What if you had to choose an unreleased album?

Manc · Post by **Manc** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:47 pm

chronical wrote:Goddamnit. When I started to read that I thought you actually found something. That makes me even sadder.

Well, I did say that it was an awkward admission.

"My name is Rick, and I failed to buy Play By Numbers"

There, I've come clean.

chronical · Post by **chronical** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:49 pm

Manc wrote:
chronical wrote:Goddamnit. When I started to read that I thought you actually found something. That makes me even sadder.
Well, I did say that it was an awkward admission.

"My name is Rick, and I failed to buy Play By Numbers"

There, I've come clean.

Hello Rick. The next time you see it, you better buy that goddam record!

Negamuse · Post by **Negamuse** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:56 pm

My post from April 2012: http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.p ... 1a758c14be

Didn't mention it was the CD version I thought I saw there, but it was. And it sounds like I thought at the time it was in CWNN because I used to go there looking for Global Communication stuff. OK, I'll stop derailing the thread now.

Manc · Post by **Manc** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:04 pm

MrMessiah wrote:My post from April 2012: http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.p ... 1a758c14be

Didn't mention it was the CD version I thought I saw there, but it was. And it sounds like I thought at the time it was in CWNN because I used to go there looking for Global Communication stuff. OK, I'll stop derailing the thread now.

That's uncanny, and I completely agree with your sentiment in that post too. I'm not looking to bullshit, just for someone to come up with a similar album cover which might prove me wrong. I spent a long time looking for Play By Numbers, back in the days when my wages caught up with my digging. I left Manchester for a while in 1995, so the dates tally. I've a few old record shop friends from those days, so maybe I should show them the artwork, and see if they remember it. They were similarly obsessive about buying similar stuff, back then.

re-phaelam-ed · Post by **re-phaelam-ed** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:14 pm

chronical wrote:
re-phaelam-ed wrote:
catalog 3 or play by numbers if they exist.
If they exist? They definitely exist. They were on BOC's old website.

operative werd here is......were

circleofthesun · Post by **circleofthesun** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:36 pm

I have this weird gut feeling something's gonna happen soon with these.
And it might not be an obvious thing, either.

qazxswplmnko · Post by **qazxswplmnko** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:58 pm

Play By Numbers. I NEED to hear the rest of Wouldn't You Like to be Free...

Yeah That's Right · Post by **Yeah That's Right** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:07 pm

Unsurprisingly I've thought about this topic before myself, and Play By Numbers is the album which always intrigued me the most. I think the cover art is very eye-catching, and like so many others here apparently are, I'm a sucker for shoegaze. My second choice would be Hooper Bay - it's the last of the purported releases so it's not unreasonable to expect it would have a more refined sound closer to the BoC we know, and if my suspicions of known tracks that are originally from the album are correct, it some great tunes.

Acid Memories is a given but it's not the one I'm most intrigued by. Closes vol 1 is kind of the black sheep, no known sample and little in the way of hints of what it was like, so I'd like to hear that, but like Opothecary says, I'm inclined to believe some of the tracks are found on R35TT. Catalog 3, for whatever reason, doesn't interest me too much. Being that it's their earliest release, I have to assume it would be a lot rougher and less progressive than their later work.

circleofthesun wrote:I have this weird gut feeling something's gonna happen soon with these.
And it might not be an obvious thing, either.

I have the feeling BoC fans have been having that feeling for the last 5 years.

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:18 pm

Yeah That's Right wrote:Unsurprisingly I've thought about this topic before myself, and Play By Numbers is the album which always intrigued me the most. I think the cover art is very eye-catching, and like so many others here apparently are, I'm a sucker for shoegaze. My second choice would be Hooper Bay - it's the last of the purported releases so it's not unreasonable to expect it would have a more refined sound closer to the BoC we know, and if my suspicions of known tracks that are originally from the album are correct, it some great tunes.

Acid Memories is a given but it's not the one I'm most intrigued by. Closes vol 1 is kind of the black sheep, no known sample and little in the way of hints of what it was like, so I'd like to hear that, but like Opothecary says, I'm inclined to believe some of the tracks are found on R35TT. Catalog 3, for whatever reason, doesn't interest me too much. Being that it's their earliest release, I have to assume it would be a lot rougher and less progressive than their later work.

Well, we do have something from Closes Vol. 1 (if Napster/Soulseek from many years ago are to be believed) when there was a track labelled Godever floating around, which turned up as A14 on R35TT years later.

