never listened to
theyāre not even from Canada are they
1/5
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Oh funkhouser you beautiful genius.
5ist of the absolute 5 and will be back later to discuss more in detail.
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Kid For Today is their best song thanks
5
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There is a dark undercurrent to it that might make it a bit bleak for that. Like the imagined future of a decayed past. Iād class it as electronica rather than ambient. Definitely worth putting an album on and seeing where it takes you.
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bathtime is my only music time now really, but I might give it a shot tonight!
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I am ridiculously tall and my bath is smaller than standard issue. Listening to music in the bath would be cold and uncomfortable.
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man I hope you are more of a shower person then!"
For a relaxing bath, Iād only say avoid Geogaddi, unless you want a spooky Halloween bath in which case - go Geogaddi!
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maybe Iāll just put on that one Fourtet album I like instead
Some cracking stuff on the old tunes tapes though tbh I feel a bit guilty listening to them
Oh, god, how much to write? Fuck it, Iāve got nothing else on.
No musical artist has ever and will ever change my life as much as BoC. Ready Letās Go.
My introduction to them came from the front of another album that said āyouāll love this if you like Boards of Canadaā, so I went the other way, and went to Boards of Canada. I listened to Music Has the Right to Children for the first time in 2004, and it blew my fucking mind away. I was still listening religiously to Snow Patrolās Final Straw, for fucks sake, and picking up the CD in Fopp and sliding it into my Discman, I had literally no idea what was about to happen.
That moment is like the origin story of not just my musical taste, but my introduction to a whole shifting sand of artists that Iād been sworn off. Throughout the late 1990s Iād been pushed away from electronic music thanks in part to my dad who said āwhereās the lyrics?ā and āreal instruments?ā stuff, which fed into my feelings. I liked a lot of music I heard around that time but never ever found a way into it, because none of my friends at the time liked anything like it. I had Ministry Sound annuals, but hid them from friends like people would hide guilty pleasures, and I cannot fathom why I resisted so much.
I remember, at uni, seeing the adverts around the city for Campfire Headphase in 2005 and I had to buy it, and got it day one. I loved it. I missed Geogaddi for fucks sake! I didnāt know they had another album!
Then, in Fopp, a guy who had seen me buying TCH and pointed me in the direction of a lovely orange coloured cover and I was taken inā¦
But it wasnāt truly until I move to Aberdeen and broke up with my girlfriend where they took over my life entirely. I remember being on a coach from Aberdeen to Glasgow via Dundee and listening to MHTRTC and reading a Murakami novel and it just clicking so hard with my mood. It felt like a change beyond all changes that music has ever undergone after a first pass of loved listens. It was transformic, in my view, and changed me view of everything. Not long after this, i followed their through line to Orbital, Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Loscil, Tychoā¦ and the rest is history.
I wouldnāt have my podcast if it werenāt for them. I wouldnāt be on this forum if it wasnāt for them.
Music Has the Right to Children
I can put this on at any time of the day, at any moment, I can still find new things to enjoy. Aboslutely a stunner.
Geogaddi
This is my allrounder favourite, and I feel like itās a classic again. Truly masters of the craft.
The Campfire Headphase
I discounted this for so so long, and now itās the one I return to most at the moment, as I love the acoustic guitar and the higher band and warmer tones. Really impressive.
Tomorrowās Harvest
It feels like 2013 was yesterday, but it wasnāt. It was pre-marriage, pre-two-kidsā¦ and I still feel like I am trying to āgetā this album, and each time it is played I hear new things more and more.
Obviously, I am deep into the lore as well. Iāve got all the bootlegs that folk seriously consider to be them for real, so Old Tunes Vol 1, Vol 2, 35 Random Track Tape and, my favourite, BoC Maxima.
And iāve made fake albums of their other bootlegged stuff;
Favourite tracks, not posted:
Also, want to heard me talking shit about their debut on my podcast?
Not sure why Mixcloud isnāt embedding anymore, but hereās the link.
And then thereās the Twoism Records series of One on Twoism stuff, which on them there are some absolutely excellent pastiches, but also really good music from artists thatād go on to be better, like our own @manches
True.
So, in summary; 1/5, donāt bother your arse.
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Itās always fun to listen to their albums with Bocpages open to check out all the crazy details people have found
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I keep forgetting Iām on that OoT compilation! I think I was a teenager at the time and that weirds me out. Iāve got the CD somewhere
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Theres a bit of Wind Up Bird Chronicle (the stretch with the well) that fits scarily well with Geogaddi
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My shower is shorter than I am. First world gripes though.
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if you like my podcast in the bath, you might enjoy MHTRTC in the bath
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Hell yes!
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For BoC exās birthday in 2013 I:
- naively looked up whether any of the copies of that were for sale online, and then saw how much they went for and decided to go homemade
- ripped the Few Old Tunes Vol 1 tape from YouTube
- burned it to a CD on iTunes
- recorded the CD to a cassette
- found the album inset, scaled to size, cut it out and put it in the cassette case
He cried and said it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for him. (ā¦and then broke up with me a month later)
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