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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

waaf75 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:38:46 -0000

I saw GYBE! 2 times in concert (Paris and Lyon) 8 years ago. This was one of the most amazing concert experience that I had in my life. I was a pure fan so I knew perfectly all the songs even the ones which were note released like Albanian. The concerts were even better than my dream. The live experience is defintively the best way to feel this music. Since that day, I hope to be able to feel an experience like this one again during a concert..so far this is not the case. I hope that I will see again GYBE! during my life but I doubt...

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

evnglion — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:20:57 -0000

I came across this just googlin' GY!BE to see if anything new was happening, and this was on the top. As a long time listener of Godspeed, I can agree wholeheartedly. They are definitely a band that takes a little getting used to, as he mentioned. I would recommend a couple listens, maybe once with some decent headphones. Once it clicked, it was amazing for me. They are one of the only bands that I can just pick up my violin and play along by feeling... without hesitating, or thinking. Some of my friends (my girlfriend included) think they are a bit too melancholy, but I disagree. There are some definitely post-apocalyptic sounds and passages in songs, but they are typically balanced with triumphant sections, and things that make me happy.

As for the poster earlier mentioning Explosions in the Sky, they are in the same basic genre of music I'd say. I saw the Pumpkins that same tour (in NC) and I had a terrible experience during the Explosions show. I was a long-time fan of Godspeed at the time, but I never got to see them live. Listening to Explosions was amazing, I had never heard of them, and they had an overall sound in the realm of Godspeed's so I was excited... but it was impossible to lose myself in the music because some obnoxious teenage girl had seats right in front of us, and she was bitching and moaning to her boyfriend, and laughing and being loud and distracting in general, talking on her phone, basically acting like she was the only one who paid for a ticket. It was particularly annoying because it wasn't a general admission show, so they could've just waited in the lobby with the other half of the crowd that didn't care about the opener. Many people throughout the theater showed the same disrespect, and just treated the openers like background music to their meaningless conversations. I would like to go to an actual Explosions show where I can enjoy their performance with other music appreciators.

Some of the key members of Godspeed's very large linep of musicians are in a band called A Silver Mt. Zion, which is also pretty experimental sounding. I think most of it is at least decent, it has never been able to slip into my soul like Godspeed could. Worth checking out at any rate. Nice to see new articles about Godspeed.

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

darpa99 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:03:09 -0000

Godspeed You! Black Emperor has no new albums, but they do indeed have unreleased songs.
Such includes: Hung Over as The Queen in Maida Vale (John Peel Session), Albanian (live only), Gamelan (live only), etc.
Albanian and the John Peel Session are two simply fantastic pieces of music. Anyone who likes this kind of art/music or art in general will find this amazing.
Many of their live performances were recorded and uploaded to archive.org; all legal no copyright, free to listen.

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

ODB — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:29:54 -0000

GYBE, still the best post-rock I've ever heard. I still keep crawling back to their website once or twice a year in the vain hope that their 'hiatus' will come to an end. I'm not optimistic, though. Godspeed, there are those of us out there whose gifts lie outside of the realm of music and who miss you very, very much.

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

Dan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:37:58 -0000

Not that I've seen... they haven't released anything in a long while, but from what I can tell never officially broke up either.

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

Furious George — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:49:43 -0000

is there any new releases by GYBE?!?!?!

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

blank — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:58:58 -0000

You make a valid point in the intro... I gotta find a way to squeeze an exclamation point into my name somehow.

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

Dan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:55:17 -0000

GYBE hasn't really done anything in a while. I first heard them back in high school and haven't much about then since. I can see them being compared to Explosions in the Sky. I have one of their albums, but apparently it didn't strike me well enough to remember the name off the top of my head. They're good too, I just haven't explored much of thier stuff.

Re: Godspeed You! Black Emporer

leglessmoof — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:50:02 -0000

I'll admit that I'm no expert when it comes to experimental rock, abstract rock, post-rock, ambient rock or whatever-you-want-to-call-it. But this review reminded me of a band called Explosions In The Sky. I don't even know that much about Explosions (I've never heard any of their albums), I only know about them because I saw them open for The Smashing Pumpkins a couple years ago. last.fm says they're similar to GYBE, so I guess I can't be that far off. If you don't already know about Explosions In The Sky, you might want to check them out.

I've never heard of GYBE, but I'm intrigued by your review, so I'll check them out.