― electric sound of jim, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bob snoom, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dare, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
- First of all, nothing repulses me. Nothing is unpleasant.- The whole thing feels very much like it was structured as a film score of some sort. (So much post-rock always felt like it was trying to be a score for some public TV family drama! This kind of does too.) It makes sense that they apparently play with films.- It's cool that they're trying to incorporate a wider range of instruments, including some more traditional folky kinds of sounds- The moments that are more dense and textural without a beat are nice. However, they tend not to last for very long.- Much of the rest of the album seems to consist of very slow simple melodic passages, some of it a long guitar solo, some of it a more folky thing with other instruments. These passages are sometimes pleasant but do feel extremely simplistic and perhaps limited in terms of both melody and rhythm, more so than almost any mainstream rock or pop music. The drummer maintains a totally even totally straight slow 4/4 'beat' throughout these passages. When there are tempo changes, they are performed at a totally even rate as to be completely predictable. The guitarist seems to tend to almost always play right on the beat, which is bizarre. This seems to contradict such a basic musical principle that it must be a conscious aesthetic choice but I don't understand what it is. This might possibly makes me similar to people who don't get why Indian music has no chord changes. Why a pulse is even introduced here with hardly any rhythmic tension is what I wonder. It is possible that it might make more sense with further listening but it just seems to make things almost totally predictable now. Like I said, not overtly offensive or even not-pleasant or anything, but it also fails to achieve much more than this. It seems like it has potential that it doesn't realize.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 6 October 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
It is a certain kind of music, and I find it interesting that some people say "I couldn't sit and listen to it". I guess that depends on what one looks for when putting on music to listen to. For me, GYBE is faboulous music to write, draw and even program to (well so my partner tells me). It is about immersing oneself in another place. The music moves through moods, peaks and troughs, shadows and light. It has some mindblowingly moving bursts of wall-of-noise guitar, and some beautifully melancholy quiet moments (fave quote from "Dead Flag Blues" - we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine... and the machine is bleeding to death)
Uhh... yeah. I love them.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 October 2003 01:18 (twenty years ago) link
POCXY FULE SEZ HEDHEGOF
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 6 October 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 6 October 2003 03:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 6 October 2003 03:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Monday, 6 October 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 October 2003 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
Nick OTM
Search: First one (where is the hash key on a Mac?), Slow Riot For Zero Kanada
Destrrrrrrrroy: Levez..., Yanqui UXO
― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 6 October 2003 23:10 (twenty years ago) link
sterling clover wrote:I think that I would be impressed to see any live band do just one long ninety-minute build-up fuck-off track.
search: Physics -- a veritable who's who of san diego indie rock circa 1992 did this live several times, attempts at minimalism ("in E") and post-branca-isms.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 6 October 2003 23:25 (twenty years ago) link
― camazotz, Monday, 6 October 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
― joni, Monday, 6 October 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
I saw Dirty 3 live once and hated them. Droning, boring, dreadful wank. And I love GBYE and Mogwai so go figure.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
One of the few regrets I do have, as their music deserves to be experienced live (preferably in a small- to medium- sized joint).
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 23:19 (twenty years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 01:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link
Search: Tortoise, Disco Inferno, Trans Am, MogwaiDestory: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (as I believe they call themselves, the fucking wankers), Sigur Ros
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
Search: Tortoise, Disco Inferno, Trans Am, Mogwai, Bark PsychosisDestory: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (as I believe they call themselves, the fucking wankers), Sigur Ros
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
Henry Cow are more interesting to me but both of 'em have this dry sound.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
(1) Beautiful.(2) Deathly boring.(3) Funny.
― PB, Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― PB, Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― drone/a/saur (william), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― superultramega (superultramarinated), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
ILM backlash in effect
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Grasinger (gman59), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't know this band *did* anything after Yanqui...
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
Where to start? Admit that I only really care for the first two records.
Haven't had a chance to play the new on yet, but I highly recommend the 2012 "comeback" record, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!. That's been my favorite of the new ones, with Luciferian Towers coming in second.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
the one they put out after you stopped listening, Yanqui U.X.O., is quite good
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
Oh, I know up to Yanqui— I was still into them in 2002.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
I'll try Allelujah.
The first time I remember crying to music was the first time I heard "Storm."
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
allelujah is excellent. they played "mladic" when i saw them in 2012 before the album came out and it totally reinvigorated my interest in them
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
yeah mladic slaps
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Cosigned.
In the roll-out to Allelujah I remember thinking I was going to check it out from a sense of loyalty, but that I was probably long past my need for GY!BE in my life. I was quickly proven wrong. Reception for the two following that though, seems a little more mixed. I like both of them, but there doesn't seem to be nearly as big of a consensus on either.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 April 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
While we're talking about that era, seeing them perform in Big Sur under the stars in front of maybe 200 people at a camp ground, walking to the stage from our site merely a few dozen meters away, is probably a top 3 concert experience. Aidan Girt stopping by our post show camp fire, partaking in our whisky and shit talking the band's experience playing Coachella was absolutely a topper of a memory too
― octobeard, Saturday, 10 April 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
I don't think any music will ever make me feel the way GY!BE did when I was a teenager listening to F♯A♯∞ and Slow Riot... in the dark, but idk I listen to the new album and it's fine I guess?
― Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Saturday, 10 April 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
Yeah, this is great. I think this might be the best of the "comeback" records. Weird to think that they've now put out more full lengths since coming back from the hiatus than they released during the initial run.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
The revival has lasted longer than the initial run in terms of years, too.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Not sure anything on the new one pushes my buttons quite the way Mladic does, but that’s a pretty unique thing anyway. New one is very good.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmgDLGpl9ME
― 龜, Friday, 4 February 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
For a little context
Bro holy shit. The lost Godspeed You! Black Emperor tape is now available. A random dude on 4chan dropped the full tape where there are only 33 copies of it left and how it used to be a lost media but now it's here today it's crazy. pic.twitter.com/wTmimhTFBo— Psycho (Like Limited) Lad (@LadPsycho) February 4, 2022
https://www.discogs.com/release/218865-God-Speed-You-Black-Emperor-All-Lights-Fucked-On-The-Hairy-Amp-Drooling
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
And from the notes on that Discogs page:
Jeanette Leech wrote in "Fearless: The Making Of Post-Rock" (Jawbone Press, 2017) on Page 302-303:"Menuck was 'doing this four-track thing in my house, usually at three in the morning, coming home from a bar, just doing something quickly, and then trying to turn it into something the next day'. In 1994, as 'a young man's formal experiment', Menuck self-released a cassette, in an edition of thirty-three: All Lights Fucked On The Hairy Amp Drooling.'The idea was this would be the last thing I would ever do,' Menuck says. 'A big dramatic gesture that nobody would care about. It was a private thing, let's get this out of my system, and then figure out something else to do with my life. It's pretty ragged, and there are some shared qualities with what Godspeed became, but I don't know if those similarities would be evident to anyone but those of us on the inside.' The tape was mostly just Menuck, but Mauro Pezzente also plays on a couple of tracks; the biggest difference between this material and Godspeed, Menuck says, is, 'There's singing on it. I can't really listen to it objectively, and it's not like I listen to it a lot. I think the last time I listened to it was six years ago. I think it's interesting.' Despite many hoaxes, to date the cassette hasn't been leaked on the internet or offered for sale on the open market. 'For years, I've been saying it's gonna get out there someday, and people are gonna be pretty disappointed, because it's of the time,' Menuck says.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
😮
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
reminds me of when someone found the "By Request Only" album from Ken, it's okay but way more fun as a lost media piece
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Wow!
― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Menuck was correct, it's pretty horrible
― Maresn3st, Friday, 4 February 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
Huh! Seemed guaranteed to be a fake but someone on Twitter says it's real so.
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:55 (two years ago) link
Listening now.. I actually think this is pretty good? It's just not really a Godspeed album, it's something else. But it might be better than Menuck is giving it credit for (if it's real that is).
― mirostones, Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link
After listening, I think that this is the real thing, rather than an elaborate hoax. It's better and more interesting than I was expecting, at least as an artefact of the pre-history of the group. The mythology and mystery of it being totally lost for so long was great, but I'm happy to finally have the chance to hear it.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 5 February 2022 12:34 (two years ago) link
It's got some great atmosphere and a couple great moments, but yeah - it's a bit of a slog to get through.
Now can we have Carnival of Light and all those early Boards of Canada pressings (Acid Memories, Play By Numbers, etc) leak too?
― octobeard, Monday, 7 February 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
I know this reflects poorly on me, but I can remember this being "leaked" on 4chan's /mu/ board literally 10 years ago. It's just doing the rounds again.
No opinion on its legitimacy, but weird that this is being claimed as a "new leak" when it's not. Actually I do have an opinion! That fact makes it pretty shady to me
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:20 (two years ago) link
a convincing rip of the whole thing hasn't turned up before, it's new. two tracks were uploaded in 2013 and this new upload that claims to be the entire album includes what appears to be a new rip of those two previously uploaded tracks. this doesn't confirm that any of it is legit though.
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link
i'm not on music torrent sites anymore, but someone can just check whatever the equivalent of what.cd is now. in the old days there was an ENORMOUS bounty for the godspeed thing, and the previous leaks didn't cut it. i heard that the new leak is the real thing, but who knows
― Barfl Suckown (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
i'm not on any of the private trackers these days but i've heard they're waiting for proof of legitimacy before they allow it
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 04:11 (two years ago) link
True ufo, did not realise that.
the new what.cd is Redacted. Had an account but think it's been disabled due to lack of use (whoops)
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link
yeah redacted has accepted it as real. bounty was 3TB at the end.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 07:06 (two years ago) link
GY!BE have released All Lights Fucked officially.
https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/all-lights-fucked-on-the-hairy-amp-drooling
― yeah but how, Monday, 14 February 2022 05:29 (two years ago) link
amazing.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 14 February 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
I never thought I’d ever hear this, and yet am listening to it now. Wild.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 14 February 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
Nice way for them to respond to it finally appearing too.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 14 February 2022 11:15 (two years ago) link
seeing them for the first time todaypretty stoked
― nxd, Saturday, 17 September 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
Enjoy! I'm heading to the Glasgow gig tomorrow.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 17 September 2022 10:21 (one year ago) link
awesome. I bought a new vinyl copy of f#a#infinity recently and was quite amused to find that constellation still included all that ephemera inside, crushed penny and all
― brimstead, Saturday, 17 September 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
Heard BBF3 for the first time in ~20 years and it held up...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 April 2023 01:20 (eleven months ago) link