Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog News, Press Releases
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Godspeed You! Black Emperor are no more
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedGodspeed You! Black Emperor are no more

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <123>
Author
Message
anael View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: September 09 2005
Location: Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 825
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2008 at 21:12

OH f**k. Cry
Back to Top
chamberry View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 24 2005
Location: Puerto Rico
Status: Offline
Points: 9008
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2008 at 21:28
The saddest news that I'll probably hear in 2008. Cry I don't know what else to say...


Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

That is sad, even though I never really did expect them to get back together.

The "Tiny Little Hammers" EP doesn't actually exist.... whoever wrote the article didn't do their research very well.


But it's mentioned on Wikipedia too. Shocked





Knowing GY!BE, it's probably an amazing record that they recorded onto a single mastertape, and then destroyed it just because they could.

Tiny Little Hammers is a bootleg of Motherfvcker=Redeemer. Not really an official release as some might think.


Back to Top
Ricochet View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 01:37
Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

it's not very different musically (though skinnier and more experimental, free-style moments make the bliss out of it), but it's definitely different spiritually (sad, depressing, pessimistic over the edge, poetic over the hardest words and feelings).


and Godspeed WASN'T the latter? WIth the exception of Lift your Skinny Fists, they're one of the darkest bands I've ever heard


Yeah, but Silver Mt. Zion go even deeper.
Wink

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are almost more "monumental' and instrumental in their work, trying to create or portrait static, chaotic, fervent worlds, after going into real stuff like apocalyptic dark impulses, mind-bursting reflections, sorrow and stressful motions - and so - as far as the message or the quality of the dark show goes.

In Silver Mt. Zion, I can almost hear the pure moan, unleash of depression, spill of the mind, hazy introvertion etc.
Back to Top
Ricochet View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 01:38
Originally posted by AceBad AceBad wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:


no, the EP is not a masterpiece. Wink
 
only the big gun albums are.

for me, of course...


How can you say that!! "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" is amazing! I think it's their greatest work...


I know what the general opinion is on Slow Riot...I just don't think, myself, that's it's the excellent stuff from the full major works. It's detached, as style and spirit, directly from F#a#, some moments are great, the others just okay.
Back to Top
Petrovsk Mizinski View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: December 24 2007
Location: Ukraine
Status: Offline
Points: 25210
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 02:33
UnhappyIt's always so hard to accept it's finished, even if the band were on hiatus from 2003 onward. Even worse considering I only discovered them last month tooUnhappy, but a great discovery it wasThumbs%20Up
Back to Top
Man With Hat View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team

Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
Status: Offline
Points: 166178
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 02:47
ShockedCry
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....
 
Easily my favorite post-rock band and through them I discovered the whole post-rock genre.
 
I'll have to have a GY!BE marathon now.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
Back to Top
Ricochet View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: February 27 2005
Location: Nauru
Status: Offline
Points: 46301
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 03:03
good idea, I'll listen to the albums next week as well.
Back to Top
Dominic View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: January 02 2008
Location: Liberation Land
Status: Offline
Points: 651
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 03:57
I already assumed the band had broken up but i suppose they finally decided to submit an excuse to fans so they would stop asking. I don't understand why they would make such an obviously veiled excuse, but i understand why they would finally want to make the break up "official".
Back to Top
donkeyrobsbank View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: October 12 2007
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 6
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 06:03
ok, so now their strangely pretentious (and yet so shallow) political/ anarchical attitude is preventing them from creating music (and musically they've been one my absolute favorites), these guys definitely have a problem: they think too muchDead
and i think it's really sad what has happened to the sound of asmz (to song-oriented, to much singing), but this a different problem, concerning post rock i'll have to stick to set fire to flames and fly pan am, by far most fascinating (and literally progressive) godspeed-side projects
Back to Top
sigod View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 17 2004
Location: London
Status: Offline
Points: 2779
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 10:33
I'm gutted at the news but nothing last forever I guess.  When you consider that the collective was a constantly evolving beast with many musical offshoots, I for one am glad that they were around for as long as they were.

I only got to see them a couple of times, once on the Lift Yr Skinny Hands... tour down at a place called the Cat club in Bordeaux (France) which still ranks as the best gig I've ever witnessed. The club was down on the dockside in what looked like a set straight out of a David Lynch movie (all industrial and smokey - if you imagine Eraserhead, you'll know what I mean). At the end of the show, the band marched out through the audience playing all manner of percussion. I was a stunned little beastie for the rest of the night.

The second time was at The Ocean club in Hackney (London) and was lucky enough to have had a chat with a coupe of the guys in the bar before the show. We talked about touring (specifically, how it always seems to be guitar amps that break down first on any tour Smile) and were very sweet guys to be around. On stage, I could hardly recognize the people I had just spoken to and for a few hours, The Ocean became a haunted house.

They were simply magical and we shall not see their like again.

"we woke up one morning and fell a little further down"
GSYBE - Dead Flag Blues


I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
Back to Top
chamberry View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 24 2005
Location: Puerto Rico
Status: Offline
Points: 9008
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 11:33
Cry



Cry

Back to Top
Man Erg View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: August 26 2004
Location: Isle of Lucy
Status: Offline
Points: 7456
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 11:40
'... the sun has fallen down
    and the billboards are all leering
    and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles...'

GYBE - Dead Flag Blues

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
Back to Top
d.o.k View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 17 2005
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 113
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 12:56
sh*t ! i was waiting at least for en EP which could have contained "Albanian" and "Gamelan", two amazing pieces only played live (to my knowledge).
my band : http://lgab.tk
Back to Top
Prog-jester View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 05 2005
Location: Love Beach
Status: Offline
Points: 5764
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 12:59
Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:


CryCry


I have taken it cham...if you don't mind...
Back to Top
chamberry View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 24 2005
Location: Puerto Rico
Status: Offline
Points: 9008
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 18:47
Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:


CryCry



I have taken it cham...if you don't mind...


Can you give me credit for it? Wink



Edited by chamberry - February 10 2008 at 18:48

Back to Top
chamberry View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 24 2005
Location: Puerto Rico
Status: Offline
Points: 9008
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2008 at 18:53
Originally posted by d.o.k d.o.k wrote:

sh*t ! i was waiting at least for en EP which could have contained "Albanian" and "Gamelan", two amazing pieces only played live (to my knowledge).

That would've been great, but the live versions that I have from sound just like a studio recording except for the end of the song where the audience applauds.

BTW, The band never had problems with one downloading their bootlegs and they can be downloaded legally from their website and archives.org  and that includes  Albanian and Gamelan.


That's right. Legal downloadable bootlegs from unreleased Godspeed songs for FREE. Tongue


Back to Top
avestin View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: September 18 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 12625
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:13
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/48600-godspeed-still-on-hiatus-not-completely-broken-up
 
Seems there is a different version to this; the original article wasn't accurate.
 
 
Back to Top
Prog-jester View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: June 05 2005
Location: Love Beach
Status: Offline
Points: 5764
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:49
whatever. I don't think they'll ever return to recording/touring as GYBE

anyway, thanks for bringing this up, Assaf
Back to Top
Evans View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 15 2006
Location: Sweden
Status: Offline
Points: 3004
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2008 at 13:10
I hope they do. I don't care about cult status, i want to see them live. What an experience.

'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..'
Back to Top
Chris H View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: October 08 2006
Location: Charlotte, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 8191
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2008 at 13:22
I've still never heard them, but at least now when I do check 'em out there is less discography to cover. Cynical, I know, but it's gonna save me money.
Beauty will save the world.
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <123>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.223 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.