B i o g r a p h y (by Jason Ankeny)
Space age pop collagists Broadcast formed in Birmingham, England, in 1995; comprised of vocalist Trish Keenan, guitarist Tim Felton, bassist James Cargill, keyboardist Roj Stevens, and drummer Steve Perkins, the quintet came together out of a shared affection for the psychedelic cult band the United States of America, a primary influence on their subsequent work as a group. Debuting in 1996 with the Wurlitzer Jukebox label single "Accidentals," Broadcast immediately won favorable comparisons to Stereolab for their sample-heavy, analog, synth-driven sound; the comparisons continued when they signed to Stereolab's Duophonic Super 45s imprint for their next effort, "Living Room." After the icily atmospheric Book Lovers EP, the group moved to Warp Records to release 1997's Work and Non-Work, a compilation of their existing singles tracks. The much-anticipated full-length The Noise Made by People finally appeared in early 2000 and the Extended Play Two EP was issued that fall. Ever the studio perfectionists, Broadcast made fans wait until 2003 to hear any new material from the band, when the Pendulum EP arrived that spring and Haha Sound appeared that summer. In fall 2005, Broadcast -- pared down to the duo of Keenan and Cargill -- issued the America's Boy single and Tender Buttons full-length. Released in 2006, Future Crayon collected the group's numerous rare tracks and B-sides. The band resurfaced in fall 2009 with Broadcast & the Focus Group Investigate the Witch Cults of the Radio Age, a collaboration with the Focus Group's Julian House that took their sound in a spookier direction more overtly influenced by their interest in library music. In support of the album, Broadcast toured with Atlas Sound and issued a tour-only EP, Mother Is the Milky Way. Keenan passed away on January 14, 2011, due to complications from pneumonia. Two years later, the score to director Peter Strickland's '70s giallo cinema homage Berberian Sound Studio -- which Broadcast began working on before Keenan's passing and featured some of her final vocals -- arrived.
Accidentals The book lovers Message from home Phantom (Instrumental) We've got time Living room According to no plan The world backwards Lights out
The Noise Made By People - 2000-03-20 -
Long Was The Year Unchanging Window Minus One (Instrumental) Come On Let's Go Echo's Answer Tower Of Our Tuning (Instrumental) Papercuts You Can Fall Look Outside Until Then City In Progress Dead The Long Year (Instrumental)
Colour Me In Pendulum Before We Begin Valerie Man Is Not A Bird Minim Lunch Hour Pops Black Umbrellas (Instrumental) Ominous Cloud Distorsion (Instrumental) Oh How I Miss You Little Bell, The Winter Now Hawk
Work and non work Accidentals Under the strain Something's got to break I don't think this branch Can take my weight I've been up this tree All the time you've been looking for me And you will not see, or try to believe When there's no guarantee
The Book Lovers Lines and lines Of book spines colour every wall Down the aisles Along the titles where you run your eyes Read a few lines Read the sign, above the door It's not for everyone Made to feel individual Pages are worn, but that you ignore Read the sign, above the door You're on, like anyone Down the aisles Along the titles where you run your eyes Read a few lines Read the sign, above the door It's not for everyone
*** Thanx a lot to Fernando who corrected some mistakes ***
Message From Home I hope that you kept the note That I left for you to read Or did you throw it away For passers by to stop and see And nothing can account for reasons why I'd be so mean Why did I open my mouth Where I know silence should have been Now the leaves are off the trees The view is clear, this time of year And as I watch as you go out I see the breath sigh from your mouth And nothing can account For reasons why I'd be so mean Why do I open my mouth Where silence should have been You never kept the note That I left for you to read I know you threw it away I saw it blow around the streets And nothing can account For reasons why I'd be so mean Why do I open my mouth Where I know silence should have been
We've Got Time You and I've got something Why don't we try What fools cannot buy What lives cannot hide You wrote your name, in silver light The question still unanswered Just in case it's not right We've got time to work it out We've got what numbers cannot count Who knows to what this will amound Miracle man possessing all that you can Will you change the circumstance Let it happen by chance You wrote your name in silver light The question still unanswered Just in case it's not right We've got time to work it out We've got what numbers cannot count Who knows to what this will amount We've got time to work it out We've got what numbers cannot count Who knows to what this will amount
Living Room You can see in miniature Everything is so small Close to the ground, you have found There's no need to worry at all We could go to the cinema Where everything would be so tall But you hang around With that lot you've seen around town There's nothing to do, since you Broke up from school. We could go into the cinema Where everything would be so tall But you hang around With that lot you've seen around town There's nothing to do, since you Broke up from school Ah, Ah, Ah
