* EclipsedByTheRemix: Several of the remixes they have done are of lesser known songs ("Trapped," "Sometimes," "Sisters" and "Dirty Great Mable" to name a few).
* EpicRiff: The guitar sample that "Chromakey Dreamcoat" is built around.
** The riff which comes in at 1:43 in "Dayvan Cowboy" definitely counts. That ''effect!''
* FriendlyFandoms:
** BOC fans tend to also be fans of Music/LeylandKirby, whose work has a similar [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music) "hauntological"]] quality. The duo collaborated with Kirby long before he became famous on the Internet, with the Hell Interface track "Soylent Night" being released on Kirby's V/Vm Test Records.
** And of course, almost any discussion of [=BoC=] eventually leads to (usually) favorable comparisons to Music/AphexTwin, another electronic musician known for experimental sounds that can range from melancholy to nostalgic to terrifying.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** This bit, from their only recorded interview (with Creator/JohnPeel)
--->'''John:''' Right, well, what are you gonna do now? Back to your secret lair for more tunes?\\
'''(Mike or Marcus):'''[[note]]It has never been said which voice is which[[/note]] We're off to the pub, actually!
** Really, the fact that so many of their samples come from ''Series/SesameStreet'' of all places, is funny in and of itself. What's ''really'' funny is that practically all of them come from the ''same episode'' (specifically, episode 2852).
** Many of their songs make use of [[SubliminalSeduction backmasking]]. The song "Happy Cycling" features a particularly long sample at the end...which is a sample of an interview with [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra Jeff Lynne]] where he talks about [[ShapedLikeItself their use of backmasking on the song Eldorado]].
** The screaming at the end of "You Could Feel The Sky" is scary. The realization that it sounds a little too much like [[VideoGame/{{Portal2}} Wheatley]] is not.
** The [[ManipulativeEditing sentence mixing]] at the end of "Concourse" (taken from ''Home Again with'' ''[[Series/ThisOldHouse Bob Vila]]''), especially since it comes out of nowhere.
--->I notice that you ... well it's another one of these ... right! that is correct. that's interesting! great! right! uh we, now, those, uh, looks like full-dimensional ... [[BrokenRecord right! that's correct]]. yeah, mm hm, uh, [[RuleOfThree right, that's correct]]." [[{{beat}} ... ...]] "[[TheWalrusWasPaul well, it makes a lot of sense!]]"
* GenreTurningPoint: In the 80's and 90's, electronic music tried as hard as it could to be hard edged and futuristic to the point where [[{{Zeerust}} a lot of it sounded immediately dated the moment the 21st century rolled over.]] ''Music Has The Right To Children'' changed that. The warm, pastoral and [[{{Main/Retraux}} nostalgic 70's inspired sound]] of ''MHTRTC'' inspired underground electronic producers to experiment with themes of childhood nostalgia and "organic" sounding analog synths, paving the way for "folktronica" as well as other retro-futurist genres like {{Vaporwave}}.
* MisattributedSong: As alluded to in the main page, a lot of deliberately mislabeled "fakes" have circulated online, seemingly produced by amateur electronic musicians trying to troll fans and/or capitalize on Boards of Canada's name. One of the more infamous of these was "Chameleon" by Skeptical, [[http://www.brainchops.net/2010/10/boards-of-canada-chameleon-2010-single.html which somehow ended up for sale on iTunes and Amazon listed as a Boards Of Canada single]] .
* OvershadowedByControversy: The band complained about people going nuts with overanalysing ''Geogaddi'' in a 2005 interview, and have stated it as the reason they put out the less ambiguous ''The Campfire Headphase'':
-->"All the mystery and magic and all this kind of nonsense that built up around the last record [''Geogaddi''] got to a point where it was just silly. People were understanding things from our music that we didn't put in there and were saying there was an evil undercurrent to everything. And we are not like that at all. It was a theme that we wanted to pursue on that record but people have understood from that that we always put secret, dark, sinister, and satanic things in our music. And that became more important than the music itself."
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Sunshine Recorder" contains the LoopedLyrics "an eagle in your mind... a beautiful place." The band seems to have been deliberately [[{{Troll}} trolling]] here, because this makes the song very easy to confuse with the previous [=BoC=] songs "An Eagle in Your Mind" and "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country."
* SignatureSong: "Roygbiv"... not that it's the only one that can be called that: "Dayvan Cowboy," "1969" and "Music Is Math" also are contenders.
* SongAssociation:
** To most who have been on the internet for a while, hearing "Beware the Friendly Stranger" will only bring to mind ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers''.
** Many Chileans associate "Roygbiv" with ads for Santo Tomás University. Expect to see tons of comments referencing the university and its commercials in [=YouTube=] uploads of the song.
* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: Pretty much all of ''In a Beautiful Place Out In The Country'', as well as many tracks on ''Music Has The Right to Children'' and ''The Campfire Headphase''.
** The lullaby-sounding opening minute of "Everything You Do is a Balloon." Soothing for some, [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] for others, lovely to everyone.
* VindicatedByHistory: For a long time ''The Campfire Headphase'' was considered a disappointment compared to the first two albums, due to its' lighter, more stripped-back acoustic sound. The response from fans and critics have become much more favourable in recent years.
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