This is underrated af. I could only find one Godspeed You! Black Emperor video essay and finding this is like finding a four leaf clover. Legendary video as always👏
Fantastic video, very deep and insightful. This is probably my favourite Godspeed album you perfectly summarised why it’s so special. Finding video essays about this band is the RUclips equivalent of trying to hunt down a physical copy of Hairy Amp Drooling lmao so I really appreciate this
Thank you! I'm happy to fill in that gap, although I think I've seen a couple around, so probably easier than finding a tape of hairy amp ;) Cheers again.
"i open up my wallet, and its full of blood" I always wondered about this line. Is the narrator saying that our capitalist society has perished? The money has been replaced with blood. Any thoughts? I think its a metaphor because it doesnt make much sense if not.
Given GY!BE's history of being anti-establishment, it's most likely a jab at capitalism. Blood money, or that the money is made through forever wars or something in the likes? But yeah, I'm just speculating, I guess we'll have to get a hold of Efrim's script to really find out :)
@@AlbumAffairs cheers for replying. It's a haunting, powerful line, much like the rest of the narration. But it's that line in particular that gets me thinking. You routinely check your wallet for money to use in our system, our huge market full of vendors. Money is the contents of this wallet which makes it a wallet, but it's also what the world is made of, this money has been replaced by our baseline, our biology which makes us. Blood and DNA. The apocalypse has reverted us back to our true nature and the very idea of a wallet seems trivial. Blood, violence and death was the outcome to capitalism. The blood being in the wallet is not necessarily a devolution from money being in there, it's a natural, inevitable consequence of money.
I actually really liked his analysis of the samples, like the Gathering Storm sample and the Godspell sample (even though I already knew about the Godspell one, having played Judas about 25 years ago - my older brother played Jesus).
Which is your favourite Godspeed album? Comment below 👇
Lift your skinny fists! 🙌🏻
f sharp a sharp
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada
So far it’s Lift Your Skinny Fists and Yankui UXO
f sharp, but after that its Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
This is underrated af. I could only find one Godspeed You! Black Emperor video essay and finding this is like finding a four leaf clover. Legendary video as always👏
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it! 🙌
An absolute masterpiece of an album
True words. Absolute banger. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic video, very deep and insightful. This is probably my favourite Godspeed album you perfectly summarised why it’s so special. Finding video essays about this band is the RUclips equivalent of trying to hunt down a physical copy of Hairy Amp Drooling lmao so I really appreciate this
Thank you! I'm happy to fill in that gap, although I think I've seen a couple around, so probably easier than finding a tape of hairy amp ;) Cheers again.
I love Godspeed so much. I loved your exploration on their work, thank you. Im excited to see what you do next!
Thank you!
It's always a pleasure to watch your videos. You're able to create such great presentations of records... Once again, congratulations!
Thank you for the consistent support!
"i open up my wallet, and its full of blood"
I always wondered about this line. Is the narrator saying that our capitalist society has perished? The money has been replaced with blood. Any thoughts? I think its a metaphor because it doesnt make much sense if not.
Given GY!BE's history of being anti-establishment, it's most likely a jab at capitalism. Blood money, or that the money is made through forever wars or something in the likes? But yeah, I'm just speculating, I guess we'll have to get a hold of Efrim's script to really find out :)
@@AlbumAffairs cheers for replying. It's a haunting, powerful line, much like the rest of the narration. But it's that line in particular that gets me thinking.
You routinely check your wallet for money to use in our system, our huge market full of vendors. Money is the contents of this wallet which makes it a wallet, but it's also what the world is made of, this money has been replaced by our baseline, our biology which makes us. Blood and DNA. The apocalypse has reverted us back to our true nature and the very idea of a wallet seems trivial. Blood, violence and death was the outcome to capitalism. The blood being in the wallet is not necessarily a devolution from money being in there, it's a natural, inevitable consequence of money.
lovely video
Thank you!
An awesome essay! Is there any way to find and download Fearless: making of post rock?
Thank you! Download I don't know but It's available to borrow on archive.org.
Sad to see you focus on the field recordings and not on the instrumental but i get it
I actually really liked his analysis of the samples, like the Gathering Storm sample and the Godspell sample (even though I already knew about the Godspell one, having played Judas about 25 years ago - my older brother played Jesus).