I love Iron Maiden's song Virus, written by the "crazy dude" (Blaze Bailey) who is sampled in this song and whose poem is basically the lyrics to Virus. And I love BBF3 (he called himself Blaise Bailey Finnegan III during the vox pop interview). Firstly, I'm confused, don't know whether to like or dislike this relationship between the two songs, and secondly, does anybody know where the vox pop comes from? I'm assuming British radio to be the first guess.
@Enleuk I think this is a "field-recording" from Efrim himself. You hear his voice asking the questions. They probably met the guy somewhere and started a conversation. And then they turned on the recorder. Probably was a "magical moment". I do record some stuff out on the streets my own. You find a lot of truth, anger and spirit out there if you pay attention. ... And I think they put him in the song ´cause he mirrors the current (or at 1999) happening state of the american mind/people.
@Enleuk I think he is a bit "out there". And also kinda contradictorily. He seems like a rebel and free-thinker who is against the ways the American Government, Economy and Societey behaves. But on the other hand he owns a lot of weapons and seems proud of it or at least not questioning it, which implicates fear and traditional (dubios) American standards and shows how the country gained it´s status quo. Also the rip-off from Maiden could mean that he is desperate, longing for attention etc.
@erock195 In his specific case it may be true. But in my opinion it is still something typical American. In probably no other country there´s that much social acceptance of guns. The U.S. is still world leader in guns in privat ownership. Not only by numbers but in percentage by person. And of course every country fought it´s wars, but where else are there so many people thinking every war their country ever fought was "righteous". It is fed a lot by the media but still.
@erock195 And they are fed so much about their military forces being "heroes" and so on. I think it´s just more likely to think of guns being a positive or "normal" thing when you grow up in the U.S. - or certain parts of the U.S.
It just sounded like you are defending american gun ownership and the attitude towards it. If not then I apologize.
@Enleuk Basically, BBF3 isn't Blaze Bayley, he's a crazy dude that plagiarised from an Iron Maiden song. I think that's the reason Godspeed put him in the song, to show how much of a crazy dude he is and to show how easy it is to win a poetry competition with someone else's lyrics, or at least how easy it was before the Internet.
@Venomous9 Yeah, I realized that as soon as I noticed he was American. Did he really win a poetry contest? According to wikipedia, Iron maiden has never commented on the fact that a guy quoting their lyrics was sampled in another band's music, do you know if they or Blaze Bailey have commented on it?
Listened to this song today after a very good spliff with my lil bro, and reading the whole interview/lyrics on another website. Amazing, tears, both me and my little brother.
@Lysanderfication i like listening to the argumentative american. by the way they have him say his lines and speech they mean him to be uneducated and rambling i dont think they actually oppose the government for these reasons...its just a way to express a mood while the tune intensifies
"Let me tell you something, and you listen and you listen good, I'm only gonna say this one time and one time only, I don't repeat myself for nobody," I said. I says..."I'm here to give you my friendship report, not to listen to your lectures and hear you run your mouth for an hour." I says "I'm here to give you my friendship report...and I'm here to get it out of the way and get the fuck back to Ponyville."
Celestia says "You can't talk like that in my castle, you're going back to magic kindergarden." Then I said...I told Celestia, "If that's the best you can do, I feel sorry for you." I said "Why don't you just shut your fucking mouth for once and listen." I said "I'm not gonna take any shit." I said "I'm gonna give you my friendship report like I said." I walked up to the god damn alicorn and I hand her my report and I says "Here's my report, now I am leaving." And I left it at that...
...then, before I left, I turned around and told Celestia "I'm here to state who I am and be honest with you." I said "If I am a bad student for being tardy with this report, would I even be your student at all? Don't I have a long record of success?”, and Celestia says "Yeah, you have a point," she goes "you don't need to get loud."
I said "Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a God damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're God because you have horns and wings and you can put people up the god damn moon for 20 years? Well you're not."
I think godspeed knew full well how off-his-rocker BBF III was. There are two sides to the coin, but they're both just as bad. On one, you've got the overbearing, incompetent government, more concerned with speeding tickets and making war than improving lives. On the other, the crazed gun nut without an original thought in his life, searching for an excuse to shed blood, though he can't spare a quarter for the homeless woman on the street. How else could it end but apocalypse?
In the other BBF3 uploads here on youtube, the people are usually contra finnegan III. In this upload, it's the opposite.
I think blaise bailey is the real problem. He's angry, that he had to pay a speeding ticket and then adds new things to his story over and over again. Don't know why godspeed added him, maybe to show his special american small mind.
@tjhghghjh I think they added him to show everyone that we're all liars... People are ignorant, close-minded, unoriginal, and fake. We care about nothing but ourselves, and we're going to pull ourselves under. When people offer to help us, in our arrogance and pride, we cast judgment on them and then shoe them away. Our own lives, our own self-pride, will be the very death of us.
