Thanks to recent allowances by the staff, presented unbroken for the first time on RUclips. Album: Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada Track: 2 Year: 1999 Label: Constellation
This song came out in 1999 and they're talking about what the year 2003 will be like. He wouldn't even answer that question because he thought it was too inhumane to even imagine. It's been 24 years. It's 2023. And everything this man said in this interview still resonates with us so much even after all this time. Everything still rings true, from the polititians, to the economy, to the police. Everything is just as bad, if not worse then what he saw. Everytime I listen to this song I think about him. I ask myself if he's still alive today. And if he is, what does he think of the world now? I'd want to talk to him, buy him a beer or something, and talk about how much the world has crumbled.
Lol. True. When I was listening to this EP back in let's say, 2001 I thought 'the guy is a schizo'...listening back to it nowadays and I'm not so sure anymore, man 😂 Maybe it's true that so called lunatics are able to foresee things most people don't...
I knew there was no future back then too. I tried everything to die before it got to this point, I still am. Or at least try to distract myself. It's getting worse every day, and harder to look away. A man just set himself on fire.
"Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the goddamn river for 20 years? Well you're not." And I left it at that
I saw this band live in seattle. Paid over 3x the house price, got food poisoning the same night, ended up leaving my front row spot with perfect views to vomit violently out the back door, clean up, and then vomit out the front door, I stay and finished watching from a stool near a trash can with security watching me from the back of the venue. I regret nothing. Best night of my life. Thank you, Godspeed.
Interesting. When i was much younger and first heard this i thought the guy was a little crazy. Here we are in 2021. He may have been crazy, but he wasn't wrong. I would love to see an interview with BBF3 in 2022.
I highly doubt that the members of Godspeed would agree with you that he's not wrong. They have far-left political views and show footage of angry Trump supporters during the guy's rant at live shows. The guy's rant was prescient but not because he's right about anything.
@@Designed1i mean, you see some of our wealth disparity, our vanished middle class, our disregarded urban areas and homeless epidemics, our slow-but-certain losses to china and future coalitions....the empire is losing its shine.
I fell asleep with earphones listening to Spotify, and woke up early in the morning to the man's voice, describing the event in court. It was really something. Immediately Google'd the lyrics/narration.
I interpret this song to basically be GY!BE showing what their ideology looks like if you take out hope. This guy's certainly got righteous anger, and GY!BE definitely agree with his assessment of the American government, or really all governments. But his anger doesn't have any direction. He doesn't have any idea what we should do to improve things. In fact, I suspect he would get some satisfaction from everything collapsing. He's thinks he's ready for anything. He's quick to anger ("I'll throw them through the fucking window, I won't think a thing of it"), selfish (rejecting the beggar on Providence), and pretty full of himself ("Usually people are pretty much in agreement with what I'm saying.") Godspeed have always emphasized hope, and this is why. Without it, you turn into this guy.
Collapse would improve things, it's not like America is just gonna bend over and compromising with the country killing this world or beyond isn't gonna save us
Are you talking about at 10:05-10:06? That's a really cool part--the discordant piano reflects the discordant thoughts BBF3 is spilling out in his interview. It's almost like that one small piano note is a highlighter going over a single word on a page "MANIA"
Everytime I Hear the Ending part of the song I have dreams where I'm walking in a never ending park and I can hear the sound of this beautiful person who I think is the greatest person in the world I love her so much. so while I get closer she keeps moving away without waling and once she stops I get closer once i'm about to grab her hand she just vanishes and i was in a pain of tears! this is a very amazing and sad track!
This is a beautiful description in psychology. Someones lonely misanthropic point of view, with the music suggesting some pain being the filter for the negativity, something having caused this outlook. This group to me seems to appreciate describing the perspectives of people no matter how outsider they may seem, and the music is simply an emotional canvas attempting to find what is objectively in their head: a spiritual snapshot. We normally wouldn't think anything of these kinds of people, but to me this music gives them dignity, a beautiful portrait of what is in their mind as they are attempting to communicate their feelings. His unfocused hatred of society is tragic, and this song is a dirge for his civility.
