Rate the Boards track above you

[Mexicola]

10/10

My all-time favorite BOC track. Only Slow This Bird Down comes close for me.
EDIT: bugger, already asked about that one...

Over The Horizon Radar.

[Skimming Stone]

My all-time favorite BOC track. Only Slow This Bird Down comes close for me.

Glad other people appreciate sunshine recorder, potentially my favourite track by them too

[Betacord]

My all-time favorite BOC track. Only Slow This Bird Down comes close for me.

Glad other people appreciate sunshine recorder, potentially my favourite track by them too

Yes! If there's one track that sparked my interest some years ago, it was definitely Sunshine Recorder. Really stood out from the crowd... At the time it was so much closer to the sort of music I'd been looking for. I'd say it's the track I've most consistently ranked as a favourite.

Over The Horizon Radar

7 / 10 - nice saturated, dusty-sounding loop that makes for a lovely vignette; it's sort of wistful... Just the right duration I think.

1969

[Aerial Boundaries]

1969

For me it is one of the weaker tracks, I realise that is blasphemy. I don't feel like it takes me anywhere, though I do enjoy that lofi percussion sample and the vocoder. 5/10 for a BOC track.

Smallest Weird Number (Reversed) - As appears on R35TT

[clearcut]

1969: For me it is one of the weaker tracks, I realise that is blasphemy. I don't feel like it takes me anywhere, though I do enjoy that lofi percussion sample and the vocoder. 5/10 for a BOC track.

Gotta agree 100% with you there. It's a good track, but it doesn't properly hit me like other tracks in the album, like Devil is in the Details or From One Source.

Smallest Weird Number (Reversed) - As appears on R35TT

7/10

This tune fits very well onto R35TT, and as a matter of fact I had heard this song before Smallest Weird Number itself. In my opinion this track and its non-reversed counterpart are pretty much the same. Nice little tunes that I wouldn't ever skip.

Echus

[maxd98]

Oh goodness Echus is top 5 BoC for me. (I always have a list of my top seven-forty-seven BoC songs that I carry around in a lunchbox)
Echus is special to me because I use it to fall asleep, and it sometimes gives me interesting dreams about places i've never been to. I don't think I can even rate this song properly because I feel like it isn't a track to be rated, but if I had a gun to my head I'd say its sixtyten/10


M9

[patrix90]

Oh goodness Echus is top 5 BoC for me. (I always have a list of my top seven-forty-seven BoC songs that I carry around in a lunchbox)
Echus is special to me because I use it to fall asleep, and it sometimes gives me interesting dreams about places i've never been to. I don't think I can even rate this song properly because I feel like it isn't a track to be rated, but if I had a gun to my head I'd say its sixtyten/10


M9

8/10
M9 feels very abstract with its acidy beat but its ambient background, which makes a very unusual combination. Still good though.

P:C

[Magrathea]

3/10

I don't think it goes anywhere, basically repeats itself, the heavy breathing and cheesy porn sound of the 80's is funny in itself but I think it overstays its welcome.

Kid for today

[rolypablo]

10/10

One of the best, enough said.

Can't be bothered to look for what's already been posted so I'll go with:

Sick Times

[Jonse]

6/10, one of the better tracks of TH.

Basefree

[rolypablo]

Sick Times is immense!

[eli]

6/10, one of the better tracks of TH.

Basefree

Basefree is such an emotional song. I hope for everyone else too. Coming out of Twoism - definitely a more personal album for Boards, probably in my top 3 albums. Initially, many many years ago, I passed this off after the first listen like anyone else due to the harsher tones we hear, mainly the drumline. Definitely a more obscure track upon first listen, but once I became a die-hard Boards fan this quickly became one of my top favorite tracks. 1:54, I think, is where it really gets heavy. I love at 3:13 when the beat stops and you get a clearer display of that gorgeous mangled voice sample that's heard throughout. By the time the lower synths come into play at 4:48 I'm already misty-eyed. Something about the baseline, it's so simple yet endlessly fascinating. I guess it's just the timbre I find intriguing. Extremely beautiful song. I rated this high because Twoism is one of the multiple reasons I adore Boards of Canada.

10/10


You will rate S K Y L I N E R

[TontoExpands]

Skyliner - 8/10. Love the fluttering drum beats. Kind of a mix between their early stuff, and the sound that would come much later on Tomorrow's Harvest. Classic BOC fade out ending, too.

Dandelion

[Aerial Boundaries]

Dandelion

8/10

Intense. One of the main hints towards the wider narrative, particularly the metaphor that I believe was used throughout the album in the form of the different stages of a dive to the bottom of the ocean. If you read a lot of bocpages you might pick up on it. Little things here and there like the noise at the end of Devil is in the Details reminiscent of the imagined bubbling of an underwater volcano. Or the way they have processed certain sounds such as in Dawn Chorus which makes them sound like they are perhaps travelling through water. The weird, incredibly visual ripply effect in the transition between Julie and Candy and The Smallest Weird number.

Anyway I'm rambling.

I think every track has been covered by now. Um...

Prime Audio Soup Remix? Never could get into that one.

[Jonse]

5/10 - me neither.

Audiotrack 34 (a genuine BoC DnB specimen! - and probably their fastest song)

I don't know what that is number wise according to the "sides". It's always been digital for me.

[Headphase]

... 4/10
Not really digging that repetitive melodic line

Boqurant

[Aerial Boundaries]

Boqurant

7/10 nice track, good mood, nothing special.

Audiotrack 20 (final track)

[Jonse]

Boqurant

7/10 nice track, good mood, nothing special.

Audiotrack 20 (final track)

Would that be the 35th in total then?

7/10 - sounds like the music I might hear entering my initials on some game because I just got the high score

Audiotrack 01(A)

[Echo the Sun]

Audiotrack 01(A)

An eerie track. Lots of atmosphere. I like it, but rating it against only other BOC tracks, I think a 4/10 is suitable.

Music Is Math

[Jonse]

8/10, good track with great percussion that picks up mostly in the end. Sets the tone well.

A is to B as B is to C (live)