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What does "Geogaddi" mean to you?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:32 pm
by Jonse
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but... Since Geogaddi's title was supposed to be subjective and up to us to decide the meaning, what do you think about it?
Also, what does it say to you? The culmination of the album and the overall message it conveys.
For me, based on reasons I shouldn't get too far into or else I'd be writing a long wall, it either has something to do with the devil/some sort of evil entity and death. This might be common.
It's my favorite Boards album collectively, without a doubt. Just want to know what you guys think.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:51 pm
by polar sky
I know there is a thread already about this, but I am too lazy to look it up. So screw it.
To me it's a journey of life. Ready let's go is the creation of a life, being born. The ending being the crossover into the unknown with Corsair, floating in blackness feeling the wind and energy flowing all around you. The ultimate ending to a new beginning.
It is also my favorite album by BoC.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:54 pm
by Jonse
polar sky wrote:I know there is a thread already about this, but I am too lazy to look it up. So screw it.
To me it's a journey of life. Ready let's go is the creation of a life, being born. The ending being the crossover into the unknown with Corsair, floating in blackness feeling the wind and energy flowing all around you. The ultimate ending to a new beginning.
And where does FOSATD lie? To me, that seemed like either the reflection track or the "new beginning" you speak of. However, being a bonus, I'm not sure it belongs in that position of the album to begin with. Just like Happy Cycling probably shouldn't be after One Very Important Thought on MHTRTC.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:59 pm
by polar sky
Rodheh wrote:polar sky wrote:I know there is a thread already about this, but I am too lazy to look it up. So screw it.
To me it's a journey of life. Ready let's go is the creation of a life, being born. The ending being the crossover into the unknown with Corsair, floating in blackness feeling the wind and energy flowing all around you. The ultimate ending to a new beginning.
And where does FOSATD lie? To me, that seemed like either the reflection track or the "new beginning" you speak of. However, being a bonus, I'm not sure it belongs in that position of the album to begin with. Just like Happy Cycling probably shouldn't be after One Very Important Thought on MHTRTC.
Yeah I love that track too. I do think of it as a bonus song and not really apart of the story I have in my mind. But it is such a great track.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:05 am
by Lens Larque
everything on the planet connected as one living thing shouting at outer space in ecstasy/suffering
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:46 am
by Radiobuzz
Well, for me it doesn't have a specific meaning but it's more of a word that conjures up ideas about man and his relation with nature and god. Even though nature is somehow a recurring thing in BoC's music, I think on Geogaddi is one of the central focus, theme-wise (dawn choruses, math, etc) and texture-wise (the sound not only sounds old, it has the sound of technology being destroyed by nature).
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:58 am
by Cryabetes
just makes me think of Ghaddafi.
geoghaddafi
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:18 am
by Waterbagel
Cryabetes wrote:just makes me think of Ghaddafi.
geoghaddafi
weeks later, it still makes me lol
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:15 am
by Yellow Records
In my mind, "Geogaddi," means "Multiverse."
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:59 am
by Saakki
Geogaddi to me means connection to earth and nature. That everthing is finally linked back to earth.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:08 am
by sunshine recorder
Gods of the earth, elemental powers in an unseen dimension and spiritual network that spans and controls the planet
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:35 am
by dp
it's the red one.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:02 pm
by Lens Larque
sunshine recorder wrote:Gods of the earth, elemental powers in an unseen dimension and spiritual network that spans and controls the planet
And this too.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 5:40 pm
by Kinski
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 6:36 pm
by Patryk Ludamage
Hard to describe...maybe travel through the heaven and hell and the earth....everything you see after the end of your life through those places to the proper one where you should be and when ever wants
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:16 am
by 2020k
"Geogaddi" is just a record I put on to escape from reality because out of all of the BoC releases, that and IABPOITC relax and clear my mind. And clearing my mind means not overthinking, so Geogaddi means nothing to me, but everything, all in the same.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:41 am
by Negamuse
Geogaddi is using the last remaining fragments of recordings left by humans before the apocalypse in an invocation to puncture the veil between this world and the next.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:58 am
by sunshine recorder
Kinski wrote:
nope...just high
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:40 am
by Kinski
sunshine recorder wrote:Kinski wrote:
nope...just high
oh i hear you on that
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:44 am
by saurus
Some great and imaginative interpretations of the album. I'm sure this is exactly what the brothers wanted to happen.
I find it the easiest to escape to, I suppose because the mental imagery it conjures up is more overtly claustrophobic and 'evil' if that makes sense. It took a LOT of listens of Music Has The Right to figure out how dark of an album it was, and I guess that's why it's my favourite. Like, the meaning of every BoC album to me is a long kind of trip which you can either sit back and enjoy as background music or really pick apart to notice subtleties. They're totally interpretory. Geogaddi to me stands as the one which definitely has a disturbing overtone to it which I can stick on to really be spooked by. It requires a lot more concentration to pick apart the spookiness of other releases.
I don't know if this made sense