what does geogaddi mean to you?

ross adey · Post by **ross adey** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:56 pm

it transfroms audio signals into razor blades

silo flame · Post by **silo flame** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:08 pm

if words could describe it it would be meaningless..

boardsofdublin · Post by **boardsofdublin** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:41 pm

silo flame wrote:if words could describe it it would be meaningless..

couldn't put it better myself!

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:47 am

boardsofdublin wrote:
silo flame wrote:if words could describe it it would be meaningless..
couldn't put it better myself!

Yes, very well said.

nny · Post by **nny** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:18 am

id say...
lovely and fucked up.
or
beautifully twisted.

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:50 am

I found this quote on WATMM, and I like it:

"After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside."
- lost cloud

I've gone inside many a time. But I like the 'big forest' metaphor. That's so true about that CD. It's so dense and inaccesible.

dj_todos · Post by **dj_todos** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:20 am

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:34 am

thedisavowed wrote:I found this quote on WATMM, and I like it:

"After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside."
- lost cloud

I've gone inside many a time. But I like the 'big forest' metaphor. That's so true about that CD. It's so dense and inaccesible.

Thats a good way of putting it.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:59 am

isawdrones wrote:
boardsofdublin wrote:
silo flame wrote:if words could describe it it would be meaningless..
couldn't put it better myself!
Yes, very well said.

I second

IanRedpoint · Post by **IanRedpoint** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:57 am

A journey through depression, with the highs and lows, beauty and paranoia, good days and bad days. Feels suffused with a great sadness. A twilight record. Long shadows.

It came out when I was in the middle of what I later realised was a breakdown. It soundtracked desperate exhausted drives to work in the middle of the night, insane pressures to program solutions to other people's problems, a crumbling career and, at the time, a crumbling relationship. Ultimately though it was also a touchstone and catalyst for coming out of that depression - the light at the end of the album.

It was fascinating to read recently of, I think, Marcus suffering from depression during the making of Geogaddi. That made perfect sense to me and explained why so much of it resonated so strongly with me.

Lone · Post by **Lone** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:54 pm

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:39 pm

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:42 pm

a great well thought out album. they really knew what they wanted to do for this album. it's almost like a psychedelic journey through time, and like they said, "corsair is like, the light at the end of the tunnel", which makes me think that this album was a really deep and true album for them, almost like a story, depressing and happy. I think this is their strongest album, and it will be a long time before they do something like this again.

nny · Post by **nny** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:50 pm

polar sky wrote:a great well thought out album. they really knew what they wanted to do for this album. it's almost like a psychedelic journey through time, and like they said, "corsair is like, the light at the end of the tunnel", which makes me think that this album was a really deep and true album for them, almost like a story, depressing and happy. I think this is their strongest album, and it will be a long time before they do something like this again.

its unique.
BOC clearly defines a signature sound of their own with that record.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:53 pm

nny wrote:
polar sky wrote:a great well thought out album. they really knew what they wanted to do for this album. it's almost like a psychedelic journey through time, and like they said, "corsair is like, the light at the end of the tunnel", which makes me think that this album was a really deep and true album for them, almost like a story, depressing and happy. I think this is their strongest album, and it will be a long time before they do something like this again.
its unique.
BOC clearly defines a signature sound of their own with that record.

For sure. I Haven't heard anything like it since, and I don't want too. Although I wouldn't mind for them to come out with some b-side songs that they didn't use for geogaddi, but who hasn't talked about that?

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:04 pm

It was the first album I ever heard.Dawn chorus took my breath away and it was the song that began my journey through the IDM/Down-tempo/Trip-Hop scene.

ExitEuXa · Post by **ExitEuXa** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:16 pm

Cupz wrote:It was the first album I ever heard.Dawn chorus took my breath away and it was the song that began my journey through the IDM/Down-tempo/Trip-Hop scene.

How sweet.

zander two · Post by **zander two** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:11 pm

Geogaddi, to me, means that I better not be interrupted for the next 66 minutes and 6 seconds, or there'll be hell to pay!

thaesafhma · Post by **thaesafhma** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:20 am

polar sky wrote: like they said, "corsair is like, the light at the end of the tunnel"

In no way do i find this statement to be true. how cheap to cap-off the end of an exeptionally dark journey with a hopeful christian metaphor. if corsair approximates anything resembling hope, it is only to serve as a slap in the face, a mockery, something to be taken as supremely ironic, only serving to further magnify the overall effect of the album.

overall, i think geogaddi documents a younger child's coming into consciousness (first half) then gradual descent into madness and possibly death (second half).
there's
ready, let's go through beach at redpoint
then opening the mouth through magic window

what i mean is there's a complete change of tone and mood midway through beach at redpoint. whether this represents madness or an acid trip or a dream or an intrusive memory or supernatural interference, or a combination of two or more of these is certainly just a matter of opinion. but i don't think it can be disputed that the second half of the album is much darker, weirder, and more abstract than the first half. (you could even go further and make the case for 5 distinct phases of geogaddi composed of 4 to 5 tracks each)