Really? I always saw it like they were embracing some of what he had to say. Societies like our own do hurt a lot of people, unintentionally or not and a lot of people who look or sound like him get thrown under the bus just because of who their parents were and how much money they had to "raise them right". If enough people feel that way, I suppose... well... given that the concept of society is people as one unit working together, that we would have the right to bring down that very society which hurt so many people. It's the underlying psychology behind stuff like the Stonewall Riots and most riots in general.
Skullkan6 That's kind of what I was trying to get at actually. The band captures the general emotion that may not be apparent at first. It's empathic, so of course its embracing!
My god I just whipped this ep out tonight, I forgot I had it on vinyl all these yrs. I forgot how much I loved this dude's little rant to this epic piece of music :)
I personally wish I could have a written version of what he's saying. Sometimes the music gets too loud and I can't hear what he's saying. He sounds off his rocker, maybe, but calling someone crazy is dismissive. He's right about not trusting the American Government...
Best song I've ever heard. The truth is all over this epic piece of music. In the man's voice... in its violins, guitars, drums and what have you...even in its silence...We are at war. And this is an extraordinary wake up call. If we can find our own voice within this f*cked up system we call democracy and finally understand what we really are and how we are forced to live our lives within a world created by multinational corporations who own us with every breath we take, we can finally take down this wall they built around everyone of us. Do not believe a word they say, do not enter the void they want you to step in...think. Just think.
Well... we bought into it. We bought into the ideas sold by companies back in the late 1800's that it wasn't contacts, or education, or being white and in the right place that gave you success, it was JUST hard work. And guess who benefits from all that hard work with that idea? Yeah, those very bosses you hope to be like.
Oh, so identify yourself with a crazy man, who is shouting on the judge because of the speeding ticket and he recites Iron Maiden lyrics as his own poem? Great.
Christ! I don't know what to say about this song. I love every single bit of it. From the ramblings of Blaise sandwiching the brilliant break down and build up, to the piano tinkles leading to the blasting crescendo around the 12 minute mark, to the aftermath resembling a plane on a runway following landing to the last beautiful outro. My favourite song ever from my favourite album/EP ever.
The vocals of this deranged man, the pendulous strings, the stirring crescendos.... this song is the greatest thing Godspeed ever put out. And all of their stuff is amazing. I want to listen to this song when the world ends.
"I walked up to the goddamn bench, I handed up my $25 dollars up, and I says 'there's my my money and now I'm leaving! And I LEFT IT AT THAT!" ..... But before I left I turned around around and told the judge... And I left it at that
"Third world, third rate, third class slum." Damn, the anger. Sometimes I like listening to people ramble. Maybe because it's nothing like me, I always pick my words carefully and self-censor too much.
“What do you think this country’s gonna look like in 2003?” “I’m not gonna answer that question cause I don’t have a mind that’s that inhumane.” Right as he finishes saying that line the song hits 9:11. Not tryna be a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist but it’s a pretty neat coincidence.
@@joaquinbadman9678 compare 2020 to 2021. "No way. Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse." "we're just basically in a hopeless situation as it stands."
With every new GY!BE album, I always listen to almost all of their older music. Still fascinating and mesmerizing, how many years have passed. Although many groups exist in the so called post rock field, nothing will surpass them (not counting Mogwai, as I think that their music evolved into something broader than post rock)
15:03 onto the end gives off the imagery of a man, paying his final respects to the men he had served in battle with. As the wreath is being laid, tears can be seen flooding his eyes as he solutes. That is what I see.
jebus balls, every godspeed link i try just gets better and freakin better.. got 2 LP's in transit, there is a storm'a'brewing outside.... gonna be one hell of a listening session going down very soon, and I am so bloody excited about it!
