Close my eyes... In the school bus in the middle 70s. Sitting near a girl I had the biggest crush on in junior high. I can smell the diesel fumes while watching the town roll by outside the windows that were slid down. I felt present with the world while listening to the AM hits piped through the speakers.
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather." Wonderful quote, Mr Hicks.
Boards Of Canada and Aphex Twin, the purest music I've ever heard (and I've listened to a lot of music) in my life.. no one comes close to them (even on the IDM genre). They changed my life with their music; there are no words to describe how their music makes me feel, thank you Sandison Brothers & Mr. Richard James. My deepest admiration and respect to them.
This might be my all-time favorite BoC song, which is a lot to say. It's interesting how it both renders everything around you insignificant and, at the same time, connects you to the world on a higher plane of existence. It's like the world doesn't matter anymore, but at the same time it matters all the more. To me, mundane preoccupations cease to exist, yet the little things, those vestiges of what the world was like when I was a kid (a far simpler, more pristine place), suddenly pop up. You don't listen to this and think about the World Cup or the midterm elections or the next iPhone: you think about the more timeless features of our planet, those that you were curious about when you were a child. That's what this song does to me anyway, not that anybody else should care. Something that makes it even more awesome (to me, anyway) is that, apparently, one of the drum loops in this song was taken from Strawberry Fields Forever, my favorite Beatles song, which aptly enough also touches on connecting with existence on different planes ("I mean it must be high or low...").[/tl;dr]
Why does their music take me back to 1978? I swear, it's like it resonnates with a part of my childhood; when life seemed to be both still... full of hope and a possibility that we were all part of something more.
I feel exactly the same. Their music helps a little bit to feel unconcerned for a moment, to remember those winter days with blue sky and sun above when I was a child. This song was in my head all day long when I was at Mont Blanc (Chamonix). It remembers me how it was good to be ignorant of all I know today.
Eric Forcier You mean, the days before the artificial construct we live in today took hold? Something is out of sorts these days, as if everything has become a mere facsimile of what was and somehow, in someway, an overlay was inserted into the mix with new patterns which lack something organic. I remember those winter days of sky and sun you speak of. Back then, the cold air was crisp, tears were salty and blood smelled like copper. The sound of crunching snow with each footstep, wood burning in the distance and a clarity where time felt like a progressive linear movement towards a better tomorrow.
So funny to see that you feel this way too. When I first heard the music of BoC I felt like I was immedeately re-living the late 70's, my very early childhood. Indeed there was another and much more 'real', playful, hopeful, and alive energy present in society and in the collective human mind back then. An energy that has since faded away along with the bloom of electronics, artificial entertainment, disconnection from nature and isolation from our community. People are depressed and lonely now, like never before, and the musical creativity of the 60's, 70's and 80's is long gone.
I was born in 1972, so yes, that would be the same for myself. I think our generation literally landed here at a very pivotal time in human evolution, that is, a bridging if you will between the analog and digital age, a singularity of the duality and with it, yes... We understand the warmth of vinyl records, the smell of rubber erasers, lead pencils, carbon paper tests, the Sun being yellow (not white) and skies blue (not filled with chemtrails). The collective human mind was infiltrated and sadly, it was because there were so many who thought that the 60's were about freedom and conscious awareness, never realizing that the revolution wasn't being televised, but instead, propagandized and subverted by the next best thing... the digital age; replete with all of the materialism, corporatism and eventually, fascism, so that the future (now?) would become a synthetic facsimile, with plastic food and goods and services with such a short shelf life and even shorter planned obsolescence. No, if I could only go back in time, just for a week, I think I would take it back to 1977 or 78. Where music like this was something that was a background mood setter to programming on PBS, shows like Nova or In Search Of; and when music like Jarre's Oxygene IV was activating similar changes in our molecular level. The crying Indian wasn't regarded enough, Kaufman was way too complex and people were being divided socioeconomically more than ever as failed programs were implemented (by design) to create the greater imbalances we have today. Aspartame, derrivatives, price fixing, deflationary rates... yeah, 1978 is probably where the timestream was screwed up, but you could still buy an analog synthesizer like Wendy Carlos used to do the Tron soundtrack, could be had... along with Moog/Theremin devices and even making your own music with parts from the local Radio Shack. So thank you Boards of Canada, you made me a Kid for Today! :)
Johnathan M. Wow, I was born in the early-mid 90's but wow, this commenting just tapped into my conscious like nothing else, thank you, really...thank you.
