gyroscope was made after a nightmare that a member of the group had. he said it was almost perfectly accurate and that he couldn't listen to it anymore because it horrified him. also the counting is from a numbers station, a military radio station used to communicate infos to their agents on the field, usually for infiltration
@@smags1082 yeah there's a lot hidden in this album, wether it be satanism or math. for example i think music is math hides some complex mathematical patterns in it's melody
It's so cool watching a person react to this album and BoC for the first time. It is definitely a album that i was weirded out at the beginning because of the scary stuff, but in the end i started -becoming the weird and scary one- liking it more and more. I strongly recommend "Music Has The Right To Children". It's my favorite album and it's full of more eletronic influences and it's theme is more "mystery and nostalgia" than "depression and darkness"
To explain some of the stuff in this album: The weird references to color are there because both members of the band have synesthesia a condition where you very heavily associate or even see colors associated with music or sound. The album's name says the phrase "two gods on the earth" in Latin backwards alluding to God and Satan. Several songs have backwards audio in them with satanic references. 1969 is the year the satanic bible was written. The two members of the band are not Satanists and have no religious beliefs. The counting in this album is part of an overall theme of mathematics and ideas about things like sacred geometry. The smallest weird number 70 is a reference to a music label (that I can't remember the name of) The samples of children are present in most boards of canada albums and the majority of samples come from 70s sesame street. A large part of why this album is so strange is it's supposed to represent the opposite of their other albums. However I think the main theme of this album is challenging religious idealism as well as people's rose tinted glasses when it comes to remembering their childhood. I also get the vibe it's about the balance of good and evil and how one can't exist without the other.
"two gods on earth"? That's the first time I've heard that. I'm not fluent in Latin but according to Google Translate that's "duos deos in terra" I've heard various interpretations "Geo" and "Gaddi" and what they could mean but never that.
BoC is inspired by the sounds of public television interstitial synthesizer music wormed it's way into our brains in the generation growing up in the 1970s, as well as the children who got their first portable radio and developed a fascination with the weird and indecipherable sounds of numbers stations or just odd rhythmic frequencies. In fact, I've read that BoC *were* kids who carried tape recorders everywhere to find interesting sounds.
@@isaiahromero9861 If you mean Scottish bands of any genre then Teenage Fanclub, Frightened Rabbit, Roddy Woomble's new band whose name I can't remember right now! Polar Bears In Purgatory are another cool Scottish band.
@@isaiahromero9861 If we're talking Scottish bands, definitely give Mogwai a look if you're into post-rock. Young Team and Happy Songs For Happy People are some of their best albums, so give those a listen (I'd listen to Young Team first though)
The lads, BoC; they have an incredible grasp of the concept of Karma, and the doghead! Terrifying what they have tapped into, I can never explain enough
Props for giving this a go. BoC are definitely confusing if you're not used to their style, but I can tell you were 'getting' it more as the album went along. Definitely worth listening to their debut as well, 'Music Has the Right to Children'. More hip hop influence in the production on that album too, if that's your thing.
Honestly listening Geogaddi headphones on, completely alone, has been one of the scariest experiences I’ve had in recent years. It’s completely subtle but after some minutes I just feel frightened, can’t explain why. These BoC guys are into something, definitely
Dawn Chorus made me feel genuinely uncomfortable for a while, but now it's one of my favorite tracks. The weird moaning vocals still sorta creep me out If there was any song I was truly "nuh-uh" about it would either be You Could Feel The Sky or A-B=B-C, those two still wig me tf out for some reason
I listened to Alpha and Omega during the recovery phase from the worst headache in my life (imagine throwing up and crying for several hours). It sort of clicked 😂
This album has a special place in my heart and BoC was truly love at first listen. I decided to go wild with it and listen to this album for the first time as I hit a dose of shrooms for the first time. The main emotion was indeed confusion, and as the music went silent, I had just gone down from the first peak of the experience. I remembered barely managing to scramble over to the computer to check the playlist to see what had happened, and I read "Magic Window" with 3 seconds left of the track before hitting a wall of noise with technical death metal, thinking "oh.... I missed the window" Gotta check out your other BoC reactions now! 😊
She says yellow because it's the golden ratio point of the album. You might actually prefer their work on Random 35 Track Tape. Leaked tracks from before they released any albums. Way more synth based. no samples you would really find annoying. Even some guitar in there! Cool review, entertaining. Thank you!
It's worth pointing out the lack of apostrophe in Ready Lets Go, i.e. its meaning is more about letting yourself succumb to a situtation you have no control over than it is about getting started.
