I mostly listen to Extreme Metal. But, I have become very fascinated (and somewhat obsessed) with Post- Rock music like this, Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Ros and Solstafir. The minimalistic playing and atmosphere gives off a unique wave of emotions that most other kinds of music fail at
I'm mainly an extreme metal fan too (specifically, technical/melodic/prog death metal). First post-rock band I really started to like was Mono, with the song Recoil, Ignite. I think I gravitate towards the bands that have huge buildups to chaotic, heavy guitar sections, but the mellow stuff is good too if I need to be calm.
Whenever I hear this guy, I always feel really warm, as if he is my long lost friend and I'm having a conversation with him. It makes the rest of this track so poignant... 'they don't sleep anymore on the beach'. Puts chills down my spine.
The intro is heartbreaking...in my mind I always see the actor who played Brooks in Shawshank Redemption delivering this monologue - and it never fails to stir emotion in me, especially when he says with his voice quaking with nostalgia and sadness "they don't sleep anymore on the beach." Beautiful song, beautiful album, masterful band.
A variation on Frederic Chopin's Piano Prelude No 4 Opus 28 if I'm not mistaken. Can't wait to see the band live in November. Saw Thee Silver Mt Zion last year and it blew me away, so I expect the same from Godspeed.
This entire album is one of the most amazing things I've ever put in my ears. The CD is worn out and the LP is treasured. Pure art rock bliss. This belongs on the shelf with DSOTM and very few others.
J'ai écouté cette chanson il y a des années alors que je traversais des mois de dépression, elle m'a fait entrevoir la beauté de la vie et a soulagé ma souffrance un instant, c'était magique !
Lyrics: It was Coney Island, they called Coney Island the playground of the world There was no place like it, in the whole world, like Coney Island when I was a youngster No place in the world like it, and it was so fabulous. Now it's shrunk down to almost nothing...you see And, uh, I still remember in my mind how things used to be, and...uh, you know, I feel very bad But people from all over the world came here...from all over the world...it was the playground they called it the playground of the world...over here Anyways, you see, I...uh...you know...I even got, when I was very small, I even got lost at Coney Island, but they found me...on the...on the beach And we used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight..they don't do that anymore. Things changed...you see They don't sleep anymore on the beach
Im 14. There are about 3 people at my school who would appreciate this song for what it is. AAn absoloute emmotional masterclass this is music at its very pinnacle.
For whatever reason, this is always the music I come back to when I'm laid out in a hospital. Here I am, 6th floor of St. Francis Hospital ICU, at 3:37 am and I'm listening.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I remember hearing a song so sad, touching and emotional. All I remember is the man talking and the sentence "They dont do it anymore". I've been searching for few hours now and finally found this song. God I love it so much.
This music was showed to me by a friend when I was just starting college. It is among the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard in my life. I use this song ritualistically to put things into retrospection.
cant wait to be out of probation to smoke a joint and listen to this tune.. omg I can feel it now every beat touching my skin - what skin? Im only coming through in waves... oh I keep forgetting I am nothing... I have no image or form but it is only when I have no image or form that I feel alive and whole.. it is only then that I realize I am everything... I have to be nothing to be everything... God this song is amazing.... It makes me suffer just like weed - but it is the suffering that makes me feel one...makes me wonder why we have bad people... are they really bad? there's something I dont quite understand when Im high- why does suffering and fear makes me one.. perhaps love is fear. after all unconditional love does not judge. why is this comment so fucking long- music is my only and true savior.
mp4ever31 It is mostly triviality you write, but I do wonder about how this music "makes you suffer just like weed"? Please explain, I am most curious. Do you mean to say that it causes you pain directly? It allows you to focus more clearly on pain? Solely on pain? Please make more detail.
oh my god.. wow finally someone who agrees with me. i seriously cannot go a day without listening to that specific part, honestly it sends chills up my spine everytime. i couldn't agree more
Listening to music is all about how it makes you feel, THis type of music makes me feel so much. Much more than i could explain in the 490 characters that youtube give you to comment.
I just melt listening to this. I want to get all of their stuff on vinyl because it's so worthy of such. I only have one vinyl album and that's Risk Hell's Animals so I plan this to be my 2nd. Such beauty, brings me such peace.
This is definitely my favourite song of them..It nearly takes my breath away while listening to it..! This is art in it's purest way..! this is one of these songs that never should have ended...but it's perfect..! Anybody already heardBand called "Nyctalgia" and their song "Falling into Nothingness"? Imo a great newcomer in postrock-genre that really deserves more attention..! It's not my band, but worth checking it out.. RU-vidsearch: Nyctalgia
Forms of art like these are the true things (possibly the only things) that make me proud of being human. It's like music makes humanity go beyond what we generally believe humanity is - it's like surpassing human, surpassing the physical world and being alive in its true sense.
AlistairIsCool when you listen to this kind of music...you have t be patient and free ur mind from everything and let yourself feel...this song is genius... if you want to listen smt less boring listen to madonna.but realise what true and pure music is.
This is my first time hearing this bad... and I don't know why, but I'm crying. A lot. Something about this music just brings... something to my heart.
@shart118 I know exactly what you mean. the music after these little bits are just so thought provoking and they twist all of your emotions around. amazing music.
I went to sleep listening to this and had a horrible dream. This song was playing intensely while I could see a huge comet coming straight for earth. I was helpless to do anything, so I was filled with despair knowing my entire existence would be wiped out in a manner of minutes. Feelsbadman
@MolesAsses Yup, the track is called East Hastings. Have a listen, and if you've seen the movie, you'll recognise the music immediately. Enjoy, it's one of my favourites from them :)
i dont know why i cry at night, if its because things like this flood my mind, or is it my famiyl and my blood, this city in this country. this nation. living in a world power, being subject to it. just everything, the thought of a lonely jail cell, nothingness, the hurt of the past, and the days plodding on till i wrinkle up, and become old, and remember happy days. i just dont know.
It's good to see that there are still a good amount of people who appreciate this band...It's just too bad the band stopped making music because they made some of the best. I tried writing a letter to the address inside of their CDs...cause it says something about "building empires" and interested parties should inquire within... Just to tell them to get it together and start making music again
There is a sacred piece of music known only to a very few that once heard will open your ears up to the murmur of the universe and it will be as if for all your previous life you had heard nothing...
I haven't been there but from what I've read Coney Island used to be the Disneyland of it's day, and now it's largely forgotten. After WW2 it fell into disrepair and became largely forgotten about. I think it's coming back lately though.
@catvamp13mishka The band took its name from God Speed You! Black Emperor, a 1976 Japanese black-and-white documentary by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, which follows the exploits of a Japanese biker gang, the Black Emperors. Or so I am told!
I see a story when i hear this, i see the end of the universe. hearing it on youtube doesn't give this song justice. ..why am I listening to it here....
that is because 2 out of the 3 movements of "Hung Over As The Queen In Maida Vale" ended up on the album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven as parts of "Sleep" and "Static", and the last movement of it has not been released. It is a peel session. i don't know really what that is, but Google it, lol.
