actually,in a way, Pink is like the best Niravan record they never recorded.
― Zeno, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(nirvana)
― Zeno, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, no wonder I feel like people are always talking about these guys. What a productive lot!
Uh, the only one I've owned (and so have known quite well) was Absolutego, and that I ended up not caring for. Have heard some of _Amplifier Worship_ but nothing after. Am I a fool for not having explored beyond this? I don't really dig much stoner rock or sludge metal anymore, so I'll gladly skip any such records. (No vote, obv)
― Øystein, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
You should listen to Rainbow then.
― W4LTER, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
It's pretty tame.
― W4LTER, Monday, 15 October 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, interesting timing for this poll to appear, seeing as I'm starting to really get into this band! I actually got Amplifier Worship in the mail yesterday and it's great. I don't think I can vote just yet because I've only heard Absolutego and Pink as well, but I love them too. I actually thought I was over the sludge stuff too before I heard this band though. Can't wait to see them tomorrow!!
― Jack Burton, Monday, 15 October 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i said pink. once upon a time i would've voted for amplifier worship, but i listen to pink more than any of them so fuck it.
1998 Black: Implication Flooding (with Keiji Haino)
needs to be reissued. more than any of the other records that get issued in 50 different rip-off formats.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
What? No Yello albums? They have a member called Boris after all....
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
BORIS HEAVY ROCKS
― MRZBW, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't know all those releases. Amplifier Worship is great, so I'll probably go with that. Altar has some good stuff and some bad stuff. If I remember correctly I like the last two tracks on Altar a lot, but the "pretty one" ("Sinking Belle"?) I think I could do without, or at least without the vocals/piano. I've only heard snippets of Pink, but I'd like to hear more.
They're playing in DC in a week or two, not sure if I'm gonna see them though.
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Rainbow worth checking out if I really like Pink (not so much Altar)?
― Telephone thing, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It really depends on my mood, but I ended up going with Akuma no Uta (most likely only because its the most recent I've listened to). Rainbow, Altar, Pink, Amplifier Worship, and Absolutego could all have been argued for.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 15 October 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
saw them last night in SF with Kurihara - they were pretty good but seemed thrown off by some lame technical difficulties early in the show, never seemed to regain their footing after the first song
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
If Pink wins this, then you can fuck right off. It's a good album, I like it, but it's nowhere near their best. NOWHERE! The true answer is one of these 1996 Absolutego 1998 Amplifier Worship 2000 Flood 2002 Heavy Rocks 2003 Akuma no Uta 2003 Boris At Last: -Feedbacker- 2005 Dronevil
Anything else and you're either having a laugh or a pitchfork reader who hasn't heard the other albums. Archive release is awesome but it's live recordings. So I wouldn't vote for it, but I do play my cds often. They go for $200+ but I wouldn't part with them.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
The true answer is one of these 1996 Absolutego 1998 Amplifier Worship 2000 Flood 2002 Heavy Rocks 2003 Akuma no Uta 2003 Boris At Last: -Feedbacker- 2005 Dronevil
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
or pink
bollocks
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
that is the sex pistols
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
they are another band
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Anything else and you're either having a laugh or a pitchfork reader who hasn't heard the other albums.
the true answer is that they're kind of a mediocre band. let's not get all ANGRY METALHEAD about a band that really doesn't deserve it, unless you're going to be consistent and start posting angrily in food threads and shit.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
also: PINK, not having a laugh, don't read pitchfork, welcome to cognitive dissonance.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
take a deep breath
― Zeno, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
BUT I AM FILLED WITH INTERNET RAGE
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I really like Amplifier Worship and plenty of other bits and pieces I've heard/got, but they've always been a band whom I'm just happy that they can keep on keepin' on without feeling the need to buy into the whole collector scum thing
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 15 October 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, but "Dronevil" on vinyl played at a volume that is too loud for anything beats "Amplifier Worship." Maybe it was just the speakers, though.
― suprematist, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 15 October 2007 17:42
who else does their peculiar mix of doom/stoner/punk?
not snark, actual curiousity.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
no one - doesn't make them 'great' in my mind. who else sounds like gogol bordello? nobody, still a shit band.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Such an original band clearly chose a name like Boris out of thin air!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, right, the melvins.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"If the name appears as "Boris" or "boris," then, the music is most likely an experimental recording.[1]"
As on Akuma no Uta, but is that really one of their more experimental recordings?