Firstly, great video. This is my favourite album of all time. I've added a couple facts below: * It was recorded during 9/11, which may explain some of the dark undertones * If you burn the cd onto a computer, the WAV files add up to 666mb * " Julie and Candy" is supposedly based on a horrific incident * Leslie Nielsen's voice appears on the album
Now I want to see you react to their other albums fr. At least you got the scariest album out of the way. Tomorrow's Harvest is very dark too, but not in an occult way. They arent actually believers in that stuff, just fascinated by the human condition.
@@Itayt Pro Tip: Put some candles on the ground behind you while you dance and watch the shadows on the wall morph and do some crazy stuff. Smoking a little weed also helps the experience.
Dawn Chorus was my first song i listen to from BoC, i remember hearing it once a long time ago and it felt so strange and obscure i thought the song was a fever dream becuase i tried looking it up and could never find it and years later i came across it again.
70 is actually references music70, their self-made record label where they put "Old Tunes" and currently unavailable albums.🤓 (also Random 35 Tracks Tape is amazing)
Made a "Geogaddi" tierlist S - Music is Math, Alpha and Omega A - Ready Let's Go, Julie and Candy, 1969, Over the Horizon Radar, Diving Station B - Beware the Friendly Stranger, Sunshine Recorder, The Smallest Weird Number, A is to B as B is to C, Dawn Chorus, Corsair C - Gyroscope, Dandelion, In the Annexe, The Beach at Redpoint, I Saw Drones, The Devil Is In the Details, You Could Feel the Sky D - Energy Warning, Opening the Mouth F - Magic Window Great content! I'm looking forward for what else you have to react to!
Don't see this in the rest of the comments, but Magic Window is there to make the album exactly 66 minutes and 6 seconds long. And if you rip the files from the CD to .wav files, it'll be exactly 666 MB. :)
Heck out the album The campfire headphase that was my first then check out roygbiv from music has the right to children and then nothing is real from tomorrows harvest.. thanks for this it was fun had me laughing plus give alpha and omega with you could feel the sky another chance they grow hand in hand take care bruv happy listening 👊😎✨
His reactions to them are on his channel (sort by oldest), check them out! He also goes back over some of them in 'Ranking the 40 albums I reviewed so far'. 😉
I do admit i like the songs but i kinda wish they didint loop the sounds there not bad i still like them but it ve better if they didint play throughout the whole song
(2 mins into your video) you're doing it wrong. stop talking, just listen. ideally in a dark room looking at the sunset. at night walking through the city. out in the forest during a rainstorm. turn off the loud part of your brain. you'll never get to experience an album like this otherwise.
You are out of your depth with BoC my dude Not everyone deserves to hear such complicated beauty and few take the time to ponder at its mathematical puzzles. WAP might be more up your style?
I don't think we should gatekeep such good sounding music bc it's not understood on first listen. Plus you gotta admit his reaction to Julie And Candy was entertaining, with the Bible into immediate groovin
gyroscope was made after a nightmare that a member of the group had. he said it was almost perfectly accurate and that he couldn't listen to it anymore because it horrified him. also the counting is from a numbers station, a military radio station used to communicate infos to their agents on the field, usually for infiltration
That’s insane
@@smags1082 yeah there's a lot hidden in this album, wether it be satanism or math. for example i think music is math hides some complex mathematical patterns in it's melody
Music is math has grown to be one of my favorites but the voice saying “be careful” towards the end of the track still creeps me out a bit lol.
@@smags1082 The voice actually said "Purple"
@@jayaredee2005actually i dont think its confirmed that it says either one, but correct me if im wrong
12:30 the “yellow” soundbite plays at exactly the 61.8% mark of the albums runtime-the golden ratio
nice ear!
It's so cool watching a person react to this album and BoC for the first time. It is definitely a album that i was weirded out at the beginning because of the scary stuff, but in the end i started -becoming the weird and scary one- liking it more and more.
I strongly recommend "Music Has The Right To Children". It's my favorite album and it's full of more eletronic influences and it's theme is more "mystery and nostalgia" than "depression and darkness"
To explain some of the stuff in this album:
The weird references to color are there because both members of the band have synesthesia a condition where you very heavily associate or even see colors associated with music or sound.
The album's name says the phrase "two gods on the earth" in Latin backwards alluding to God and Satan. Several songs have backwards audio in them with satanic references. 1969 is the year the satanic bible was written. The two members of the band are not Satanists and have no religious beliefs.
The counting in this album is part of an overall theme of mathematics and ideas about things like sacred geometry. The smallest weird number 70 is a reference to a music label (that I can't remember the name of)
The samples of children are present in most boards of canada albums and the majority of samples come from 70s sesame street.
A large part of why this album is so strange is it's supposed to represent the opposite of their other albums.
However I think the main theme of this album is challenging religious idealism as well as people's rose tinted glasses when it comes to remembering their childhood. I also get the vibe it's about the balance of good and evil and how one can't exist without the other.
i think the label youre referring to is music70 which boards of canada made to release their own music under before they got signed iirc
"two gods on earth"? That's the first time I've heard that. I'm not fluent in Latin but according to Google Translate that's "duos deos in terra"
I've heard various interpretations "Geo" and "Gaddi" and what they could mean but never that.
