Godspeed You Black Emperor - East Hastings

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  • @histochronos
    @histochronos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +999

    This used to be my favorite album. It still is but it used to, too.

    • @jeremyestrada3041
      @jeremyestrada3041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Wizards in the Mist Mitch Hedburg, much?😏

    • @NightRanger77
      @NightRanger77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jeremyestrada3041 His one good joke LOL

    • @johnlogomasiniII
      @johnlogomasiniII 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      phroz lmaooo

    • @jeremyestrada3041
      @jeremyestrada3041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      phroz Aww man. Have to disagree.
      Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 1000 of something.
      I was gonna get my teeth whitened, but I said fuck that.. I’ll get a tan instead.
      I want to be a race car passenger, why we driving in circles? You must really like Tide.

    • @apullcan
      @apullcan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Another good one: "I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone"

  • @patrickmonaghan1101
    @patrickmonaghan1101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    There is a woman whose voice graces the beginning of this track. I saw her twice. The first time was on East Hastings, right outside of the Army & Navy store on Hastings, possibly where she was recorded. The second time was while riding the bus up Robson from the west end.
    I'm some kid from Omaha, NE, USA, but was a graduate student at SFU then. Good times.
    I remember hearing her voice, then looking and her, and then recognizing.
    I cannot possibly express the feeling I have in my heart for the wonder of Vancouver during that time.
    That was almost 20 years ago.

    • @patrickmonaghan1101
      @patrickmonaghan1101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      I'd forgotten I wrote that, and was surprised to see my own words. Upon seeing them, I thought I should write to provide more context. I'm originally from Nebraska, a long way away from where I heard her. But I moved to Vancouver in the early aughts. It was a mesmerizing time for me there. Very spiritual. I have a memory (and hope always to have it) of standing alone on the Lion's Gate Bridge very late at night watching the evergreens in Stanley Park sway in the smoke during a winter rain storm. Many memories of Stanley Park and Siwash rock, but that one stands out. Anyway, shortly after I moved there, I was down on Hastings and heard her voice -- like I said, outside of the Army and Navy. I was a big fan of Godspeed then (still am), and felt this shock of recognition. I looked up, and there she was, preaching away to anyone who would hear her. I don't know why I didn't approach her, but I didn't. I remember commenting upon my celebrity sighting to my friend Graeme (hi, Graeme!), and he laughed and said, "Well, the song's called East Hastings." But to me, for whatever reason, it was a big deal. Still is. Also, a shout-out to Godspeed. Thank you for your music. You all are wonderful.

    • @tekki5744
      @tekki5744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Wow human life is so weirdly sad and great at the same time

    • @malaikamillions
      @malaikamillions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yeah, the elderly woman’s voice at the beginning: in the 90’s I regularly would see exactly this lady on East Hastings. She would be seated in a fold out chair chiming her hope into this bleak neighborhood. I would usually stop to admire her, and enjoy the soundscape against her melodic bellows. I seem to remember her in a lavender/pink sunday-best outfit with white gloves. Was so elated when when I first discovered her voice sample preserved in this music piece; Makes it a Double Treasure. - and I’m with you on how it can take you back!

    • @patrickmonaghan1101
      @patrickmonaghan1101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@malaikamillions Yes, distinctive voice. But it was more than that, wasn't it? Wasn't it her entire presence?

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Holy shit. I had no idea.
      Thanks for giving me a newfound appreciation for this.

  • @shaunp2265
    @shaunp2265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    I can honestly say that this piece has managed to perfectly represent what it feels like to evolve from depression and anxiety into gradual paranoia and crisis. Listening to this in bed brought a cycle of emotions that I hadnt felt in quite some time. The beginning feels sad but still somewhat hopeful, fading into pure loneliness and desperation, eventually giving way to the anxiety and paranoia of uncertainty, which builds up more and more with the tempo of the song, until it all finally drops out and youre essentially left lost. Then those feelings of fear creep back in, lending itself to scary thoughts that dont seem to be your own. This was an incredible experience to listen to.

    • @Chukeeman
      @Chukeeman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah I just went through that scary transition recently. Like all of a sudden you’re not a teenager anymore and the void starts to grip you harder and harder until you submit

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's been the last 4-5 years of my life.
      I don't want to die, but the older I get, the more I see it coming. And not at a natural time for most. But I see it. I hear it. I feel it.
      I hope that I can do the most for my loved ones while I'm here. They deserve better.

    • @mistapeper1283
      @mistapeper1283 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      i hope you all are doing well right now, i've been struggling with life lately too

    • @NUCKLUSS
      @NUCKLUSS ปีที่แล้ว +1

      93

    • @zapan9643
      @zapan9643 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Disagree. This song is the shining light in darkness, last beacon of hope among the Last Men.

  • @thestonedabbot9551
    @thestonedabbot9551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +697

    I listened to this song on a really long late-night bicycle ride. There's loads of historical landmarks close to my house; five ruined castles, ancient burial mounds, prehistoric forts, abandoned medieval villages, and a Roman road that cuts perfectly straight through the countryside for endless miles.
    History has been a passion for me since the age of 5, but this time... it was something else.
    Going past the scattered remnants of long-gone cultures listening to this doomy track ironically made the past feel more alive and present that ever before.
    Riding down those same paths that have been tread by nameless masses over thousands of years in the dead of night brings out something primal and empathetic that has to be experienced with an understanding of just how catastrophic and horrifying that things like disease and war meant to our ancestors. To us, the Coronavirus means a temporary economic turndown with the odd pensioner not making it through; to them, the plague meant half your family dead within a week at the hands of some unseen force that only needs close proximity to spread.
    For us, war is just grainy WW2 footage; for them, war meant being sent off to a far-off land to kill or be killed, if you weren't one of the lucky ones to avoid conscription.
    But after all those countless apocalyptic ordeals, here we are now instantly communicating with each other across the world from the warmth of our homes.
    And one day we too will all be dead, and our houses too will become nothing more than a stump of old bricks and gravel, maybe the odd broken lighter and crushed can waiting under the dirt to be found by our 40x great-grandchildren.
    Let's enjoy our time while it's still ours to enjoy, because it can always become as dark and dangerous as it was in the past.

