What does "Geogaddi" mean to you?

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:32 pm

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but... Since Geogaddi's title was supposed to be subjective and up to us to decide the meaning, what do you think about it?

Also, what does it say to you? The culmination of the album and the overall message it conveys.

For me, based on reasons I shouldn't get too far into or else I'd be writing a long wall, it either has something to do with the devil/some sort of evil entity and death. This might be common.

It's my favorite Boards album collectively, without a doubt. Just want to know what you guys think.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:51 pm

I know there is a thread already about this, but I am too lazy to look it up. So screw it.

To me it's a journey of life. Ready let's go is the creation of a life, being born. The ending being the crossover into the unknown with Corsair, floating in blackness feeling the wind and energy flowing all around you. The ultimate ending to a new beginning.

It is also my favorite album by BoC.

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:54 pm

polar sky wrote:I know there is a thread already about this, but I am too lazy to look it up. So screw it.

To me it's a journey of life. Ready let's go is the creation of a life, being born. The ending being the crossover into the unknown with Corsair, floating in blackness feeling the wind and energy flowing all around you. The ultimate ending to a new beginning.

And where does FOSATD lie? To me, that seemed like either the reflection track or the "new beginning" you speak of. However, being a bonus, I'm not sure it belongs in that position of the album to begin with. Just like Happy Cycling probably shouldn't be after One Very Important Thought on MHTRTC.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:59 pm

Rodheh wrote:
polar sky wrote:I know there is a thread already about this, but I am too lazy to look it up. So screw it.

To me it's a journey of life. Ready let's go is the creation of a life, being born. The ending being the crossover into the unknown with Corsair, floating in blackness feeling the wind and energy flowing all around you. The ultimate ending to a new beginning.
And where does FOSATD lie? To me, that seemed like either the reflection track or the "new beginning" you speak of. However, being a bonus, I'm not sure it belongs in that position of the album to begin with. Just like Happy Cycling probably shouldn't be after One Very Important Thought on MHTRTC.

Yeah I love that track too. I do think of it as a bonus song and not really apart of the story I have in my mind. But it is such a great track.

Lens Larque · Post by **Lens Larque** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:05 am

everything on the planet connected as one living thing shouting at outer space in ecstasy/suffering

Radiobuzz · Post by **Radiobuzz** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:46 am

Well, for me it doesn't have a specific meaning but it's more of a word that conjures up ideas about man and his relation with nature and god. Even though nature is somehow a recurring thing in BoC's music, I think on Geogaddi is one of the central focus, theme-wise (dawn choruses, math, etc) and texture-wise (the sound not only sounds old, it has the sound of technology being destroyed by nature).

Cryabetes · Post by **Cryabetes** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:58 am

just makes me think of Ghaddafi.

geoghaddafi

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:18 am

Cryabetes wrote:just makes me think of Ghaddafi.

geoghaddafi

weeks later, it still makes me lol

Yellow Records · Post by **Yellow Records** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:15 am

In my mind, "Geogaddi," means "Multiverse."

Saakki · Post by **Saakki** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:59 am

Geogaddi to me means connection to earth and nature. That everthing is finally linked back to earth.

sunshine recorder · Post by **sunshine recorder** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:08 am

Gods of the earth, elemental powers in an unseen dimension and spiritual network that spans and controls the planet

dp · Post by dp » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:35 am

it's the red one.

Lens Larque · Post by **Lens Larque** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:02 pm

sunshine recorder wrote:Gods of the earth, elemental powers in an unseen dimension and spiritual network that spans and controls the planet

And this too.

Kinski · Post by **Kinski** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:40 pm

Patryk Ludamage · Post by **Patryk Ludamage** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 6:36 pm

Hard to describe...maybe travel through the heaven and hell and the earth....everything you see after the end of your life through those places to the proper one where you should be and when ever wants

2020k · Post by **2020k** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:16 am

"Geogaddi" is just a record I put on to escape from reality because out of all of the BoC releases, that and IABPOITC relax and clear my mind. And clearing my mind means not overthinking, so Geogaddi means nothing to me, but everything, all in the same.

Negamuse · Post by **Negamuse** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:41 am

Geogaddi is using the last remaining fragments of recordings left by humans before the apocalypse in an invocation to puncture the veil between this world and the next.

sunshine recorder · Post by **sunshine recorder** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:58 am

Kinski wrote:

nope...just high

Kinski · Post by **Kinski** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:40 am

sunshine recorder wrote:
Kinski wrote:
nope...just high

oh i hear you on that

saurus · Post by **saurus** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:44 am

Some great and imaginative interpretations of the album. I'm sure this is exactly what the brothers wanted to happen.

I find it the easiest to escape to, I suppose because the mental imagery it conjures up is more overtly claustrophobic and 'evil' if that makes sense. It took a LOT of listens of Music Has The Right to figure out how dark of an album it was, and I guess that's why it's my favourite. Like, the meaning of every BoC album to me is a long kind of trip which you can either sit back and enjoy as background music or really pick apart to notice subtleties. They're totally interpretory. Geogaddi to me stands as the one which definitely has a disturbing overtone to it which I can stick on to really be spooked by. It requires a lot more concentration to pick apart the spookiness of other releases.

I don't know if this made sense