Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues

[North0house]

It's crazy how prophetic this band's material is. All of their sampling has come to reality, in a sense. Sometimes I feel like it really is the end of time.

[DiegoKatabian]

87crowbar wins.

[islespatrick]

Easily one of my favorite albums of all time.

[kustom85delta88]

This does a great job of depicting a future falling Government that is heavily based on capitalism and pro-war - eventually subject to collapse

[IGLOOGREENHOUSE]

@kustom85delta88 Liberal arts major?

[WolfxDensetsu]

@IGLOOGREENHOUSE no, just realism.

[kustom85delta88]

@IGLOOGREENHOUSE No, a Media Studies major attending a liberal art college.

[petergreenson]

@kustom85delta88 Year 7 English

[richardhalo]

Takes forever to load!

[CWalla8796]

Also, anyone going to Coachella should know that they are playing there!

[IrradiatedRobot]

Damn, still have to look for original version. Still good work though man! Great song.

[William6likes6Rock]

Holy fuck......

[ShatteredSilence]

This isn't from 1997. This is from 1998, the original version (from 1997) is better =P

Still ace though.

[thejailer718]

Saw them live in NY (their first show in 9 or so years). 'Twas glorious!

[BuddyWillis]

@thejailer718 Did they play this?

[CWalla8796]

@thejailer718 me too! like you said, stupendous. Never thought I'd get the chance to see them live in my lifetime, now thanking my lucky stars that I did. I can die happy :)

[AudioSurfingNut]

Found it yesterday... pretty damn awesome :D

[TheNakedDot]

Thanks very much for this !

[dtenorio89]

thank you so much sonikkufffffffffff, It is great to get all these pieces in a single video

[wolfwarrior8008]

this song makes me sad but at the very last 2 minutes it makes me want to smile it just makes u feel good

[Xaulb]

14:25

[PerhapsToast2]

forgot about this.. wow

[pauliipaulus]

Love the guitar

[8Metaphysicist8]

oh my god.

[MufasaAttack]

this song always manages to make me shead a tear

[Imiface]

After like 12:00 it's pure gold.

[BlockJuice]

"encoded from a FLAC source" youtube videos only go up to around 150kbps. nice work though.

[sonikkuffffff]

@BlockJuice it's meant to imply i didn't just make this from some shitty zombie rip downloaded off soulseek

[donnishark]

@sonikkuffffff Thanks for doing that. I'd like to correct that other guy, though. The bitrate goes all the way up to 192 kbps on 720p and 256 on 1080p as far as I have been able to figure out.

[gorgolyt]

@sonikkuffffff it's still pointless, derp some moar and write HQ next time.

[carthag]

@sonikkuffffff rofl is soulseek still a thing?

[BuddyWillis]

I love the outro, so uplifting after the first half

[alecksag]

I wish I was old enough to appreciate this music at the time it came out. Words cannot describe it.

[krank027]

Urban Decay.

[DarkAngelEU]

in ten minutes my country won't have a government for A YEAR, this song is the best way to describe my sadness and sorrow for the event.

Indeed our flag is dead

[HxcTufty]

@DarkAngelEU Lol thats good news fuck flags anarchy everywhere

[TheConstellation72]

This is my favourite GY!BE track....It was the first track of theirs i heard all those yrs ago,and it still sounds as great today as it did back in 1998...

[North0house]

This is the most haunting album/song there is in all of existence.

Thanks for uploading this tracks... I can now finally show my friends the genius of GY!BE without having to do it in segmented Youtube videos haha.

[87crowbar]

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles It went like this:

[87crowbar]

The buildings tumbled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" You grabbed my hand and we fell into it Like a daydream or a fever We woke up one morning and fell a little further down - For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood