Worst, boc track, ever!

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:29 pm

Waterbagel wrote:
Kathleen wrote:Dandelion? Get out of my BOC Leslie Neilsen.
while it's not my favorite track ever, it's one of my more-beloved on geogaddi!

As a Canadian I am over-exposed to Leslie Neilsen.

vermillionsnake · Post by **vermillionsnake** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:46 pm

My love for The Campfire Headphase grows stronger with each listen but i find that I can't listen to Dayvan Cowboy at all. I just reach for the skip button every time. Don't know why.

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:05 pm

Zoetrope should have probably had some percussion pick in at around the halfway point, matching the same textural patterns of the melody, slowly building from a quiet string of hats and snares to thundering kicks and cymbals, with the melody also getting some reverb and some underlying bass. It would be reminiscent of a certain style of orchestrated music and brings a sort of carnival-y image to my mind when I think about it.

Yellow Records · Post by **Yellow Records** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:06 pm

Chinook.

Numerator · Post by **Numerator** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:52 am

Yellow Records wrote:Chinook.

it's so loud and crass!

Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:57 am

Yellow Records wrote:Chinook.

-'d

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:43 pm

Chinook is so good! you people are mad

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 9:16 pm

Anything mislabeled as BoC that isn't by them.

2020k · Post by **2020k** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:34 am

Yellow Records wrote:Chinook.

PlacentaSand · Post by **PlacentaSand** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:32 am

The worst track to me is Mansel. It just doesn't really fit the usual stuff i love in a BOC track. Not to long ago i gave a really good listen to Chinook and it's actually really good. I used to skip it but i come back to a lot of tracks that i once didn't care for and now love. I'm pretty sure the only other track i hate is Red Moss. That song is a mess.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:34 pm

PlacentaSand wrote:The worst track to me is Mansel. It just doesn't really fit the usual stuff i love in a BOC track. Not to long ago i gave a really good listen to Chinook and it's actually really good. I used to skip it but i come back to a lot of tracks that i once didn't care for and now love. I'm pretty sure the only other track i hate is Red Moss. That song is a mess.

I love ALL of those! Especially Mansel!

7113(18|3) · Post by **7113(18|3)** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:00 am

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Jonse · Post by **Jonse** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:39 am

How is Chinook too loud and harsh for people?

Haven't you heard the live version of Julie and Candy? It's WAY heavier.

sevenfortyseven · Post by **sevenfortyseven** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:03 pm

Chinook is an ok song but it does get a little loud compared to most BOC. a couple songs i could never really appreciate are the way you show, gyroscope, and nlogax

noby · Post by **noby** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:24 pm

Chinook is melodically very uninteresting. It's an extrmely simple track: drum patter, droning bass synth, and an occasional lead melody. The drums are terrible, just ugly as sin, filtered througha gritty distortion which makes them sound a little better, but not much. The same boring uninventive droning melody plays throughout the track, played by the simplest possible substractive synth. The only good moment in the track is the end with the more experimental drum part, but even that is pretty sloppily edited. This part unfortunetely isn't included in the Boc Maxima version of the track, which honestly is the superior version since at least that one is somewhat justified in length. Overall the track sounds like quickly thrown together filler, definitely one of Boards' worst off the officially released catalogue.

There, I just had to say it.

louise · Post by **louise** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:02 pm

something about aquarius has always kinda irritated me, but i dont know what it is. every time it comes on im just like NEXT!

Moz · Post by **Moz** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:40 pm

Energy Warning. Just seems out of place in Geogaddi, I'm really not sure why they included it.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:39 pm

Still Amo Bishop Roden. Those high-mids in the strings hurt my ears, literally.

breadmaker · Post by **breadmaker** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:59 pm

Cupz wrote:Still Amo Bishop Roden. Those high-mids in the strings hurt my ears, literally.

me too - those synth pads are very shrill. i've always found that track confusingly over-rated, especially since the much better "kid for today" hardly seems to get any attention.

and yes i realize its a bit pointless debating over something as subjective as music, but i would like to step in and defend "chinook." to me its a masterpiece, from the menacing base notes to that melody that comes in around 1:50 (one of my favorite b.o.c. melodies.) it's extremely evocative. it's like early aphex twin lost in the frozen tundra. above all else, it's a b.o.c. track that's gutsy and extroverted, a quality that's a bit missing from their later work.

the only b.o.c. track i don't care for is "dayvan cowboy." i've tried approaching it from all kinds of conceptual angles, tried listening to it stoned, taken it out of context in compilations, had friends explain to me at length why they love it, and nothing works. after seven years i'm thinking it's time to just give up, but if someone has a spare moment maybe they could write me a one paragraph essay on why i should re-evaluate my stance. please?

louise · Post by **louise** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:05 pm

breadmaker wrote:
Cupz wrote:Still Amo Bishop Roden. Those high-mids in the strings hurt my ears, literally.
me too - those synth pads are very shrill. i've always found that track confusingly over-rated, especially since the much better "kid for today" hardly seems to get any attention.

and yes i realize its a bit pointless debating over something as subjective as music, but i would like to step in and defend "chinook." to me its a masterpiece, from the menacing base notes to that melody that comes in around 1:50 (one of my favorite b.o.c. melodies.) it's extremely evocative. it's like early aphex twin lost in the frozen tundra. above all else, it's a b.o.c. track that's gutsy and extroverted, a quality that's a bit missing from their later work.

the only b.o.c. track i don't care for is "dayvan cowboy." i've tried approaching it from all kinds of conceptual angles, tried listening to it stoned, taken it out of context in compilations, had friends explain to me at length why they love it, and nothing works. after seven years i'm thinking it's time to just give up, but if someone has a spare moment maybe they could write me a one paragraph essay on why i should re-evaluate my stance. please?

sounds better when you watch this video...esp when he hits the water