    • @lewislabuff8862
      @lewislabuff8862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Brother if I write a song this is what it will be about, my guy

    • @TheProject1177
      @TheProject1177 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fam there is no such thing as a “prehistoric fort” lmao what year are you living in 263 bc

    • @athiede1712
      @athiede1712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I want to live where you live

    • @ou4534
      @ou4534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Do you write at all man? Really enjoyed reading that

    • @tomhawkinson2162
      @tomhawkinson2162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

  • @dom4293
    @dom4293 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2106

    This whole album needs to be played during a long long walk in the most desolate places you could ever imagine

    • @lolyyytrauma2525
      @lolyyytrauma2525 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Bohouha :(

    • @classicalmusic1175
      @classicalmusic1175 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      I literally just did that on holiday recently. I went to Fuerteventura where I climbed a mountain on my own with this song playing. No one around for miles. It was great.

    • @h4ze-z5y
      @h4ze-z5y 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      every time i listen to gybe i see and feel post-apocalyplse. desolate, cold, silent, yet so beautiful

    • @CannibalWHORE22
      @CannibalWHORE22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Classical Music11 I love experiences like that! Thank you for sharing that.

    • @NeloAmaru
      @NeloAmaru 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      my home

  • @starpower9235
    @starpower9235 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2788

    I live near East Hastings in Vancouver, and this song perfectly captures the hopelessness and desperation of those lost souls wandering the streets, like ghosts. Some cry out for help, others are so far gone they don't want to be saved. People drive through the area, on their way to the glitzy nightclubs downtown, lock their car doors, and scoff at the poverty-stricken, the sick, the disabled. Others turn their heads, avoid eye contact, and pretend that they don't exist. Walking down that street is just heartbreaking. A frightening reminder of a world that each one of us could so easily find ourselves living in some day.

    • @johnsmith7676
      @johnsmith7676 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      "...those lost souls wandering the streets..." Yeah, and if the modern-day Sanhedrin get their way, we'll *all* be joining those on the streets soon enough.Scoff if you will... Most can't even *begin* to grasp what is happening in this World. Nor do they want to. It's just too terrifying. Many of those on the streets have already figured out that playing the usual scripted part on the big global usury farm, locked in a stall beside the rest of their feckless brethren cattle -- is absolutely and completely FUTILE... Just further contributing to the death of humanity [as intended by the dregs who have always desired that fate.]

    • @superturboawesome1
      @superturboawesome1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I played a gig at a dive bar in East Hastings once. It certainly is rough there, humbling. Sometimes there is a fine line between being on point and just letting go. Many suffer in silence and alone before it ever gets to the point of living on the streets...

    • @franciscoquintanilla3085
      @franciscoquintanilla3085 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      damn this is deep

    • @blammod664
      @blammod664 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      This is not what the human experience should be :(

    • @jr74518
      @jr74518 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Deep yet horiffying to hear something like that

  • @alextsao1105
    @alextsao1105 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3679

    post-rock will never die,but you will.

    • @crystalcacik3346
      @crystalcacik3346 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      sad

    • @bexrayspex
      @bexrayspex 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes!

    • @inghell
      @inghell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Mogwai will never die, but you will

    • @dante666jt
      @dante666jt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      F

    • @Adyman182
      @Adyman182 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Memes will never die, but you will.

  • @johnny1882
    @johnny1882 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1287

    I am in Milano, on the 6th floor of apartment building, watching how army vehicles patrols the streets and whole city is on lock-down, schools are closed, shops are closed, streets are empty, you can barely see anyone walking.
    This song makes it even more depressing

    • @aglayaninek3191
      @aglayaninek3191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      keep calm brother everything will pass from turkey

    • @explanationmark_
      @explanationmark_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The man in the long black coat stay strong this too will pass

    • @Eternal_K2
      @Eternal_K2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The times are depressing.. hold on, hang on

    • @m420himself8
      @m420himself8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Hang in there everyone..

    • @HarrisonMessias
      @HarrisonMessias 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Stay safe, dont let anyone control you after all this is over. God bless.

  • @wierd_fishez
    @wierd_fishez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    how can a human body contain this piece...it's so massively terrifying yet so beautiful

    • @h.hholmes.492
      @h.hholmes.492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How its terrifying?

    • @emilkubie
      @emilkubie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s life.

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Suffering
      Experience
      Understanding
      Talent
      I don't have all of those, but I hear it in this. My god. This music is making me feel so many things.
      I remember why I wanted to go. I still do. But now, I have some purpose. I have people that I love, and that I want to make happy.
      But that call of the void? I don't think that will ever go away. The comforting nature of depression is horrifying. It lulls you in, until you realize you're trapped in hell.
      Avoid.

    • @choleramcdonald3180
      @choleramcdonald3180 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@ZeranZeran just walk when you feel empty. Let the musical notes basic bounce in you head . Stand somewhere filled and listen to the empty in you. With that said this is a great, unique, and powerful piece that haunts the concept of basic rhythm in my head 9 outta 10 would recommend. Straight banger

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 ปีที่แล้ว

      A glimpse into the abyss

  • @steevedaw566
    @steevedaw566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +674

    This is how the apocalypse sounds.

    • @gersoncuevas8137
      @gersoncuevas8137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      It's actually music from an apocalyptic movie: 28 Days Later

    • @thybowllingman2752
      @thybowllingman2752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gersoncuevas8137 you sure? Link to the scene ?

    • @scusivongiorno
      @scusivongiorno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@thybowllingman2752here' the link th-cam.com/video/qtNu2veW62c/w-d-xo.html

    • @RPD49
      @RPD49 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Wuhan Theme 2020

    • @unmarkedart1
      @unmarkedart1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bruh. BRUH lol. Thank you.

  • @timctheoriginalnemesis4752
    @timctheoriginalnemesis4752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The build up of this track is legendary perfect to capture the emotion of the surprise and panic Jim was facing when he came out of the hospital saw the missing posters and the chase. You can feel it in the song as it picks up the most epic and legendary band ever .

  • @brandontadday6288
    @brandontadday6288 6 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    The melodies in this song are some of the most simple yet effective motifs I have ever heard. A masterpiece in how dynamics can make a song as opposed to melodic or harmonic progression.