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
haha touche
xxpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
btw there's TWO different versions of Vein (I have both) 1 of them is a 2 track "noise" version" and the other is a 12 track "hardcore" version. The 2 track was mailed only to those people who live outside N America. So that it would take a week for people to find out that Boris had screwed everyone over by making 2 different versions (i think there's 1100 of the US version and 400 of the Euro. I got lucky and got mine for what my friend paid for his which was the standard price. It's handy knowing people who can get me ltd us only stuff. This albumw as $100+ on ebay at the time.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and sorry for pissing off all you *Pink fans. I think I've been on the Southern Lord board for too long!
*Still not the best album though :)
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
definitely flood for me - its really the only boris album i like, which calls into question whether i really like boris
― 69, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
the keiji haino one or flood...
― ryan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Flood was amazing live when i saw them play it this year. best 40 mins of a gig I've seen in a looong time.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
If I am a fuck who likes Farewell from Pink the best, which LP do I listen to next?
― caek, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Akuma no Uta.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
it's got an awes cover too. http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-2761.jpg
― W4LTER, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Pink is so totally gonna win this you guys
― stephen, Friday, 19 October 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
feedbacker is fuckin huge but i like blackout on pink and a lot of the faster thrashin tracks with the dueling leads pump me up
voted feedbacker though
― trashthumb, Friday, 19 October 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The 2 albums with Merzbow are missing too. But the live album is shit anyway. Terrible sound on it. I doubt anyone would've voted for either of them anyway. I don't see Vein getting (m)any. The album with Sunn o))) I do enjoy a lot yet there's plenty who don't so I'll be interested to see if it gets any votes.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 19 October 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
-- caek, Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:49 PM
akuma
other suggestions:
conqueror by jesu The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw by pelican
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
BIG HOOS, that's what I meant when i posted "Akuma No Uta" below caek's post.
― W4LTER, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Not that I was voting for it.
But I think i did vote for it anyway.
right, i gathered, just seconding.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The songs on Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta are better than the songs of a similar style on Pink. So You have to check out Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly.
― W4LTER, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad someone agrees.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link
It's no "Sometimes," but I think it's more boring than awful. The slow-mo chorus is great.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Saturday, 16 May 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
and hey not this poll's fault for not presaging it but sorry y'all New Album (Daymare version) is Boris' best album 8-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Album
they're at their best as an anime band
― soyrev, Saturday, 16 May 2015 16:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is the only Boris album I really like, which is odd considering how pop it is. Stuff like Pink is OK but too cheesy rawkin for my tastes, I try to listen to Flood from time to time but I don't think I have the patience for it.
― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Sunday, 17 May 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
i really like a lot of their other stuff (probably akuma no uta most), but the daymare version of that record (i.e. the one that begins with "flare") is just so virtuoso and fun. i'm bummed that the far more common 'tearbridge' version's sequencing (and i think alternate mixes at times, iirc?) mess it up
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
I forgot that I liked Noise last year which has a fair bit of rawk on it, my own opinions don't make sense sometimes.
― meaty, desperate, and honest about the world we live in (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 18 May 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
i liked a bit of Noise but it's nowhere close to the variety, cohesion and fun of New Album: Daymare Edition *imo*
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtQb9x0M0oUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YyhbfcpgY
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 8 January 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Boris track stops, butthe drone keeps coming from myhumidifier.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
did anybody get the Pink deluxe reissue?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 25 September 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
saw them play pink on the first night of the tour in san diego when i was visiting this summer. it was near enough note perfect with the LP. incredible experience.
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 08:14 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmK_EQWoorM
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 9 September 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef8KUvTUcAANsI3?format=jpg&name=small
― just sayin, Friday, 21 August 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
Worth noting that Boris have really started to go in on their Bandcamp page this year; they had a few things up for a long while but after No came out they started adding more and more from the past to the site:
https://boris.bandcamp.com/
Tomorrow vein, präparat and eternity will be added.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 October 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
There's a bunch of Boris threads so I'm not sure the most appropriate one, but it's been bumped most recently so...