At the pool today with my kids and their little friend, this song reminded of my own childhood fun days as I watched them enjoy a freeze frame of theirs. This music from BoC is magical.
TheWinterShadow *High five* It's such an awesome fan-base too. I've had many awesome conversations about their music and different arbitrary things. It's all kinds of spectacular.
TheWinterShadow It's fantastic; they utilize music as a mode of carrying emotion and they've managed to convey a multitude of different emotions ranging from happiness to the other end of the spectrum. It would surprised me if this dialog wasn't opened by BOC because their music has an amazing ability to catalyze spectacular reactions. It's probably more subjective than anything but I've managed to connect with BOC emotionally and reflectively than I have with any other artist. Bonobo has been another good one but BOC has the ability to produce nostalgia inducing sounds that trump most other attempts at recreating this (that I've heard thus far.) Perhaps it's because this music contains no ego that people feel inclined to submit their own conversations amidst the atmosphere birthed by the sounds of BOC. It's almost like the tracks themselves are canvases and are thus filled by our conversation. It's fascinating to say the least.
"this music contains no ego". Well said! In this music no one is putting down another to self elevate or to self proclaim. One can apply the sound, according to their own interpretation. BoC as you mentioned, offer the canvases.
The fact this was uploaded in 2006 (12 years ago) makes this even more nostalgic EDIT 10/29/18: I wanted to mention the breathy atmosphere reminds me of fall/autumn when the wind is blowing, leaves are falling, it's chilly out and having a coffee or tea looking out the window to see the bustling city streets outside.
an amazing video to go with an amazing song. this was the first boc song i had ever heard and it changed my life forever. (as you can tell) i was never into electronic music whatsoever, pure metalhead, but in college a friend made a compilation called "bedtime with buddha" and this song just launched me back to my youth. i must have listened to it on loop for weeks on end and to this day ive never got bored of it. boc's music takes us back to a more innocent time and for that im grateful
This gem got introduced to me by a dear friend I used to have. One day he just went silent, never returned any calls. Since then this masterpiece been kept rolling through out many smoking sessions. RIP friendship!
Whenever I'm withdrawling from heroin I always come back to BOC videos. You'd think I would have gotten it 5 years ago :/. But here I sit, in the throws of the hell that is addiction. Hope I get it this time.
this "clatter" sample that's the base of the rhythm, sounds like analog camera shutter, with extended exposure (like 50ms), that's replayed 10 times slower.
as my name implies, this song is my all time fave boc tune and perhaps my all time fave song ever. the melody, the slide projector sample, the slight tape wobble, hiss and pops just take me back to my youth. i know everyone says this but its true. boc have tapped into our nostalgia gene in our brain and cracked it right open. god i love boc
I swear to god ( if he does exist ) everytime I listened to BoC songs, it took me into another dimension, and I couldn't explain it. Then I was at a party, and I smoke weed for the first time, laying in my bed, high asf. I listened to this song and trust me I was feeling like a dream, the best feelings I've ever had, and BoC helps a lot
I believe, this is BOC's most nostalgia Provoking track. I won't even be sad and I hear this track, and I will get nostalgic or melancholic. Thoughts of my childhood, good times with ex's, or my not so close family. One time i was on a trip on a bus and all I could see was grey skies & grass for miles and then nothing but continuous smokestacks..made me think of boc and how they are so into nature and how I hate pollution..but shit what u gone do?
Bought this in record store,CD card said "frosty drum n bass." Bought it,got buzzed,cold snowy windy Fri night,at my former apartment. Sounds silly but,it'll be 20 yrs ago,this November. Cool memory. Miss living alone so badly.
This is all so beautiful... all the nostalgia and loss of childhood innocence comes rushing back in the eerie, sad and amazingly beautiful way. If you could translate longing and yearning for something good of the past, these would be the sounds translated from that part of the cortex. Your video is also amazing, dredd1971. I enjoyed every part of it and it seemed to flow effortlessly. Great job on your interpretation of this, truly enjoyable to watch.
LOL My life is actually pretty awesome, no complaints hear. I just made that respose because I was just a nerd growing up who prefered to play with bugs and plants by the river instead of getting high and looking for trouble like the other guys my age at the time. BoC brings the art back into music for me personally. And art makes me philosophical lol Rock on BoC.
You don't "use mushrooms to feel better." You use mushrooms if you are comfortable with yourself and love your life enough to look in the dark places, the hidden places in which limitless beauty and intrigue can be found.