A lot of court judges are assholes. They're insecure because they're truly weak. They try so hard to be powerful, by the law, by position of power, by money, but on the inside they are so weak and insecure.
@xXBeastOfBurdenXx I love the irony of this track "they're very deceitful, they're liars, they're cheats, they're rip-offs...". Brings a smile to my face and of course the music is awesome.
there is a link on the gy!be page pointing you to several reviews, one of them saying "but the discontents rant doesen't make repeated listening desirable". I found that quite funny :D
I saw this band live in seattle. Paid over 3x the house price, got food poisoning the same night, ended up leaving my front row spot with perfect views to vomit violently out the back door, clean up, and then vomit out the front door, I stay and finished watching from a stool near a trash can with security watching me from the back of the venue. I regret nothing.
@AdamTrid Payed near 7X the house price to a friend because show was sold out, then at the door they annonced they were alot of cancelation and one person offered me a free tickets... Best 80$ I've ever spend. Best Night I ever had. I cried a little o:
This band may very well be the greatest band ever in their respective genre. I have yet to find a band with as much depth, absolute feirce truth, sound arguments and amazingly crippling sounds. Our world is shit and we all live in the matrix, nobody wants to be bothered with looking in the mirror and recognizing that "they" are they problem. We all walk around thinking it's everybody else and not ourselves, myself included. Death will be the equalizing force that will humble us all.
@davilacm Definitely. I can't imagine someone who had the chance of seeing them live saying otherwise; One of the greatest pieces of art I've ever experienced - And, I've heard the CSO perform Beethoven's 9th.
Godspeed, Kayo Dot, and maudlin of the Well, are the exact reasons that I'll argue anyone that music is better now than the 60's and 70's. No matter how much gooey pop there is now, nothing from those decades touches the majesty of these bands.
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madsoulfly 1 week ago
and there is nothing you can do about it.
shadowsburnme 2 weeks ago
This could just be the most thought provoking song I have ever listened to.
MrChowify 1 month ago
I love Iron Maiden's song Virus, written by the "crazy dude" (Blaze Bailey) who is sampled in this song and whose poem is basically the lyrics to Virus. And I love BBF3 (he called himself Blaise Bailey Finnegan III during the vox pop interview). Firstly, I'm confused, don't know whether to like or dislike this relationship between the two songs, and secondly, does anybody know where the vox pop comes from? I'm assuming British radio to be the first guess.
Enleuk 1 month ago
@Enleuk One thing though. The interviewee is American while Blaze Bailey is British..
Enleuk 1 month ago
@Enleuk Also, virus was written 1996, BBF3 1999. So only 3 years during which the interview must have occured.
Enleuk 1 month ago
@Enleuk I think this is a "field-recording" from Efrim himself. You hear his voice asking the questions. They probably met the guy somewhere and started a conversation. And then they turned on the recorder. Probably was a "magical moment". I do record some stuff out on the streets my own. You find a lot of truth, anger and spirit out there if you pay attention. ... And I think they put him in the song ´cause he mirrors the current (or at 1999) happening state of the american mind/people.
andvaaryn 1 week ago
@Enleuk I think he is a bit "out there". And also kinda contradictorily. He seems like a rebel and free-thinker who is against the ways the American Government, Economy and Societey behaves. But on the other hand he owns a lot of weapons and seems proud of it or at least not questioning it, which implicates fear and traditional (dubios) American standards and shows how the country gained it´s status quo. Also the rip-off from Maiden could mean that he is desperate, longing for attention etc.
andvaaryn 1 week ago
@andvaaryn He owns guns because he's a paranoid lunatic. He'd own guns no matter where he lived.
erock195 1 week ago
@erock195 In his specific case it may be true. But in my opinion it is still something typical American. In probably no other country there´s that much social acceptance of guns. The U.S. is still world leader in guns in privat ownership. Not only by numbers but in percentage by person. And of course every country fought it´s wars, but where else are there so many people thinking every war their country ever fought was "righteous". It is fed a lot by the media but still.
andvaaryn 1 week ago
@erock195 And they are fed so much about their military forces being "heroes" and so on. I think it´s just more likely to think of guns being a positive or "normal" thing when you grow up in the U.S. - or certain parts of the U.S.
It just sounded like you are defending american gun ownership and the attitude towards it. If not then I apologize.
andvaaryn 1 week ago
@Enleuk Basically, BBF3 isn't Blaze Bayley, he's a crazy dude that plagiarised from an Iron Maiden song. I think that's the reason Godspeed put him in the song, to show how much of a crazy dude he is and to show how easy it is to win a poetry competition with someone else's lyrics, or at least how easy it was before the Internet.