I said "Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a God damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're God because you have horns and wings and you can put people up the god damn moon for 20 years? Well you're not." And I left it at that...
@Enleuk I think this is a "field-recording" from Efrim himself. You hear his voice asking the questions. They probably met the guy somewhere and started a conversation. And then they turned on the recorder. Probably was a "magical moment". I do record some stuff out on the streets my own. You find a lot of truth, anger and spirit out there if you pay attention. ... And I think they put him in the song ´cause he mirrors the current (or at 1999) happening state of the american mind/people.
...then, before I left, I turned around and told Celestia "I'm here to state who I am and be honest with you." I said "If I am a bad student for being tardy with this report, would I even be your student at all? Don't I have a long record of success?”, and Celestia says "Yeah, you have a point," she goes "you don't need to get loud."
This song becomes more real and terrifying every time I listen to it, for that exact reason. Nobody is truly ready for what’s coming. It is the end of an era of civilization that cannot be projected into the future to predict what’s about to happen. Ready as I’ll ever be couldn’t be closer to the truth... it doesn’t explicitly mean that anybody is really actually ready
Huh, deranged man? Most of what he says is true. Moreover, this song is not about the reality of what he is saying. It is all about HOW he is saying. Look at his choice of words, his voice, the music in the background, the crescendos, the decrescendos, the percussion, the tension, this is the only epic thing that has happened since the emergence of Genghis Khan.
Just listened to the Maiden song. Much more impactful are the lyrics in this format than in the Maiden song, and never cared for Maiden anyway. But props to the lyricists for crafting such a poignant message which, in my view, wasn't properly delivered until this track was created.
This isn't "more relevant now than ever". It was always this relevant. For most of human history, those with power have taken advantage of those without. People from all eras and all continents have been convinced they were at the end of the world. But things are getting better. We evolve through strife; whether natural or imposed by authority. "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice". Maintain hope and keep pushing forward. Godspeed.
This band may very well be the greatest band ever in their respective genre. I have yet to find a band with as much depth, absolute feirce truth, sound arguments and amazingly crippling sounds. Our world is shit and we all live in the matrix, nobody wants to be bothered with looking in the mirror and recognizing that "they" are they problem. We all walk around thinking it's everybody else and not ourselves, myself included. Death will be the equalizing force that will humble us all.
cant tell if the band were trying to make him sound truthful or paranoid, or both. whichever it is, i love this interview. also, is efrim menuck the one interviewing him and asking the questions?
He's full of shit for sure. Most of the people the band samples are nutjobs. I think his "poem" is mostly plagiarized from a song by Iron Maiden or something.
IHateGooglePlus There is a saying that goes: "Truth can only be heard from madmen and children". That saying captures the essence of what I believe gby!be, whose members are outspoken anarchists, were trying to convey. In this mad world the ones we call the lunatics are the ones who see the world for what it is. This eccentric, 10 guns owning, Iron Maiden plagiarizing poet is closer to the truth than most of the so called wise men.
I have a question for those who think this dude's poem is great: did you know "his" poem is actually the lyrics of an Iron Maiden song? Follow up question: do you like the poem a little less now?
+mayonaise It's not that it isn't good, it's that the guy speaking, copying lyrics from Iron Maiden, and peddling it as his own. And that speaks volumes for the accountability of that man's words and views on government. Hard to say if that was intentional or not.
thenewoblivion I don't think that the ''interview'' was necessarily set in our universe so to speak. It's like the universe that they created and that's where their songs are set.
+mayonaise Perhaps, maybe, but one thing that gets me is the the interview wasn't made for this song itself; the recording was procured from some other source. That being said, if it was from another universe, then Iron Maiden would not exist there. If they do, then it mustnt be that different from our Earth, huh?
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I’m pretty much in agreement to what he’s sayin.
He do be spitin fax doe
Dont like America? Move. I’ll help you pack.
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 who said they don't like America lol?
