Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III [2 of 2]

[freeradicals]

What does anyone suppose 'Do you think things are going to get better before they get worse?' is supposed to mean? Do you think he meant to say "worse before they get better?"

[sinbysin666]

Weirdest thing I've ever heard. Why are they reciting Iron Maiden?

[darkmarine123]

Absolutely amazing. Godspeed never fails to entertain me.

[xDyNaZtY]

man, the last 3 minutes of this song, its like the most beautiful thing ive ever heard

[jeromed2]

@xDyNaZtY I know. So intense...

[jeromed2]

@xDyNaZtY dramatic, devastating, but beautiful as well.

[tool85pushit]

Oh fuck me this is epic!

[ianmacsmith]

his answer to the question " how long have you been writing?" shows how 'off' he is. he's takes it too literally. seems to me he probably can;t tell the difference between whats his and whats not anymore.

[bioshockt]

That line "Are you ready for what's coming?" it always sticks out to me, I hear it so clearly. Are we? Am I? I don't know, I can't know, because we don't know whats coming to begin with.

[MRSHINYCADILLACKNESS]

maybe the guy talking was Bruce Dickinson!! lol in which case his story is legit!

[ofarevolution441]

interesting way of dividing this. i feel like in the first half of the dialogue, you can kind of sympathize with him, but in the second half of the dialogue, you realize he's hardly sane.

great song all around.

[KASIantamBLKNGdia]

omg !! where the hell did u get the dialogue ??

[KSCIAA]

@KASIantamBLKNGdia Just listened and wrote it down.

[aaronsafilmnerd]

@KSCIAA You Are AWesome.

[TheSlutWolf]

@KASIantamBLKNGdia the poem is an Iron Maiden song.

[xDyNaZtY]

@KASIantamBLKNGdia its on the internet u know, pretty easy to find it

[deshaebeasley]

Watch a Dr. Ron Paul clip then watch this and see how creepy it is... haha

[CityofButterfly]

I can't say my political views are this strong, but this song is AWESOME. It's a shame the guy is BSing most of what he says, but I don't think it's the band's fault, and I don't think it makes the song any less good.

I liked Godspeed after hearing F#A# (Infinity), but this EP is what made them one of my favorite bands of all time.

[tomcrito27]

5:30 - 6:30 is the high mark in the history of music. Simply the best song ever made.

[ChunkyPirate]

Intense.

[sk8trchick4545]

HE HAS GUNS

O;<

[KSCIAA]

lol...

[sk8trchick4545]

Well he won't shut up about guns..

xD

[KSCIAA]

Indeed.

[97036]

mind blowing!

[Demoncracy]

I love this song, ti's so intense. That man, mr. Finnegan, he had his mind set on the right ideals but I think he is very dilusional if not ultra-paranoia. He claims he wrote Virus himself, and the last time something similair happened, Dimebag Darrel Abbot got shot. Godspeed really captured a historic interview in my opinion, love this band.

[MansoonArising]

dude you are completely right! and by the way i love your name! haha

[MotorheadNL]

The poem is one of my favourite lyrics (Iron Maiden - Virus). This track does justice to it and I can't consider it as stealing. Borrowing it is.

[Inresurrection]

The guy stole it, not Godspeed.

The man they were interviewing ripped off an Iron Maiden song WHILE talking down to liars, thus proving himself to be a hypocrite.

The song, to me, is about how everyone is the same, really, in terms of lying and hypocrisy.

[MotorheadNL]

Dude, the Iron Maiden song was released in 1996! Its lyrics were written by Steve Harris & Blaze Bayley

[MotorheadNL]

Sorry I fucked up, I had read your reaction wrong. You're totally right. I thought you meant Blaze Bayley (of Maiden) stole it.

[Blargusto]

he DID write that

he was in Iron Maiden

[CymroFinnegan]

Er, no he didn't and no he wasn't. There was a Blaze Bayley in Iron Maiden but he was a Brummie from England, not a thick-accented New Yorker.

It isn't him. GSY!BE know it isn't -the- Blaze Bayley as does the rest of the world.

[smokinballa415]

@Blargusto thats a different Blaze, your thinking of Blaze Bayley, from iron maiden. This guy is a fictional character I believe.

[omyzida]

this will be the sound of the end of everything... i love it!

[mizogin]

gybe...forever!!!

[Cyrus150]

awesome. thank you for posting :)

[chizknocka]

and most importantly !THINK FOR YOURSELF!

thats one of the things that makes us different from the ones running and under the influence of this parasitical machine (the govt).

this music is wordless and full of humanity, thats what makes it special to me.

GOOOOOO GODSPEED!!

thanks 4 posting KSCIAA!!

[KSCIAA]

My pleasure.