When I was with my Mamiya 645 medium format film camera doing landscapes on 30-year-old Kodak 120 Techpan ASA16 in Clermont, FL, this song was......just......perfect I'm going to miss that stuff I can't find it anymore and I'm down to three rolls with a half-a-roll still in the camera.
Wow! I can‘t believe that this modern smooth quiet and Deep Great Track is at least 17 years old. Mysic catching melody, a Hard But winning Journey. When I See those Impressions of the Video to this Track it reminds me of synethisia imaginations and visionalized impressions, quantum mechanics, fractal Images, far behind from human expieriences…fascinating… Maybe for a Spirit from up above as a kid for a day ✨
I really don't want to be another one of those psychonaut youtube guys who say "Oh yeah this song is so awesome when you're trippin on _____, blah blah blah". But, when I was on mushrooms, this song was...just...perfect.
Totally. In another way it's true that BoC's music is pretty impressive when you're high, but this is because she's yet amazing when sober ! If someone needs any drug to enjoy it ... this someone really doesn't understand this music.
Nice work on the video, fits really well with this song! Ahhh BOC never ceases to send chills down my spine, and the sense of nostalgia and beauty are especially present with this track. Thank you.
I read on some upload of this song (might be this one and I just can't find the comment again) that someone listened to this song on the last day they were 17, the last day they were still legally a kid, so I'd like to report I'm here doing that very thing now. It's 9:35 pm, I almost forgot but I'm glad I didn't. Of course I knew about this song for a while before this, it's amazing. Just wanted to say thanks for the idea.
Who was the beautiful red haired man that picked me up in his car, to see DJ Shadow at the Brighton Concorde and we came back to my house in Brighton to listen to this EP? jesusgoddamnchrist- missed opportunities, still haunted by that night. And his smile. BOC does visceral memory material, don't they??
I live in Canada, and I was raised very close to army base. CFB Borden, the base was a training base, I remember lazy depressing sunday afternoons playing by in the park, or by the river. I remember hearing the drone of airplanes flying around the base. The ambient sound in the background of this song sounds like the drone of a plane... This song brings me back to those depressingly sunny summer sunday afternoons, hearing the drone of a plane somewhere in the distance!
i like to meditate to this (sometimes eyes closed and relax, sometimes eyes open and watch the world go by quietly) generates a positive sense of feelings from past and present, and gets me ready to expect more in the future
A lot of people use music as escapism, which i cant rly relate to, specially considering that a lot of what i listen to talks about real world issues, but BoC is an exception. If i ever want to leave this plane of existence and go to another dimension, i just turn on my headphones, play boards of canada, lay on the ground and close my eyes.
I've listened to and contemplated this track since I first heard it years ago. It reminds me of how the sky used to look back when I was a kid, running carefree and playing outside in the country. I'm so glad this music exists. Not a fangirl, just an appreciative human-oid.
a perfect example of the chill yet eerie atmosphere they create in their music @ 4:50 and 5:03. this stuff is the sound of memories, especially this song, you can just put it on repeat and let your mind wander. beautiful.
really good video. haunting and strange. i like the hazy fairground footage, captures the blurry childhood nostalgia feel of boards of canada's music well.
God i love this tune only found BOC becouse im very much in to my BMW's and was looking at old tv add's on you tube and found the add that chris cunningham did for the bmw seven series in 2002/2003 with this very tune on it i had to find out more and i can not belive i have not found them years ago needless to say i have now orderd a couple of albums: music has the right to children. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country. love them
wandering through cow pastures on a cloudy summer day shooting landscape through medium format Kodachrome film that's kid for today, because when I do that, though now with Ektar 100 and Fuji PRO400, I feel like I'm about 12 years old growing up on my grandfather's farm
damn the feeling you can get off of this music is... almost orgasmic you dont need the reefer with this or the acid this is true high what you feel coming out of this, truly brilliant music...
Wow, I was just about to write almost the exact same thing. A lot of people don't seem to realize that you don't use psychedelics to "escape" your life. If you have any anxieties, they would become much more prevalent on mushrooms, and for a while you wouldn't be doing so well. It isn't like heroin or pot, you don't take it to "feel good" - you take it if you want to learn about yourself, grow as a person, and understand life. At least, I find that it's always meaningful and educational.
BOC did a beautiful thing without knowing they did beautiful things. This in itself is a beautiful thing. Thank you, BOC, for the beautiful sound of things.