    • @vaughnyerkes8039
      @vaughnyerkes8039 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah i like what you just said (a year later) the dynamics of the melody itself hold such a pure mysticysm it creates all that dead space for the atmosphere i looooove how the riffs somehow dont tire me out

    • @vaughnyerkes8039
      @vaughnyerkes8039 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Skelter cool man you probably have wayyyy too much of a refined taste to enjoy a nice conversation i used to be like that

    • @vaughnyerkes8039
      @vaughnyerkes8039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Steve Knight why call someone a twat for speaking about something they like though? Like yes i get the initial "wow this sounds dumb" but idk bud keep listening to ur rush and king crimson ill keep talking to people who enjoy talking 😅

    • @vaughnyerkes8039
      @vaughnyerkes8039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not using vocabulary because it seems too meta for someone as cool as you just puts everyone else in a bad mood, im sure youll learn that soon

    • @vaughnyerkes8039
      @vaughnyerkes8039 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know im probably beating a dead horse at this point but like you become the twat for calling other people twats for their taste, like how i used to make fun of people who listen to rap, maybe you find yourself doing that too

  • @sean1419
    @sean1419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    It’s stormy outside, it’s lockdown and I’m in my room at 1 am listening to this for the first time in my life. Holy shit.

    • @elunelle1174
      @elunelle1174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if you like it you should check out more of gybe’s music, they have a lot of great albums. this song comes from F#A#infinity

    • @sean1419
      @sean1419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@elunelle1174 I finished their discography in that week. No regrets.

    • @elunelle1174
      @elunelle1174 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      a person nice dude!

    • @sean1419
      @sean1419 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Sergio aha fucken oath

    • @NK-ge8sp
      @NK-ge8sp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sean1419 I totally agree! All of their discographies are amazing!
      I see you’re a Darkthorne fan. \m/

  • @ZacTBH
    @ZacTBH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    This album is incredibly dark, depressing, but the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard. Mind shredding horror to the most beautiful symphony. The atmosphere is just oozing with existential dread. Only I could dream of making music as authentic as this.

    • @joefish6091
      @joefish6091 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not depressing at all.

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joefish6091 Yes, pretty depressing and hopeless

    • @silentxwxlf
      @silentxwxlf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joefish6091as far as sad music goes, it doesn’t get much more depressing than this

  • @slimywater9945
    @slimywater9945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

    • @Uruguay182
      @Uruguay182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Please I really enjoyed reading this. But can you explain?

    • @slimywater9945
      @slimywater9945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@Uruguay182 It's from Nietzsche's book "Beyond good and Evil" and the gist of the quote is that if you spend your time in conflict with something horrible you might become just as horrible.

    • @Uruguay182
      @Uruguay182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@slimywater9945 Thank you very much. I found it really interesting.

    • @maxwellgallacher4190
      @maxwellgallacher4190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      : )

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I really wish I would've taken this quote seriously when I was younger. I didn't understand the significance of it.
      Stop staring, stop focusing on negative, go live your life. Your mind can be a prison, or a tool to do great things. Don't let it be your prison. It is living hell, every day.

  • @teddyn3051
    @teddyn3051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    no song on earth has ever elicited such a visceral reaction in me. i was driving to work on an overcast morning listening to this, and as the pace was picking up towards the end of the sad mafioso i was moving quickly on a four lane freeway with cars all around me. i felt such an intense panic and fear rise in me as the song quickened and quickened, like i was fleeing some beast. as it burst into the depths of drugs in tokyo i was entering the town where i worked. the fear and panic morphed into such a primeval terror as the song finished through black helicopter. the things i was seeing, gas stations, strip malls, streetlamps, storm sirens, substations, seemed sentient - baleful and leering. there was a letter sign out front of a church that read “pray for our city,” as social unrest was still in the news.
    seeing that message as the song reached peak madness in it’s final moments sent me over the edge. a pair of completely identical pickup trucks pulled up to an intersection i had stopped at - in hindsight it’s a pretty mundane occurrence but seeing double identical images in the state i was in was too much. i thought i was either going insane or reality was coming apart before my eyes.
    i had to pull over and stop for about 15 minutes after the song finally ended to regain a semblance of composure
    i’ve never had a song do that to me before. it shifted my entire perception of reality in real time.
    i still get the shudders thinking about it.

    • @Devo57
      @Devo57 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I see myself as a decently resilient person but that would just completely mess me up.

    • @ciaranalbert
      @ciaranalbert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Brilliantly delivered. Well done.

    • @emilkubie
      @emilkubie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The NWO pisses off the ones awake, this masterpiece of music represents the desolation of a world that gone insane, but out there theirs other beings that are surviving where they don’t want to be found.

    • @maz2483
      @maz2483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So dramatic.

    • @smellymel2338
      @smellymel2338 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emilkubie mate what are you on about? New world order bullshit?

  • @luisarias2142
    @luisarias2142 5 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    "It started as rioting. But right from the beginning you knew this was different..."

    • @blondknight99
      @blondknight99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Do you want to find a cure and save the world, or do you just want to fall in love and fuck? Plans are pointless.

    • @miichaellangelo
      @miichaellangelo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@blondknight99 Plans are just a guide to order, without order there is chaos, neither are good or bad.

    • @unmarkedart1
      @unmarkedart1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      March 2020 **looks around**

    • @TheseBitchesWantNikes
      @TheseBitchesWantNikes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      We are in hell

    • @Baccanaso
      @Baccanaso 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      The end is extremely fucking nigh

  • @bluehealer81
    @bluehealer81 5 ปีที่แล้ว +710

    Beginning at 8:20 reminds me of how riots start.
    Riots are really a form of a natural disaster. You have to have the right conditions for them to start. You really need a prolonged period of high heat, unemployment, and an undercurrent of political and social resentment. Then you just need a spark. It can be anything really, a police shooting, a hit-and-run, an unpopular court decision, but it starts out with grumbles and murmurs of a few, and it builds, more people say the same thing, louder, and it draws in more people until the voices turn to acts, and then the acts bring in more people to act, and once a breaking point is realized, when the crowd realizes the police can't arrest them all, you have a full blown riot.

