if anybody is wondering about the cover: The front of the album contains Hebrew characters, in transliterated form, "Tohu va bohu" (formless and empty). This phrase is used in both Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former to describe the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter to describe the Earth after the Lord's Day. The dots and dashes above the letters are called trope. They dictate the tune and intonation and are found in the Torah as well as the rest of the Hebrew Bible. On the inside cover, this text is put into greater context, with Jer 4:23-27 provided in both Hebrew and English (seemingly the Jewish Publication Society version): 23 I beheld the earth, And, lo, it was waste and void; And the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, And all the hills moved to and fro. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens were fled. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, And all the cities thereof were broken down At the presence of the LORD, And before His fierce anger. 27 For thus saith the LORD: The whole land shall be desolate; Yet will I not make a full end.
I honestly wouldn't care who agrees with my shirt, unless I myself didn't agree with it.. Good choice to find out what it means before you wore it. I'm half Arab by the way, I don't think you should be so careful not to offend anyone unless it's a misrepresentation of yourself, respecting others shouldn't involve dishonoring yourself. You are what you believe, and you should hold your beliefs up high, no matter what the cost.
"You think you're God just because you have a robe and can send people up the goddamn river for 20 years, well you're wrong!" If you're ever been in the room with a judge before, I don't understand how you can't sympathize.
Just watched them at the Belasco last night. They barely played anything from the new album but they played this whole thing at the end. I guess the tone of this LP fits the times right now. GY!BE is a must-see in live. An out of body experience.
I just sww them live in Boston last night and they also closed w this whole EP + a drone w the amps at the end. You're right, an absolute must-see live, words really can't describe how amazing it is
Same here. Just watched them a couple days back in İstanbul. I think they played an intro and two songs from the recent albums and then they played this album. When I recognized that they were playing Moya I was about to cry out of happiness lol.
The album art essentially reads: [Became / Becoming] Formless and Empty. It is written in Hebrew, and appears twice in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) The first appearance is in Genesis, and describes the way the world was before god said "Let there be light." The second appearance is in Jeremiah, and is used to describe the end of the world.
I can't remember who it was but there's definitely a band who made a 1 hour long EP. I think it was only labelled an EP because it was half songs they had made but didn't care about and half demos and lives but even then that's kinda weird
I remember when this first came out. Late 1990s. We all knew something bad was coming. We didn't know what it was, but we could all feel it...and this record seemed to capture all that and preserve it. So prescient, what a masterpiece.
There was a video on here once of BBF3 played over absolutely gutwrenching black and white newsreels of dustbowl era deprivation, sadness, and starvation. At the climax, a maybe 3 year old boy is shaking crumbs out of a toaster and forlornly picking them up and putting them in his mouth while crying from hunger. That particular image and this song became inextricably linked in my mind. As I listen to it again right now, it’s certainly got me feeling “some type of way”
What is it about this album that is so mesmerizing? I have listened to this literally hundreds of times, and it sounds just as good every time. There is something magical about it.
Blake T, I love Orchid. That sounds like something I would do. What was I saying? I wasn’t talking badly about Orchid, that’s for sure. Probably just flexin on mofos in the comment section 💪
The climaxes here are crushing, monolithic, and all encompassing. They have a way of forcing the listener to deal with them instead of suggesting like a lot of music does.
apartment353 Saw them in London a few months ago and to be honest I was a little worried they wouldn't carry over into a live set as well as their studio stuff... Boy was I wrong!! Epic live.... just wish they'd played this :)
i've only listened to f#a# ,lift your skinny fists and this one. i think this is my favorite album, like ever, the only thing it may lack is length, but then again it's an EP. it is as dark as f#a# and has the instrumentation i loved of lift your skinny fists, it's just... amazing.
Michael Carpenter..... as a creature of mother nature... I recommend and trust everything that Earth generously offers us... and fortunately enough my brother you have lots of choices...Enjoy!!!
+Joshua Harris It's interesting to find out that people can get high with all these you mentioned ..... appart from the Canadians... I haven't try the others .... now this is a chalenge .....
+Joshua Harris I was replying to Michael Carpenter who was asking me to recommend him whether he goes sober or on something.... about my humor... uhhh... it's lost and probably you found it .....
A critic said to me after I professed a love for Hermann Hesse that his writings are so dark and I said I never looked at it that way he always seemed to be leading me towards the light. I rate this band as Hesses' musical and mystical equivalent
Never thought I would like any kind of rock music. Then I discovered Post-Rock bands like: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hammock, We Lost the Sea, Eleventh Vibration, Russian Circles, Distant Dream, Paint the Sky Red, God is an Astronaut. Now I am hooked.
This release is the best GYBE have ever offered IMO. It just doesn't get any better than BBF3, the "found" street interviews and random sound clips are what make GYBE songs so special, besides the amazing instrumental arrangements of course.
