Euphoric Moments whilst listening to BOC

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:29 am

egbdf wrote:
Opothecary wrote: Not cheating at all. Try spinning MHTRTC under the influence of blotter and nitrous and get back to me. I highly recommend it!
blotter and nitrous?

The first two times (one shortly after the other) I did nitrous while on acid were some of the most extreme moments of my life... completely sucked in to an ego-less state of mind... felt like I was a god of a black hole ore something. Can't describe it, of course, but it's hard to imagine getting any additional stimulus from music and it making sense.

We're describing euphoria here, it doesn't need to make sense. I just remember it being a thing and feeling of beauty.

Basefree · Post by **Basefree** » Fri May 10, 2013 3:36 am

I was on a nightly walk last month at around 4 am, listening to The Campfire Headphase, and some of the sun broke out from behind the forests during Peacock Tail. By turning around I could see how the night still had its hold of that side, with an unusually big and yellow full moon staring right back at me. It was mesmerizing to see both the sun and the moon, and the morning and the night, at the same time. I think April's the only month here in Finland when you can witness that.

Some summers back I had spent the whole night outside with my friend drinking and listening to music, and on the way back home we got this crazy idea to crash into the bushes next to us and just lie there staring at the beautiful blue morning sky. My friend put on Over the Horizon Radar, which gave me probably the widest smile I've ever had on my face. It was like a replica of the final scene in Lost where Jack lies on the ground, but unfortunately without the aeroplane part.

One of the things I greatly regret is that I haven't given Boards a thoughtful listen with weed. I've only got to try weed on two occasions, so that's partly why, but I did listen to Geogaddi on the second time. I just opted to chat with my friend at the computer instead of sinking into the sofa with the music, which was a pretty damn stupid decision, thinking backwards.

azamarro · Post by **azamarro** » Fri May 10, 2013 4:01 am

I just had one today.

There's this woodsy winding drive by my house, with no traffic signals or really any traffic. I was driving down this today listening to Music Is Math (never considered this as one of my favorites), passing the joggers, bicyclers, etc. The music was just so sad/true my eyes got welled up. And everything was extremely fluid and it was almost like I was driving backwards, or the joggers were going backwards, all of a sudden. And then right as I passed into a particularly shadier area, the music changes with all of the weirdness coming to the fore. And I thought about how many things are shrouded in mystery for us. The weirdness was all around, inherent in everything, us not really knowing much of anything though we try to explain with science or religion. It was that kind of scary spine-tingling euphoria that Geogaddi has been known to dispense from time to time.

revertedhexagon · Post by **revertedhexagon** » Mon May 13, 2013 4:30 am

had one yesterday, i was listening to roygbiv and i was transported to a city i had never seen before, in its sunset and i was in a park, between suburbs and a city. and i saw a girl, and that was it. it was amazing.

Integer · Post by **Integer** » Mon May 13, 2013 5:24 pm

Ottomatik wrote:Seven Forty Seven, and sometimes Macquarie Ridge.

Headphase · Post by **Headphase** » Mon May 13, 2013 8:37 pm

Tears from the compound eye and Farewell Fire

These songs are just so beautiful. words can't describe. The way they just quietly play, with those beautiful vinyl sounding effects. Just amazing.

IronMark · Post by **IronMark** » Mon May 13, 2013 10:32 pm

The lead part in EYDIAB when it first comes over the dark rhythmic synths - sometimes, especially if it's a nice day outside, it can just freeze me and I get overcome with warmly nostalgic feelings. Still gives me a tingle every time I hear it.

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Tue May 14, 2013 7:09 pm

I listened to Geogaddi on mushrooms once and it sounded so nice and not creepy at all. I thought it might freak me out but it didn't at all. Then I listened to Pet Sounds and that actually did sound like the creepiest music ever recorded, it's never been the same for me since.

Yeah That's Right · Post by **Yeah That's Right** » Tue May 14, 2013 9:13 pm

I played Happy Cycling and 1969 during an MDMA experience with some friends, one of whom hadn't really listened to BoC before, and I think it was a bit of a breakthrough moment for him.

Listening to Happy Cycling alone has induced euphoric moments for me on several occasions. It's such an awe-inspiring track, I love everything about it. A lot of my favourite BoC tracks are ones with a very long 'buildup' or which remain mostly the same for the entire duration, i.e. An Eagle In Your Mind and The Beach at Redpoint. I think my love of each of them was at some point invoked by a 'wait a minute, this is brilliant' sort of moment. I think Seven Forty Seven is another, as already mentioned by someone else.

rainier wrote:I listened to Geogaddi on mushrooms once and it sounded so nice and not creepy at all. I thought it might freak me out but it didn't at all. Then I listened to Pet Sounds and that actually did sound like the creepiest music ever recorded, it's never been the same for me since.

Wow, that's so weird. I genuinely can't imagine. Can shrooms really potentially bitter your appreciation of specific music, permanently?!

EnforcedNo · Post by **EnforcedNo** » Tue May 14, 2013 9:17 pm

Yeah That's Right wrote:I played Happy Cycling and 1969 during an MDMA experience with some friends, one of whom hadn't really listened to BoC before, and I think it was a bit of a breakthrough moment for him.

