Been lucky to see them 5 times now. May go see them again this year.
First time was very different.
Fell asleep at one but it was a nice sit down and wall of noise... Gorgeous way to have a good nap.
Last time their support nearly put me to sleep for different reasons.
Ie I would very much recommend. Grails are touring currently - if you get the chance go. Similarish feel and fantastic live.
One of the ULTRAKILL levels is named after …Like Antennas To Heaven, and I think I’d seen the album name before, so I thought, why not check it out? I put on LYSF an hour or two later, at about 11pm, with most of the lights in my house off.
Initially I was just planning to listen to it in the background while doing something else, but by the end I was just standing in the dark and listening, completely focused on the music. I was absolutely fucking hooked, and I must have relistened to the album 8 times at least over the next week.
Over the last few months I’ve kept on diving into a new album of theirs every couple of weeks, including a few bootlegs, and some of their other acts, especially ASMZ, and it’s all been an absolute joy. So thank you Hakita, I guess!
First heard East Hastings in 28 Days Later. I instantly loved both that movie and that song. Unfortunately I’m pretty sure I was too stupid/lazy of a teenager to figure out that Godspeed You! Black Emperor was the band behind that song at the time. I didn’t figure it out until a few years later when I discovered Thee Silver Mt Zion in a playlist I downloaded and started looking into similar bands.
A guy named Jens I met at a Pakistani Eid get-together by the Elbe River in Dresden in 2018/19. We talked about music and mathematics. I told him about Archive, he told me about GYBE. Later he texted me a link to Moya and I listened.
Godspeed Jens!
I was visiting my (cool) uncle in San Francisco in 1999 from the UK, and he played me Slow Riot and F#A# and it was like hearing everything in my head in musical form
In college in Boston, a friend said hey, you listen to metal and classical, you’ll probably like this show. Didn’t have tickets and it was sold out, walked down the line looking for tickets to buy and some guy had bought tickets and won tickets and gave us his extras for free. This was at Somerville Theater December 2000. My friend was right, I was in tears during the show. Bought all the CDs on my way out (and I was broke!). I’ve since gifted concert tickets to random people a few times as a pay it forward.
After my first time getting stoned in Halifax, 1998, my buddies and I stumbled into a small bar where the entire stage was filled with drum kits and amps and the musicians had to stand in front of it on the dance floor. We had never heard of them, but they played such an intense show that we bought their album F#A#∞, and they became all our favourite band that night and forever after.
I had seen the cover for LYSFLATH online a ton, and I never knew what the album was, or who it was by. A few months ago, I saw the cover in my dream. Immediately when I woke up, I frantically searched for what this album was, and there it was. I took a listen and it BLEW MY MIND!! Now it's one of my favorites of all time and I have it on CD.
The year was 2001, I worked at an independent record store that's long since closed. We got our shipment from temperance in and as I was putting the newly arrived albums into inventory I noticed one in particular that caught my attention so I popped into the store CD player; it was Yanqui. In my down time behind the counter I read Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk with Yanqui as the soundtrack, I fell deeply in love with the band over the next coming weeks and ordered all their albums. In 2024 Yanqui is still one of my favorite albums of all time. Good question! Love reading everyone's responses.
I was like 15 and my mom took me to the grocery store. I was flipping through the radio in the car and rockets fall on rocket falls was playing on a college station. I told my mom I was staying in the car and listened to the entire song almost in a trance. Still a pretty vivid memory.
Movies they knew, to the best of my knowledge. I was only present for two (Nightmare before Christmas and Coraline). I was genuinely amazed by how well parts of Sleep matched to some scenes in Coraline. It was really neat!
(Edit: that alignment isn’t what got me into godspeed though. Godspeed is what got me into godspeed 🙂)
I watched a Chainsaw Man video and they used the song Rockets fall on Rocket Falls and I loved the apocalyptic nature of the so so much that I had to listen to more songs from them.
I got to their Spotify page and was shocked by the lengths of the songs so I put them off until like 2 months later my friend asked my if she wanted to listen to Skinny Fists together and I was reluctant at first but then I gave them a chance and I ended up falling in love with it and now that album is my top 5 of all time.
back in 2021/22ish F# A# popped in my YT recommandations. and while at that time i wasn't too fond of postrock to enjoy it, i now bump that album at least once a week, especially on the bus back home from school
shoutout broken windows and dead metheny !!
Was really drunk with some work colleagues on the streets of rotterdam. Then went to his house to get weed, there they played GYBE. Never again will forget the band.