This type of music can only be made by people that live life fully. What I mean by this is that there is a very pure 'humanity' to all the work this group has ever released, from the VERY beginning. They don't shy away from the horrors of life, in fact they understand that the bad side of life is as crucial (perhaps, even more crucial) than the good side of life. You can only understand how truly great life can be when you compare it to how awful and hellish it can really get. I can't fully explain how, but this band's music transmits this to me in a way that words couldn't - only feelings. They perfectly capture life's brutal beauty, or its beautiful brutality - you can see it either way, it's the same in the end. Because of this, this is one of the bands I consider to be 'greater' than its musical output, it's not just music they create - it's almost a philosophy, an ideology, a lens through which life can be viewed. Brutal, overwhelming, of course - but, always, with a lining of hope threading through.
Their music is life. The guitars cry in agony, trembling in fear and paranoia, whistling and singing in melancholy. The sound, the sound haunts you - as it makes you remember what was associated with this sadness, induced by strings. You live through what music goes, slowly descending deeper in thoughts and tears. But, usually, at some point this agony reaches it culmination point, and all suddenly start to remind you why. Why you're still here and why you still continue to exist. In order to awaken spirit you need to succumb into deepest abyss.
yeah, this is best EP ive ever listened to, a couple of weeks ago i had an important exam, and the day before I decided to listen to this before going to sleep, and i cried rly. Like in the middle of BBF3. I had like some fuckin emotional breakdown i dont know. This is my favorite EP ever. Impossible to describe how important this record is for me. Always brings some new, amazing feelings
@@MrBandini27 I'm in a much better place now emotionally, so it's a different experience. I found love and it solved everything for me. Thanks for checking up on me ;) hope you're good too
or a veteran, paying his final respects to his deceased comrades as he tries his best to keep his tears in. I've been to Arlington to understand this feeling, its something you cannot easily move on from.
A debt of eternal gratitude to the dude working at the heavy metal record store in Fullerton 22 years ago who was listening to this album when I came in to get something else entirely and my life was never the same. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and it was darkness. I saw the sun fall into the ocean like blood. I saw the stars sliding across a void. I saw a train smoking down the tracks. I saw angels of glory destitute and crosses on fire and yeah it's a goddamn third-world country in the sense of being totally scorched and wrung dry by capitalism yet without the concessions to public well-being that socialists or communists would demand.
" Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.... Here’s Tom with the weather. ''...Bill Hicks
There's a little saying, dates back from generations ago: "Be prepared for anything at anytime from anybody and don't take no shit always stand your ground." Pretty sure that's not a saying from generations ago
Actually it's an old Shakespearen phrase: "Beest did prepare f'r aught at anytime from anybody and taketh not nay the horror at each moment standeth thy did grind."
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
Interviewer: Well... Where are you posting from? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: (pause) Well... I don't like the way 4chan's ran, don't you know, and, erm... that's pretty much what i was expressing in my thread. The admin... the Japanese admin - he's sneaky, he's very deceitful, he's a liar, he's a cheat, he's a rip-off. I mean, the Japanese admin is one systematic admin that...that nobody can trust. I don't trust him myself Interviewer: And how long have you been shitposting for? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Huh? Interviewer: How long have you been shitposting for? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Since I was four Interviewer: Do you do this sort of thing a lot, like, meme-tier kinda threads? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Oh, I love meme-tier threads, I love starting meme-tier threads, absolutely Interviewer: What kind of replies do you usually get? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Usually, anons are... are pretty much in agreement with what I'm shitposting about Interviewer: We overheard you before talking about... you went on 4chan today for your waifus? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: That's accurate Interviewer: right. Do you wanna tell us that story? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't mind telling you the story. Erm... I went on 4chan today for my waifus, and I told the OP, erm... "Let me post something, and you save and you save it for good, I'm only gonna post this one time and one time only, I don't repeat myself for nobody," I said. I says... "I'm here to post Annie Clark's meme hair, not to listen to your music and watch you post your opinions for an hour." I says "I'm here to post my waifu...and I'm here to get new Lavren pics and get the fuck back to Reddit." The OP says "You can't talk like that in my thread, I'm reporting you, fag." then I said... I told the OP, "If that's the best you can do, I feel sorry for you." I said "Why don't you just shut your fucking mouth for once and listen." I said "I'm not gonna take any shit." I said "I'm gonna post my waifu like I said." I replied to the god damn OP and I post my pic of Annie and I says "Here's my pic, now I am leaving." And I left it at that (At this point the interview fades whilst the shitpost grows in intensity) Then, before I left, I came back and told the OP "I'm here to state who my waifus are and be honest with you." I said ">implying that if they thought I was a shitposting maniac like you're trying to accuse me of, they would have banned me when I first got here." And the OP says "Yeah, you have a point," He goes "You don't need to use green text," I said "Don't need to use greentext?" I says "I've got every right to use greentext." I says "You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your thread, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're god because you have a laptop and you can bump your thread for 20 minutes? Well you're not." And I left it at that Interviewer: Did you walk away? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes I did... I don't like the banning system, I don't like the admin system, I don't like the janitors, I don't like anything to do with this site's administration. I just don't like it, because... Hiro's sneaky, like I said - he's deceitful, he's lying, he's a cheat, he rips people off. That's the Japanese admin for you. 4chan is shit-tier memeing, and anons don't recognise it... and I think that that's pretty god damn sad, that they don't recognise their own site as a shit-tier, pleb-tier, meme-tier cloak Interviewer: Well... Do you have any rare pepe? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, I do. I own a high-powered assault pepe, I own a 12-gauge double barrel pepe, I own a regular pepe, I own a regular hunting pepe, I own a 9fag, a 357, a 45 memegun, a 38 special needs, and, erm... I own an m-16 fully automatic ground assault pepe... Interviewer: Do you think things are gonna get better before they get worse? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: No way. Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse. Like I said, 4chan's a shit-tier site as it is and... and we're just basically in a hopeless situation as it stands Interviewer: What do you think this site's gonna look like in the year 2019? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Y'know, I'll tell you the truth - nothing against you anons, but I don't wanna answer that question because... I haven't even got a mind that's that...that inhumane Interviewer: are you reddit for what's coming? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Reddit as I'll ever be Interviewer: Most anons aren't Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: There's a little saying... Dates back for generations... Interviewer: Go on... Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Be prepared for shitposting at any time on any thread, don't take no shit, always start your threads. People wanna come up to me and run their mouth - guess what? I'll shitpost through every fucking board... I won't think a thing of it Interviewer: Would you mind reciting your thread for us? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Not at all, I don't see why... I don't see why I couldn't There's an evil virus that's threatening mankind It's not state of the art, it's a serious state of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite A menace to society, a social disease To brainwash the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy one-upmanship order Watching beginnings of social decay Gloating and sneering at life's disarray Eating away at your own self esteem Pouncing on every word that you might be saying To attack someone's mind is a social disorder The constitution, the government, martial law order Superficially smiling a shake of the hand As soon as your back is turned treason is planned When every good thing's laid to rest By the governments hate, by the constitution and their lies And every time you think you're safe And when you go to turn away You know they're sharpening all their knives All in your mind All in your head Try to relate it All in your mind All in your head Try to escape it Without a conscience they destroy And that's a thing that they enjoy They're a sickness that's in all of our minds They want to sink the ship and leave The way they laugh at you and me You know it happens all the time But it only happens in your mind The rats in the cellar you know who you are... Or do you? Watching beginnings of social decay... Interviewer: Thank you for your memes
+ciao wutang "Interviewer: Well... Do you have any rare pepe? Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, I do. I own a high-powered assault pepe, I own a 12-gauge double barrel pepe, I own a regular pepe, I own a regular hunting pepe, I own a 9fag, a 357, a 45 memegun, a 38 special needs, and, erm... I own an m-16 fully automatic ground assault pepe..."
It's like if Beethoven lived life on the streets homeless, came back and got on his feet, and then recorded all of his experiences of sadness, hopelessness, despair, and the eventual return to a ''happy place'' right after.
i am still obsessed 12 years later. Go and see them live...and make sure you're leaning against the stage to be as close as possible. I'll be remembering that moment until i die !!
I have been trying to make my own music, and my dream is that one day my music can be in my own way as great as the music of this band. I just adore them.
4:58 What's that? Oh nothing, just the entirety of my everything melting away into absolute nothingness, nihilistic undertones finally transcended by forces inconceivable to the human mind, a beauty transposed to an alternate Multiverse yet a sadness that could only be expressed by your loved ones dying in front of your eyes 1000 times over and over. 8:27 My entire life outlook has been a mistake. I never want to die!!! 26:00 I give up, words cannot... (Just explaining the impact this release had on my life when I first heard it in about 2003)
All in your mind, all in your head try to relate it..all in your mind all in your head try to escape it...just beautiful. I heard this n the shower for the first time stepped out and started to tear up because it was just soo godly beautiful..
I like this. I have it tattooed on my arm. the music sounds like the end of the world too. It did when i first heard it 12 years ago and nothing has surpassed it since..or ever will
They actually took the sample from a Vox Pop voicemail that a local journal used to run here in Mtl. It was mostly, as in this case, ramblings of drunken people
"Chaos - the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the creation of the universe." Pretty spot on definition in relation to your translation.
Moya might be my favorite song, it might be, its just so earnest and beautiful. I never thought id be able to pick a song to be my favorite, but it has an impact every time i listen to it
Ok, found out where Spec Ops ripped off their song for the ending. Gotta say, not only is the game great but they have a hell of a good taste in music.
That's awesome man! I agree, this music is truly amazing. only master artists could capture such and essence. I'm actually saving up a few bucks now to get this tattooed on the outside of my left rib cage! under my arm and heart level... To me, it also represents that there was something LONG before us, and there will be something LONG after us. All we can do is live in the moment and make the best out of life.
Allready well familiar with Górecki's 3rd Symphony: This was my first shower in God's pee, about a year ago. Ever since all of GY!BE's music has been consuming me in the most wonderful way one can imagine. When the flags are all dead on the top of their poles, éverything moves like cold steel on frozen wastelands as I listen to these creations.
In part II, titled BBF3, "his" poem he starts at 20:45, for the parts I can get, is actually made with parts of the lyrics of Iron Maiden's song Virus.
When shadows come to claim our souls Some must rise the light of old Names in stone Spirits of legends Deeds unknown, yet never forgotten These are the duranin, of honour within and of fear without Remember them When in hope you doubt
RUclips is a wealth of amazing music and fairly annoying humans. Godspeed are uplifting and the first part of this EP is probably my favourite track of all time.
