Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (Album Review)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- The wait is over. Time to finally cover the Boards of Canada catalog.
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Favorite Tracks: An Eagle In Your Mind, Telephasic Workshop, Triangles & Rhombuses, Sixtyten, Turquoise Hexagon Sun, Roygbiv, Rue The Whirl, Aquarius, Pete Standing Alone, Smokes Quantity, Open The Light
Least Favorite Track: One Very Important Thought
Overall Rating: 9.0/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
The friend who introduced me to Boards of Canada remarked "you know, if you need a conversation starter, I've found a surprising number of women our age know who Boards of Canada is..."
He was right, but with the caveat that every woman I know who's heard of BoC intensely dislikes them. XD
jadegecko I love boards of canadaa
"Overall feeling a solid 9/10" *Sample in Aquarius* "Yeaaaah, that's right"
lolz
Pro tip : watch movies at Flixzone. I've been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.
@Jaxx Gus Definitely, been using Flixzone for years myself :)
orange
@@neins yellow (from alpha and omega)
An Eagle in Your Mind is one of my favourite songs ever.
ILOVEYOU
Same
Agreed
When those foreboding, dark chords slowly fade in after the "I LOVE YOU"-part... Instant chills
same thing here
Yay!! This album has a very special place in my heart. I first heard the song "Aquarius" on the radio when I was in middle school and immediately fell in love with its strange, haunting, and nostalgic melody. I had it recorded on a cassette tape and just called it "the orange song" for years, haha. The song also became a hit with my parents and best childhood friend, who's a big BoC fan like me now. Roygbiv is a close second favorite. :) Anyways, thanks for your wonderful review! You described BoC's music perfectly. I can't wait for the next one!
Now I wanna hear the story of how you figured out who it was. (Though it looks like it could be as simple as googling 'orange yeah that's right.')
You’re not understanding the last track is bc it doesn’t sound like you’re viewing it in the context of the time it was released. If you understand that messaging as a message meant (at least originally) for a specific time and place, it makes a lot of sense actually.
There are at least 2 major reasons why folks, especially in the UK (BoC are a Scottish duo, bare in mind), would get why that “stand for your rights” and “fight censorship” messaging is there: rising neoliberalism in 90s Britain, and even more relevant, the government pushback against the race/electronic music culture in the UK. Granted, it had been four years since the UK government really came down hard on “the ravers” (to put it mildly, and maybe generalize a bit), but censorship was a growing issue at that time. Also, Blair’s labor government was no real relief to the neoliberal era that Thatcher had ushered in, and people were angry at a lot of government policy, especially the youth who were really involved in the electronic music world (the takeover in the UK and Europe was far more significant than the US), and the realization that the “left” party was now more a centrist party. Etc.
One more thing that should be considered, is that MHARTC is an album that explores themes of nostalgia above all else, with the voices children throughout, and a mellow, ghostly, but sometimes very eerie and almost paranoid vibe. That nostalgia can be read/understood in many ways, but it is in part looking back over the past decade of this culture that had emerged with acid house in the late 80s, and the childlike innocence of what was a legitimate cultural movement for the guys in BoC, and presumably most of their listeners; an “innocence” that had been lost, a culture which had been under attack, both by the government with direct policy, and by the capitalist commodification of the scene. Etc.
I could go on, but there’s some actual academic writing out there that’d better explain that time, twenty years ago now. Hopefully, though, that little ramble was enough to contextualize the messaging at the end of the album a bit more. It’s got to be read in it’s historical context, to be understood in context. ✌🏼
Nikola Demitri thanks for this, perfect contextualisation
i was always confused by the last track as well. thanks for explaining.
Nailed it
This is my favorite BOC album. I remember a splash animation in their official website that simulates an aircraft view, where you can elevate, move forward and backwards and go down, as "Happy Cycling" song fade in & out while you up and down. Great Flash animation for that time.