This song came out in 1999 and they're talking about what the year 2003 will be like. He wouldn't even answer that question because he thought it was too inhumane to even imagine. It's been 24 years. It's 2023. And everything this man said in this interview still resonates with us so much even after all this time. Everything still rings true, from the polititians, to the economy, to the police. Everything is just as bad, if not worse then what he saw.
Everytime I listen to this song I think about him. I ask myself if he's still alive today. And if he is, what does he think of the world now? I'd want to talk to him, buy him a beer or something, and talk about how much the world has crumbled.
Lol. True. When I was listening to this EP back in let's say, 2001 I thought 'the guy is a schizo'...listening back to it nowadays and I'm not so sure anymore, man 😂 Maybe it's true that so called lunatics are able to foresee things most people don't...
@@ndesdsadfd A mentally il guy in the U.S. need help.
it's only going to get worse and worse
I knew there was no future back then too. I tried everything to die before it got to this point, I still am. Or at least try to distract myself. It's getting worse every day, and harder to look away. A man just set himself on fire.
@@bluedonkey1 "The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra.
"Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the goddamn river for 20 years? Well you're not." And I left it at that
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"be prepared for anything at any time from anybody, don't take no shit, always stand your ground."
Paranoid as hell, but words to live by.
Most of us learn the hard way.
it's a little saying, that dates back from generations.
When I was a kid I got lost on coney island
I saw this band live in seattle. Paid over 3x the house price, got food poisoning the same night, ended up leaving my front row spot with perfect views to vomit violently out the back door, clean up, and then vomit out the front door, I stay and finished watching from a stool near a trash can with security watching me from the back of the venue. I regret nothing.
Best night of my life. Thank you, Godspeed.
Amazing
Godspeed you! food poisoned listener
12:04 one of the most incredible moments in the history of music. An assault on the hearing sense.
spine tingles. every time.
and captured by GIHM perfectly
Interesting. When i was much younger and first heard this i thought the guy was a little crazy.
Here we are in 2021. He may have been crazy, but he wasn't wrong.
I would love to see an interview with BBF3 in 2022.
Yeah he might have been kinda crazy but again he was 100% right on absolutely everything he said.
Maybe we, who agree to participate in the deadly malfunctioning machine that society is, are the insane ones
I highly doubt that the members of Godspeed would agree with you that he's not wrong.
They have far-left political views and show footage of angry Trump supporters during the guy's rant at live shows. The guy's rant was prescient but not because he's right about anything.
@@Corrupted_06 except for america being a third world country
@@Designed1i mean, you see some of our wealth disparity, our vanished middle class, our disregarded urban areas and homeless epidemics, our slow-but-certain losses to china and future coalitions....the empire is losing its shine.
"Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse."
Such a somber song to listen to right now
Absolutely
Even more so now, 4 years later.
"The cry of the poor may not always be just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is." - Howard Zinn
15:06 The violin outro is the most beautiful arrangement I've ever heard. One day it will play at my funeral.
I agree.
I can’t get through it without tearing up.
Just this morning I showed that section to a coworker. It's entirely worth it's own separate nod from the rest of the song/album.
What's the name of the one in 28 days later?
East Hastings
The best Iron Maiden Blaze era cover
mindblowing cover!
Ok. I'm confused.
bro snapped
I fell asleep with earphones listening to Spotify, and woke up early in the morning to the man's voice, describing the event in court. It was really something. Immediately Google'd the lyrics/narration.
Damn good music.
I love it when that happens. Spotify's random suggestions after a playlist is through has brought me to some great places.
Cool
U
"You think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the goddamn river for 20 years? Well you're not."
I sympathize so much with this guy.
@@Taeronai he's nuts tho
@@dativermediano. He was just ahead of the curve.
God damn. Why have I only been listening to dead flag blues?
What a song.
9:55's Iron Maiden reference/monologue & 12:00 onwards are some of greatest post rock moments ever
16 years after and still fresh as shit!
This EP remains their best work, in my opinion. Nothing holds a candle to Moya.
