A MHTRTC Social Experiment

Post by **Aesthetics** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:26 am

thedisavowed wrote:PS - Shoudn't you be a Happy Cycler now, Aesthetics?

Another 500 to go to get the Happy Cycler tag.. With my current postrate that'll be in about 250 days.

Joebot Kill · Post by **Joebot Kill** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:27 pm

Aquarius came on the radio once during an illustration class. I kind of freaked out because i didnt expect to hear BOC on the radio. One of my friends told me he liked it better than most of the other "boring ambient stuff" i listened to. He also thought the "oranges" were funny. One girl asked where i found all this stuff in kind of a scoffing manner. Are you from the US Vordhosbn? Because i am surprised how many people were open to MHTRTC when you showed it to them. I think if i put that whole cd on it would get turned off at about the second track. Most people over here have terrible taste in music.

Vordhosbn · Post by **Vordhosbn** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:51 pm

Joebot Kill wrote:Aquarius came on the radio once during an illustration class. I kind of freaked out because i didnt expect to hear BOC on the radio. One of my friends told me he liked it better than most of the other "boring ambient stuff" i listened to. He also thought the "oranges" were funny. One girl asked where i found all this stuff in kind of a scoffing manner. Are you from the US Vordhosbn? Because i am surprised how many people were open to MHTRTC when you showed it to them. I think if i put that whole cd on it would get turned off at about the second track. Most people over here have terrible taste in music.

Well, I do live in Alaska...

silo flame · Post by **silo flame** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:17 am

the almost vast majority of people who ive ever experienced being exposed to boards love it, or are at least very intrigued; this includes random people, aquantainces, friends, classmates, teachers and so on and so on and so

yeah.thats.right.orange · Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:05 pm

No one would have liked Boards of Canada if I brought one of their discs in class. I am shy when this is about sharing music tastes because everybody would obviously react negatively.

qabbalique · Post by **qabbalique** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:19 pm

what is with this shpongle band? i've been introducing my girlfriend to boards of canada, which is going well, but she has this know-it-all roommate who immediately told her that he knew of a band that was better called "shpongle." we spent ten minutes just trying to spell it right before finding a myspace page for them, and well... to me it is by no means anywhere even comparable to boc. it just sounded like extremely cheesy "house-world-techno" frat boys and suv driving trusty hippies would listen to at raves.

that was a cool post though. my roommate is an art teacher, and i'm trying to get him to start playing boc during his classes and tell me what happens.

Joebot Kill · Post by **Joebot Kill** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:30 pm

haha yeah it seems like most people around here are much more interested in the fallout boy and justin timberlake... and other mediocre pop music being praised for being "innovative"

Joebot Kill · Post by **Joebot Kill** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:34 pm

qabbalique wrote:what is with this shpongle band? i've been introducing my girlfriend to boards of canada, which is going well, but she has this know-it-all roommate who immediately told her that he knew of a band that was better called "shpongle." we spent ten minutes just trying to spell it right before finding a myspace page for them, and well... to me it is by no means anywhere even comparable to boc. it just sounded like extremely cheesy "house-world-techno" frat boys and suv driving trusty hippies would listen to at raves.

that was a cool post though. my roommate is an art teacher, and i'm trying to get him to start playing boc during his classes and tell me what happens.

ive never heard of shpongle, but for some reason im not interested at all... maybe its their name? i had an art teacher that played depeche mode in class once, he was cool. i find boc to be amazing art music, i bet that would go well in class.

Shadowshocker · Post by **Shadowshocker** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:17 pm

Music is maths?

Vordhosbn · Post by **Vordhosbn** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:15 pm

Shpongle's first album is really amazing actually. The track DMT is just really awesome. But they lack sincerity if you ask me.

BunnyRabbit · Post by **BunnyRabbit** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:28 pm

Vordhosbn wrote:I find sometimes science teachers either like Boards of Canada immdiately, or they act like they've herad it before...

They probably have in a way. They definitely will have watched a fair few old science videos (or even films) in their time so the BOC vibe will have been soaked up over the years.

qabbalique · Post by **qabbalique** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:30 pm

Shpongle's first album is really amazing actually. The track DMT is just really awesome. But they lack sincerity if you ask me.

i've only heard a couple of songs, but when somebody says flat out, "oh boc, yeah i know this band shpongle that is way better," i was actually kind of excited to hear something i wasn't exposed to yet. it wasn't long before i realized it just wasn't my thing. i agree, the reason boards of canada appeals to me is that they make "electronic" music that seems to evoke a lot of feeling where a lot of electronic acts seem really inorganic. imo.

this is off topic, but is anybody else convinced that the grundig tk-24 has a lot to do with boc's trademark sound? i'm sure this has been touched on before, but well whatever.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:19 pm

I think qabbalique said it best - "...sounded like extremely cheesy "house-world-techno" frat boys and suv driving trusty hippies would listen to at raves".

I was just reminded of when I was a teenager and some of my mates suddenly thought The Orb were the greatest band ever because they'd smoked a joint for the first time. I actually shivered at the memory - and not in a good way.

Not for me I'm afraid.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:31 pm

yeah.thats.right.orange wrote:No one would have liked Boards of Canada if I brought one of their discs in class. I am shy when this is about sharing music tastes because everybody would obviously react negatively.

Same here.

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:10 am

I thought I already posted this.
Like I said I had already given my maths teacher a loan of MHTRTC and on friday he turned round to me and told me that he played it for a 3rd year class (that's two years below me.)
Apparently they all "freaked out" and it was very funny.

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:40 pm

Where the hell do you live?

I've played BoC for many people, and every single one said it sucked and wasn't even music.

They much prefer to listen to Nickleback.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:44 pm

Ahhh Nickleback. Along with Shania Twain, Nickleback are indelible proof that contrary to the popular saying, the Devil actually DOESN'T have all the best tunes.

silo flame · Post by **silo flame** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:01 pm

i live in california, and people seem to fucking love shit like boards

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:35 pm

P.S.

Watch your mouths about Shpongle

Vordhosbn · Post by **Vordhosbn** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:40 am

oyster wrote:Where the hell do you live?

I've played BoC for many people, and every single one said it sucked and wasn't even music.

They much prefer to listen to Nickleback.

I just recently moved to Fairbanks, Alaska.