    • @Philgrandin
      @Philgrandin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      or a sports team from your town that you don't play on, won the championship

    • @steevedaw566
      @steevedaw566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Riots are psy ops.

    • @richardperry1334
      @richardperry1334 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I really like how this was written. There's a part of me that's always wanted to be in a riot. The current climate of unrest and general level of societal tension where i live and many more places just like it seem to fit your criteria fairly well. Someone just has to strike the match and itll all go up in flames.

    • @hylea96
      @hylea96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This bout to go down in Brazil just watch

    • @KingHalbatorix
      @KingHalbatorix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@richardperry1334 I can tell you're a pampered and sheltered individual. Riots are an act of desperation, anyone living in the conditions that lead to rioting just wants a way out of hell. You've got it so easy you don't even know what hard is to begin with.

  • @timheavyable
    @timheavyable 8 ปีที่แล้ว +954

    east Hastings is a part of Vancouver that is totally deprived,a magnet for the outcasts of the city,it has a big homeless population and is a hangout for drug addicts , mainly heroin users,a truly depressed and depressing area.

    • @Eris_Norregard
      @Eris_Norregard 8 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Thanks, I didn't know that. I wondered what the name of the song means.

    • @DavidOfficer1
      @DavidOfficer1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's also where their studio was I think

    • @oldwelshbloke6860
      @oldwelshbloke6860 8 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      +Violet Raven the original Hastings in the UK is a shitty place. The government cleared out all the problem people to seaside resorts cos of the empty space in b and bs cos foreign holidays are cheaper for Brits.

    • @steveholt420
      @steveholt420 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +Grief Prophecy - pockets of depravity exist nearly everywhere

    • @nopenothing9016
      @nopenothing9016 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's a pity that drug addicts dont get paid in Canada.

  • @ghostlandwildman4219
    @ghostlandwildman4219 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    On the bus.. Watching all who drive past.. Happy, loved... Appreciated.. Here I am.. Alone.. I wish I was someone else... Somewhere else. Bought a pack of smokes.. Feeling empty again.. On the bus... Going no where..

  • @MrBrickfilms
    @MrBrickfilms 11 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    The ending with good headphones is terrifying yet amazing

    • @sadcookie7401
      @sadcookie7401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It reminds me of death. Becoming one woth life - meeting all the lifeforms, even those extinc and physically merging with them. Then merging with dirt, rocks, the planet and finally becoming one with the whole universe.

  • @saibata750
    @saibata750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Why are we drawn to this? This song is like the anthem to an ending. Like seeing the rise and fall of something. I’m writing this in early December of 2020. I’ve been having massive anxiety and depression recently. I feel alone but full of power. It’s as if there’s a part of me that wants to burn something while wanting to tend a garden. I’m a mess but I hope all of you out there are doing okay. 2020 has been a punch in the face to all of us. But I’m hanging in there. I want to outlive this pandemic so I can do the things I want to do in life before I take my step into the dark.
    This song is art and I won’t deny its emotional impact. It brings forth the dark colors of reality that we see in our daily lives.
    But I implore you to act not on this basis but on the light in your hearts. Be the flame in the darkness. Be your friend and spread your wings. You can do it. Keep going. Don’t give in until you’ve got nothing left in you. And let the things that fear you remind you of that.

    • @brookeschell4634
      @brookeschell4634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm nearly 15 minutes into this song reading your comment. The last couple lines..I keep reading them over and over and now I'm just ABSOLUTELY SOBBING blinking hard to get the tears to clear out long enough to read your words again. I need someone to help me

    • @pollyL1
      @pollyL1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for writing the most eloquent and inspiring TH-cam comment I have ever read. Good art brings good people

    • @fnordberg
      @fnordberg ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."
      - Clive Barker

  • @someirishguy1662
    @someirishguy1662 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is my favourite intro to any song ever, a desperate cry for something better in the darkness, the message and field recording always strikes me
    We cant buy love and happiness, it comes from something more

  • @radiantsvn
    @radiantsvn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    It's 00:20 AM and I'm listening to this for the first time. Hands down one of the greatest things I've ever heard, I'm speechless.

    • @tomt5745
      @tomt5745 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can only agree

  • @Marispider
    @Marispider 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The last part of this song made me so physically uncomfortable and I love it. The combination of the high pitched buzzing and the sounds either suddenly popping up right next to me or slowly approaching, like something's after me... God. The embodiment of dread. It's not often music's able to pull up emotion like this

  • @nickyb1967
    @nickyb1967 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It's hard to pick a better song to go along with 28 Days Later (one of my favourite films) but this perfectly encapsulates the horror and dread you'd feel in an "empty" London
    Perfect song. I love it

    • @Andrei-ne5vs
      @Andrei-ne5vs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Me too

  • @lowresolutionlilly799
    @lowresolutionlilly799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I watched my home town Salem Oregon wilt into such a divided, grey place. I remember walking across town in the the rain to my friends house, and I had this song playing. I eventually reached an area under a highway overpass. There were tents upon tents of homeless folks.. yelling, coughing, it reeked of piss. I just thought.. it wasn't like this 5/10 years ago.. but Salem isn't the only place where this is happening. Addiction, poverty and the way ex vets get treated.. and the way nobody seems to be doing anything to help.. it's gut wrenching. Since that day, the bitterness in the world has only become much more apparent.

    • @Uruguay182
      @Uruguay182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really enjoyed reading your sad but true story. do you have Instagram?

    • @lowresolutionlilly799
      @lowresolutionlilly799 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah! It’s xmarlboroxbarbiex..
      it’s funny, I saw a meme with this album in it and it made me come back to this great song. Forgot I ever wrote that comment.
      Now I’m staying with my dad in the only apartment complex in a rich neighborhood and it makes me fvckin sick. ☠️

    • @h0tb0i74
      @h0tb0i74 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That shit mainly only happen on the West Coast really. Here in the Deep South there's a shit loada abandos that the homeless can squat in and I think a lotta the East Coast is just like that in general.

  • @billbrasky8525
    @billbrasky8525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    That reverb that sweeps in around 11:00 always gave me chills.

  • @sfish6
    @sfish6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    The sad mafioso part is some of this band’s best work by far

    • @thesupplement5214
      @thesupplement5214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Drugs in Tokyo takes the cake for me, Ik it isn’t as complex but god I can’t describe how amazing that part is, it’s unreal.