Still fresh as shit, even today lol
I interpret this song to basically be GY!BE showing what their ideology looks like if you take out hope.
This guy's certainly got righteous anger, and GY!BE definitely agree with his assessment of the American government, or really all governments.
But his anger doesn't have any direction. He doesn't have any idea what we should do to improve things. In fact, I suspect he would get some satisfaction from everything collapsing. He's thinks he's ready for anything. He's quick to anger ("I'll throw them through the fucking window, I won't think a thing of it"), selfish (rejecting the beggar on Providence), and pretty full of himself ("Usually people are pretty much in agreement with what I'm saying.")
Godspeed have always emphasized hope, and this is why. Without it, you turn into this guy.
Collapse would improve things, it's not like America is just gonna bend over and compromising with the country killing this world or beyond isn't gonna save us
One of my favorite parts in all of music is that strange little piano note you hear around 10:04 right when he is saying "to brainwash the mind"
+Bacon and cheese has been stuffed into a crust Abso-fucking-lutely.
Are you talking about at 10:05-10:06? That's a really cool part--the discordant piano reflects the discordant thoughts BBF3 is spilling out in his interview. It's almost like that one small piano note is a highlighter going over a single word on a page "MANIA"
ECHtoplasm, yeah it is actually at 10:06, not 10:04. Fail
Kinda reminds me of the ending of To Pimp A Butterfly
This song hits different in 2020.
You should listen to it in 2022 😢
@@critter505 2023 checking in; shit ain't getting better!
@@FullMetalOvercoatIt’s actually getting significantly worse
And I left it at that...
Twice!
saw this live tonight and i dont know if i can hear any song live the same again, these guys are magic in music form
Probably the only band I would want to listen to live.
'be prepared for anything, at anytime, from anybody, & don't take no shit....always stand your ground'
man, i know it has been said here a couple times but... i think this song has never been so true as it is now
He was right all along. I hope he is ready for what's coming.
Everytime I Hear the Ending part of the song I have dreams where I'm walking in a never ending park and I can hear the sound of this beautiful person who I think is the greatest person in the world I love her so much. so while I get closer she keeps moving away without waling and once she stops I get closer once i'm about to grab her hand she just vanishes and i was in a pain of tears! this is a very amazing and sad track!
I honestly think his recitation of the lyrics are way more better than the original
For any of u wondering. The cover is just the tenth and eleventh words of the Bible (in Hebrew) and it means complete chaos.
“Formless and empty” not exactly chaos but rather the world before God and the world after his son returns
transliterated its 'tohu vavohu ' which translates roughly into "formless and empty"
This is a beautiful description in psychology. Someones lonely misanthropic point of view, with the music suggesting some pain being the filter for the negativity, something having caused this outlook. This group to me seems to appreciate describing the perspectives of people no matter how outsider they may seem, and the music is simply an emotional canvas attempting to find what is objectively in their head: a spiritual snapshot. We normally wouldn't think anything of these kinds of people, but to me this music gives them dignity, a beautiful portrait of what is in their mind as they are attempting to communicate their feelings.
His unfocused hatred of society is tragic, and this song is a dirge for his civility.
I love how you perfectly put that into words#!!
It's hard. Why we have music.
Really? I always saw it like they were embracing some of what he had to say.
Societies like our own do hurt a lot of people, unintentionally or not and a lot of people who look or sound like him get thrown under the bus just because of who their parents were and how much money they had to "raise them right".
If enough people feel that way, I suppose... well... given that the concept of society is people as one unit working together, that we would have the right to bring down that very society which hurt so many people. It's the underlying psychology behind stuff like the Stonewall Riots and most riots in general.
Skullkan6
That's kind of what I was trying to get at actually. The band captures the general emotion that may not be apparent at first. It's empathic, so of course its embracing!
He doesn't sound lonely or misanthropic to me. He sounds passionate and aware.
I'VE GOT EVERY RIGHT TO GET LOUD!