This was the song that got me in to BOC around 6 years ago. I just loved the atmosphere and sounds used. In particular the glacier sort of Rhodes lead sound at 1.55
we cant tell, we dont know what music will be like in the future. id say probably not because ambient has been round for quite a while, but its always been about as alternative as you can get
I listened to this on a park bench while on a 420ug acid trip that was just reaching peak. The grass was like waves of green swirling as the ground swelled and the trees shook and the wind blew and the sky swirled. I put in my headphones and it scared me for a moment, auditory hallucinations were so strong that the song was entirely different. Like no treble all slow and fast at the same time and beautiful in its own regard. Of course I realized something was up when I heard this and decided to move along...
Every time I listen and watch this video, I really wish I could find out things about it. When was it taken? Where is this amusement park? Who was the man in the doorway? Little things that take me back to my childhood... much happier times than the crazy world we have today.
Close my eyes... In the school bus in the middle 70s. Sitting near a girl I had the biggest crush on in junior high. I can smell the diesel fumes while watching the town roll by outside the windows that were slid down. I felt present with the world while listening to the AM hits piped through the speakers.
This is why I read the comments on BOC videos
Comfy as fuck, man.
THANK YOU. Well said!!
I was there man. We all yelled "turn it up!" when dead skunk in the middle of the road came on.
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Here's Tom with the Weather."
Wonderful quote, Mr Hicks.
Your words my friend are a crude but nonetheless poetic reminder of the pragmatic existential element that governs being in itself.
Chris D. ITs actually Bill Hicks words to be exact. A great comedian and of course a great man he was. May hes soul be awaken.
The brilliant MR BILL HICKS
Weather.
Nothing but external sensation.
Back to you Sam.
"Just for the record - the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit"
- Chuck Palahniuk
Boards Of Canada and Aphex Twin, the purest music I've ever heard (and I've listened to a lot of music) in my life.. no one comes close to them (even on the IDM genre).
They changed my life with their music; there are no words to describe how their music makes me feel, thank you Sandison Brothers & Mr. Richard James. My deepest admiration and respect to them.
nujabes should be added to your list. his music somehow brought me here.
+willie coleman Horizon by nujabes will be in my heart forever!
You should add autechre to that list
Aphex Twin introduced me to Boards of Canada as well.
@@CicadathaSquarepusher
This might be my all-time favorite BoC song, which is a lot to say.
It's interesting how it both renders everything around you insignificant and, at the same time, connects you to the world on a higher plane of existence. It's like the world doesn't matter anymore, but at the same time it matters all the more. To me, mundane preoccupations cease to exist, yet the little things, those vestiges of what the world was like when I was a kid (a far simpler, more pristine place), suddenly pop up. You don't listen to this and think about the World Cup or the midterm elections or the next iPhone: you think about the more timeless features of our planet, those that you were curious about when you were a child. That's what this song does to me anyway, not that anybody else should care.
Something that makes it even more awesome (to me, anyway) is that, apparently, one of the drum loops in this song was taken from Strawberry Fields Forever, my favorite Beatles song, which aptly enough also touches on connecting with existence on different planes ("I mean it must be high or low...").[/tl;dr]
can relate so much man!
it's such a nice ambience isn't it?
Are you an INTP ?
Your second paragraph articulated it precisely. We are all mortal so what really lasts and what doesn't? Everything we do is a balloon. 😉
Really loved your pov mate
Why does their music take me back to 1978? I swear, it's like it resonnates with a part of my childhood; when life seemed to be both still... full of hope and a possibility that we were all part of something more.
I feel exactly the same. Their music helps a little bit to feel unconcerned for a moment, to remember those winter days with blue sky and sun above when I was a child. This song was in my head all day long when I was at Mont Blanc (Chamonix). It remembers me how it was good to be ignorant of all I know today.
Eric Forcier You mean, the days before the artificial construct we live in today took hold? Something is out of sorts these days, as if everything has become a mere facsimile of what was and somehow, in someway, an overlay was inserted into the mix with new patterns which lack something organic.
I remember those winter days of sky and sun you speak of. Back then, the cold air was crisp, tears were salty and blood smelled like copper. The sound of crunching snow with each footstep, wood burning in the distance and a clarity where time felt like a progressive linear movement towards a better tomorrow.