    • @sfish6
      @sfish6 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thesupplement5214 what did you think of states end? It honestly felt kinda weak and less dramatic to me kinda like luciferan towers

    • @TheBlackjack18
      @TheBlackjack18 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The cello coming on near the start of the buildup of the sad mafioso really fucks me up. Hope in hopelessness. Righteous vengeance. I can't describe it lol

    • @mrconfusion87
      @mrconfusion87 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And Danny Boyle knew it damn well! 😂😂😂

    • @Christian-97
      @Christian-97 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheBlackjack18Righteous vengeance is the best way to describe it, that part sounds so cold and angry

  • @alexandresaoghal1761
    @alexandresaoghal1761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I am from Montréal, born and raised (80's) and... I never heard of Godspeed You! Black Emperor... before TODAY? What is this BLASPHEMY!? This band is LIFE!

  • @B2b2b2b2u
    @B2b2b2b2u 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    about a year ago I started listening to this and never forgot one comment here. to the person who lost their friend when they took their life to this song, I am sorry, I think about that often when I listen to this song.

  • @Zlarel
    @Zlarel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This was the song that introduced me to Godspeed. I listened through their whole discography in short order, and in the decade since hardly a day has gone by that I haven't listened to at least one of their songs (usually several more). Glorious.

  • @Ocasionalminer4thpia
    @Ocasionalminer4thpia 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This was the first song to ever make me cry. When you absorb yourself in it, this song is one the greatest things ever.

  • @antarcticaresearchprogram8349
    @antarcticaresearchprogram8349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The last segment takes me to outer space; alone up there in the stars, and finding something so great and profound that I know it was an unnatural occurrence, but having no understanding of why it was there, or who had made it so long ago, and then I hear a buzzing in my ears~

  • @mohorovski
    @mohorovski 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    It's one of those nights. The abyss is encroaching.

  • @raulsimon6856
    @raulsimon6856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm the only one who Remember the part of the movie "28 days later" when Jim was walking in a abandoned London? I love that movie for many reasons, the soundtrack is one of them. Is one of my favourite movies.

    • @finnnation123
      @finnnation123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re not alone mate

    • @Andrei-ne5vs
      @Andrei-ne5vs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too

    • @stevenwoessner3279
      @stevenwoessner3279 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I definitely remember! My Ex-wife and I seen 28 days later opening night in New Orleans at a small theater, I remember looking at her and saying Godspeed!!!

  • @leeb6476
    @leeb6476 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the UK right now a cool breeze has blown in after a two day heat wave. You have no idea how much I needed this tune, and this cool breeze.

  • @sonikkuffffff
    @sonikkuffffff  11 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    i've added timecodes to all of my gybe videos. you can now skip to each movement in every track i have uploaded. i tried to make them as accurate as possible.

    • @kamman626
      @kamman626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love you sonikku

    • @christaincarvalho
      @christaincarvalho 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can you pin this comment?

    • @banjogyro
      @banjogyro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Now it's even cooler with the new youtube feature.

  • @abbazabba8217
    @abbazabba8217 9 ปีที่แล้ว +673

    met the lady in the beginning of this. she'd sit in her chair on hastings street and preach all day.

    • @DougglesMagnificent
      @DougglesMagnificent 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      +abba zabba Isn't she the one by Hastings and Carrall? Maybe not anymore, that corner's been cleared out a bit in recent years. Ever since The Cage got shut down for good.

    • @DougglesMagnificent
      @DougglesMagnificent 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +DougglesMagnificent Anyway I think she's Haitian? I ignored the fuck out of any of the preaching nuts on E. H. especially when I was focussed on getting something in me.

    • @abbazabba8217
      @abbazabba8217 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      +DougglesMagnificent nah that's pigeon park. this is the next block going towards downtown. outside the long gone woodwards building. she had a pet duck with her.

    • @abbazabba8217
      @abbazabba8217 8 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      this is recorded outside the woodwards department store on east hastings street downtown vancouver... i tried googling her up to see if there were pictures of her but coudlnt find her. i mixed her up with another old lady who used to walk around down there with her pet duck. the lady in east hastings was a black lady who would just yell like that sitting on a folded chair... people seemed scared and irritated by her i just smiled at her and she'd smile back.

    • @abbazabba8217
      @abbazabba8217 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      oh yeah so to answer your question she was probably out there for all of the 90s maybe earlier. they'd since torn down most of the woodwards building and the only part that's left is the corner of the building she'd sit. next to the bus stop.

  • @Gbillx3
    @Gbillx3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Whenever I have a relapse, I come to this sound, and it comforts me; all anguish, all affliction is tuned to this melancholic melody. I ask God to help me overcome my sins that torment me

  • @LookHeadcrabs
    @LookHeadcrabs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Imagine wandering around aimlessly in East Hastings while listening to this masterpiece while you see all the hopelessness and all the lives that got destroyed by hard drugs. That's terrifying.

    • @marshallsweatherhiking1820
      @marshallsweatherhiking1820 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think the hopelessness comes first. The hard drugs just finish you off.

  • @coreymcarthur7835
    @coreymcarthur7835 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Man this track is just so powerful. For me it conjures images of the end of the world, wandering through an endless and desolate wasteland. A city devoid of life. Gray skies. A beam of light through the crack of a tattered curtain. Dusty pews in a church long since abandoned. A field of burned trees. Black smoke on a far off horizon. Coming to terms with an end you knew was coming.

  • @thedeadcellist
    @thedeadcellist 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    The gap between how sublime this is and how easy it is to play is incredible, it’s literally just a major scale

  • @designdefect1
    @designdefect1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    just listened to this with headphones on and all the lights out. that was SUPER creepy near the end. awesome

    • @bennyvillian1296
      @bennyvillian1296 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I did the same thing on acid.don't do it

    • @BoarhideGaming
      @BoarhideGaming 9 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I would say don't do acid alone either..

