BOC vs BOC

Easily Boards of Canada for me. Blue Öyster Cult gets old faster.

love both but for me it's the reverse

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f3/e9/ba/f3e9ba4781b0fa0aa30fd930c93d1d09.png

my only awareness of blue oyster cult is a fading memory of Stephen King quoting some of their lyrics in one of his his 80's novels. Never heard them, never want to!

make a dash for freedom baby

töugh chöice

is there another example of an act in which the principal singer in a band with several sang precisely none of the very well known hit songs? I don't think "Astronomy" is known by anyone other than the BOC stans… it must be weird and frustrating for Bloom that the demonstrably weedy Roeser is voice that everyone has heard…

I wish I could have another life just so I could grow up, join ILX and vote for Blue Oyster Cult, the the cryptic faux metal weirdos who are one of the great joys in my life

though Boards of Canada are good

xp

bloom sings godzilla

i'm making a career of evil

he does? sounds like Dharma to me…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult_song)

don't you ever fucking question my Blue Oyster Cult integrity again

https://youtu.be/KBc0gS13MsI

dominance.....

SUBMISSION

I love Geogaddi but let's be real, are those Scots veterans of a thousand psychick wars? I think not.

Re: Calzino

What a weird way to dismiss one of the most singular, creative, and unpredictable American rock bands ever. Anyway, the book you’re thinking of is King’s The Stand.

Re: Calzino

What a weird way to dismiss one of the most singular, creative, and unpredictable American rock bands ever. Anyway, the book you’re thinking of is King’s The Stand.

chiggy check

I love Geogaddi but let's be real, are those Scots veterans of a thousand psychick wars? I think not.

pretty much

I'll be starting an Ozark Mountain Daredevils/Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark poll right after this one finishes.

This is going to be a massacre

Twoism + Hi Scores + MHTRTC mean so much to me, soupy weirdness of my dreams. don’t care about most of what came after.

Not a huge BÖC fan but On Your Feet, On Your Knees is a seriously dope rockin ass live album, supremely enjoyable. I’m not worthy.

there's a typo in the thread title

Was wondering

Nay, ‘it’s by symmetrical design:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult

Several Blue Oyster Cult song titles could be by Boards of Canada: Workshop of the Telescopes, Transmaniacon MC, Astronomy, etc.

I'm listening to Boards of Canada for the first time. I've listened to them once or twice before, but I can never remember so it's always kinda the first time with them. These are some good lofi hip-hop beats to study/relax to.

re. Boards of Canada, " I've listened to them once or twice before, but I can never remember so it's always kinda the first time with them. These are some good lofi hip-hop beats to study/relax to"

same, I got the people children whatever album when it came out but it's always slipped out of my consciousness when listening & but it would probably be good background music for working

Blue Oyster Cult I only know the biggest singles, should probably make more of an effort

Never heard them, never want to!

classic lex

Astronomy wins this poll on its own

Cult by a mile
The last live act I saw before covid, incidentally

the book you’re thinking of is King’s The Stand

As I recall, there's a great sequence in The Talisman during which the protagonist notes that a stereo is playing "Tattoo Vampire".

roy godzilla biv

Such a good band:
https://youtu.be/NzRVm65lNdU

voting boards because classic rock is overrepresented on ILM and it must now be resisted whenever possible

I did my part to sway prospective voters by subliminally alluding, via the line 'there can be only one', to the fact that Connor MacLoed aka The Highlander is Scottish… just like Boards of Canada.

Not enough Brits with synths xp

*MacLeod, sorry.

Wow at that live Astronomy. So good.

I own a few Boards Of Canada records and I don't really know why at all. I hope that one day they'll suddenly click, but I'd say they're mildly pleasant at best, but really tedious over the course of a whole album. Especially that last one, that was super boring - it makes me cross even just thinking about it. I think it's the drum loops that kill it for me? Drums should bring excitement or tension or at least a groove to a track but those things just go on and on. No idea why they're so revered among so much other amazing electronic music that's out there. And I hate them even more now for making me type this very dull paragraph.

