Things you notice after years of listening

seanandcandy · Post by **seanandcandy** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 11:04 am

it took me forever to hear the little 'we have liftoff' sample at the start of the odd nosdam remix of dayvan cowboy

Quillz · Post by **Quillz** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:41 am

I never could hear the faint male voice in "Happy Cycling" until I read about it on the wiki.

It was also pointed out to me that various Geogaddi songs have a "hidden" color to them. (Purple in Music in Math, red in You Could Feel the Sky, etc.)

re-phaelam-ed · Post by **re-phaelam-ed** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:39 am

ive noticed i havent even gotten CLOSE to being tired of this stuff.
17 years and still digging it all [except for headphase...still just cant get into it]

Stickyfingers72 · Post by **Stickyfingers72** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:29 pm

re-phaelam-ed wrote:ive noticed i havent even gotten CLOSE to being tired of this stuff.
17 years and still digging it all [except for headphase...still just cant get into it]

I love em all but if I had to pick one on a musical level and what I get out of it for a listening experience I'll painfully pick Campfire Headphase everytime.

nick47 · Post by **nick47** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:52 pm

About a year ago I realized that its a xylophone in peacock tail starting at 2min. great little melody too

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 1:42 am

nick47 wrote:About a year ago I realized that its a xylophone in peacock tail starting at 2min. great little melody too

speaking of peacock tail.. it took half a bottle of whiskey and a nice argument with an ex girlfriend a few years ago, for me to sit back and realize that all the sounds in peacock tail are echoing over and over and over and over in the background.

if you listen to the tones in the song. and follow them and listen to them as they echo away and drift off deep into the track (and i mean deep into the track, listen closely), you can follow them to the point where the echoes seem to disappear (this is around 1:23 in the track).

its strange because when the echoes and background noise disappear. the track really opens up and takes a different emotional turn.

this song to me is almost euphoric in a way. a lot of their music hits me in a way where its more than just sounds, its like an emotional tool. i love peacock tail. its one of their most impressive tracks.

bravo777 · Post by **bravo777** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:34 am

Torn n Frayed wrote:
irv wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:
Distant Nebulus wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Huh? I've never heard that....

From 4:13 to the end, it's very very faint!

You must have magical ears! I can't hear that at all

Come on now, try harder! I guess for me it helps having a massive PA to play it over but I can still hear it on headphones, anyone else care to back me up on this?

I really wanna hear this...

Meddle · Post by **Meddle** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:31 am

I only just noticed that the voice sample from Sixtyniner is the same one as in Sir Prancelot Brainfire.

Meddle · Post by **Meddle** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:32 am

I only just noticed that the voice sample from Sixtyniner is the same one as in Sir Prancelot Brainfire.

Meddle · Post by **Meddle** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:35 am

I only just noticed that the voice sample from Sixtyniner is the same one as in Sir Prancelot Brainfire.

In_The_Annexe · Post by **In_The_Annexe** » Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:31 pm

TOYOTAセ&#1 wrote:The clicking sound in Kid For Today is a Slide Projector.

I've noticed this the moment I heard it but yes, it has always been that relation to me and will probably never change.

One thing I noticed is how much I truly love their early work. Twoism, MHTRTC and a lot of the Old Tunes are so amazingly put together and just so nostalgic.

It's amazing. BOC is kind of like wine, put it away for awhile and listen to it again after about a year or two and it will have some very powerful effects on you all over again and you'll even have a deeper appreciation for the one of a kindness that they deliver in music.

Stickyfingers72 · Post by **Stickyfingers72** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:36 pm

Radiobuzz wrote:
Stickyfingers72 wrote:I don't hear any birds... Just the
percussion making it appear that way.

I originally realised it was there around the 3:10-3:15 mark, if you're using headphones you can hear some sort of very faint scratching noises. Once you realise it's there and you hear the whole track you can hear they're actually birds. I believe what happens is the music itself doesn't completely occupy the whole left-center-right space and it's a little on the background, so to say, so the chirping being so soft fills the rest of the space but it's not immediately noticeable.