    • @rollinggoronable
      @rollinggoronable 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +SmokeytoastProductionz it's good sober or high, that's why I love drugs, it changes ur perspective and feelings on things for every drug, u can do the same thing 3 or 4 Times yet never actually repeat the same process

    • @UnikeStryker
      @UnikeStryker 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      i did it when my mom passed away, it just was a sad experience

  • @lowresolutionlilly799
    @lowresolutionlilly799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I FINALLY FOUND IT, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS

  • @danijonesdanijones
    @danijonesdanijones 10 ปีที่แล้ว +674

    Next time a big thunder storm rolls through your area, put this on. It's the most apocalyptic thing I've ever experienced.

    • @thedecameron
      @thedecameron 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dani Jones nice

    • @Lavafish26
      @Lavafish26 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Just found it while a storm is hitting here in Texas. I’m loving it.

    • @vindorin
      @vindorin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      My friend and I drove through a blizzard with this album on. The whether waxed and waned with the crescendos and decrescendos...

    • @pointlesswanderer
      @pointlesswanderer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Try album Departure Songs by We lost the Sea

    • @kangurulmusic
      @kangurulmusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agalloch - Odal fits well too

  • @krammi
    @krammi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    thanks that was terrifyingly enjoyable

  • @Meltscherz
    @Meltscherz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1931

    Living in a third world country in a middle of a crisis where you can barely eat makes this song more terrifying than it is

    • @Hejeval
      @Hejeval 8 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Venezuela?

    • @Meltscherz
      @Meltscherz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      hejeval777 yes

    • @Hejeval
      @Hejeval 8 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Moisés Daniel Lo supe, yo soy de Chile, mucha fuerza hermano!

    • @laburgy
      @laburgy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      Your comment was strong and sad, how are you now, my friend ?

    • @chaoticThundergod
      @chaoticThundergod 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      hope u are ok friend

  • @p0ffl3y
    @p0ffl3y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    I’m going to play this when my area goes under quarantine for true pandemic immersion

    • @unmarkedart1
      @unmarkedart1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's the spirit lol

    • @user-ul4to4iv4h
      @user-ul4to4iv4h 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m from UK , we just went on lockdown tonight

    • @p0ffl3y
      @p0ffl3y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      12345678 Good luck man, remember. Play the song; for maximum immersion.

    • @steevedaw566
      @steevedaw566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah...Playing it now,very loud.

    • @immoreofastandingperson7939
      @immoreofastandingperson7939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Might as well.

  • @joeh6915
    @joeh6915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    That ending always has me cowering in fear. Feels like something sinister is approaching

    • @lewisjohnlewis6590
      @lewisjohnlewis6590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God there is so much feel of the God Machines bleak " Scenes from"... in this song.
      truly beautiful.

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      More like it has already arrived

    • @shiveringisles3509
      @shiveringisles3509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bagpipes to mosquito hum.

  • @solfaur0
    @solfaur0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This right here, this is what made my body tremble, this piece of work right here is what caused me to actually have emotions during a listening. It's pure, it's emotional. It leaves for interpretation. All and all, truly amazing.

  • @Ethanchamberlain3
    @Ethanchamberlain3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    the great thing about depression is that you find these gems at 2 am. that’s pretty much the only good thing though

    • @emiliob6250
      @emiliob6250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      finding this kind of music is really comforting though, isn’t it? it makes you feel like you’re not alone

    • @avatarr_
      @avatarr_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emiliob6250 nah it's worse. knowing that other people are stuck with the same shit and can't escape. rough

    • @Tehdurkniht
      @Tehdurkniht 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      damn you really called me out like that

    • @connecticut1123
      @connecticut1123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      >imagine thinking there's something good about depression

    • @skellishzombie9793
      @skellishzombie9793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@connecticut1123 Depression overall is bad but in it you start to learn things. You can start to help others becsuse now you know what its like. You become a much more stronger person if you pull through. I've been suffering with depression ever since I was around 9 years old. I am currently 18 and still deal with it but I don't let it get to me as much anymore. I'm glad to have pushed through even when i felt weak because now I have a wife who cares deeply about me and she is the one who was the light in my darkness. In the moment you don't see the brighter side but if you push through and overcome it you'll feel so much different

  • @johnmoonitz2968
    @johnmoonitz2968 9 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    I remember the first time I heard this song . . . this was my intro to GY!BE . . . . I was a student at UCLA, floundering through the last stages of a dying marriage . . . this music spoke directly to my soul. Hard to believe that was almost twenty years ago now! Brilliant ..... simply brilliant!

    • @andyowen7636
      @andyowen7636 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Been there..hope your happy now?.....awesome music btw

    • @jubjub2112
      @jubjub2112 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +andy owen Yes, much better now, thank you!

    • @villalobosmaria15
      @villalobosmaria15 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      do you miss her?

    • @johnmoonitz2968
      @johnmoonitz2968 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Late reply ... yes ... but I only miss her as a friend, and we have been good friends for many years now​ ... Hope all is well with you ... @villalobosmaria15

  • @TheInterstellarVirtuoso
    @TheInterstellarVirtuoso 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I listened to this while on a saunter today, at the darkest hour of the morning. As "Nothing's Alrite In Our Life" played, I passed a faceless man clearing his driveway of snow. His snow-blower's engine hummed a perfect A# drone. It added a very surreal touch of bass to that section of this piece.
    A morning to remember.

  • @guirricoful
    @guirricoful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    After every election I come back to this track, because it makes me aware that it doesn't matter who gets in charge of my country. Nothing, absolutely nothing will change, and if it changes it is downhill, never up.
    Currently there's loads of things going on in my country and it's sad that I can't move out neither my family, we are stuck in here. And this song always comes to mind when watching the news, riding a bus packed with sad looking faces and so on.
    Anyway good luck to everyone in 2023!

    • @ZacTBH
      @ZacTBH ปีที่แล้ว

      you aren't alone in these feelings.

    • @assil172
      @assil172 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ZacTBH thats the sad part

    • @Shattered_Universe
      @Shattered_Universe 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hello, guy from the future here. It didn’t get any better this year, either.

    • @DarkSentinel52
      @DarkSentinel52 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i feel like the entire world is getting worse and worse

  • @Glarblenuck
    @Glarblenuck 9 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Love the hell out of the last bit. It's so ominous.

    • @Glouba8989
      @Glouba8989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Us.