This is my "eye of the tiger"
I brush my teeth to this shit
God speed you new orange emperor
My god I just whipped this ep out tonight, I forgot I had it on vinyl all these yrs. I forgot how much I loved this dude's little rant to this epic piece of music :)
Recently got it on vinyl myself, incredible record!
I personally wish I could have a written version of what he's saying. Sometimes the music gets too loud and I can't hear what he's saying. He sounds off his rocker, maybe, but calling someone crazy is dismissive. He's right about not trusting the American Government...
This was the last song they played in Manchester last year... I was so happy when they did. it's my favourite GY!BE song...
You ready for what's coming?
Ready as I'll ever be.
watching beginnings of social decay
Best song I've ever heard. The truth is all over this epic piece of music. In the man's voice... in its violins, guitars, drums and what have you...even in its silence...We are at war. And this is an extraordinary wake up call. If we can find our own voice within this f*cked up system we call democracy and finally understand what we really are and how we are forced to live our lives within a world created by multinational corporations who own us with every breath we take, we can finally take down this wall they built around everyone of us. Do not believe a word they say, do not enter the void they want you to step in...think. Just think.
agreed 100% :)
Well... we bought into it. We bought into the ideas sold by companies back in the late 1800's that it wasn't contacts, or education, or being white and in the right place that gave you success, it was JUST hard work. And guess who benefits from all that hard work with that idea? Yeah, those very bosses you hope to be like.
Oh, so identify yourself with a crazy man, who is shouting on the judge because of the speeding ticket and he recites Iron Maiden lyrics as his own poem? Great.
+RightWingForLiberty
Yeah. Your point being?
yes
I LOVE hearing people talk that passionately.
Staggering work of heartbreaking genius. I'm thirsty and sleepy now. Night night.
Christ! I don't know what to say about this song. I love every single bit of it. From the ramblings of Blaise sandwiching the brilliant break down and build up, to the piano tinkles leading to the blasting crescendo around the 12 minute mark, to the aftermath resembling a plane on a runway following landing to the last beautiful outro. My favourite song ever from my favourite album/EP ever.
This could just be the most thought provoking song I have ever listened to.
The vocals of this deranged man, the pendulous strings, the stirring crescendos.... this song is the greatest thing Godspeed ever put out. And all of their stuff is amazing. I want to listen to this song when the world ends.
"deranged"? looks like you missed the point of the lyrics
He's kinda erratic but that doesn't make his words less true, I think the Godspeed guys put him in the song with a certain degree of respect
"I walked up to the goddamn bench, I handed up my $25 dollars up, and I says 'there's my my money and now I'm leaving! And I LEFT IT AT THAT!"
.....
But before I left I turned around around and told the judge...
And I left it at that
Godspeed sends shivers down my spine.
"Third world, third rate, third class slum."
Damn, the anger. Sometimes I like listening to people ramble. Maybe because it's nothing like me, I always pick my words carefully and self-censor too much.
is he wrong though
Me too. I never really speak my mind, and hearing this guy say whatever he wants is endearing.
Conviction is a beautiful thing
I agree with that guy
dude was spot on. all these years later and its all true.
Replace American government with British government and he’s still speaking absolute truth.
@@magpie1862 _All_ governments are lying cocksuckers.
- Bill Hicks
Gy!be gets it.
"we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death."
@@magpie1862 any capitalist government or government to any extent really
This is a masterpiece.
“What do you think this country’s gonna look like in 2003?”
“I’m not gonna answer that question cause I don’t have a mind that’s that inhumane.”
Right as he finishes saying that line the song hits 9:11. Not tryna be a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist but it’s a pretty neat coincidence.
This song came out in 1998 too that’s even spookier
US government and the climate now is prophetic, but always clear to the ones who are awake.
Oh god I never realized that, that's really eerie
Oh my god, I love this.