F#A#infinity, this EP, and Yanqui UXO are black as pitch you martian what the fuck are you talking about lol. “Gee those albums explicitly themed around societal decay, the impending death of the world we know, isolation, regret, and the horrendous slaughtering excesses of the American military industrial complex sure do brighten up one’s day” lmao
if anybody is wondering about the cover:
The front of the album contains Hebrew characters, in transliterated form, "Tohu va bohu" (formless and empty). This phrase is used in both Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former to describe the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter to describe the Earth after the Lord's Day. The dots and dashes above the letters are called trope. They dictate the tune and intonation and are found in the Torah as well as the rest of the Hebrew Bible. On the inside cover, this text is put into greater context, with Jer 4:23-27 provided in both Hebrew and English (seemingly the Jewish Publication Society version):
23 I beheld the earth,
And, lo, it was waste and void;
And the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,
And all the hills moved to and fro.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,
And all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness,
And all the cities thereof were broken down
At the presence of the LORD,
And before His fierce anger.
27 For thus saith the LORD:
The whole land shall be desolate;
Yet will I not make a full end.
You sir are what's wrong with the world
andy henderson yeah what he said made perfect sense fuck you
I honestly wouldn't care who agrees with my shirt, unless I myself didn't agree with it.. Good choice to find out what it means before you wore it. I'm half Arab by the way, I don't think you should be so careful not to offend anyone unless it's a misrepresentation of yourself, respecting others shouldn't involve dishonoring yourself. You are what you believe, and you should hold your beliefs up high, no matter what the cost.
You're pretty fucking stupid if you can't tell the difference between Arabic and Hebrew.
Are you stupid? It is hebrew
It's like the best part of a song stretched into half an hour...
Hell ya!!!!
Jeez that's the best description I've ever heard to describe it!
"You think you're God just because you have a robe and can send people up the goddamn river for 20 years, well you're wrong!" If you're ever been in the room with a judge before, I don't understand how you can't sympathize.
Just watched them at the Belasco last night. They barely played anything from the new album but they played this whole thing at the end. I guess the tone of this LP fits the times right now. GY!BE is a must-see in live. An out of body experience.
I was blown away. Who was that opener?
@@0satanisboring0 No idea, but they definitely gave a hell of an opener. Everytime I thought "finally, some harmony", then they go off the rails lol
I just sww them live in Boston last night and they also closed w this whole EP + a drone w the amps at the end. You're right, an absolute must-see live, words really can't describe how amazing it is
ya last concert I went to was them at the Mohawk in Austin. far too long ago.
Same here. Just watched them a couple days back in İstanbul. I think they played an intro and two songs from the recent albums and then they played this album. When I recognized that they were playing Moya I was about to cry out of happiness lol.
for mobile users:
0:00-10:51 - Moya
10:51-28:36 - BBF3
Why split? ;)
@@Gandalf2702 side A and side B of the 10"
"and i left it at that"
**doesn't leave it at that**
Hahahaha yeah. Always used to joke about that
😂 Well done
The album art essentially reads: [Became / Becoming] Formless and Empty.
It is written in Hebrew, and appears twice in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
The first appearance is in Genesis, and describes the way the world was before god said "Let there be light."
The second appearance is in Jeremiah, and is used to describe the end of the world.
Moya has to be the best Post-rock song I´ve ever heard
Right behind bbf3
Swans 'helpless child ....everything has a beginning.....
Moya is the definition of a post-rock song
it do be a post rock song
the greatest band in the world. This should be a point on everyone's bucket list: see them live. Unbelievable. Fantastic. Brilliant.
""I don't repeat myself for nobody", I said". Exquisite.
You can throw all the EP's you want at me, i refuse to believe there is a better one than this.
22:46 onwards is SO good... I love that it builds up and most especially HOW it does
definitely the best Iron Maiden cover of all time
o___________o
+Cameron Day Bacon.
+Cameron Day No offense, but if I may correct you, this was actually a Shania Twain orchestral/accoustic cover.
*****
Then indeed it is, mate.
Which Iron Maiden song is it from?
Only godspeed can make an EP that's longer than most punk bands' full lengths
we too, look at this ruclips.net/video/S7b1Nj0ZiLA/видео.html
You can fit Unsilent Death twice in the length of this song
(Real) punk rock is fucking amazing
I can't remember who it was but there's definitely a band who made a 1 hour long EP. I think it was only labelled an EP because it was half songs they had made but didn't care about and half demos and lives but even then that's kinda weird
Swans. Die Tur Ist Zu EP. 53 minutes long.@@man4437
I remember when this first came out. Late 1990s. We all knew something bad was coming. We didn't know what it was, but we could all feel it...and this record seemed to capture all that and preserve it. So prescient, what a masterpiece.
There was a video on here once of BBF3 played over absolutely gutwrenching black and white newsreels of dustbowl era deprivation, sadness, and starvation.
At the climax, a maybe 3 year old boy is shaking crumbs out of a toaster and forlornly picking them up and putting them in his mouth while crying from hunger.