I'm Bored of Canada. I want to go to Scotland
I see what you did there
Roygbiv and Color Of The Fire are my two favorites, and they always make me happy with their nostalgic feels.
I was on some really good acid in Houston watching Venetian snares live, walked back to the hotel after the show, got into my room and pressed shuffle on a playlist and then An Eagle in Your Mind came on. Needless to say I have never been taken into deep waters like and what that song did for me was Magical..,indescribable
Ey Kaini Industries is fire!
Josiah Luck word
Uh, Happy Cycling? Arguably the most interesting track on the album?
that track is not on my version of the album. will cover it in the odds and ends video
The Wonky Angle Ah. Maybe it was originally from one of their older EPs and then added to newer versions of this album? Great track nonetheless
Hexxun its a bonus track but I agree that it is a highlight even if it is just a bonus track.
Loneliest Monk really? I always thought it was the real closer to the album. I read somewhere they CD company fucked up and left it off a bunch of copies by mistake.
@@stevencloer2941 Happy Cycling is flat out one of boards best songs
That single is pretty important mate! It's involved in the big record day trail they did for an album release
still paying $2500 for that seems a little insane imo
The Wonky Angle tbh yeah but it is a real collectors piece with some historic value behind it at least
Can you please review Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia?
The revolution some have expressed they felt upon hearing The Beatles, Elvis, Hendrix or Motown for the first time, I feel for this Album and all of the albums it turned me onto as a result. While so much of music stagnated under traditional instrumentation, the IDM/EDM movement was and is uncovering new ground, BoC specifically in the psychoactive realm. Arguably this revolution started a good 30 years earlier but this is the innovative music of my time, my generation.
5:37 - 5:47 funniest 10 seconds ive ever seen.
I hope you don't hate their two last albums xD
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mdr je m'attendait pas à te trouver là !
Thanks so much for this, can't wait for geogaddi
Just listened to this album today and it was a perfect compliment to the rainy weather. Even though I listened to the bonus track version it flew by. Pete standing alone is probably my least favorite even though it kinda reminds me of aphex twin.
i grew up listening to boc, and I've come to appreciate all the nostalgic memories that go along with their albums. especially all the road trip 'the moon is following me' memories, with aquarius or everything you do is a balloon playing in the background of them lol
love all albums, for this album Olson is my fav track... nice review!
It took a while for this to grow on me compared to the other 3, but objectively speaking, this is probably their best, even if I think that Tomorrow's Harvest is very close runner up.
I would love to see you review A Few Old Tunes and Old Tunes Vol. 2. Those are 2 of their albums that used to only be available to friends and family because it was only on a few cassette tapes. Someone managed to convert it to digital format and uploaded it onto TH-cam as well as a rare BOC guide site.
th-cam.com/video/1IBqpx2Ui1I/w-d-xo.html
Most of the music on my USB stick for my car is Boards of Canada. There’s a good few that I absolutely love. Buckie High, Macquarie ridge, Roygbiv, 1969, nothing is real, etc. And then there’s 5.9.78 that KILLS for me.
And then Seeya Later is the exact same feel as the title.
Maybe you could review a DJ PON3 project or a Balloon Party album for April Fools.
loved the review bro! Thanks for the honesty. my experience with them has basically been the opposite as yours (addicted as soon as I heard them and haven't been able to stop listening to them for 5 years) but I loved hearing your perspective. Could you review Odd Nosdam as some point?
"I'm sure the PSA announcement made more sense in context." haha
Great review, neat. 9/10 too!
Aw that's a bummer, I actually love Kaini Industries
I return to the wonky angle almost like a ritual.
I think you should do a review of Bonobo - Migration.
I did th-cam.com/video/GbQpdhq1Pyg/w-d-xo.html
Ohh SHYYYAT get owned!
The best album to listen to when you are tripping
If you need drugs to enjoy an album, it's a shitty album
@@notveryniceatall bait used to be so believable.
