I once put on this EP in my car stereo, driving down a mountain road after a lazy afternoon sunbathing with some mates. The sun was low, the light was perfect, the sky so clean. I remember nobody said a word. There was absolutely nothing to say. We must have all felt high, without any dope. I drove as slowly as I possibly could to just prolongue the bliss. When we got back, nobody still said a word. I just put Geoggadi on and drove back up.
Boards of Canada tells your inner child that it’s okay, that there is no monster in the closet, and that life may suck, but to get past the bumps you must climb them, pass the horrors of emotion to reach the top. And “creepy” songs tell you that life is scary.
alone? PLEASE! i've been addicted to it ALL through the years. currently "meth" is my thing. and i don't sweat it. i accept it as what it is and enjoy my life. it is easier being retired with no responsibilities though. but i've been a self medicator since 16 years of age and i'm 64 now. and i must say; NO REGRETS.
Makes me feel like I'm sitting in the backseat, as a child, staring out the window on a Sunday afternoon (getting closer to when the blinding sun starts to set in; kinda hard to describe that feeling). While staring out into the mountains, where I live, I drown out the sound of my family talking about whatever is on their mind, and I look at the passing cows or horses, and I feel at peace.
+Meowingtons_64 why can't people respond a little more eloquently? I can't begin to explain how upset I get when I'm acknowledged by a one word response such as this. Would it kill you to respond with more than one word? Especially considering the thought and emotion guy put into making his comment, well put by the way.
Rusty Shackleford sorry, I had to go somewhere at the time, so I rushed the comment. I totally agree that if I'd put as much effort, time and emotion into a comment and received a one word reply I would be abit disappointed.
xander j. Everyone experiences a life era where that thought is the most prioitized. But the same faith will commence upon you no matter what What kind of wannabe wiseass do i think i am lol
Many artists make u feel like they get your feelings but Boards of Canada kinda understands your genes or some serious shit, it's scary at times but you just can't get enough of it.
@@theshipoffoolsgiven the widespread legality of more potent herbal remedies, I bet they're all giggling in a circle of skunky smelling smoke bobbing heads, legs, knees, hips, etc. with smiles like kids on Christmas morning.
This kind of old footage always fascinates me in a certain way. People just doing their thing, but a long time ago. What kind of things were they thinking about in their everyday lives? What did their life look like? Where are these people now, or are the dead? Seeing them go about, and knowing the things that they'll encounter in their future life (man on the moon, Vietnam war, the invention of the mobile phone, etc.) feels kind of weird.
I do sometimes think of that. When I see my two young boys running around, playing, I sometimes wonder what they will experience in their future world.
We still will be using old footage after 20 years ahead in time. Only even older, then. Sad thing is that I cannot imagine what will survive as retro from this time. It is really applicable what we meant by wondering what will the future people think of us. We don't go to the moon nor make great things anymore, mostly just shortsighted crap. Still, eternal things survive by definition. What is eternal, then, you'll ask.
@@schumispecial1 Nostalgia for the 50s, 60s and 70s, it's becoming increasingly clear, really is recognition of a kind of golden age and not just a product of the filter of history or idealising the past. Not that there weren't huge problems then too, but in the west at least it was a time of both technological progress, prosperity and equality basically without equal or precedent in human history. Mass production was still allied to great craft and design skill, giving rise to really good quality products that were widely available and affordable. The democratisation of education hugely enriched culture, e.g. with working class kids forming bands based not just on their love of rock 'n' roll, but their readings of Camus, Sartre, Marx, McLuhan etc. And it was all documented on film, one of the most magical and beautiful mediums of all time, now rendered 'obsolete' in our downward rush into the cold dematerialised homogeneity of everything must be digital.
i remember a strange little place outside my 4 year old sensibilities; it was an odd patch of turned up old bricks where someone had tossed a few coins. We found those coins and declared it a place where you find coins and we went many times getting less successful each time.
I wish I knew the place. I'd go there once a week and just dump a bag of coins for the next generation of mystics who will be yearning for fiat currency.
BOC represent all of a living species that is yet to understand. They represent and show everyone in their lives that believe in something, and how that belief changes society. It's eerie because life at its core is eerie. No one knows, yet we are able to make sense. Make another cup of tea, or hit up some acid. However you understand and live, hit replay. This never gets old.
