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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #245 on: November 08, 2012, 09:53:07 AM »
Going to see them in a few minutes :)

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« Reply #246 on: November 08, 2012, 10:47:53 AM »
The Dead Flag Blues is the best them.
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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #247 on: November 08, 2012, 11:12:46 AM »
Storm is the best them

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #248 on: November 08, 2012, 11:25:43 AM »
It was AMAZING!

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #249 on: November 08, 2012, 11:37:21 AM »
Sleep is the best them.
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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #250 on: November 08, 2012, 12:07:54 PM »
They played Moya which made me happy :)

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #251 on: November 08, 2012, 12:23:55 PM »
They played Moya which made me happy :)
Seeing them on Monday myself. Just curious, how long was the concert and was there an opening act?

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #252 on: November 08, 2012, 01:06:07 PM »
Sleep is the best them.

agreed

then Dead Flag Blues and BBFIII.

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #253 on: November 08, 2012, 01:18:28 PM »
They played Moya which made me happy :)
Seeing them on Monday myself. Just curious, how long was the concert and was there an opening act?
There was an opening act (which wasn't very good). GY!BE played for about 2 hours I'd say.

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #254 on: November 23, 2012, 11:21:46 AM »
I got the 1997 edition of F♯ A♯ ∞ today. I'm going to turn off the lights and immerse myself in the music tonight. :)
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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #255 on: November 24, 2012, 10:13:13 AM »
I got the 1997 edition of F♯ A♯ ∞ today. I'm going to turn off the lights and immerse myself in the music tonight. :)

the vinyl, you mean?

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« Reply #256 on: November 24, 2012, 12:09:49 PM »
Yeah, the vinyl. That loop at the end was amazing.
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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #257 on: November 24, 2012, 07:51:08 PM »
agreed, it is, and the original recordings have their own highlights that are almost as good as the 1998 version (though the "drums + violin" section of "The Sad Mafioso" is ... poor).

they actually have left the 1997 recordings as the only vinyl version and the 1998 recordings as the only CD version. personally, i'd like them to put the 'real' (final, CD) f#a#∞ on vinyl. i'd buy it instantly.

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« Reply #258 on: November 25, 2012, 02:22:52 AM »
Yeah, that's the only negative thing about the vinyl, the fact that it isn't the full album.

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« Reply #259 on: November 25, 2012, 04:40:40 AM »
Would anyone be interested in seeing a Godspeed Survivor?
They have so few songs we could feasibly skip straight to a final of 16, if we don't consider All Lights.

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #260 on: November 25, 2012, 05:32:19 AM »
A survivor would be cool.

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« Reply #261 on: November 25, 2012, 11:05:53 AM »
spurred on by the "so few songs for the survivor!" comment:

it surprises me people still see GY!BE tracks as gargantuan suites when, in reality, they're simply bits and pieces arranged into listenable constructions – exactly the same as placing album tracks in sequence and making segues between each track, with the only difference being that GY!BE only index the CDs into collections of bits, rather than allowing each bit to have its own track.

in relation to stuff like voting survivors, it's actually a bit... less accurate? to go by the entire suites. my main argument is that a track like "Antennas to Heaven" would get buried despite containing "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field" (a.k.a. "John Hughes"), one of the many highlights inside the enormous 20-minute suites.

i certainly get why – the band presents them in this configuration, of course. however, i find it has more to do with an attempt to make people listen to the thing in sequence. hell, a bunch of them even have straight silence for several seconds. it's all about album pacing and trying to enforce listening to it that way, rather than actually collecting whole pieces, and that's why each record has a breakdown of the individual parts (though i don't recall if that applies to f#a#∞ or not; Lift Your Skinny Fists certainly has a map).

then there's the other issue: if you're voting out songs in a survivor, do you get the option of voting out the last part of "09-15-00" just because it's a separate track? they went the opposite way on Yanqui UXO and actually did break up some parts despite the fact that they were part of a larger whole.

personally, i've split all the albums into respective individual parts, and prefer to listen to them that way, even if i just put on the whole record anyway. it makes more sense, and it's more in line with how the band plays live too. sometimes i just don't want to sit through "Terrible Canyons of Static" and "Chart #3" to get to "World Police," you know?

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« Reply #262 on: November 25, 2012, 01:32:41 PM »
I've always preferred to consider 'songs' how the artist released them - named tracks on a CD, so I consider BTBAM's Colors to be 7 (Foam Born counts as 1) and SFAM to be 12, while 8VM is one, etc.
Motherfucker=Redeemer and 09-15-00 I'd therefore consider two songs, but I'd certainly be open to change if a great deal of people felt otherwise.
As well as that, I think we ought to consider that we want as many votes as possible, and while every fan'd be able to tell me which they prefer out of Storm and Static, I'm not so certain people are as familiar with the individual parts of the tracks (I know I'm not - I'd have no idea what tracks those parts are from), so I think going by tracks is better as it allows more people to vote/be involved as it's less complex.

