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  lumpenprol said:

Disagree. I find the one without track names (always forget which is which) to fit your description somewhat.

Old Tunes Vol. 1 is GREAT. Despite a few tracks that are a little too dissonant IMO (Side 1 - Audiotrack 13 comes to mind) it's really excellent, but maybe a little harder to latch onto since the proper names of most of the songs aren't known. Side 2 - Audiotrack 07 is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I just plain like all of BoC's material for different reasons

I don't think M&M are embarrassed at all at their earlier releases; I think they've just moved on from that era and want to do new stuff. Going back and revisiting their artistic pasts are not satisfying for them, so a low priority is placed on releasing them.

Ironic that a band that profits from nostalgia so well isn't when it comes to their own art.

Does anyone have a copy of the fake "look around you" tracks?

  lumpenprol said:

  LOL Alzado said:

the old tunes are mostly bad with a few scattered moments of brilliance

 

Disagree. I find the one without track names (always forget which is which) to fit your description somewhat. But the other two, especially the one with forest moon and sequoia, to be excellent, better than maxima in fact. And I think they capture that wide-open/junior-high-school and high-school nostalgia better than TCH. They went back to childhood with MHTRTC and Geogaddi, with all the kid samples, but the old tunes songs, though chronologically earlier, seem to capture a later phase of life. I feel if you could bottle the essence of what it was like for the Sandison brothers growing up in Canada, it would be the Old Tunes tracks. They seem to capture a specific "memory-flavor" more vividly than anything that came after. I think on MHTRTC BoC developed a more general vision that many people could relate to, but I think the Old Tunes songs contain more meaning specific to the Sandisons. They seem more personal.

 

I can only partially relate to the mental images I get from the tracks, since my youth was I think more urban than the Sandison's. But I like the "woodsy" (as opposed to pastoral) feel, the images stirred by tracks like"bmx track", "buckie high", "powerline misfortune," the cheeky political satire, and most of all the playfulness. Though I still like BoC, I feel they've gotten a bit too serious, and less inspired, which seems to be the fate of people as they age and get famous.

i agree ... the old tunes tapes took a while to grow on me, but they really are very good at that memory-evoking thing. i'd say only 25% of the tracks are especially weak, and there are some incredible tracks hidden in there (5/9/78, forest moon, etc)

FOR THE LOOK AROUND YOU MUSIC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/...es1/media.shtml