Julie and Candy and the flow of Geogaddi

  On 6/23/2011 at 7:26 AM, baph said:

  On 6/23/2011 at 6:52 AM, Spittal said:

I mean, it's not that I don't think it's a really good track. I love it.

 

It's that Geogaddi is such an amazing experience, it gets so dark, harrowing and unsettling. I feel that Julie and Candy doesn't quite fit into the Geogaddi mixture as well as the rest of the album.

 

it's like Geogaddi is a cave, getting deeper and deeper always looking for a way out, then Julie and Candy is like this weird theme park with lots of midgets at the bottom of the cave?

 

Am I alone here?

 

Have you ever seen lots of midgets at a theme park? Because there's usually some dark ass shit going on whenever you see lots of midgets at a theme park.

wherever there are lots of midgets, it's gotta be a dark scene. I can not picture myself in one single scenario that a horde of little people doesn't turn into a tripped out laugh riot or introspective nightmare of sorts.

Julie and candy is perfectly placed and aptly titled. it's definitely dark but has a small ray of light in it. a sweet spot on the record if you will (and pardon the sweet candy pun please).

geogaddi to me is one of the most perfectly paced albums I have ever gotten really into. it's literally perfect to me. having to follow up mhtrtc and taking several years to do so, those boys knew exactly what they were doing with all 66 minutes of that record. and I do not question 1 second of it. not even magic window.

  On 6/24/2011 at 4:13 PM, oscillik said:

  On 6/24/2011 at 4:08 PM, 40days said:

  On 6/24/2011 at 5:20 AM, kaini said:

if geogaddi doesn't scare you, you're not doing it right.

Help me do it right.

goto the twoism forums. they're scary. they also like geogaddi. like, a lot. seriously. they really really like it.

They also like ruining Boards of Canada. For everyone who encounters that forum.

And furries. They seem to be into that shit.

RIP, BOC. you will never top this album. well done! not sure what really happened there? how geo became so geekily MASSIVE, but that's IDM/warp for ya

but sling out a bunch of HI ep's.. anyhoo..... and see what the kids say! ?????????

"Like"

  On 6/24/2011 at 5:20 AM, kaini said:

if geogaddi doesn't scare you, you're not doing it right.

Geogaddi always made me smile, then want to skin up, then laugh for a bit, smile again happily, then yawn, then put on MHTRTC. *shrug*

aren't julie and candy the girls on the cover of hi scores?

I think it fits, but I just like music.

  On 6/26/2011 at 5:10 AM, Beholdapalehorse said:

I think it fits, but I just like music.

sums it up

dont join twoism.com

lol

  On 6/23/2011 at 6:53 AM, oscillik said:

you really can't hear the dark undercurrent to that track?

 

edit: i'm not trying to be a sarcastic cunt or anything, like...literally, i'm perplexed that you can't hear it.

Have never found it to be a dark track in any respect really. Has always been a very ethereal, dream-like track to me. Each to his own though!

there is a sinister undercurrent for me, but it's far from the darkest track on the album, definitely. the last 3 tracks excluding magic window have a lightness to them that suggest the rest of the album is a sort of trial-by-fire thing to me. it's an incredible album.

it is an incredible album , kaini, i agree. but it's become a bit toooo much like the stuff of 'the wicker man', 1973,..

know what i mean?

still, good tho.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdV-O8o7ok

It's always been my least favourite track on the album, I guess I also found it kind of unfitting. But they probably had something in mind for it. I doubt they just "squeezed it in" cause they thought it was nice and wanted it released.

  On 6/27/2011 at 2:04 AM, kaini said:

there is a sinister undercurrent for me, but it's far from the darkest track on the album, definitely. the last 3 tracks excluding magic window have a lightness to them that suggest the rest of the album is a sort of trial-by-fire thing to me. it's an incredible album.

i always thought of the last few tracks as the horrible night/trip is coming to an end and its the light at the end of the tunnel.

the bore's of Australia, mate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A46Ndk-ru0U&feature=related

Tl;dr

It fits.

  On 6/27/2011 at 7:14 AM, sirch said:

it is an incredible album , kaini, i agree. but it's become a bit toooo much like the stuff of 'the wicker man', 1973,..

know what i mean?

still, good tho.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdV-O8o7ok

that's not the fault of boc. it's the collective weight of meaning attached to the damn thing by twoismy fanbois.

  On 6/28/2011 at 5:31 AM, kaini said:

  On 6/27/2011 at 7:14 AM, sirch said:

it is an incredible album , kaini, i agree. but it's become a bit toooo much like the stuff of 'the wicker man', 1973,..

know what i mean?

still, good tho.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdV-O8o7ok

 

that's not the fault of boc. it's the collective weight of meaning attached to the damn thing by twoismy fanbois.

i disagree. it is the fault of them, but it's not reeeeeally a fault. they knew what they were doing.

they've created a massive cult off of a few albums. Geogaddi, inparticular. hats off to them!

their music has become more than just music. - think that's what they wanted to do...... and they've done it.

no wonder they're not bothered about releasing anything else... when they nailed it in 2002!

The Wicker man vibe is what i relish off of Geogaddi. Each to his own i suppose!

  On 6/27/2011 at 1:39 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

It's always been my least favourite track on the album, I guess I also found it kind of unfitting. But they probably had something in mind for it. I doubt they just "squeezed it in" cause they thought it was nice and wanted it released.

I'm on the fence about whether it fits or not, but it may just be my favorite track on the album, and certainly one of my favorites by BoC.

Listened through Geogaddi today. I thought it was lovely.

The weird semi-distorted intro fits so well. It's cheerier than the rest of the album, but that distortion of the music and the interview really fit into it.

I just think it's strange that you'd want to skip it.

strange but true: Julee and Kandi were the name of the Sandison's two Labrador retrievers. Julee died during a freak catapult accident ("You could feel the sky"), while Kandi drowned chasing a frisbee into the ocean ("The Beach at Redpoint"). Geogaddi is a tribute album of sorts. The Story of Xentrix is the Sandison's fantasy of what it would be like to be reunited forever with their furry friends.

  On 7/1/2011 at 11:24 AM, lumpenprol said:

strange but true: Julee and Kandi were the name of the Sandison's two Labrador retrievers. Julee died during a freak catapult accident ("You could feel the sky"), while Kandi drowned chasing a frisbee into the ocean ("The Beach at Redpoint"). Geogaddi is a tribute album of sorts. The Story of Xentrix is the Sandison's fantasy of what it would be like to be reunited forever with their furry friends.

where is that from?

  On 7/1/2011 at 11:24 AM, lumpenprol said:

Julee died during a freak catapult accident ("You could feel the sky")

lol

  On 7/1/2011 at 11:24 AM, lumpenprol said:

strange but true: Julee and Kandi were the name of the Sandison's two Labrador retrievers. Julee died during a freak catapult accident ("You could feel the sky"), while Kandi drowned chasing a frisbee into the ocean ("The Beach at Redpoint"). Geogaddi is a tribute album of sorts. The Story of Xentrix is the Sandison's fantasy of what it would be like to be reunited forever with their furry friends.

geniuslol

wat i dont

It's not so much the melodic content to the track as it is the sound quality used that I believe makes it fit. The flute lead flutters in and out like a tape missing a portion of it's ribbon, the sort of fractured quality the rest of the album contains.