This is one of my favourite songs off the Campfire Headphase record, and I saw all these patched-together BoC fan videos, so I figgered I'd make my own! Got the footage from archive.org and edited it up with Vegas.
I could say so much about BOC music like its sounds retro, or dreamy, or spiritual. Really they are consistent album after album and they are still relevant today. A sign of truly great artists
I used to cry myself to sleep to this song a lot. The guitar at 3:03 really does it. Hard for me to come back to this song but I just love BoC that much.
Okay. This was me a few years ago. BoC sometimes make me sad and afraid, confused and lost. Their songs felt empty but I was so addicted. Now I come back and all their music sounds just beautiful and I’m not scared anymore. But it took a lot of listens and I had to listen day and night everywhere
i love how boards of canada can make anything sound good. whether its from the darkness of geogaddi or the acoustics in the campfire headphase, they make it a masterpiece and im truly grateful for that
When i watch this commercial videos from the past, i feel like I am seeing the world through my grandparent perspective, which on the otherhand makes me feel sad, because they are dead or old, like I'm going to be, one day.. So it is like a nostalgia for the times when I have not even existed. DNA.
This song reminds me of a time when the problems of the world could be fixed with a new washing machine...a time that only existed in the mind, thats the power of BOC!
There is something about this song. Its perfect. The melody, the sound, the atmosphere it creates causes me to reflect on the purest of feelings. This track transcends music and sound...it creates emotional atmospheres.
Such an unbelievable song: so clean and unambiguously light, such a contrast from dark, subliminal Geogaddi (which I'm not dissing -- I still think it's superior as a record to Campfire Headphase). I love this video, too. Put together, it makes very little sense other than being a bunch of retro, color-saturated feel-goodery. But that's very appropriate for this song, because I never thought it evoked a particular image like other BoC songs do. It's just pretty, and VERY much so.
Is it just me ? Or does it give everyone else the feeling they want to sail around the world in a yacht for the rest of thieir lives without touching land with this tune playing constantly??? Play it back, close your eyes, you will picture it yourself!...heaven..(and i have never sailed in a yacht!..)
There's always a sense of revelation in BOC's art which takes me deep into my soul, maybe to my unconsciousness. This is a transitional process I think and BOC acts like a transparent medium leading me to my lost childhood as a manifestation of my roots, the very essence of life ... this is totaly a dynamic meditation, an analog celebration of nature
How fuck do you discover this shit? Did you just OD and you're posting your daily reflection on life? Yeah one is broken by a dream, but man, that dream plays for a fucking long time with rare breaks. When one dies the dream breaks, that's the occasional. One is living in the same brain for their eternity. Ghost in a Shell hasn't happened yet. Even so, there is not deep sleep because there is no rest, there is merely absence.
This track and the cover of A Beautiful Place Out in The Country done by Mira Calix drive me to tears, these tracks make me feel like I’ve captured something that I missed out on or remembering memories that I never had.
Many cool songs on this Album, but this is my favourite. I love the slightly of tune sound...Its reminds me of that wavering sound associated with seeing a film movie in school in the 1970s-80.
+Paul Minda It make sense Paul. The name BOC was taken from the National Film Board of Canada who use to do a lot of documentary in the 70,s and 80s.' and short film.
Those images of modern life from another era juxtaposed with this BoC track evoke a feeling of sadness and serve as a haunting reminder of how time itself renders everything obsolete. The 2000s are almost over and it went by so much quicker than the 90s....
I like this song, because it relaxes me so much! I'd to be, laying on my roof, listening this song meanwhile I look up to the sky, to feel the greatness of the universe. I'm not afraid, I'm excited about the future.
I love the final bridge ending of 84PD, reminds me of ZZ Top's "Shiek" from DeGuello album. Tense and beautiful, then you are melted into simply heavenly guitar chordspace.
BoC are the cream of scotland in my opinion.....stunning, and if you dont like BoC and what they stand for dont comment. Beautiful video by the way very impressive.
Very good comment, sir. This video is beautiul, and the same time, sad and meaningful. One of the best BoC clips I've ever seen. Successful juxtaposition of music and videos. Really.
I wonder if future generations will make videos with intentional antiquated production with footage of the 90's-20's which would be retro by then. Pretty hard to imagine that concept pushed forward 30 years. I'm sure they will think of something.
There are many ways to get really warm sounds, like BoC does. They choose to use analog synths and play around with the actual wiring. An easier way is to use a non-destructive DAW and effect a sampled organ and then re-amp it through a tube amp or re-wire through a tube emulator. Then just add some effects to the sound, maybe some reverb, flange, delay etc... Then you add a little white or pink noise to dirty the sound up. Those are just some easy tricks to make sounds sound better.
thanks for making the video. The timing is pretty awesome. Did I mention I actually want to have the furniture shown early in the video? Thanks again, great composition.