So funny to see that you feel this way too. When I first heard the music of BoC I felt like I was immedeately re-living the late 70's, my very early childhood. Indeed there was another and much more 'real', playful, hopeful, and alive energy present in society and in the collective human mind back then. An energy that has since faded away along with the bloom of electronics, artificial entertainment, disconnection from nature and isolation from our community. People are depressed and lonely now, like never before, and the musical creativity of the 60's, 70's and 80's is long gone.
I was born in 1972, so yes, that would be the same for myself. I think our generation literally landed here at a very pivotal time in human evolution, that is, a bridging if you will between the analog and digital age, a singularity of the duality and with it, yes... We understand the warmth of vinyl records, the smell of rubber erasers, lead pencils, carbon paper tests, the Sun being yellow (not white) and skies blue (not filled with chemtrails).
The collective human mind was infiltrated and sadly, it was because there were so many who thought that the 60's were about freedom and conscious awareness, never realizing that the revolution wasn't being televised, but instead, propagandized and subverted by the next best thing... the digital age; replete with all of the materialism, corporatism and eventually, fascism, so that the future (now?) would become a synthetic facsimile, with plastic food and goods and services with such a short shelf life and even shorter planned obsolescence.
No, if I could only go back in time, just for a week, I think I would take it back to 1977 or 78. Where music like this was something that was a background mood setter to programming on PBS, shows like Nova or In Search Of; and when music like Jarre's Oxygene IV was activating similar changes in our molecular level. The crying Indian wasn't regarded enough, Kaufman was way too complex and people were being divided socioeconomically more than ever as failed programs were implemented (by design) to create the greater imbalances we have today.
Aspartame, derrivatives, price fixing, deflationary rates... yeah, 1978 is probably where the timestream was screwed up, but you could still buy an analog synthesizer like Wendy Carlos used to do the Tron soundtrack, could be had... along with Moog/Theremin devices and even making your own music with parts from the local Radio Shack. So thank you Boards of Canada, you made me a Kid for Today! :)
Johnathan M. Wow, I was born in the early-mid 90's but wow, this commenting just tapped into my conscious like nothing else, thank you, really...thank you.
At the pool today with my kids and their little friend, this song reminded of my own childhood fun days as I watched them enjoy a freeze frame of theirs. This music from BoC is magical.
I'm literally an incensed fool from Canada who's always known this was one of the special points of love.
The Boards of Canada have such a connection to nature with their music. No words needed.
BOC fans make the best fan videos.
You are so right! Fans of BoC definitely feel the connection and spirit of the music.
TheWinterShadow *High five*
It's such an awesome fan-base too. I've had many awesome conversations about their music and different arbitrary things. It's all kinds of spectacular.
Art! BoC has reach out to a fan base of artists-observers of nature, sound and time. Or should I say a fan base that has reach out to them.
TheWinterShadow
It's fantastic; they utilize music as a mode of carrying emotion and they've managed to convey a multitude of different emotions ranging from happiness to the other end of the spectrum. It would surprised me if this dialog wasn't opened by BOC because their music has an amazing ability to catalyze spectacular reactions. It's probably more subjective than anything but I've managed to connect with BOC emotionally and reflectively than I have with any other artist.
Bonobo has been another good one but BOC has the ability to produce nostalgia inducing sounds that trump most other attempts at recreating this (that I've heard thus far.)
Perhaps it's because this music contains no ego that people feel inclined to submit their own conversations amidst the atmosphere birthed by the sounds of BOC. It's almost like the tracks themselves are canvases and are thus filled by our conversation. It's fascinating to say the least.
"this music contains no ego". Well said! In this music no one is putting down another to self elevate or to self proclaim. One can apply the sound, according to their own interpretation. BoC as you mentioned, offer the canvases.
The fact this was uploaded in 2006 (12 years ago) makes this even more nostalgic
EDIT 10/29/18: I wanted to mention the breathy atmosphere reminds me of fall/autumn when the wind is blowing, leaves are falling, it's chilly out and having a coffee or tea looking out the window to see the bustling city streets outside.
time is the biggest changer of all...
now it’s been 17 years, almost 18…
That dancing girl reminds me of Love of my life back in 1999. Still miss that girl.
Love this song
6:01 The ending is so beautiful
an amazing video to go with an amazing song. this was the first boc song i had ever heard and it changed my life forever. (as you can tell) i was never into electronic music whatsoever, pure metalhead, but in college a friend made a compilation called "bedtime with buddha" and this song just launched me back to my youth. i must have listened to it on loop for weeks on end and to this day ive never got bored of it. boc's music takes us back to a more innocent time and for that im grateful
absolutely, as i respond to you almost 2 decades later lol, hopefully your still alive and kicking well!
