@clementix Yeah, at first this was just my favorite from The Campfire. But over the years, the more I listen the more I love it. Coming from this guys, I guess there is some hidden algorithm to provoke that ;) What would be your top 5?
I've been appreciating Peacock Tail also over time as a piece that reveals more and more. I've yet to plumb the depths of it. I felt that way about roygbiv the first several hundred times I heard it, too, but now I appreciate it as a simple perfection.
My favorite BoC pieces are in those two camps, the tracks with such depth and complexity that they dance around concealing and unconcealing more and more (Peacock Tail, Julie and Candy, Sunshine Recorder, Aquarius, Dawn Chorus, much of Tomorrow's Harvest), and the tracks that embody a simple, minimal perfection (roygbiv, Open the Light, Satellite Anthem Icarus, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, The Beach at Redpoint, Forest Moon, Boqurant). I don't think I can narrow it down to 5. Ha!
@clementix I guess I have to listen more times Tomorrow's Harvest, because I love so much the other songs you mentioned but that album seems so cold and scary
To me there is a dark tone to Tomorrow's Harvest that isn't all that different from the dark tone of Geogaddi or much of Music Has the Right to Children. The standout tracks to me on Tomorrow's Harvest are Reach for the Dead, New Seeds, and Come to Dust. But all of them stand up to repeated listening, even the at-first-blush grating Jacquard Causeway, which is doing something very interesting with time signature and rhythm that I am only just beginning to understand. Enjoy!
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clementix
Is that your top 5 BoC tracks?
davidrvm
@clementix Yeah, at first this was just my favorite from The Campfire. But over the years, the more I listen the more I love it. Coming from this guys, I guess there is some hidden algorithm to provoke that ;) What would be your top 5?
clementix
I've been appreciating Peacock Tail also over time as a piece that reveals more and more. I've yet to plumb the depths of it. I felt that way about roygbiv the first several hundred times I heard it, too, but now I appreciate it as a simple perfection.
clementix
My favorite BoC pieces are in those two camps, the tracks with such depth and complexity that they dance around concealing and unconcealing more and more (Peacock Tail, Julie and Candy, Sunshine Recorder, Aquarius, Dawn Chorus, much of Tomorrow's Harvest), and the tracks that embody a simple, minimal perfection (roygbiv, Open the Light, Satellite Anthem Icarus, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, The Beach at Redpoint, Forest Moon, Boqurant). I don't think I can narrow it down to 5. Ha!
davidrvm
@clementix I guess I have to listen more times Tomorrow's Harvest, because I love so much the other songs you mentioned but that album seems so cold and scary
clementix
To me there is a dark tone to Tomorrow's Harvest that isn't all that different from the dark tone of Geogaddi or much of Music Has the Right to Children. The standout tracks to me on Tomorrow's Harvest are Reach for the Dead, New Seeds, and Come to Dust. But all of them stand up to repeated listening, even the at-first-blush grating Jacquard Causeway, which is doing something very interesting with time signature and rhythm that I am only just beginning to understand. Enjoy!
davidrvm
@clementix Love how you talk about BoC, thanks for commenting