BoC is inspired by the sounds of public television interstitial synthesizer music wormed it's way into our brains in the generation growing up in the 1970s, as well as the children who got their first portable radio and developed a fascination with the weird and indecipherable sounds of numbers stations or just odd rhythmic frequencies. In fact, I've read that BoC *were* kids who carried tape recorders everywhere to find interesting sounds.
One of Scotland's greatest bands! ❤
BoC and Cocteau Twins are both in my top 5 artists, are there any others I should listen to?
@@isaiahromero9861 If you mean Scottish bands of any genre then Teenage Fanclub, Frightened Rabbit, Roddy Woomble's new band whose name I can't remember right now! Polar Bears In Purgatory are another cool Scottish band.
@@isaiahromero9861 If we're talking Scottish bands, definitely give Mogwai a look if you're into post-rock. Young Team and Happy Songs For Happy People are some of their best albums, so give those a listen (I'd listen to Young Team first though)
the best musical group of all time
The lads, BoC; they have an incredible grasp of the concept of Karma, and the doghead! Terrifying what they have tapped into, I can never explain enough
Props for giving this a go. BoC are definitely confusing if you're not used to their style, but I can tell you were 'getting' it more as the album went along.
Definitely worth listening to their debut as well, 'Music Has the Right to Children'. More hip hop influence in the production on that album too, if that's your thing.
Appreciate it, I definitely gotta get to that album
Honestly listening Geogaddi headphones on, completely alone, has been one of the scariest experiences I’ve had in recent years.
It’s completely subtle but after some minutes I just feel frightened, can’t explain why. These BoC guys are into something, definitely
Dawn Chorus made me feel genuinely uncomfortable for a while, but now it's one of my favorite tracks. The weird moaning vocals still sorta creep me out
If there was any song I was truly "nuh-uh" about it would either be You Could Feel The Sky or A-B=B-C, those two still wig me tf out for some reason
I listened to Alpha and Omega during the recovery phase from the worst headache in my life (imagine throwing up and crying for several hours). It sort of clicked 😂
This album has a special place in my heart and BoC was truly love at first listen.
I decided to go wild with it and listen to this album for the first time as I hit a dose of shrooms for the first time. The main emotion was indeed confusion, and as the music went silent, I had just gone down from the first peak of the experience. I remembered barely managing to scramble over to the computer to check the playlist to see what had happened, and I read "Magic Window" with 3 seconds left of the track before hitting a wall of noise with technical death metal, thinking "oh.... I missed the window"
Gotta check out your other BoC reactions now! 😊
Hadn't actually thought about the sun with regards to the "yellow ball" lyric but you might be right! Someone needs to ask the brothers! 😁
She says yellow because it's the golden ratio point of the album.
You might actually prefer their work on Random 35 Track Tape. Leaked tracks from before they released any albums. Way more synth based. no samples you would really find annoying. Even some guitar in there!
Cool review, entertaining. Thank you!
3:29 "Hello.. I'm Salad Fingers and today, I just took a.. massive shit."
music is math and 1969 are by far my favorites of that album
Bro is surprised there are horror elements in Geogaddi 😭
Great channel my dude, love that you take the time to react to full albums! Subbed
"i dont know who julie and candy are, but i hope theyre nice people"
you innocent soul
Yellow ball? Was that a bradtasteinmusic fan in the chat?
It's worth pointing out the lack of apostrophe in Ready Lets Go, i.e. its meaning is more about letting yourself succumb to a situtation you have no control over than it is about getting started.
if you liked dawn chorus i really reccomend clouddead by clouddead its like abstract hip hop people call it the first cloud rap album a lot
Firstly, great video. This is my favourite album of all time. I've added a couple facts below:
* It was recorded during 9/11, which may explain some of the dark undertones
* If you burn the cd onto a computer, the WAV files add up to 666mb
* " Julie and Candy" is supposedly based on a horrific incident
* Leslie Nielsen's voice appears on the album
do the wav files actually add up to 666mb?? Seriously??? Really determined to get that satanic energy in there ig.
The Song 21. You could feel the sky is saying "A God with hooves, a God with horns" if you play the song backwards. It's horrifying.
Now I want to see you react to their other albums fr. At least you got the scariest album out of the way. Tomorrow's Harvest is very dark too, but not in an occult way. They arent actually believers in that stuff, just fascinated by the human condition.
I did 3 more!
campfire headphase was my first. Was not ready for geogaddi after that one!
