Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven [FULL ALBUM]
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Published: Wed Feb 08 2012
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They have a song called Black Flag Blues that is I think one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard.
Edit: dead flag, not black flag!
Got reminded of this album while we were watching Silicon Valley and a commercial in the show played storm and I was excited to show my wife that I knew the music and whipped out the vinyl for the album. I was called a nerd, oh well.
Honestly one of the greatest albums of all time
Never gets old
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Just picked up Yanqui U.X.O. this past weekend. I’d kill to find this at my local record store. Them, This Will Destroy You and Mogwai are my go to music for reading.
They called Coney Island, "the playground of the world."
There was no place like it, in the whole world, like Coney Island when I was a youngster.
No place in the world like it, and it was so fabulous.
Now it's shrunk down to almost nothing, you see.
And, uh, I still remember in my mind how things used to be, and uh, you know, I feel very bad.
But people from all over the world came here.
From all over the world, it was the playground -- they called it the playground of the world, over here.
Anyways, uh, I... uh... you know... I even got -- when I was, uh, when I was very small, I even got lost at Coney Island, but they found me.
On the, on, on the beach.
And we used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight.
They don't do that anymore.
Things changed, you see.
They don't sleep anymore on the beach...
I was lucky enough to get to see them perform this album live in entirety, shortly after it was released.
I'd heard their earlier work after a friend recommended them. The earlier albums are dark and weird... so when they came to play the Metro here in Chicago I got tickets. I just wanted to see what kind of folks showed up, you know? I used to do that all the time in my twenties and thirties, and wound up making a lot of friends that way.
30 minutes in and I'm gently weeping, which was pretty much how I spent the entire show. Out of (literal) hundreds of concerts I've attended, that's only happened twice.
(For the curious, the other time was seeing Pelican at the Empty Bottle, supporting their release: Australasia)
The best music for the apocolypse of 2020.