Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Classic or Dud?

Wish I had a place to stay in the UK-- oh hi dere LJ...

my parents will be delighted to have an ilxor in their midst

actually by then I really should have a place of my own. but this is moot because for ATP you just rent a cabin at butlins and that is your home

Haha Krakow IN YOUR FACE

:-) :-) :-)

their first picks rule too

after a decade's retreat, god's pee has decided to roll again

Do I care about these guys anymore? I'll have to think about it...

Shit, I was interviewing Efrim recently ahead of the SMZ tour and thought it inappropriate to ask about a Godspeed! reunion. Didn't see this coming at all. Silly me, I could have got a scoop!

Tix are on sale tomorrow morning, Ned Raggett.

Doubtless.

Jamester, ya'll should fix the spelling of "Tomorrow's" in that graphic

They're just OK, I wanted to love F#A#(Infinity symbol) but eventually gave up on it.... crescendo after crescendo after crescendo just doesn't really make a good record to me. And I like Mogwai/Explosions In the Sky....

haters and indifferent people gtfo imo

in your opinion.

dud

wow, very exciting. i doubt i'll make it to ATP, but here's hoping they play some other dates.

they are playing "nine american cities" and so far nothing else is even being planned

crescendo after crescendo after crescendo just doesn't really make a good record to me. And I like Mogwai/Explosions In the Sky....

To me that sounds like the perfect record. And aren't EitS just Godspeed copyists?

Wow, I never saw this coming and am almost as excited about this as I am about Swans. Just hoping one of those European dates is near Vienna, cos I won't make ATP.

they are playing "nine american cities" and so far nothing else is even being planned

There'll be other British and European shows as well, they say.

I was interviewing Efrim recently ahead of the SMZ tour

Is that available to read anywhere?

massive lols at this guy who wrote "the possibilities of seeing a Godspeed You! Black Emperor reunion anytime soon are slim to none" barely two weeks ago:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/03/21/whatever-happened-to-godspeed-you-black-emperor/

massive

Matt Rhodes' reputation is in tatters today

Jamester, ya'll should fix the spelling of "Tomorrow's" in that graphic

― hoos hoos hudio (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 April 2010 01:03 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

eh, I like the idea that ATP were so grateful and starstruck by getting Godspeed to play for them that no-one had the chops to tell them that they'd spelled the name of their festival wrong on their cute hand-drawn flyer

All tommatows parties?

http://valenciatrader.com/assets/images/tom1.jpg

?

That's Matt Rhodes in that picture btw.

godspeed! u matt rods

The Sun Dried Hand Of The Man

gybe are great
for me to poop on

rad news imo

I was interviewing Efrim recently ahead of the SMZ tour
Is that available to read anywhere?

― anagram, Friday, April 9, 2010 8:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Here you go: http://www.list.co.uk/article/24185-thee-silver-mount-zion-memorial-orchestra-play-glasgow/

I've been meaning to put up a director's cut on my blog. There's not a huge amount more, but Efrim in full flow is pretty interesting.

Gah was hoping Swans would do the December ATP.

Seems pretty wrong that I love Swans/Angels of Light but I struggle with Godspeed. Time for another try..

Gah was hoping Swans would do the December ATP.

that would have been pretty ok too, but gira would prolly make it a little too much "minehead's alright if you like freak-folk"

Seems pretty wrong that I love Swans/Angels of Light but I struggle with Godspeed

Doesn't seem wrong to me, in that GYBE are basically very derivative of late period Swans and it's always best to drink from the source. Me I like 'em both.

xpost you know Minehead?

Haha Krakow IN YOUR FACE

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:22 (21 hours ago)

In my really fucking happy face, yes!

Wish i had put a bet on with you now.

you were adamant that day they would never ever reform

"They don't sleep anymore on the beach"

If that doesn't get you, well...

Probably one of the worst bands ever, only to be "topped" later by Sigur Ros (and probably all of the other horrible sister bands of theirs, like Do May Say Think et al).

Just curious: on what grounds?

big, slow-moving target

Taking boring to whole new levels of teenage dramatism. A lot like their predecessors in militaristic drudgery, Savage Republic--"crescendo after crescendo after crescendo" is pretty accurate, musically, but I guess I was also rubbed the wrong way by how their fans seemed to think what they were doing was 'serious art' and a new high in artistic/emotional expression.

The band name, the crypto-meaningless album titles, and the pseudo-revolutionary graphic aesthetic also tended to grate.

obfuscation disguised as depth

I'd only be interested in this if they could persuade Labradford to reform and tour with them again.

now you're talking

Taking boring to whole new levels of teenage dramatism. A lot like their predecessors in militaristic drudgery, Savage Republic--"crescendo after crescendo after crescendo" is pretty accurate, musically, but I guess I was also rubbed the wrong way by how their fans seemed to think what they were doing was 'serious art' and a new high in artistic/emotional expression.

― Soundslike, Friday, April 9, 2010 6:23 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you know what's boring? this opinion.

^^^^^^^^I was thinking but not posting pretty much these exact words

lol yeah i tossed it around for a bit but at the end of the day i'm not just gonna let people go around hating on early-2000s post rock

and its crypto-meaningless album-titles

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