Godspeed You Black Emperor offshoots

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For all that GYBE play the kind of toptastic pop music I live, any GYBE offshoots I've heard have been kind of boring. The one exception to this is A Silver Mt. Zion, who basically sound like a GYBE redux. So, are GYBE that perfect artistic thing - a serious of individuals who can only produce good work in collaboration with each other? Alternatively, is the lady violinist the real genius behind Godspeed, thereby explaining why A Silver Mt. Zion are also G*R*A*T*E?

― DV, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She's just beautiful, absolutely, unremittingly beautiful. She's the one who is also in ASMZ, right?

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: The first half of the Hanged Out album (the second side is all drum solos and Keith Moonery waxing and waning) & Sackville: Constellation does song-based singer-songwriterly stuff SHOCK! which is also implicitly (i.e. give it time to mellifluate) brilliant.

Destroy: Poptones.

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but Sackville aren't a Godspeed offshoot. And lumping them in cuz of the Constellation connection doesn't fly either, because they had CDs out before the label existed.

― Vic Funk, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ahh, fucker, busted, sorry, knew that, sorry. :)

― powertonevolume, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apart from ASMZ (who I like, possibly even prefer listening to than GYBE because of the lack of that tiresome political ranting) I am only aware of Fly Pan Am. A couple of things on the 1999 album I have are OK.

Awaiting being told they're not a GYBE offshoot too :)

― David, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as a montreal--->destory all of it. musical "collective" ??!?!?

― ddd, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jen (?) from Hanged Up is also in GYBE!? Neat, I didn't know that.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

destroy, period.

― your null fame, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Apart from ASMZ (who I like, possibly even prefer listening to than GYBE because of the lack of that tiresome political ranting)'

There is enough 'ranting' on the first silver Mt.Zion album. I love the lyrics on at the end of the fist part (4th track). This album is a clssic. the piano drones, the chamber arrangements, the samples and those lyrics all fit perfectly. And fuck post-rock and any of that quiet- loud (though i like godspeed) stuff they are connected with. This is way better.

The political ranting, as in godspedd is kept to a minimun. They put the music first. Very smart.

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll second the first Fly Pan Am in parts, but the promo I heard for the upcoming one was a total post-rock bore.

― Curt, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She's just beautiful, absolutely, unremittingly beautiful. She's the one who is also in ASMZ, right?

that's the one. However, if we are discussing the lovely ladies of GYBE then it's the cellist that real men like.

Molasses are the GYBE offshoot that inspired this thread... their music is dull from dullsville. Nyurrrgh.

― DV, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Agreed: ASMZ is probably the best of the bunch. I didn't mind One- Speed Bike, which upped the humour quotient a bit but was pretty much directionless for most of it. Fly Pan Am's first is probably the best (though haven't heard the second full album, just the follow-up "remix" EP, which was okay but not really as much fun). If I remember correctly GYBE members are involved in a ton of other stuff like Exhaust, Shalabi Effect and Set Fire to Flames, none of which really captures the power of Godspeed. I suppose that, as others have noted, Godspeed does tend to get a bit samey after a while, so these others may make a good break from that if you want to stay in the same general area.

Tangentially related, the new Do Make Say Think is pretty good. I've not really been a HUGE fan before, but the new one is a lot more direct.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree about the Do Say Make Think's & Yet & Yet. Nothing spectacular about it, just one charming piece after another. As for Shalabi Effect, I couldn't make it past the first disc. Too many exotic sounds wasted on trite material.

― Curt, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sounds like the gybe!/do make say think concert i'll be attending next month is promising...

― willem, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I happened to run into GYBE at Iceland's international airport earlier this month. It took all my energy not to accost one of them and shout "HELLO MY NAME IS MARK," then run away, eventually come back and whisper "hello my name is mark," run away again, come back again and shout "HELLO MY NAME IS MARK," then run away, eventually come back and whisper "hello my name is mark," again, etc. Repeat ad nauseum (about 10 times) and finally (as the kicker) saunter up and say, "Right now. Would *you* pay to see that?"

― Mark, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most accurate, that.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Exhaust would be my first bet. great album. ASMZ's first album "He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners of Our Rooms" is equally GRATE. I liked Hanged Up alot myself, mostly for the New Order cover and the final song. Shalabi Effect steals a member from GYBE and the album is almost worth buying for the wonderful shot of the Horsehead Nebula alone.
Destroy only One Speed Bike.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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