+Kevin Andrew Having used psychedelic substances I wholly agree with your statement that life and existence at it's core is very eerie. They've also helped me to come to that conclusion. It's even stranger, when you end up feeling comforted by that fact, and relishing in the oddness of the world we as characters find ourselves in. Oh well. Time to eat a few packets of morning glory and eat some nice alien flesh! :)
I remember listening to this song a bit over a week ago. I had my eyes closed and the melodies and ambient canvas these two put together brought back the most incredibly vivid memories from my distant, distant childhood. I'm turning 22 in 3 week, I don't know where the time went. The nostalgia and warmth and sadness I felt all at once was so powerful, I cried because of the sheer beauty. And the words being repeated over, and over in this song...must be related to what they experienced as kids, maybe when they moved to Canada at a young age? I mean I know they're referencing the Davidians, but that's it- the sheer peculiarity that is that entire situation. What the people had going through their minds, what they desired, and how wrong it all went. How are we an different in theory? It reminds me of the kind of life I'd like to live (not with the occult lol). Of the power of the possibility we all have to live in our own little worlds and how blown out of proportion our modern countries are. Boards of Canada never fails to impress and inspire me.
You are 22....just you wait how strong those feelings will be once you are over 30 :-). Still nicely written, dear Sir. I wish that you can live your life fully, without regrets but also without intentionally hurting others.
The vocal sample was spoken during a sermon buy George Roden, a bishop for the dividians who was planning to take over for his mother who was the current leader. Bizzarely, he was forced out of the compound later by Koresh, who was having an affair with Roden's mother, and he eventually lead a shootout which drove Roden off the compound. The way I see it, the song is less nostalgic and almost dreadful. It's impossible to know but you can't help but wonder how Koresh lead those dividians into their demise. Koresh was a megalomaniac and horrifically abusive leader- how many people stayed there because they believed it was a holy armageddon, or because the abuse left them little choice? It gives me chills just pondering. 25 children died in the waco siege.
Also try early Steve Reich - violin phase, piano phase, Come Out, Clapping Music, etc. And Terry Riley, In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air. Also check out Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby.
I first heard this in my bed as a teenager while listening to some underground Parisian radio station. I was awestruck at it's beautiful intricate simplicity. As of from nature. Our own.
Not as much hate and personal attacking someone as you :) glad you needed my comment to try justify shown the level of inner hate you disguise as a defence.
Boards of Canada always leaves me behind with one hell of a nostalgia boost and lots of indescribable emotions , their music isn’t from this planet I’m sure of that .
Lovely people. A great community. Based around eating and sharing. It does work. And you dont need to label it anything. Happiness ensues People find solace And a wider understanding of those that aren't of the same culture or skin colour
As a Canuck who came of age in the 80s and 90s and was surrounded by sepia-tinged, crackling NFB and CBC film strips hinting at a bygone golden cultural age, I can't help but be flattered and impressed that people overseas recognized its genius as well. As a fan of electronic music, I'm blown away by the artists' ability to render that sense of nostalgia and zeitgeist into rich musical tableaus
The video is perfectly matched to the music in that there is something sombre and unnerving behind the pleasantness. Like a false sense of security, if you will.
it actually makes nostalgic, in a bitter way. So much I could've done, that I didn't. BoC tells me it's alright and I follow that feeling while, at the same time, my thoughts are still on sadness.
with only one line and a video, I've somehow interpreted Boards of Canada's curiosity with the fascination of the simple life and why people would enjoy it... and how there's something eerie and mind control-esqe about the whole thing
A lot of people tell me that Aphex Twin's music sounds alien and inhuman, while Boards of Canada has a familiar and human sound, but for me it's the complete opposite. Almost all of AFX's work feels really down to earth and connected to me, while Boards of Canada is music that makes me picture a bleak future with no organic life.
+Alpha Zalgo To me, afx's music is indeed quite grounding and BoC is lifting me to surreal places in my mind. Something that feels very natural (although might seem supernatural) and human, I'd say.
+Alpha Zalgo for me, BoC is liking going to the perfect forest on the perfect day, a day too good to be true, where Aphex Twin is like bringing up deep desires, shames, and other things we all feel into the light.
When I was very little, my older brothers used the garage and other spaces to build various projects, painting periscopes and wooden floors for martial arts. Sometimes they used nothing more than plywood that matched the walls of the garage, afterwards painting with camoflauge colors. I often preferred to stare into the sky than to build things. I come back to those days with songs like this, wondering where all those lost memories will go.