I agree completely..the most hauntingly beautiful music ...
kid for weeks
Aeroplanes , cars and trains, this song comes with me everywhere and put me into a state of calm and warmth.
This gem got introduced to me by a dear friend I used to have. One day he just went silent, never returned any calls. Since then this masterpiece been kept rolling through out many smoking sessions. RIP friendship!
Whenever I'm withdrawling from heroin I always come back to BOC videos. You'd think I would have gotten it 5 years ago :/. But here I sit, in the throws of the hell that is addiction. Hope I get it this time.
Hey JMcDonaghVideo. Don't ever stop trying . .I finally got rid of my anchor over 9 years ago NOT easy buy boy it is so worth it. Thinking of you.
I hope you are recovered or further on your way to recovering. all the best
JMcDonaghVideo exact same here, it’s what I used to do. So glad I’m clean now.
me and my friend listened to this and realized we share a deep connection.
I want that with a girl that has the same or similar music taste as me but hey it's only a dream
this "clatter" sample that's the base of the rhythm, sounds like analog camera shutter, with extended exposure (like 50ms), that's replayed 10 times slower.
i believe it's a slide projector
@@skywardstargaze1768 It's always sounded like a slide projector to me.
''Hey; why don't I make a BOC vid with this?''
-me;after watching any old industrial documentary
You forgot it had to have been broadcasted on cbc only a couple of times.
as my name implies, this song is my all time fave boc tune and perhaps my all time fave song ever. the melody, the slide projector sample, the slight tape wobble, hiss and pops just take me back to my youth. i know everyone says this but its true. boc have tapped into our nostalgia gene in our brain and cracked it right open. god i love boc
Canción que te hace recordar que siempre habrán días mejores. Produce una rareza indescriptible, pero es satisfaciente.
*satisfactorio
I dont think any other group leaves me as emotionally effected as Boards does
I swear to god ( if he does exist ) everytime I listened to BoC songs, it took me into another dimension, and I couldn't explain it. Then I was at a party, and I smoke weed for the first time, laying in my bed, high asf. I listened to this song and trust me I was feeling like a dream, the best feelings I've ever had, and BoC helps a lot
Sounds like a trip☁️🌫🌬🌌🌌
Always come back to this BoC song; in my opinion one of the best electronic compositions ever made.
BOC is special because watching a video from 2007 in 240p feels more authentic than listening to it in 1080p.
I can never explain the way this song makes me feel. It really brings a tear to my eye at how amazing Boards Of Canada is...
This is my favourite somg
breathtakingly beautiful.
A bittersweet time in my life always comes to mind when I hear this song. Love BOC.
20 people are adults.
notfunny
@@Nick1921945 no one asked for your opinion
47.
are you alive yet?
alot of beautiful pictures pops up in my head while listening to this masterpiece..
When I listen to Board of Canada, I don't feel sane. Although that's what I like about them.
Out of all the amazing tracks that BoC has put out, this is will always be #1 in my list. Always find myself coming back to this one.
Just about the most appropriate music video that can be made for this tune.
It is currently raining today. The air is cold, the air smells like soil, I feel like a kid for today.
Try falling asleep with this music, especially with studio monitor headphones. You'll enter a dreamscape from which you cannot escape from...
I believe, this is BOC's most nostalgia Provoking track. I won't even be sad and I hear this track, and I will get nostalgic or melancholic. Thoughts of my childhood, good times with ex's, or my not so close family. One time i was on a trip on a bus and all I could see was grey skies & grass for miles and then nothing but continuous smokestacks..made me think of boc and how they are so into nature and how I hate pollution..but shit what u gone do?
I can't even fathom how amazing this is. And the video is inspired. BoC forever.
Bought this in record store,CD card said "frosty drum n bass." Bought it,got buzzed,cold snowy windy Fri night,at my former apartment. Sounds silly but,it'll be 20 yrs ago,this November. Cool memory. Miss living alone so badly.
this song makes me unbelievably happy. I always have the urge to just go.
My ears started ringing while I was listening to this song and it went pretty damn well with the beat
This is all so beautiful... all the nostalgia and loss of childhood innocence comes rushing back in the eerie, sad and amazingly beautiful way. If you could translate longing and yearning for something good of the past, these would be the sounds translated from that part of the cortex.