According To No Plan Oh, and I found myself lost Looked but nowhere to belong The status I achieve Holds nothing I believe And we drift unmanned According to no plan And I don't know where we are Can't say what we're affected by Something has us beat Leaves us open to defeat And we drift unmanned According to no plan The status I achieve Holds nothing I believe And we drift unmanned According to no plan
The World Backwards As we know, things outgrow What's next is close at hand Some prefer to look backwards A role they all command Ah, Ah, Ah Unprepared for what's to come Pick numbers from above My choice of words is so random I talk because I can Ah, Ah, Ah Plunder time, see what we find To take back to the house But every name has a patentee And belongs to someone else Ah, Ah, Ah
Lights Out I'll show you for example A situation that's like winter I'm not complaining about nighttime It's harder in the morning My room's too small for parties Too spacious when you're lonely Some books can replace friends That's as long as you like reading Turn the lights off when you're leaving I want to watch the car park empty It's easy when they're strangers to wave goodbye My brother's back off holiday He's been chasing girls in Spain He said he'd bring me a guitar Which I said would bring me fame I remember your excitement Choosing pictures for your wall And now you've seen them oh so often You hardly see them anymore Turn the lights off when you're leaving I want to watch the car park empty It's easy when they're strangers to wave goodbye I remember your excitement Choosing pictures for your wall And now you've seen them oh so often You hardly see them anymore Turn the lights off when you're leaving I want to watch the car park empty It's easy when they're strangers to wave goodbye
The noise made by people Long Was The Year
Long was the year Will you stay now you're here Be like the sun Never gone Sleep long and fast Let the past be the past You're like the snow Never know Long was the path Will you stay now you're back Be like the sun never gone Unchanging Window
Attention senses Sorrow's song Forboding phrases Notes lie long Frame this sky unchanging window Blown open by unchanging wind Claim it quick 'cause sorrow wants it Snatch the breath before it sings Feathers woven Pattern tied With every measure Sorrow flies Frame this sky unchanging window Blown open by unchanging wind Claim it quick 'cause sorrow wants it Snatch the breath before it sings Come On Let's Go
You won't find it by your self You're gonna need some help And you won't fail with me around Come on let's go I will tell you if you change And who's been saying things It's hard to tell who is real in here Come on let's go You know who to turn to Now everything's changed Come on lets go Stop looking for answers In everyone's face Come on let's go What's the point in wasting time On people that you'll never know Come on let's go When you're looking for a friend But it's empty at the end When everybody's disappeared You won't be alone If you want I'll compensate If you over estimate So there's nothing left to fear You won't be alone You know who to turn to Now everything's changed Come on let's go Stop looking for answers In everyone's face Come on let's go What's the point in wasting time On people that you'll never know Come on let's go Echo's Answer
The wind has gone The invisible come Your memories are being run The mountain scarred By invisible bars The stillness is on guard Oh, the wind will come Blow, answer echo's answer The mountain mine From invisible time I am next in line The message sent Was of discontent From incline to incline Oh, the wind will come Blow, answer echo's answer The wind is near The invisible hear Come my thoughts away from fear Oh, the wind will come Blow, answer all these echo's Papercuts
You can't pretend cause I can see You're not the boy you used to be Trust me with a secret you can't keep I watch your eyes they shift with doubt So every night when stars come out I try to read your personality The writing for pleasure you wouldn't let me read The things you miss out when you try to mislead You said you wrote a page about me In your diary Your heart a place that noone sees You can't disguise your own unease Trust me with a secret you can't keep The writing for pleasure you wouldn't let me read The things you miss out when you try to mislead You said you wrote a page about me In your diary Don't be so afraid Theres bound to be a place No matter who or where you are You've got to be willing You've got to be willing The writing for pleasure you wouldn't let me read The things you miss out when you try to mislead You said you wrote a page about me In your diary Don't be so afraid You're bound to make mistakes No matter who or where you are You've got to be willing Don't be so afraid Theres bound to be a place No matter who or where you are You've got to be willing You've got to be willing