Still a masterful piece of music, and still as relevant today as it was when I first heard it on MTV over 20 years ago... back when MTV was all about breaking boundaries in music and promoting new & upcoming artists. Miss those days.
this is perhaps the best description of boc's music i've ever heard. i've never thought of it that way but as i read your words it all became so clear. this music reminds us of a simplier time, a more innocent time and as the years wear on we yearn for that life again and know that we will never have it. this music comforts us and lets us know that even though we may not be able to experience it fully again, those times before are locked inside of us as memories and feelings. and boc is the key
I love this song. I bought this EP in June 2014 and I was in my final weeks of first year at Uni. In my halls, most if not all people had left for the summer. I listened to this and the music and peaceful vibes on campus made me feel like I was on a non-spiritual retreat.
as a 14 year old guy who suffers from overthink and mental shit, this really wakes me up. I remember playing jak 3(my favorite game of all time) with my mom in my room like 8 years ago. the music in the game is similar and man time flies fast. thank you boc
you were 14 when you wrote this damn u were a fucking legend. im 14 now and im in love with boc for about half a year now. real nice to see someone who enjoyed them at my age
Boards Of Canada I have to say, are one of the most influential bands I have ever herd. I hardly listen to them but every time I do it's just... Amazing?
One of my favorites of all time, and always will be. I love listening to BoC whenever I'm creating something, because it puts me into that frame of mind.. into that beautiful place out in the country..
Am I the only one getting a slightly eerie tone from this? "Come out and live in a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country." Sounds a little like Jonestown or maybe just hippies I don't know
So ahead of its time, I got into BOC because of adult swim's music & youtube suggestions. When I found out gyroscope in sinister being made by BOC i lost my shit. I couldnt believe some random group I stumbled upon on my own also made a random banger I loved from the getgo. I felt I was meant to listen to BOC & fall into a trance blissful mental state of mind. No one else I know can really resonate with BOC & the feelings & thoughts it provokes within me so I simply bask in the sound on my own when the opportunity arises. So peaceful, so unbothered, its like my past is flashing within the present, like moments in dreams are merging with reality. Like fake memories being mixed with the real ones. Maybe its just me coping, I feel good though.
boards of canada is simply the greatest electronic music ever composed. and i listen to everything from dubstep to house music. this music is perfect for anyone
This song invokes so many feelings! These people in the video are oblivious! But they are doing there best, and the Alien is relaying his observation to his superiors! I love it!! Just Beautiful!!
mallemall012 its just that the real, and the intellectually talented, are hardly recognized in this sick brainwashed society, that's the point of that comment, at least in my mind.
I stumbled on this track 16 years ago. Pirated it to my iPod nano. That winter was memorable for no particular reason. I wonder if this was the advent of my interest in vaporwave.
I like that the main chord sequence is pretty much the same as that from 'Everything You Do is a Balloon', giving the two pieces an eerie comparability
I wish BoC would just release an album every week. Every time I hear something by them that I haven't heard before, it makes me wonder why I listen to anything else.
Ashley T, I thought the same thing. What's creepy though was that I was watching a CNN documentary called "Escape from Jonestown" at the time. I believe the dialog snippets are from someone talking about the Branch Davidians or something though.
Maghen Hamilton Yep. Hence why I talked about the Branch Davidians. Just saying that the imagery and stuff reminded me of Jonestown too, which Ashley T talked about.
a friend gave this to me on vinyl 10 years ago, i never bothered to read the label that said 45 rpm, i've experienced this at 33 rpm over and over and over, not even knowing it was intended to be heard at 45, until today! I like it at 45 too, extremely gorgeous at 33 though...
I can't imagine listening to this at the wrong speed. It's trippy enough at the RIGHT speed. I thought BOC blew my mind but you just beat them hands down by saying this.
I once put on this EP in my car stereo, driving down a mountain road after a lazy afternoon sunbathing with some mates. The sun was low, the light was perfect, the sky so clean. I remember nobody said a word. There was absolutely nothing to say. We must have all felt high, without any dope. I drove as slowly as I possibly could to just prolongue the bliss. When we got back, nobody still said a word. I just put Geoggadi on and drove back up.
+Stefano Amorosi Wow. thank you so much for sharing that. That sounded like an incredible experience.
Wow you and your friends are so interesting just wow omfg holy shit absolute madman incredible wow
+Stefano Amorosi I love this comment. Just saying. Cheers :)
+kittyvalium ikr? hes sooo cool and unique and tough man he went through a lot of crazy stuff man wow such a hero man woaa
I wish I had friends that I could do stuff like that with, nobody seems to want to just appreciate the small low key calm moments and it makes me sad
life has tried its hardest to beat it out of me, but a sense of child-like wonder and amazement still lives on within me thanks to music like this.
