ugh mature work blegh, do not want
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
the stuff before geogaddi I just love listening to. the stuff after I don’t. bring on adolescence.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
their overall sound got uglier and less pleasant once they got better gear or whatever. and lost character. everything just sounded more and more sterilized, like the synths became a slick VST of whatever they did before. all the haze disappeared.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
Vs. artists repeating what they did twenty years ago and becoming progressively less relevant.
This is awfully pseudy but fuckit - earlier I happened to be half listening to a podcast in which they were talking about h4untology and 4ccelerationism and... something about how the preoccupation with a haunted past or the past haunting the present was an intriguing and fun response to perceived stasis but innevitably ran out of steam (so to speak). This tendency that BoC was a cool bellwether for therefore ended, certain headless horsemen still being flogged notwithstanding. So that was culturally a precursor or 'adolescence' if you will for, well, whatever it was that came or is still to come. To BoCs real credit they were quick to recognise this for themselves and take different approaches.
― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
yeah I see what you mean. It’s a catch-22 cliche, right? Repeat yourself and risk diluting the magic, try something new and risk losing the magic.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
my hot take is that they stopped enjoying or being excited by making music some time around geogaddi.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
Sad to see Campfire still being dismissed 15 years later.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 September 2020 08:20 (three years ago) link
Don't think anyone's dismissing it, just seems to be most people's least favourite.
― chap, Thursday, 3 September 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link
how did I manage to miss the opening track to their 2001 ATP show? (I somehow thought it was a sound check/intro kinda thing, but it's like their answer to Eno's An Ascent)https://youtu.be/fjrPpzNeNZ0
― StanM, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
(don't read the comments)
― StanM, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
one of my friends recently casually mentioned that he saw that show and I was pretty near speechless with envy
― umsworth (emsworth), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
their Warp10 set is worth a listen toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQ6Sp2JuPA
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 06:33 (three years ago) link
the devil is in the details
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
Thanks, it is! xp
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
the gyroscope devil gysroscope is gyroscope in gyroscope the gyroscope. details
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Thursday, 15 October 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 30 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
hmmmm
― lukas, Saturday, 31 October 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
DAWN CHORUS? What even happens in that song?
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 November 2020 05:27 (three years ago) link
Plenty. It may be the only track I can easily conjure in my head from the title alone!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 23 November 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
Sending a team of lawyers to rescind the count
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 23 November 2020 08:48 (three years ago) link
Yes, this is an irregular result.
― chap, Monday, 23 November 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link