Your video is also amazing, dredd1971. I enjoyed every part of it and it seemed to flow effortlessly. Great job on your interpretation of this, truly enjoyable to watch.
If you could compress the entire span of existence into sound, i think Boards are what you'd get.
you would also need amon tobin in there too
Urine Denial Bricolage : Mission
LOL
My life is actually pretty awesome, no complaints hear.
I just made that respose because I was just a nerd growing up who prefered to play with bugs and plants by the river instead of getting high and looking for trouble like the other guys my age at the time.
BoC brings the art back into music for me personally. And art makes me philosophical lol
Rock on BoC.
You don't "use mushrooms to feel better." You use mushrooms if you are comfortable with yourself and love your life enough to look in the dark places, the hidden places in which limitless beauty and intrigue can be found.
this amazing track, strongly reminds me of GTA mall music in gtavc(2003). haha, if youre a gta hater, excuse me for this comment
how can music be inherently nostalgic
a part from 3:50 to 5:10 is just incredible. best fit of any BOc musis and videos
BOC goes perfectly looking through old photographs.
i remember a decade ago listening to this at some bench while smoking a cigarette
When I was with my Mamiya 645 medium format film camera doing landscapes on 30-year-old Kodak 120 Techpan ASA16 in Clermont, FL, this song was......just......perfect
I'm going to miss that stuff I can't find it anymore and I'm down to three rolls with a half-a-roll still in the camera.
Wow! I can‘t believe that this modern smooth quiet and Deep Great Track is at least 17 years old. Mysic catching melody, a Hard But winning Journey. When I See those Impressions of the Video to this Track it reminds me of synethisia imaginations and visionalized impressions, quantum mechanics, fractal Images, far behind from human expieriences…fascinating… Maybe for a Spirit from up above as a kid for a day ✨
It was released in 2000, so 24 years old. Great 4-track EP, recommending hearing it in full. It's called "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country".
this track is damn insane, i will never get bored to this marvelous piece of music
Its like changing the reel of some old machine to watch old photos which bring u alive into the past
this is one of my favs from BoC too. nice job on the video!!
I really don't want to be another one of those psychonaut youtube guys who say "Oh yeah this song is so awesome when you're trippin on _____, blah blah blah". But, when I was on mushrooms, this song was...just...perfect.
This is definitely some lovemaking music :) lol
For sure.
As many times I seen this vid at 3:50 I realized she wasn’t off beat
Still gives me goosebumps all these years later. The part where the track evolves, with the new melody coming in, it's unearthly.
Totally. In another way it's true that BoC's music is pretty impressive when you're high, but this is because she's yet amazing when sober !
If someone needs any drug to enjoy it ... this someone really doesn't understand this music.
It's a fantastic video to one of BoC greatest tracks (and that is saying something!)
A perpetual state of nostalgia.
Nice work on the video, fits really well with this song! Ahhh BOC never ceases to send chills down my spine, and the sense of nostalgia and beauty are especially present with this track. Thank you.
one of my fave songs of all time. Love BOC
I stumbled upon this song by accident...and I love this song!!! OMG! it is so ....."me"
I am instantly a fan of BoC
this tune is MIRACLE, i love it so much!!! its in me so deeply
I read on some upload of this song (might be this one and I just can't find the comment again) that someone listened to this song on the last day they were 17, the last day they were still legally a kid, so I'd like to report I'm here doing that very thing now. It's 9:35 pm, I almost forgot but I'm glad I didn't. Of course I knew about this song for a while before this, it's amazing. Just wanted to say thanks for the idea.
can't believe this video was uploaded in the very first year youtube started. great way to begin youtube history!
Who was the beautiful red haired man that picked me up in his car, to see DJ Shadow at the Brighton Concorde and we came back to my house in Brighton to listen to this EP? jesusgoddamnchrist- missed opportunities, still haunted by that night. And his smile. BOC does visceral memory material, don't they??
This song is like an old grainy memory burned to film. The edges just crisp enough to disintegrate but the structure is strong enough to hold.
Boards of Canada saved me from my loneliness and instead made me embrace it.
I live in Canada, and I was raised very close to army base. CFB Borden, the base was a training base, I remember lazy depressing sunday afternoons playing by in the park, or by the river.
I remember hearing the drone of airplanes flying around the base. The ambient sound in the background of this song sounds like the drone of a plane...