13:30 is literally the same melody as the Interstellar theme by Hans Zimmer.
top 5 post rock songs.
all top 5 post rocks songs are probably from gybe
Masterpiece.
Understatement
"The rats in the cellar, you know who you are" I think Efrim foreshadowed Pete Buttiegieg
you might call him nuts but he was absolutely right, compare 1999 to now
Now compare 1999 to now
@@joaquinbadman9678 Now compare 1999 to now. And while you're at it compare 3 weeks ago to now
@Tristan Smith anarchism is cool
@@joaquinbadman9678 compare 2020 to 2021.
"No way. Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse."
"we're just basically in a hopeless situation as it stands."
11:58 The most eargasmic moment ever
11:58
This is an absolute musical masterpiece from start to finish, and second only to 'Storm' as far as GYBE compositions go.
JohnNada80 what about static?
Love that poem.
Love Godspeed.
How relevant is that today?
Give it a few more years...
Steve Harris, great poet.
It is relevant in these days.
You were right
So... now we are here... i guess...
It is relevant.
With every new GY!BE album, I always listen to almost all of their older music. Still fascinating and mesmerizing, how many years have passed. Although many groups exist in the so called post rock field, nothing will surpass them (not counting Mogwai, as I think that their music evolved into something broader than post rock)
First time I heard this I was trippin sack a mushroom a day keeps the government away
Is it he, who's a vocal minority that's off his rocker, or us, the silent majority who are too afraid to let our voice be heard ?
15:03 onto the end gives off the imagery of a man, paying his final respects to the men he had served in battle with. As the wreath is being laid, tears can be seen flooding his eyes as he solutes. That is what I see.
We are all BBF3 in 2022
This song would never work if done today because the guy is just the median Republican voter at this point. They were trying to warn us
final battle music as hell
What's the name of the piece on 28 days later?
@@hardwiredtoself-destructio7614 The sad mafioso.
jebus balls, every godspeed link i try just gets better and freakin better.. got 2 LP's in transit, there is a storm'a'brewing outside.... gonna be one hell of a listening session going down very soon, and I am so bloody excited about it!
"2003"
seems like every year the bar gets lower and lower
Brother you ain't kidding
best band ever, best song ever, god bless Montreal
yep ive been a gybe fan since the beginning, seen them 2 times in Reykjavik ICELAND and 1 time montreal CAN
@AdamTrid i first listened to GYBE when I was running a high fever. I am now in love forever.
I said "Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a God damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're God because you have horns and wings and you can put people up the god damn moon for 20 years? Well you're not."
And I left it at that...
12:00 don't get loud? i've got every right to get loud.
turns out this dude was completely right about everything
@Enleuk I think this is a "field-recording" from Efrim himself. You hear his voice asking the questions. They probably met the guy somewhere and started a conversation. And then they turned on the recorder. Probably was a "magical moment". I do record some stuff out on the streets my own. You find a lot of truth, anger and spirit out there if you pay attention. ... And I think they put him in the song ´cause he mirrors the current (or at 1999) happening state of the american mind/people.
Bass is so amazing in this.
...then, before I left, I turned around and told Celestia "I'm here to state who I am and be honest with you." I said "If I am a bad student for being tardy with this report, would I even be your student at all? Don't I have a long record of success?”, and Celestia says "Yeah, you have a point," she goes "you don't need to get loud."
"america is a third world country"
me, living in latinamerica: How sweet...
Simply the saddest song I've ever heard.
Speaking Truth To Power.
Having integrity in the face of brute force.
this man's mind reminds me of taxi driver
Listen you screw heads, here was a man, here was a man that wasn't gonna take it anymore.
You ready for what's coming?
Most people aren't.
