some background about the album from wikipedia, because i feel like it's important for context: Yanqui is the Spanish word for "Yankee". The liner notes also refer to "Yanqui" as a "multinational corporate oligarchy", while "U.X.O." stands for "unexploded ordnance". The packaging of the album contains an arrow diagram purporting to represent the links between four major record labels (AOL Time-Warner, BMG, Sony, Vivendi Universal) and various arms manufacturers. This chart accompanied a photograph of falling bombs. The band later admitted that a particular extension of the chart (namely EMI appearing on the chart as a subsidiary of AOL Time-Warner) was incorrect. To me this album is purely about war and the military-industrial complex, hence the calling out record label's links to arms manufacturers and the falling bombs on the album cover. This gives a lot of context to the really devastating tone of a lot of the songs here, and although this isn't my favourite project from them it probably hits the hardest emotionally because of the meaning behind it
Please listen to Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend by them. It's their heaviest record to date and probably the most powerful opener of their whole discography.
It's hard (impossible) to find a weak album. The next Asunder Sweet and other Distress, for example, contains one of their most outstanding finale (Piss Crowns are Trebled).
@@rushguy1 I saw mladic live and it was straight up, the best song ever to experience in a live setting. It’s so heavy and powerful and I was headbanging to it as well
@@Alisonsinks Wasn't lucky enough to hear Mladic when I saw Godspeed, but I was lucky enough to see them do Monheim and both sides of Slow Riot at the show I attended. Transcendent.
@@rushguy1 oh shitttt I would love to hear monheim live as well. They’re incredible live no matter what they play honestly. I heard their 3 new songs live recently and it was some mind blowing material
yanqui is my favorite godspeed album it is beyond amazing also the lamb as effigy is needed soon you're just going through all my favorite albums at this point lollll
Wwweeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll... they kinda are after Allelujah, not terrible, but not on quite par with their run of material from 1997 - 2012, God's Pee was promising tho
@@Jonathan-jc4ef I don't. Give me a weak album, the last one? So different, so Pink Floyd-like, they are always full of ideas, always so epic and mighty (Piss Crowns are Trebled, a few years ago, is outstanding). Come on.
Nah man they lack that certain magic they had in the 90s and the early 2000s. Godspeed are a band that is the result of 90s alternative scene imo. When they came post-rock wasnt that established. I see them as musically operating in the alternative rock scene but decided to make post-rock music out of that musical influence. Nowadays just like alternative music they lack this magic.
It really is, one of the great disappointments of my life is having seen the band live multiple times but Rockets Fall... is never on the setlist of those nights.
I’m a video game designer and I do my best work with Godspeed You Black Emperor in the background. There is something so epic about them that just brings out my creative side.
another great post-rock record to review is the dance of the moon and the sun by natural snow buildings, its much calmer and more folk-influenced than the other post-rock you've reviewed on this channel :D
Best live band I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen swans, Slowdive, king gizzard, tame impala, the smile, and yet none of those bands came anywhere close to gybe
I recommend listening to the album that followed this, Allelujah! Don't Bend, Ascend. It is quite a lot heavier than most of their earlier work and there haven't been any full album reactions on youtube as far as I can see so I would like to see what you would think of it
Day (insert double-digit number) of recommending: Third Eye Blind - Self-Titled Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway Parannoul - After the Magic clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Please consider listening to "Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!" or "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada". Both projects have some of the strongest material from gybe.
9-15-00 is probably my most played GY!BE track. Either that or We drift like worried fire. Man, i love this album so much. Overlooked in their catalog and dare I say underrated
Not post-rock but I want to recommend Failure - Fantastic Planet. Its a grunge-rock concept album about addiction with a spacy layered almost shoegaze sound. Its insanely catchy and at times very dark.
Gotta hit you with the recs 🙏, Kyuss - …And the Circus Leaves Town Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily, Todd Rundgren - Something Anything? And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Source Tags and Codes
Hell yeah! I love this album. It doesn't seem to get talked about as much as some of their others but its definitely one of my favorites. When you said "this is my favorite part of the album right here" I totally agree. MF=R has got to be my favorite song by gybe. Also, not to be that guy because I'm not huge into vinyl per-se, the vinyl version is the definitive version of this album. There's an extended drone at the beginning of MF=R part 2 that bridges the two halves, and it ends with a really unsettling cut-up sample of G.W. Bush. Also, all their albums are worth reacting to.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MY GUY a few recommendations: Process - Sampha (experimental r&b, great production) Nurture - Porter Robinson (light summer electric with fun production) Koi No Yokan - Deftones (very heavy, sexier and heavier radiohead imo) Hypochondriac - Brakence (very experimental emo rap, glitch pop) Reading Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays (the smiths ish, with beautiful female vocals)
Fantastic review. You really need to check out Mogwai dude. They're the quintessential Post Rock band that started the movement. Happy Songs for Happy People, Mr Beast, The Hawk is Howling and Young Team are all incredible albums
if you like post rock, you’d probably really like the lamb as effigy by sprain ! a completely unforgettable experience and my favorite album of all time. love your reactions :)
Hey, I have a recommendation for an album to react to. It's called Please Mr. Lostman by japanese band The Pillows, or for the matter of fact, basically any late 90s album from them because they are all great. They are more of an alt rock band with some grunge, punk, and soft rock thrown in, I think you'll like them.
A band so good that their 'weakest' release would be a highlight in any other band's discography. They have 3 legitimate masterpiece albums IMO, and this one is the best one for me.
If that riff on the original mf reedemer got you that much you should really really really check out the band Kayo Dot Specifically their first couple of releases (choirs of the eye [the best album ever made]/copper tongue/library loft/downward/coyote/gamma knife) A good intro track to their early sound is their track Don't Touch Dead Animals off a split release they did