That particular image and this song became inextricably linked in my mind. As I listen to it again right now, it’s certainly got me feeling “some type of way”
I can vividly imagine this from your description without seeing the video you refer to and that alone has me feeling 'some type of way' as well.
I saw them last year and I started crying so bad I had to go outside to calm down. It was so beautiful and sad
These people are gods among musicians
What is it about this album that is so mesmerizing? I have listened to this literally hundreds of times, and it sounds just as good every time. There is something magical about it.
maybe its because its all that we loved because we left it behind
Aren't you the one leaving shitty comments on fuckin Orchid's Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! ??
whomst the fucks
Bacon and cheese username guy lmao
Blake T, I love Orchid. That sounds like something I would do. What was I saying? I wasn’t talking badly about Orchid, that’s for sure. Probably just flexin on mofos in the comment section 💪
The climaxes here are crushing, monolithic, and all encompassing. They have a way of forcing the listener to deal with them instead of suggesting like a lot of music does.
its great. theres always a build up of tension and then catharsis, but you gotta suffer through it.
Merci Montreal!!!
I need to piss but I cant stop listening
Captain Samstein Just go man. Just go.
Captain Samstein You're doing the right thing. No breaks, it's only half an hour
+Captain Samstein dont bend ascend (to the toilet)
+metalehead95 If you're ascending to your toilet, someone designed your bathroom wrong. Lol.
xxhardforcorexx no,is hipster toilet
I saw them live a couple weeks ago, and it was the most unreal experience. Haven't been able to stop listening to them since
Montreal
good for you!!! try EVAPTORIA REPORT, they are very good also....
apartment353 Saw them in London a few months ago and to be honest I was a little worried they wouldn't carry over into a live set as well as their studio stuff... Boy was I wrong!! Epic live.... just wish they'd played this :)
Artie Fufkin
That's awesome! P.S. I lived in London for years and they never played there. They did as soon as I left I guess aha
i've only listened to f#a# ,lift your skinny fists and this one.
i think this is my favorite album, like ever, the only thing it may lack is length, but then again it's an EP.
it is as dark as f#a# and has the instrumentation i loved of lift your skinny fists, it's just... amazing.
I just listen to it twice and my girl don't mind lol
i have f#a# on vinyl and i totally feel you, its not the music they make but the music that makes you
yanqui uxo their best imo
Seen them live three times. They never fail to blow me away.
lucky man
+Albert Camus seem them twice..... the best music trip I have ever taken.....
Michael Carpenter..... as a creature of mother nature... I recommend and trust everything that Earth generously offers us... and fortunately enough my brother you have lots of choices...Enjoy!!!
+Joshua Harris It's interesting to find out that people can get high with all these you mentioned ..... appart from the Canadians... I haven't try the others .... now this is a chalenge .....
+Joshua Harris I was replying to Michael Carpenter who was asking me to recommend him whether he goes sober or on something.... about my humor... uhhh... it's lost and probably you found it .....
A critic said to me after I professed a love for Hermann Hesse that his writings are so dark and I said I never looked at it that way he always seemed to be leading me towards the light. I rate this band as Hesses' musical and mystical equivalent
to see how bright the light is, you need to succumb into the darkness of deepest depths
This is probably the best thing Godspeed has made
Strong claim m8
+Mathias Banggaard Jensen A strong claim but I agree and I own actual bootlegs. This is my favorite album.
HI i'm Sam I don't know, this competes with Yanqui U.X.O for me.
Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls and Motherfucker is fuckin amazing.
Nah, Mladic.
Never thought I would like any kind of rock music. Then I discovered Post-Rock bands like: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hammock, We Lost the Sea, Eleventh Vibration, Russian Circles, Distant Dream, Paint the Sky Red, God is an Astronaut.
Now I am hooked.
Give " A Winged Victory For The Sullen" a go as well mate
Check out Yndi Halda, especially their debut. Reminds me a lot of Godspeed
I love how it's like starting to rush up and rise against in 8:30 it's like glorious moment of a fight against something
Hands down one of the best EPs ever up there with Beethoven’s EP.
Hands down the best EP ever released and the best that will ever be released. I will listen to this music for the rest of my life.
This release is the best GYBE have ever offered IMO. It just doesn't get any better than BBF3, the "found" street interviews and random sound clips are what make GYBE songs so special, besides the amazing instrumental arrangements of course.
This type of music can only be made by people that live life fully. What I mean by this is that there is a very pure 'humanity' to all the work this group has ever released, from the VERY beginning. They don't shy away from the horrors of life, in fact they understand that the bad side of life is as crucial (perhaps, even more crucial) than the good side of life. You can only understand how truly great life can be when you compare it to how awful and hellish it can really get. I can't fully explain how, but this band's music transmits this to me in a way that words couldn't - only feelings. They perfectly capture life's brutal beauty, or its beautiful brutality - you can see it either way, it's the same in the end. Because of this, this is one of the bands I consider to be 'greater' than its musical output, it's not just music they create - it's almost a philosophy, an ideology, a lens through which life can be viewed. Brutal, overwhelming, of course - but, always, with a lining of hope threading through.
