BOC vs BOC

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

love both but for me it's the reverse

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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

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)

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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