Re: Godspeed You Black Emperor!

From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@speakeasy.org)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 04:59:19 CET

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    At 10:27 PM -0500 11/21/00, Stimp wrote:
    >Wow, you mean you know who Godspeed You Black Emperor is? Being from
    >Montreal, Canada (that's where Godspeed's from), I obviously know of them,
    >but I'm surprised to hear that their becoming internationally recognized.
    >Personally, I'm not crazy about them, as I feel that what they're doing was
    >done by bands like Genesis (Peter Gabriel era), King Crimson and other
    >prog-rock bands about 30 years ago, and much better at that. Considering
    >that it's rock and that everything's been done a thousand times already, I
    >don't feel that GYBE is contributing anything significant or groundbreaking
    >to music, and you sure can't dance to it! Just my two bits worth, but I'd
    >love to hear from those who disagree with me, as I'd really wanna know what
    >the big deal is with these guys. I'm convinced it's just hype.
    >
    >Stimp

    They're fairly huge amongst the indie/undie-rockers over on the
    Droneon list; & there's been fairly big buzz amongst that general
    populace since the first album.

    And there's been lots of "they're all hype" backlash, too--

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