Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:14 am
i will echo what some others have said.
that is, my personal favorite is music, but i think their "best", so to speak, is probably geogaddi, in terms of a cohesive, solid, unified art project. iabpitc is definitely just as unified and cohesive, but just not as long and therefore without so many details. i must end this post by noting that i don't care for 'best' and mhtrtc is still my hands down favorite.
that is, my personal favorite is music, but i think their "best", so to speak, is probably geogaddi, in terms of a cohesive, solid, unified art project. iabpitc is definitely just as unified and cohesive, but just not as long and therefore without so many details. i must end this post by noting that i don't care for 'best' and mhtrtc is still my hands down favorite.
Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:07 pm
It's a Geogaddi kind of evening. What are you all feeling tonight/today?
Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:35 pm
Nothing. Heat takes away all my thoughts and reduces me to a senseless cocoon. Guess I'll have to leave home one of these days.
Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:40 pm
I just don't get the whole IABPOITC e-fellatio. I mean, it's good, but I hardly consider that their best release. I like the Aquarius EP more than IABPOITC.
MY favorite is probably Campfire. I wouldn't say it's their best, but I connect with it the most, and Tears From The Compound Eye is one of my favorites.
MY favorite is probably Campfire. I wouldn't say it's their best, but I connect with it the most, and Tears From The Compound Eye is one of my favorites.
Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:41 pm
I had to think about this one for a bit. The obvious answer to me was MHTRTC but the more I thought about it I realized for me personally it is Boc Maxima.
Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:56 pm
zeoevil wrote:the more I thought about it I realized for me personally it is Boc Maxima.
I work in a desk job, have my own office, so I can listen to music while I work - the first album I listen to pretty much every day is Maxima. Most days I'll listen to another BoC album, but always Maxima to start the day...
Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:56 pm
To me I think I have to go with Twoism. It's sort of a personal favorite of mine. Everything fits so well together there. There's a consistent dark and bleak mood through out here. It's sort of like Geogaddi, but in a way more sublime, but also in a way less sublime. Unlike Geogaddi, this album is dark in the sense that it's depressing. It feels like you've just lost a loved one and you're contemplating what you are going to do with your life, or something along those lines.
About the sounds, I think this album is unlike anything the brothers have made sinse. I'd even call this bordering on minimalism. I love those wailing vibrating synth drones and notes, I think that's one of the key elements to the somber mood here.
It's also very melodic, I'd say more so than any other of their albums. And the melodies are so beautiful. Especially on Sixtyniner, I can pick out four different melodies, many of which play one top eachother in a complete harmony.
Only track I don't really care for there is Iced Cooly, which in my opinion just doesn't fit there at all. All other tracks are pretty much just gold. Sixtyniner is pretty much the best song they have made. Oirectine is really subdued and murky. Basefree is an onslaught on your senses, probably their most "brutal" track. Twoism has pretty much some of their best and most unique melodies ever one it. Melissa Juice is just beautiful. 1986 Summer Fires is just a bout the perfect closing track for the album.
MHTRTC is pretty much on the same level though, but I like to say Twoism is my favorite album from them, because it's more unexpected, and honestly their most underrated work by far from me
I'm just gonna write my thoughts about Boc Maxima as well as I already am on the go.
I'm just gonna start by saying this I think is my least favorite release from the duo. It really is an unfinished version of MHTRTC. One very important thing that makes MHTRTC so good, at least for me, is how the songs flow into one another. This thing is more of a collection of tracks the boards had lying around, wrapped into an album form. There's no, and I mean absolutely NO cohesion between the content. I can't stand Sixtyniner on this release, it's completely out of place.
Plus, I never liked a lot of the tracks here, like Chinook, June 9th, Red Moss, Nlogax, but Whitewater is quite good though.
Boc Maxima isn't really bad, but it's just inferior when compared to the rest of their (official) discography. But the thing to remember once again is that this is all opinion based, and all opinions should be accepted and maybe even respected
About the sounds, I think this album is unlike anything the brothers have made sinse. I'd even call this bordering on minimalism. I love those wailing vibrating synth drones and notes, I think that's one of the key elements to the somber mood here.