Blue Oyster Cult otoh are amazing. I don't know why they've been hived off into classic rock hell in a lot of people's minds, cos in their own way they were as weird and innovative as Television or Pere Ubu or even the Magic Band. Really a high-water mark for 70s rock. I love them.

i'm tired of boards of canada. a listen about once a year is all i need. i agree with nickb that they got dull and uninspired.

just discovering blue oyster cult and yeah damn they're cool.

Was anyone else confused as a kid by the (not actually existing) connection between BOC and the Blue Oyster Bar in Police Academy?

good lord, I was going to bump a Blue Oyster Cult thread for parity, and there are FOURTEEN of them lmao

Was anyone else confused as a kid by the (not actually existing) connection between BOC and the Blue Oyster Bar in Police Academy?

― rob

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME

lol, I still don't really know what they look like so as a result of this confusion, in my mind they're an odd blend of like ZZ Top and the Village People

I think it's the drum loops that kill it for me?

I've always interpreted that mechanistic feel as an expression of their love for hip-hop and its reliance on unchanging drum loops. They also intend an hypnotic effect, I'm sure, although some listeners will of course just find it boring.

AOC vs BOC vs COC vs The DOC

was not expected boards of canada to be the underrated group in this poll

been listening to geogaddi a lot lately. it's perfect

unfortunately blue öyster cult are the greatest rock band of all time

I had no idea the Cult of the Blue Öyster was so strong on ILM.

as weird and innovative as Television...

Both had connections to Patti Smith ofc, although I think only BÖC actually collaborated with her.

verlaine was on at least one track on horses. also played with her in some of her comeback gigs. blue oyster cult rule. who are boards of canada? did they ever collaborate with michael moorcock? (i guess they're closer to him geographically.)

Haha, idk how I forgot that. Need to start watching the senior moments on ILM.

i'm tired of boards of canada. a listen about once a year is all i need. i agree with nickb that they got dull and uninspired.

Funny, this is verbatim how I'd describe Blue Oyster Cult since 1980 ;)

I pick Boards and it ain't close.

what's the boards of canada equivalent of "shooting shark"

I had no idea the Cult of the Blue Öyster was so strong on ILM.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 11:17 AM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I only started listening to them because of ILM!

Both BÖC "don't fear the reaper" and BOC "you could feel the sky" share lyrics with "take my hand".

there's a typo in the thread title

― budo jeru, Tuesday, August 18, 2020 11:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Was wondering

― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, August 19, 2020 6:44 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nay, ‘it’s by symmetrical design:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult

― pomenitul, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 7:03 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah, my bad, in the case i'm voting for BOC

Who wins the image war?

https://9b16f79ca967fd0708d1-2713572fef44aa49ec323e813b06d2d9.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/1140x_a10-7_cTC/BOCvintage-jpg-1572350578.jpg

https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/a/g/78.jpg

leather vest vs north face parka

More like

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/592c632113d197565213fd41/2:1/w_648/1f88ca2f.jpg

more like bored of canada

boarding school of canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRjEnvSYqyU

Re: Calzino

What a weird way to dismiss one of the most singular, creative, and unpredictable American rock bands ever. Anyway, the book you’re thinking of is King’s The Stand

Otm

I had no idea the Cult of the Blue Öyster was so strong on ILM.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 2:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

There's no going back now Pom
Care for a redcap?

voting boards because classic rock is overrepresented on ILM and it must now be resisted whenever possible

....it isn’t?

Awful things are happening.

the best blue oyster cult album thread has a couple of great posts (and a bunch but i think of these two most often)

Love this description, and though I didn't comment on it at the time, I've been thinking about it over the last week or so. For me, it applies to Blue Öyster Cult in general more than to any single image I associate with the band. As a teenager, I remember being similarly fascinated by the cover art for Some Enchanted Evening and Fire of Unknown Origin, the first BÖC albums I owned. The skeletal rider, his green-eyed charger, the moonlit disciples, and always that strange symbol. The images were deliberately spooky but also quite elegant, promising worlds as seductive as they were ominous, and they created in my mind these webs of mysterious suggestion, webs I associated more with horror and fantasy as literary genres than with pop music. Not only was the art engrossing on its own, it provided a perfect visual analogue to the dark, visceral pull of songs like "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Burnin' for You". These songs seemed haunted and otherworldly ("eldritch", in the language of the old pulps) yet also suffused with an erotic yearning that I could feel without entirely understanding. Listening to them as a rather sheltered kid was like seeing adulthood reflected in a black mirror, a smoky, nocturnal commingling of death and desire.

