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Mark P on BOC.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

my heart swells with a tangerine joy

...orange!

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

masterful parody

― zemko, Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

that's a pretty brave assumption bob!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

why else? "hey fawning faerie musing! i don't need to talk about the music at all! well everyone's done it but i wanna go too" that's about as chlidlike as it gets i reckon

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

ok ok i'm being a dick but still

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

it reminded me of Jabberwocky

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 8 March 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

possibly u r all gay

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it possible to talk abt BOC w/out getting all pastoral/melancholic? (Best try I've seen - a slightly anal/bonkers essay abt the religious etc. 'significance' of certain BOC samples/titles - I think someone linked to it on an old ILM/BOC thread.)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i could 'switch tack' and talk about how geogaddi is the only successful full BOC LP cos the occult fiery leanings combine with otherwise plodding manner (for an album band it's all single tracks, crazy huh?) to make a terrific uncomfortable arid dead-air heathaze... truly godless entirety

haha that was my go

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 9 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

okay but the idea of the essay wasn't really to talk about the music!

i guess i could do that on more boring/technical terms but in this case i didn't see the point, not when the source material invited smth much more prosaic

i mean OF COURSE pastoralism and melancholia are zee everpresent buzzwords w/r/t boc -> i was trying to figure out WHY

maybe i failed in that regard i dunno

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess im saying that there are all sorts of hidden connectors between boc's music and the buzzwords used to delineate it

sometimes you have to trip over the rock before you know its there to look underneath

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I like printing stuff by people who are writing in ways they don't normally. so that's why I liked it.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 10 March 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

fear the great god pan!

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 10 March 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

subtext: it's okay to love music, just not too much

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 10 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(i liked the piece)

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretty.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Good write up. They remind me of the music in a TV show called In Search Of... as well as the Children's Television Workshop and CBC films. It is funny how people seem to get it, or not.

Really, the BoC create some beautiful music. Someone said that the BoC synths sound like reel-to-reel tapes an unknown musical genius buried in a canister years ago and someone unearthed them. But their aesthetic is probably more of a particular instead of a universal. Which is alright with me.

― Wooly Reaper, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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