Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Haha AllMusic gave this a 6/10

I legit feel like I'm Odysseus or some shit and that GYBE are essentially the musical equivalent of Homer in that they took me on one of the most amazing musical journeys of my life. This album is to music for me what the Iliad and the Odyssey are to me for reading, an absolutely radical experience to say the least

The outro on Providence literally scared the absolute shit out of me. 2-3 minutes of deafening silence and then BOOM!! What a finish.

Like, let's be real with myself. I'm never listening to this again. Who in the world would want to listen to the musical equivalent of white noise for an hour a second time. Like, don't get me wrong, i liked it. I'm never gonna think about it again. I've already forgotten basically every part.

Hell, I gave Lift Your Skinny Fists a 98/100 and I've only listened to that twice.

Don't get me wrong, this music is grand, exciting, and original. But it's also ... read more

In 2002 the movement The Sad Mafioso... from the song East Hastings was used in the film 28 Days Later. I was only 9 when the movie was released but somehow I remember the release of the film quite well, as I was rarely shielded as a kid from the more harrowing films of the time. For example, when I was twelve I went to see V For Vendetta in theatres, which to this day is one of my favorite films of all time. 28 Days Later was another film early in my life that stood out to a large degree, from ... read more