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vhs tapes and sesame street and old news station sound logos.

Look up the Fungi Girls and listen/read up...
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Point Proved.

I think this is a great question that I have been wondering about also. I was born in Canada in '83 and definitely watched a lot of NFB videos. I think though for me, sometimes a type of sound or the timbre/quality of what I hear in BoC links back to what I saw/heard/felt when I was younger. For example, whenever I hear 'Left Side Drive', without fail there is a small part in the song that links me back to a location with a feeling that has no relation whatsoever to that part in the song. The weird thing is the memory is way older than the song but when I heard that part in LSD it brought me back to that place for some reason. It is to this day one of the most baffling phenomena that has ever occurred in my life.

I think if the samples or melodic styles that BoC use doesn't bridge the gap to early 70's/80's nostalgia it would probably still evoke some sort of connection to something in their lives.

Also, when I read about the Dial-up being an old familiar sound, I wondered what sorts of things are nostalgic for anyone born in the 90's, whether it's incident related or media related of some sort.

turquoise70 wrote:And, Synasthesia, your ego-crippling humility is cute <3 but Twoism loves you, make no mistake, we respect your musical ability and we hope you never leave us. We all hope you won't get so down on yourself although we understand the compulsion to do so. I believe I speak for many of us when I say this.

This is true.

sevenELIXIR wrote:born in 1997??? I was 14 that year... I feel old

Don't feel bad.....I was born in 1966.

i was born in '76 and a lot of BoC makes me think back to long summers spent playing in orchards and fields, old TV programmes, 80 films, a sense of the world being a slower experience, forgotten toys, childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player, his old stereo etc

Born in 1990 and I experience the exact same things. It's a universal feeling.

wooz wrote:Born in 1990 and I experience the exact same things. It's a universal feeling.

you think about my childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player and old stereo?

Zykial wrote:

wooz wrote:Born in 1990 and I experience the exact same things. It's a universal feeling.

you think about my childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player and old stereo?

I do. I used to toy around with my dads betamax. Old tapes of weird warbly hong-kong cartoons and ejaculating on out-of-tune mellotrons.

Cupz wrote:

Zykial wrote:

wooz wrote:Born in 1990 and I experience the exact same things. It's a universal feeling.

you think about my childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player and old stereo?

I do. I used to toy around with my dads betamax. Old tapes of weird warbly hong-kong cartoons and ejaculating on out-of-tune mellotrons.

would be a bit weird thinking about my childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player and old stereo though

does anybody remember the old PBS show, "3,2,1 contact". that show springs to mind when im listening to roygbiv.

Zykial wrote: would be a bit weird thinking about my childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player and old stereo though

touche

but according to some scientific theories...its not impossible...

Cupz wrote:

Zykial wrote: would be a bit weird thinking about my childhood experiences, dad's Betamax player and old stereo though

touche

but according to some scientific theories...its not impossible...

go on

Although the first thing that made me "get" BoC was noticing that many songs had the same wobbly-pitch sound as the warped film reels we'd watch in school, and I watched quite a bit of 3-2-1 Contact, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, etc. in the early-to-mid 1980s, I experience something different when listening to the band than I do when I contemplate these memories. An ex-girlfriend once suggested that BoC semi-unconsciously triggers memories of being in the womb, which I thought was an interesting idea, although it seems more likely that BoC takes advantage of how easy it is to create memories of things that never happened.

Honestly BoC rarely reminds me of my own memories. It calls to mind a few in some intense parts of some certain songs, but mainly, mainly it just transports me to somewhere else. A very vivid, amazing, and unique mental picture that no other music gives me. It's very singular and inimitable, nobody else does it because BoC just happen to nail that particular mental place and take me there every time. It's kinda like doing mushrooms, it's different every time but you know it's the same thing you've experienced the last time you did shrooms, it's recognizable. But yeah. Reel to reels, betamaxes and sesame street have nothing to do with what goes through my head when I really get into BoC. To me, their ability to create a mental world is far more than just some timeperiod piece. To me that's kind of like saying they're just a new take on the whole idea behind "Grease" or something.

Distant Nebulus wrote:does anybody remember the old PBS show, "3,2,1 contact". that show springs to mind when im listening to roygbiv.

i do! that show was ultra-obscure for me during my childhood. i liked it a lot, but could never figure out when it was on. i think my dad taped a couple episodes. it'll be interesting to see that again.

as to the OP, i'd have to say same is true of my interpretation of these guys' music, with turquiose70's overall. their music brings me to certain memories/places/experiences of my own, not sesame street (although that show was great). certain tracks always extend me back to certain memories.

You know what I really love about BoC? what I REALLY love about BoC?

they don't tell tales about the future, OR the past. None of that nostalgia bullshit. That's all bullshit.


They tell tales about the world as it is right NOW. Go somewhere remote. Check it out. Play BoC and see if it doesn't echo the feeling of being there. Go to a beach at some sub-arctic climate, with snow frosting the cobbled stones, and frigid below-zero water crashing softly along the beach, with pine trees lining the shore. With stone grey, stone blue, stone purple clouds, circular and metallic, filling the sky. Listen to Skimming Stones. THAT is Boards of Canada. Not some bull shit 1970s memory of reel to reel whatever blah blah blah nostalgia, post-fabricated nonsense. BoC is RIGHT NOW. That's why they're so great.

turquoise70 wrote:You know what I really love about BoC? what I REALLY love about BoC?

they don't tell tales about the future, OR the past. None of that nostalgia bullshit. That's all bullshit.


They tell tales about the world as it is right NOW. Go somewhere remote. Check it out. Play BoC and see if it doesn't echo the feeling of being there. Go to a beach at some sub-arctic climate, with snow frosting the cobbled stones, and frigid below-zero water crashing softly along the beach, with pine trees lining the shore. With stone grey, stone blue, stone purple clouds, circular and metallic, filling the sky. Listen to Skimming Stones. THAT is Boards of Canada. Not some bull shit 1970s memory of reel to reel whatever blah blah blah nostalgia, post-fabricated nonsense. BoC is RIGHT NOW. That's why they're so great.

that is so very true
I'm 14 so the childhood memory card dosen't work for me, the music that makes me think of my actual childhood is late-90s television theme music

I was born in 1989 and watched plenty of sesame street, mr rogers neighborhood, etc. So...I can see how that may contribute to the nostalgic effect some-- but at the same time, BoC are about the same age as my parents, so their childhood was in a whole different era but I still feel like I 'get' boards. They definitely have a sort of mental effect on me that makes me chilled out, somewhat melancholy, but still happy and at peace.

so in short, sure- I think future listeners of Boards will enjoy it just as much as anyone else.

There is something interesting about how the world is completely shifting to digital everything. Reel to Reel, Cassette, VHS, Analog Cable TV, and even soon AM/FM Radio are a thing of the past. And yet, gone with them is this warmth nostalgia that presents itself regardless of the listeners background. Those who grew up in the timespan of Marcus and Mike might feel a closer connection for what they were sampling, or feel more of a familiarity, but I almost think it will become something more powerful as that age fades away. If it weren't for the sheer amount of tape/ambient/downtempo artists, I would say Boards of Canada is a relic of the past.

Its awesome that people were who were born in the late 90s are listening to Boards of Canada. That's quite admirable! I don't even want to announce what I was listening to at that age!