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11-19-02 | 09:41 AM
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Originally posted by Giles
Hey Gdrlv,
Are you planning on buying the new Godspeed You Black Emperor album: "Yanqui U.X.O" which is supposedly released today?
Hey Gdrlv,
Are you planning on buying the new Godspeed You Black Emperor album: "Yanqui U.X.O" which is supposedly released today?
I still want to check it out even though Pitchfork gave it a poor review. However, I often find myself at ends with Pitchfork...
http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-rev...nqui-uxo.shtml
11-19-02 | 11:14 AM
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From: NC & NY
Tori Amos- Scarlet's walk
The Polyphonic Spree- The beginning Stages of...
Pearl Jam- Riot Act (their best since Vs.)
last 5 purchases
Erasure- 20 Pop hits
Sigur Ros- Von
INXS- Anthology
Missy Elliott- Under Construction
Fautline- Your Love Means Everything
The Polyphonic Spree- The beginning Stages of...
Pearl Jam- Riot Act (their best since Vs.)
last 5 purchases
Erasure- 20 Pop hits
Sigur Ros- Von
INXS- Anthology
Missy Elliott- Under Construction
Fautline- Your Love Means Everything
11-19-02 | 11:17 AM
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Originally posted by Giles
Hey Gdrlv,
Are you planning on buying the new Godspeed You Black Emperor album: "Yanqui U.X.O" which is supposedly released today?
Hey Gdrlv,
Are you planning on buying the new Godspeed You Black Emperor album: "Yanqui U.X.O" which is supposedly released today?
11-19-02 | 11:41 AM
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Originally posted by Gdrlv
I'll definitely be picking it up, probably on my way home from work this evening. Has anyone heard it yet?
I'll definitely be picking it up, probably on my way home from work this evening. Has anyone heard it yet?
soft... soft... soft... louder... louder... louder... crescendo... loud... loud... softer... softer... softer... crescendo.... soft... soft... end... X 5
11-19-02 | 12:04 PM
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As I recall, NME gave the new "Godspeed You Black Emperor" album an 8 (out of 10). When I go home I want to double check, all I remember from the review was that it was very positive and they did like it.
Here's a link to what some listeners have said about the album from Amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...417532-5262022
Here's a link to what some listeners have said about the album from Amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...417532-5262022
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11-19-02 | 12:25 PM
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Well, all I can say is that I'm going to miss the voice loops that were so present on "Lift Your Skinny Fists..." I think they are incredibly interesting, creepy (especially that street-preacher on "Static"), and add a lot to the music.
But I'm still looking forward to it.
But I'm still looking forward to it.
11-19-02 | 12:53 PM
#32
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Here's The Onion's review of the new GYBE disc...
Pretty positive, and I usually trust the Onion's reviews.
The nine-piece Montreal collective Godspeed You Black Emperor! has carved out an impressive niche as one of the world's most accessibly inscrutable bands. Politically radical yet entirely instrumental (save for some telling samples), willfully obscure (its members generally hide their faces and identities), and maddeningly prolific (try sifting through its side projects some time), the group nevertheless makes music that's powerful and emotionally direct enough to appeal to just about anyone who encounters it. Oh, and now the exclamation point in the band's name should be placed between "You" and "Black." Please make a note of it. GYBE's latest dispatch, Yanqui U.X.O., travels further down the rabbit hole, stretching three songs ("9-15-00," "Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls," and "Mother****er=Redeemer") across a disquieting 75-minute landscape. With production by Steve Albini, a perfectly combative accomplice for a band that loves to provoke, Yanqui U.X.O.'s most audacious move may actually be its relative sedateness. Stripped of some of Godspeed's hallmarks, including its creepy spoken-word samples and propensity for building to an overbearingly climactic full-on pummel, the disc's power lies more in its subdued shading and slow, methodical builds. For full effect, the songs need to be taken in alongside Yanqui's cantankerous liner notes, which graft a narrative onto the meandering soundscapes, generally in the form of anti-corporate and anti-war screeds that indict everyone for everything. Without its provocative packaging—from the essays to the bombs on the cover—Yanqui U.X.O. is somewhat harder to digest, but it's hard to fault Godspeed You! Black Emperor for balancing political heavy-handedness with a surprising degree of musical subtlety. —Stephen Thompson
11-19-02 | 03:26 PM
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I was off by a number. NME actually gave it a 9 out of 10.
"No wonder Godspeed are always compared to the cultural climate. Music doesn't get much more atmospheric than this. If the over-riding gloom of "Leevz Vos Skinny Fists..." caused stunned hacks to question Godspeed's party arrangements on Millennium Night then the snappily titles "Yanqui UXO" soulds like the wind whistling across Ground Zero. On 21 minute centrepiece, erm "Motherf***er=Redeemer", they are Spiritualized beamed in from the Ice Hotel; transcendental 'opener' "09-15-00" makes Radiohead's avant-dabblings sound like Will & Gareth. A quiet dignity resonates through the entire 75 minutes. On a planet where most bands care for little other that their midweek chart position, Godspeed are a wonder to behold
- Paul Moody (NME 2 November, 2002)
"No wonder Godspeed are always compared to the cultural climate. Music doesn't get much more atmospheric than this. If the over-riding gloom of "Leevz Vos Skinny Fists..." caused stunned hacks to question Godspeed's party arrangements on Millennium Night then the snappily titles "Yanqui UXO" soulds like the wind whistling across Ground Zero. On 21 minute centrepiece, erm "Motherf***er=Redeemer", they are Spiritualized beamed in from the Ice Hotel; transcendental 'opener' "09-15-00" makes Radiohead's avant-dabblings sound like Will & Gareth. A quiet dignity resonates through the entire 75 minutes. On a planet where most bands care for little other that their midweek chart position, Godspeed are a wonder to behold
- Paul Moody (NME 2 November, 2002)
11-19-02 | 09:38 PM
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What are your last five purchases?
Talib Qweli Quality
Mos Def & Talib Qweli Black Star
Eminem 8 Mile Soundtrack
Xzibit Man vs. Machine
Eminem The Eminem Show
Talib Qweli Quality
Mos Def & Talib Qweli Black Star
Eminem 8 Mile Soundtrack
Xzibit Man vs. Machine
Eminem The Eminem Show