    • @BobbinRobbin777
      @BobbinRobbin777 ปีที่แล้ว

      ⁠A bunch o’ baby Kazoos, aware of what’s going to happen, get sent one by one into the slaughterhouse.

  • @carcamclips
    @carcamclips 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is the music you listen to and you don’t care how weird odd and out of place others think you are. And, you look into others with a deeper understanding of how you don't understand them and realize you don't want to, nor, do you need to. It's enough to know, that they don't know how much you, yourself, truly know. Except for the mosquito at the end. He knows. More than any lowly human could possibly comprehend

  • @riskest
    @riskest 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Holy crap I saw the movie 28 days later just today and recognized one song very familiar to my ears... And here I am, listening to this tune while remembering my days in Commercial DR in Vancouver.

  • @blvkopvl5979
    @blvkopvl5979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is visual art without even having visuals, because the visions come when you just sit back and listen and close your eyes, that’s the beauty of GSYBE & Post Rock! Fly Pan Am is another one of my faves

  • @aldaqua
    @aldaqua 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Asla eskimeyecek bir parça, şaheser...

  • @koenmetekohy1296
    @koenmetekohy1296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This randomly appeared in my recommended, I don’t know why it’s in there, but I’m glad that this is in there

  • @paleopablo4007
    @paleopablo4007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    jesus man, absolute masterpiece it amazes me how music can have so much emotion and power without vocals and lyrics

  • @chandler224
    @chandler224 7 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    I remember first hearing this in 28 Days Later, and just thought it was part of the OST. Then a couple years later my friend got me into GY!BE and I was like "holy shit I recognize this from somewhere".

    • @o0julek0o
      @o0julek0o 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      No way, it's in that movie? I'm genuinely surprised.

    • @kildare97
      @kildare97 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Yeah when Jim is walking around an empty London by himself at the beginning.

    • @colinbrown2689
      @colinbrown2689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was so disappointed that it wasn't on there then my world to great music exploded open.

    • @karlish8799
      @karlish8799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly the same thing happened to me. 😄

    • @Glouba8989
      @Glouba8989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Glad I'm not the only one !

  • @vctdaems2593
    @vctdaems2593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    28 days later has the best soundtrack!

  • @ronald2093
    @ronald2093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    Wow 2020 got a really good OST 10/10

    • @squeebbb
      @squeebbb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Dead Flag Blues is the undisputed theme of 2020.

    • @naruii5160
      @naruii5160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@squeebbb for sure, i feel like this song is for when the world truly ends, our very last minutes

  • @TOMEServer
    @TOMEServer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    10:30 riding to school on a bicycle at the age of 15 while listening to that part is still one of the more vivid memories I have

    • @Genesis222777
      @Genesis222777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same it has such eerie and dark high school vibes. Those feelings are really not enjoyable to visit but sometimes I do.

  • @xtal7173
    @xtal7173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I once listened to this song completely high. And for me, the first part was life, with its own ups and downs, and then, in the beginning of the second part, after we hear the heartbeat stops, comes death. And the last part is just a state of slow decadence of a moment that feel like it’ll last forever. But it’ll not. It is just a simple illusion made by the last cells in our brain that shut down, one by one.
    It is when you’re the closest to death that you wanna live the most.
    Thanks to Godspeed You! Black Emperor for this masterpiece.

  • @EndOfSmallSanctuary97
    @EndOfSmallSanctuary97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    One of the greatest songs of all time, from one of the greatest albums of all time

  • @Equinox9337
    @Equinox9337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I never noticed but both the album art and music is extremely high quality and I can't thank you enough for that.

  • @placeholdername3907
    @placeholdername3907 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    This is totally me when the car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel.

  • @MohamedElngredy
    @MohamedElngredy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i listen to it numerous times in 4 years now and each time i find a different beauty in it

  • @mkinglbcs1302
    @mkinglbcs1302 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I've heard of these before now but this is the first time I've listen to this band...this track is unbelievably good. The kinda shit that affects you. I might not sleep tonight

  • @woag2098
    @woag2098 8 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    12:20 to the end of the song is straight up nightmare fuel.

  • @kenanalvarez2069
    @kenanalvarez2069 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    life is a burden. music is a “taking a break.” this is a taking breath in break.

  • @idksomethingedgy2265
    @idksomethingedgy2265 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The sad mafioso will always be my favourite track by Godspeed.

  • @Lienaked
    @Lienaked 7 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    listening to this while waking on East Hastings, Vancouver. what a paranormal experience lol

    • @arranhickman8618
      @arranhickman8618 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hastings Vancouver!!! My apologies, i didn't imagine anyone would be so thoughtless as to replicate Hastings beyond the borders of that most cynical isle

    • @arranhickman8618
      @arranhickman8618 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      though, east Hastings has less to do with St Leonards than the west, so that's something at least.!

    • @arranhickman8618
      @arranhickman8618 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      distraction aside, i enjoyed( didn't denounce) the music

    • @ryanomalley2980
      @ryanomalley2980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      paranormal isnt' the word you're looking for dawg

  • @d_inkz
    @d_inkz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was doing well, until I reached the final part, literally felt my heart sinking - wow.

  • @malaikamillions
    @malaikamillions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The voice at the beginning: in the 90’s I regularly would see exactly this lady on East Hastings. She would be seated in a fold out chair. I would usually stop to admire her, and enjoy the soundscape against her melodic bellows. I seem to remember her in a lavender/pink sunday-best outfit with white gloves. Was so elated when when I first discovered her voice sample preserved in this music piece; Makes it a Double Treasure.

  • @cinnamon4
    @cinnamon4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Post-rock feels like a derelict, dying American town a la Cairo, Illinois, or full-on post-apocalypse scenery.
    Really love the drone sound in the end of Nothing's Alrite in Our Life.

  • @naven2802
    @naven2802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Sad Mafioso embodies a hopelessness I can’t explain but I understand all too well. There’s no one to turn to, no where to go, so all you can do is get up on your own two feet and run.

  • @edoardomartesca339
    @edoardomartesca339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Extraordinaria pieza. Mas alla de la maravillosa incursion que tiene en el film "28 Days Later" es una pieza que se eleva por si misma. Una joya.