As it turned out, this particular combination of mystery and understatement, narcotic beauty and mortal dread, was only a small part of what BÖC were up to. They were also weirdly jokey and perverse, obsessed with the same geeky genre stuff that consumed my adolescence, willing to try almost anything once, and full-on, 70-style, kickass rock musicians to boot. Moreover, at their best, not only on "Reaper" and "Burnin'" but on songs like "Subhuman", "Unknown Tongues", "Seven Screaming Diz-Busters", "Shooting Shark", "Before the Kiss (a Redcap)", "Screams/She's as Beautiful as a Foot" and "Deadline", they cultivated this sense of a fascinating alien landscape that could only be half-glimpsed through a screen of occult misdirection. Where most popular art is concerned, the "intricate detail on the skull" draws you toward the doorway, but the curtains part rather easily, and what you find on the other side is a kind of fantastical ordinariness, the sublime rendered mundane. BÖC's great trick is that they never fully usher you through the doorway. Instead, they leave you to peer in from the threshhold so that you're always an awed initiate, always the seeker reaching towards the chamber but never the adept arriving there.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:03 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

and

What Contenderizer wrote upthread is completely true to me too.
I can only add that the alien, unseizable feeling surrounding BOC was further amplified by what seemed to me their almost quintessential Americanness.
They have the same hazy, dream-like quality of those old 50's horror movies, always walking the fine line between the familiar and the utterly arcane, always evoking a fantasy world where cars, drive-ins, rock n roll, sorcerers and labyrinthine Gothic mansions could stay side by side.
I discovered Blue Oyster Cult around the same time I stumbled into Chrome, and both bands are for me like the perfect soundtrack of this dark, imaginary continent I thought it was America.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:09 AM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

anyway they get at what i can't stop listening to

i think the big thing with BOC is I never full "get it"....they are this odd mix of sometimes competing musical and lyrical impulses that shouldn't work, and they play both sides of the ball wrt sincerity, what's a "joke" what is genuinely unsettling, what is proto punk, what is hamfisted 70s rock...

like none of it should work, but it does

but sometimes they give me the feeling that I got when I was a little kid, we had the county fair in my small town and every night of the fair me and my friends would ride our bikes there and eat all this junk food and play the carnival games (we especially liked this one where you threw darts at balloons to win coke mirrors -- we didn't know what they were we just thought they were for decoration -- with bands like Ozzy and Y&T and Dokken on them) and go on rides and the haunted house, and watch the carnies who seems really menacing and there was something so deeply cheap and corny about it but underneath that was the feeling that there some some real menace underneath it all.

i couldn't describe it really, and any time I went back as an adult it was gone, it just looked like cheap shit and sucker's games, but at the time, being 9 or 10, it felt like some other world from the world i lived in, somewhere where things could happen

If you leave out specific bits those descriptions are just as applicable to our two Scottish lads.

xp

ums, those mirrors, yes! That’s an evocative post...that whole experience had such a distinct flavor

a preadolescent whiff of sex at the fair—I remember at 9 or 10 “winning” my choice of Charlie’s Angels posters (I was in it for Kate Jackson) and my parents being surprised/puzzled

voting boards because classic rock is overrepresented on ILM and it must now be resisted whenever possible

....it isn’t?

We all have our thresholds, I suppose. I don't really see a Hoffmanesque preponderance of classic rock representation when I pull up the board and see recently updated threads on Phoenix, Tangents, 80s jazz fusion, the Microphones, Flying Lotus, Kabza de Small, and Everything But the Girl alongside a thread on Johnny Winter and one on the Grateful Dead, neither of which I'd opened. If you have an ideological investment in #resistance, though, even this may be several bridges too far.

hell yes shitty carny mirrors

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iYAAAOSwEC9dxwC9/s-l400.jpg

bunch of great otm posts about böc right in a row itt

should i finally start the böc listening thread? i feel like i cannot possibly keep up with another project and yet i have nothing really goin on rn???

would love it!

xpost mookie yes! those are it (our fair they came in little cheap cardboard sleeves so you could hang them up)

blue oyster cult - 16-year-old me
boards of canada - 48-year-old me

boards of canada - 28-year-old me
blue oyster cult - 50-year-old me

I had one of those coke mirrors with the cover art to Judas Priest's British Steel on it when I was 12 or 13.