Their music is life. The guitars cry in agony, trembling in fear and paranoia, whistling and singing in melancholy. The sound, the sound haunts you - as it makes you remember what was associated with this sadness, induced by strings. You live through what music goes, slowly descending deeper in thoughts and tears. But, usually, at some point this agony reaches it culmination point, and all suddenly start to remind you why. Why you're still here and why you still continue to exist. In order to awaken spirit you need to succumb into deepest abyss.
yeah, this is best EP ive ever listened to, a couple of weeks ago i had an important exam, and the day before I decided to listen to this before going to sleep, and i cried rly. Like in the middle of BBF3. I had like some fuckin emotional breakdown i dont know. This is my favorite EP ever. Impossible to describe how important this record is for me. Always brings some new, amazing feelings
Damn, 11 years have passed. Hope you're doing just fine and still are able to feel that deeply. It's something special.
@@MrBandini27 I'm in a much better place now emotionally, so it's a different experience. I found love and it solved everything for me. Thanks for checking up on me ;) hope you're good too
Wow. What a time capsule this album is. Right at the precipice of madness
such a magnificent piece of music. the emotions Godspeed can conjure up in a 28 minute EP is basically unmatchable
At 26:00 evokes an emotion I can't quite explain.
yes to pascal--or waking from a nightmare, realizing that you're safe.
or a veteran, paying his final respects to his deceased comrades as he tries his best to keep his tears in. I've been to Arlington to understand this feeling, its something you cannot easily move on from.
+Alex Monro haha fart. Poo poo bum fart hehe
+eyeseethroughyou
If I could give you 100 likes I would.
+eyeseethroughyou It sounds like the music itself was writing a letter to its listener like "when you're reading this, I'll be gone."
The last 5 minutes hits you with such an incredible and impactful force. I've never experienced something so transcending in my life.
Chives5150 good man
A debt of eternal gratitude to the dude working at the heavy metal record store in Fullerton 22 years ago who was listening to this album when I came in to get something else entirely and my life was never the same. I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and it was darkness. I saw the sun fall into the ocean like blood. I saw the stars sliding across a void. I saw a train smoking down the tracks. I saw angels of glory destitute and crosses on fire and yeah it's a goddamn third-world country in the sense of being totally scorched and wrung dry by capitalism yet without the concessions to public well-being that socialists or communists would demand.
You conjure images of christian iconography being subverted, but fail to grasp that Communism is anti-christian.
" Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.... Here’s Tom with the weather. ''...Bill Hicks
funny thing is he did not need acid to know this
Man at last something insightful.
Seems you pried open your third eye.
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Ideal band for the music to film.
If No Country For Old Men had a soundtrack, I'd want it to be this album.
There's a little saying, dates back from generations ago:
"Be prepared for anything at anytime from anybody and don't take no shit always stand your ground."
Pretty sure that's not a saying from generations ago
It reeks of wisdom...
Pretty sure that dude is completely full of shit but it fits
Actually it's an old Shakespearen phrase: "Beest did prepare f'r aught at anytime from anybody and taketh not nay the horror at each moment standeth thy did grind."
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
It is now
When the drum starts, shivers down my spine...thank god for godspeed !!!
formless and empty.........I get it now.......awe inspiring....intense....YEEEAAAAA!!!!!!!
Interviewer: Well... Where are you posting from?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: (pause) Well... I don't like the way 4chan's ran, don't you know, and, erm... that's pretty much what i was expressing in my thread. The admin... the Japanese admin - he's sneaky, he's very deceitful, he's a liar, he's a cheat, he's a rip-off. I mean, the Japanese admin is one systematic admin that...that nobody can trust. I don't trust him myself
Interviewer: And how long have you been shitposting for?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Huh?
Interviewer: How long have you been shitposting for?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Since I was four
Interviewer: Do you do this sort of thing a lot, like, meme-tier kinda threads?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Oh, I love meme-tier threads, I love starting meme-tier threads, absolutely
Interviewer: What kind of replies do you usually get?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Usually, anons are... are pretty much in agreement with what I'm shitposting about
Interviewer: We overheard you before talking about... you went on 4chan today for your waifus?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: That's accurate
Interviewer: right. Do you wanna tell us that story?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't mind telling you the story. Erm... I went on 4chan today for my waifus, and I told the OP, erm... "Let me post something, and you save and you save it for good, I'm only gonna post this one time and one time only, I don't repeat myself for nobody," I said. I says... "I'm here to post Annie Clark's meme hair, not to listen to your music and watch you post your opinions for an hour." I says "I'm here to post my waifu...and I'm here to get new Lavren pics and get the fuck back to Reddit." The OP says "You can't talk like that in my thread, I'm reporting you, fag." then I said... I told the OP, "If that's the best you can do, I feel sorry for you." I said "Why don't you just shut your fucking mouth for once and listen." I said "I'm not gonna take any shit." I said "I'm gonna post my waifu like I said." I replied to the god damn OP and I post my pic of Annie and I says "Here's my pic, now I am leaving."