  • @indigo6485
    @indigo6485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't remember finding this to have it saved on a playlist of mine but seriously i suprise myself with the type of music I listen to post rock brings this diffrent side out of me no other genre replicates

  • @ShadyRonin
    @ShadyRonin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the very very last notes at the very end... that haunting sound... just chilling.

  • @howlingmadme
    @howlingmadme 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    wow i sure am glad i clicked on this random thumbnail.. this started out slow, but turned into something i didn't think i'd love to hear

  • @Brad-ly2wl
    @Brad-ly2wl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is one of my life songs. I'll keep coming back and listening to this probably for the rest of my life.

  • @liamcoakley1822
    @liamcoakley1822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I don’t think I’ve ever been frightened by a song before.

  • @malikheruelshabbazz
    @malikheruelshabbazz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    i wrote a whole novel in my head to this track. one single frame, one track. bad ass...

  • @HouseOfSpheres
    @HouseOfSpheres 7 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    I finally got the opportunity to see GYBE perform this track about five years ago. I’d heard a number of live bootlegs from the early 2000s where, during the quiet bridge that is otherwise sung by the band on the studio recording, audience members loudly sang the melody along with the band. Figuring this was commonplace, when the track slowed to a halt, I proceeded to belt out, “YA DUH DUH DUH!!” and immediately, a thousand pairs of pissed off eyes turned towards me. One of the most embarrassing moments I’ve ever had at a show lol

    • @NM-hb5fd
      @NM-hb5fd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Goddamn that's funny lolo

    • @thefastestcat
      @thefastestcat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Somebody still tells that story...

    • @spacealienjesus709
      @spacealienjesus709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As long as you had fun...fuck em. ..
      Funny story though

    • @Philgrandin
      @Philgrandin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      thats what lifes about right there. the little things.. I for one would have thanked you for the opportunity to witness that. Like that "let me bang bro" dude. that right there was art and what i live for. thank you for sharing and don't allow there anygry eys to disuade you from doing more shit like that. fuck'em if they knew anything they would have joined you

    • @facehairteeth
      @facehairteeth ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The things I remember most are the times I was embarrassed. I now know other people don't recall those moments about me but it took me a while to realize that

  • @synth8370
    @synth8370 8 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    definitely one of the best songs of all time

    • @betzoarr
      @betzoarr 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Definetely.

    • @CrazyBrick30
      @CrazyBrick30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry, I read this band's name somewhere and therefore come from the realm of normal music... this is not the best song ever, and with songs like "Foreplay, Long Time" by Boston out there I can say that with pretty fair certainty. This just sounds like a peyote trip pressed onto vinyl.

    • @thrax4939
      @thrax4939 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      CrazyBrick30 boomer doesn’t get post rock hahaha

    • @CrazyBrick30
      @CrazyBrick30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thrax4939 Haha, yeah, except I'm probably in your age group and appreciate musical excellence. There's not much to "get" with awful music.

    • @marksouls1390
      @marksouls1390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CrazyBrick30 everyone has their own opinion. I agree that this is one of the best songs ever made, but i can also see why you would look at this song and think that its crap. you just have to learn to appreciate it I guess.

  • @senthilvelan544
    @senthilvelan544 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jesus, spotify recommendations are on point lately!

  • @Selinastar12
    @Selinastar12 10 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    See them live. That is all.

    • @trowftd
      @trowftd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Literally the greatest musical privilege anyone will ever have. Seen them 5 times, and they're the 5 greatest shows I've ever been to

    • @waynewalls5033
      @waynewalls5033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have, three times...each time astonishing...

  • @tomyost7763
    @tomyost7763 9 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Good to listen to, every now and then.

  • @HouseFromSmartCity
    @HouseFromSmartCity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow this captures the doom and despair I felt growing up on E.Hastings. Spending my prime development years there was motivating to want to do everything to get out but it also makes you cynical at too young of an age. Excellent album 💪
    -Mr.SmartCity

  • @growskull
    @growskull ปีที่แล้ว +3

    god the atmosphere when they played this live for the first time in years was incredible. for most of the show everyone was silent and standing, some people held hands and put their fists in their air and cried but most people were just entranced (including me) but when sophie started making noise on her violin and those first few notes hit everyone went absolutely nuts cheering

  • @chrismclelland7356
    @chrismclelland7356 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why does this particular collection of sounds make me feel hopeless. Like without any control or question, I'm born into a world were my soul is tainted from the day I'm born. Always living in dread, always feeling guilty for the horrors man has committed throughout time as if I'm a part of the problem, yet having not an ounce to do with it.

  • @yesilhavuctr3376
    @yesilhavuctr3376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Such a great time to listen this.
    All this events...

  • @NIMRODakaNIMROD
    @NIMRODakaNIMROD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Listening to this in 2020 during coronavirus pandemic. GET ON MY LEVEL!

    • @unmarkedart1
      @unmarkedart1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why hello friend **waves from 6 feet away**

  • @dillianbamman8931
    @dillianbamman8931 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    An interesting time to find this song I must say

    • @emilkubie
      @emilkubie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Especially when your awake as of what society is forcing us to do in order to follow the sheep trends of weak.

    • @jeffjohnson419
      @jeffjohnson419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Emil Kubie Calm down there buddy

    • @emilkubie
      @emilkubie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffjohnson419 calm down? I can’t, it’s just my nature, what is going on right now, the elite c0cks****** out there mind controlling people to say stupid sh!t to the masses and getting paid by their masters, glad I never own cable, I’m sticking with my morals conservatism, i guess being awake kinda feels hopeless sometimes.

  • @kristinningiorarinsson733
    @kristinningiorarinsson733 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Saw guys in Gamla Bíó, Reykjavík Iceland back in 2000-2001 and did not know anything about you or ever heard of you only got recommendation from a colleague to see you guys live, so I went...
    Never regretted that decision for it was a Goose Bump ride all the way through and the air drumming now while listening in the climax of this song is something else.

  • @O5FS
    @O5FS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i was searching for a song with lyrics and found a lot of songs with no lyrics i really don’t know how i got here i’m gonna go head back to where i came from nice to see you guys

    • @morgancarmichael2386
      @morgancarmichael2386 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you kept listening and it became one of your favorite songs, right?