..and that's why I love Boards of Canada.

Saakki · Post by **Saakki** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:24 am

Shut That Bird Up

Nice list dude!!

OverTheHorizonRadar · Post by **OverTheHorizonRadar** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:38 am

It's the first day of significant weather change here, so I decided to put on some Geogaddi, haven't listened to the album in a while. Boy what a way to welcome the cooling weather, I don't know what it was about the atmosphere of this listening but I feel sort of reborn now...and that's why I love BoC! They give me moments like these.

pointlessdude · Post by **pointlessdude** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:20 pm

It can't be described with words. BoC moments are sweet, complete moments, every melody is unique and inducts me to a mental landscape no other artist or band has been able to replicate (pure ecstasy). In fact, it becomes a feeling of understanding very similar as when I meditate: birds, waves, transmissions, space, buildings, sea, dark, smile, girls, molecules, caves, colours. Whole appreciation is very different also, for me, there are basically two types of music: there's Boards of Canada, and then the rest.

That's why I like Boards of Canada and I can't help being a devoted fan 'til the end of my days.

pointlessdude · Post by **pointlessdude** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:27 pm

and it makes me look edgy

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:15 pm

Saakki wrote:
Shut That Bird Up
Nice list dude!!

yes, agreed!

ultrablue123 · Post by **ultrablue123** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:29 am

Listening to An Eagle in Your Mind on my bose headphones and I am really noticing how that one sound that comes in after "I love you" sounds like a scalpel or something scraping away at my head the way it goes from the left headphone to the right. It's trippy.

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:10 pm

eli wrote:I have never heard anything more beautiful than the sounds of Boards of Canada. Am I the only one who actually cries like a bitch when listening to a few of their tracks? I don't understand, is there some formula to emotional music that they've mastered or are they literally just geniuses. Sorry I just recently stumbled upon Audiotrack 13A from the Random 35 Tracks Tape collection and felt a massive urge to talk about this. But of course, who the fuck knows about Boards of Canada in real life, let alone have this type of conversation about it. It's truly a shame people don't know about these guys, or even have the motivation to listen to this type of music.

Below is a list of all the most powerful emotional BoC tracks to date in my opinion.
I haven't finished 'really' listening to the Random 35 Tracks Tape (A+B) keep in mind.

(Top tier)
Sherbet Head
5-9-78
Audiotrack 13A
Gyroscope
Kiteracer 2
Heard From Telegraph Lines
Zoetrope

(Other exceptional emotional tracks)
1986 Summer Fire
Heard From Telegraph Lines
Under the Coke Sign
Olson
Dave (I'm a Real Traditionalist)
Bocuma
Kaini Industries
Unknown 01 (ATP)
Unknown 02 (ATP)
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Corsair
You Could Feel The Sky
Diving Station
Over The Horizon Radar
Julie and Candy
Gyroscope
Ready Lets Go
I Will Get It Tattooed
Constants Are Changing

he makes a good point.. (and list)

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:46 pm

Waterbagel wrote:
eli wrote:I have never heard anything more beautiful than the sounds of Boards of Canada. Am I the only one who actually cries like a bitch when listening to a few of their tracks? I don't understand, is there some formula to emotional music that they've mastered or are they literally just geniuses. Sorry I just recently stumbled upon Audiotrack 13A from the Random 35 Tracks Tape collection and felt a massive urge to talk about this. But of course, who the fuck knows about Boards of Canada in real life, let alone have this type of conversation about it. It's truly a shame people don't know about these guys, or even have the motivation to listen to this type of music.

Below is a list of all the most powerful emotional BoC tracks to date in my opinion.
I haven't finished 'really' listening to the Random 35 Tracks Tape (A+B) keep in mind.