[chizknocka]

u guys do know this is not blaze bayley..:/...the song is about deciet and lairs. he's a lair, not to mention deluded, that poem is not his, its iron maiden lyrics. this song creates a feeling of "he's so right" when in reality he's no better than the hypocrites he hates.

my take of the song after understanding this irony, is that we're all the same, the ones in the bottom stabing at the top to get up, and the ones at the top sucking the life out of the bottom to climb higher.

[R3nkse]

You are totally right.

[omfgwtfbbq90]

@chizknocka from what iron maiden song is that poem?

[KSCIAA]

@omfgwtfbbq90 'Virus'.

[chizknocka]

@KSCIAA thank you!!:D

[jacked1984]

@chizknocka he didnt claim it was his poem he just ask if he minded recieting a poem although i do agree he is fuckin crazy he does have a few good points

[chizknocka]

@jacked1984 yeeah, its just the way in which they ask him, the guy says "would u mind reciting -your- poem" then he goes on to say "since when have -you- been writing?" I wouldnt ask him any of these questions unless my intentions were that of this song, plus why would I have any interest in knowing for how long the man's been writing poetry if the poem (or lyrics) he just recited were not his at all?

[thisis4germany]

@chizknocka nice explanation. but i dont think that your idea is the idea of GSBE for this song, because when they recorded the song and then published it they didnt know that the poem of the man was taken from iron maidens lyrics, they said in an interview. thats the irony in my opinion.

[ianmacsmith]

@chizknocka i doubt that guy even knew it was Iron Maiden. for all i know, he thinks he got them from his dog. hard to draw any larger conclusions when the guy sounds clearly off his rocker. probably a paranoid schizo.

[brownstain3000]

@chizknocka I think some of your ideas are represented very well in 1984 by George Orwell. He discusses how there are three levels of people in our society, and how the middle class uses the lower class, for the lower class is the most populated, to help overthrow the higher class. Yet, once the middle and lower class do overthrow the higher class, they simply act just as them.

[chizknocka]

@brownstain3000 ...and towards the end of Southpark's 9th episode on season 8 XD

[ModerateMartian]

@chizknocka Excellent comment!

[Enleuk]

@chizknocka Blaze Bailey was in Iron Maiden when Virus was written...

[Pr0x1mo]

WOW, GIHM did this song so much justice in his BBF3 cover.

[KSCIAA]

Just saw that cover. I absolutely loved it.

[Pr0x1mo]

Amazing how he captured that entire song in one guitar, played all the parts...

[KSCIAA]

I agree, and what's more exciting for me personally is that that guitar tab is posted online. So now, I have some practicing to do.

[Pr0x1mo]

You're lucky, too. Because that just recently came out....

[KSCIAA]

Nice.

[decapitatedfetus16]

where is the tab posted at ?

[KSCIAA]

911tabs(dot)com.

[decapitatedfetus16]

thanx agin ksciaa ;)

[KSCIAA]

No prob.

[OnlyHighWhenDriving]

Yeah, all of that guys covers are incredible. So are your videos. Well done.

[59valentine]

yeah except GY!BE obviously gave the right man credit because the song's title is blaise bailey finnegan III and that was the name of Iron Maiden's lead singer between the years of 1994 to 1999. but all that aside... who the fuck cares? Who listens to Iron Maiden, that would also be listening to godpseed?

[rcroton]

Well I think the guy was posing under that name or something, like his pseudonym. He led them to believe it was his poem, when they realised later they credited it to Iron Maiden. So the story goes anyway.

[FinnVintersorg]

I like Iron Maiden and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Is there a problem with that?

[hottercraft]

BEST SONG EVER

[brand666]

I reckon there's nothing wrong with a little social decay... 'tis just another part of the wonderful circle of life, imho. The most wonderful thing about acts of social violence is that it gives us the opportunity to show true tenderness and empathy when otherwise we are inert.

[YellowFlower18]

i like the use of your word inert, so appropriate

[korneyez]

thank you for the upload

[KSCIAA]

You are most welcome.

[ShadyRonin]

One of the greatest songs ever recorded

[Volta2012]

This can be the the background music to our revolution.

[ShadyRonin]

This is the theme song for every emotional feeling that rebellion represents.

[UnivocalTrash]

You think? This part of the song just screams despearation (sp?) to me.

[ShadyRonin]

This is one of my favorite songs and this band is absolutely astounding. This song played live would be unbelievable. I've never felt a song capture my emotions as strongly as this one...

[Xetrev13]

same

[Kinshasa9200]

This poem isn't an original poem, its an Iron maiden song. Still this doesn't do any harm to the song and the whole context of the song.

[Bruckensterny]

Really? Doesn't sound like a Maiden Lyric. Would you happen to know what song?

[Kinshasa9200]

the song is called "virus"

from wikipedia

On the EP Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada by Post-rock group Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the track Blaise Bailey Finnegan III features a sample of a man of the same name reciting a poem that he claims to be his own. The poem is in fact the lyrics from Virus that the man plagiarised. The band claimed they didn't realise he was reciting someone else's work until after the EP had been released.