*** Thanx a lot to Fernando who corrected this one *** You Can Fall
To those who hate Have cried for noone You can call You can call To those who talk And wish against me You can call You can call Late in the evening when it gets dark You can call To those who say They go unbeaten You can fall You can fall To those who say It's because they're weak You can fall You can fall Late in the evening when it gets dark You can fall Look Outside Look outside And wherever I go you are there You colour in the everyday wherever I go Until Then If you think nothing is yours If I think everything belongs to me How wrong Ill be None of us have anything Theres a place I have never explored Another world we have yet to conquer And untill then none of us have anything City In Progress
We're glad that you came We need someone to look up to Show us the way cause some say We've been using the wrong tools Don't say that we'll pale into the background Don't say that we'll fail even if luck's around Pressure from above and below None of us know who we are Since finding a mirror in words Some of us have lost heart Don't say that we'll pale into the background Don't say that we'll fail even if luck's around We're glad that you're here We need someone to relate to Show us the way cause we need A place to escape to Don't say that we'll pale into the background Don't say that we'll fail even if luck's around
Ha Ha Sound
*** Thanx a lot to Tiago & Alvaro & Sam for these lyrics ***
Colour Me In I am grey, still on the page Oh colour me in Just an outline, sketchy but fine Oh colour me in If green is chasing the hills over miles If blue is pursuing the sky If the red of your heart doesn't mind Where to begin to colour me in Something new and nothing to do I'm just the idea I must be real cause somehow I feel That I'm just the idea Let's share the blue of the towering sky The green of the hills that run by Leave the red of your heart to decide If you cannot choose which colour to use I'll always wait, it's never too late To colour me in To colour me in Today or next year I'll always be near if you want to colour me in
Pendulum Captured under hypnosis Faster and faster images Can a meaning be obtained Or this mystery explained I'm in orbit Held by magnet And the force fields So much closer than love Logic offers no defence Underneath this influence While this puzzle of intent Holds emotion in suspense I'm in orbit Held by magnet And the force fields So much closer than love Caught between the day and night And a knot that pulls too tight I'm in orbit Held by magnet And the force fields So much closer than love
Before We Begin Here again, at the end Before the beginning So the salt will spill again Throw it over your shoulder Oh it's in tomorrow Fortune or sorrow Wait you may win I don't mean to show That I know how this goes Before we begin again You may hide on one side And me on the other You may speak but wait for me Should my sentence faulter Oh it's in tomorrow Fortune or sorrow Wait you may win But now it feels empty There's no need in guessing Before we begin again So here we are again Back to the beginning So the salt will spill again Throw it over your shoulder Oh it's in tomorrow Fortune or sorrow Wait you may win But now it feels empty There's no need in guessing Before we begin again
Valerie Inside the mask another disguise I fall to sleep before closing my eyes Tiredness draws, in my head a cartoon Sun at the window, good things coming soon Shake your earrings over my head Lay down your dreams on my pillow Before bed The silence of ice at the borders of day Sun in my face will not keep them away Sinking into the white of your room Sky through the curtain, good things coming soon Shake your earrings over my head Lay down your dreams on my pillow Before bed
Man is not a Bird The sky is faint There tears remain in me The rain has stopped falling The fading light Walls barely white in me The night has stopped calling I will not lament with the sky No longer feel night on the inside Here in this room No more a tomb Thoughts of you conclude without ending Caution will keep Worries still speak Fewer the leaves are descending The lonely distance and time The only tears willing outside I will not lament with the sky No longer feel night on the inside
*** Thanx a lot to Steven for this one ***
Minim
How sweet the bells How sweet the bells But what can they tell Of heaven and hell Too brief the sound Too brief they sound And yet they resound With the world Ah... Menschen und Wind ändern geschwind Ah... Menschen und Wind ändern geschwind
Lunch hour pops
I wait on the stairs for a break in my mind Let the balloons go outside Let the balloons go outside I wait on the stairs for my thoughts to align You are the sun in my mind You are the sun in my mind Clouds rock like a ship at sea Sooth the waves of injury Clouds rock like a ship at sea Sooth the waves of injury I wait on the stairs, there's a view in my mind Objects of love in the sky Objects of love in the sky I wait on the stairs for my thoughts to be kind What better view will I find What better view will I find Inflated with transparency Float away my injury Inflated with transparency Float away my injury Let the balloons go outside Let the balloons go outside I wait on the stairs for a break in my mind Let the balloons go outside Let the balloons go outside Let the balloons go outside...
Ominous Cloud Oh, let me sail away From the beach and lonely bay The boats on the sea are blissfully free They will come to no harm Cause the waves are so calm Oh let me think a while To the playground of this mar The wind through the frame Whispers your name Though you said goodbye You did not leave my mind Oh I've got to get away From this town don't want to face The ominous clouds Oh not now, not now, not now I've got to find a place Be myself and learn to face The ominous clouds But not now, not now, not now And though they sail away Want to look back on the bay And hide with my hand What's left of the land Though I leave it behind It will not leave my mind Oh I've got to get away From this town don't want to face The ominous clouds Oh not now, not now, not now I've got to find a place Be myself and learn to face The ominous clouds But not now, not now, not now But not now, not now, not now
*** Thanx a lot to Ademir for this one ***
Oh How I Miss You Oh How I Miss You (Repeated)
The Little Bell The little bell lies on the ground Although it tries it cannot sound It used to ring across the air Its sweetened tone would linger there But from a careless hand it rocked Its shell is only made of crock Although it lies there split in two It still tries to ring out to you Now deep inside my wooden clock There is a tick but not a tock Although into the room it chimes It only tells me half the time Why do you leave me so confused I'll miss my bus, my job I'll lose Oh what is wrong my wooden clock It breaks my heart to see you stop
Winter Now Snow lies all around There's no sense of doubt You are the only one To keep me sane when all is wrong Oh my heart Waits in winter now Deep in every dream Though you're far from me There in the deepest snow I only wanted you to know Oh my heart Waits in winter now Falling quietly There reminding me Though it's just a dream You're closer than you've ever been Oh my heart waits in winter now Hawk Sow the seeds Of everything to be Safe in sleep I winter in my dreams Speak your words Define your grief for me Out of reach Some things just can not be
Tender Buttons
*** Thanx a lot to Dana for these lyrics ***
I Found The F I found the fragrance separate from the flower In all the logic I was lost I found the fair light blossom to be sour And beneath the soil the real cost You can to me carelessly I am iris and the lense The bridge adjusting to the water water water water The level inside will rise A fallen monument lies A prism is only walls My arms will not be bars The well now is your support In autosuggested pathways you are caught You came to me carelessly I am iris and the lense The bridge adjusting to the water water water water The level inside will rise A fallen monument lies Black Cat Sapphire her burning eyes Model euphonic paradigms Awkwardness happening to someone you love Awkwardness happening to someone you love The black cat the black cat Curiouser and curiouser The black cat the black cat Curiouser and curiouser Shadowing masonic verve Follows the pharaoh and the worm Awkwardness happening to someone you love Awkwardness happening to someone you love The black cat the black cat Curiouser and curiouser The black cat the black cat Curiouser and curiouser Mirror mirror on the wall Into the purring night you call Awkwardness happening to someone you love Awkwardness happening to someone you love The black cat the black cat Curiouser and curiouser The black cat the black cat Curiouser and curiouser Awkwardness happening Awkwardness happening Tender Buttons The coal The coal light The callous The caress The comb The calm The colour The cortex The code The codine The comma The context The collector The green The fine The fall The financer The dream The fen The fine The fin The defend The fawn Then do The coal The coal light The colours The caress The comb The calm The colour The caress The cortex The comb The codine The comma The context The corpse The likeness Die cut Die cut Die cut Die cut Die cut Die cut Die
America's boy Quaker toil & texan oil Rockets on we're arm in arm Nasa nude you're manly you Oi american soldier America's boy Gun me down with yankee power Cock pit tom with army charm The eagle lands army commands Oi american soldier America's boy Cowboy corn & bugle horn {on son don't post me on?} You are dean and me the queen Oi american soldier America's boy
