Great stuff, your love for this band is infectious and I am definitely adding them to my to-listen list. Rush is my favorite band for some of the similar reasons: the copious output and changing styles. Sure you hear Tom Sawyer on the radio and tap your foot to it, but then you dig and realize this band put out 20 studio albums over a 40-year career. Everything from "pretentious" prog rock, 80s synth pop, 90s alternative, slap-you-in-the-face hard rock, even occasional reggae. For all these styles, they're not just copying whatever was hot at the moment, but rather acknowledging it while giving it their own spin.
I feel like I'm going to be studying Rush (and now Boris) for the rest of my life.
I've been meaning to listen to more Boris. I've heard the name for years, and only really gave them a spin when I saw they covered a song that was featured in the Japanese tokusatsu show, Return of Ultraman. Great original, really great cover. So this is the impetus I need to do a deeper dive. Thanks!
I'll try anything musical, so since "Akuma no uta" was at the start of the flow chart you linked to, I'm checking it out on YouTube. The closest I've heard to this before is probably Sun O))), but the only album of theirs I own is their collaboration with Scott Walker.
I'm just done listening to the Boris cover of My Bloody Valentine's Sometimes after many years of not listening to anything Boris and thinking 'I should listen to more Boris, but where to begin', and here we are - an article about Boris.
Great stuff, your love for this band is infectious and I am definitely adding them to my to-listen list. Rush is my favorite band for some of the similar reasons: the copious output and changing styles. Sure you hear Tom Sawyer on the radio and tap your foot to it, but then you dig and realize this band put out 20 studio albums over a 40-year career. Everything from "pretentious" prog rock, 80s synth pop, 90s alternative, slap-you-in-the-face hard rock, even occasional reggae. For all these styles, they're not just copying whatever was hot at the moment, but rather acknowledging it while giving it their own spin.
I feel like I'm going to be studying Rush (and now Boris) for the rest of my life.
I've been meaning to listen to more Boris. I've heard the name for years, and only really gave them a spin when I saw they covered a song that was featured in the Japanese tokusatsu show, Return of Ultraman. Great original, really great cover. So this is the impetus I need to do a deeper dive. Thanks!
Please think twice before sending an email titled “Attention please: listen to Boris” to a British person’s inbox. Thanks
Thank you. Thank you. You are now officially my older brother with cooler musical tastes, and so it shall forevermore be.
I'll try anything musical, so since "Akuma no uta" was at the start of the flow chart you linked to, I'm checking it out on YouTube. The closest I've heard to this before is probably Sun O))), but the only album of theirs I own is their collaboration with Scott Walker.
How bizarre.
I'm just done listening to the Boris cover of My Bloody Valentine's Sometimes after many years of not listening to anything Boris and thinking 'I should listen to more Boris, but where to begin', and here we are - an article about Boris.
The covers pretty good - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhSS1hUUjQ.
The Shonen Knife cover from that album is also fantastic, but it is very not-Boris.
Freddie if you want to be the king of the communist metalheads the job is yours, I’ll bring it up at the next meeting
Nearing the end of Akuma No Uta - this shit is great!