Godspeed You Black Emperor - Providence

The final track from F♯A♯∞, unedited and in 1080p high quality. Encoded from a FLAC source.
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0:00 Divorce&Fever...
2:45 Dead Metheny...
11:00 Kicking Horse on Brokenhill
16:40 String Loop Manufactured During Downpour...
21:26 Silence
24:55 J.L.H. Outro
Constellation Records 1997

[@GoldenBoySwallowSea]

The "Where Are You Going?" part and the string loop after is the most intense musical moment I've ever heard.

[@Pheer777]

Its sounds like some dreamlike journey of religous proportions. Such an uncanny sound.

[@ColombianThunder]

@@Pheer777 you're completely right. I was reading Blood Meridian with that part playing and man it just fit the tone of that book so well.

[@Disgustipated8404]

LOL I fell asleep twice trying to listen to it, I give up.

[@kj3397]

​@@Disgustipated8404 your loss man just enjoy whatever music you like

[@oscarlozanosalvatori444]

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[@insertnamehere1258]

Kicking Horse on Broken Hill has got to be, in my opinion,one of, if not the most triumphant moments in this band’s entire discography.

[@jimmymanager]

jesus fucking christ that ending blows me out of the water every time, slow mournful epic theme music and then absolutely killer heavy rock jam for the final couple of minutes 10/10

[@oscarh5439]

best description of this song

[@mry82]

12/10

[@redlipslouis]

"String Loop Manufactured During Downpour..." (17:00-21:10) is probably the best piece of ambient music I've ever heard in my entire life

[@tchntm43]

It might sound really weird, but for a lot of GYBE's music I see certain scenes as themes from the music play. This one always sound both sinister and sad, something human becoming something not. In my head, I always pictured a person unconscious on a table, and others around him are removing parts of his body and replacing them with artificial parts. It includes parts of his brain, so that he's no longer who he was before, or even human.

[@ColombianThunder]

@@tchntm43 you should turn that into a poem or short story

[@spaceengineer1452]

'Silence' is THE best piece of music, I've EVER heard. Amazing !!!

[@insertnamehere1258]

Yeah the technicality of it blows me out of the water.

[@mry82]

it's so subtle, yet stirring!

[@spaceengineer1452]

It's in the nuance.@@mry82

[@mry82]

nuance is key! cheers!@@spaceengineer1452

[@mry82]

I loop it nonstop.

[@aidenshaw4620]

kicking horse on brokenhill is one of my absolute favorite pieces ever created by godspeed up there with the greats like broken windows locks of love pt. III and mladic

[@sl46495]

Fell asleep at the beginning of this album and woke up at the end, best sleep ever

[@azexir100]

Did you sleep on a beach?

[@explanationmark_]

AzeXiR 2 at Coney Island?

[@k-leb4671]

It's always a great feeling when I'm listening to an at-least-somewhat-ambient album while I'm on a train tired from work or going out, and I fade into a half-asleep state partway through my journey. Suddenly each song seems to take 30 minutes and 1 minute at the same time. I bob in and out of consciousness while the music transforms into a shapeless soundscape.

[@valentinebezrukov1254]

Fell asleep at the beginning of this album and woke up DEAD

[@OHakkinen_]

Did you slept in the beach?

[@CampfireHedphaz]

F#A# Infinity is an album I often explore and never get bored of. It has such a strong atmosphere, and ultimately (to me) transcends music to a real place in time.

[@Kreutz]

So appropriate for times like these...

[@SpaceInvaderUpdates]

Yessir

[@fakeis751]

but...i don't go by what he says

[@ZacTBH]

I love that this album goes from the deepest existential dread to a triumphant glimmer of hope.

[@KimInChains]

This song will probably stay with me for the rest of my life.

[@iamdamosuzuki_]

Kicking Horse on Broken Hill is one of the most beautifully depressing and intense pieces of music I've ever heard.

[@s333.]

Jake Fettes do you know which is the song at the beginning of Kicking Horse On Broken Hill?? (The one that sounds like a folk song)

[@iamdamosuzuki_]

Where Are You Going. It's from a musical called Godspell

[@drivernephi2212]

Are you sure it's from Where are you going/By my side? Because it's not similar at all. Talking about the 11:00 part.

[@spawnstah7228]

Yes it's in the back of my damn head, when I hear it I get taken back, I swear I used to sing that exact melody in church as a kid or something BUT I DON'T KNOW IT'S INFURIATING.

