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Lately, it's Tears from the Compound Eye
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cymagen edited this topic 33 months ago.
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'Oscar See Through Red Eye' by a mile...
Posted 33 months ago.
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At the moment i'm digging 'sherbert head'
Posted 33 months ago.
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lyrical [deleted] says:
niiiiiiice! Sherbert Head is awesome, i find Constants are Changing quite moving, it was the first one off the album that i had to play over and over and over . . .
Posted 33 months ago.
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dayvan cowboy is my current favorite
beautiful video as well
Originally posted 32 months ago.
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inderdaad edited this topic 32 months ago.
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Definately Tears from the Compound Eye.
Love the way the second half of it is so delicate and evocative, reminds me of so many strange and derelict places. I find myself listening very hard indeed to hear when the track actually finishes.. [A bit like listening to jets planes late at night when everything else is quiet].
In any case TFTCE gave me my Flickr Name!
Posted 26 months ago.
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My vote goes to Dayvan Cowboy as well, despite its uncanny resemblance to a track by Scorpion Wind (project of Douglas P of Death In June and Boyd Rice).
I suggest reading The Stranger/Outsider by Camus, paying particular attention to the scene on the beach when the extreme sunshine is described in terms of cymbals crashing in the main characters head.Then play Dayvan Cowboy again........spooky.
Posted 26 months ago.
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Just saw an immensely cool Italian film called The Consequences Of Love, had a great soundtrack, including some BoC.Go rent it.
Posted 26 months ago.
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I have an odd fascination with 'Slow This Bird Down'. Particularly the very middle of that track. If I had the talent, it's the kind of music I'd set some moving image to.
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Still think that anything with a hypnotic 'tail off' second half - like Happy Cycling, In a beautiful place.. or Tears from a Compound Eye are the absolute apex of BOC.. They seem to strive for that timeless evocation of place or memory.. and the way these tracks hit a perfect hypnotic repeat really captures that.
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I totally agree with that. The last 2:50 or so of Happy Cycling enveloped me completely the first time I heard it.
My introduction to BOC's music was a chance one, not long after Music Has The Right To Children was released. My experience of Electronica at the time was really limited, and BOC sounded so revolutionary to me.
I listened to ROYGBIV all the way up to Edinburgh on the bus one time, and then Casino Royale by DJ Zinc nearly all of the way back down to Dumfries. Musical discoveries are some of my happiest memories.
Posted 26 months ago.
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I lost my BOC virginity when 'Telephasic Workshop' appeared on the Channel 4 late night program 'The Trip' - all old science, NASA, weirdo footage set to ambient electro..
From there I went out and got the 'John Peel EP'..
BOC is very popular on the BBC - esp in BBC2 docs.. a whole Jonathan Meades 1hr show about wartime architecture - concrete radar reflectors etc was set to 'Music has the rights..'
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I get a little buzz when I hear BOC used in television programs.
Posted 26 months ago.
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I get a little buzz - now there is a BOC track waiting to be written.
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Aside from the obvious hits, I have a fondness for Peacock Tail. It's lighter and airer than the usual brooding BoC fare.
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I can't pick a favourite from the Campfire Headphase, but Heard From Telegraoh Lines is great. And I think Happy Cycling is the best thing they've ever done IMO
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chromakey dreamcoat was the one for me that stuck as most immediately memorable from campfire headphase, but each album, apart from the slightly disjointed "twoism", is crafted as such a complete whole, it almost seems pointless to me to pick out tracks.
anyone agree on this ?
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GraemeNicol edited this topic 22 months ago.
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Definitely 'Oscar See Through Red Eye'.
Posted 22 months ago.
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agreed, but if we are picking Ill go with Satellite Anthem Icarus, I always space out to it. feels like a warm sunny day at the local pool.
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Peacock Tail is definately my favourite. Next would be Dayvan Cowboy. I love Macquarie Ridge from the Japanese release of Campfire Headphase.
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I agree w græmetric.
Both in the point that the albums are better perceived as a whole, and also in the Chromakey Raincoat.
I like the introduction of the acoustic guitar cycles. It is not common that they use a "recognizable instrument". What would a campfire be w/o a guitar?
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