Venomous9 1 month ago
@Venomous9 Yeah, I realized that as soon as I noticed he was American. Did he really win a poetry contest? According to wikipedia, Iron maiden has never commented on the fact that a guy quoting their lyrics was sampled in another band's music, do you know if they or Blaze Bailey have commented on it?
Enleuk 1 month ago
You ready for what's coming?
Ready as I'll ever be.
boomkilla12345 2 months ago 2
@boomkilla12345 Most people aren't
Weirdalexo 1 month ago
@Kaedil - I totally agree with you, very insightful.
soozler 2 months ago
I listened to this song last night, after a few spliffs with my best mate.
I will remember that moment for the rest of my life.
jarradlowe 2 months ago 3
@jarradlowe
Listened to this song today after a very good spliff with my lil bro, and reading the whole interview/lyrics on another website. Amazing, tears, both me and my little brother.
Traiannnn 1 month ago
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ThePeakIsNeverPassed 2 months ago
@Lysanderfication i like listening to the argumentative american. by the way they have him say his lines and speech they mean him to be uneducated and rambling i dont think they actually oppose the government for these reasons...its just a way to express a mood while the tune intensifies
SkaireMePlz 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@Lysanderfication they're taking the piss out of him
Mattybloke 3 months ago
@Lysanderfication
If you listen to skinny fists, the whole album sounds political.
TheCagedTiger 3 months ago
This is the guy at the beginning of Providence. neat.
ToastedEgg89 3 months ago 2
Who's talking on this track? Please links!!!!!
Preacherdaniel 4 months ago
Bullshitting is an art, and Blaise is an artist.
TacticOgre 4 months ago
the end is just....wow, now I can die.
velvetglacierband 4 months ago
Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't mind telling you the story. Erm... I went to Celestia today for a tardy friendship report, and I told her, erm...
sentenal01 4 months ago
"Let me tell you something, and you listen and you listen good, I'm only gonna say this one time and one time only, I don't repeat myself for nobody," I said. I says..."I'm here to give you my friendship report, not to listen to your lectures and hear you run your mouth for an hour." I says "I'm here to give you my friendship report...and I'm here to get it out of the way and get the fuck back to Ponyville."
sentenal01 4 months ago
@sentenal01 I love you.
GOR225 2 months ago
Celestia says "You can't talk like that in my castle, you're going back to magic kindergarden." Then I said...I told Celestia, "If that's the best you can do, I feel sorry for you." I said "Why don't you just shut your fucking mouth for once and listen." I said "I'm not gonna take any shit." I said "I'm gonna give you my friendship report like I said." I walked up to the god damn alicorn and I hand her my report and I says "Here's my report, now I am leaving." And I left it at that...
sentenal01 4 months ago
...then, before I left, I turned around and told Celestia "I'm here to state who I am and be honest with you." I said "If I am a bad student for being tardy with this report, would I even be your student at all? Don't I have a long record of success?”, and Celestia says "Yeah, you have a point," she goes "you don't need to get loud."
sentenal01 4 months ago
I said "Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a God damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're God because you have horns and wings and you can put people up the god damn moon for 20 years? Well you're not."
And I left it at that...
sentenal01 4 months ago
Never really been a fan of Maiden and obviously neither is Godspeed. Thanks for the info and I will give that a listen.
wtfIZgoinonYO 4 months ago
Love that poem.
Love Godspeed.
How relevant is that today?
Give it a few more years...
wtfIZgoinonYO 4 months ago 4
@wtfIZgoinonYO That poem is the lyrics to Virus by Iron Maiden, they said they didn't know that when they made this song
goluckyjuffowup 4 months ago
@Kaedil i agree, that was pretty profound. Read Kaedil's comment if you haven't already, it really gives insight to the song.
tinyattack 5 months ago
I think godspeed knew full well how off-his-rocker BBF III was. There are two sides to the coin, but they're both just as bad. On one, you've got the overbearing, incompetent government, more concerned with speeding tickets and making war than improving lives. On the other, the crazed gun nut without an original thought in his life, searching for an excuse to shed blood, though he can't spare a quarter for the homeless woman on the street. How else could it end but apocalypse?
Kaedil 6 months ago 16
@Kaedil Very insightful comment
keef920 5 months ago
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Kaedil 6 months ago
In the other BBF3 uploads here on youtube, the people are usually contra finnegan III. In this upload, it's the opposite.
I think blaise bailey is the real problem. He's angry, that he had to pay a speeding ticket and then adds new things to his story over and over again. Don't know why godspeed added him, maybe to show his special american small mind.
tjhghghjh 6 months ago
@tjhghghjh I think they added him to show everyone that we're all liars... People are ignorant, close-minded, unoriginal, and fake. We care about nothing but ourselves, and we're going to pull ourselves under. When people offer to help us, in our arrogance and pride, we cast judgment on them and then shoe them away. Our own lives, our own self-pride, will be the very death of us.
