Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues [2 of 2]

[BlairAKify]

This music is brilliant. I can't believe I never knew about this band before!

[phobiazzzero]

sounds like pink floyd at the beginning...those guitars

[KnightChrome50]

@ZombieJingo I hear that

[KnightChrome50]

@ZombieJingo I hear that.

[tron321able]

An amalgalm of emotions and things to come. Greatamazingawesome!

[ang9l]

4:20 is love.

[TheN306]

this shit makes me cry everytime... better than drugs, OOBE and heaven

[xkhuongdox]

It's KSCIAA again! :O

[casdebom2]

That fucking Glockenspiel ending makes it even better.

[herbertbeiderbecke]

Canadian landscapes meet Ennio Morricone!

[beskepticalways]

an inspired piece, thank you

[analfrost]

thank you SO MUCH for putting up the whole song =)

[TheAeonPhoenix]

This song is the dark reflection of success, or what being "successful" in todays world cost. It's that feeling you get when you realize that even though the world hasn't totally fallen into disarray, there are plenty of cruel and horrific things that go on underneath all the bullshit optimism that we insist on keeping. It's all the negative things that people do.

[MrStubenhocker]

F#A#∞ is a milestone in post-rock. No doubt.

[rich02468]

I love how in this part it swells into the cowboy heroic, evocative of American frontier mythology. It can't hold up though- it's replaced by a regression to the trite, the childish, the carnival.

[AuthenticCelestial]

@rich02468 what? are you talking about the bluegrass-style part at the end? it's wonderful, dude. your comments strike me as a little pretentious. no hard feelings, it's just that you couldn't be further from the truth. and it's not like American frontier mythology is absent of cheer.

if anything, the contrast benefits both parts.

[rich02468]

@AuthenticCelestial No it creates a western conceit in order to deliberately undermine it. I'm sorry if you think my comment is pretentious.

[beskepticalways]

@rich02468 i too feel the frontier vibes. one can almost envision, at the sound of the train whistle, a coach full of hollow men, all running away from something.. but i do feel the song find it's glory in the outro. it reminds me of the last part in Robert Enrico's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, where the deserter is met by his wife in the front yard

[bingo089]

I love the first part of this song, it is simply inspirational, but at the same time an answer,

[punkflamungo]

This is... I can't find an adjective to describe how much i enjoyed it...

[Khelgar1]

I love this bass line... great song.

greeting from czech

[dizzydelarge]

@Khelgar1 Agree, my bro...fuckin´ awesome composition

[dontpunchgrandpa]

I love the outro, its such a stark sunny contrast from the beginning, I just love everything about it. The singing violin, the swirling guitar slides the bluegrass bassline the xylophone and how every instrument individually could be its own song yet they all combine to make a beautiful tour de force. masterful.

[dontpunchgrandpa]

stare at the telephone pole while you listen and you could swear the clouds are moving

[Rowellenator69]

@dontpunchgrandpa

Spooky.

[theboysun]

highest point ever touched by "music"

[gekrepten]

Listening to GYBE changed my life. I fucking love this song. And this is one of my favourite pieces of music, ever.

[aYellingSir]

I really love the first part. Second, not so much. Which songs of theirs are similar the the first bit?

And thanks for all the uploads, you brought me several new favorites, especially Agalloch.

[LorenzoMMartini]

Love the songs,and the pictures and the whole actually.

The pictures are amazing...any way to get them?

Thanks for the upload anyway.

[KSCIAA]

I can send them if you want. Message me your email.

[zqfd]

The fourth movement is one of my most beautiful trip in music.

[jonbashjonbash]

"The Cowboy" is in my top two favorite Godspeed "movements." :D

[LordTJ666]

305 views 9 ratings? wtf?

[KSCIAA]

What?

[LordTJ666]

Im just saying, now theres 310 views and still 9 ratings youd expect a lot more with that many views.

[KSCIAA]

Ah.

Actually those stats are typical, more or less.

[reepicheepo]

LordTJ? 666? WTF?

[JonnyB16902]

lol

[onemorestepandyoudie]

I wish I could go back and listen to this album for the first time again. The beautiful sound of complete hopelessness.

This is such powerful stuff...

I own this on vinyl, and it has a locked grove on the last drone which actually makes the record play forever. It also comes with a canadian penny that the band had flattened on a train track.

[Yoshi92]

oh man this is so awesome, i listen to it every day for like 20 times :D

hail KSCIAA! :P

[Zarwid]

This is the only time that I've listened to a song, and immediately, not the next day but immediately ran out and purchased the album.

Thank you KSCIAA, keep putting good music on the 'tube!

[KSCIAA]

I plan to. :)

[Pavelness]

Truely an awesome band.

[Kilgorin10]

Wow, this really brings back memories!!!

[dmplaura]

Woah... this band brings back memories!