Brendan Standing Alone, I completely agree with you.
I missed a lot of replies so I can't respond to all of them very easily, or it would be a mess I'm sure, at least on my end.
But I'll put my two cents in here and say that what Brendan is saying is what a lot of us have been saying. There seems to be a need to compare this audio from the VHS tape with existing recordings from BOC. It sounds very old, like very early stuff. It makes sense that the quality wouldn't be there. I use the word "quality" loosely to refer to both the musical quality and the production quality.
Why should 20 or 30 year old recordings be crystal clear completed masterpieces?
Now, the fact that these are being released on YouTube instead of through some other commercial avenue, like a label, might indicate that there never will be an official BOCset release. This might be the way we get it.
This might not even be an ARG. This might literally just be a fun way for this music to be slowly spoon-fed to us fans.
Now, I must go ahead and reiterate the fact that I believe this is all BOC. Early takes and early recordings of the band, from the band. Who knows, maybe their own kids are being allowed to take part in all of this.
It's pure speculation, and if Lawrence Krauss can get away with it, then so can I
If this is somebody else, I'd be disappointed. But, be that as it may, the only issue I would have is them not making it clear who they were earlier, like before they started all of this.
I understand that everyone here has had their fair share of hoaxes and fakes, ARGs, etc. But like it was mentioned before, the same kind of sentiment surrounded other releases, commercial or not, and HexSun had to confirm.
Again, I'd like to point out that BOC keep liking tweets about new music, and we keep getting these little things. Maybe it's all related? Maybe we need to check our premises.
I noticed some audio artifacts in the latest VHS audio. One in particular occurred around 6:20 (
https://youtu.be/b-3sqi2OjuE?t=377). Anyway, you can hear a tremendous cutout, click, or something that seems genuine to audio from a VHS tape. It isn't really an effect you can create without tremendous effort, but what would be the point of that?
Now let's also consider the volume of new audio. Who in the holy hell has that much time or talent, to reproduce this much content and at this rate? It seems much more likely that this stuff already existed and was just recently compiled, or at least recently 'released'.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling for now.
It looked like things were going to go down a dark road on this one and I thought it might be worth looking at it a different way. To be clear,
that way is to fully fucking BELIEVE this is BOC!.
Sirens calling out catastrophe, waves of mourning rippling through hillsides, an exodus for us all