Re this:

i think the big thing with BOC is I never full "get it"....they are this odd mix of sometimes competing musical and lyrical impulses that shouldn't work, and they play both sides of the ball wrt sincerity, what's a "joke" what is genuinely unsettling, what is proto punk, what is hamfisted 70s rock...

This is why I can never get all the way through one of their albums, even though I fucking love them. The mood set by the musically brilliant, lyrically savagely weird proggy hard rock stuff is always balanced out (or sunk) by some post-doo wop ballad or a song with an incredibly cheesy chant-along chorus...every album, no matter how great, has some of the biggest and most jarring speed bumps in rock.

I've never heard Boards of Canada.

don't think I've heard Blue Oyster Cult beyond that one song

i know faster rock records have been made since but whenever i'm playing tyranny and mutation i end up thinking böc are like the fastest band ever

lol, I still don't really know what they look like so as a result of this confusion, in my mind they're an odd blend of like ZZ Top and the Village People

― rob

i just sort of assume buck dharma looks like the only other person i know named "buck" who is buck angel

in possibly related facts i don't much like blue oyster cult

haha buck dharma is the tiniest little guy, he's like 5 ft tall, met him at a casino they played super nice and gracious

https://images.app.goo.gl/NzLvjYEjtDjLDFaGA vintage looks

hmmm I can't post images for shit anymore

https://images.app.goo.gl/LQCSD2yadyCNKci76

Here you go:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/american-guitarist-and-songwriter-buck-dharma-of-rock-band-blue-yster-picture-id1199213731?s=612x612

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/buck-dharma-of-blue-oyster-cult-at-day-on-the-green-in-oakland-july-4th-1981-daniel-larsen.jpg

Gibson Flying Bird?

i'm would participate in a listening thread fwiw

a listening thread of BOC, to be clear

XPS Or really ExVer.

never going to listen to Blue Oyster Clut that kind of music makes me feel nauseous and suicidal!

I did listen to 8 seconds of (don't fear) the reaper and remembered I had heard them before

the live album really does smoke, kinda feel i just need that one and the “don’t fear the reaper” 7” and I’m good

should always fear the sower imo, it's invariably too late when the reaper shows up - so maybe some good advice herein!

Is there any useful comparison to be made between the original Alice Cooper band and BÖC? Both seem to have a similar appeal to me, but I haven't thought it through.

i do not understand the ppl itt who can live without fire of unknown origin

^^^otm

By the way everybody, Martin Popoff did an expansion of his BOC ebook (which already pretty comprehensive) and there are a bunch of ppl itt who should read it. Almost certain to remain the only book on the subject. Kindle store etc

How is his Sabbath book?

I’ve never read any of his books. Are they good, or just comprehensive?

It’s hard for me to be objective about the BOC one and I haven’t read any of his others. His prose style can be kind of annoyingly “hey man just hangin out shootin the shit about rock n roll” but the book is full of great stuff.

I assume there's extra Cult chatter lately because everyone is excited about the new album?

Does Boards have anything as joyful/scary and amazing as the the boogie/strut in ETI? Does anyone? The entire song is like little a dance party just before you're about to open the ark of the covenant.

*a little dance party*

the popoff book is a hot mess and he's not a good writer but I loved it, so much deep detail and he really did the work getting interviews

voted boc

otm

well it’s so lonely in the state of maine!

Haven't knowingly heard any Blue Oyster except Don't Fear the Reaper, which is kind of boring and I now associate with that horribly overrated SNL sketch.

Boards of Canada are incredible.

next poll: LFO vs LFO

An early Warp LPs poll would be nice, come to think of it.

