It Ride” (Harmonium, 2009)
08 [33:45] PORTISHEAD – “The Rip” (Third, 2008)
09 [38:05] Belbury POLY – “Goat Foot” (The Belbury Tales, 2012)
10 [41:03] BROADCAST – “Unchanging Window” (The Noise Mde by People, 2000)
11 [44:48] CARIBOU – “After Hours” (Andorra, 2007)
12 [50:44] Yo La TENGO – “The Sea Horse (excerpt)” (The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, 2002)
13 [53:13] BECK – “Paper Tiger” (Sea Change, 2002)
14 [57:56] IVY – “Back In Our Town” (Apartment Life, 1997)
15 [62:27] TORTOISE – “I Set My Face to the Hillside” (TNT, 1998)
16 [68:19] STEREOLAB – “The Emergency Kisses” (Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, 1999)
17 [74:12] The Advisory CIRCLE – “The Patchwork Explains” (As the Crow Flies, 2011)
18 [77:04] AIR – “Ce Matin La” (Moon Safari, 1998)
19 [80:35] Erykah BADU and Flaming LIPS – “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (Heady Fwends, 2012)

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/tribute-memories-of-tomorrow-1997-2015/

Soundslike, Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:47 (seven years ago)

broadcast is great, but this isn't close

iatee, Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:45 (seven years ago)

For me, without pause, Stereolab.

afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:58 (seven years ago)

Stereolab were better live tbh

This is very true despite the fact that Laetitia can be a bit pitchy, and Trish was one of the most perfectly pitched singers I've heard live.

Only got to see Broadcast once vs. about a dozen times for Stereolab. I was a bit dismayed at how much Broadcast copied Stereolab's drone jam shtick in their live show.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:04 (seven years ago)

Never really understood or liked the tendency to compare these two bands, more different than similar to each other.

Broadcast - got into them first and more deeply than subsequent Stereolab admiration.

nashwan, Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:16 (seven years ago)

feel the same re comparison

lowercase (eric), Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:37 (seven years ago)

gotta go with Stereolab, even though I greatly prefer Keenan's voice to Sadler's. Few bands can match the Mars-thru-Cobra run.

paul mccartney & whinge (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:40 (seven years ago)

i think the comparison is mostly surface-level--eclectic experimental bands with an affectless female singer

paul mccartney & whinge (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:41 (seven years ago)

They both draw on a certain retrofuturist non-hippie-60s vibe, but with very different specific focuses within that (admitedly niche) world. To me it's not really that they sound much alike, as that they sort of pair well to paint an even fuller picture. You could out it as extrovert/introvert, cool/emotional, futuristic/mystical, warm/chilly, etc.

Soundslike, Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:46 (seven years ago)

This is sort of like Zep vs Sabbath or Fall vs Birthday Party. Breadth vs intensity.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:13 (seven years ago)

Not really a fair fight here tho, I would be surprised if broadcast won

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:30 (seven years ago)

Tough poll tho. I mean broadcast wrote come on let’s go, one of the most beautiful songs ever. But then stereolab has pack yer romantic mind!

Ugh

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:37 (seven years ago)

Broadcast got compared to Stereolab because two of their first three releases were on Stereolab's record label, and at the time they sounded like early Stereolab (The Book Lovers, Phantom, The World Backwards). Not a lot more complicated than that, surely? The music press by nature are lumpers, not splitters.

com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:41 (seven years ago)

Stereolab was definitely an important influence on Broadcast, but I think that the comparison comes often because the seem to hatch from the same set of influences yet made something really different with it: early electronic music, krautrock, suicide, united states, velvet underground, the free design, white noise, young marble giants.

Main difference might be that broadcast would often have a psychedelic, folkier side to them and Stereolab a more kitsch, pop side.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:44 (seven years ago)

Poem of Dead Song vs K-Stars sums it up for me. Going with Broadcast because they happened to track more closely with my own interests as time passed... they went folk horror instead of avant garde

com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:46 (seven years ago)

Broadcast had a much more interesting pivot to me near the end of their career. Stereolab’s last two records found them in such a hyper cut and paste pop mode, imo it makes sense that they folded as the train was running out of steam.

Broadcast instead as mentioned went folk horror. I’m convinced if trish didn’t die that the direction hinted at on focus group EP (a Jefferson airplane Avant Garde folk album) and mother is the Milky Way (pastoral folk with found sounds but no real electronics or layering, acoustic guitar dominant) would have led to an occult folk record.

Instead we got children of Alice minus trish, and that was more in line with Berberian or witch cults.

I’ll never forget trish signing my tender buttons poster and commenting on my old man Halloween costume (appled white spray paint to hair and wore onion glasses to appear older)

I was standing by the merch table and Trish and James were there. Trish says “you look green”. The neon venue lights were making my white spray paint beard and hair look green lol

Rip

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:15 (seven years ago)

She was way too young to die.

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:16 (seven years ago)

Another thing both bands sadly have in common

flappy bird, Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:21 (seven years ago)

Yeah :-(

mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:22 (seven years ago)

lol

xpost

Bee OK, Saturday, 30 June 2018 05:21 (seven years ago)

ironically i did see the National in 2018, the only time i have seen them.

Bee OK, Saturday, 30 June 2018 05:22 (seven years ago)

Too close to call, but I'll give Broadcast the nod - not least because they included Chelmsley Wood in a song ('Michael A. Grammar'), which is the estate in Birmingham where my nan lived, right next to where I grew up. Odd to find such a sense of place in a group that sounded nothing like other Birmingham bands.

It was almost as much of a surprise as discovering that Felt came from nearby Water Orton, of all places.

Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 30 June 2018 09:51 (seven years ago)

Broadcast have plenty of material though, with many eps, microtronics cds, tour exclusive material, etc - not as much as stereolab but I don’t want to be sad when they lose cuz I miss trish.

Y'all (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:32 (seven years ago)

Stereolab forever and ever. love the albums, love the videos. the one show i was lucky enough to see blew my mind w how funky and dancey it was. i got to chat w Latitia for a half hour and she was super chill down to shoot the shit w whoever.

but i have to admit i haven't really heard much Broadcast. i listened to some live sessions yesterday and they were nice, they sound like a band inspired by Stereolab. wish there were more or those.

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:36 (seven years ago)

Yeah laetitia is super nice

Y'all (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:37 (seven years ago)

but i have to admit i haven't really heard much Broadcast. i listened to some live sessions yesterday and they were nice, they sound like a band inspired by Stereolab. wish there were more or those.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, June 30, 2018 1:36 PM

Adam Bruneau, you'd definitely be doing yourself a big injury to leave Broadcast at that. Their entire body of work is fantastic, and on par with Stereolab in quality if not quantity. I'm sure they were somewhat inspired by Stereolab, but their roots substantially predate Stereolab (see mix I posted upthread).

Soundslike, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:40 (seven years ago)

Soundslike otm

Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:47 (seven years ago)

Stereolab easily. I initially ignored Broadcast because they seemed so derivative in the beginning, sort of like Hooverphonic, I assumed they were just Bandwagon jumpers. When their LPs got reissued, I had heard so much about them over the years that I bought them all and decided to work through them. Turns out Broadcast is great, just like everyone says. However, I can’t listen them them often. They seem to occupy a narrow band of emotion in their sound that feels slightly dark and depressing to me. This limited range means I can only listen to Broadcast in limited situations. Stereolab has many more moods and can sound as good in the bright summer sunshine and the dark and gloomy winters. Broadcast never sound good in the sun to me.

brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:57 (seven years ago)

Hooverphonic?? wow. Off the money man

Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:31 (seven years ago)

Just that they were 2nd wave like Hooverphonic,not saying they sounded like Hooverphonic. Just seemed like a new wave of artists copying established artists at the time.

brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 30 June 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

^ Fair. First record did sound like a pram/stereolab deal..mixed with old man willow by elephant's memory

Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 17:48 (seven years ago)

Their first eps and singles from the 90's were very Stereolab and even the first album at parts but by HaHa Sound they were mixing it with psych and horror folk and established a more unique sound for them. They stopped sounding as retro-futuristic as stereolab and started sounding haunted and extraterrestrial instead.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:30 (seven years ago)

is it true they recorded the drums in haha sound in a church or something? cuz those fills on man is not a bird are massive.

Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:32 (seven years ago)

Nothin' against Broadcast like, I've just never got into them for whatever reason, whereas I've loved the Lab since the very beginning.

Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:48 (seven years ago)

xp

Pretty sure it's true. Ha Ha Sound rules.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 30 June 2018 19:02 (seven years ago)

Ha Ha Sound was the first one I heard and I really didn't dig it at all. Then I heard Work and Non Work a few years later and got it - and more recently, Tender Buttons, which is just stunning. Still not even close for me, even with Stereolab's quantity advantage.

flappy bird, Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:10 (seven years ago)

EP 2 remains my favourite release for Unchanging Window/Chord Simple

Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:12 (seven years ago)

Stereolab overall but I think Tender Buttons is better than any single Stereolab album.

J. Sam, Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:47 (seven years ago)

i would say margarine eclipse is maybe on par with tender buttons

Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:49 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 1 July 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

this seems like a super challopsy vote to me. having said that here's a broadcast tribute mix i put together after trish keenan's death. i never have put together a stereolab tribute mix.

sister irene o'connor - fire
sven libaek - inner space: music for eels
premiata forneria marconi - il banchetto
jean philippe goude - machine
chairmen of the board - white rose (freedom flower)
komeda - our hospitality
robert dennis - milk
joni mitchell - shadows and light (demo)
mike post - wouldn't it be nice
van dyke parks - ice capades commercial
the beach boys - my solution (later version)
riders of the mark - electronic insides and metal complexion that make up herr doktor krieg
simon and garfunkel - save the life of my child (alternate)
devo - because
random hold - what happened
camilo sesto - damned for all time
franco battiato - la convenzione
anika - yang yang
hp lovecraft w/ken nordine - nothing's boy
omar khorshid - guitar el chark
cmu - space cabaret
halfnelson - computer girl
ron geesin - untitled, bbc 1971
luiz eca & sagrada familia - please garcon

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 July 2018 00:10 (seven years ago)

Wow

flappy bird, Sunday, 1 July 2018 00:55 (seven years ago)

Stereolab for the head, Broadcast for the heart.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 1 July 2018 01:15 (seven years ago)

electrelane for the hips?

lowercase (eric), Sunday, 1 July 2018 01:21 (seven years ago)

Close but broadcast should’ve won.

Trish forever

Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 08:37 (seven years ago)

Rip angel

Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 08:37 (seven years ago)

Went to see Broadcast many years ago at Maxwell’s on a whim and the energy, the vibe in the room was just incredible.

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:58 (seven years ago)

Closer than I thought!

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 1 July 2018 16:04 (seven years ago)

Ten years ago, I would have reflexively voted for Stereolab but as time stomps along and both bands recede in the rearview mirror it's Broadcast who mean a lot to me now (and who I listen to more)

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 1 July 2018 17:01 (seven years ago)

Stereolab has bigger footprint but Broadcast is more pure distilled essence

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 July 2018 17:38 (seven years ago)

The Groop mean more to me than almost anything

brimstead, Sunday, 1 July 2018 19:22 (seven years ago)

Hard poll. Both bands are for record collector nerds, stereolab had tour only eps, remixes, collabs and many records. As did broadcast. Also pram but yeah. Love it all

Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Monday, 2 July 2018 01:18 (seven years ago)

unfair poll.

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:23 (seven years ago)

competition sucks as stereolab would agree

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:23 (seven years ago)

You go in that team, I go on this team
Divide everything, a flag or a number
Make 'em opposites, so there's a reason
Stigmatization, okay, now we can fight

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:26 (seven years ago)

nailed it

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:33 (seven years ago)

I don't think so, considering how close Broadcast came to winning.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:44 (seven years ago)

But still these bands are both incredible. Putting them against each other seems a little eh. I wanna love both bands in my heart and not designate them a soccer team

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:48 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Found mother is the Milky Way ep. super rare, pm me

No angel came (Ross), Monday, 23 July 2018 12:23 (seven years ago)

Way to go Ross!

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 23 July 2018 13:07 (seven years ago)

Yeah this hints at a syd Barrett rabbit hole. Imagine their last eps minus the electronics with found sounds and mostly acoustic !!

No angel came (Ross), Monday, 23 July 2018 13:10 (seven years ago)

Like tears in the typing pool for a whole record

No angel came (Ross), Monday, 23 July 2018 13:11 (seven years ago)

Anyone hitting me up please leave your email when messaging me

Ross, Monday, 23 July 2018 13:27 (seven years ago)

oh wow, still haven't been able to hear that!

com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 23 July 2018 14:32 (seven years ago)

listening to the Broadcast Black Session, Paris 5/4/2000 this morning. some good stuff

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 July 2018 15:57 (seven years ago)

Hey everyone, ripping within a couple hours
Hold tight

Ross, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:30 (seven years ago)

apologies - broken computer, no internet at home anymore and my Aunt just died so i have been delayed. some of my other family members are also possibly very unwell. I will try to do this as soon as possible, sincerest apologies

Ross, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:40 (seven years ago)

sorry to hear about your aunt, ross. take care of yourself man.

Karl Malone, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:59 (seven years ago)

thank you Karl, appreciate it

Ross, Friday, 27 July 2018 17:12 (seven years ago)


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