Amen to that
well said, I think I feel this more than ever in 2023
Yes. Even in the darkest of pits music can still create a fire inside of you.
That little kid in us all, is still there 🥹💕
Boards of Canada tells your inner child that it’s okay, that there is no monster in the closet, and that life may suck, but to get past the bumps you must climb them, pass the horrors of emotion to reach the top. And “creepy” songs tell you that life is scary.
Ah... all this nostalgia of moments that didn't happen.
Just that.
The Matrix cannot tell you who you are.
god exactly so painful i nearly can't listen to it sometimes. what is it
Your comment reminded me of this :)
ruclips.net/video/wH6ZCIRjI14/видео.html
thanks a lot for sharing this +Phigment
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
Albert Einstein
Ganz ruuuhig bleiben
Albert Einstein was a patent office worker who stole everything from inventions to quotes.
@@ChaosBW who'd he steal the theory of relativity off then?
@@mynameisjoejeans what are the properties of space time such that they can be bent? It looks like absolute nonsense to me.
@@mynameisjoejeans Henri Poincaré
interesting to see an entire genre dedicated to embracing an unsettling nostalgic feeling of addictive anxiety that i often thought i was alone with.
Oh dear Sir, you ARE not alone in this! And more folks 40+ will join us soon.
very well put
Feeling the same way buddy
alone? PLEASE! i've been addicted to it ALL through the years. currently "meth" is my thing. and i don't sweat it. i accept it as what it is and enjoy my life. it is easier being retired with no responsibilities though. but i've been a self medicator since 16 years of age and i'm 64 now. and i must say; NO REGRETS.
As Mr Bowie says.... Your not alone !
Every BoC comment thread for every song is the same and it's gold.
Makes me feel like I'm sitting in the backseat, as a child, staring out the window on a Sunday afternoon (getting closer to when the blinding sun starts to set in; kinda hard to describe that feeling). While staring out into the mountains, where I live, I drown out the sound of my family talking about whatever is on their mind, and I look at the passing cows or horses, and I feel at peace.
OMG i feel you! and this warm sensation on my peaceful sleepy face!
same
+Meowingtons_64 why can't people respond a little more eloquently? I can't begin to explain how upset I get when I'm acknowledged by a one word response such as this. Would it kill you to respond with more than one word? Especially considering the thought and emotion guy put into making his comment, well put by the way.
Rusty Shackleford sorry, I had to go somewhere at the time, so I rushed the comment. I totally agree that if I'd put as much effort, time and emotion into a comment and received a one word reply I would be abit disappointed.
same
i cant express in words how this song makes me feel
And nor should you, just take it in and have comfort knowing that we feel it too! :)
Ok yoda gaming
It makes you feel like you should live in a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country?
A feeling of wishing to start over, and make different life choices.
xander j. Everyone experiences a life era where that thought is the most prioitized. But the same faith will commence upon you no matter what
What kind of wannabe wiseass do i think i am lol
the rest of your life start right aboooouuuuutttt.... now
Michael Bricci that's actually extremely refreshing.
it's happening
You should look into Alan Watts. You might come to love everything in life, even the "mistakes" of your life.
Many artists make u feel like they get your feelings but Boards of Canada kinda understands your genes or some serious shit, it's scary at times but you just can't get enough of it.
Fr, these songs feel disturbingly comforting, like they understand my subconcious
The use of old footage of people young and having much of their life ahead of them, gives it an ethereal yet sad quality., and, I love it anyway.
Considering they're probably all dead by now sorta cements that fact.
@@theshipoffoolsgiven the widespread legality of more potent herbal remedies, I bet they're all giggling in a circle of skunky smelling smoke bobbing heads, legs, knees, hips, etc. with smiles like kids on Christmas morning.
This kind of old footage always fascinates me in a certain way. People just doing their thing, but a long time ago. What kind of things were they thinking about in their everyday lives? What did their life look like? Where are these people now, or are the dead? Seeing them go about, and knowing the things that they'll encounter in their future life (man on the moon, Vietnam war, the invention of the mobile phone, etc.) feels kind of weird.
Now put that perspective onto yourself, Imagine the things in 20 years time that will be invented that we have no clue of yet
I do sometimes think of that. When I see my two young boys running around, playing, I sometimes wonder what they will experience in their future world.