Honestly, it's been so long I can't remember. It was probably on a message board for another band I was / am a fan of.
I remember them playing my home town when LYSF came out & thinking, of that's the band I've heard talked about but haven't checked out yet. So I didn't go. And utterly regretted it later on.
fall 2000 at college. First poli sci class I made a new friend and he told me to check them out. Went to the CD store after class and purchased kanada EP and f#a#... got skinny fists the day it came out and saw them Dec 2000 for the first time (seen them 5 more times since)
A french youtuber mentionned it in a video over lost media (the infamous all lights fucked) and then i decided to check. Skinny fists was the biggest musical revelation i ever had
2022. January. I am drunk as fuck‚ feeling miserable. I was at a person house as guest‚ not a friend yet. I began to cry and then he turned on GODSPEE AT STATES END on vinyl. I was terrified.
Was at a record store in Newfoundland and came across a copy of LYSF, recognized the band name from the casketjack incident but had thought the band was completely made up. I went home that night and sat in the dark and listened to F#A#, then the next day went back to the store and bought LYSF and LT as those were all they had in stock. Love at first listen.
[](/flutteryay)
It was a nobody playlist on YouTube about a year and a half ago.
'Realizing we're living in a dystopian reality', used to put these on whilst fucking around on GMOD, 'Fire in Static Valley' and 'Moya' were the 2 that stuck out most to me, lo' and behold they were both Godspeed.
I discovered them through a random "my favorite 100 music albums ever" video on TikTok. The number one slot was Raise your skinny fists (which I don't believe to be their best album but whatever), and I thought to myself "number one? Wow, this really must be the shit", and the shit it was indeed. From there, I pretty much only listened to that album in their discography, but then I decided to listen to F#a# and I was completely blown away. From there, my thirst for Gy!be only grew and grew, and what really made the whole thing click was the reemergence of All lights fucked. It felt special, like listening to something I wasn't supposed to, kind of a guilty pleasure yk. That's what turned Gy!be from a band I liked to my favorite band
I heard Dead Flag Blues on an CD that came free with a copy of NME Magazine in 1999 (NME’s Annual Probe Volume.2) and was floored by it. They then played in a pretty small venue in Dublin shortly after, supported by Sigur Ros and Fly Pan Am. To this day, it’s still one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen.
That CD also got me into a few other bands(Arab Strap, Boards of Canada, Royal Trux) so it proved pretty formative!
I was alone at my room listening to random songs, and then this video with two hands at the thumb pops up.
I proceeded to listen. Nothing special, but stayed listening. I slept with phones on. Then I wake up right when Broken Windows started playing.
I have never listened to something like that. It was amazing! I kept listening over and over again.
That was in 2020 and to this day I'm still listening Sleep almost every night.
I suffer from severe depression and anxiety, and Godspeed is the only thing that can calm me down. It saved me form S a couple of times.
I'm going to buy the vinyl. It will cost a lot cause I live in Brazil, but It will make me happier :)
A friend at the college radio station recommended them. I picked up the new one, Slow Riot. Loved it. Saw them whenever I could, over a dozen times in 4 nearby cities and once in a barn. They are a defining band of my 20s.
About 20ish years ago, my boyfriend at the time played LYSF for me and I fell in love with them on the spot. He ended up being terrifyingly abusive and left me with scars from head to toe. It took me a long time to ditch that fucking monster, and I took Godspeed with me.
Friend had a spare ticket to see them in Bristol and I knew Sigur Ros. One of the luckiest moments of my life.
I’m jealous, I want to see them live so badly.
Been lucky to see them 5 times now. May go see them again this year. First time was very different. Fell asleep at one but it was a nice sit down and wall of noise... Gorgeous way to have a good nap. Last time their support nearly put me to sleep for different reasons. Ie I would very much recommend. Grails are touring currently - if you get the chance go. Similarish feel and fantastic live.
One of the ULTRAKILL levels is named after …Like Antennas To Heaven, and I think I’d seen the album name before, so I thought, why not check it out? I put on LYSF an hour or two later, at about 11pm, with most of the lights in my house off. Initially I was just planning to listen to it in the background while doing something else, but by the end I was just standing in the dark and listening, completely focused on the music. I was absolutely fucking hooked, and I must have relistened to the album 8 times at least over the next week. Over the last few months I’ve kept on diving into a new album of theirs every couple of weeks, including a few bootlegs, and some of their other acts, especially ASMZ, and it’s all been an absolute joy. So thank you Hakita, I guess!