North0house 5 months ago
A lot of court judges are assholes. They're insecure because they're truly weak. They try so hard to be powerful, by the law, by position of power, by money, but on the inside they are so weak and insecure.
whackowitch 6 months ago
This is what america is all about corrupt and money talks! I love this music soo much!!!
gabejohnson88 6 months ago
Godspeed sends shivers down my spine.
ABetterUnderstanding 6 months ago
@Terminalslobe The guy is clearly a nutcase. That's not even his poem, he's reciting Iron Maiden lyrics.
xXBeastOfBurdenXx 7 months ago
@xXBeastOfBurdenXx The guy, maybe. But not the message, he's trying to say..
Kicsur 6 months ago
@xXBeastOfBurdenXx I love the irony of this track "they're very deceitful, they're liars, they're cheats, they're rip-offs...". Brings a smile to my face and of course the music is awesome.
ModerateMartian 6 months ago
personally i don't like the poem part. it doesn't sound as good as the rest of the song...
Terminalsobe 7 months ago
Lu la Bitches
SpooooKy1994 8 months ago
Bass is so amazing in this.
TheOrnageJuice 8 months ago
Who would dislike this?
LessThanSimple 9 months ago
there is a link on the gy!be page pointing you to several reviews, one of them saying "but the discontents rant doesen't make repeated listening desirable". I found that quite funny :D
PigPrater 9 months ago
best band ever, best song ever, god bless Montreal
PhilRaven1 9 months ago
I saw this band live in seattle. Paid over 3x the house price, got food poisoning the same night, ended up leaving my front row spot with perfect views to vomit violently out the back door, clean up, and then vomit out the front door, I stay and finished watching from a stool near a trash can with security watching me from the back of the venue. I regret nothing.
Best night of my life. Thank you, Godspeed.
AdamTrid 11 months ago 72
@AdamTrid I was there! I may have seen you! I wasn't ill, but that show was definitely worth any amount of vomit.
Kaedil 10 months ago 3
@AdamTrid Payed near 7X the house price to a friend because show was sold out, then at the door they annonced they were alot of cancelation and one person offered me a free tickets... Best 80$ I've ever spend. Best Night I ever had. I cried a little o:
A god's pee show is indeed priceless.
JonathanArsenault12 3 months ago
@AdamTrid i first listened to GYBE when I was running a high fever. I am now in love forever.
eMbry00s 1 month ago
@AdamTrid I think we might have been at the same show. What a beautiful show.
tombom52 1 month ago
@AdamTrid thank you, based godspeed
wilmeister4 1 month ago
@wilmeister4 #tybgy!be
br00talKidHxC 2 weeks ago
And I left it at that.
wallpaperkilla 11 months ago 45
best song ever. this guy is a god.
ronniebauhaus 11 months ago
This band may very well be the greatest band ever in their respective genre. I have yet to find a band with as much depth, absolute feirce truth, sound arguments and amazingly crippling sounds. Our world is shit and we all live in the matrix, nobody wants to be bothered with looking in the mirror and recognizing that "they" are they problem. We all walk around thinking it's everybody else and not ourselves, myself included. Death will be the equalizing force that will humble us all.
davilacm 11 months ago 8
@davilacm
You're obviously right.
I guess you already know a silver mt. zion as a 'sideproject' of gybe?
ronniebauhaus 11 months ago
@davilacm Definitely. I can't imagine someone who had the chance of seeing them live saying otherwise; One of the greatest pieces of art I've ever experienced - And, I've heard the CSO perform Beethoven's 9th.
Godspeed, Kayo Dot, and maudlin of the Well, are the exact reasons that I'll argue anyone that music is better now than the 60's and 70's. No matter how much gooey pop there is now, nothing from those decades touches the majesty of these bands.
PorcupineFloyd68 10 months ago
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MrAtomicParanoia 11 months ago
The greatest by definition; Legendary by their performances!! Godlike by their perfection... Simply astonishing...
MrAtomicParanoia 11 months ago
Monumental.Epic.Perfect!
bu371mar 11 months ago
Beautiful stuff. This band will never cease to amaze me.
North0house 1 year ago
Simply the saddest song I've ever heard.
luckycatphil 1 year ago
@luckycatphil for me this give hope.
ProgSkull87 11 months ago
I must have this one on vinyl !!!
dt00l 1 year ago
@dt00l
Just bought it some days ago! :3
TensonFlo 1 year ago
I could die right now. After Listening to this. I really could. Perfect. Simply Perfect.
art3toxic0 1 year ago 4
I have never heard such perfection... until now. Thanks.
limpfnode1 1 year ago
nice upload
dimitrisk8 1 year ago
Amazing. Thanks for the upload
TheOrnageJuice 1 year ago