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  • god y godspeed

  • This song is like crack for sensitive white guys.

  • like a dark sigur ros. i love it.

  • this is for every tough it out moment in life, whether you end up winning or not-- this stirs your soul and that's all that really matters in the end

  • This is on an advert right?

  • >complete version

    >1 of 3

    Pick one.

  • One of the greatest songs by the greatest band ever... I swear, none of their songs EVER get old; they pack that same punch every time I hear them, and I've been listening to them heavily for years now.

  • I would argue that this is one of the most beautifully arranged songs in the past 100 years, truly amazing. 

  • this describes how the live become in all of this

  • peace. inner peace! cheers mates

  • This album may just be the greatest artistic achievement of the last quarter-century. Imagine you wrote this? Holy fuck...

  • @dasbakon Within the genre of popular music, I think so.

  • Best album ever.

  • This song always makes me happy to be alive ^_^

  • I thought of this band as if it were just another band hipsters used to listen to. I thought it was woeful, not worth of my time, horrible, and not deserving of the spirit of music.

    I hope God forgives me from being such a sinner.

  • i love this awesome song.......................

  • I wanna hear this song when I die.

  • At first I only had F♯ A♯ ∞ because I had heard it on the 28 Days Later soundtrack, and I thought I'd give this album a listen. I got through the first 11 minutes of this song and downloaded the entire Godspeed discography.

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  • I'm finding it hard to describe how much I like this song

  • Easily one of the best songs I've ever heard. Absolutely breathtaking.

  • When I was 15, I really wanted to listen to Godspeed you black emperor. I heard it on WMBR and I just thought about how great it was over and over again. I didn't have the funds to by the album, and it wasn't on like any filesharing network that would load, and every song was so big (20 mb) that there wasn't enough space on my hard drive. (it was 2005) this is so great that it is on youtube, I eventually ripped it from the library, but I'm glad youtube exists now for everyone to hear it

  • @funtimeadventures I agree with the UN when they say that internet access is a fundamental human right.

  • @funtimeadventures I'd never encourage anybody to steal, but if you really, really want this CD... steal money from somebody and buy it.

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  • I love how wanky people get over "Post-Rock". Still everything GY!BE make is genius.

  • Thats God right there, dancing in between the notes. Moving with the wind. He takes a collective sigh, and whispers, "Breath. Close your eyes, and take in this moment with me."

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  • i love listening to this band so loud that the speakers start getting overdriven. that drive just makes it so incredible...

  • I love the total fail of the youtube song identifier thing.

  • Indescribable hearing those first notes when they play live, a wave of perfect harmony poured through the whole room. Truly the greatest band I'll ever know.

  • TheCandidemusic?

    TheCandidemusic?

    TheCandidemusic?

    TheCandidemusic?

    TheCandidemusic?

    

  • TheCandidemusic?

  • Hier trop bon... (J'ai pleuré)! j'y retourne demain!!!!

  • @Grrrrrright Chanceux! J'y vais lundi!

  • NICE UPLOAD!!!

    For more post-rock inspiration search for this one:

    The Inituition - Open Your Frozen Heart And Start Living Again (NEW 2011)

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  • @abrahamisagreatman i lived in Holland 12 years...........this has been my weed smoking album of choice for all that time LOL LOL. In fact when i saw them in Amsterdam in Jan i had been to the coffee shop for a massive doobie before i went to the gig ha ha. Then went to the front and leaned against the stage...this track was their 2nd number of the set.....i was in Motherfucking heaven man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @monkeygonetoheavensi Lol I also smoked some before the show and Storm was one of the best at the show! Orgasmic!

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  • @abrahamisagreatman

    GENIOUS'

    

  • @abrahamisagreatman you cant enjoy this music without some type of drug? pathetic. enjoy this music the real way and not stoned your fucking fag

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  • @kentriz182 "your fucking fag".

  • @kentriz182 hey man don't knock it until you try it. there's a difference between enjoying the music and experiencing the music.

  • @kentriz182 if considering "your fucking fag" to be acceptable grammar is what sobriety does to you, you might want to look into doing drugs.

  • @kentriz182 Jeez man. Lay off. If the dude wants to listen to music stoned, then let him.

