POO: Boards of Canada

damn you matt dc, you posted as i wrote.

(also helps that it was the first BoC track I heard and nothing has compared to the thrill and surprise of it)

I think we need a new category called "Gun to the Head" where you have to say your fave/worst as if you had a gun pointed at your head and had to answer as concisely as poss with as little procrastanation. This would help "Best of" lists no-end I reckon.

favourite boc obviously: everything you do is a balloon. dreamy, mystic and enchanting. totally hypnotic.

(Custos to thread! Er.)

Tough one here, but ill go with "sixtyten" because of the moldy, hazy, dying synth solo tacked to the end.

the counting on Aquarius gets me every time.

never understood why they left that 4th peel session track 'XYZ' off the cd.

and, OPO=Kid for Today.

in a beautiful place out in the country just breaks my heart

i agree. i'm a sucker for things that sound like they are sung by depressed or dying robots though.

that's my OPO too.

every about 3-5 months i'll actually do a facebok status update, usually in form of music video i like enough that i think other people will like it and we can all proceed to like it

thing is, every time i post a video it's boards of canada. i think i posted a velocity girl video once, but only in a conversation with somebody else. anyways, i'm at about my 6th boc video on my profile now. i must look psychotic.

your facebook friends probably just think you are trying to brainwash them.

Julie & the Candy

also Aquarius. ORANGE

yeeahhh that's right

Amo Bishop Roden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmqQx-HwtHg

Last two posts otm.

the devil is in the details

Everything You Do Is a Balloon

in a beautiful place out in the country just breaks my heart

― surm

otm

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Yeah I would have to go with "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country". "Aquarius" has strong nostalgia pull (and how meta it is to feel nostalgia for a BoC track) but IABPOITC has the slight edge of disquiet I loved so much about the Geogaddi era. Still my favourite of their albums.

Left Side Drive

IABPOITC is maybe my favourite release by them. Just this little pocket where they explored a more minimal, wintry style that really works

thought this bump would be for dawn richard 'tyrants'

still trapped btw

'Olsen' always.
― Omar (Omar)

yes, haha. but, June 9th

Just this little pocket where they explored a more minimal, wintry style that really works

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, November 21, 2016 12:55 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i bought this when it came out just because it was $5 new. hadn't really connected with MHTRTC but after the first ten seconds of "kid for today" and i was like "ohhhh i get these guys now.. awesome *gets all blissed out*".

nevermind i change my pick to In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

Olson is sort of packaged with Pete Standing Alone.. it's a great part of MHTRTC. An Eagle in Your Mind is high on my list, too.. it just has that subtle, loaded quality.

If you've never heard Mira Calix and Oliver Coates' version of IABPOITC - enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9WyWzbcS0

Whitewater is another oddly underrated track.

just ran across that version the other day while looking for videos of console mira disc music boxes

Oh goddamnit, how could I forgot their utterly brilliant remix of cLOUDDEAD's Dead Dogs Two?

It's just a remix, but it's so much more than that - it vastly improves upon the original song, has wholly unique bits and that classic A Day In the Life ending.

Also their remixes of Poppyseed are also POO worthy. Ugh... these guys are too good.

Remix of Beck's "Broken Drum" is fantastic too.

Constants are Changing, maybe? But it's Amo Bishop Roden, really. Or the track with the psychedelic guitar off the 35 Random Track Tape.

Buckie High

If I didnt go for IABPOITC , it would probably be Music Is Math

i'm always disappointed that "alpha & omega" isn't the autechre track off "move of ten"
memory fault
goto 10

xp Music Is Math is so great.

My top ten:

1. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
2. Music Is Math
3. Aquarius
4. ROYGBIV
5. 1969
6. '84 Pontiac Dream
7. Olsen
8. Happy Cycling
9. Zoetrope
10. Telepath

Very heavily weighted to their first two albums but that's cos I just didn't enjoy the Campfire Headphase and while I really like Tomorrow's Harvest, I can't really think of specific tracks that stand out.

Nothing is Real is my favorite off of Tomorrow's Harvest.

New Seeds is mine.

As for whole discography, probably a toss up between Music is Math and Happy Cycling.

I pretty much enjoy all the ones with numbers or counting on them

Today it's "Corsair".

now i'm thinking it's the midnight star remix.. would dig a whole album of BoC remixes of 80s r&b, their "short mix" of "trapped" was dope as hell too!

btw sorry matthew k for election night hostility :(

'twas a hostile night brimstead, all in the past now. Except for the fucking result.

(also my post was very much AA-lite, but I thought that was the general language of recovery, having never addressed my demons in an organised way)

everyone has heard their remix of Poppy Seed, yeah?

Playing Tomorrow's Harvest currently. Their second-best album.

everyone has heard their remix of Poppy Seed, yeah?

There's two - and honestly the reprise is my fav of the two.

But the best BoC remix by FAR in my book is their remix of Dead Dogs Two. Am I weird thinking these guys have a thing for Oakland? Their remixes of cLOUDDEAD (Dead Dogs Two being a particularly poignant homage to Oakland in its own way) and Odd Nosdam tracks and the cover of Tomorrow's Harvest snapping SF from the vantage point of Alameda... maybe just coincidence.

and honestly the reprise is my fav of the two

I know there's two but didn't think i needed to specify, because nobody would prefer the second one except a total WEIRDO

lmaooooo aren't we all here? I mean have you read how passionate the Autechre threads are on this board?

FWIW the reprise was my morning alarm music for a good two years.

I just jest