Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into

Tomorrow's Harvest is secretly the best Boards LP

fuck the hype, that one will convert you

would be curious to know rough ages of those for whom the nostalgia of BoC’s earlier work doesn’t resonate. Especially anybody who prefers the 90s nostalgia of vaporwave. For children of the late 70s who watched a certain type of public television, educational film, nature documentary, it should resonate immediately. When I first heard BoC (I think it was the song Aquarius), it hit me immediately - and it came out of nowhere. It tapped into an atmosphere I’d forgotten but was so familiar. It was like the pivotal moment with the food critic in the movie Ratatouille. I don’t listen to them a lot these days, and when I do it’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, but I’ll love MHTRTC forever for the feelings and mood it evoked when I had it on constant rotation.

I think nabisco compared it even more specifically to the sound of those soundtracks being warped on the playback of old, near-replacement film reels, which is definitely evocative of elementary school for me.

Yeah I remember 1998-9 was the year of MHTRTC, Mogwai's Come On Die Young and Autechre's EP7 - all deeply burned into my brain. I was 29 at the time and in the right window age-wise.

Sund4r OTM.

BTW I did a double take and had to scroll back a bit because when I first arrived to thread I thought you guys were talking about Blue Öyster Cult and had just been a little remiss in the acronym.

borads of canada leave me pretty cold too and i am absolutely a child of the 70s. i think it's the vague head-noddery of the beats more than anything else - i get what they're trying to do but too much of it just plods along

actually they’re awesome

hard to be transported on a hobbled horse innit

did the whole jorge ben revive pass without anyone mentioning africa brasil? it's the best album ever. he basically invented a new genre of music.

it’s not “psychedelic” in fact it’s probably “breezy curtain” music or whatever so who cares

Agree that those of you who aren't into BoC are wrong, but also agree that "keep trying" isn't the best advice.

In my experience, you need to switch up the listening context to have any kind of revelation... listen while stoned, see it played live, hear it as a soundtrack to something. Sometimes when music gets recontextualized like this, you realize what was sitting in front of you all along.

yeah like hearing BTO “taking care of business” on a mediocre FM signal while driving to pick up ice at 7-11 l, covered in dirt and sweat, 5pm Thursday after a shitty workday, i hella felt that song

I second Alex's suggestion to at least check out In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country.

that boc ep is my favourite listening on noise-cancelling headphones while flying. actually i think boc work better in the air than on the earth. following enochroot's suggestion, that could be a good way to recontextualize boc.

yeah like hearing BTO “taking care of business” on a mediocre FM signal while driving to pick up ice at 7-11 l, covered in dirt and sweat, 5pm Thursday after a shitty workday, i hella felt that song

:D

i haven't been converted to BTO but i feel this! there was one magical time, alone in the living room, when fleetwood mac's "don't stop" (which i normally skip) made perfect sense to me and briefly became the best song in the world. wish i could go back!

xp - is that the one with Don't Fear the Reaper on it?

"dayvan cowboy" "don't fear the reaper" "mashup"

About 72 results (0.30 seconds)

None of them are conclusive, alas.

xp - is that the one with Don't Fear the Reaper on it?

Hope that cleared up any confusion

wait a second, hold on

The mashup is happening after all.

boc = boards of canada AND blue oyster cult

luckily the music of both is best heard in the same exact social contexts, so the last several posts are still very useful regardless

The mashup is happening after all.

Flew in from Miami Beach with boc

dang Karl, I envy your “don’t stop” experience, it’s the one FM song I can’t stand

I got another one for the thread: The Bevis Frond

what makes "don't stop" a banger is imagining lindsey b Extremely On Cocaine while performing

my contribution to this thread is ive never been able to get into pink floyd. find them dull songwriters.

Syd wasn’t! (But most Floyd heads seem not to like his shit too much, lol)

floyd fans who don’t like syd are: fuckin wrong

brimstead what don't u like abt Bevis Frond? I love all the stuff up tp Sprawl, but I can see several dealbreakers e.g. the inept cardboard box drum sound

Pretty sure I said this upthread, but my #1 has gotta be Scott Walker. Overemoting constantly does not make you a good singer. Also sets off every "pretentious" alarm in the house.

so otm

As an update to my trying to get into Sonic Youth: Sister is indeed awesome and I want to hear more like that. It has the right blend of melody and noise for me. Evol has two good opening tracks and a great closing track but the rest just drifts by - decent, but I don't think I'll come back to it. Still willing to hear another album so I'll try Dirty next

There's a string of Bevis Frond albums in the 2000s that are relentless combinations of bleak imagery, mopery about lost traditions, and fourteen minute low-fi garage rock jams. The album from last year is better, but the only reason I can explain why it's so is because I haven't deleted it yet.