It's also very melodic, I'd say more so than any other of their albums. And the melodies are so beautiful. Especially on Sixtyniner, I can pick out four different melodies, many of which play one top eachother in a complete harmony.
Only track I don't really care for there is Iced Cooly, which in my opinion just doesn't fit there at all. All other tracks are pretty much just gold. Sixtyniner is pretty much the best song they have made. Oirectine is really subdued and murky. Basefree is an onslaught on your senses, probably their most "brutal" track. Twoism has pretty much some of their best and most unique melodies ever one it. Melissa Juice is just beautiful. 1986 Summer Fires is just a bout the perfect closing track for the album.
MHTRTC is pretty much on the same level though, but I like to say Twoism is my favorite album from them, because it's more unexpected, and honestly their most underrated work by far from me
the more I thought about it I realized for me personally it is Boc Maxima.
I'm just gonna write my thoughts about Boc Maxima as well as I already am on the go.
I'm just gonna start by saying this I think is my least favorite release from the duo. It really is an unfinished version of MHTRTC. One very important thing that makes MHTRTC so good, at least for me, is how the songs flow into one another. This thing is more of a collection of tracks the boards had lying around, wrapped into an album form. There's no, and I mean absolutely NO cohesion between the content. I can't stand Sixtyniner on this release, it's completely out of place.
Plus, I never liked a lot of the tracks here, like Chinook, June 9th, Red Moss, Nlogax, but Whitewater is quite good though.
Boc Maxima isn't really bad, but it's just inferior when compared to the rest of their (official) discography. But the thing to remember once again is that this is all opinion based, and all opinions should be accepted and maybe even respected
Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:50 am
gotta go with geogaddi
i hardly ever really listen to it (it's just so much to take in). but it's so well-done..
so perfect.
personal favorite is campfire headphase though.
i hardly ever really listen to it (it's just so much to take in). but it's so well-done..
so perfect.
personal favorite is campfire headphase though.
Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:25 am
noby wrote:There's no, and I mean absolutely NO cohesion between the content.
Why is cohesion a point of critique of an album not meant to be cohesive? I'm just asking. I'm not trying to be a dick but unless the album is meant to be cohesive why would cohesion even be a means to judge said album by?
But like you said this is all about opinions. Some of us like the harsher tracks. I count songs like M9 and June 9th among my favorites and some of the more ambient songs among my least.
Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:47 am
zeoevil wrote:Why is cohesion a point of critique of an album not meant to be cohesive? I'm just asking. I'm not trying to be a dick but unless the album is meant to be cohesive why would cohesion even be a means to judge said album by?
Because I think most of the songs need that, since they have been released before and after that album. I usually wouldn't consider cohesion when it wasn't inteded supposedly, but after hearing them on those other albums, I can't enjoy them in this context. Also why this bothers me is because most of the songs fade into one another, which in my opinion speaks against them not supposed to seek for cohesion.
But like you said this is all about opinions. Some of us like the harsher tracks. I count songs like M9 and June 9th among my favorites and some of the more ambient songs among my least.
Oh I do like harsher songs too, didn't I just mention I really enjoy Basefree
Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:06 am
Geogaddi
MHTRTC
Hi Scores
Twoism
IABPOITC
TCH LP
TCH EP
MHTRTC
Hi Scores
Twoism
IABPOITC
TCH LP
TCH EP
Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:49 pm
Acid Memories...
Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:49 am
I always thought it was impossible to choose a favorite release, they are all so good but finally I think there is one that seems to stick out the most to me.
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
I love this release, the whole aesthetic / vibe is is wonderful, it reminds me of a one of my favorite places in Cornwall by the de lank in the moors on a sunny Septembers day.
I wonder how much unreleased stuff they have from the same era? If only...
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
I love this release, the whole aesthetic / vibe is is wonderful, it reminds me of a one of my favorite places in Cornwall by the de lank in the moors on a sunny Septembers day.
I wonder how much unreleased stuff they have from the same era? If only...
Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:25 pm
Geogaddi - the most cohesive effort 10/10
Music Has The Right To Children - best example of the BoC sound, just not as cohesive as Geogaddi 10/10
The Campfire Headphase - I love the relaxed feeling on this but it's slightly frontloaded 9/10
Twoism - some of their most underrated stuff on here (Melissa Juice, Sixtyniner, Oirectine) 9/10
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country - perhaps slightly overrated but still very enjoyable 8/10
Tomorrow's Harvest - great stuff but it just lacks the charm that the other albums had (yes I realise that charm wasn't what they were going for but still 8/10
Hi Scores - pretty hit and miss although June 9th and Everything You Do Is A Balloon are amonst their best 7.5/10
Trans Canada Highway - I could give or take everything after Left Side Drive and I wonder why they put Dayvan Cowboy on this release 7/10
Music Has The Right To Children - best example of the BoC sound, just not as cohesive as Geogaddi 10/10
The Campfire Headphase - I love the relaxed feeling on this but it's slightly frontloaded 9/10
Twoism - some of their most underrated stuff on here (Melissa Juice, Sixtyniner, Oirectine) 9/10
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country - perhaps slightly overrated but still very enjoyable 8/10
Tomorrow's Harvest - great stuff but it just lacks the charm that the other albums had (yes I realise that charm wasn't what they were going for but still 8/10
Hi Scores - pretty hit and miss although June 9th and Everything You Do Is A Balloon are amonst their best 7.5/10
Trans Canada Highway - I could give or take everything after Left Side Drive and I wonder why they put Dayvan Cowboy on this release 7/10
Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:27 pm
Boc Maxima
Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:33 pm
Really difficult to say for me. MHTRTC is the easy choice, but there's some days that Maxima scratches the same kind of itch. EYDIAB, Red Moss and Whitewater are all classics that help make Maxima an occasional worthwhile alternative when you want the "feel" of that era. MHTRTC as time has gone on, might be my favorite album of all time by anyone.
Huge nod to Geogaddi as an accompaniment to the psychedelic experience. It's challenging and it might make your experience even more challenging but it's the sort of album you can lose yourself in both musically and artistically (in terms of the artwork, particularly the vinyl and postcards that came with the original release)
I'd rate Tomorrow's Harvest alongside Geogaddi in terms of quality but for different reasons. It's definitely a more sober and concrete approach compared to Geogaddi, trade your psychedelic sunshine, backmasking and religious iconography for cold war paranoia. I'm usually too busy for psychedelics or even cannabis these days, so the more clear headed approach of this album speaks to me. It still gets to me to that place and feels more on my general wavelength these days, if that makes sense.
Hard to call any of their EPs my absolute favorite, but In a Beautiful Place comes closest. Some of my very favorite songs are on the EPs though.
It's been easier to make peace with Campfire since TH has settled in my brain. It's got some great moments (Peacock Tail and OSTRE come to mind especially) but it gets a little too lost in itself on its backend. I really don't mind the instrumentation (the guitar forward stuff on R35TT was awesome!) but it's all just kind of there. Felt like their first release truly born out of expectation rather than inspiration.
Huge nod to Geogaddi as an accompaniment to the psychedelic experience. It's challenging and it might make your experience even more challenging but it's the sort of album you can lose yourself in both musically and artistically (in terms of the artwork, particularly the vinyl and postcards that came with the original release)
I'd rate Tomorrow's Harvest alongside Geogaddi in terms of quality but for different reasons. It's definitely a more sober and concrete approach compared to Geogaddi, trade your psychedelic sunshine, backmasking and religious iconography for cold war paranoia. I'm usually too busy for psychedelics or even cannabis these days, so the more clear headed approach of this album speaks to me. It still gets to me to that place and feels more on my general wavelength these days, if that makes sense.
Hard to call any of their EPs my absolute favorite, but In a Beautiful Place comes closest. Some of my very favorite songs are on the EPs though.
It's been easier to make peace with Campfire since TH has settled in my brain. It's got some great moments (Peacock Tail and OSTRE come to mind especially) but it gets a little too lost in itself on its backend. I really don't mind the instrumentation (the guitar forward stuff on R35TT was awesome!) but it's all just kind of there. Felt like their first release truly born out of expectation rather than inspiration.