We still will be using old footage after 20 years ahead in time. Only even older, then. Sad thing is that I cannot imagine what will survive as retro from this time. It is really applicable what we meant by wondering what will the future people think of us. We don't go to the moon nor make great things anymore, mostly just shortsighted crap. Still, eternal things survive by definition. What is eternal, then, you'll ask.
@@schumispecial1 Nostalgia for the 50s, 60s and 70s, it's becoming increasingly clear, really is recognition of a kind of golden age and not just a product of the filter of history or idealising the past. Not that there weren't huge problems then too, but in the west at least it was a time of both technological progress, prosperity and equality basically without equal or precedent in human history. Mass production was still allied to great craft and design skill, giving rise to really good quality products that were widely available and affordable. The democratisation of education hugely enriched culture, e.g. with working class kids forming bands based not just on their love of rock 'n' roll, but their readings of Camus, Sartre, Marx, McLuhan etc. And it was all documented on film, one of the most magical and beautiful mediums of all time, now rendered 'obsolete' in our downward rush into the cold dematerialised homogeneity of everything must be digital.
This song reminds me that I was a kid once, and that life wasn't so serious, and still to some extent shouldn't be so serious. Absolutely beautiful
Well put
This song was planted in all your minds at birth, remember?
Mark M I knew I'd heard it somewhere before... :)
Baaaahaaahaaaa!!!
clever one :D
Ya, I remember...we all sat in front of old monitors in a school which was set in the 50s, and we watched all this before we decided to come here.
if you were born 75-90
i remember a strange little place outside my 4 year old sensibilities; it was an odd patch of turned up old bricks where someone had tossed a few coins. We found those coins and declared it a place where you find coins and we went many times getting less successful each time.
:/
beautiful.
I wish I knew the place. I'd go there once a week and just dump a bag of coins for the next generation of mystics who will be yearning for fiat currency.
The comments on this video are nothing short of amazing.
We're all friends here
Eno and Aphex Twin ones are usually very worth reading too.
BOC represent all of a living species that is yet to understand. They represent and show everyone in their lives that believe in something, and how that belief changes society. It's eerie because life at its core is eerie. No one knows, yet we are able to make sense. Make another cup of tea, or hit up some acid. However you understand and live, hit replay. This never gets old.
+Kevin Andrew Great! TY for that, BOC for life
+Kevin Andrew I try to learn english, but I not understand anything of this. however I will try again. =)
BOC for life!!!
+Bandito Calavera lol, exactly. Infancy as absolute. I am so high right now. I love you all.
+Kevin Andrew Having used psychedelic substances I wholly agree with your statement that life and existence at it's core is very eerie. They've also helped me to come to that conclusion. It's even stranger, when you end up feeling comforted by that fact, and relishing in the oddness of the world we as characters find ourselves in. Oh well. Time to eat a few packets of morning glory and eat some nice alien flesh! :)
+Kevin Andrew BoC fans are a great lot for getting too uppity.
back to the beautiful place out in the country
This song creeps the shit out of me. It has been all that I have been hearing for almost a week. It's not stuck in my head... just won't ever go away.
Almost like I'm haunted by it...
+JosephMTG2 Mapping This made my morning
Would it help if i told you that they are singing the motto of the same cult who did Jonestown.
+Alex Richard grand davidians arent the people from jonestown they're from the waco massacre
Listen to BOC's Geogaddi album then come back here, will make this song sound peaceful compared to that spooky ass album.
“Come out, and live with a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country.”
It's "Drop out...and live in a religious..."
@@thawachyasintinoraskasloui4238 Nope, it's Come out.
I would love to
Depends if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plans to call in.
Country yes, cults no.
This was the first BOC track I ever heard back in 2000 . Totally blew me away..I haven't listened to any other music seriously since.. Heavenly!
I remember listening to this song a bit over a week ago. I had my eyes closed and the melodies and ambient canvas these two put together brought back the most incredibly vivid memories from my distant, distant childhood. I'm turning 22 in 3 week, I don't know where the time went. The nostalgia and warmth and sadness I felt all at once was so powerful, I cried because of the sheer beauty. And the words being repeated over, and over in this song...must be related to what they experienced as kids, maybe when they moved to Canada at a young age? I mean I know they're referencing the Davidians, but that's it- the sheer peculiarity that is that entire situation. What the people had going through their minds, what they desired, and how wrong it all went. How are we an different in theory? It reminds me of the kind of life I'd like to live (not with the occult lol). Of the power of the possibility we all have to live in our own little worlds and how blown out of proportion our modern countries are. Boards of Canada never fails to impress and inspire me.