*** Thanx a lot to Fernando for this one *** Tears in the typing pool Succumb to the line The finishing time The long distance runner Has stopped on the corner But i won't give up Although i've stopped too Before the end of me and you The patchwork explains The land is unchanged Interpret the rooms My tears in the typing pool The letters are sighing The ink is still drying I told you the truth And now i sigh too The page turns on me and you Across that white plain The land is unchanged
*** Thanx a lot to Fernando for this one ***
Corporeal Under the white chalk Drawn on the black board Drawn on the black board Under the xray I'm jut a vertebrate Do that to me Do that to my anatomy Do that to me Do that to my anatomy Corporeal Corporeal We are mankind We are manikin With and without mind With or without Darwin Classify me The strings of my autonomy Classify me The strings of my autonomy Corporeal corporeal A thorny red heart Around a thin arm Inside a white bone The love is inborn Close up to me Up close to my anatomy Close up to me Up close to my autonomy Corporeal corporeal Corporeal Arc of a Journey Clouds float away like iron tools on the moon All my time is in half life Memories over memories Can I see more than I'm programmed to be Constellation of orion A picture with a past A future so vast A mnemonic game On the arc of a journey I report There once were cities Open academies Avenues and tree Human law Automatic oracles Calender, the years Verbal hemispheres Constellation of orion The repositioned light The post atomic night Informing me I'm near The axis of feeling Constellation of orion A picture with a past A future so vast A mnemonic game On the arc of a journey Michael A Grammar Michael Michael Michael Wake up we're going back to chelmsley wood Michael Michael Michael My feet are dancing can you see them Michael Michael Michael I'll change my hair but inside I'll stay the same Michael Michael Michael I'll draw my lips around my lipstick My feet are dancing so much and I hate that My feet are dancing so much Ah see if you're feeling like you're looking for a chance to let go And if you're feeling like you're looking for that change then let go Let go let go let go Michael Michael Michael Come on your father was a teddy boy Michael Michael Michael There's nothing written on your fingernails Michael Michael Michael You said remind me not to be myself Michael Michael Michael This is not your saw tooth wave Ah see if you're feeling like you're looking for a chance to let go And if you're feeling like you're looking for that change then let go Let go let go let go My feet are dancing so much and I hate that My feet are dancing so much My feet are dancing so much and I hate that My feet are dancing so much Ah see if you're feeling like you're looking for a chance to let go And if you're feeling like you're looking for that change then let go Let go let go let go Michael Michael Michael Today the old height rise is coming down Michael Michael Michael This is not your saw tooth wave Subject to the Ladder I'm not pygmalion Hooked by failure Ruled as a juvenile Aged as an infantile Subject to the ladder Ruined by affection Excepted by exception Predicted on a graph Cornered by ritual Diminished by impression Cried out in the lesson Subject to the ladder Subject to the ladder My thoughts are coming through Emptiness follows too A cyclone full on feeling In the silence of the room Defended by defendants Corrected by the pain Inspected by a sadness Exhausted by a game Subject to the ladder Subject to the ladder My thoughts are coming through Emptiness follows too A cyclone full of feeling The silence of the room A picture turning over Jewel in the water Where eco saw reflection Not what it taught her Invaded by the quarrels And I denied the lathe Let me chop down the laurel A goal I won't escape In bullied deception But when the whistle came Esteem had broke infection My torment faught with shame Subject to the ladder Subject to the ladder My thoughts are coming through Emptiness follows too A cyclone full of feeling The silence of the room Subject to the ladder Goodbye Girls Endless night Laced with time Under unreal light With the goodbye girls Pendant heart Counterpart Under unreal light With the