I'm also adding something I wrote in another thread some days ago about a backward melody I never noticed before on '84 Pontiac Dream:

There is a backwards melody at around 01:34 in '84 Pontiac Dream, you can hear it on the left channel. If you reverse it you get this.

Nope sorry but no birdies and that's with headphones on and being a very keen birder. Sounds more like a relic from the percussion. There is a robin all the way through "in a beautiful place" and I have listed a few tracks and the bird species that BOC have used in the thread Are The Sandison Brothers Keen Birders?

cubistking1906 · Post by **cubistking1906** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:15 pm

There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:54 pm

bravo777 wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:
irv wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:
Distant Nebulus wrote:
Torn n Frayed wrote:During the last 2 minutes of Satellite Anthem Icarus you can hear the first 2 words of the title repeated slowly in time with the music in a vocoded voice.

Huh? I've never heard that....

From 4:13 to the end, it's very very faint!

You must have magical ears! I can't hear that at all

Come on now, try harder! I guess for me it helps having a massive PA to play it over but I can still hear it on headphones, anyone else care to back me up on this?

I really wanna hear this...

Any luck hearing it? Start here to cut to the chase!

plasselb · Post by **plasselb** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:27 am

cubistking1906 wrote:There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about... you can hear it especially right before the 'drop'(god I hate that word but I don't know what else to call it)

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:38 am

plasselb wrote:
cubistking1906 wrote:There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about... you can hear it especially right before the 'drop'(god I hate that word but I don't know what else to call it)

I'm unable to pick that out. Is it layered speaking or is it singing? And I assume you mean before the drums (or even the main melody) come in?

Stickyfingers72 · Post by **Stickyfingers72** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:19 am

egbdf wrote:
plasselb wrote:
cubistking1906 wrote:There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about... you can hear it especially right before the 'drop'(god I hate that word but I don't know what else to call it)

I'm unable to pick that out. Is it layered speaking or is it singing? And I assume you mean before the drums (or even the main melody) come in?

Wonderful Singing. Still think this is the best BOC tune by a country mile.

adecentman · Post by **adecentman** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:59 pm

Stickyfingers72 wrote:
egbdf wrote:
plasselb wrote:
cubistking1906 wrote:There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about... you can hear it especially right before the 'drop'(god I hate that word but I don't know what else to call it)

I'm unable to pick that out. Is it layered speaking or is it singing? And I assume you mean before the drums (or even the main melody) come in?

Wonderful Singing. Still think this is the best BOC tune by a country mile.

I'd always thought the vocals in that section were some of the only male singing voices ever audible in a BoC track, which lead me to believe it might have been vocals contributed by Mike and Marcus themselves. I'd like to believe it's them -- gettin' all heartfelt and singing their cloudy shoegaze vox for one of their greatest moments.

plasselb · Post by **plasselb** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:40 pm

egbdf wrote:
plasselb wrote:
cubistking1906 wrote:There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about... you can hear it especially right before the 'drop'(god I hate that word but I don't know what else to call it)

I'm unable to pick that out. Is it layered speaking or is it singing? And I assume you mean before the drums (or even the main melody) come in?

It comes right to the front at 2:02-2:09... sounds like an angelic choir

nick47 · Post by **nick47** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:24 pm

plasselb wrote:
egbdf wrote:
plasselb wrote:
cubistking1906 wrote:There's an entire chorus of female voices drenched in reverb in the intro to Dayvan Cowboy. It took a monster dose and some good headphones for me to realize it a few years back.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about... you can hear it especially right before the 'drop'(god I hate that word but I don't know what else to call it)

I'm unable to pick that out. Is it layered speaking or is it singing? And I assume you mean before the drums (or even the main melody) come in?

It comes right to the front at 2:02-2:09... sounds like an angelic choir

ive always loved that part of the song