Silvio Aldebot I wasn't aware that they moved to Canada. I thought that they were Scottish the name had nothing to do with their region.
You are 22....just you wait how strong those feelings will be once you are over 30 :-).
Still nicely written, dear Sir. I wish that you can live your life fully, without regrets but also without intentionally hurting others.
The vocal sample was spoken during a sermon buy George Roden, a bishop for the dividians who was planning to take over for his mother who was the current leader. Bizzarely, he was forced out of the compound later by Koresh, who was having an affair with Roden's mother, and he eventually lead a shootout which drove Roden off the compound. The way I see it, the song is less nostalgic and almost dreadful. It's impossible to know but you can't help but wonder how Koresh lead those dividians into their demise. Koresh was a megalomaniac and horrifically abusive leader- how many people stayed there because they believed it was a holy armageddon, or because the abuse left them little choice? It gives me chills just pondering. 25 children died in the waco siege.
Its the only music Ive heard which completely transports me into another realm, similar to meditating.
try eno, basinski, fripp
digg deeper into ambient music - like Reptile said; Basinski is a fantastic choice
Also try early Steve Reich - violin phase, piano phase, Come Out, Clapping Music, etc. And Terry Riley, In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air. Also check out Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby.
Come out, and live with a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country
I could have sworn it was something about a 'pretentious community'.
xD rofl
and make a cool aid
Thanks, I didn't remember what it said and it's kind of hard to understand
Nostalgic for a time and place I've never known or been.
Thats BoC for ya
Their music always leaves me with nothing to say... yet with a ton of feelings to feel.
I first heard this in my bed as a teenager while listening to some underground Parisian radio station. I was awestruck at it's beautiful intricate simplicity. As of from nature. Our own.
what radio station was that
Not only do these videos give me anxiety but they're absolutely terrifying for some reason. I really do love them.
ahhh damn this is just breathtaking, I have no words for the beauty of these chords. BOC makes music that is not from this planet.
well said....Amazing........I get lost in this tragic melodic sound scape.
But this childrens' laugh is kinda creepy...
Jogi J. "Beauty is always strange" Beaudelaire
haha yes yes no words to describe bla bla bla bla bla .... what does BOC'S shit taste like you lick it so much
Not as much hate and personal attacking someone as you :) glad you needed my comment to try justify shown the level of inner hate you disguise as a defence.
Boards of Canada always leaves me behind with one hell of a nostalgia boost and lots of indescribable emotions , their music isn’t from this planet I’m sure of that .
Got that right friend-o
This was the most surreal, beautiful, calming and nostalgic 5 minutes and 30 seconds of my life.
This track is truly best listened to while in a beautiful place out in the country...with psychedelics and wondeful people
Lovely people. A great community. Based around eating and sharing.
It does work.
And you dont need to label it anything.
Happiness ensues
People find solace
And a wider understanding of those that aren't of the same culture or skin colour
@@joethekelly335 im crying
I like the way you think.
As a Canuck who came of age in the 80s and 90s and was surrounded by sepia-tinged, crackling NFB and CBC film strips hinting at a bygone golden cultural age, I can't help but be flattered and impressed that people overseas recognized its genius as well. As a fan of electronic music, I'm blown away by the artists' ability to render that sense of nostalgia and zeitgeist into rich musical tableaus
The video is perfectly matched to the music in that there is something sombre and unnerving behind the pleasantness. Like a false sense of security, if you will.
+Ardakapalasan You'd feel different if you saw the same video with Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" over it.
i'm only 4 years old and dis shit's dope
I laughed way too hard at this
ahahahah! fuck yeah!
woho you really got me in the corner this time
i'm an egg
Sure
Existence is Eternal. . •.
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What's your reasoning behind "existence" being enternal?
Ernesto Soto-Herrera energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Also, time itself is very possibly a sort of illusion, if you ask physicists.
Infinite time... Transcition... In a spiral like motion.
BoC is for a very unique bunch of people and i'm glad through time it has stayed that way.
Thanks!
you know BOC'S music makes you want to float on a cloud and die happily in it. ✌💕
+Natalie Ambriz
it;s like neverending story.... BOC my heroes!
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it actually makes nostalgic, in a bitter way. So much I could've done, that I didn't. BoC tells me it's alright and I follow that feeling while, at the same time, my thoughts are still on sadness.
