Perkins and Stevens left the band in 2000, and Felton left in 2004. Stevens released a solo album under the name Roj, and Felton formed the group Seeland with Billy Bainbridge from Plone. After the January 2011 death of Trish Keenan, James Cargill is the only current member of the band.
The band has released five albums in their career: "The Noise Made by People" (2000), "Haha Sound" (2003), "Tender Buttons" (2005), "Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age" (2009, with The Focus Group) and "Berberian Sound Studio" (2013), the soundtrack to the film of the same name. Cargill has stated that plans for an album featuring Keenan's final recordings is in the works.
The band's first releases were singles released on Wurlitzer Jukebox Records ( "Accidentals" ) and Duophonic Records ("The Book Lovers") in the mid-1990s. "The Book Lovers" was also featured on the soundtrack of the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. They attracted the attention of Warp Records, who compiled the singles in 1997 on "Work and Non Work".
The band was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, Somerset, England.
The band's style is a mixture of electronic sounds and Keenan's 1960s-influenced vocals. It is heavily influenced by the 1960s influenced American psychedelic group The United States of America, using many of the same electronic effects. It was also reminiscent of Stereolab. However, despite the similar musical pedigree, Broadcast's music is often darker and edgier in sound – with amorphous samples and analogue dissonance giving it a retro-futuristic sci-fi edge.
On January 14th, 2011, Trish Keenan died from complications caused by pneumonia.
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2.) Broadcast is a melodic hardcore band from west coast of Sweden. Their debut EP, Guidelines was released on november 11th, 2013.
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3.) Broadcast was a Finnish pop rock group founded in 1980 by i.a. Edu Kettunen, Kim Lönnholm and Esa Kaartamo.
Corporeal
Broadcast Lyrics
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Drawn on the black board
Drawn on the black board
Under the x-ray
I'm jut a vertebrate
Do that to me
Do that to my anatomy
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
The lyrics to Broadcast's song Corporeal speak to the physical nature of human existence and the ways in which we are both defined and constrained by our bodies. The opening lines "Under the white chalk / Drawn on the black board / Drawn on the black board / Under the x-ray" create a sense of clinical detachment, highlighting the ways in which our bodies can be reduced to mere objects of study. The subsequent line, "I'm just a vertebrate," reinforces this sense of objectification, reducing the singer to nothing more than a biological organism.
However, as the song progresses, there is a shifting tone that suggests a deeper connection between the physical body and the self. Lines such as "Close up to me / Up close to my anatomy" and "The strings of my autonomy" suggest a merging of the physical and the personal. The word "autonomy" implies agency, but it is connected to the physical body through the metaphor of strings, suggesting that our bodies are integral to our sense of self-determination.
The chorus repetition of "Corporeal corporeal" reinforces the centrality of the physical body to the human experience, but the use of the word "corporeal" also suggests a sense of transcendence beyond this physical plane. It is a reminder that while we are indeed limited by our physical bodies, there is also a spiritual or emotional aspect to our existence that cannot be fully contained by the physical.
Line by Line Meaning
Under the white chalk
Beneath the markings made with white chalk
Drawn on the black board
Depicted on the dark slate
Drawn on the black board
Etched on the blackboard
Under the x-ray
Beneath the image produced by X-ray technology
I'm just a vertebrate
I am a creature with a backbone
Do that to me
Treat me in that manner
Do that to my anatomy
Treat my physical structure in such a way
Do that to me
Treat me in that manner
Do that to my anatomy
Treat my physical structure in such a way
Corporeal Corporeal
Of the body or physical form, in a repeated sequence
We are mankind
We are human beings
We are manikin
We are puppets or human-like figures
With and without mind
Some of us have consciousness and others do not
With or without Darwin
Whether or not we believe in the theory of evolution
Classify me
Sort me into categories
The strings of my autonomy
The mechanisms behind my independent decisions
Classify me
Sort me into categories
The strings of my autonomy
The mechanisms behind my independent decisions
Corporeal corporeal
Of the body or physical form, in a repeated sequence
A thorny red heart
A painful and emotional love
Around a thin arm
Embraced by a thin limb
Inside a white bone
Contained within a white structure
The love is inborn
The love is innate and instinctive
Close up to me
Approach me closely
Up close to my anatomy
Near to my physical structure
Close up to me
Approach me closely
Up close to my autonomy
Near to the mechanisms behind my independent decisions
Corporeal corporeal corporeal
Of the body or physical form, in a repeated sequence
Lyrics © WARP MUSIC LIMITED
Written by: JAMES CARGILL, PATRICIA KEENAN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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Under the white chalk
Drawn on the black board
Under the x-ray
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
@parisjackson1335
Dear Trish, today is January 14, 2024 and i thought about you how i often do on your day of passing...Thanks again for leaving such a voice and music behind to touch us for generations to come...we are BETTER for listening to you!!! Hope you're enjoying the galaxy or doing wonderful music as usual!!!! 😘😘❤❤❤😍😍😍R.I.P Trish Keenan
@davidobrien7610
oh my god, my new favorite song; late to the party is better than never getting there, I guess.. I am so sorry to hear she is gone.
@paoloandregonzalescespedes
I cannot describe how this song makes me feel. It's just an astounding vibe...
@blueisnotgreen7258
Lesbian music...but I like it
@rotekanale8124
Good one.
@PorkchopCupcake
She shouldn't have died like this. I'm going to miss not seeing her career blossom. I can only hope that more people discover her music now and appreciate it, with younger listeners realizing that female vocalists can be talented and unique without having to resort to cliche' entertainment crap. She was rare and even though she's gone, her music will live on.
@PorkchopCupcake
@Eagle While traveling or touring, she developed some respiratory problems that either went untreated or mistreated and that turned into Pneumonia, which I believe is the officially reported cause of death. Maybe there were some underlying medical problems that exacerbated it.
@schoolbook_depository222
@Eagle Swine flu turned into pneumonia :((
@joaopedrohaddadbelonfernan7329
@@PorkchopCupcake amazing that you answered a question made 12 years after your original comment :) even though on such a sad topic
@PorkchopCupcake
At JPHBF, Attentiveness to this conversation can be credited to a mind under the influence of nostalgia, which often times does lead to mourning.
Yet, we can still be released from this emotional inertia and dissolve into the psychedelia that is Broadcast.