  • @abrahamisagreatman u listened to this whole album WHILE fucking? Or u listened to this whole "fucking" album?? lol

  • @abrahamisagreatman Oh lawd

  • @abrahamisagreatman So you smoked and fucked. Now you love life?

  • This is a beautiful song. It is also the music that plays when Gavin McInnes confronts the executive of the American Mustache Institute.

  • genial banda, ojala algun dia vengan a Mexico /great band , i hope they will come some day to Mexico

  • It's not GYBE! but GY!BE

  • Put a playlist of some of my favorite GY!BE songs up :)

    it's on my profile.

  • I recordered about all the show al Live Club and I put it on spreaker. Search for Madame Psychosis.

  • @Dinonu What if we don't have oversized hipster headphones. Also YOU AIN'T GOT NO PANCAKE MIX!

  • Fuck this band is so overhyped to no end. And before someone posts the 'why'd you even click on it if you don't like it' consider this before you post that next time: Consider that I came to listen to this band out of curiosity. If you are all such true fans then you do not need to be creeping all the songs on youtube if you can just play them in your over sized hipster headphones anyway. How dare someone listen to new music and not immediately enjoy it eh?

  • @Dinonu I'm lol'ing at the fact how you're ranting about how people criticize you 5 days ago and nobody's criticized you.

    This music is chill, if you don't like it- ok.

    Consider this though. "Overhyped" is a relative statement. They are perfectly "hyped" for me as their hype has played out in the form of music I enjoy. They are overhyped for you because you don't like them. Sort of like me saying tomatoes are overhyped. I hate tomatoes.

  • @Dinonu What's missing from your incitement to flame-war is any kind of argument why GYBE is so "overhyped." The least you could do is throw out an argument. Why do you feel negatively about this music?

  • @Dinonu Sooo... because you listened to this song & didn't enjoy it right away, it's overhyped? Considering almost no one I consider has heard of GY!BE, I must consider you retarded. Consider, consider, consider.

    Please, please reserve the word for us discerning folk so you don't spoil it by throwing the label at everything that moves. I thought anti-contrarianism was out of vogue? Oh well, better luck next season, parroting elitist rhetoric and all.

  • Ohh...man.. I would love to slap random people on the streets in slow motion for this music!!!

  • I think the comment "This is the sound of being alive" is beautiful. If you don't get it, go listen to black metal or something...

  • @bufo604 What's wrong with black metal?

  • This has to be one of the most stirringly beautiful pieces of music ever composed.It makes me weep.

  • This is fucking pretty!!

  • By God, some of the comments on here are pathetic... "I wanna hear this as I'm dying", "this is the sound of being alive"... I'm going to puke.

  • @KingCrimson776 Really? You must have a weak stomach. Of course I am being sarcastic because you are just trolling, and I of course am also trolling. So let us troll together and cause much annoyance.

  • @SilentOneL I hear that, but hey, the comments here look like Bruce Willis compared to the comments on Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky videos! Check out the "Svefn-g-englar" video, with the dancing retards, people cry about how beautiful it is. Imma troll there next.

  • @KingCrimson776 Yes, I'll agree that they are all offensively cliche, but this song bears the truth of music like battle scars. Amazing.

  • @KingCrimson776 im sorry not everyone shares the same opinion as you i guess that makes everyone else dumb or stupid

  • @KingCrimson776

    I want to hear this as you're dying.

  • @copperIoxide Hey, I like this track... but c'mon, those fucking comments...

  • @KingCrimson776 xaxaxaxa ellinas pou akouei godspeed :D

  • @numstuck it's more likely than you think ;)

  • 6 people with hearing disabilities 'disliked' this track.....WTF ??? Anyway TOMORROW night in Amsterdam i will finally see this band after waiting 10 years to see them. Bring it on!!!

  • just saw them in Helsinki, The show was mindblowing and all my favorite songs were played. GYBE, if you read this, PLEASE COME TO TALLINN!

  • it's magical what it does in your stomach! especially at 3.11 ! something like thousants of butterflies wanna come out from your mouth!! scary!!

  • I'm going to see them in Prague in about a week. I can't wait. They were on "hiatus" for so long, I was sure I'd never get a chance to see them play live... There is a God!!!

  • I'm going to see them in Prague in about a week. I can't wait. They were on "hiatus" for so long, I was sure I'd never get a chance to see them play live... There is a God!!!

  • every human needs to hear this...

