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I find some of the Old Tunes unlistenable. I like the ones that sound like BOC, but some of them just sound like bad rave music.

FortonServices wrote:I find some of the Old Tunes unlistenable. I like the ones that sound like BOC, but some of them just sound like bad rave music.

Are you in my head? haha

I hope you guys like the wiggy diggy doo song

I honestly couldn't care less whether or not they play live again.

i will pay someone to re-record 5-9-78 by boards of canada if they would put at least a little bit of effort into coming up with drums. failing that, no drums. plz.

Techboy wrote:i will pay someone to re-record 5-9-78 by boards of canada if they would put at least a little bit of effort into coming up with drums. failing that, no drums. plz.

I shall do so with my theremin and a jew harp.

You can view this video as a sample of my material:



My rates start high

I prefer the use of the adult film sample in Sir Prancelot Brainfire than in Sixtyniner

1. geogaddi is by far their best album
2. th is not very dark; it's the soundtrack to camp horror film. geogaddi and mhtrtc are much darker
3. boc is the best electronic group by a substantial margin. all other electronic music artists pale in comparison—even aphex twin and four tet

4. aquarius is overrated

Echo the Sun wrote:boc is the best electronic group by a substantial margin. all other electronic music artists pale in comparison—even aphex twin and four tet

You know, that might be one of the most pretentious and careless comment I have ever heard about BOC...and I think that is what makes me love it all that much more.

Thought, IMHO, Lorn an DWNS†▲†Ξ surpass BOC by a slight margin. Lorn's textures and intense, almost frantic beats and basses in some of his songs elicit strong feelings of darkness and revolt in me, and I love that. And DWNS†▲†Ξ, well, he has done some many different genres so well (Trap, Breakcore, DnB, Ambient, Glitch, the list goes on) that I have to give him props for creating some many varied masterpieces like Trust in Advent, luinsoif, and Night Colour.

FortonServices wrote:I find some of the Old Tunes unlistenable. I like the ones that sound like BOC, but some of them just sound like bad rave music.

I think this might be the bands opinion as well, likely why they have yet to do a re-release. I laugh when people want to hear closes or acid memories so much. Might just be some kids fooling around on a Casio for we know and here we are thinking it's this lost masterpiece when there's no evidence to back that up. I do however love old tune's and random tracks even if it is sometimes simple and cheesy.

Melissa Juice is their best track.

madrenomerecords wrote:Melissa Juice is their best track.

Perhaps you are mistaken. This is not an "Unequivocally Indisputable Truths" thread. This is a "Controversial Opinions" thread. Maybe you should post a controversial opinion instead of an undeniable reality.

'Amo Bishop Roden' and 'Julie and Candy' have amazing main melodies, but both tracks end up being very boring because their progressions aren't interesting enough.

I'm not sure it's controversial, but Kid for Today is their best song and In a Beautiful Place Out in The Country is their best effort, even as an EP.

zeoevil wrote:

madrenomerecords wrote:Melissa Juice is their best track.

Perhaps you are mistaken. This is not an "Unequivocally Indisputable Truths" thread. This is a "Controversial Opinions" thread. Maybe you should post a controversial opinion instead of an undeniable reality.

It was obviously meant as an opinion as it was posted in this thread. The implication is that it is their "controversial opinion" that it is their best track. Just like all the people in this thread stating that BOC is the best band ever. They aren't forcing that on anyone, the fact that it is written as a statement doesn't matter because of the thread topic.

Skimming Stone wrote:'Amo Bishop Roden' and 'Julie and Candy' have amazing main melodies, but both tracks end up being very boring because their progressions aren't interesting enough.

I think you're looking at Amo in the wrong light here. Amo is a full on ambient track, despite the percussion. There doesn't have to be much progression imo, because it is easy to get lost in this. This is more of a 'switched off' track listening wise for me.

If you are of that opinion about Amo, surely you could say the same about the title track? Neither of them change much. Amo has minor variations in the percussion, and the title track uses the same elements throughout, simply switching between them, adding and taking away layers at will and putting some of the sounds through different filters.

Julie and candy in fact does have a huge amount of variation, but again it is subtle. I would highly encourage you to take really focus on it as it is much more of a 'switched on' track, there are a massive amount of layers and details interacting with each other. And of course it all comes together at the end to provide a massive crescendo reminding me of Dayvan Cowboy. Personally J&C is just the absolute best track off Geogaddi, though I didn't always think that. It is a real grower.

Apologies for the double post btw

EDIT: Just realised zeoevil's post was probably a joke lol. Ignore my other post.

Old Tunes and R35TT are decent but only worth listening to more than once because they let us listen to BoC developing. It's pretty amazing to hear them grow and improve, but their old stuff isn't all that great.

Aerial Boundaries wrote:

Skimming Stone wrote:'Amo Bishop Roden' and 'Julie and Candy' have amazing main melodies, but both tracks end up being very boring because their progressions aren't interesting enough.

I think you're looking at Amo in the wrong light here. Amo is a full on ambient track, despite the percussion. There doesn't have to be much progression imo, because it is easy to get lost in this. This is more of a 'switched off' track listening wise for me.

If you are of that opinion about Amo, surely you could say the same about the title track? Neither of them change much. Amo has minor variations in the percussion, and the title track uses the same elements throughout, simply switching between them, adding and taking away layers at will and putting some of the sounds through different filters.

Julie and candy in fact does have a huge amount of variation, but again it is subtle. I would highly encourage you to take really focus on it as it is much more of a 'switched on' track, there are a massive amount of layers and details interacting with each other. And of course it all comes together at the end to provide a massive crescendo reminding me of Dayvan Cowboy. Personally J&C is just the absolute best track off Geogaddi, though I didn't always think that. It is a real grower.

I like ambient Boards tracks for the most part, and I'm a pretty big fan of ambient music in general. If there's one main thing I love about BoC, it's how much more you see in tracks when you focus more on them. I've done so with both tracks numerous times, I can understand what people see in the tracks, but It is still so rare for me to get through either tracks from start to finish without getting bored to some degree. I don't listen to IABPOITC all that much compare to other releases, with the exception of Kid for Today, because I feel pretty much every track suffers from not enough content to justify it's length. They're not ambient enough for me to get lost in, but they're not engaging enough to hold my interest. I feel like I should enjoy J&C, I want to, but it really fails to captivate me.

Zoetrope is still one of their best tracks!