13. Nothing Is Real (3:52)

Yellow Records · Post by **Yellow Records** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 4:16 pm

Boards of Canada + Driving =

Seriously went under highway hypnotism yesterday for the length of the whole album whilst driving home. The usual hour and a half drive felt like nothing...

I guess the THC helped too

Archrival · Post by **Archrival** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:03 pm

Its funny how this track is one of the "realest" (don't know what that means

) tracks BOC ever made to atleast. Its sounds very serious, genuine and yeah like they think there has to be something that is "real".

I mean Saint Augustine said "Nothing Is Real...except GOD", the devil heaven and hell is not really real except GOD who created everything, so everything is kind of an reflection of GOD, an image/shadow of GOD.

Yeah I know they stated something about that they are becoming more nihilistic lately...but Soren Kirkegaard the famous philosopher was a nihilist and firm believer in GOD, I don't see any contradiction in nihilism and GOD really (suppose im the only one I guess

).

But yeah its not like BOC sympathaise with the devil just because they have a track called "the devil is in the details"...

I don't for a second think that they think that nothing is real, but the opposite. The track just screams love, faith and hope to me and that there is things that really is real. Its kind of an ironic title/sad title to me.

Yellow Records · Post by **Yellow Records** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:39 pm

I force people that I know to listen to music that I like.

(Nobody in Central New York even knows what the fuck IDM or Shoegaze even is, so I HAVE to force adaptation, right? Like...how can these fucking people even live their lives on this redundant shit they fill their FUCKING HEADS WITH.)

Anyways. Nothing is Real is always the song that people take the most liking to. I don't know why. Maybe because it seems like this song is the most "Perfect" one they have ever made, instead of holding a shit ton of "Imperfections" in which they are obsessed with.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:09 am

nothing is real is not even music. its like your listening to a memory

ZosoCon · Post by **ZosoCon** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:14 am

A great snippet of music to follow this track is 1986 Summer Fire. I guess in reality, 1986 Summer Fire sounds good after nearly every track of Tomorrow's Harvest.

Moloch · Post by **Moloch** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 3:15 pm

Fireal420 wrote:nothing is real is not even music. its like your listening to a memory

True that.

polarbear · Post by **polarbear** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:20 pm

nada es real

lyst · Post by **lyst** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 1:23 am

This is the only track on the album that I can say that I love. Been listening to it a lot on drives home from work.

Decorah · Post by **Decorah** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:14 pm

I'd just like to say that this track is probably my favorite piece the brothers have ever done. It completely transports me to another place, and on most listens brings me to the verge of tears. That might be a personal problem, but I'll wager that most people here have a boc that has that effect on them. This is mine. It's my anti-drug.

Just sublime stuff, I can't get over it.

Fireal420 · Post by **Fireal420** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:25 am

Decorah wrote:I'd just like to say that this track is probably my favorite piece the brothers have ever done. It completely transports me to another place, and on most listens brings me to the verge of tears. That might be a personal problem, but I'll wager that most people here have a boc that has that effect on them. This is mine. It's my anti-drug.

Just sublime stuff, I can't get over it.

you put that perfectly.

green calx · Post by **green calx** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:03 pm

around 1:00~ there's short and quiet female voice, saying something like "twelve". Quite interesting, how many numbers buried beneath the sounds have we already digged out?

not sure about this one

nick47 · Post by **nick47** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:39 pm

I believe we have a lot more to discover about this album in general.

Couldn't hear the "twelve" for myself, but I dont doubt that SOMETHING is there

Cosecha transmissiones has more secrets, I just know it!

Snufkin · Post by **Snufkin** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:13 am

nick47 wrote:I believe we have a lot more to discover about this album in general.

I would go so far as to say this is the understatement of the decade! (....BoC-wise anyways). I'm eager to find out what secrets TH will end up spilling. I feel like there are so many things hidden right under our noses. Beyond all that, of course, we still have the music.... which is seeming, to me at least, increasingly fantastic.

-Snuf

Perch · Post by **Perch** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:17 am

boc pages have it written that the beginning background chatter is the same as the chatter in Turquoise Hexagon Sun: http://bocpages.org/wiki/Nothing_Is_Real#Comments

I know I had mentioned on one of these threads that they struck me as similar, but I must have missed the point where anyone else was making the connection. Does anyone know where/what thread that might have been touched on? I'd love to read some more about that specific moment. Something I had wondered was if the tracks may have been made to mirror (or heck, even transition into) not just each other within the album, but past work of theirs.

irv · Post by **irv** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:32 pm

Don't know if it's changed since, but from what I can see the Bocpages page actually says that the THS melody (not the chatter) is played at the beginning of Nothing Is Real?

However - I don't hear this at all, they sound similar but nothing more to me.

Perch · Post by **Perch** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:37 pm

irv wrote:Don't know if it's changed since, but from what I can see the Bocpages page actually says that the THS melody (not the chatter) is played at the beginning of Nothing Is Real?

However - I don't hear this at all, they sound similar but nothing more to me.

Oh really? I stand corrected haha. Even so, I'd still wonder where it was discussed, and if something like that was an intentional reference, or if there are more within the album.

auzzie4life010 · Post by **auzzie4life010** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:23 am

Brilliant track. One of my favourites in the whole album.

Stickyfingers72 · Post by **Stickyfingers72** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:11 pm

The computer like code sound that comes in at 29 seconds onwards has me thinking.. Has anybody put this track through a spectrogram program?

It's probably nothing.

Perch · Post by **Perch** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:31 am

Stickyfingers72 wrote:The computer like code sound that comes in at 29 seconds onwards has me thinking.. Has anybody put this track through a spectrogram program?

It's probably nothing.

bam! I think... I'm new to the spectragraph stuff..

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 9:36 am

yeah I did, it's modulated sound
http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/nir-strings.mp3