I would say Amplifier Worship is a must if want the best of their more drone-y shit.

Akuma No Uta is a pretty good "sampler" of their many styles.

And Pink brings the rock.

This is wild somebody just recommended Boris's Pink for me the other day and I've been enjoying it.

Amplifier Worship is just a totally perfect record if you have taste for the heavy wierdness that would be the melvins.. if you have taste for the dark avant check out the collab disc with Haino.. Feedbacker is an amazing track and.. Flood is incredible unique. I have been too charged on some of the straighter releases like Heavy Rocks or Pink.. not bad mind you just not totally epic like some of those other releases...

the disc with Kurihara i thought is really fantastic and unique some ear splitting solos on that disc and the trax with wata's vocals is super sweet.

i wont hear a bad word said against boris.

truly amazing band. ive not got this into a band since SY.

may i say that pink, but the southern lord vinyl version with the extended versions. the normal one is a bit boring.

i think...

1. amplifier worship
2. flood
3. absolutego
4. feedbacker
5. pink
6. megatone

then everything else, just do what you want..

The only thing I own by boris is their split with Tomsk 7, it's really good, they have the most amazing bass sound. I might have to see them when they support Isis :)

Similar to Pink, not quite as good. But still some very good shit.

i liked rainbow. lots of cool guitar shit..

I find Rainbow much better than Pink actually. Fully agree what's been said about the ear splitting solos and the track with the Wata vocals. It's probably my favourite collaboration thingy of them.

Don't agree with whoever said they are a terrible live band, but then again they didn't just play Pink at the times I've seen them. They'll be back rocking Europe next month, although sadly it seems a lot of their shows will be either at festivals or as a support act for Isis:

Date Venue Location Appearing w/
Jun 17, 2007 Cvetlicarna Mediapark Slovenia Ljubljana w/ ISIS
Jun 18, 2007 Szene Austria Vienna
Jun 19, 2007 Firlej Poland Wroclaw
Jun 20, 2007 Progresja Poland Warsaw
Jun 22, 2007 Palace Akropolis Czech Republic Prague w/ ISIS
Jun 23, 2007 FZW Germany Dortmund
Jun 24, 2007 013 Popcentrum Netherlands Tilburg
Jul 2, 2007 Koko UK London w/ ISIS
Jul 3, 2007 De Kreun Belgium Kortrijk
Jul 4, 2007 Club Schocken Germany Stuttgart
Jul 5, 2007 Molotow Club Germany Hamburg
Jul 6, 2007 Roskilde Festival Denmark Roskilde



There's a gap of about a week in this schedule so I'm going to guess it's not fully booked yet.

Oh, for god's sake, why Koko???

Is it really that bad?

The way it's built doesn't really make it a good music venue, in my opinion. There are too many areas with poor lines of sight and poor acoustics, and the sound from the bar area carries forward very badly. Although I suppose that shouldn't really be a problem for a band like Boris.

I havent heard much by Boris, but i do own the record they did with SunnO))), and i think it's great.
Shall i buy 'Pink' to start of with?

Pink is great.

yeah but on the upside boris, isis + Oxbow are all playing!!

more UK dates added

17-06-07 Cvetlicarna Mediapark Ljubljana (Slo) + Isis + Oxbow Presents : Love's Holiday
18-06-07 Szene Vienna (Aus)
19-06-07 Firlej Wroclaw (Pol) + Isis + Oxbow Presents : Love's Holiday
20-06-07 Progresja Warsaw (Pol) + Isis + Oxbow Presents : Love's Holiday
22-06-07 Palace Akropolis Prague (Cze) + Isis + Oxbow Presents : Love's Holiday
23-06-07 Fzw Dortmund (Ger)
24-06-07 013 Popcentrum Tilburg (Net)
25-06-07 Engine Rooms Brighton (Uk)
26-06-07 Sacred Trinity Church Manchester (Uk)
27-06-07 Nice N Sleazy Glasgow (Sco)
28-06-07 The Cluny Newcastle (Uk)
29-06-07 Corporation Sheffield (Uk)
30-06-07 Tbc Nottingham (Uk)
01-07-07 The Cooler Bristol (Uk)
02-07-07 Koko London (Uk) + Isis + Oxbow
03-07-07 De Kreun Kortrijk (Bel)
04-07-07 Club Schocken Stuttgart (Ger) + Pelican
05-07-07 Molotow Club Hamburg (Ger)
06-07-07 Roskilde Festival Roskilde (Den)

Aus for Austria!

Hmmmm, I would probably count Boris as one of the very best Japanese bands I've ever seen live. When I saw them they were in freaked out amps at 11 drone mode though. None of that silly Pink stuff.

Anyhow,

'akuma no uta' and 'pink' are really great for the rockin' stuff (although 'pink almost ventures into shoegaze territory at times).
soundtrack for film 'mabuta no ura' and 'rainbow' (with michio kurihara of ghost) are probably my favorite releases by them.

they're all good, it just depends on where you want to start from.