kay.
so I listened to "skinny fists" yesterday for the first time in which I payed attention.

and I loved it.
I thought the track Static was epic.
sitting dark in my room listening at like 1:00 in the morning,
the middle part gave me goosebumps.

guessing I should listen to more of there stuff,
which cd next?

F#A# Infinity would be my recommendation.

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I've only got Yanqui U.X.O. and I enjoy it but constant long songs kinda gets draining eventually. But don't know how I didn't know of this band earlier.

I agree about the length. It's hard for me to listen to a whole album at once sometimes.
Also, I've decided Storms is pretty much their best song.

I just love the ending of Storm...the crescendo winds down into the confusing but semi-creepy convenience store monologue, followed by the saddest, most chilling and haunting as **** piano I've ever heard. I still get chills down my spine whenever I listen to that track, even though I've heard it a lot.

I think Static might nudge Storm out ever so slightly as my favorite, but they're both so good it's hard to pick one.

I've been listening to a lot of GY!BE lately. To me, it seems like they set up their songs so that there are a few epic parts in a song, then kind of connecting filler parts. I can see why people are turned off by this.

None. Vinyl is the way to go for Godspeed :P




Yanqui U.X.O. is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. It has more ugliness and postpones the satisfaction of riding epic crescendos more than than their previous albums, which along with the absence of found voices might be why it's considered a lesser album, but it may well be my favorite. The dissonance makes the emotions more poignant.

shameless praise for "Lift Your Skinny Fists"
 

F#A# Infinity is a great album--"Dead Flag Blues" is thoroughly disturbing and "Providence" was a decent track--but I don't feel like it best exemplifies what Godspeed was typically capable of. If I were to suggest an album, I might have to go with the standard and suggest "Lift Your Skinny Fists". The album just generates such great momentum from beginning to end, and the instrumentation is phenominal. And for how much I kind of enjoy listening to that spoken word piece at the beginning of "Dead Flag Blues", I feel like the speech clips in some of the tracks from "Lift Your Skinny Fists", paired with the accompaniment, summon emotional and intellectual issues that seem much more poignant and distressing.

"Static" and "They Don't Sleep Anymore" are two frightening pieces of music, especially due to the spoken-word segments and the theremin arrangements.

Great album. Can't decide which I like more, "Lift Your Skinny Fists" or "Yanqui UXO"

Yes obviously I would have suggested Skinny Fists as a first album to listen to, but...