Creepiest BoC Song?

[Yeah That's Right]

house of abin'adab definitely. that song creeps me the fuck out. i picture an old rotting house in the middle of the woods.

Appropriate mental association, I find it to be one of the scariest too. I think a lot of Old Tunes is. It's hard to describe why exactly. Geogaddi is creepy in a superficial way in my opinion. It has some freaky vibes but it's mainly just darkly atmospheric, yet really enjoyable. The eerie tracks like Diving Station leave me in awe. It's not legitimately unsettling in the way I find certain Old Tunes tracks like House of Abin'adab to be.

Apparently the title refers to house where the Ark of the Covenant was 'supposedly' found. It's purely psychological, but for me the biblical reference adds an extra layer of eeriness. The track just gives me bad vibes all around.

I actually find Finity quite unsettling too. Maybe it's partly the lo-fi nature of the demo tracks and lack of production but a few of them weird me out in a way like no other music. It's mainly vol. 1 and some of the '35 though. Some tracks, like audiotrack 13a and Forest Moon, I find depressing and intensely beautiful in equal parts. Love 'em.

[rainier]

and audtiotrack 11a just makes me uneasy so I made this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKcEpW5wUe0

Oh man that max headroom broadcast is one of my favorite things that ever happened! So fucking weird.

I'm gonna toss one in for House of Abin'adab. It makes me feel so uneasy. Something just feels "wrong" about it in a Lovecraftian kind of way.

[coffeeandtv]

Telepath.

When I listened to this for the first time I found myself clutching my pillow and anticipating a creepy little man with a top hat appearing in the doorway reciting numbers.

[DudeMannerisms]

Uritual is a scary tune.

[qazxswplmnko]

Circle does it for me every time. It just sounds so... broken. I like it, but it scares me.

Same goes for Uritual.

[Elexen]

I've always thought Gyroscope was pretty frightening, listening to it on acid sealed the deal.

Yes! This might be the best sentence i've read all week. And I totally agree.

The Devil Is in the Details is definitely creepy. I almost had a hard time even listening to it at the beginning, but it grew on me like a tumor and now it's in my top 5 faves.... that's how much I love it.

I might even through Semena Mertvykh on the list..... maybe a bit more scary or unsettling than creepy... but yeah.

[herxagernsurn]

I've always thought Gyroscope was pretty frightening, listening to it on acid sealed the deal.

Yes! This might be the best sentence i've read all week. And I totally agree.

The Devil Is in the Details is definitely creepy. I almost had a hard time even listening to it at the beginning, but it grew on me like a tumor and now it's in my top 5 faves.... that's how much I love it.

I might even through Semena Mertvykh on the list..... maybe a bit more scary or unsettling than creepy... but yeah.

I certainly find Gyroscope to be the most unsettling tune of all of BoC for me. I still don't actually like it but I am trying. Its not creepy to me...just so awkward and in a way that i just can not connect with. I do like the story behind it...how one of them woke up from a dream and immediately started recording it and how they felt they really captured it fresh from the subconscious.

The creepiest for me are definitely from Geogaddi though. Opening the Mouth and You Could Feel the Sky are probably the creepiest for me. A is to B... is up there too but too diverse to be really creepy. I have embraced the creepiness of The Devil is in the Details for it to be creepy any more really.

[Elexen]

I've always thought Gyroscope was pretty frightening, listening to it on acid sealed the deal.

Yes! This might be the best sentence i've read all week. And I totally agree.

The Devil Is in the Details is definitely creepy. I almost had a hard time even listening to it at the beginning, but it grew on me like a tumor and now it's in my top 5 faves.... that's how much I love it.

I might even through Semena Mertvykh on the list..... maybe a bit more scary or unsettling than creepy... but yeah.

I certainly find Gyroscope to be the most unsettling tune of all of BoC for me. I still don't actually like it but I am trying. Its not creepy to me...just so awkward and in a way that i just can not connect with. I do like the story behind it...how one of them woke up from a dream and immediately started recording it and how they felt they really captured it fresh from the subconscious.

The creepiest for me are definitely from Geogaddi though. Opening the Mouth and You Could Feel the Sky are probably the creepiest for me. A is to B... is up there too but too diverse to be really creepy. I have embraced the creepiness of The Devil is in the Details for it to be creepy any more really.

What interview is that Gyroscope story in? Do you recall? I don't think I've read that. Sounds cool. I know what you mean about the awkwardness. Jacquard Causeway from the new album has that awkwardness for me. Different vibe, of course, but definitely awkward. And yeah, I think we all would agree that the creepiest tracks come from Geogaddi, at least out of the official releases.

[paul]

house of abin'adab.

no.

[GeogEddie]

The Color of the Fire.

Creepy!

[Twoist]

Telepath is fast racing up my personal CreepyBOC chart. Brrr. Fuckin' brrrrrrr.

[Psilcosyn]

Beware the Friendly Stranger still creeps me out a bit. Makes me think of 70s public information films where kids fly kites and throw frisbees near electricity substations and pylons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_wwkCoBL8

Like this one.