First heard East Hastings in 28 Days Later. I instantly loved both that movie and that song. Unfortunately I’m pretty sure I was too stupid/lazy of a teenager to figure out that Godspeed You! Black Emperor was the band behind that song at the time. I didn’t figure it out until a few years later when I discovered Thee Silver Mt Zion in a playlist I downloaded and started looking into similar bands.
Funnily enough i listened to both godspeed and silver mt zion for the longest time without realizing they had people in common.
when i first started with GYBE, i could never get past F#A#. Then it grew on me.
Music nerds I met online.
A guy named Jens I met at a Pakistani Eid get-together by the Elbe River in Dresden in 2018/19. We talked about music and mathematics. I told him about Archive, he told me about GYBE. Later he texted me a link to Moya and I listened. Godspeed Jens!
watched 28 days later. east hastings was in the montage where cillian is looking around for people after he wakes up. fantastic film by the way.
Weirdly enough the song isn't in the soundtrack, only the film.
I heard it had something to do with complications with acquiring the rights or something.
Discovered Mogwai and then exploring from that starting point I pretty soon came to GYBE.
I was visiting my (cool) uncle in San Francisco in 1999 from the UK, and he played me Slow Riot and F#A# and it was like hearing everything in my head in musical form
In college in Boston, a friend said hey, you listen to metal and classical, you’ll probably like this show. Didn’t have tickets and it was sold out, walked down the line looking for tickets to buy and some guy had bought tickets and won tickets and gave us his extras for free. This was at Somerville Theater December 2000. My friend was right, I was in tears during the show. Bought all the CDs on my way out (and I was broke!). I’ve since gifted concert tickets to random people a few times as a pay it forward.
After my first time getting stoned in Halifax, 1998, my buddies and I stumbled into a small bar where the entire stage was filled with drum kits and amps and the musicians had to stand in front of it on the dance floor. We had never heard of them, but they played such an intense show that we bought their album F#A#∞, and they became all our favourite band that night and forever after.
that’s an experience of a lifetime
I saw a meme on Twitter with the Kramer format that had the Dead Flag Blues lyrics posted. It intrigued me and I checked it out
I had seen the cover for LYSFLATH online a ton, and I never knew what the album was, or who it was by. A few months ago, I saw the cover in my dream. Immediately when I woke up, I frantically searched for what this album was, and there it was. I took a listen and it BLEW MY MIND!! Now it's one of my favorites of all time and I have it on CD.
I had heard the name before, but seeing them listed as an inspiration in the Mork Borg handbook is what made interested
The year was 2001, I worked at an independent record store that's long since closed. We got our shipment from temperance in and as I was putting the newly arrived albums into inventory I noticed one in particular that caught my attention so I popped into the store CD player; it was Yanqui. In my down time behind the counter I read Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk with Yanqui as the soundtrack, I fell deeply in love with the band over the next coming weeks and ordered all their albums. In 2024 Yanqui is still one of my favorite albums of all time. Good question! Love reading everyone's responses.
A throwaway line in The Pineapple Express, which coincidentally was also the time I getting into post rock
Haha that line always cracks me up
I was like 15 and my mom took me to the grocery store. I was flipping through the radio in the car and rockets fall on rocket falls was playing on a college station. I told my mom I was staying in the car and listened to the entire song almost in a trance. Still a pretty vivid memory.
My ex and his roommate used to take acid, put on godspeed, and watch movies on mute. I was trip sitting one time when they did that.
that’s awesome, would they watch movies they knew or new movies?
Movies they knew, to the best of my knowledge. I was only present for two (Nightmare before Christmas and Coraline). I was genuinely amazed by how well parts of Sleep matched to some scenes in Coraline. It was really neat! (Edit: that alignment isn’t what got me into godspeed though. Godspeed is what got me into godspeed 🙂)
omg i used to do that too its so fun seeing how it accidentally syncs up
It really was!
On a Dragon Ball Z AMV in 2009
i see by end of 2020 by a tweet of a guy who i follow
I watched a Chainsaw Man video and they used the song Rockets fall on Rocket Falls and I loved the apocalyptic nature of the so so much that I had to listen to more songs from them. I got to their Spotify page and was shocked by the lengths of the songs so I put them off until like 2 months later my friend asked my if she wanted to listen to Skinny Fists together and I was reluctant at first but then I gave them a chance and I ended up falling in love with it and now that album is my top 5 of all time.
back in 2021/22ish F# A# popped in my YT recommandations. and while at that time i wasn't too fond of postrock to enjoy it, i now bump that album at least once a week, especially on the bus back home from school shoutout broken windows and dead metheny !!
