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  • Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
  • video sampled from 2001: a Space Odyssey

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  • @AmbiAnts589
    @AmbiAnts589 14 років тому +88

    I always wonder why it is that music is so closely linked with our emotions. It's just a bunch of sound waves hitting our ears, yet it can have a massive effect on how we feel. Life would suck a lot more without music

    • @TheIanoTube
      @TheIanoTube 2 роки тому +18

      You said it brother. Hope life is still going well for you 11 years later

    • @Wil_Dsense
      @Wil_Dsense 11 місяців тому

      9

  • @calebvaldez84
    @calebvaldez84 7 років тому +116

    There is something so scary/creepy but also calming about this song

    • @Bankable2790
      @Bankable2790 3 роки тому +11

      It reminds me of smoking tobacco. Like it can be so calming but you know it can also be harmful in its effects.. but that's all just a part of the draw..

    • @umutyldrm9696
      @umutyldrm9696 3 роки тому

      what the f is calming this sobt ,ds fucking helll

    • @CEOKI45
      @CEOKI45 2 роки тому +5

      What calms me in the music is a kind of resignation, like someone that is slowly accepting horror, a serial killer or something like this.

    • @kydelvetus642
      @kydelvetus642 Рік тому

      Reminds me of my Soviet childhood: the happy, cosy and wholesome moments with the backdrop of a screwed up dystopian society

  • @ihadtochooseaname8532
    @ihadtochooseaname8532 7 років тому +82

    This song gives you the feeling like something bad happened, you can't turn it back the way it was and everything else just continues with the same pattern. Impressive what feelings BoC can achieve.

  • @vanvalldrey
    @vanvalldrey 12 років тому +39

    It sounds like the feeling you have when you're lying in bed with a high temperature, and you get this kind of dizzy, hovering feeling, almost hallucinating.

    • @11022013mm
      @11022013mm Рік тому

      I had that too while my second thought was the cow from minecraft in 0:40. Especially I was playing the whole album in a stormy dawn.

    • @jimpickens4
      @jimpickens4 2 місяці тому

      Yes I agree this feels like having a fever

  • @agentoranges
    @agentoranges 15 років тому +43

    it does sound quite terrifying, this song is so sinister

  • @kidfortoday
    @kidfortoday 13 років тому +13

    when i first discovered boc i hit up napster and just downloaded enough songs to fill a cd. and while this song wasnt my favorite on the cd or in general, i still have such vivid memories of driving the back roads with my buddy, touring around at night with no destination in mind. this song is forever carved into my minds eye with images of dark roads, empty fields and dense forests blanketed in the light of the moon.
    boc is life

  • @MrProfitsOFDoom
    @MrProfitsOFDoom 8 років тому +56

    Every now and then I have to listen to stuff like this because I often let the quick paced reality of life consume me and I just need time to relax and rethink of what my real values of living are.

    • @jlawrance123
      @jlawrance123 8 років тому +8

      Nothing's as beautiful as music

  • @japark85
    @japark85 15 років тому +23

    I listened to this while flying over the desert in Arizona. Somehow, it fit the desolate and completely vacant landscape.

    • @user-vq7ns2js1i
      @user-vq7ns2js1i Рік тому

    • @IamJustTheBiscuityOfTheSeaity
      @IamJustTheBiscuityOfTheSeaity 3 місяці тому

      I know this comment is 14 years old and you most likely wont see it but I was listening to this song as my plane was landing, It felt like the distorted horn like sound was both my heart and the plane dropping, Its always terrifying whenever the plane starts landing, one second its falling then its stable and then it falls again, its like a repeating limbo, This song was perfect for that moment.

  • @MomentumModular
    @MomentumModular 11 років тому +10

    We exist for a short segment of time

  • @AlvinHDavernport
    @AlvinHDavernport 10 років тому +59

    BoC and 2001. A marriage made in heaven.
    This is such a tense song. It feels like the bubble's about to burst, like a global crisis is about to unfold. I'm not one to have bad trips, but I would not listen to this song while on anything.

    • @LoLKuR3
      @LoLKuR3 9 років тому +9

      this song is killer on acid.

