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Title: Which Record?
Post by: byebyepanda on 29 Jul 2005, 16:29
Which record should I get. Haha, I can't decide. I'm more with a tie with Mogwai and Pelican. But you tell me what you think :)

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Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.

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Explosions In The Sky - Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

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Pelican - Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

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Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
Title: Which Record?
Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 17:05
None of them. Instead, rush out to your local internets and purchase this:

The Residents - Third Reich N' Roll
(http://www.rzweb.net/images/albums/3rnr.jpg)


You'll so totally thank me for it. It rules. It's basically like all the Post-Rock or whatever above you want to call it, except way more interesting and awesome. THen, after it, you can buy every other single thing the Residents have done since 1960 something.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: KharBevNor on 29 Jul 2005, 17:07
(http://www.rockdetector.com/assets/img/covers/28262.jpg)
omg in-joked
Title: Which Record?
Post by: byebyepanda on 29 Jul 2005, 17:59
Quote from: Kai
None of them. Instead, rush out to your local internets and purchase this:

The Residents - Third Reich N' Roll
(http://www.rzweb.net/images/albums/3rnr.jpg)


You'll so totally thank me for it. It rules. It's basically like all the Post-Rock or whatever above you want to call it, except way more interesting and awesome. THen, after it, you can buy every other single thing the Residents have done since 1960 something.


Aight thanks! I'll check it out :)
Title: Which Record?
Post by: Kai on 29 Jul 2005, 19:11
Just to add a little more knowledge about it, They basically take a bunch of really popular tunes in the 60's (when the record was made, of course) and cover them in the weirdest, strangest ways imaginable. and, if you want original music by them, I heartily reccomend their albums Not Available, Eskimo, Duck Stab/Buster and Glen, Meet the Residents, Freak Show, or their latest record, Animal Lover, to name a few, although I'd reccomend going with Third Reich N' Roll, Animal Lover, or Duck Stab/Buster and GLenn to start.

EDIT: Also, I just checked out your little PV thing (I don't think you're allowed to have pictue sigs, but wait till someone more important tells you). neat stuff.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: Kid Modernist on 29 Jul 2005, 19:44
My vote goes to Explosions in the Sky, that's an awesome album.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: yipjumpmusic on 29 Jul 2005, 21:48
I have the top and bottom.  Some people don't think that was a very good godspeed but I still liked it.  So I do not regret getting either but I can't speak for the other ones.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: Hector Gilbert on 29 Jul 2005, 22:23
If you don't already have Come On Die Young, purchase that instead of Happy Songs...
Title: Which Record?
Post by: est on 29 Jul 2005, 23:42
i think that you should maybe listen to samples of all of them and make a decision yourself instead of looking to us for validation.  it's a novel idea, but maybe it might just work!
Title: Which Record?
Post by: Praeserpium Machinarum on 29 Jul 2005, 23:56
As far as I can see it's all quality stuff, granted I haven't heard Pelican or Explosions In The Sky, but heard good of them. But if you haven't got anything by Mogwai and GYBE!, then I suggest buying their earlier work, Mogwai Young Team(personally I like Rock Action better, but Young Team is the place to begin I think) and Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to the Heavens, and get even older and buy Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada or buy their first.

But as far I can see you can buy any of them, solid stuff...
Title: Which Record?
Post by: kikanjuuneko on 29 Jul 2005, 23:57
PE! LI! CAN!
Title: Which Record?
Post by: byebyepanda on 30 Jul 2005, 00:08
Quote from: yipjumpmusic
I have the top and bottom.  Some people don't think that was a very good godspeed but I still liked it.  So I do not regret getting either but I can't speak for the other ones.


What's the best godspeed album in your opinion?
Title: Which Record?
Post by: El Opium on 30 Jul 2005, 00:39
F#A# and Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas To Heaven are the best points in GY!BE's catalogue in my opinion. Make your own choices. Any of those should provide you with a good instrumental rock fix, though personally I've always been underwhelmed by explosions in the sky.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: est on 30 Jul 2005, 03:28
also:

hi byebyepanda, please take the image out of your sig.  we don't like them around these parts (http://www.questionablecontent.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2960).  thanks!
Title: Which Record?
Post by: Kid Amnesiac on 30 Jul 2005, 05:04
I own all these albums, and I HIGHLY recommend you buy The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. It is perfect. You should also check out their 2nd album, it's called Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever.

Now on the subject of GY!BE, to me, their best album is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. That's not to say that F#A#(infinity) isn't great either. You can't go wrong with either one.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: est on 30 Jul 2005, 05:40
i stand by my earlier post, an yet at the same time totally agree with Kid Amnesiac.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: byebyepanda on 30 Jul 2005, 13:21
Quote from: est
also:

hi byebyepanda, please take the image out of your sig.  we don't like them around these parts (http://www.questionablecontent.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2960).  thanks!


Oh! Sorry about that haha
Title: Re: Which Record?
Post by: SlowlyChoking on 30 Jul 2005, 14:12
Yanqui U.X.O is GY!BE's weakest album. Pelican are good, but I'd get Australasia instead. You can't go wrong with EITS. That album is fantastic. As for Mogwai...I've never been a fan. But if you were to pick a Mogwai album I'd go for 'Come on Die Young' instead.
Title: Which Record?
Post by: yipjumpmusic on 30 Jul 2005, 14:20
Quote from: byebyepanda
Quote from: yipjumpmusic
I have the top and bottom.  Some people don't think that was a very good godspeed but I still liked it.  So I do not regret getting either but I can't speak for the other ones.


What's the best godspeed album in your opinion?


Never thought about it; I like them all and I have not listened to much of em in a while so I could not say right now.  I may agree with kid Amnesiac.  But yeah, listen to samples, that's what I do.