  • i want to listen to this song as im dying

  • I can't believe this is the first time I have heard of these guys.... so far, they are kick ass!

  • I figured out why I've been so unhappy recently, I haven't heard this song in months.

  • It's a shame GYBE are very strict about people using their music for movies. Music like this can lift an entire film to greatness.

  • Holy BALLS. This is good. Really fucking good.

  • Seen this live. Amazing experience :)

  • Reminds of Sigur Ros. Yay ambience!

  • @marimba94 gy!be>sigur ros

  • @fyrsta1 Are you saying Saeoglur, Staralfur or Hoppipola are not on par with this song? :P

  • godspeed you! black emperor live were absolutely breathtaking. never have i experienced music so pure and true to life. a whole array of emotions rising and gently subsiding throughout the entire performance.

  • is this in a skate video.. if so anyone tell me what it is?

  • Just got my tickets for 05/02/2011 in Montreal. Who's going?

  • @mogwai142 THEY'RE SOLD OUT IM SO PISSED!!!!

  • @Blackliam

    ME too :(

    Stupid ticket scalpers....

  • @mogwai142 26 january, Bologna :)

  • @mogwai142 I'm in California(US) and I'm going to tomorrow's show over here.I can't wait!

    Their music is just awesome!I only found out they were having a show 3 days ago.Can't miss them cause you never know when they might stop playing again!

    Have fun in may for your show.

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    I so badly wish I was.

  • @mogwai142 i just saw them in chicago!

  • bit too good really. 

  • It's weird the way GY!BE are the best band ever and they've only made 14 songs...

  • @SmurfAndBuffalo quality not quantity...

  • @thesmiths1989

    Well said, my freind. But, say, one of the GY!BE side-projects, 'A Silver Mt. Zion' or 'Set Fire To Flames', they've made loads of songs! Ah well, they'll never be as good as GY!BE anyway.

  • They started their set with this last night in Manchester and it was the greatest gig I ever went to in my life, as I had expected it would be! Godspeed are my all time favourite, and I've waited so many years for their reunion! Thankyou Godspeed wherever you are! X

  • @oliverkey

    yep i was there oliver,and this piece in particular was the best for me, what and intro!,goosebumps when i heard it and brought a tear to my eye.

  • This is gonna be great LIVE.

    Still hoping the sound quality's gonna be good, otherwise, they're just gonna wreck the songs.

    A great way to draw a parallel to Thee Silver Mt. Zion.

    

  • @ThunderTrip

    Sound was soooo sooo good,theyre awesome live,best music ive ever heard live ever!

  • Seeing GY!BE three fucking times and two days after i'm seeing Mogwai. I'm going to be so post-rock you can smell the sorrow off of me.

  • i will literally weep if they play this song when i see them in Philly. what am i saying, i'll be in tears either way.

  • Not sure if anyone caught this, but from about 6:25 to about 11:00, GY!BE uses the melody from Amazing Grace. Not completely, but you can definitely hear it in the guitar part, and a little bit in the backing strings.

  • when does it start?

  • @voAGov If you're considering physically going then why don't you go to google first

  • if you don't know this band then you are missing out on life. oh well, leave the silly kids and idiots to justin bieber and beyonce.

  • This song slows life down completely, as if you're floating through space, reminissing the best moments of your life...

    In a good way, of course!

  • @ogilvitu

    Clearly you must be deaf. Its not about me, its about the music....

  • Beatiful, intense, and strong song.

  • I really, really hope they're going to play this in Brussels, the 15th of January.

    First time seeing them, I'm so excited ^^

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  • When I'm king of the world, this will be our anthem.

  • I can't say how incredible GY!BE is. They were, and always will be, some of the most talented musicians out there. Definitely my favorite band.

  • This is the perfect soundtrack for the revolution.

  • What can be said about this music. It's so hard to describe. At least for me. It causes so much emotion in me. Beautiful is the mind that created this masterpiece. 

  • I love this song. Whenever I'm really sad, or something is wrong, listening to this song always makes me feel like nothing is ever as bad as it seems, and that everything will work out it the end. :)

    Thankyou for uploading this song.

  • marveling

  • If there's ever been a 21st century work of art that deserves to resonate through us all , this is surely it. Life conquers all: in sorrow, in triumph!