I mentioned this in the Rolling Metal thread, but the new collaboration with Merzbow, 2R0I2P0 is easily one of the best things I've heard from them in a long time. In addition to some other songs, they take on some songs from LOVE & EVOL, and it really hits on the strengths of both. There is a moment during "EVOL" where Merzbow's got a bed of his usual noise grinding away and a soaring guitar solo starts to pierce through, it's great.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
Yeah agreed -- a thrilling album.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
I'm genuinely shocked by how good it is. I feel like they've been increasingly hit or miss in recent years and that my days of being absolutely wowed by them were in the past, but happily proven wrong with this one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
New album in January
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/w
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
And new single now, with a rather good cover version
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/no-l
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
there was a new single last month too, kind of a tie-in with a boris guitar pedal that earthquaker devices just launched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpFrv_Cr-o
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
New one, W, is great! Love how it builds from like this almost subdued, hazy dreampop vibe and builds the noise and sludge as it goes along.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
And a new new one announced
https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-rocks-2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Said new album fucking rules, of course.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 August 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
I agree. This is great. All these 'Heavy Rocks' are imo
― gman59, Friday, 19 August 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
Weird that the 2002 one hasn't gotten a formal rerelease yet. (Glad I have a rip, of course.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 August 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Little late in getting to it but, Ned and gman are correct, the new Heavy Rocks fucking rules.
Would love a rerelease of the 2002 one!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
was delighted to discover "rainbow" was available to stream after i'd lost my cd copy and couldn't bear to break the seal on my vinyl copy.
also lol, but perfectly in character with the band, that there are two different boris bands with selective sections of their discography on spotify.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 06:47 (one year ago) link
I'm hoping for some sort of physical release for Fade.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
Hello, per PR email just now:
Boris To Release Heavy Rocks (2002) Reissue via Third Man Records, Announce Tour with MelvinsThe album, never-before-released on vinyl or digital formats, will be available 8/18 (DL) and 9/8 (CD/LP).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
Also doing a tour of that album with Melvins (who are doing Bullhead).
August 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco TheaterAugust 25 Pomona, CA @ Glass HouseAugust 26 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’sAugust 27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall August 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music HallAugust 29 Petaluma, CA @ Mystic TheatreAugust 31 Portland, OR @ Roseland TheaterSeptember 1 Seattle, WA @ The ShowboxSeptember 2 Spokane, WA @ Knitting FactorySeptember 3 Bozeman, MT @ The ELMSeptember 5 Fargo, ND @ The Hall at Fargo Brewing CompanySeptember 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity TheaterSeptember 7 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave IISeptember 8 Chicago, IL @ The MetroSeptember 9 St. Louis, MO @ Red FlagSeptember 11 Indianapolis, IN @ The VogueSeptember 12 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid SchemeSeptember 13 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews HallSeptember 14 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom & TavernSeptember 15 Pittsburgh, PA @ RoxianSeptember 16 Maspeth, NY @ DesertFest NYCSeptember 18 Albany, NY @ Empire LiveSeptember 19 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock ClubSeptember 20 Bethlehem, PA @ MusicFest CafeSeptember 21 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl PhiladelphiaSeptember 22 Washington, DC @ The Howard TheatreSeptember 23 Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27September 24 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s CradleSeptember 26 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl NashvilleSeptember 27 Atlanta, GA @ Variety PlayhouseSeptember 28 Savannah, GA @ District LiveSeptember 29 Birmingham, AL @ SaturnSeptember 30 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’sOctober 2 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live - StudioOctober 3 Austin, TX @ MohawkOctober 4 Dallas, TX @ Granada TheaterOctober 5 Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music HallOctober 6 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s BallroomOctober 7 Lawrence, KS @ The BottleneckOctober 9 Denver, CO @ SummitOctober 11 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine TheaterOctober 13 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee TheatreOctober 14 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
Double rerelease ahoy of two of the Merzbow collaborations, Klatter and 04092001:
https://borismerzbow.bandcamp.com/music
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 15:15 (eleven months ago) link
Are those both new or reissues?
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
reissues
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
Really killer new song, "Cry" on the new Twins of Evil split LP. Sadly the Melvins track is just an inessential rework of a song from their latest album, but the Boris track is worth the (cheap!) price of admission.
https://www.shoxop.com/products/melvins-boris-twinsof-evil-cd
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 July 2024 17:37 (two months ago) link