This song brings me back to those depressingly sunny summer sunday afternoons, hearing the drone of a plane somewhere in the distance!
i like to meditate to this (sometimes eyes closed and relax, sometimes eyes open and watch the world go by quietly) generates a positive sense of feelings from past and present, and gets me ready to expect more in the future
Heavenly. For me, it's easily one of their best pieces.
I dropped Acid to these guys. It really adds to the experience. I've also listened to these guys stoned countless times. It's just amazing all around.
consider the foolishness of all our words when read along with such beautiful sounds
@kidfortoday this was the first BoC song I heard too. Love it. Can't get enough.
A lot of people use music as escapism, which i cant rly relate to, specially considering that a lot of what i listen to talks about real world issues, but BoC is an exception. If i ever want to leave this plane of existence and go to another dimension, i just turn on my headphones, play boards of canada, lay on the ground and close my eyes.
I've listened to and contemplated this track since I first heard it years ago. It reminds me of how the sky used to look back when I was a kid, running carefree and playing outside in the country. I'm so glad this music exists. Not a fangirl, just an appreciative human-oid.
Wow nostalgia... Takes me back to high school.
Thanks!
a perfect example of the chill yet eerie atmosphere they create in their music @ 4:50 and 5:03. this stuff is the sound of memories, especially this song, you can just put it on repeat and let your mind wander. beautiful.
this song dissolves the glue that holds my mind together and sends me in all directions at once.
really good video. haunting and strange. i like the hazy fairground footage, captures the blurry childhood nostalgia feel of boards of canada's music well.
Speed up x2 for dreamy 90's Drum n bass!
+HaNeLugn Too much syncopation haha :D
1.5
God i love this tune only found BOC becouse im very much in to my BMW's and was looking at old tv add's on you tube and found the add that chris cunningham did for the bmw seven series in 2002/2003 with this very tune on it i had to find out more and i can not belive i have not found them years ago needless to say i have now orderd a couple of albums: music has the right to children. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country. love them
wandering through cow pastures on a cloudy summer day shooting landscape through medium format Kodachrome film
that's kid for today, because when I do that, though now with Ektar 100 and Fuji PRO400, I feel like I'm about 12 years old growing up on my grandfather's farm
Couldn't of said it better myself.. their effect is so... almost eerie such a positive way. They take you on an odd, satisfying mind trip.
You have just wrote what i have been trying to put into words for years regarding this and many other BOC tracks, thankyou.
This song brings back memories- I can't say for certain if the memories are real, but I'm so relaxed I just go with it.
damn
the feeling you can get off of this music is... almost orgasmic you dont need the reefer with this or the acid this is true high what you feel coming out of this, truly brilliant music...
Wow, I was just about to write almost the exact same thing. A lot of people don't seem to realize that you don't use psychedelics to "escape" your life. If you have any anxieties, they would become much more prevalent on mushrooms, and for a while you wouldn't be doing so well. It isn't like heroin or pot, you don't take it to "feel good" - you take it if you want to learn about yourself, grow as a person, and understand life.
At least, I find that it's always meaningful and educational.
BOC did a beautiful thing without knowing they did beautiful things. This in itself is a beautiful thing. Thank you, BOC, for the beautiful sound of things.
cant tell you how many times ive listened to this song and this video in my life. this song is so important to me.
i always keep coming back to this track...
This was the song that got me in to BOC around 6 years ago. I just loved the atmosphere and sounds used. In particular the glacier sort of Rhodes lead sound at 1.55
This video is so well put together, that you could easily think it's an official music video. Great images for the track
we cant tell, we dont know what music will be like in the future. id say probably not because ambient has been round for quite a while, but its always been about as alternative as you can get
this song and this group in general just pulls out memories you dont even know remembered until boc gets ahold of you
I listened to this on a park bench while on a 420ug acid trip that was just reaching peak. The grass was like waves of green swirling as the ground swelled and the trees shook and the wind blew and the sky swirled. I put in my headphones and it scared me for a moment, auditory hallucinations were so strong that the song was entirely different. Like no treble all slow and fast at the same time and beautiful in its own regard. Of course I realized something was up when I heard this and decided to move along...
I love their videos. it"s like they hijacked all the things I love in my mind from childhood.
Every time I listen and watch this video, I really wish I could find out things about it. When was it taken? Where is this amusement park? Who was the man in the doorway? Little things that take me back to my childhood... much happier times than the crazy world we have today.