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Old 07.09.2008, 04:06 PM   #1
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I think I can win "weirdest intro to boris" with my story of just flipping the channels late one night and i stop it on a music video. whats this? Something interesting on mtv and the headbanger's ball no less? It was true, for 3 minutes i was glued to the tv set stunned to hear good music from it. This shattered mirror effect on the video and these vague looking aliens from Japan lit up my screen.

So this all lead to me picking up Pink this week and wow this record is crazy. Its this great mix of speed metal, psychedelic, space rock, shoegaze. The sound is so perfectly distorted and thick, the lack of production really adds to the feel of it. That first track on Pink sounding like bombs being dropped it was so heavy. I havent heard anything this unhinged in a while.


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Old 07.09.2008, 04:16 PM   #2
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pink is actually one of their albums that i like the least.
amplifier worship and flood are two of my favorite albums ever...
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Old 07.09.2008, 04:33 PM   #3
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pink is very inconsistent, but it has "six three times" and "just abandoned my-self" which are two of the best songs of the decade so it's fucking awesome.

smile is an acquaried (sp?) taste but still good, not as mindblowing as most of their discography from akuma no uta going back.
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Old 07.09.2008, 04:42 PM   #4
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Pink rocks. And comes on pink vinyl that smells like bubble gum. I want to chew it.
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Old 07.09.2008, 06:08 PM   #5
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Today I was listening to my Zune library on shuffle with my family and the first song from Rainbow came on. It took some getting used to, but I think my mom liked it.
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Old 07.09.2008, 06:10 PM   #6
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I like Flood.

Boris is playing in Pittsburgh next Friday. I would have forgot if you didn't post this. I must go.
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Old 07.09.2008, 06:12 PM   #7
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Pink's alright. I really like Smile. Amplifier Worship and Absolutego are essential but my favorite by far is Flood.

I got into them a long time ago, actually probably around the time I started posting on this board, I listened to Absolutego in its entirety at school because it was on a website in real media format (remember Real Player?!). I was intrigued by it being a 70+ minute song of mostly feedback and drones. I'd never heard anything like it.
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Old 07.09.2008, 06:19 PM   #8
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absolutego is by far and away my favourite of the 12 boris records and one DVD that i own. absolutego was the first record by them that i bought and the others were pretty much all bought in the hopes they'd be as good as that one, not that some of those 12 aren't good, some of them are very good, eg. feedbacker or dronevil, where as some are total crap, eg. megatone or 04092001, but nothing really comes close to absolutego. anyway, i've kind of grown tired of them now because of their inconsistent output and tendency to milk their fans by putting out multiple variations of the same record.
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Old 07.09.2008, 06:26 PM   #9
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i like their eclectiscism, appearantly that's the reason a lot of people don't like them, though.
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Old 07.09.2008, 06:32 PM   #10
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their eclecticism annoys me because even though they are technically versatile musicians i don't think they have anything interesting to contribute to some of the styles they play, if they concentrated on what they are good at rather than displaying their proficiency in the manufacturing of the facsimilie they'd be one the greatest rock bands ever. (in my opinion)
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Old 07.09.2008, 08:48 PM   #11
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I'm seeing them next week, can't wait! I rather liked Pink. Smile is pretty good too, but I think Amplifier Worship is my fav.
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Old 07.09.2008, 09:35 PM   #12
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I don't think they sound too different between albums.. just different sides of the same coin... obviously, they have some more rocky stuff as of late, but it still fits in pretty well with their dronier, noisier albums. Honestly, it's comparable to something like.. yeah.. the Melvins or something. They can do some different things (and the Melvins have done a lot weirder things probably), but they're still true to their original sound usually.

Actually, "Smile" might be the weirdest thing Boris has done thus far. But I like it a lot.
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Old 07.09.2008, 10:37 PM   #13
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their eclecticism annoys me because even though they are technically versatile musicians i don't think they have anything interesting to contribute to some of the styles they play, if they concentrated on what they are good at rather than displaying their proficiency in the manufacturing of the facsimilie they'd be one the greatest rock bands ever. (in my opinion)

i see your point.

when they do psychedelic drone metal, they do things that are out of this world, unique to them mostly; but they sometimes do things where they are merely capable or ok.

i do agree that the bulk of pink, akuma no uta, heavy rocks, that vibe isn't very original. this i appreciate because they do something experimental bands hardly do, which is they rock (it's dumb, i know); they can do stupid things like play motörhead-like and have fist pumping songs and i like that, that they mix this with their deeper sounds is a good combination (mostly live, though).

but now that you brought it up, i do miss them go to the deep end of drone; they need to focus on that in a new release. i myself don't find their recent output bad but, something like that is missing.
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Old 07.09.2008, 10:46 PM   #14
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I'm seeing them for the second time this year tomorrow. I'm really psyched.
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Old 07.09.2008, 11:22 PM   #15
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I love Rainbow. The album and the song (with Wata's sexy voice).
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Old 07.10.2008, 01:15 AM   #16
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Yeah. Wata definitely needs to do more vocals.
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I loved pink the music is awesome. The vocals took some getting used to. I like them now
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Old 07.10.2008, 07:08 AM   #18
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i do agree that the bulk of pink, akuma no uta, heavy rocks, that vibe isn't very original.

Coincedentally, those 3 albums are the only ones by this band I almost never listen to.
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Old 07.10.2008, 07:25 AM   #19
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'smile' has grown to my third fave boris. its definitley the most psych rock out of all thier full lengths, but has all their old styles that we love em for as well. 'akuma no uta' and 'amo worship' wil always be my faves.

seeing boris w/torche tomorrow night, stoked
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Old 07.10.2008, 07:41 AM   #20
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oh man, torche.. I need to listen to their new album still, I heard their self-titled release a while back and thought it was pretty great.
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