Kaini Industries is probably my favorite boc track tbh
The censorship thing was actually about a pornography not really BoC: there exists another version (original I think) of that track proving this in another album of theirs.
Kaylem Kerr it's on the version from boc maxima
Can you review the Harry Potter soundtrack? : )
Never clicked a link so fast!
Fantastic album!
OOOORANGE
FINALLY!!
Oh god yes. FINALLY.
my favorite albumfrom them
For Me boards of canada isn't really idm some of there eps are mainly hi scores but for everything else it falls more onto hauntology plunderphonics pshyadelic hip hop progressive ambient those are the labels I throw on them also hynagogic pop
Boards of Canada: wee woo wee woo deedly dee BUH BUH BUH BUH GAH GAH GAH GAH
BoC fans: it's actually really deep bro i swear bro
(the boc maxima version of one very important thought is actually from a pornographic film, they just rerecorded it with a different voice actor in mhtrtc with a boards of canada reference inserted)
Best BoC review ever
Haha "I'm looking at you Tycho"
Yo man, first time channel viewer here. Any albums you recommend to a newbie trying to get more into electronic music?
well I can recommend this old list I made in 2016 of my top 100 favorite electronic albums, you can probably find some stuff in there that might interest you th-cam.com/video/jmYXmdd_8ec/w-d-xo.html
Please go over their obscure stuff, too!
Pretty Lights :)
love this one. reminds me of the Dust Brothers' work for Fight Club
BOC is life 11/10!
Boards of Canada: wee woo wee woo deedly dee BUH BUH BUH BUH GAH GAH GAH GAH
BoC fans: it's actually really deep bro i swear bro
the best track ever of them is "Dave (I'm A Real Traditionalist)"
I always thought the real song part of it was sampled before until I revisited it recently it's pretty nice
@@crazygoji bassline is crazy on that song if there is an original one i need it
@@hplace7315 yea it is lots of slides pretty great, it's like a prom night song, my fav might be new shears the harmony is great in that one
>Most hyped up acts in electronic history
hahaha what
Are you braindead? Can't understand words?
Imo BoC is just music to vibe to on a regular basis.
U should review Tobacco's albums
Twoism is a masterpiece, but this album is great too.
Boards of Canada reminds me more of Kraftwerk's early music funnily enough, a lot of that early electronic and Krautrock.
Is it entirely possible to go over more obscure bands in the future? 90s acts like Aedena Cycle, Alanïa, & Drum Island do never get enough notice.
I do often go over obscure bands however since they are obscure most people don't watch those reviews
will check out those bands later though
The Wonky Angle mention the obscure more often like 808 State then people will start hearing them, get interested and then do the reviews
It like drugs, but without the drugs.
Fuck off lmao. You're not as interesting as you think you are.
Most of these groups hate the term IDM, as its just a marketing by genre term. THey are just making music. Just like Brian Enos ambient albums get thrown into the NEW AGE category, which he is not new age.
I also am very fond of MHTRTC but Tomorrow's Harvest is truly amazing and maybe their best overall.
Frédéric Dénommé debatable
Finally...
Boards is just 2 guys who liked Sesame Street a bit too much
The correct mood would be HIGH AS FUCK
If you need drugs to enjoy an album it's a shitty album
ORANGE!
Basically 😋😋😋
when your a child and you review an album that was made when you were not born it is impossible to know how this changed the landscape of music and the effect it has had on music today unfortunately and not to be patronizing but not much knowledge or experience of life
great album of course but geogaddi is the best album from boc
I think you're really missing their sense of humor. But maybe it's just an acquired (or not) sense of taste. Their music made me laugh from the beginning.