  • If there's ever been a 21st century work of art that deserves to resonate through us all , this is surely it. Life conquers all: in sorrow, in triumph!

  • The greatest accompaniment to a joint I have ever known. :-)

  • @RBtoobsalot agreed!!

  • I cannot wait to hear the first twelve minutes of this song live in February.

  • @playtheshovels the whole set is going to be intense. so stoked for february

  • @playtheshovels Where? :O I need a fix.

  • @mogwai142 ERRWHURR! i'm sure its 100% sold out but you can get tix from scalpers - there's an extensive us tour and some england tour dates as well

  • @playtheshovels I dont think they have a tour date for Montreal :(

  • @mogwai142 cstrecords(DOT)com/shows/

    dude, they are based in montreal..

  • @Norskmorder  No shit

  • @playtheshovels

    Lucky bastard. I tried and failed to get one for their shows in Toronto. Have fun.

  • @playtheshovels me too..i got the cover above tattooed on my arm last week. Seeing them in Paradiso Amsterdam Next Jan. That IS sold out

  • @playtheshovels

    They sold out when I went to get my tickets for Southern California, All of the sudden, They added another show date to the Fox Theater in Pomona.

    I shall raise my skinny fist.

  • @playtheshovels Agreed.

  • @playtheshovels - they played this first at the Philly show - and i cried uncontrollably for about 9 of the 12 minutes you're speaking of.

  • simply perfect

  • this song makes me feel like Im in the bubble from The Fountain on my way to shubulba

  • This sounds like Rebellion by Arcade Fire

  • @milootis10 fuck arcade fire

  • this band is my kryptonite

  • aurgasm

  • Buena cancion, aunque prefiero ''Sleep'' y más aun cuando toca el violin al crescendo final :DD

  • The orgasmic crescendo from 3:10 to 6:10 is almost as good as sex. Turn it up as loud as you can close your eyes and you'll see what I mean. Keep a towel handy, just in case.

  • @Kroy5312 probably the best comment i've read in years.

  • mind blowing!!!!!!!

  • This has to be one of the most epic songs ever written.

  • $20 CD...that's beyond my budget...can't even buy a single...

  • Wish I could buy the mp3 right next to this...it would be sold...gonna have to go chase it down

  • @acusticthoughts Don't just buy the song you nut! ya gottta buy the full length.

  • I have the LP of this album and it's just .. This song begins slowly and it gets bigger and bigger and greater and at the expolosion i'm not anymore before my pc but high on a mountain listening to the vast everything of this song. It's like listening the sounds of fluids in a tree like rain on the grass. If i listen this i'm away and i don't want to turn back.

  • The first 6 minutes and 11 seconds are some of the best moment in music history... ever... the whole song is a masterpiece, thanks GY!BE

  • Incredible song, thank you for uploading it.

  • This is the sound of being alive.

  • omg, my ears. wonderful, incredible, this is true music.

  • great Canadian group along with Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire. All great Canadian bands

  • im losing my virginity to this song don't laugh im 14 :D

  • Possibly the most beautiful song i have ever heard, provokes the deepest of emotion. Feels like a roller coaster of love, sadness, joy, and just about virutally any emotion one can ponder. Oh how i love Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  • Good music still exists, this is wonderful.

    Thank God-speed!

  • anybody who listens to this piece more than once,anybody who knows they exist,anybody who knows how special this music really is...well you all deserve some good old youtube loving.

  • @redcommando1 Yeah it's emotional or something like that :) It atleast evokes emotion.

  • i find it peaceful and beautiful..soothing to the soul..

  • gy!be == root

  • @TheDeIirium nerd humor . . on here? a bit out of place but lol!

  • @gamersgene Ya are, what ya are - so speaks the essentialist. In my case that's a nerd - well figured. It is not so much out of place in the internet as one might be tempted to expect. Kudos

  • @TheDeIirium kudos man!

  • @gamersgene Thanks for the suggestion , checking em out as we speak ! Singing under the rainbow is a trippy tune !

  • @niallz yea! im rocking out to scorpius circus right now!

  • This is so beatifull and sad, makes us remember so many things at the same time...

  • Thank you for uploading this music on youtube! It's about time the ''world'' discovers this genre :)

  • SO GOOD; is it just so good, or is it imaginaton, how can a piece of music possibly be so awesome?

  • Genius, thanks so much for the upload....