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I think boards of canada wouldve been better if christ was still part of the band. He would have been the bands AJ.

I don't see how "I like TH" is a controversial opinion. It seems that the majority of people like TH and that there wasn't a moment where we all kind of went "yeah...that was disappointing". It's statistically a majority opinion. People do not look back on it poorly, it was really well received. Unfortunately hype inflated its reception too much - it was sort of the same thing that happened with Daft Punk's Random Access Memories - where just the hype of seeing them release something again somehow yielded the highest collective rating in their entire discography (which is pathetic). TH didn't suffer from that sort of thing as bad, but it does seem that overall critics and fans see it as better than TCH. Campfire is so layered, so textural, so still BoC even if they changed the direction. That's the part I just can't understand, and many of the people I know that like TH still feel that it's probably their least impressive.

I think the BoC music is like magic, it's very subtle, so you can lost it somewhere, but also you can finnd it, or it can find you..I like the last one more

arvy wrote:I think the BoC music is like magic, it's very subtle, so you can lost it somewhere, but also you can finnd it, or it can find you..I like the last one more

Beautifully said Arvy

I was listening to TH the other day,and I think it's a classic album . it has been given a hard time by some, certain tracks , supposedly not meeting up to the usual BOC standards. It has lots of classic BOC sounds in there, maybe more in the background and not to the fore as usual, but still in there, eg Nothing is Real, I think this could be the one they have referred to as having written way back when. I like to think they just got up one day and decided to switch on all their synthesisers use the sequencers,arppeggiators and a few simple patches and create something a bit different than usual and easily playable,so as to possibly take out on the road and use as the bulk of a set. they did say in an Interview (you will have to hunt it down)that they had been rehearsing with some close friends with a view to taking a band type line-up out there, this sounds feasible with a few bodies splitting the instrumentation , they pointed out that they wanted to make it as live as possible and not rely too much on laptop/backing track/button pushing. it would make sense and also more of a performance for those watching, not that they would be jumping about but far better than them behind a table full of gear.
Well that's what I think, but I could be wrong, no doubt im about to be told something or other. Ha Ha

arvy wrote:I think the BoC music is like magic, it's very subtle, so you can lost it somewhere, but also you can finnd it, or it can find you..I like the last one more

It certainly found me

Most of the time I can't stand Amo Bishop Rhoden sonically, it rings in my teeth.

^I agree. I always see people picking that as their favourite from IABPOITC. It's nothing compared to Kid for Today imo.

Yeah, Kid For Today is my favorite too.

Controversial opinion:

MHTRTC is my least favorite BoC album, and sometimes I prefer Maxima to it too.

Tomorrow's Harvest is just as good as Geogaddi.

If we are really talking controversial, I would like to put it out there that I think that Ctrl All Del's remix of TCH (I believe it was called The Phasefire Camphead) was one of the best and coolest things I have ever heard. I almost completely destroyed the original feelings and emotions of TCH, but the way it was done really makes me ponder over it. It is in my top three BoC albums, with only TCH and Geogaddi rising above it.

Especially loved The Macridge Quarie and This Bird Slow Down.

From One Source All Things Depend makes no sense as a title.

Why do you think so?

MrMessiah wrote:From One Source All Things Depend makes no sense as a title.

I've always thought this meant "God" or a higher power or whatever. But... I've also always kinda guessed that they aren't traditionally religious, maybe atheists, or spiritual.

"On one source all things depend" "From one source all things... eminate". You can't "depend from" something.

Oh, like gramatically? Nothing wrong with thinking that

MrMessiah wrote:From One Source All Things Depend makes no sense as a title.

Children are taught from a very early age that they owe their existence to the whim of a fickle God who can give and take anything and everything from you.

"If he was a bad man, he would make everything bad, and we wouldn't have electricity, he wouldn't make people, that's what would happen if God wasn't nice."

I mean, it's right there in the song, man. It only makes sense as a title when viewed in context. Children believe even the simplest things are mysterious gifts from Heaven that they are made to believe they don't deserve unless they are good.

Yeah no i get that, I meant the grammar.

"From One Source all things depend; but the Source is from the One and Only. Three then are they: God the Father and the Good, the Cosmos, and Man. God doth contain the Cosmos; the Cosmos containeth Man. The Cosmos is the offspring of God; and Man, as it were, is the offspring of the Cosmos."

http://bocpages.org/wiki/From_One_Sourc ... d#Comments

It may not make grammatical sense, but they didn't construct that title. It came from whatever that text is.

Well, today I learned!

MrMessiah wrote:Well, today I learned!