goodbye girls Fraudulently they love you Think of you You're in a sleepless dream The insincere Vacantly they listen Giving no emotion Leaving no impression Love you all night Love you all night Honesty Sweet deceit You're in a cut up world With the goodbye girls Love distilled For your guild Feelings superimposed On the goodbye girls Fraudulently they love you Think of you Vacantly they listen Giving no emotion Leaving no impression Love you all night Vacantly they listen Giving no emotion Leaving no impression Love you all night Love you all night Love you all night Love you all night You and Me in Time You and me in time You and me in time The river flows down The flowers grows up The snow makes no sound On the mountain top You and me in time You and me in time We're saying goodbye We're waving our hands The waves and the tide Move the grains of sand You and me in time
Future Crayon
Illumination Weights, the growing stem of time Waits, poison us outside You're seconds within mine Don't memorize the leaves That cover to deceive To make you forget me I'll kill that weed somehow Inside I speak for now Before the symptom's down Now, the dead who walk in dreams Point south to where you sleep Waste time no more ?? So if it's in our mind Words speak across the night We'll find your dream tonight
*** Thanx a lot to Dustin for this one ***
Still feels like tears Seasons mean nothing You went away and I’m falling Even clouds have tried their best To move and give my tears a rest Seasons mean nothing You went away and I’m falling Even when the cold disarms It still feels like there's something wrong Seasons mean nothing You went away and I’m falling Even when the leaves turn brown In sympathy about the ground
Small song IV
Sunlight creeps across your pillow Silver leaf falls from the willow You are so young A flame left from the sun Let the quiet light see the room Shadows ?? afternoon You are so young A flame left from the sun Sunlight creeps across your pillow Silver leaf falls from the willow You are so young A flame left from the sun ??? A flame left from the sun
Where Youth And Laughter Go
( Extended play EP Part 1 )
Listen - word one To - word two Let be - be three And forward inside See your bed Lie still and narrow Everything ahead Can not be seen Rain and wrong can Read your thoughts They'll let them know Where youth and laughter go
Distant Call
Don't let the shadows fall And govern you no more Your thoughts from now begin at this stall I know the stairs descend Voices will not be warm I am your distant call Some words cannot be bound No anchor can be found This land which used Will be too confused And when they shake your hand The ground will break away I'm not made of clay I know the stairs descend And the hours dies away You found reflection there You will not lose your way Oh let the shadows fade I know those second thoughts My time is held on ??? I know the stairs descend And the hours dies away You found reflection there And you will not lose your way
Poem of a Dead Song
( Extended play EP Part 2 ) Clear sky will come It's the dark undone Or your wishes Walk Towards you Towards you Clouds will move on May your grey turn blue Your intetions Walk Towards you Towards you
Locusts
( Come On Let's Go EP ) Little yellow lemon tree Cast that yellow to the breeze Serpentine flutterings Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, ...
NON ALBUMS TRACKS
Petal Alphabet (Demo 2006) One by one The clocks fall asleep One by one Love it caresses the head In the daytime Grass skirt rocking as it would on her hips Grass skirt rocking as it would on her hips Love cerebral hugs Love cerebral hugs Skull loving ideas Love cerebral hugs Love cerebral hugs No more ladder anxiety-tears Tears, tears Two by two The real and the new Me and you Thin air is like thinking Is like drifting in fog Longing, longing for the arms in the loft Longing, longing for the arms in the loft Love cerebral hugs Love cerebral hugs Skull loving ideas Love cerebral hugs Love cerebral hugs No more ladder anxiety-tears Tears, tears Happy closed door Happy open window Happy closed door Happy open window Love cerebral hugs Three by three The need and the needing in me One to ten have been re-written now a petal alphabet Love cerebral hugs Love cerebral hugs Skull loving ideas Ideas, ideas