BeSt BORIS AlBuM PoLL

But shit, Heavy Rocks is really fucking good.

More listening tonight, then voting.

I like Pink. How can you not? :)

yeah, i might also choose Pink in any other day.

i just saw these guys at a free instore 3hrs ago. so much smoke from the smoke machine, it didn't matter that i didnt' have a good view of them. one really long (45 min) song. started out with like 10minutes of ebow feedback and then into the riffing. pretty awesome

(ARRGHGHGH dudes, stop posting, i have to relog in every time you do!)

i haven't heard all of them, and it's been years since i've heard anything besides Rainbow, and i've listened to that one a LOT lately, so i choose that.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ENVY I HAS IT

i hope it won't be a one song set in their ny shows...
i will demand my money back..

rainbow is not consistent enough.some good cuts,some mediocre

actually,in a way, Pink is like the best Niravan record they never recorded.

(nirvana)

Wow, no wonder I feel like people are always talking about these guys. What a productive lot!

Uh, the only one I've owned (and so have known quite well) was Absolutego, and that I ended up not caring for. Have heard some of _Amplifier Worship_ but nothing after. Am I a fool for not having explored beyond this? I don't really dig much stoner rock or sludge metal anymore, so I'll gladly skip any such records.
(No vote, obv)

You should listen to Rainbow then.

It's pretty tame.

Wow, interesting timing for this poll to appear, seeing as I'm starting to really get into this band!
I actually got Amplifier Worship in the mail yesterday and it's great. I don't think I can vote just yet because I've only heard Absolutego and Pink as well, but I love them too.
I actually thought I was over the sludge stuff too before I heard this band though. Can't wait to see them tomorrow!!

i said pink. once upon a time i would've voted for amplifier worship, but i listen to pink more than any of them so fuck it.

1998 Black: Implication Flooding (with Keiji Haino)

needs to be reissued. more than any of the other records that get issued in 50 different rip-off formats.

What? No Yello albums? They have a member called Boris after all....

BORIS HEAVY ROCKS

Don't know all those releases. Amplifier Worship is great, so I'll probably go with that. Altar has some good stuff and some bad stuff. If I remember correctly I like the last two tracks on Altar a lot, but the "pretty one" ("Sinking Belle"?) I think I could do without, or at least without the vocals/piano. I've only heard snippets of Pink, but I'd like to hear more.

They're playing in DC in a week or two, not sure if I'm gonna see them though.

Is Rainbow worth checking out if I really like Pink (not so much Altar)?

It really depends on my mood, but I ended up going with Akuma no Uta (most likely only because its the most recent I've listened to). Rainbow, Altar, Pink, Amplifier Worship, and Absolutego could all have been argued for.

saw them last night in SF with Kurihara - they were pretty good but seemed thrown off by some lame technical difficulties early in the show, never seemed to regain their footing after the first song

If Pink wins this, then you can fuck right off. It's a good album, I like it, but it's nowhere near their best. NOWHERE!
The true answer is one of these
1996 Absolutego
1998 Amplifier Worship
2000 Flood
2002 Heavy Rocks
2003 Akuma no Uta
2003 Boris At Last: -Feedbacker-
2005 Dronevil

Anything else and you're either having a laugh or a pitchfork reader who hasn't heard the other albums.
Archive release is awesome but it's live recordings. So I wouldn't vote for it, but I do play my cds often. They go for $200+ but I wouldn't part with them.

The true answer is one of these
1996 Absolutego
1998 Amplifier Worship
2000 Flood
2002 Heavy Rocks
2003 Akuma no Uta
2003 Boris At Last: -Feedbacker-
2005 Dronevil

or pink

bollocks

that is the sex pistols

they are another band

Anything else and you're either having a laugh or a pitchfork reader who hasn't heard the other albums.

the true answer is that they're kind of a mediocre band. let's not get all ANGRY METALHEAD about a band that really doesn't deserve it, unless you're going to be consistent and start posting angrily in food threads and shit.

also: PINK, not having a laugh, don't read pitchfork, welcome to cognitive dissonance.

take a deep breath

BUT I AM FILLED WITH INTERNET RAGE

I really like Amplifier Worship and plenty of other bits and pieces I've heard/got, but they've always been a band whom I'm just happy that they can keep on keepin' on without feeling the need to buy into the whole collector scum thing

Sorry, but "Dronevil" on vinyl played at a volume that is too loud for anything beats "Amplifier Worship." Maybe it was just the speakers, though.

the true answer is that they're kind of a mediocre band. let's not get all ANGRY METALHEAD about a band that really doesn't deserve it, unless you're going to be consistent and start posting angrily in food threads and shit.