    • @TheTuttle99
      @TheTuttle99 9 років тому +12

      〈hm〉 me and a good friend of mine dropped acid for the first listening of Tomorrow's Harvest. We had the old Tron on mute going. That was a fucking experience man. BoC is now my ultimate go-to for acid tunes

    • @Nosferdamus
      @Nosferdamus 8 років тому +6

      I would. this sounds like everything is melting into confusion.

    • @Bismvth
      @Bismvth 6 років тому +2

      Didn't smokes quantity come out in like 1995?

    • @felipebanchieri6034
      @felipebanchieri6034 5 років тому +2

      @@Bismvth he means the film

  • @CaptainGiratina
    @CaptainGiratina 5 років тому +10

    Big Smokes Quantity

  • @kzm4275
    @kzm4275 8 років тому +14

    The best track to accompany my DMT trips period.

  • @Egondv
    @Egondv 14 років тому +6

    This reminds me of "Idoser"
    this stuff allows you to reach new heights when listened to properly. I listened to this before I went to bed and felt like I was never going to wake up if I fell asleep

  • @williamnichols2067
    @williamnichols2067 5 років тому +15

    I can't put my finger on it, but one time, I got some veeerrrrry sinister thoughts while tripping and listening to this track. Honestly, I like this song. But never agin, will I dare listen to this while on hallucinagens.

  • @andresRM48
    @andresRM48 5 років тому +5

    I see this song like a trip. I heard it many times after a friend died and I imagined him floating away to a better place

  • @falsarnaexposure
    @falsarnaexposure 7 років тому +17

    feels like escapism during end times

  • @enjoixander
    @enjoixander 4 роки тому +6

    Always get strong images of a character exploring the ruins of a city left desolate by nuclear war.

  • @blacktrendpen
    @blacktrendpen 13 років тому +16

    As pretentious as this might sound- Boards of Canada wrote the score for my all my vague memories.

  • @Slay0rm00n
    @Slay0rm00n 13 років тому +2

    Retro horror movie meets 70's educational projector film.

  • @smiledsteelydan
    @smiledsteelydan 9 років тому +12

    THIS SONG MAKES ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE

    • @Unlocktube
      @Unlocktube 9 років тому +18

      Shane McDonald Should we always feel comfortable? I think part of the appeal of their music is the use of abrasive sound.

  • @rockluverx2
    @rockluverx2 14 років тому +3

    Im high as hell listening to this and its quite interesting. Like when i listen to anything off Twoism it makes me feel young and lucid. Plus it brings back memories from the times i was stoned and had the craziest imagination. Ahhh. Hail BoC. =D

  • @Suw3Ren
    @Suw3Ren 16 років тому +3

    I agree, this is a beautiful piece of music.

  • @CiphaPhat
    @CiphaPhat 12 років тому +1

    love the quantize of the drum and the drum on general,the kick,hihat and snare

  • @scoota111
    @scoota111 15 років тому +2

    I was born in 89 and I get the nostalgia feeling.
    I really don't think it has too much to do with age as it does other factors.

  • @sjsohlden
    @sjsohlden 12 років тому +15

    Every person who has ever smoked more than five blunts a day knows all about this song

    • @f-aszf-aszom8128
      @f-aszf-aszom8128 3 роки тому +2

      maybe its your body's way of telling you to stop damaging your brain.

  • @peepawjenkins3413
    @peepawjenkins3413 2 роки тому +3

    3:06 has never felt shorter, not only bcuz I love this song, but I swear it has time-warping properties. As with most of BoC's work.

  • @juancarlosbarroso7728
    @juancarlosbarroso7728 2 роки тому +5

    This track would have fitted well on Geogaddi.

    • @InBananaBag
      @InBananaBag 2 роки тому

      This song nests Geogaddi itself at its time. Or I like to put in that way

    • @shadowchasernql
      @shadowchasernql 3 місяці тому

      @@InBananaBag it was from Twoism though!