Englebert Humperdinck vs Englebert Humperdinck

BOC PARTY

Gonna boc boc boc til the weekend

Johann Sebastian BOC

“Really explore the studio space this time” will never not be funny to me, sorry

Listening to Spectres, one of the real underrated parts of BOC is their harmony vocals, stuff like the beginning of Golden Age of Leather, the beautiful way they stack up the harmonies in I Love the Night, just gorgeous

Buck is such a complete musician, great songwriter, singer and one of the absolute best rock guitarists ever, his balance of chops, taste and a uncanny gift for melody is pretty unique

Just because Fleetwood Mac is bumped right now, it occurs to be that Lindsay Buckingham might be a better analog than any of his hard rock contemporaries

I showed my wife the live Astronomy from 1976 posted above and she was laughing at Eric Bloom's v-slit J-Lo dress/top.

Just because Fleetwood Mac is bumped right now, it occurs to be that Lindsey Buckingham might be a better analog than any of his hard rock contemporaries

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

You mean Lindsey BOCingham

orange

It's my understanding that the thread needs a live audio clip of "Veterans":
https://youtu.be/loX5cO-Xebc
Some great Dharma action there. He had a really distinctive, elegant sound.

I don't know why they've been hived off into classic rock hell in a lot of people's minds

Thing is, BÖC are sort of an eccentric critics' pet within the context of 70s hard rock, Stony Brook students svengali'd by Pearlman, with both him and Meltzer and Patti Smith working with them, even writing lyrics. They weren't really a hit machine like Aerosmith or Foreigner or an album-oriented behemoth like Zep or Floyd. The average classic rock radio listener probably thinks of them as a minor band, known only for "Reaper" (which radio stations don't rate as highly as ILM does) and "Burnin' for You", maybe "Godzilla". It's part of why it works to reference them in things like SNL and The Stoned Age.

Agents of Fortune and Spectres were pretty much the high watermark of pop-metal in the late 70's. Doo wop influences are all over Agents, in particular, with a smattering of excellent songs they've probably never played live (Agents full-LP concerts notwithstanding.)

"Morning Final" is my dark horse pick from that one. Nice combination of plaintive melody and groove.

blue oyster cult is one of the last of the truly "classic" classic rock bands that i've yet to crack. every few years i try to dig in, and it all just seems so very unenthusiastic. i get that they were good musicians and maybe even somewhat unique as writers, but i think it's the 70s studio sheen that really prevents me from connecting with it. idk, maybe it's just not my thing, but i'm open to suggestions.

I'm sorry but give me 70s studio sheen all day, every day. It's the best: you had labels with piles of cash, artists with piles of drugs, recording technology that had matured and improved, and trained engineers that still really knew what they were doing.

Austin try the live album

on your feet etc

yeah either the live album or tyranny and mvtation

will do and will report back. thanks for the word.

I feel like Secret Treaties is their masterpiece, right on the transition from being a weirdo late 60s protopunks to AOR legends....

though On Your Feet or On Your Knees is such a vicious live album, Buck goes ham on that

otm

if i could only have three they'd be treaties, fire of unknown origin, and on yr feet on yr knees

i voted for BOC

bunches of cantaloupe

Been listening to a bunch of Secret Treaties since this thread started.

history shows again and again
buck dharma kicks the arses of scotsmen

Buck is such a complete musician, great songwriter, singer and one of the absolute best rock guitarists ever, his balance of chops, taste and a uncanny gift for melody is pretty unique

This is so otm. I was listening to Cultosaurus Erectus the other day and I think it has some of my favourite lead playing of all time. It's amazing how much Dharma adds to "Deadline".

Also ppl in this thread otm about them being the main purveyors of weird fiction in the hard-rock context

Godzilla used to be a real live highlight, back in the day. Eric Bloom would kick it off with his goofball antics, asking the crowd to imagine that they were chilling in their living room, smoking a bowl, when a distant rumbling is heard. It gets louder, and louder, and becomes a thump. The room starts shaking with every thump! THUMP! THUMP! You look out of the window to see what's going on and, is that what I think it is? Could it be? It is!! By this point a 10-foot Godzilla head with eyes that light up has been wheeled onto the stage, and the crowd has completely forgotten about the lasers in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow's set.

lol I love it

orange

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, August 21, 2020 3:45 AM

On some live dates he adds “...is it fuckin’ GAMERA...?”

can't believe we've never done this.

There can be only one.

Neither of those things are true.

