Do you share BOC?

Riley · Post by **Riley** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:33 am

I have never met anyone in person who has ever heard of Boards of Canada and I thought I'd play some of their music for my friends. This completely changed the sound for me and it was not very enjoyable. I like to keep the music for myself. How about you?

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:26 pm

Before I was into BoC, the only people I knew who were into it were an older guy who is a DJ and this indie kid who did all within his power to be indie and aloof.

I've played BoC for a lot of my friends and most of them don't dig it, even though beforehand I think a lot of them will based on what else i know of them.

Practically speaking, keeping the music to onesself is an exercise in futility. I used to feel that way, way back when I first heard MHtRtC. At first I was sad when the mystique and personal nature of the music faded but later I realized that whole personal feeling came from inside me, it didn't have jack to do with the music. It was just another learning experience and I don't really care one way or the other now.

hexagon son · Post by **hexagon son** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:49 pm

my fiancee finds a lot of their music too scary for her, but she loves aquarius, TCH etc...

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:01 pm

I try to sometimes...Never found anyone that liked it.

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:35 pm

My wife tolerates them, in the car.

My dad doesn't understand. He thinks their music is simple, and that anyone could make music like they do. I was surprised at this reaction. I thought he'd like it for sure.

So yeah, my attempts to share BoC have failed thus far.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:08 pm

i wish i had knew you guys in person... that would be fun. people i could hang out with that understand what boc is.

i have tried to let people listen to it, but they are either, "its too weird" or "too many beats, no singing?". so for me, i quit trying to find people that i thought might have liked them as much as we on twoism do. no luck yet. i just want to know someone off the internet that is crazed about them too.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:10 pm

polar sky wrote:i wish i had knew you guys in person... that would be fun. people i could hang out with that understand what boc is.

Yeah...same here. I don't really have any friends

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:13 pm

Cupz wrote:
polar sky wrote:i wish i had knew you guys in person... that would be fun. people i could hang out with that understand what boc is.
Yeah...same here. I don't really have any friends

I have two friends I really hang with on a weekly basis, my Girlfriend Carol, who I live with, and my friend Josh, who by the way dose not like boc at all.

hills west · Post by **hills west** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:53 pm

i made the mistake of playing for a bunch of different people and within a year it spread like a plague among them and their friends, now too many people i know and dont know are into them...really annoying...

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:35 pm

Really? Wow.

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:00 pm

hell no. I hide all my vinyls and cds before my friends get here.

celadon · Post by **celadon** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:27 pm

Most people I know aren't into them. I collected my bird once when BoC was on the car stereo. Next thing she says "is that them creepy-Scottish-fucks you stayed out all night in a field listening to on a CD player" refering to Earlyburn. Made me laugh at the time actually

Green Pylon · Post by **Green Pylon** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:54 pm

Yes I do it, trying to explain why I'm a Boc fan lol
The most popular song was Dayvan Cowboy, the track liked to them a lot. But they don't explored new Boc Tracks... I guess that the reason is the same as happened to me, the first months after discover Boc I played their work less, too much less than now.

Oliver · Post by **Oliver** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:57 pm

I introduced it to one of my friends, who already liked artists such as Aphex Twin. So it wasn't too surprising that he'd like another 'IDM group'.

Most other people that I've played it to think it's wierd.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:10 pm

To my surprise, I roped in a few fans. I also know a couple people who knew of them already when I first discovered them. They never told me about it. Guess they didn't think it was my bag at the time...

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:21 pm

I've got a friend who likes only one BoC track, The Beach at Redpoint.
He doesn't like any other BoC tracks, not even the stuff on Geogaddi.
He's extremely picky with his music.

Twoist · Post by **Twoist** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:54 pm

I discovered BoC through a friend who extolled their virtues constantly. I like to think that there are like-minded people out there willing to make the same (small) effort to listen to a couple of tracks and get the message

Vordhosbn · Post by **Vordhosbn** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:26 pm

My Mom hates BoC because she says "It lacks form" (shes an ethnomusicologist, and all she likes is basically Cape Verdean Music and Classical) But my dad loves it. He especially loves the first couple tracks offa TCH, mainly "Peacock Tail." I introduced it to my best friend and he loved it immidiately, and hes not even into many other bands. We put every BoC album on his Xbox360 and while we play Oblivion we listen to it, and he came to really love tracks like "Rue The Whirl" for some reason or another. We also got to love Geogadi together by playing it while watching the oldies channel, muted. We fell in love with corsair after drinkin just a teensy-weensy bit and then putting our sad heads down on the speakers and just connecting with the sad sounds. So yeah, it works. I got him into TOOL the same way, just by always playing it around him.

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:39 pm

My more musically talented friends appreciate it.

my parents cant stand it but theyve tolerated me singing for all these years so why not tolerate BoC?

celadon · Post by **celadon** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:41 pm

Vordhosbn wrote:My Mom hates BoC because she says "It lacks form" (shes an ethnomusicologist, and all she likes is basically Cape Verdean Music and Classical) But my dad loves it. He especially loves the first couple tracks offa TCH, mainly "Peacock Tail." I introduced it to my best friend and he loved it immidiately, and hes not even into many other bands. We put every BoC album on his Xbox360 and while we play Oblivion we listen to it, and he came to really love tracks like "Rue The Whirl" for some reason or another. We also got to love Geogadi together by playing it while watching the oldies channel, muted. We fell in love with corsair after drinkin just a teensy-weensy bit and then putting our sad heads down on the speakers and just connecting with the sad sounds. So yeah, it works. I got him into TOOL the same way, just by always playing it around him.

Cool parents