Ready as I'll ever be
This song becomes more real and terrifying every time I listen to it, for that exact reason. Nobody is truly ready for what’s coming. It is the end of an era of civilization that cannot be projected into the future to predict what’s about to happen. Ready as I’ll ever be couldn’t be closer to the truth... it doesn’t explicitly mean that anybody is really actually ready
It's getting closer now
You think the end of the world is coming
So says the preacher man but I dont go by what he says
Huh, deranged man? Most of what he says is true. Moreover, this song is not about the reality of what he is saying. It is all about HOW he is saying. Look at his choice of words, his voice, the music in the background, the crescendos, the decrescendos, the percussion, the tension, this is the only epic thing that has happened since the emergence of Genghis Khan.
Just listened to the Maiden song. Much more impactful are the lyrics in this format than in the Maiden song, and never cared for Maiden anyway. But props to the lyricists for crafting such a poignant message which, in my view, wasn't properly delivered until this track was created.
Beautiful stuff. This band will never cease to amaze me.
anyone else pretty much in agreement to what he’s sayin?
This isn't "more relevant now than ever". It was always this relevant.
For most of human history, those with power have taken advantage of those without. People from all eras and all continents have been convinced they were at the end of the world.
But things are getting better. We evolve through strife; whether natural or imposed by authority. "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice". Maintain hope and keep pushing forward. Godspeed.
This band may very well be the greatest band ever in their respective genre. I have yet to find a band with as much depth, absolute feirce truth, sound arguments and amazingly crippling sounds. Our world is shit and we all live in the matrix, nobody wants to be bothered with looking in the mirror and recognizing that "they" are they problem. We all walk around thinking it's everybody else and not ourselves, myself included. Death will be the equalizing force that will humble us all.
I have never heard such perfection... until now. Thanks.
Man if you say that to the judge it'll be contempt of court lol
tis the fucking season
Never really been a fan of Maiden and obviously neither is Godspeed. Thanks for the info and I will give that a listen.
cant tell if the band were trying to make him sound truthful or paranoid, or both. whichever it is, i love this interview.
also, is efrim menuck the one interviewing him and asking the questions?
He's full of shit for sure. Most of the people the band samples are nutjobs. I think his "poem" is mostly plagiarized from a song by Iron Maiden or something.
He was Iron Maidens third vocalist. The one nobody remembers.
It's not actually Iron Maiden's singer, the real Blaze Bayley is British. This dude is just a tinfoil-wearing Iron Maiden fan.
Music is bomb who cares how they are I'm here for music not cult following
IHateGooglePlus There is a saying that goes: "Truth can only be heard from madmen and children". That saying captures the essence of what I believe gby!be, whose members are outspoken anarchists, were trying to convey. In this mad world the ones we call the lunatics are the ones who see the world for what it is. This eccentric, 10 guns owning, Iron Maiden plagiarizing poet is closer to the truth than most of the so called wise men.
Time's almost up America. Be ready for what's coming.
Damn you were right
Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't mind telling you the story. Erm... I went to Celestia today for a tardy friendship report, and I told her, erm...
@AdamTrid I was there! I may have seen you! I wasn't ill, but that show was definitely worth any amount of vomit.
That's accurate
This is real.
I have a question for those who think this dude's poem is great: did you know "his" poem is actually the lyrics of an Iron Maiden song?
Follow up question: do you like the poem a little less now?
Iron maiden is good though...
+mayonaise It's not that it isn't good, it's that the guy speaking, copying lyrics from Iron Maiden, and peddling it as his own. And that speaks volumes for the accountability of that man's words and views on government. Hard to say if that was intentional or not.
thenewoblivion
I don't think that the ''interview'' was necessarily set in our universe so to speak. It's like the universe that they created and that's where their songs are set.
+mayonaise Perhaps, maybe, but one thing that gets me is the the interview wasn't made for this song itself; the recording was procured from some other source. That being said, if it was from another universe, then Iron Maiden would not exist there. If they do, then it mustnt be that different from our Earth, huh?
thenewoblivion
yeah true but I thought the band interviewed the guy irl didn't they?
This is the guy at the beginning of Providence. neat.
thought the guy was bobby fischer at first i might’ve been bugging tho
best time to listen is during a windy apocalyptic storm.