  • @Lee_mar_rock
    @Lee_mar_rock 14 років тому +2

    that's what it's all about a world inside the beat's

  • @Stonez
    @Stonez 8 років тому +19

    Anxiety Heart Attack by LinkOnDrugs

  • @JitsuwaConce
    @JitsuwaConce 8 років тому

    I come back to this video every month to listen such a magnificent song

  • @Ruhma.
    @Ruhma. 11 місяців тому +1

    so eerie. creeps into my mind during a cold nightwalk

  • @Odderek
    @Odderek 13 років тому +3

    GREAT SONG, HUH GUYS!? BoC are masters of delving into my brain and ripping out all my impurities and slapping them in front of my face, in a surreal way. I accept it, and go with the music.

  • @wesselja
    @wesselja 14 років тому

    Without a doubt, one of my favorite BoC's. This song paints an impressionists picture of a trip through a dark swamp.

  • @fungus3688
    @fungus3688 12 років тому +2

    Original sounds from Boards of Canada. The only heavy downbeat music I ever listen to.

  • @CEOKI45
    @CEOKI45 3 роки тому +1

    Stay normal in a crazy world

    • @CEOKI45
      @CEOKI45 2 роки тому +1

      Become crazy in a normal world

  • @erfan1981
    @erfan1981 12 років тому +3

    @nonameno5: I have watched your videos of BOC over the past few years and enjoyed your interpretation of these songs very much. I don't know who you are, but I hope you are rewarded for your exceptional talent somehow in your life.

  • @zapproowsdower
    @zapproowsdower 12 років тому

    @HearThemCry that's the beauty of great artists - they can evoke a multitude of emotions at once... almost feels like a low-grade shroom trip.

  • @Ryan-oh5yl
    @Ryan-oh5yl 6 років тому +4

    I can picture this being played on an Adult Swim bumper

  • @drebeat8568
    @drebeat8568 2 роки тому

    boards will always be there for ya. drift off and never look back. into the future i go.

  • @robo3007
    @robo3007 11 років тому +2

    Sounds like a knot of depression working it's way up your chest, at the end of the song, it's already reached your brain...

  • @anecdotalintrigue6137
    @anecdotalintrigue6137 8 років тому +10

    war in reverse anyone?

  • @Snabader
    @Snabader 12 років тому +2

    @HearThemCry
    and this is exactly why we all love BoC :)

  • @tdawg32492
    @tdawg32492 15 років тому

    This is one of my favorites by them.
    Their music changed the way I think...

  • @malves98
    @malves98 14 років тому

    These visions match the intensely bizarre vsions in the music. The constantly up and down musical blur in the background with haunting slow melody in the forefront make this melancholy, almost a nightmare, but a sweet one... It's a little bit insane...

  • @twilightwolfpiano
    @twilightwolfpiano Рік тому

    This gave me nostalgia AND sensory overload at the same time..

  • @vanvalldrey
    @vanvalldrey 14 років тому

    laying in bed with high fever and this feeling of moving while not moving, that's what the tune makes me feel like.

  • @peterjussi4791
    @peterjussi4791 14 років тому +4

    this song makes me feel like the entire human race is coming to a harsh and unbelievable realization...

    • @youssefbhaa2299
      @youssefbhaa2299 2 роки тому +2

      We are the most terrible thing to exist

    • @Wil_Dsense
      @Wil_Dsense 11 місяців тому

      @@youssefbhaa2299not when you look past the surface level. Humanity is not the problem.

  • @_nwah
    @_nwah 5 років тому

    on a day you weren't anticipating, the dawn is cloudy

  • @UnitedDiscord
    @UnitedDiscord 14 років тому

    @FFSYouTookMyUsername Because music isn't simply soundwaves, it's a stimulant. Harmony and melodious music such as slow, ambient sound stimulates our minds, producing relaxed, euphoric feelings of well-being. That's why when you're sitting in a garden with wind chimes softly clanging together, you feel at peace. If you're sitting in a dark room with nothing but silence, you feel unease because your brain has no stimulation. Our minds work in mysterious ways.

  • @Deeplycloseted435
    @Deeplycloseted435 7 років тому +1

    I prefer the sound of the clean drum machine sounds here over the the distorted/sampled sounds in some of their other stuff. It contrasts well with other sounds in this track. They are musical geniuses. I know music theory, and the shit they pull.....well, almost no one can pull it off as successfully as they do.