[@trowftd]

@@spawnstah7228 super late but the lyrics are a poem called Gathering Storm, set to the tune of Amazing Grace, which is probably the melody you're thinking of

[@KimTuckerFr]

@11:00 "Deliver us from the gathering storm Unworthy though we are Leave us living safe and warm And sheltered in your arms. Fallen out of grace are we. Sinless never more to be Deliver us from the gathering storm Unworthy though we are. Deliver us from the shadows and fear And brighten us our night O lift us out of the valley of sin And leave our path in light." Lyrics written by Mason Daring for the movie "MATEWAN", original music theme from the christian song "Amazing Grace" type: "AMERICAN COAL MINER WAR: During Matewan" on youtube to ear the song

[@Ptaku93]

oh wow, thanks sooo much!

[@joshuamlnarik5942]

Have been curious about that sample for years, could never find what it said until now. thank you so much !

[@user-nn5my1lc5q]

I love the lyrics. At the end, the audio cuts off before 'in light'

[@gulfstream8123]

They also reinterpret some of the lyrics from 'A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Williams Jr. at the beginning of this song.

[@TheTheTheTheTheThe]

I love the intro, especially around 0:55-2:40

[@TheWolvesRemain]

I was listening to this album the other day and I realised that in a sense it has the potential to be different every time because any background noises tend to blend in and become one with the music. Just one of the many reasons why it's one of the greatest albums ever recorded. And also 16:40 = quite possibly the greaest, most emotional and atmospheric piece of music ever committed to tape

[@cainfft008]

I was once visiting my aunt in Maryland with my family a few years ago. We went to some battlefield or something relatively close to Hagerstown and that evening there was a concert celebrating something or other and they had a band playing some patriotic music and such. But for some reason just being there, sitting on this grassy hill on a nice warm day, clear skies, the beauty of the environment just astonished me. I couldn't concentrate on the patriotic music at all, and it wasn't from a lack of trying. I was a band kid, and somewhat actually enjoyed music of that sort, you know marches and hymns and the like. Every time I'd try to focus on the music, my mind would drift off somewhere so finally I decided to pop my headphones in and listen to some music of my own (after all the few songs I actually knew had already been played, I didn't have the patience that day for the rest, unfortunately). I shuffled Godspeed and just laid on that hill, staring at the clear blue sky. I floated there, drifting with the sways of this song combining with the bombast of the symphony loosely at my ear's periphery. It was trippy. I wasn't high or anything, not a drop to drink, nothing like that....but I felt this enormous energy there, as if it was meant for me to mediate there for awhile. I floated in the sky for awhile, my minds eye walked to the edges of the forests at the edges of the amphitheater, I was engulfed. It seemed, I no longer heard the song but rather felt it. I've never felt anything like it in my life, somehow transcendental comes to mind as a word to describe it, but that doesn't even feel adequate...more like monumental or gargantuan--the world around me felt huge beyond measure. It was funny when I came out of it, because I must have had the most serious "I'm fucking trippin balls" look on my face (again I wasn't high, I was with my family). I chuckled a bit and kept the moment to myself until writing these words. Cheers and may your music journeys be rich and equally as monumental.

[@cainfft008]

Thanks for the kind words of remembrance, younger self, I very much appreciate you.

[@tobiasaspin404]

the words numinous, or liminal.

[@ozgurhsyndgn]

With a piece of good stash, i could listen this all day. Just kidding, forever...

[@EllyLugosi]

Hehehe amen to that brother! 😉

[@atomiste4312]

14:35 is the moment

[@LuredDecoy]

What an epic piece this is, the most notable parts are of course 0:55 and 18:01

[@GustavoParra28]

24:54 - 29:02 is the best part. 25:56 - 26:58 that's one of the best guitar riffs i've ever heard.

[@hunivox]

I think it's a piano

[@beno526]

The silence at the end always leaves me in awe in a very melancholic state.

[@GodzillaBeDamned]

"Do you think the end of the world is comin?" "The preacher-man says it's the end of time, says that America's rivers are going dry. The interest is up, the stock-market's down. You guys gotta be careful in 2020."

[@awastedname]

used to turn up the volume from this 'where are we going?' part - it always made me sad and filled with hope at the same time

[@allyski5914]

21:26 got me turnt tf up

[@1stabletour]

'HOPE'

[@Nelso5000]

The preacher man was right all along

[@andreamarcellini230]

definitely

[@disjointedhoudini]

Indeed.

