Aquarius Lyrics
Just as a note. If you play the song backwords, all of the words sound incoherent just as expected. Except "orange". If you listen to orange carefully it sounds slighty mispronounced. That way, when it is played in reverse it says "zero". :)
I think this song was meant for a bunch of people to sit and contemplate its meaning by doing math equations and debating a bunch of numbers and words which probably only have significance (if any at all) to the artists who created them.
adding up from 1 until 36 is 36! or 36 faculty. And yes it equals 666 :)
36! is 1 2 3 4 5 ... * 36.
36! is 1 2 3 4 5 ... * 36.
On another note, the number sequence for the original is not the one given, the numbers in this lyrical translation are for a different version of Aquarius, not the one on the Album Aquarius. The Numbers for Aquarius (The one on The Aquarius Album) are as follows:
(1-36)
44
68
27
35
42
58
47
63
85
74
67
66
51
79
42
24
45
sixty-ten
6
7
56
65
44
54
44
67
42
55
86
20
Aquarius Version 3 uses a different set still, after "sixty ten" the numbers follow as:
64 47 52 23 23 23 23 23 Aquarius Version 3 also features extra voiceovers, one of which sounds something like "I'm listening" And the other which I have yet to find discernable. Thought I would go ahead and clear that up.
I have long been fascinated with this song, as with many BoC songs.
I don't think the numbers are really very important, I think the song is about the fallibility of adults in the lives of children.
The song begins with kids being taught "orange" and agreeing unquestioningly "yeah that's right".
Then the numbers start. The same woman's voice that was also saying "orange" is now reciting a series of numbers. They start out in sequence, continue out of sequence, and then go completely nuts with "sixty-ten". The adult does not correct herself but stumbles and continues on.
Anyway, I'm not explaining this very well and certainly no one but the artist(s) know what this song was intended to "mean", if anything.
well fuck, I say you're right on with that description.
well fuck, I say you're right on with that description.
the voice saying "orange" is a vocal sample of Micheal Richards (Cosmo Kramer on Sienfeld).
as far as "just fantasize", it sounds similar but i'm aware that's not whats being said. i've heard hundreds of interpretations, including references to Moses (from sand to sky). 'just fantasize' whatever you want it to be.
So go with the flow.
Boards of Canada = Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison. SANDISON.
Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld = Michael Richards.
Seeing that there are connection with other BoC songs and the Golden Ratio (also that they have said interviews that it, and other mathematical concepts fascinate them), I'm almost certain that there's some sort of order and purpose to the random portion of the number reading. I tried to figure it out once, but my math skills are about level with my basketball skills (i.e. - piss-poor) and I couldn't decipher anything from the sequences.