    • @gigachad192
      @gigachad192 7 років тому

      Kevin Harris Trent Reznor, Richard D James.

  • @theonelinerkid
    @theonelinerkid 12 років тому

    showing the innocenceof the children... and unbreakable spirit of thepeople and childrenand the beuty amongst the chaos

  • @Geospasmic
    @Geospasmic 8 років тому +2

    I am Smokes Quantity and as a result I am Iced Coolly.

  • @googfuse4875
    @googfuse4875 6 років тому +3

    Wonderfully unsettling.

  • @VanGaore
    @VanGaore 13 років тому

    Why do I love listening to trippy music!? I can't do my math homework anymore because my brain feels like it's been inundated with bong water.

  • @edmundKemp
    @edmundKemp Місяць тому

    To be honest, this song is badass.

  • @11022013mm
    @11022013mm Рік тому

    I was sleeping with this in a stormy dawn and woke up through that sound in 0:41 cause I mistaken the sound for a cow from minecraft while I felt like I was tripping

  • @xion3090
    @xion3090 Рік тому +1

    Jun 9,2023
    299k views
    7.99k subs
    1.9k likes
    190 comments
    Mannar
    11:51 PM

  • @nu3v331
    @nu3v331 Рік тому +1

    I could recognize the video. It’s from Space Odyssey.

  • @fizmo909
    @fizmo909 13 років тому

    well chosen visuals

  • @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods
    @TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods 11 років тому +1

    So called, I think, because from the first note one feels a compulsion to blaze a doobie.

  • @TubbyLunkers
    @TubbyLunkers 11 років тому

    Sweet, sweet, melancholy!

  • @27mrpuppy
    @27mrpuppy 11 років тому +1

    Hal, open the door!

  • @XeKZeN
    @XeKZeN 14 років тому

    Best track ever

  • @bobbysback
    @bobbysback 8 років тому

    Funny trippy stuff. I love it.

  • @scoota111
    @scoota111 15 років тому

    Don't apologize, you have a right to your opinion.
    I was just offering insight to my opinion as well.

  • @nikomnista
    @nikomnista 14 років тому

    @Laurz1233 haha, yeah, boards of canada should be listened during night time, then you get the best experience :)

  • @nelson3300
    @nelson3300 14 років тому

    @boogerking100 lol some of em, but there are those that stick out that are SO good, that its undeniable...

  • @0ContentDeleted0
    @0ContentDeleted0 Рік тому

    Does anyone find this song sad? It always puts me in depressed mood when ever I listen to it.

  • @AndrewThomasR
    @AndrewThomasR 13 років тому

    every fucking BoC song makesmy heart go weird, feels similar to when im watching a scary movie.. dont know why but i love it

  • @maxcohen13
    @maxcohen13 9 років тому +2

    What piece was used from the Movie soundtrack? That movie had a collection of pieces by different composers - everyone from Strauss to Ligeti.

  • @TheBlueMoons
    @TheBlueMoons 12 років тому

    I put this song on at night. Very trippy.

  • @michaelb3197
    @michaelb3197 9 років тому +1

    2001 Space Odyssey anyone? Best MOVIE EVER!

    • @robertdominguez6002
      @robertdominguez6002 9 років тому

      +michaelb3197 go watch Interstellar

    • @michaelb3197
      @michaelb3197 9 років тому

      +Robert Dominguez it's interesting you say that but I wasn't impressed by Interstellar. It was more like an action type film and the story was too reliant on chance to be scientific. Was not impressed but thanks for the suggestion.

    • @michaelb3197
      @michaelb3197 8 років тому

      ***** Between the video and the movie? This is footage from the movie 2001 Space Odyssey not Interstellar.

  • @Woody263
    @Woody263 15 років тому

    Menacing. Listen to it all the time. Warp is the king of music labels in my opinion.

  • @Pillozilla
    @Pillozilla 14 років тому

    This music makes everything I know make sense. I'm pretty crazy in general, talking to random objects and assuming when you die you go to sleep. I'm probably not crazy, but any who. BoC makes everything alright.

