Boards of Canada: Classic or Dud?

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i tend to like the shorter filler stuff more than the longer tracks ("dandelion" is one of my favorite tracks on geogaddi, no joke), but still: classic.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Turquoise Hexagon Sun" is one of the 100 greatest songs ever recorded.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day I heard BoC on a French TV show about the ocean.

as for BoC, they're like one of those artist everyone Loves and is influenced by, but justifiably. I Love Boards Of Canada, and I don't care what anyone thinks.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 11 April 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Just heard a Beck remix which was very good. More orchestral and sounds like a french soundtrack or something.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Last time I heard (friends copy, borrowed) MHTRTC I found it too boring to want to actually keep. There were some moments in the last 1/3th of the album that seemed to hit the a good spot though (Roygbiv and Aquarius I think).

But I'll say that some of their tunes stick in the head alarmingly well for 'ambient' music. Is there a reason I haven't gone and re-investigated them since? Yes, it's that I actually find their music a little creepy and disturbing.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 25 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

"Dawn Chorus" is simply one of the most gorgeous slabs of noise ever committed to record. Total fucking ace!

Yeah, this is one of the greatest things ever.

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 26 June 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

(BoC = classic of course. Geogaddi isn't perfect, but I like it more than Music Has the Right...)

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 26 June 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

i love how some of you romanticize the music. it's just music. i bet you're putting more thought into than they did in making it.

― fgjfgj, Sunday, 26 June 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

it's just music. it's just poetry. it's just film. it's just beauty. it's just life.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 26 June 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

OMG, my post way upthread is the perfect mix of prentension and fawning. I still stand by it, though.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Music is Math. It's just Math. Y'know, like DNA.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 June 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Boards of Canada can be heartbreakingly beautiful or heartbreakingly boring.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Sunday, 26 June 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I like Boards of Canada. But I don't know that much about new-fangled "techno" musicks. It's pretty and I like to listen to it, though.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I used to like MHTRTC well enough... but not even enough to check out Geogaddi until I'd found cheap + used. And now that I've listened to Geogaddi (many, mang times) I find MHTRTC even more dry and uncompelling, save for a few tracks. The "more of the same" reviews at the time of the release misled me in this respect.

― original bgm, Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

haha "many, mang"

http://www2.kwcinema.kataweb.it/scarface/images/film_1.jpg

― original bgm, Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Does anyone have an old track of theirs called "Trails"? I understand it may never have been released but there's a snippet on their homepage and it's lovely.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

anyone heard this Cardamar remix of ROYGBIV?

― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

nopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― stephen, Friday, 14 December 2007 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

i think this is one of those bands that more than others, sometimes they are just EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I need a new album from these guys

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 April 2010 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

Classic. I'm pretty sure they're aware at this point how they keep rehashing their sound in every album since MHTRTC, and will probably pull something out of the park... being a little optimistic, but BoC just doesn't strike me as a band that doesn't care about it's legacy.

― kelpolaris, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

Have you heard Walls on Kompakt? They don't sound the same but have a comparable aesthetic.

And, well, I like both of them.

They've got a ST album coming out soon and an amazing single out already called Burned Sienna.

http://www.myspace.com/wallsjams

― Doran, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

Anyone know anything about "Chameleon"? Just popped up on iTunes, with the copyright listed as BoC's own Music70, not Warp...

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIadksm7wjE

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

youtube user boardsofcanada = http://www.youtube.com/user/boardsofcanada

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Apparently, the last time a new discography entry was reserved (that black square next to their last EP) a new album/EP was announced within the week -> ?

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/discography.html

― StanM, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

Hoping.

― Young, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

that def feels like the sorta thing they'd do, provided their history.

― kelpolaris, Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

if only

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:43 (fifteen years ago)

...I had the guts to feel this way

― Moka, Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

1. Talk To The Sword (6:17)
2. Netskape Eschaton (3:01)
3. Bermuda Short (0.59)
4. Harlem Numbers (8:10)
5. Roundings (7:22)

― barieling cosder chout a fagh in a ballme thrantuman (dog latin), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

^ excuse me but what?

― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

dear jesus, i don't ask for much, but if you don't deliver a new boards of canada release within a month i am going to look up things that satan would like me to do and do them over and over

― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

"a god with horns..."

― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

i was listening to 'a beautiful place out in the country' today!

― Lamp, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:11 (fifteen years ago)

yah - zoetrope in bed, midnight, pitch black, headphones.......MEGA INTENSE

― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:15 (fifteen years ago)

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/3105/bocc.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5493901977_93b9ac6fc6_b.jpg

― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the tension is killing me

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

haha i've been checking every god damn day

― Radical Adults Lick Based God Style (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

1. Aleph Rising
2. Cochineal Helix
3. 50 Golden Goals
4. Mobius Flute
5. Fox Jupisister
6. Fiendish Feet
7. Benjy Never Saw
8. The Glade

― farielan chosder bout a chagh an i ballme trantuming (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

wasn't there a thread, once upon a time, where we just came up with fictional BoC song names?

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

those are the real songtitles though.

― You killed my accountant... now YOU must be my accountant (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:27 (fifteen years ago)

go on, soulseek them.

― You killed my accountant... now YOU must be my accountant (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:27 (fifteen years ago)

4. Morbius Flute

― I'm totally kidding. Congrats strangers. (Matt P), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:28 (fifteen years ago)

ha ha!

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:34 (fifteen years ago)

The thread was Autechre song names, but these are equally accurate.

― Radical Adults Lick Based God Style (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:35 (fifteen years ago)

Still convinced that BOC create all their track titles via Markov chains.

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

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