That said, my knowledge of Bevis minutiae is bullshit because while I love one demented genius, I cannot, have not, have never been able, and have ultimately given up on another. I will never be a Guided By Voices fan.

PINK FLOYD RULES

have basically split the difference between childhood worship of floyd and twentysomething 'floyd suck!' contrarianism these days. they were good. i still get to be a contrarian by saying that 'a saucerful of secrets' is their best studio album.

Pink Floyd worship was more contrarian than not in most of the circles I haunted as a twenty-something, so I've stuck to my childhood toy guns throughout. Anyway, A Saucerful of Secrets is good.

Bevis Frond, man. I totally forgot about them/him. Once, in high school, I read a review that sent me to ... New River Head? It was OK, iirc, but remains the only one I've ever heard. I haven't heard it in decades, but still can hum a couple of songs. I think of the band as lost to me in an era when the only way to hear stuff like the Bevis Frond was to buy the album, but there was no way I was going to dive deeper into someone that obscure yet prolific at that time in my life. Too difficult/expensive. Really underscores how crazy it is that now I could have his entire catalog for free in 5 minutes ...

made a nice little playlist of post-Syd, pre-DSOTM Floyd which, outside of owning and liking Meddle, was an era with which I was totally unfamiliar.

Pink Floyd Rules, albeit erratically

I had heard of Bevis Frond but never listened to him/them, but he lives near me and they played a gig in town just before Xmas, which was pretty good, so this year is the year I finally listen to Bevis Frond. Haven't started yet tho. He owns a record shop in the next town which is supposed to be good, I think I'll be visiting it soon

also started chronologically listening to Pink Floyd, I only really knew the Syd era and generally thought post-Syd Pink Floyd sucked. so far I've listened to Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother neither of which have done anything to change that opinion

Don’t go chronological, dude... just check out the big, famous, mid-period albums and see what you think.

made a nice little playlist of post-Syd, pre-DSOTM Floyd which, outside of owning and liking Meddle, was an era with which I was totally unfamiliar.

Pink Floyd Rules, albeit erratically

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Floyd is weird in that a totally ubiquitous and legendary classic rock warhorse has this whole period (imo their best) that's weirdly unknown

i guess Bob Welch era Fleetwood Mac is kind of the same thing

anyway there was a sale on Obscured by Clouds vinyl on Amazon and am listening now, love this record

hell, even peter green fleetwood mac is pretty unknown in the states... in america only record nerds know "albatross"

heh yeah it's like 13 songs and 5 of them are from Obscured

xpost

xpost Plus "Oh Well," which I just saw covered by the Monks of Doom Wednesday night. And "Black Magic Woman," though I guess most folks don't think of that as a FM song.

On some days Peter Green Fleetwood Mac is the key to the world.

I never even knew Albatross growing up, but Oh Well was a staple on the classic rock station....

someone on Twitter was like IT'S NOT FLEETWOOD MAC WITH OUT LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM and i was like lkasdf;kjasdl;fkjhalskdhfipawhf;as

I thought Meddle was fairly well known but I guess growing up I kinda knew it as their 'obscure' great album

maybe a good thread idea - don't the Bee Gees have a ton of pre-disco records that aren't really well-known but were ultimately their best?

the only pre-Buckingham/ Nicks FM i've ever heard on American classic rock radio are "Oh Well" (maybe? late at night?), "Hypnotized", and "Sentimental Lady". And Sentimental might have very well been Welch's solo version.

i think what puts Meddle on a casual fan's radar is "Fearless"

xpost It Is sort of a good thread idea, if it hasn't been done, because yeah, Bee Gees are another hugely successful band with a whole hunk of career that most people don't know.

They played the hell out of "One of These Days" from "Meddle" on classic rock radio growing up. I'm not sure I ever really listened to or at least appreciated "Echoes" until I was older.