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Happy Cycling----the bike trip
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:30 am
by Vordhosbn
OK so I am new in town. But I've had this idea for a while now. Actually, the first time I ever heard Happy Cycling I had this idea...
I don't need to teach a history lesson or anything...But well when Dr. Albert Hoffman first synthesized LSD, he had small amounts on his fingers, and while he was riding his bike home, things got a bit...ya know.....
WELL....I'm just thinking this song is describing his bike *trip* home. It seems like its mysterious and subtle at first, but then when the swirling meoldies come in near the end of the song, its like hes riding into neverland...
Thoughts?
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:44 am
by Techboy
Oh yeah, that might be a good point, but I think they once gave another meaning to the name. Uh, maybe somebody else will remember.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:49 am
by Vordhosbn
yes I don't really believe this is the true meaning, especially since on one the old tapes there seems to be a song named "Rodox Happy Cycling" but I dunno about that either...
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:39 am
by harpoon dodger
Yeah, the old track is drastically different..who knows what its all about. Perhaps bike safety..er
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:10 am
by isawdrones
haha yeah, the beggining of the song is kind of eerie and unsettling just like the feeling of lsd coming on,..the end would probally be the breakthrough when you start peaking (pure joy) haha.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:17 am
by mechanismj
Interesting thought. Those last 2+ minutes of Happy Cycling are pure heaven. I get sent into a whole different world when it begins.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:23 pm
by 1969
YES, I know it sounds daft but I also thought this, dont know where I never brought it up.
This is what this song reminds me of.
That is all, farwell.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:51 pm
by Vordhosbn
I don't know where I heard this, but I think rodox video was an *adult video* company...
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:48 am
by bluecrayons
Still my favorite track by Boards of all time.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:17 am
by A_Northern_Soul
Vordhosbn wrote:I don't know where I heard this, but I think rodox video was an *adult video* company...
No need to be coy, we're all adult here...
..well, most of us.
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:27 pm
by Vordhosbn
I feel like bumping this thread. The threads theses days have graudually disintegrated into nonsense.
Is there any other things Happy Cycling could mean? I couldn't relly come up with any other than this. Actually this idea popped into my mind just looking at the title, before I'd even heard the song.
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 7:44 pm
by niknak
Maybe someone being happy while cycling? Or cycling making them happy??
Radical, i know....
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 8:08 pm
by Vordhosbn
niknak wrote:Maybe someone being happy while cycling? Or cycling making them happy??
Radical, i know....
you have opened a world of reason to me!
Over thinking, over analyzing, separates the body from the mind!
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 9:06 pm
by harpoon dodger
Maybe its a bike store in Scotland somewhere..
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:44 am
by Techboy
:c
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 11:06 am
by Flyingpurplepeopleeater
happiness comes in cycles...?!
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 12:41 pm
by bluecrayons
Hey I know it makes me happy to hit the trail on my mountain bike, so I never really questioned the title of the song.
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:24 pm
by Lawrence
To be honest, I always thought it was something to do with a more profound type of cycling; like people's life cycle, or other natural cycles. In the back of my mind I've always thought of the title as if BOC were saying to people: 'we want to get out of any mundane cycle and go exploring our own way. If you don't, then happy cycling'.
And I much prefer the build up of the first 5 minutes.