BOC vs BOC

we could change history here

going to throw my vote to BOC because one of their members was my realtor and helped us find a house

Music Has the Right to Children is a favorite. I got it when it was brand new because of Jyoti Mishra raving about it on alt.music.alternative and I think I had the Peel Session EP that followed it at one time. Other than that, I've never heard another note by this group. At some point I started actively avoiding it which I guess means that I fear it would detract from my enjoyment of the debut. Whatever the case, Boards of Canada ARE that album to me. I can't really differentiate between BoC and Music Has the Right to Children.

let's be real, are those Scots veterans of a thousand psychick wars? I think not.

Otm!!

Can anyone on here tell me what a diz-buster is I always wanted to know

...anyhow, Blue Oyster Cult are like the opposite of that for me. They are really something bigger than their recorded output in a way. There was this painter here called Jesse Bransford who incorporated all this mystical BOC iconography in his work, like elements of the cover of Tyranny and Mutation. There's a trans-dimensional quality, or maybe trans-historical. The music they make is this lumbering dinosaur rock at times and yet it somehow defies my perception of space-time.

A couple of my friends' dad was in Blue Oyster Cult. I met this guy walking down 40th St. in midtown on my lunch break when I was 19 who was carrying an art portfolio, and I stopped him and asked to see it. It was really good stuff, used found materials really well. He had tiny little sculptures in weed vials and painted styrofoam containers. So he asked if I wanted to take a walk and smoke a joint and it turned out we had mutual friends in Long Island. I got invited to a couple of parties at his house, which were really wild... At one of them some kid took a shit in the backyard.

Damn good reason to vote Cult right there.

Neither of those things are true.

Oh no. :(

Ahh wait a minute, I'm confusing things somewhat. My memory of these events is a little hazy for obvious reasons. While I did indeed attend a few ragers at their house, it was the friend whose dad was in BOC who took a shit in another friend's backyard during a party held at the latter family's home in their absence - like, the entire family was away on vacation, not just the parents :)

one of the absolute best rock guitarists ever, his balance of chops, taste and a uncanny gift for melody is pretty unique

I don't know, take that incredible live Astronomy from 1976 for example. Buck Dharma's solo is truly exceptional in quality, but not in style. It's all the things you say- perfect note choice and phrasing, masterful chops, impeccable taste. Still, I've heard A LOT of guitar playing in this vein.

The difference is that somewhere around the 6 minute mark, Buck's solo rips open an interdimensional wormhole. You might not even notice until it's too late because you're following the solo so attentively. There is something going on here that has nothing to do with musical ability, though. I'm telling you, these guys have supernatural powers.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Last chance to even the score for our turquoise Scottish lads.

so not gonna happen

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

loooooool

Suck it, other cultists.

The day rockist ILM dies. Pours some red wine out & pops a nightcap.

Impressive turnout

No kidding, I didn't think it was still possible.

ILM gonna ILM

our best days have passed us by

the golden age of ilmeather

Canadian counted, baby
It's a poll farce at work

ILM gonna ILM

Flagging this as overt anti-Canadian sentiment.

Of the self-

LÖL

folly of man... godzilma

The day rockist ILM dies.

https://youtu.be/RjMEzBMiTJ4

:D

Flagging this as overt anti-Canadian sentiment.

Only one of these bands wrote a song about the RCMP, and they're not from Scotland.

https://youtu.be/kefOWquqNrA

I actually love Boards of Canada, as long as people don't go doing things like comparing them to Blue Öyster Cult.

xp I stand corrected.

the atlantic, so wide

We need to talk about how there's a literal silent majority on ILM.

Never forget

Lol I bought that album at OM

Distinctly remember standing there for actual hours trying to decide btwn mhtrtc and the cd with the first 2 silver apples albums and ultimately getting both

Both BOC's are amazing there is nothing to choose between

We need to talk about how there's a literal silent majority on ILM.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul)

ttps://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=107483

high turnout!

So BÖC can release an album in the plague year of 2020, but BOC apparently cannot? I'm running out of ludicrous soundtrack material for everything going on...

(btw, the existence of this thread is evidence that like it or not, ILX is a quality place)

(also, because like a returning comet - we can expect ILX to run this poll AGAIN eleven years from now.)

Astonished to learn that there are at least 144 people who post here