  • @Hologhoul
    @Hologhoul 13 років тому

    @gransoporo you either feel it or you don't dude - maybe it's not your thing

  • @theonelinerkid
    @theonelinerkid 12 років тому

    i can imagine two children playing in hiroshima....after the ominous angel of death has fallen on it... but they find beuty in the wateland i tleft behind and they find a flower at the end amongst the shodows of former people and the graveyards of chared wod and buildngs and aash

  • @lodidodi69
    @lodidodi69 13 років тому

    Trevor....smokes lets go!!!

  • @seedah
    @seedah 12 років тому

    This song somehow reminds me of speed racer. Such a violent old cartoon

  • @sKiGhBoMb
    @sKiGhBoMb 12 років тому

    i found myself abruptly freestyling to this out of know where

  • @matsutakneatche
    @matsutakneatche 15 років тому

    i grew up in canada. and was always mystified by the national film boards short, like the mask etc. when i first heard boc, it was so instantaneous(the similiarities), and strange melodies of the 70's commercials. totally links me.

  • @dMoniker
    @dMoniker 12 років тому +1

    Man, seriously, i get that too. Im starting to think string theory is the way forward. We are all made up of an immense number of vibrating strings that resonate with particular frequencies on a much deeper level than we can comprehend. This is why GOOD MUSIC initiates deja vu in us. I get it with all my favourite music, first time i listen to it. Especially Radiohead....

  • @seabass2008man
    @seabass2008man 13 років тому

    idk y but everytime i listen to their music its like complete deja vu, and ive never heard in my life. :O odd

  • @redcommando1
    @redcommando1 13 років тому +1

    It kinda sounds like your ears are popping through inter galactic travel.
    It kinda sounds like astronauts working on the international space station.
    It kinda sounds like a brain tumor pressing on your ears.
    Wikipedia says it's Ambient.

  • @kungsgalds
    @kungsgalds 12 років тому

    I think they are.) sounds amazing.

  • @VideoKiwi2008
    @VideoKiwi2008 14 років тому

    another damn fine BoC track

  • @c.a.r462
    @c.a.r462 Рік тому

    Boards of Canada make the suffering so sweet that i want to die

  • @pemuthernobetain5587
    @pemuthernobetain5587 8 років тому +1

    SMOOOOOOOOOOOOKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • @semacomer
    @semacomer 16 років тому

    go create nonameno! you have great feeling of the form and atmosphere. I love your stuff

  • @egidd
    @egidd 13 років тому

    @gransoporo just wait and listen couple of times for a few months, you will see

  • @Illutorium
    @Illutorium 9 років тому

    Best for drama's writes.

  • @whiteshipmusic
    @whiteshipmusic 12 років тому

    @HearThemCry yeah, i think that means they're doing their job :)

  • @telephas1c
    @telephas1c 12 років тому

    To me, this is BoC's most overtly 'evil' tune by far. Plus I think they named it after their mate ;) I wonder if it captures his essence...

  • @dragonheart81vids
    @dragonheart81vids 7 років тому +3

    this track's great in my opinion and I believe _Boards of Canada_ are excellent at utilising repetitive sounds with subtle changes to create an overall implicitly threatening tone.
    the constant droning effect of the music, coupled with these visuals, makes me picture a slowly spreading disease.

  • @fabiotraby3805
    @fabiotraby3805 12 років тому

    dope

  • @kawa_bata
    @kawa_bata 14 років тому

    this is fckin trippy thing

  • @PrismicDelight
    @PrismicDelight 13 років тому

    If you like this kind of music then you'll dig my stuff

  • @Deloreansyk
    @Deloreansyk 16 років тому +1

    wait, that was 2001? I could swear it's from the original Solaris. Maybe a mix? I might just be tripping.

  • @alienation69
    @alienation69 13 років тому

    @japark85 i live in AZ. its a fun state.

  • @seanlinderman47
    @seanlinderman47 11 років тому

    This song has an infectiously sombre atmosphere.

  • @jdoggybizzle
    @jdoggybizzle 14 років тому

    @rockluverx2 I think the entire Twoism album could be listened to at sunset.