And I left it at that
(At this point the interview fades whilst the shitpost grows in intensity)
Then, before I left, I came back and told the OP "I'm here to state who my waifus are and be honest with you." I said ">implying that if they thought I was a shitposting maniac like you're trying to accuse me of, they would have banned me when I first got here." And the OP says "Yeah, you have a point," He goes "You don't need to use green text," I said "Don't need to use greentext?" I says "I've got every right to use greentext." I says "You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your thread, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're god because you have a laptop and you can bump your thread for 20 minutes? Well you're not."
And I left it at that
Interviewer: Did you walk away?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes I did... I don't like the banning system, I don't like the admin system, I don't like the janitors, I don't like anything to do with this site's administration. I just don't like it, because... Hiro's sneaky, like I said - he's deceitful, he's lying, he's a cheat, he rips people off. That's the Japanese admin for you. 4chan is shit-tier memeing, and anons don't recognise it... and I think that that's pretty god damn sad, that they don't recognise their own site as a shit-tier, pleb-tier, meme-tier cloak
Interviewer: Well... Do you have any rare pepe?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, I do. I own a high-powered assault pepe, I own a 12-gauge double barrel pepe, I own a regular pepe, I own a regular hunting pepe, I own a 9fag, a 357, a 45 memegun, a 38 special needs, and, erm... I own an m-16 fully automatic ground assault pepe...
Interviewer: Do you think things are gonna get better before they get worse?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: No way. Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse. Like I said, 4chan's a shit-tier site as it is and... and we're just basically in a hopeless situation as it stands
Interviewer: What do you think this site's gonna look like in the year 2019?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Y'know, I'll tell you the truth - nothing against you anons, but I don't wanna answer that question because... I haven't even got a mind that's that...that inhumane
Interviewer: are you reddit for what's coming?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Reddit as I'll ever be
Interviewer: Most anons aren't
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: There's a little saying... Dates back for generations...
Interviewer: Go on...
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Be prepared for shitposting at any time on any thread, don't take no shit, always start your threads. People wanna come up to me and run their mouth - guess what? I'll shitpost through every fucking board... I won't think a thing of it
Interviewer: Would you mind reciting your thread for us?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Not at all, I don't see why... I don't see why I couldn't
There's an evil virus that's threatening mankind
It's not state of the art, it's a serious state of the mind
The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite
A menace to society, a social disease
To brainwash the mind is a social disorder
The cynics, the apathy one-upmanship order
Watching beginnings of social decay
Gloating and sneering at life's disarray
Eating away at your own self esteem
Pouncing on every word that you might be saying
To attack someone's mind is a social disorder
The constitution, the government, martial law order
Superficially smiling a shake of the hand
As soon as your back is turned treason is planned
When every good thing's laid to rest
By the governments hate, by the constitution and their lies
And every time you think you're safe
And when you go to turn away
You know they're sharpening all their knives
All in your mind
All in your head
Try to relate it
All in your mind
All in your head
Try to escape it
Without a conscience they destroy
And that's a thing that they enjoy
They're a sickness that's in all of our minds
They want to sink the ship and leave
The way they laugh at you and me
You know it happens all the time
But it only happens in your mind
The rats in the cellar you know who you are...
Or do you?
Watching beginnings of social decay...
Interviewer: Thank you for your memes
this was amazing.
God damn it! XD
+ciao wutang Transcendental.
+ciao wutang Comment of the year.
+ciao wutang
"Interviewer: Well... Do you have any rare pepe?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, I do. I own a high-powered assault
pepe, I own a 12-gauge double barrel pepe, I own a regular pepe, I own a
regular hunting pepe, I own a 9fag, a 357, a 45 memegun, a 38 special
needs, and, erm... I own an m-16 fully automatic ground assault pepe..."
This will always be my all-time favourite piece of music.
every godspeed album and ep just has the same quality with a unique sound, its so hard to favor one over the other
They simply just amaze me of how all their music is aged fine wine, especially the debut album which I consider top 3 from them.
This is easily their best work
listening to 4:17 while sirens are wailing outside your house really adds to the experience
this reminds me of when reckful was in japan and bought a godspeed you t-shirt. good times
I miss that man every day
I absolutely love Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
The most amazing 30 minutes of music I have ever heard.
I love this EP! My favorite Godspeed government U.S.
I saw them decades ago I will never forget how fkn awesome they are forever in my ears heart n mind n soul
Holy shit, the buildup is amazing, probably one of the best I ever heard.
Takeda - EDO#1
No probs. :)
It's like if Beethoven lived life on the streets homeless, came back and got on his feet, and then recorded all of his experiences of sadness, hopelessness, despair, and the eventual return to a ''happy place'' right after.
Fuck Beethoven
:)
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GyroLamb wow great description
This sounds nothing like Beethoven.
i am still obsessed 12 years later. Go and see them live...and make sure you're leaning against the stage to be as close as possible. I'll be remembering that moment until i die !!
Genialne,piękne ,dotykające. So very very drill of my brain,diamont,10/10,
This group makes me evoke Bela Tarr' s films.
blows me away everytime
I have been trying to make my own music, and my dream is that one day my music can be in my own way as great as the music of this band. I just adore them.