(Top tier)
Sherbet Head
5-9-78
Audiotrack 13A
Gyroscope
Kiteracer 2
Heard From Telegraph Lines
Zoetrope

(Other exceptional emotional tracks)
1986 Summer Fire
Heard From Telegraph Lines
Under the Coke Sign
Olson
Dave (I'm a Real Traditionalist)
Bocuma
Kaini Industries
Unknown 01 (ATP)
Unknown 02 (ATP)
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Corsair
You Could Feel The Sky
Diving Station
Over The Horizon Radar
Julie and Candy
Gyroscope
Ready Lets Go
I Will Get It Tattooed
Constants Are Changing
he makes a good point.. (and list)

Agreed. I think BOC's music takes a certain type of individual to appreciate. I think what unites a lot of the people that appreciate BOC's music is a certain introspective, seeking, self-conscious quality that a lot of human beings lack. There is also an anti-social (or at least anti-societal) strain that seems to run through a lot of us here on Twoism--a rejection of artificial societal norms which we tend to see for what they truly are, based on a deeper "knowing" that evades the general population.

chesspeaceface · Post by **chesspeaceface** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:55 pm

saturdayindex wrote:
Agreed. I think BOC's music takes a certain type of individual to appreciate. I think what unites a lot of the people that appreciate BOC's music is a certain introspective, seeking, self-conscious quality that a lot of human beings lack. There is also an anti-social (or at least anti-societal) strain that seems to run through a lot of us here on Twoism--a rejection of artificial societal norms which we tend to see for what they truly are, based on a deeper "knowing" that evades the general population.

The draw to BoC for me is that I'm haunted by my past, and I romanticize it to the point of complete obsession. BoC really draw out and seemingly share those same sentiments.

pointlessdude · Post by **pointlessdude** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:17 pm

saturdayindex wrote:I think BOC's music takes a certain type of individual to appreciate. I think what unites a lot of the people that appreciate BOC's music is a certain introspective, seeking, self-conscious quality that a lot of human beings lack. There is also an anti-social (or at least anti-societal) strain that seems to run through a lot of us here on Twoism--a rejection of artificial societal norms which we tend to see for what they truly are, based on a deeper "knowing" that evades the general population.

I understand what you mean, completely. Whether it's caused by education or a personal experience, most of us Boards lovers share a particular conception about life and reality, in fact, I've came to believe the feelings carried out by their music -and this doesn't concern only to BoC but to many forms of true art- are something immanent to our human nature. Too bad our materialist, profit-like way of thinking taken place throughout the last two centuries more or less have led us into this social situation.

Feels nice to know you're not alone with it, at least.

eli · Post by **eli** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:01 am

saturdayindex wrote:
Agreed. I think BOC's music takes a certain type of individual to appreciate. I think what unites a lot of the people that appreciate BOC's music is a certain introspective, seeking, self-conscious quality that a lot of human beings lack. There is also an anti-social (or at least anti-societal) strain that seems to run through a lot of us here on Twoism--a rejection of artificial societal norms which we tend to see for what they truly are, based on a deeper "knowing" that evades the general population.

Couldn't have stated this any better.

CampfireTelophase · Post by **CampfireTelophase** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:39 pm

nick47 wrote:I will say when it comes down to tiny tiny little sounds, Odd Nosdam takes the motherfuckin cake. His version of dayvan brings me close to tears every time. So beautiful. I also ge tacid flashbacks

no doubt, his remix is amazing

Rincon · Post by **Rincon** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:09 pm

pointlessdude wrote: for me, there are basically two types of music: there's Boards of Canada, and then the rest.

chesspeaceface wrote: The draw to BoC for me is that I'm haunted by my past, and I romanticize it to the point of complete obsession. BoC really draw out and seemingly share those same sentiments.

saturdayindex wrote: I think BOC's music takes a certain type of individual to appreciate. I think what unites a lot of the people that appreciate BOC's music is a certain introspective, seeking, self-conscious quality that a lot of human beings lack. There is also an anti-social (or at least anti-societal) strain that seems to run through a lot of us here on Twoism--a rejection of artificial societal norms which we tend to see for what they truly are, based on a deeper "knowing" that evades the general population.

These.

I also feel, very strangely, that when I listen to BoC, a completely different part of my brain is being stimulated than when I listen to other music. It's somewhere just above my ears that just feels different. BoC does what a million "nature sounds" CDs and massage chairs claim to do - they take me out of reality and thrust me deep into my own consciousness, much in the way, now that I think about it, psychedelics do: that sort of weird semi-nonsensical combination of emotion and enlightenment.

Some of Jon Brion's soundtracks (Eternal Sunshine, Synecdoche New York) are the closest any other type of music has come to that for me, but they are more weighted towards "sad" than BoC is.