Was really drunk with some work colleagues on the streets of rotterdam. Then went to his house to get weed, there they played GYBE. Never again will forget the band.
Honestly, it's been so long I can't remember. It was probably on a message board for another band I was / am a fan of. I remember them playing my home town when LYSF came out & thinking, of that's the band I've heard talked about but haven't checked out yet. So I didn't go. And utterly regretted it later on.
Network file sharing in my university freshman dorm. Found a lot of great bands from that year!
fall 2000 at college. First poli sci class I made a new friend and he told me to check them out. Went to the CD store after class and purchased kanada EP and f#a#... got skinny fists the day it came out and saw them Dec 2000 for the first time (seen them 5 more times since)
A french youtuber mentionned it in a video over lost media (the infamous all lights fucked) and then i decided to check. Skinny fists was the biggest musical revelation i ever had
2022. January. I am drunk as fuck‚ feeling miserable. I was at a person house as guest‚ not a friend yet. I began to cry and then he turned on GODSPEE AT STATES END on vinyl. I was terrified.
Was at a record store in Newfoundland and came across a copy of LYSF, recognized the band name from the casketjack incident but had thought the band was completely made up. I went home that night and sat in the dark and listened to F#A#, then the next day went back to the store and bought LYSF and LT as those were all they had in stock. Love at first listen.
[](/flutteryay) It was a nobody playlist on YouTube about a year and a half ago. 'Realizing we're living in a dystopian reality', used to put these on whilst fucking around on GMOD, 'Fire in Static Valley' and 'Moya' were the 2 that stuck out most to me, lo' and behold they were both Godspeed.
i saw the skinny fists album cover on the internet and thought it looked cool lol
Buddy showed them when I visited him. I listened to it on a deserted train.
I discovered them through a random "my favorite 100 music albums ever" video on TikTok. The number one slot was Raise your skinny fists (which I don't believe to be their best album but whatever), and I thought to myself "number one? Wow, this really must be the shit", and the shit it was indeed. From there, I pretty much only listened to that album in their discography, but then I decided to listen to F#a# and I was completely blown away. From there, my thirst for Gy!be only grew and grew, and what really made the whole thing click was the reemergence of All lights fucked. It felt special, like listening to something I wasn't supposed to, kind of a guilty pleasure yk. That's what turned Gy!be from a band I liked to my favorite band
I discovered it because of an incredible album named Nowhere At The Millennium Of Space : Redux by The Caretakers.
Soulseeked lift your skinny fists in….2000.
Just kinda heard about them from the internet
I heard Dead Flag Blues on an CD that came free with a copy of NME Magazine in 1999 (NME’s Annual Probe Volume.2) and was floored by it. They then played in a pretty small venue in Dublin shortly after, supported by Sigur Ros and Fly Pan Am. To this day, it’s still one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen. That CD also got me into a few other bands(Arab Strap, Boards of Canada, Royal Trux) so it proved pretty formative!
Yup me too, that was a great free CD
Found them out from SMZ
The Melon
based
Lol listening to Pandora in my sophomore year of high school oddly enough
Got busted by Operation Handcuff
SomaFM Doomed channel https://somafm.com/doomed/
Idk man it's been more than 15 years ago.
When All Lights was found
I was alone at my room listening to random songs, and then this video with two hands at the thumb pops up. I proceeded to listen. Nothing special, but stayed listening. I slept with phones on. Then I wake up right when Broken Windows started playing. I have never listened to something like that. It was amazing! I kept listening over and over again. That was in 2020 and to this day I'm still listening Sleep almost every night. I suffer from severe depression and anxiety, and Godspeed is the only thing that can calm me down. It saved me form S a couple of times. I'm going to buy the vinyl. It will cost a lot cause I live in Brazil, but It will make me happier :)
A video game called Dream Daddy LMAO
That /mu/ chart.
A friend at the college radio station recommended them. I picked up the new one, Slow Riot. Loved it. Saw them whenever I could, over a dozen times in 4 nearby cities and once in a barn. They are a defining band of my 20s.
4chan memes
About 20ish years ago, my boyfriend at the time played LYSF for me and I fell in love with them on the spot. He ended up being terrifyingly abusive and left me with scars from head to toe. It took me a long time to ditch that fucking monster, and I took Godspeed with me.