Godspeed you Black Emperor!

Does anyone on here listen to Godspeed you Black Emperor! or any of the related bands?

If you don't know already, they are an instrumental band out of canada and play some profoundly beautiful and depressing music. The music is often played with ad-lib sound effects and voice overs, poetry e.g. -

Most of my friends who are indie, alternative music fans fall in love with them the first time they hear them. They are like an anti-government, depressing version of sigur ros. Out of all the bands i like, this is one i'd reccomend to anyone who likes weird music.

 

I've listened to their album Yanqui U.X.O a bit. It's orchestral but I like it.

 

If you're really taken by Godspeed, you might wanna consider checking out M83 and possibly even Xiu Xiu. All I know is this...Godspeed is great makeout music, especiallyYanqui U.X.O

 

does anyone have the spoken words to Blaise Bailey Finnegan III?

 

be sure to check out the following:
Explosions in the Sky
The Workhouse
A Silver Mount Zion
Set Fire to Flames
Larval
Mogwai
Labradford
Flying Saucer Attack
Fly Pan Am

 

For some reason I just hate these guys. I listened to f#a#whatever and hated it instantly.

 

yah give another album a shot. these guys are genius, better than anything coming out these days. but also harder to get into but worth it and rewarding in the end.

 

Thanks carlfloydfan - theres so much obscure music out there its hard to pick whats good and whats not. I've heard of silver mt. zion and set fire to flames - they have something to do with the members of godspeed right?

Puddin, I can understand why not everyone would like that album, give another one ago, but i don't know if you'll like em - you really have to like long drawn out silences, wierd sounds and no lyrics

 

I was really into this group for awhile.......... but they got old, awful fast......... and I did see them in concert..... quite an experience if you ask me.... I havent listened to them in a few years

 

yah as far as post rock is concerned, its not an every day thing in my opinion. you really need to be in the mood to listen to em. I listen to godspeed maybe once a week..but defiantly love em.

A silver mt. zion has memebers of Godspeed and other guests
fly pam am is the project of GYBE! guitarist
set fire to flames has members of GYBE, fly pam am and a few other groups

 

back in highschool, like 6 years ago I think, a buddy of mine, who was always lending me shit to check out and who was the oddest little kid (he was always into the most obscure stuff) handed me a Godspeed you Black Emperor CD. When I took it home I had no fuckin clue what to make of the wierd shit comming out of my stereo other then it evoked emotions that no other music or any form of art for that matter, ever has

havn't listened to them in ages, not exactly my cup of tea, but ya, they do rock, fuckin montreal is such an amazing city for music

 

you'll find that those kids are the best ones to chill with cos there obscure tastes in music usually extend to their personality making them unique folks. keep him around! obscure is good.

 

Godspeed! You Black Emperor is one of the greatest groups of all time. "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven" is absolutely epic. f#a#∞ is my third all-time favorite album. I have all of their offshoot projects as well, like "He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms," and "Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward." I wish I could have seen these guys live (I don't think they're still around).

I also dig the ever-lovin' fuck out of My Bloody Valentine and Mogwai. Explosion in the Sky kind of suck...

 

wierd, I was just looking through a box of CDs in my dad's office and found that album I was talkin about that the guy lended me, f#a#∞

I had no idea I still had it, thuaght I had given it back...oh well, mine now, I have no idea where that guy is these days

it'll be my bedtime tunes tonight

 

I couldn't resist the temptation to post the lyrics of the first track in the thread..does anyone else find that 'poem' so incredibly moving?

 

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http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/060805/totally-post-rocked.gif

Sorry, had to lol