+xander j. thats another way of explaining it
with only one line and a video, I've somehow interpreted Boards of Canada's curiosity with the fascination of the simple life and why people would enjoy it... and how there's something eerie and mind control-esqe about the whole thing
One of the saddest, most beautiful, haunting, nostalgic songs I've ever heard.
A lot of people tell me that Aphex Twin's music sounds alien and inhuman, while Boards of Canada has a familiar and human sound, but for me it's the complete opposite. Almost all of AFX's work feels really down to earth and connected to me, while Boards of Canada is music that makes me picture a bleak future with no organic life.
+Alpha Zalgo I feel the organic life tho. Quite a lot.
+Alpha Zalgo To me, afx's music is indeed quite grounding and BoC is lifting me to surreal places in my mind. Something that feels very natural (although might seem supernatural) and human, I'd say.
+Alpha Zalgo
Interesting. For me, BoC makes me think about astronomy, drugs, and the wilderness. A little spooky at times, that's all.
+Alpha Zalgo for me, BoC is liking going to the perfect forest on the perfect day, a day too good to be true, where Aphex Twin is like bringing up deep desires, shames, and other things we all feel into the light.
newwave808 That's an interesting interpretation.
Boards of Canada is like this elusive, majestic, super-entity to me...
this is a dream
Nailed it
Always find my way back to this song✨💖
I am at peace envisioning memories with my family that never existed.
:(
When I was very little, my older brothers used the garage and other spaces to build various projects, painting periscopes and wooden floors for martial arts. Sometimes they used nothing more than plywood that matched the walls of the garage, afterwards painting with camoflauge colors. I often preferred to stare into the sky than to build things. I come back to those days with songs like this, wondering where all those lost memories will go.
god that drum beat is so addicting
Still a masterful piece of music, and still as relevant today as it was when I first heard it on MTV over 20 years ago... back when MTV was all about breaking boundaries in music and promoting new & upcoming artists. Miss those days.
Нравится мне эта команда!Что то в ней есть такое,иное!!!
All these years and still an absolute banger
If you consider them in the context of originality and emotional impact, they are the greatest of all time in my humble opinion.
Boards of Canada defines the meaning of:-"Worst part is the end"
...In the right mood, it feels like I could listen to this forever
This is the soundtrack to my earliest memories, archived in a golden diorama, but ever slowly fading into the twilight, lost for all time.
this is perhaps the best description of boc's music i've ever heard. i've never thought of it that way but as i read your words it all became so clear. this music reminds us of a simplier time, a more innocent time and as the years wear on we yearn for that life again and know that we will never have it. this music comforts us and lets us know that even though we may not be able to experience it fully again, those times before are locked inside of us as memories and feelings. and boc is the key
I love this song. I bought this EP in June 2014 and I was in my final weeks of first year at Uni. In my halls, most if not all people had left for the summer. I listened to this and the music and peaceful vibes on campus made me feel like I was on a non-spiritual retreat.
what a beautiful music this is ! pure psychedelic music.
as a 14 year old guy who suffers from overthink and mental shit, this really wakes me up. I remember playing jak 3(my favorite game of all time) with my mom in my room like 8 years ago. the music in the game is similar and man time flies fast. thank you boc
hope you're doing better now c:
you were 14 when you wrote this damn u were a fucking legend. im 14 now and im in love with boc for about half a year now. real nice to see someone who enjoyed them at my age
same.. i have autism so maybe that's something to do with it?
Music that calms the nerves but excites the blood
Very well said indeed 👌
It´s simply phenomenal looking back into a magic existence. Peace for our psyche.
One of my favourite tunes
KEEP Analog electronica ALIVE! ❤
An absolute masterpiece! 😄
Boards Of Canada I have to say, are one of the most influential bands I have ever herd. I hardly listen to them but every time I do it's just... Amazing?
many of boards of canada songs sounds like revisiting something or somewhere in a different light. neither better or worse.
The best part of this track is from 0:00 to 5:30
Haha damn right
Lol
Oh yeah i love that bit
My new favorite boards of Canada song 🎶 🧘🏻♀️🌞
The "Pumped Up Kicks" of Religous Cults and The Waco Siege
LOL
i love these kind of yt videos that have been around for so long and still exist.
its just a video but it has the equal worth of a photo album page
We'll spend the rest of our lives running... running...
*****
GET BACK TO WORK.
Then it catches up at the last second
To nowhere!
Awfulfawful
One of my favorites of all time, and always will be. I love listening to BoC whenever I'm creating something, because it puts me into that frame of mind.. into that beautiful place out in the country..