Since this was a long time before R35TT, and R35TT has been blessed by mdg as real, we just have to assume that A14 is Godever; if someone is going to leak something that was found to actually be legit years later, there's no reason to lie about the title at the time. If that's an accurate assessment, it's what makes me feel like we have a decent chunk of Closes Vol. 1. It's easy to imagine a lot of that tape being contemporary with the sound of that song.

Besides some Old Tunes cameos, the unknown material on R35TT seems divided by some slightly primitive material that is easy to imagine as BoC, and then the full band material which makes me think of Acid Memories or Play By Numbers. I've said before that I think the former is probably kind of "darker"/acoustic full band material (based on past interviews of what they explain their sound being like at the time) and Play By Numbers being more shoegaze leaning. Since we have samples of 4 (counting Godever) of the 5 releases, I think its easy to plug most of the material on R35TT into the ideas presented by those samples and the interviews I mentioned.

Like zeoevil said, there are supposedly "many" old compilations of music, but it's just easier to take an Occam's razor approach to the whole thing and assume that we know of most/all of the pre-Twoism material, because there's like, well over 100 songs when you add up those 5 releases and the 2 OT tapes. They might be prolific but they don't have an autogenerate music button (or if they do, I want one)

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:27 pm

Opothecary - do you happen to have a copy of Godever lying around? The version not from r35tt, but low quality one downloaded from slsk?

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:43 pm

Techboy wrote:Opothecary - do you happen to have a copy of Godever lying around? The version not from r35tt, but low quality one downloaded from slsk?

Sorry to say I do not, pretty sure it was on an old PC that died a long time ago. I can't remember there being a large quality difference between the 2 versions. I just remember hearing R35TT years later and thinking "so that WAS Godever!"

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:54 pm

circleofthesun wrote:I have this weird gut feeling something's gonna happen soon with these.
And it might not be an obvious thing, either.

I've been thinking that since their website's discography went from Acid Memories/Play By Numbers/Hooper Bay to include Catalog 3 and Closes Vol.1 as well, I think that was in 1998 or 1999.

And then I thought that again when Twoism was reissued - "oh, maybe they'll do one of these every year".

...and here we are now. I think people would have called a hoax on the existence of those releases a long time ago if OT/R35TT hadn't leaked, so we should at least be thankful for those.

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:58 pm

Dayum. I have something of an obsession with collecting these things.

Also, play by numbers.

northernlite · Post by **northernlite** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:06 pm

Opothecary wrote:
Techboy wrote:Opothecary - do you happen to have a copy of Godever lying around? The version not from r35tt, but low quality one downloaded from slsk?
Sorry to say I do not, pretty sure it was on an old PC that died a long time ago. I can't remember there being a large quality difference between the 2 versions. I just remember hearing R35TT years later and thinking "so that WAS Godever!"

WOW...

Really interesting, thank you!

revertedhexagon · Post by **revertedhexagon** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:26 pm

Guys, seriously, why dont we just go up to their studio and ask them nicely for them. Has anyone actually tried that?

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:53 pm

northernlite wrote: WOW...

Really interesting, thank you!

Yes, I'm sure there has to be people here who still have it, or at least remember what I'm talking about.

Looking back on it, it almost sort of feels like maybe the band put it out there themselves to experiment with the advent of Napster. It was "discovered" not very long after Closes was added to the discography on the official site, and of course they had provided samples of their other lost releases prior to that.

It seems like they were really fond of that song, after all, New Seeds is basically Godever 2.0.

northernlite · Post by **northernlite** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:41 pm

Opothecary wrote:
northernlite wrote: WOW...

Really interesting, thank you!
Yes, I'm sure there has to be people here who still have it, or at least remember what I'm talking about.

Looking back on it, it almost sort of feels like maybe the band put it out there themselves to experiment with the advent of Napster. It was "discovered" not very long after Closes was added to the discography on the official site, and of course they had provided samples of their other lost releases prior to that.

It seems like they were really fond of that song, after all, New Seeds is basically Godever 2.0.

I really hope someday, they can release the old stuff, it would be amazing.

chronical · Post by **chronical** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 8:24 pm

revertedhexagon wrote:Guys, seriously, why dont we just go up to their studio and ask them nicely for them. Has anyone actually tried that?

First of all.. kinda creepy, they know we want it, even if we go ask them in person they won't give it to us I think

Oh and we don't know where their studio is. I wouldn't want to know to be honest. I want to know what it looks like though..

orion · Post by **orion** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:12 pm

why dont we all march down their from all around the world to make em feel guilty or something?

circleofthesun · Post by **circleofthesun** » Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:19 pm

All you may have to do is dig deeper.

____twoism

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