boredoms wrote:I think MHTRTC is maybe their weakest official LP. It feels oddly disjointed and just doesn't flow as beautifully as the other three do, and I'm not crazy about most of the songs after Aquarius. It's also not QUITE as emotional an experience for me as their best work like Geogaddi, Hi Scores or Boc Maxima, Old Tunes, TCH, TH, etc.
MHTRTC is more of a compilation than an actual album. I think the tracks were all old ones that were either touched up or rerecorded for the release.
boredoms wrote:Telepath is one of the best tracks on TH for sure.
Damn right.
boredoms wrote:David Came to Mahana'im would possibly make a top 5 or top 10 BoC list for me. Just something about that one...
I feel the same way about The House of Abin'adab, Finity, and Audiotrack 6A. The first of those is especially trippy. It makes me think of weird old videogames. It's a good feeling.
boredoms wrote:If forced at gunpoint to only be able to listen to one half of their career ever again, it is very possible I would choose Old Tunes, Random 35, Twoism, Boc Maxima and Hi Scores over MHTRTC, IABPOITC, Geogaddi, TCH, Trans Canada and TH. Not an easy decision, but I love those early tunes and there's such a unique and personal quality to stuff like Old Tunes or Boc Maxima. I do think that the more lo-fi production and less streamlined sound back then added to the nostalgic, uncanny feeling. Still, this isn't to lessen how much I love most of the later material.
I definitely agree on that. Those old ones have much more charm to them. Though I would probably choose the part of their career before even that, the part that we've never heard before.