Listening to Happy Cycling alone has induced euphoric moments for me on several occasions. It's such an awe-inspiring track, I love everything about it. A lot of my favourite BoC tracks are ones with a very long 'buildup' or which remain mostly the same for the entire duration, i.e. An Eagle In Your Mind and The Beach at Redpoint. I think my love of each of them was at some point invoked by a 'wait a minute, this is brilliant' sort of moment. I think Seven Forty Seven is another, as already mentioned by someone else.

rainier wrote:I listened to Geogaddi on mushrooms once and it sounded so nice and not creepy at all. I thought it might freak me out but it didn't at all. Then I listened to Pet Sounds and that actually did sound like the creepiest music ever recorded, it's never been the same for me since.
Wow, that's so weird. I genuinely can't imagine. Can shrooms really potentially bitter your appreciation of specific music, permanently?!

sort of. stuff can bitter more than music, i still refuse to eat fritos and my friend can't eat cool ranch doritos without feeling ill after his bad trip.

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Tue May 14, 2013 9:27 pm

Yeah I love the "wait for it" tracks too.

I do think a bad experience on a trip can cause permanent weird associations. That's actually the only really bad moment I've had on a trip ever, but I was with a friend once who was having a bad trip listening to sigur ros (she thought they were singing about killing people) and even though I felt ok and didn't hear it myself I hardly listen to them anymore, it just made such an impression on me.

I don't usually like to listen to music on psychadelics though, not until I'm coming down. I find it overwhelming.

zeoevil · Post by **zeoevil** » Tue May 14, 2013 10:29 pm

Yeah That's Right wrote:Can shrooms really potentially bitter your appreciation of specific music, permanently?!

When I was much younger, I listened to ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (Psalm 69) on mushrooms. Somehow, I mentally took the music apart as I listened to it and, to my dismay, I discovered an abundance of rather mundane details that I couldn't not hear every time I listened to the album after that night. It totally ruined what was an important and highly influential group to me for years. It wasn't until years later, long after I gave up psyches, that I could appreciate Ministry and many other industrial bands like Front Line Assembly and Skinny Puppy.

EnforcedNo · Post by **EnforcedNo** » Tue May 14, 2013 10:49 pm

rainier wrote:Yeah I love the "wait for it" tracks too.

I do think a bad experience on a trip can cause permanent weird associations. That's actually the only really bad moment I've had on a trip ever, but I was with a friend once who was having a bad trip listening to sigur ros (she thought they were singing about killing people) and even though I felt ok and didn't hear it myself I hardly listen to them anymore, it just made such an impression on me.

I don't usually like to listen to music on psychadelics though, not until I'm coming down. I find it overwhelming.

i love it, it's like it's entwined with your being. like the music is molding the world.

Tokamak · Post by **Tokamak** » Wed May 15, 2013 1:17 pm

Seven Forty Seven, after just having seen the movie Samsara. If you know the movie, then you might know what I mean. It's a 100 minute film with no dialogue giving a very general overlook of the human race and Earth. I took it as not so optimistic, especially due to the footage from factory farms. Listening to Seven Forty Seven immediately after felt euphoric, but kinda scary and unsettling, due to the nature of the film.

On a lighter note, I was listening to TCH whilst on a road trip through Europe. The sun was setting as we were driving across Germany on the autobahn, and I had a perfect view out the back window of the minivan of some clouds. The sun broke through right around the time Dayvan Cowboy kicks in. Pretty cool.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Wed May 15, 2013 2:47 pm

The first time I heard Olson something weird happened, and it was my first experience with bocforia. My entire body felt like spring, nostalgia and love (read: IN love). Like the first time you kiss a girl.

I played the track on repeat for an hour and my addiction began.

Yeah That's Right · Post by **Yeah That's Right** » Thu May 16, 2013 2:31 pm

Haha.

Olson is one of those tracks that encapsulates a single mood, a fleeting feeling, so perfectly, and in such a short space of time. It was one of their first tracks I heard - on this video, which I still think accompanies it so well; I love Cowboy Bebop.

A minute and a half of pure nostalgia.

wash · Post by **wash** » Fri May 17, 2013 4:56 am

my favorite place to listen to music has always been while driving through the woods at night. the eerie image of trees illuminated by headlights can be a great accompaniment for all kinds of sounds. lately i've been going through lots of early boc that i haven't listened to enough, and on one night recently '5.9.78' came on just as i was nearing home. typically those old tunes can be rather unsettling with the discordant melodies and retro samples...but when that track came on it was like being carried to heaven. i've done a fair amount of drugs but i have never felt as high while sober as i did when listening to this song that night. pure aural bliss.

rainier · Post by **rainier** » Fri May 17, 2013 10:37 am

my favorite place to listen to music has always been while driving through the woods at night. the eerie image of trees illuminated by headlights can be a great accompaniment for all kinds of sounds.

This happened to me the other night while riding my bike on a wooded street, and the ways the lights cast the shadows through the trees and my spokes synced up with "Rue the Whirl" perfectly. It was glorious.