4:58 What's that? Oh nothing, just the entirety of my everything melting away into absolute nothingness, nihilistic undertones finally transcended by forces inconceivable to the human mind, a beauty transposed to an alternate Multiverse yet a sadness that could only be expressed by your loved ones dying in front of your eyes 1000 times over and over.
8:27 My entire life outlook has been a mistake. I never want to die!!!
26:00 I give up, words cannot...
(Just explaining the impact this release had on my life when I first heard it in about 2003)
You were pretty stupid back at 4:58
+When Will You Learn? We all were... probably find out later that we still are...
Greatest 30 minutes of music, arguably.
motherfucker=redeemer is better
@@brazilbr4415 oh my god
I'm pretty sure that guy at 12:00 is the same one sampled on f#a#infinity.
sportsjunkie52 yepp, good ear
sportsjunkie52 Yeah. "This is the perfect place to get jumped"
Do u have any change?, no, I'm sorry we don't.
This has been my favorite record for over a decade. Nothing can touch it.
22:50 this needs to go into some sort of Library of Alexandria 2.0
Legendary
It’s such a beautiful build up I absolutely adore it.
Happy Birthday, Slow Riot!!
All in your mind, all in your head try to relate it..all in your mind all in your head try to escape it...just beautiful. I heard this n the shower for the first time stepped out and started to tear up because it was just soo godly beautiful..
This EP makes me emotional..
Harry Somer thNAKs
I like this. I have it tattooed on my arm. the music sounds like the end of the world too. It did when i first heard it 12 years ago and nothing has surpassed it since..or ever will
Beyond magnificent!
They actually took the sample from a Vox Pop voicemail that a local journal used to run here in Mtl. It was mostly, as in this case, ramblings of drunken people
"What do you think this country's gonna look like in the year 2003?"
I bet no one could predict what America would be like in 2003.
On RateYourMusic, this is the number one EP of all time.
"Chaos - the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the creation of the universe." Pretty spot on definition in relation to your translation.
Prob the best EP ever made
RYM would agree
"America is a third world country!" I just love it!
Moya might be my favorite song, it might be, its just so earnest and beautiful. I never thought id be able to pick a song to be my favorite, but it has an impact every time i listen to it
Happy 20th Birthday to Slow Riot!
Ok, found out where Spec Ops ripped off their song for the ending. Gotta say, not only is the game great but they have a hell of a good taste in music.
an anthem for our modern day broken corrupt society.
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That's awesome man! I agree, this music is truly amazing. only master artists could capture such and essence.
I'm actually saving up a few bucks now to get this tattooed on the outside of my left rib cage! under my arm and heart level... To me, it also represents that there was something LONG before us, and there will be something LONG after us. All we can do is live in the moment and make the best out of life.
Allready well familiar with Górecki's 3rd Symphony: This was my first shower in God's pee, about a year ago. Ever since all of GY!BE's music has been consuming me in the most wonderful way one can imagine. When the flags are all dead on the top of their poles, éverything moves like cold steel on frozen wastelands as I listen to these creations.
'my first shower in gods pee'
@@imtoddhowardandimadeskyrim6553 I mean to be fair, ever since Luciferean Towers. They’ve signed as God’s Pee
Symphony No. 3 (Górecki), everyone should listen! It's the blueprint of MOYA and breathtaking
Found this album in the international section in Rasputin for $4.95 lol
+lomochrome6 It's not an album
it's a meme
..I don’t trust people to, but somehow Moya holds my heart for me, for just a little while, and I can really breathe
In part II, titled BBF3, "his" poem he starts at 20:45, for the parts I can get, is actually made with parts of the lyrics of Iron Maiden's song Virus.
When shadows come to claim our souls
Some must rise the light of old
Names in stone
Spirits of legends
Deeds unknown, yet never forgotten
These are the duranin, of honour within and of fear without
Remember them
When in hope you doubt
Cool fact :
A friend of mine told me that the Hebreu letters on the cover means Tohu-bohu which means "noise", "racket".
It's from the very beginning of Genesis. It has many accepted translations. "Formless and Empty", and "Chaos" are the most common as far as I am aware
This is, to put it simply, exceptional and a masterpiece
Their best release without a doubt. Would kill to see this performed live
love from Tunisia ...
Although Skinny Fists is a much more cohesive piece as a whole, based on the individual tracks, this is the best thing godspeed have released.
Just wow. Godspeed continues to impress like no other.
hmmm i still get that warm fuzzy feeling all over my body when I hear moya
I think this one is their best too.
It's their most consistent record, I'd say.
everybody needs to see them live!
Sadly, this album is still as relevant now as ever (if not more so)… and I am definitely referring to the dialogue on the sadly part.
RUclips is a wealth of amazing music and fairly annoying humans. Godspeed are uplifting and the first part of this EP is probably my favourite track of all time.
F#A#infinity, this EP, and Yanqui UXO are black as pitch you martian what the fuck are you talking about lol. “Gee those albums explicitly themed around societal decay, the impending death of the world we know, isolation, regret, and the horrendous slaughtering excesses of the American military industrial complex sure do brighten up one’s day” lmao
"tohu wa wohu" for all the people that cannot read hebrew meaning "void and formless"
Best speech imo.
chart #3 doesnt even get close to bbf3!