-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:42

who else does their peculiar mix of doom/stoner/punk?

not snark, actual curiousity.

no one - doesn't make them 'great' in my mind. who else sounds like gogol bordello? nobody, still a shit band.

who else does their peculiar mix of doom/stoner/punk?

Such an original band clearly chose a name like Boris out of thin air!

oh, right, the melvins.

"If the name appears as "Boris" or "boris," then, the music is most likely an experimental recording.[1]"

As on Akuma no Uta, but is that really one of their more experimental recordings?

haha touche

xxpost

btw there's TWO different versions of Vein (I have both) 1 of them is a 2 track "noise" version" and the other is a 12 track "hardcore" version.
The 2 track was mailed only to those people who live outside N America.
So that it would take a week for people to find out that Boris had screwed everyone over by making 2 different versions (i think there's 1100 of the US version and 400 of the Euro. I got lucky and got mine for what my friend paid for his which was the standard price. It's handy knowing people who can get me ltd us only stuff. This albumw as $100+ on ebay at the time.

oh and sorry for pissing off all you *Pink fans. I think I've been on the Southern Lord board for too long!

*Still not the best album though :)

definitely flood for me - its really the only boris album i like, which calls into question whether i really like boris

the keiji haino one or flood...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Flood was amazing live when i saw them play it this year. best 40 mins of a gig I've seen in a looong time.

If I am a fuck who likes Farewell from Pink the best, which LP do I listen to next?

Akuma no Uta.

it's got an awes cover too.
http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-2761.jpg

Pink is so totally gonna win this you guys

feedbacker is fuckin huge but i like blackout on pink and a lot of the faster thrashin tracks with the dueling leads pump me up

voted feedbacker though

How many rock bands as good or better are there, among Boris's contemporaries? Not very many.

they didn't release a really good record for at least 5 years so..

the new album rules, maybe my favorite of theirs since smile. the poppier songs are gorgeous and sort of have an... emo feel?

been leaning in that direction since akuma no uta, imo, but i haven't heard the new one, so maybe you mean in a new way?

maybe more transparently than ever, or something

Three new albums from Boris, plus a collaboration with a Japanese metal band (I think I read this is cassette only), and a Nirvana cover.

boris new album 1
New Noise Literacy 003
“urban dance"

1. un, deux, trois
2. surrender
3. choreographer
4. endless
5. game of death

FAS-04/NNL003

boris new album 2
New Noise Literacy 004
"warpath”

1. midgard schlange
2. behind the owl
3. dreamy eyed panjandrum
4. voo-vah

FAS-05/NNL004

boris new album 3
New Noise Literacy 005
"asia"

1. terracotta warrior
2. ant hill
3. talkative lord vs silence master

FAS-06/NNL005

available on merch table!
from may 2nd

https://www.facebook.com/borisheavyrocks/posts/970416566324988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmc656czwYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhor5gj8E4

the lithium cover is so bad.

and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album

they're at their best as an anime band

the lithium cover is so bad.

It really is. Maybe they hate Nirvana.

