Introduce Yourself

[NoobSpotted]

Ts is corny

[ncraadk]

Hi,

I’m Nikolaj from Copenhagen, Denmark

Been a fan for many years, but only recently found BOC Pages and started digging into the backstories and references.

I’m a big fan of vinyl and have the full albums and the In A Beautiful Place.. ep.

Is there a thread you can recommend that explores the themes around the Branch Davidians?

Kind regards,
Nikolaj


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[joeblackcircles]

Hi,
I'm Joe from the UK, I have been listening to BoC since Music has the Right to Children. I've been obsessively listening to Inferno over the past few days, which I think is up their with their best work, and wanted to get a bit more involved.

[denpa]

Hello. I have been listening to BoC since around 2016 and lurked here for years before making an account. I enjoy collecting physical media such as CDs and cassettes. I have a few VHS tapes as well, some music related and the rest are anime. I was driven to make an account after the Inferno listening party. The fanbase interests me despite me being antisocial. We are all a little weird and I think that's wonderful! My favorite albums are Twoism, Geogaddi and now Inferno.

[yamanogato]

Hey all!

Long time BoC listener glad to be here in time to process Inferno with you others.

Bicycling enthusiast, coffee shop enjoyer, Jesus follower.

Ready let’s go

[newcleardawn]

Hi friends, been a BOC lover since picking up MHTRTC on a whim from Replay Records in Bath (RIP) c.2002. I've always been drawn to the mysterious and nostalgic aspects of their music - IABPOITC will forever be untouchable in my eyes.

[angelos_boc]

Hi everyone!

I'm Angelos, born and raised in Greece. I spend my time between Athens and my hometown.

BoC are a big part of my life. I discovered them in the late '90s but really paid attention to their music around 2009, when I was done with army service and went through a phase of re-evaluation of basically everything. Since then they have been my favorite musicians.

I'm glad to be here among you.

[Waterbagel]

welcome everyone!

[impboy]

Hellos!

So I'm Justin from Los Angeles. Been listening to the brothers since the days of Skam and Hi Scores. As a music journalist, I even interviewed Mike for Alternative Press during the MHTRTC (Michaelangelo Matos, who wrote the Rolling Stone review, was an old peer of mine back in those days.) Am currently co-writing the autobiography of LA punk producer Geza X, who recorded the Germs, the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag., amongst many others. I've introduced BOC to him recently, and he's quite enthused by their mystery.

I'll be posting the interview I did with them in a separate thread, but for now just wanted to say hi to all and sundry.

[drvaughan]

I'm Peter. I was a member on here back in...2004? 2005? I want to say it was before TCH. I became a fan right a bit before that album dropped and remember the campaign and reading the speculation on here.

I've remained a fan, and have lurked here on and off, but I'll admit that the gap between TH and Inferno had me visiting less frequently. I'd come back now and then, check on some threads, but mostly kept the faith that the guys would put something out when they were ready. Once the tapes started arriving in people's boxes, though, we were off to the races. I couldn't recover my old account (email address is lost to the mists of time), but Inferno has got me back into that manic BoC mindset, and I couldn't resist. I'll probably post 6 times before vanishing again. Maybe!

So much has changed. I was a fan before reddit took off, and facebook was newish or still college student only. Myspace was the place! However, this is still the best place to talk about BoC and the music.

As much as I love Inferno, I think it's been the changing nature of the relationship between fans and artists that made me want to register again. Seeing discussion and discourse on the BoC subreddit has given me a sort of jumping off point to think about this. Lots of speculation (it's BoC, after all...), lots of pictures of vinyl and other goodies, lots of posts that might be considered rather...inane? No offence to anyone if they hang out or post there, but it just seems that subreddit encourages or at least fosters a weird parasocial thing that I really don't like and would argue you don't actually find on a dedicated forum like here. But, this is perhaps more of a Baudrillard or McLuhan or Postman point about the changing nature of communication mediums. Maybe I can bore myself and the rest of you later with all that.

I know I missed some of the activities here in the 13 years between albums. I suppose we all got a bit weird, but what can you expect when a thing you really love vanishes? People will fill the void with all sorts of crazy stuff...

Anyway, glad to be back, glad to see Fredd-E and some other familiar names still holding things down, glad to be among some smart and insightful people, and glad that BoC is back.