I loooooooove BoC so much
in my bucket list i have dancing to BoC in a dark room in midnight
the problem is that it always feels like someone is behind me someone is behind me SOMEONE IS BEHIND ME
That sounds awful lol
@@Itayt Pro Tip: Put some candles on the ground behind you while you dance and watch the shadows on the wall morph and do some crazy stuff. Smoking a little weed also helps the experience.
Smallest Weird Number being 70 is a reference to music70 their former record label.
Dawn Chorus was my first song i listen to from BoC, i remember hearing it once a long time ago and it felt so strange and obscure i thought the song was a fever dream becuase i tried looking it up and could never find it and years later i came across it again.
Although not a follower of hseroK divaD She's a devoted Branch Davidian
Magic Window is a bop
Opening was sampled from I assume... the National Film Board of Canada.
Gyroscope sounds like if you watch whiplash while tripping on Benadryl
70 is actually references music70, their self-made record label where they put "Old Tunes" and currently unavailable albums.🤓 (also Random 35 Tracks Tape is amazing)
Julie and Candie are a reference to a murder case
Candace Newmaker yeah, sorta weird how I knew of the song for the longest time but never knew the context until I watched Petscop
My fave album by one of my fave bands
What an album to start your channel with!
I don't find it scary at all, i find it hypnotic and beautiful.
Could you listen stratosphere by duster? it's like the boards of Canada of rock music.
I have heard there was a lot of this type of music back in the late 1960s and 70s. Pres. Jimmy Carter had to crack down, called it "Occult Music."
man!!!!! i wanna know what you think of the extra track on the japanese edition of this album: From One Source All Things Depend
Funny ass commentary
Made a "Geogaddi" tierlist
S - Music is Math, Alpha and Omega
A - Ready Let's Go, Julie and Candy, 1969, Over the Horizon Radar, Diving Station
B - Beware the Friendly Stranger, Sunshine Recorder, The Smallest Weird Number, A is to B as B is to C, Dawn Chorus, Corsair
C - Gyroscope, Dandelion, In the Annexe, The Beach at Redpoint, I Saw Drones, The Devil Is In the Details, You Could Feel the Sky
D - Energy Warning, Opening the Mouth
F - Magic Window
Great content! I'm looking forward for what else you have to react to!
>You Could Feel The Sky in C tier
Wrong.
Dawn Chorus could go higher. Have you ever watched the sun rise after waking up and realizing shit's gonna be alright for the day?
You should listen to Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished
One of my favorite albums ever, but it's pretty tough to get into.
yeah lol but thats why@@stratford1
A drone is a type of small flying demonic creature if I remember core
It’s like watching a ten-year old critiquing “Apocalypse Now”
Don't see this in the rest of the comments, but Magic Window is there to make the album exactly 66 minutes and 6 seconds long. And if you rip the files from the CD to .wav files, it'll be exactly 666 MB. :)
happy one year smags
W album W reaction
where a goat was born
Heck out the album The campfire headphase that was my first then check out roygbiv from music has the right to children and then nothing is real from tomorrows harvest.. thanks for this it was fun had me laughing plus give alpha and omega with you could feel the sky another chance they grow hand in hand take care bruv happy listening 👊😎✨
His reactions to them are on his channel (sort by oldest), check them out! He also goes back over some of them in 'Ranking the 40 albums I reviewed so far'. 😉
Smags needs to get waves
soon🤫
1969 is the “summer of love” everybody knows that.
I do admit i like the songs but i kinda wish they didint loop the sounds there not bad i still like them but it ve better if they didint play throughout the whole song
Can you react and review one of jack staubers albums?
3:56 😂
My ex hated The Devil Is In The Details cause it gave her Salad Fingers vibes
Random fact but David Firth (the creator of salad fingers) is a big fan of BOC and beware the friendly stranger was used in several episodes
Dude! You got Corinthians!? That’s all you had to say!
bruh that’s the point
React portals melanie martinez
least white mf doom fan
(2 mins into your video) you're doing it wrong. stop talking, just listen. ideally in a dark room looking at the sunset. at night walking through the city. out in the forest during a rainstorm. turn off the loud part of your brain. you'll never get to experience an album like this otherwise.
ur cringe
i do the whip and nae nae to this album
NPC listens to BoC
what you listen mr. pussy destroyer
So true.
More like "a normie listens to BoC"
Definitely a red flannel
Nah, Fantano has said he likes BoC
You are out of your depth with BoC my dude
Not everyone deserves to hear such complicated beauty and few take the time to ponder at its mathematical puzzles.
WAP might be more up your style?
boards of canada fans try not being pretentious fucks for 5 seconds challenge *FAILED* *IMPOSSIBLE*
clearly u are not ohio rizz latina gyat
I don't think we should gatekeep such good sounding music bc it's not understood on first listen. Plus you gotta admit his reaction to Julie And Candy was entertaining, with the Bible into immediate groovin