[OrangeRodox6010]

Jacquard Causeway. It reminds me of Silent Hill 2's soundtrack. Every time I've heard it so far has been a tense experience. It feels like it goes on forever. It's amazing.

[TaoTapeTao]

Semena Mertvykh. It literally seems like a message from BoC at the end of the album telling their listeners that the world is going to end... lol. It's certainly unsettling.

[mono]

and audtiotrack 11a just makes me uneasy so I made this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKcEpW5wUe0

Oh man that max headroom broadcast is one of my favorite things that ever happened! So fucking weird.

I'm gonna toss one in for House of Abin'adab. It makes me feel so uneasy. Something just feels "wrong" about it in a Lovecraftian kind of way.

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For me it's Sixtyten, but as of lately I don't find it as scary. For a while I used to live alone in a two room flat since my flatmate left and it made me afraid of the other end of the corridor.

I remember being alone in a train at 5am and attempting to listen to Geogaddi when I was 17 I think. I had to turn it off by "Gyroscope".

Also, I wonder about the connection between sadness and fear in Boards of Canada. I remember listening half-asleep to The Campfire Headphase and being terrified by Slow This Bird Down for some reason.

[circleofthesun]

Probably Sixtyten, Mukhinabat, A is to B or Soylent Night.

[NorthcutTAmnestY]

Uritual is kinda starting to creep its way onto my list, but I'd have to say House of Abin'adab.

[FernieCanto]

For some reason, for me, Sunshine Recorder takes the cake. That buzzing drone that carries the song is something that couldn't have come straight out of my most unsettling and bizarre dreams. The title also helps: the idea of something that can track the trajectory of the sun and burn it into paper, somehow, seems pretty unsettling. It represents this dark, creepy side of nostalgia, the things you can't remember too well and you're unsure whether you want to. I know I'd be scared of it as a kid.

EDIT: the lots of mentions of House of Albin'adab don't surprise me, but to me it sounds more off-the-loop than genuinely scary. Come to think of it, this track wouldn't be out of place in one of those early cassettes by The Legendary Pink Dots. Yes, off-the-loop.

[wash]

Has anyone mentioned 'Statue of Liberty' yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eO29tvLW4M

This is the creepiest song on the Old Tunes tapes. It sounds like someone playing an early Cure record out of tune at the wrong speed during your funeral in the forest.

A lot of Boards songs creep me out actually, which is what drew me to them in the first place. I was pretty young when I discovered MHTRTC and Geogaddi so the feelings were even more intense. Some other ones that were unsettling to me:

'The Color of the Fire' - Enough said. I couldn't even listen to this track for a while.

'Pete Standing Alone' - It's that weird, slowed down vocal sample that comes into the beat half-way through. It feels so out of place which the rest of the song and makes it particularly unnerving.

'In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country' - I don't understand why people consider this such a relaxing EP. The Waco stuff that is included in the packaging and samples in the music here make the ambience rather eerie, not calming. This song in particular sounds like something that would be used during some kind of brainwashing ritual. I watched a documentary about members of the Jamestown cult and there is a part where a mother tries to convince her daughter over the phone to leave and come back home and she refuses. It's one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever heard and hearing this song always brings me back to that.

'Audiotrack 6A' - Really beautiful, of course, but also not something I would like to hear in the middle of the night. The sample throughout and the barely audible voices make this song sound like the music that plays in the waiting room before you go to hell.

[Yeah That's Right]

I'm gonna toss one in for House of Abin'adab. It makes me feel so uneasy. Something just feels "wrong" about it in a Lovecraftian kind of way.

That's exactly how I feel about it.

For me it's Sixtyten, but as of lately I don't find it as scary. For a while I used to live alone in a two room flat since my flatmate left and it made me afraid of the other end of the corridor.

I remember being alone in a train at 5am and attempting to listen to Geogaddi when I was 17 I think. I had to turn it off by "Gyroscope".

Also, I wonder about the connection between sadness and fear in Boards of Canada. I remember listening half-asleep to The Campfire Headphase and being terrified by Slow This Bird Down for some reason.

Probably Sixtyten, Mukhinabat, A is to B or Soylent Night.

You guys find Sixtyten and Mukinabaht scary? I think those are some of the most listenable or even accessible tracks from their respective albums. I rate 'em both.

Slow This Bird Down, my personal thoughts are that it's likely the darkest track BoC have released. Not creepy or particularly unsettling like some of their work, but it evokes very strong mental imagery for me of a planes' engines cutting out at thousands of feet in their air and slowly falling to the ground throughout the length of the song. There's an irony to a track with such a depressing mood being on what's generally a much lighter and brighter album than their others.

'Audiotrack 6A' - Really beautiful, of course, but also not something I would like to hear in the middle of the night. The sample throughout and the barely audible voices make this song sound like the music that plays in the waiting room before you go to hell.

Agree on that too. It's very eerier and ethereal, in stark contrast to Seven Forty Seven which is such a chill song. I prefer the latter though.

If this thread says anything it's everyone takes something different away from Boards' music. Funny how tracks can be perceived so differently by each of us.