God, i just heard BoC in Starbucks

Sunshine Recorder starts playing over the speaker at Starbucks while i'm looking at the New York Times and sipping my coffee. I blame myself for hearing this as much as i do for making it possible.

Keep this depressing shit to yourself!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

why would hearing good music out and about ever be a bad thing?

the only time i remember hearing boc out was at a student bar. needless to say i got a brain boner

Would I be correct in stating that this thread is about BoC listener who goes to Starbucks horrified at the idea of BoC listeners going to Starbucks?

i once heard them at the Muddy Cup in Newpaltz, it was a pleasant experience

  On 7/31/2010 at 9:52 PM, Cryptowen said:

Would I be correct in stating that this thread is about BoC listener who goes to Starbucks horrified at the idea of BoC listeners going to Starbucks?

that's one level.

go deeper.

B O C

The fact that you care is depressing. Aphex is always in Top Gear, you hear me crying.

Get a life, you are not special, your taste in music is not unique.

i've heard them on the radio a couple of times, which is surprising. but usually just quick interludes that last a few seconds until another full length song is played. wish they got real airplay, but they're not exactly mainstream outside their niche

In order of fame:

Afx>Boc>(who gives a shit)

  On 7/31/2010 at 8:50 PM, SPD² said:

I blame myself for hearing this as much as i do for making it possible.

almost missed this. damn right!

stop going to starbucks, and most of all, stop drinking that shit!

  On 8/1/2010 at 3:04 AM, chassis said:

In order of fame:

 

Afx>Boc>(who gives a shit)

Mostly this. I find BoC is a bit better known to Indie music fans, & Aphex to electronic music fans. Squarepusher seems to attract some people who normally look down on electronic, what with his bass playing & all.

ffs watmm

One time when I was being driven to school, my friend tapped me on the shoulder and said that Aphex Twin just got played on the radio. I didn't hear the song because I was too busy listening to Aphex Twin on my headphones.

Whenever I've been in a Starbucks in Norwich they always seem to play vintage reggae classics.

Never stepped inside a Starbucks in my life, and don't intend doing so. I guess I am from a different realm. To socialise, me and my cohorts meet down the pub to and drink flagons of ale and eat salted, pig skins. And if BoC came blasting out of the speakers I'd be fucking over the moon! Obviously the issue here is not the music but the setting?

If I got a call or a text from my mates to meet down Starbucks I would think they had turned gay and were taking me on a date LoL. Fair enough the birds meet round a house and natter over tea and chocolate biscuits. But Starbucks? Nah.

Each to their own though. I guess some of us English still have a vein of neandothol-knuckle-dragging-toothless-savagery that the Romans didn't quite wipe out. And for that I am immensly thankfull.

i mean, it's just coffee. it's actually really good coffee. if you want to have some good coffee, go there to get some good coffee - and then shut the fuck up about everything else. people are fucking weird. claim something is 'elitist' then adapt an elitist attitude against it.. makes perfect sense. i'm thirsty, i think i'll go get a delicious mocha.

of course, i'd be a little weirded out if i heard boc playing, but i'd probably end up enjoying the fact that i did. most people won't know what it is anyways, and it will contribute to the slow process of prying open their closed-minded views of electronic music a little further.

  On 8/1/2010 at 5:23 PM, mafted said:

i mean, it's just coffee. it's actually really good coffee.

i deduce from this post that you've never had really good coffee

right. i'm not a connoisseur, but i know there's always something better with anything, so it doesn't really matter. beer snobs don't have much against you coffee snobs. lol

just don't be seen walking in to a starbucks man, you might mess up your image.

  On 8/1/2010 at 8:14 PM, mafted said:

 

 

just don't be seen walking in to a starbucks man, you might mess up your image.

My image of a drunken-neandathol-toothless-savage couldn't sink much lower!

Perhaps IF I did wander into Starbucks my street-cred will jump up a notch or 2?

And if I did sit in Starbucks drinking coffee and BoC came on, I would sit there and think 'hah-hah, proberbly none of you have a clue what this track is'. And I would smugly nod my head in glee.

The issue here is not the music it's the venue.

I doubt the lads wrote a letter in the Old Tounge, deep in the Pentland Hills, by a roaring fire while thunder and lightnig crashed overhead and the Gods crushed the peat bogs and babbling brooks with rain. To the CEO of Starbucks and personally told him to play BoC at one of his venues.

Could be wrong though...

Starbucks coffee isnt actually very nice. I mean I expected it to really nice because its HUGE. Maybe its because everyone orders a fappawankachino. I just want a black coffee and Starbucks isnt overly nice.

both aphex and boc (I've also heard squarepusher) is heard every now and then if you watch swedish national television. I barely watch TV but I still hear it from time to time, so, not uncommon at all. It's still good music.

  On 8/1/2010 at 5:17 PM, beerwolf said:

Never stepped inside a Starbucks in my life, and don't intend doing so. I guess I am from a different realm. To socialise, me and my cohorts meet down the pub to and drink flagons of ale and eat salted, pig skins. And if BoC came blasting out of the speakers I'd be fucking over the moon! Obviously the issue here is not the music but the setting?

 

If I got a call or a text from my mates to meet down Starbucks I would think they had turned gay and were taking me on a date LoL. Fair enough the birds meet round a house and natter over tea and chocolate biscuits. But Starbucks? Nah.

 

Each to their own though. I guess some of us English still have a vein of neandothol-knuckle-dragging-toothless-savagery that the Romans didn't quite wipe out. And for that I am immensly thankfull.

best watmm comma usage of 2010!

  On 7/31/2010 at 9:11 PM, AcrossCanyons said:

why would hearing good music out and about ever be a bad thing?

 

the only time i remember hearing boc out was at a student bar. needless to say i got a brain boner

x2

Fuck BoC and fuck Aphex anyway, they're not so sacred that they shouldn't be exposed to the great unwashed. That only applies to The Fall and Mr. Bungle.