And apparently some men are under the impression people are under the impression women don't like BoC but I know quite a few who do. And they're attractive, if that matters , , , , The point is, this is a strange review. I get that album reviews should be personal, but it's rare that i come across reviews so stuffed with the first person without explaining why or how it matters that the first person is so important-. Glad you kind of like it, I guess--it's hard to tell, from the review, honestly, even though, it sounds like you listen to it frequently; I can't quite sqaure the two. I also kind of wish that y'all millennials and Gen X kids could find a thesaurus and get some synonyms for "creepy" when you talk about Boards because, damn, guys, there are lots of other and sometimes more precise words that work better--just sayin. While it's hardly original to compare BoC and their music to childhood, I do like that you tie them to the particular experience of going on a field trip and getting lost--that's nice and specific. But I kinda wonder about the rest; it's so general. Childhood alienation is there stock and trade, after all. And . . . "hype'? I mean, really? They've been around since the early 90s, so Boards have a *reputation*--and a well-earned one (and mystique, too)--the exact oppositie of hype.
I do appreciate that young people are getting into, and reviewing Boards, on TH-cam and such, but speicficity helps your viewers learn what they're in for, and hopefully helps you grow yoru subscriber base, no? Just some things to consider. Good luck! I'll check out your Geogaddi review laters.
Take your meds
Can you name some artists that copy Aphex Twin? I guess its not obvious to me
imo Warp Records's entire Artificial Intelligence series follows basically all the same formulas as Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92, many of its participants eventually growing out of that phase and coming into their own such as Autechre, The Black Dog, Speedy J, Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman/F.U.S.E), heck even BoC has Twoism which isn't that far removed from that sound either. I mean basically the IDM genre as a whole borrows off of formulas that Aphex started so you know
and of course there's also B12, who started out as Aphex ripoffs and continue to be Aphex ripoffs to this day
The Wonky Angle Ahh I see, thanks
@@TrustInTheUniverse hi
What's up
@@thawachyasintinoraskasloui4238 yo whats happenin
I feel so alone in saying that this album is below mediocre at best.
How do you feel about the rest of their music?
Agustín Videla I haven't finished it, but Geogaddi is mediocre at best, and their debut A Few Old Tunes is awesome.
Lol tycho.
**completely unfunny comment** LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I understand that you don't get BoC but I don't understand your hatred of something you don't understand.
is this one of those "I can't believe you called them the n-word 45 times"-style joke comments, kinda hard to tell
The Wonky Angle I'm mystified by your text. It seems in no way related to what I said.
and I'm mystified by your original comment as I really like BoC and rated this album a 9/10
I mean I don't love every single facet of their being or consider them a personal all-time favorite band but I don't see how that counts as hatred
Boards of Canada: wee woo wee woo deedly dee BUH BUH BUH BUH GAH GAH GAH GAH
BoC fans: it's actually really deep bro i swear bro
@@notveryniceatall change of career, EXCELLENT 👍👍
I just don't get this album
not great - there's like 125 million Soundcloud tracks out there - sorta downtempo instrumental hip hop/easy listening with a few samples thrown over the top is a considerable ingredient in the sandwich. The hype they received was really unwarranted, like the Primal Scream record. Simple, two bar keyboard riffs, dull, simple bass samples (that repeat, and repeat, and repeat) and occasionally clever mixing tricks with the "content". Some would argue there's no content to their music - the lack of development, contrast etc . . . what kicks me in the head is the track Aquarius - clearly a key change but they don't actually move the pitch for the main instrument sample with the key change, another amateurism along with all the one-finger-at-a-time keyboard parts. It's wallpaper music for college stations. It's not super trebly like club music - some of it actually just sounds like 90's hiphop with an element of 'aloofness' that you'd associate with sleepy trip hop, another way college radio filled out it's automatic playlists while volunteer djs were at home sleeping . . . oh yeah, FIGHT CENSORSHIP on behalf of easy listening tracks that sound like Double's godawful mid 80's soft rock single "Captain of Her Heart" with the vocal track on mute . . .
WORDS WORDS WORDS
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73Boards of Canada: wee woo wee woo deedly dee BUH BUH BUH BUH GAH GAH GAH GAH
BoC fans: it's actually really deep bro i swear bro