It's no "Sometimes," but I think it's more boring than awful. The slow-mo chorus is great.

and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album

they're at their best as an anime band

― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 16:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the only Boris album I really like, which is odd considering how pop it is. Stuff like Pink is OK but too cheesy rawkin for my tastes, I try to listen to Flood from time to time but I don't think I have the patience for it.

i really like a lot of their other stuff (probably akuma no uta most), but the daymare version of that record (i.e. the one that begins with "flare") is just so virtuoso and fun. i'm bummed that the far more common 'tearbridge' version's sequencing (and i think alternate mixes at times, iirc?) mess it up

I forgot that I liked Noise last year which has a fair bit of rawk on it, my own opinions don't make sense sometimes.

i liked a bit of Noise but it's nowhere close to the variety, cohesion and fun of New Album: Daymare Edition *imo*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQb9x0M0oU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YyhbfcpgY

Boris track stops, but
the drone keeps coming from my
humidifier.

did anybody get the Pink deluxe reissue?

saw them play pink on the first night of the tour in san diego when i was visiting this summer. it was near enough note perfect with the LP. incredible experience.

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef8KUvTUcAANsI3?format=jpg&name=small

Worth noting that Boris have really started to go in on their Bandcamp page this year; they had a few things up for a long while but after No came out they started adding more and more from the past to the site:

https://boris.bandcamp.com/

Tomorrow vein, präparat and eternity will be added.

There's a bunch of Boris threads so I'm not sure the most appropriate one, but it's been bumped most recently so...

I mentioned this in the Rolling Metal thread, but the new collaboration with Merzbow, 2R0I2P0 is easily one of the best things I've heard from them in a long time. In addition to some other songs, they take on some songs from LOVE & EVOL, and it really hits on the strengths of both. There is a moment during "EVOL" where Merzbow's got a bed of his usual noise grinding away and a soaring guitar solo starts to pierce through, it's great.

Yeah agreed -- a thrilling album.

I'm genuinely shocked by how good it is. I feel like they've been increasingly hit or miss in recent years and that my days of being absolutely wowed by them were in the past, but happily proven wrong with this one.

New album in January

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/w

And new single now, with a rather good cover version

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/no-l

there was a new single last month too, kind of a tie-in with a boris guitar pedal that earthquaker devices just launched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpFrv_Cr-o

New one, W, is great! Love how it builds from like this almost subdued, hazy dreampop vibe and builds the noise and sludge as it goes along.

And a new new one announced

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-rocks-2022

Said new album fucking rules, of course.

I agree. This is great. All these 'Heavy Rocks' are imo

Weird that the 2002 one hasn't gotten a formal rerelease yet. (Glad I have a rip, of course.)

Little late in getting to it but, Ned and gman are correct, the new Heavy Rocks fucking rules.

Would love a rerelease of the 2002 one!

was delighted to discover "rainbow" was available to stream after i'd lost my cd copy and couldn't bear to break the seal on my vinyl copy.

also lol, but perfectly in character with the band, that there are two different boris bands with selective sections of their discography on spotify.

I'm hoping for some sort of physical release for Fade.

Hello, per PR email just now:

Boris To Release Heavy Rocks (2002) Reissue via Third Man Records, Announce Tour with Melvins
The album, never-before-released on vinyl or digital formats, will be available 8/18 (DL) and 9/8 (CD/LP).

Also doing a tour of that album with Melvins (who are doing Bullhead).

August 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco Theater
August 25 Pomona, CA @ Glass House
August 26 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s
August 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
August 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
August 29 Petaluma, CA @ Mystic Theatre
August 31 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
September 1 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
September 2 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
September 3 Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
September 5 Fargo, ND @ The Hall at Fargo Brewing Company
September 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
September 7 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II
September 8 Chicago, IL @ The Metro
September 9 St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag
September 11 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
September 12 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
September 13 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
September 14 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
September 15 Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian
September 16 Maspeth, NY @ DesertFest NYC
September 18 Albany, NY @ Empire Live
September 19 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
September 20 Bethlehem, PA @ MusicFest Cafe
September 21 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
September 22 Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
September 23 Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
September 24 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
September 26 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
September 27 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
September 28 Savannah, GA @ District Live
September 29 Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
September 30 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
October 2 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live - Studio
October 3 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
October 4 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
October 5 Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall
October 6 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
October 7 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
October 9 Denver, CO @ Summit
October 11 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
October 13 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
October 14 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues

Double rerelease ahoy of two of the Merzbow collaborations, Klatter and 04092001:

https://borismerzbow.bandcamp.com/music

Are those both new or reissues?

reissues