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withoutcanseco
09-27-2005, 08:30 PM
Any Godspeed You! Black Emperor fans here? (yeah vic i know about you already, since you're the one that told me about them).

I was just curious whether anybody has "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada" cause i was thinking about getting that next...what i mean is, is it worth it?




"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel, and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides, and a dark wind blows. The government is corrupt, and we're on so many drugs, with the radio on and the curtains drawn. We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death. The sun has fallen down, and the billboards are all leering, and the flags are all dead at the top of their polls. It went like this: the buildings tumbled in on themselves, mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair. The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards, everything washed in a thin orange haze. I said, 'Kiss me, you're beautiful ... these are truly the last days.' You grabbed my hand and we fell into it like a daydream or a fever. We woke up one morning and fell a little further down. For sure it's the valley of death. I open up my wallet and it's full of blood."
--Godspeed You! Black Emperor, "The Dead Flag Blues"

hotfoot
09-29-2005, 05:05 AM
i love them, but i only have of their discs. i assume, though, that anything they put out is worth purchasing.

withoutcanseco
09-29-2005, 02:40 PM
i find this an amusing review:

"Sigur Rós has been described as the music God listens to. I'm entirely in agreement with that, but I'm sure it's referring only to the version of God in the New Testament, the forgiving one. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is what the terrifying, destruction-dealing Old Testament God listens to. And I'm willing to bet His preferred album is F#A#(oo), in which GY!BE have penned their most powerful and evocative music to date.

From the opening apocalyptic monologue intoned over a forboding bass drone in the Dead Flag Blues to the pounding madness of East Hastings up to the last surreal strains of Providence, GY!BE craft sounds so vibrantly original they almost seem alien. There has never been any group quite like Godspeed and there most likely never will be again. Get this album.
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