new BOC album

here's another.

so is it officially out or what? cuz i've got my copy already. bought in store, no promo. hmm.

anyway, i'll be "officially" reviewing it tonite, and once it's posted this week, i'll link to it. narcissism hurrah!

Oh, so it's not Blue Oyster Cult, then? Bah!

I just want to add that last year I was in a laundromat in Pennsylvania and around the corner a TV was playing some children's show and I heard a little girl sounding out: "IIIIIIII looooooove ... youuuu" et al. - the sample in "The Color of the Fire." I ran over to see what the show was but the little scamp there had already changed the channel. He looked tough so I didn't press the issue.

That sample is from sesame street. From what I remember it's crude animation over a black background of a girl writing "I love you" with a crayon.. at first she writes "I luv you" and then goes "naaah" and scribbles over it. If you listen to the song carefully you can hear this. I actually realized the source of the sample the first time I heard the song, which tells you how deep SS is burned into my brain. I haven't seen the show in years (I'm 22) but I don't think they show that particular bit anymore (or any of the 70s era stuff, which was the best of course ;)

heh re-reading your post I realized you recently hearing that sample in a laundromat = they *do* still play that bit...

i've just listened to 2/3 of the new album, and i'm very disappointed.... not by BOC themselves, but its simply just that i hold Music has a right to children in such high esteem, that Geogaddi failed to replicate any of the beauty and warmth i felt emanating from the first album. Geogaddi, if anything sounds like a trial run for music has a right.., rather than a follow-up.

having said all that though, I bet that in 2 days I'll be in love with Geogaddi...

at least you have a new milky wimpshake cd to look forward to.

as promised.

WORSHIP ME.

milky wimpshake - i so want them to cover g.moroder

MHTRTC affects me unlike any other album, it's as essential to my diet as anything by eno,tangerine dream,kraftwerk,or rdj. i do have these deja vu moments listening to it. so much that one summer day i went looking for an sh101 in pawn shops in a the nearby city of my early childhood, Pensacola. i popped in MHTRTC for my daytrip. with no luck in finding analog synths in the junk shops, i proceeded back home on the interstate. as i crossed the Escambia Bay bridge at dusk i saw the striped strobe-lit smokestacks of Gulf Power with and the Air Products industrial plant on the other side of the bay. i noticed the juxtaposition of estuary with circa 1970 industrial architecture. i noticed that the blue cube sign with the White Westinghouse logo no longer guarded the bay bridge. i remembered seeing that crowned white W for miles as a child. it made me happy back then, that cube, and now it would be gone forever. only the redbricked cubicle of a plant remained. i eventually drove to my home until i was five in the suburbs, a house i grew up in in the late 70's. now it was empty and lifeless except for the weeds growing in the yard. i felt awful, parked in the cracked driveway with both my headlights and boc on. all along i really wanted to go back to see that house. no synths, no White Westinghouse, nobody in that suburban house. MHTRTC brings back sounds,textures,and states i had experienced when i was a child. I do believe that the BoC have tapped into a collective memory for some of us. there are tones in the music that seem to retrieve these memories stored in the back of my brain for years. MHTRTC is nostalgic for some of us, but it is still fresh, original, and chilled enough for those who feel none the above. Geogaddi will eventually grow on me. It's very beautiful and haunting as well. The BoC are capable of short melodies and textures on the level of Satie. I see them as today's Erik Satie. Geogaddi is somewhat of a departure stylistically as it seems more digitally sequenced and manipulated, and not quite as much an exercise in 70's analog nostalgia as MHTRTC. Yet there still is that plenty of the trademark BoC synthesis to delve into for countless hours, especially with headphones that can pick up low frequencies.

SCENE: Boards of Canada's studio

BOC GUY 1: "Yeah, but do we kick butt?"

BOC GUY 2: "Read it again."

The BoC are capable of short melodies and textures on the level of Satie. I see them as today's Erik Satie.

That's a very interesting insight. I hadn't thought of that before, but you may well be on to something there.

I didn't bother to check this thread for 3 days because I assumed it was about Blue Oyster Cult. I gotta get out more.