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #263 on: November 25, 2012, 01:58:25 PM »
I agree with MK_Ultra, though I also agree some amazing parts in songs (yes, I'm looking at Antennas to Heaven or Static for example) would get voted out earlier than the others on their respective albums, despite containing amazing sections that I would rank higher than sections on other tracks.
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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #264 on: November 25, 2012, 03:11:34 PM »
I've always preferred to consider 'songs' how the artist released them - named tracks on a CD, so I consider BTBAM's Colors to be 7 (Foam Born counts as 1) and SFAM to be 12, while 8VM is one, etc.
Motherfucker=Redeemer and 09-15-00 I'd therefore consider two songs, but I'd certainly be open to change if a great deal of people felt otherwise.
As well as that, I think we ought to consider that we want as many votes as possible, and while every fan'd be able to tell me which they prefer out of Storm and Static, I'm not so certain people are as familiar with the individual parts of the tracks (I know I'm not - I'd have no idea what tracks those parts are from), so I think going by tracks is better as it allows more people to vote/be involved as it's less complex.

fair points for sure, but the comparison between GY!BE suites and the typical (i.e. DT) suite form isn't quite so clear-cut, objectively: while DT writes something like ACOS or "Octavarium" in one go as one huge piece, GY!BE write pieces and then, on LYSFLATH and f#a#∞, combines those with ambient and field recordings to make larger structures.

examples of the band not doing this would be those mentioned from Yanqui or "BBF3;" these are longform pieces, entirely whole, always performed live in full, and therefore exactly like ACOS or "Octavarium."

do you see what i mean? it's nebulous. i like that, but i like it because it inherits a choice on my part to either keep with the long structures or cut them up if i really feel like it (or want to skip the ambience sometimes).

also, artistic intention is just as nebulous for GY!BE — if they wanted the entirety of "Providence" to be considered one piece, they would perform it live that way, would they not? if they wanted "09-15-00" to be considered two separate pieces, they wouldn't play them consecutively live every time, would they? is their artistic intention therefore reliant upon their live show (where they construct the pieces anyway) or upon how they show up on CD? and (finally!), if their artistic will is the CD for whatever reasons, why would they bother including roadmaps showing the smaller pieces inside the whole tracks?

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« Reply #265 on: November 25, 2012, 04:07:50 PM »
I played in a poker tournament with Sully at Foxwoods in CT back in 2007.  I got in his head and ended up with most of his chips.  He had a Rush t-shirt on. 

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Re: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (merged) v. New album!
« Reply #266 on: November 28, 2012, 03:08:34 AM »
Sully?

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« Reply #267 on: November 28, 2012, 09:41:16 AM »
Yeah, I thought that as well. Who is Sully?
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« Reply #268 on: November 28, 2012, 09:46:47 AM »
Sully Erna (Godsmack)?
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« Reply #269 on: November 28, 2012, 12:32:14 PM »
Yeah, my bad  :\

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« Reply #270 on: November 28, 2012, 12:43:05 PM »
ha, new mashup idea

Godsmack You! Black Emperor
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« Reply #271 on: November 28, 2012, 12:49:21 PM »
ha, new mashup idea

Godsmack You! Black Emperor

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« Reply #272 on: December 15, 2014, 07:08:23 AM »
I am getting into this band!
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« Reply #273 on: December 15, 2014, 08:26:46 AM »
Yeah, their first two albums are epic as fuck.

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« Reply #274 on: December 15, 2014, 11:29:53 AM »
I saw these guys live a few years ago. Possibly the best show I've ever seen. I got two of my four favourite tracks by them (Moya and Sad Mafioso; the other two, in case anyone is curious, are Storm and Rocket Falls), and Behemoth was mindblowing live.

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« Reply #275 on: December 15, 2014, 12:01:55 PM »
If I ever saw them live, I'd die a happy camper. Considering where I live, however, this will probably never happen. :'(

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« Reply #276 on: July 13, 2017, 05:45:01 PM »
bump.

new album "Luciferian Towers" coming on September 22nd.

4 songs, 44 minutes

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/details_leak_for_new_godspeed_you_black_emperor_album_luciferian_towers

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« Reply #277 on: July 14, 2017, 12:14:39 AM »
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« Reply #278 on: September 15, 2017, 10:17:42 PM »
new album is streamingL
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/550446122/first-listen-godspeed-you-black-emperor-luciferian-towers

gave it all a go today save for the last track (had to punch out of work and beat the rush hour traffic).
 
I honestly was surprised how good it was. Other than "Fam / Famine"..the whole thing worked. Could be a great comeback record after their last one left me pretty bored.

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« Reply #279 on: September 18, 2017, 07:25:12 AM »
Listened to it twice over the weekend, lovely record. Very good stuff.
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