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It's a great quote, it's Carl Sagan from his absolutely marvellous Cosmos series.



It's slightly different to the original, Carl says "If you wish to make..."

CARL SAGAN, MY HERO!!!

ONLY 'THING' BETTER THAN BOC!

COSMOS F T W!!!!


... Nah, I'm exaggerating. Though I'm a fan!

If BoC were really into a scientist, I could see Stephen Wolfram. Not so much Carl Sagan. I wouldn't be surprised if BoC were of the digital physics persuasion.

polar sky wrote:

THIS!

Beakman is the best!
Bill Nye is awesome too.

Since it's not worth making a new thread about, I'll post here.

I made a list of my top 5 favorite pieces of music. Here's the list.

1. "Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte" - Maurice Ravel
2. "Tears From The Compound Eye" - Boards Of Canada
3. "An Eagle In Your Mind" - Boards Of Canada
4. "Where?" - Plaid
5. "Nocturnes: II. Fetes" - Claude Debussy

BoC got on there twice. Would you guy's lists be even more generous to BoC? Or less?

Also, Plaid's "Where?" is an amazing track that any Electronica fan should listen to. And it's from Tekkonkinkreet which is a fucking awesome movie. I don't even watch Anime and I loved it.

It's tough to make a list. I'll just post my favorite tracks right now, but it's not an indefinite list.

1. Chorus - Erasure
2. Shake The Disease - Depeche Mode
3. Touched By the Hand of God - New Order
4. Shoplifters of the World Unite - The Smiths
5. Summerhed - Cocteau Twins


BoC isn't even on my list of top songs.

I really can't pick out single songs. Or rather maybe I could but I don't like it, I pretty much NEVER listen to single songs, only albums as a whole... It's sort of the same for me like if I'd watch just single scenes from movies. To me it's all about the big picture!

Katzenjammer - Le Pop
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää (most BoC fans might really enjoy this btw, I strongly recommend to check this out)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Twoism also would probably fit to my top-20, and Geogaddi to top-30

some i can think of right now (in no specific order)

seven forty seven - boards of canada
us and them - pink floyd
5.9.78 - boards of canada
comfortably numb - pink floyd
roundabout - yes

I never understood what the big deal was with Neutral Milk Hotel.

Seeya_Later wrote:I never understood what the big deal was with Neutral Milk Hotel.

You know me neither, on the first listen of the album, nor the second nor probably the third. But then one morning it just hit me. I listened to the album like five times in a row, it is....beautiful. I nearly always burst in to tears at the end of Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 ;__;. I love it because it invokes such strong emotions in me, if it doesn't about you I can perfectly understand why you wouldn't like it.

I love music that's filled with sincerety and passion from the musicians. That's something that combines all the five albums I listed, and most of the music that I love the most.

ArbitersGround wrote:Also, Plaid's "Where?" is an amazing track that any Electronica fan should listen to. And it's from Tekkonkinkreet which is a fucking awesome movie. I don't even watch Anime and I loved it.

I just finished telling people to watch Tekkonkinkreet in the anime thread. I also mentioned that plaid did the soundtrack. Awesome indeed!

noby wrote:

Seeya_Later wrote:I never understood what the big deal was with Neutral Milk Hotel.

You know me neither, on the first listen of the album, nor the second nor probably the third. But then one morning it just hit me. I listened to the album like five times in a row, it is....beautiful. I nearly always burst in to tears at the end of Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 ;__;. I love it because it invokes such strong emotions in me, if it doesn't about you I can perfectly understand why you wouldn't like it.

I love music that's filled with sincerety and passion from the musicians. That's something that combines all the five albums I listed, and most of the music that I love the most.

I guess I went about it the wrong way. I haven't even heard an entire track from it. I just skimmed through it without giving it much attention.
My logic was that if it was so good, it would be blindingly obvious. But according to you, that's probably not a good strategy.
I'll have to give it another go.

Seeya_Later wrote: I guess I went about it the wrong way. I haven't even heard an entire track from it. I just skimmed through it without giving it much attention.
My logic was that if it was so good, it would be blindingly obvious. But according to you, that's probably not a good strategy.
I'll have to give it another go.

Hehe reminds just the way I first visited it. From what I have heard, barely anyone loved it on the first listen. It's a continuous story, though maybe somewhat loose - from song to song throughout the album, so it doesn't work very well at all if listening just single tracks.

bowie, beefheart, boards of canada, guided by voices, the fall, pixies.

Oh man, Pixies are one of the best damn bands.

top five

boc: aquarius
biosphere: the things I tell you
duke elllington: fleurette africaine
plastikman: plasticity
miles davis: so what

Must submit before thinking twice!

Pixies
Neutral Milk Hotel
Modest Mouse
Slowdive

Oh yes.

Nine Inch Nails
Autechre
Smashing Pumpkins
Depeche Mode
Slowdive

ArbitersGround wrote:If BoC were really into a scientist, I could see Stephen Wolfram. Not so much Carl Sagan. I wouldn't be surprised if BoC were of the digital physics persuasion.

I wasn't really suggesting that it was BoC related, i just love Sagan - while perhaps snubbed in some science circle for being commercial, he could explain things like no other cosmologist has, he was also hugely respectful of peoples beliefs and thoughts, and completely disarming when arguing a point.

I love how Science is so closely related to Philosophy, in the sense of logic and mathematics - it's why i find Bertrand Russel so inspiring.

I'm sorry, im making this thread wonder way off topic haha.

Back to BoC - I really, really want a boxset that was rumoured to be in the works, i have an obsession with boxed sets, something like a Vinyl/CD/DVD and artwork all packaged in some intricate, beautiful ornate container. I can dream...