I love how BoC’s music got progressively darker by the release of this EP and Geogaddi. They are one of a kind.
My favourite track of them. So amazing, so beautiful...
Am I the only one getting a slightly eerie tone from this? "Come out and live in a religious community in a beautiful place out in the country." Sounds a little like Jonestown or maybe just hippies I don't know
***** And this song is their anthem :D
it's actually the former solgan of the branch davidians whom the boy of boards seem mildly obsessed with
joe mama Ah yes, I remember reading that now.
It's a clip of Amo Bishop Roden doing a pitch for the Branch Davidians - so, yeah, definitely eerie...
fishhead06 Cool :D
So ahead of its time, I got into BOC because of adult swim's music & youtube suggestions. When I found out gyroscope in sinister being made by BOC i lost my shit. I couldnt believe some random group I stumbled upon on my own also made a random banger I loved from the getgo. I felt I was meant to listen to BOC & fall into a trance blissful mental state of mind. No one else I know can really resonate with BOC & the feelings & thoughts it provokes within me so I simply bask in the sound on my own when the opportunity arises. So peaceful, so unbothered, its like my past is flashing within the present, like moments in dreams are merging with reality. Like fake memories being mixed with the real ones. Maybe its just me coping, I feel good though.
4:52 Magical
Their music is so simple, but so powerful. Evokes emotions from me that no other music can
I'm spending the next week driving though Canada, listening to Boards of Canada.
one of my songs of my quarantine.....
beautiful music!
LOVE THIS EP! AND I KNOW MANY PROFESSIONAL MUSIC PEOPLE HOLD IT DEAR!!!
boards of canada is simply the greatest electronic music ever composed. and i listen to everything from dubstep to house music. this music is perfect for anyone
A-(11)
C-/Eb
G-
D-7
Alternately, you could play the chorus riff from "A Succubus in Rapture" by Dimmu Borgir.
lol
yes!!!!!!!!! i came here to see if someone comment about this.
What is this ?
i believe in you, Tenebryon
This song invokes so many feelings! These people in the video are oblivious! But they are doing there best, and the Alien is relaying his observation to his superiors! I love it!! Just Beautiful!!
This song > George Clooney's career
what does GC's career have to do with this song lol
mallemall012 Everything, man. Everything.
mallemall012 its just that the real, and the intellectually talented, are hardly recognized in this sick brainwashed society, that's the point of that comment, at least in my mind.
mallemall012 George Clooney's career is just 98% smaller than this song
liljuve13 Because george clooney isn't as brainwashed as everyone else. kek
I stumbled on this track 16 years ago. Pirated it to my iPod nano. That winter was memorable for no particular reason. I wonder if this was the advent of my interest in vaporwave.
Star Trek Acid Party brought me here.
I like that the main chord sequence is pretty much the same as that from 'Everything You Do is a Balloon', giving the two pieces an eerie comparability
I wish BoC would just release an album every week. Every time I hear something by them that I haven't heard before, it makes me wonder why I listen to anything else.
How music makes you feel is deeply personal. If one word is enough, then that's the sum of the (shared) feeling. IDWST.
Ashley T, I thought the same thing. What's creepy though was that I was watching a CNN documentary called "Escape from Jonestown" at the time.
I believe the dialog snippets are from someone talking about the Branch Davidians or something though.
its about waco
Maghen Hamilton
Yep. Hence why I talked about the Branch Davidians. Just saying that the imagery and stuff reminded me of Jonestown too, which Ashley T talked about.
In A Beautiful Place Out Of My Mind
this sound has the right to children
damn i love this song so much.. weird like alienation but comforting
Es un viaje a un lugar en un tiempo paralelo, pero con mejores humanos q nosotros.
beautiful footage to complement the unique feeling of this song.
boc super creative. best group ever!!!
Still the best.
Feel like this was played on loop, through huge speakers in 'Jonestown', Guyana.
OMG!!
agree 100 %
Waco, Texas*
I've watched this video so many times. It's just mind blowing!
a friend gave this to me on vinyl 10 years ago, i never bothered to read the label that said 45 rpm, i've experienced this at 33 rpm over and over and over, not even knowing it was intended to be heard at 45, until today! I like it at 45 too, extremely gorgeous at 33 though...
I can't imagine listening to this at the wrong speed. It's trippy enough at the RIGHT speed. I thought BOC blew my mind but you just beat them hands down by saying this.
I love buying records and trying to figure out which speed it should be played at. certainly makes for some intense listening experiences!