[@t.z2359]

"I don't go by what he says."

[@goole7445]

yes. everyone will calls them "conspiracy theorists" but at the end of time everyone will know the "crazy" men were right. mark my words

[@TheSeph1984]

12:02 to 17:02... aural bliss

[@ANTIanitmetalclub]

Just listened to this album today. Each time I listen to it is another time I realize how devastatingly beautiful it is. It's almost frighteningly good. I may even go as far as to say it's one of the best albums ever recorded. There isn't really anything I'd change about it..

[@npelletier89]

Found this from the Flash Short 'Smile'... as X1Jebus said. This is an incredible piece.

[@IguanaMassacre]

Such a necessary song for these dark times

[@pedroocm]

Times have been dark for a while, it's just that the darkness becomes more and more apparent

[@chrisshavard]

@twilliamsb I sit alone in my darkened room suffering heavy bouts of insomnia; I face my musical self "Why, after playing music my entire life, can I not create a single note of my own?" I sit here listening to the greatest collection of music I've never heard. This music embodies everything great music is supposed to be; not a catchy hit, but an honest observation and exploration of itself. Integrity to it's emotion and fearlessness to what it will find. I think now..I understand music

[@nsG0]

real music, another world

[@DinosaurJones17]

So... so good. I feel privileged that I got to see them live... I hope I get to do it again at some point.

[@Sekid69]

6:07 HOLY SH

[@SeaReut]

Where are you going?

[@josuedelatorre35]

The most memorable line of the whole album

[@theloopyhermit1228]

@@josuedelatorre35 but I have a large barge...

[@jamakaaa]

ბალახვანში, კიბეები როა, ე იმის წინ!

[@arentyoumaria3027]

@@josuedelatorre35 you mean, "the cars on fire, and theres no driver at wheel"

[@anonunknown7999]

Kanada!

[@New_Hell]

i wish divorce and fever was it's own, much longer song

[@24Matferrari]

Thanks for putting this up in HD. One of my favourite songs

[@radiantsun8493]

It feels like something horrendous and inescapable is approaching you, and you can't do anything about it. Like surrendering to your death, against your will. Terrifying and hopeless, one of the most beautiful compositions in modern music.

[@yalinchai]

OMG They are awesome! Epic!! Thanks for sharing it, love it so much

[@ioreodream]

Where were you when you first heard Godspeed? How old were you at the time? How old are you now? It would be nice to hear your experiences.

[@SamLX93]

It was 3 years ago, I then was 18. I was watching a performance of "Hamlet" and then a part of "Moya" played, but I didn't' know GY!BE. The scene was very intense, the music played while Claudius was claiming his being a righteous person, screaming it out with a sorrowful voice. I had shivers flowing through my body. A few weeks later a friend came to me and told me to listen to "this song", it was Moya and I instantly recognised it. I'm still listening to GY!BE, and for the first time I'll see them play live in April in my city. What about you ?

[@ioreodream]

SamLX93 Thank you for sharing! That is a great setting and I love how you were reunited with this song. As for me, I was living in the UAE in 1998 or 1999, so I was 13 maybe 14 at the time. At that time, music like this was very hard to come by as we were highly restricted as to what was being approved by the government for sale (Napster was a godsend!). I was contacted by a guy in his mid-twenties through ICQ, using the interest-based search for people with similar music tastes (that was one of my favourite features ever! We liked the band The Tea Party) and we decided that we HAVE to meet. We met up and exchanged different music we liked and he introduced me to GYBE and Moya. I searched for them on Napster (with my 56k modem, lol) and was hooked thereafter. Now I am 29 and I live in Canada. I have found out that GYBE and The Tea Party are both Canadian and I have met only one person here that listens to them. It's great that you're seeing them perform live, I hope they play 'Moya'.

[@Genfius]

for me, it was 5 years ago, just surfing through youtube and there i found that.... smile! short animated horror from Aleksander Wasilewski. It amazed me. And after that, time to time I go and try to find it and year by year it's more and more complicated to find it. So today I went and try to find the music from it and it leads here 18:00 - 21:26. when i heard it here i was unable to stop it. It terrifies me like i know that death is coming for me but i can't do anything to avoid it. This kind of music is not my cup of tea but .... this piece i have to save it and never let go. It awakes my deep dark fear that one day, when I will be dead, this music/video will fade and nobody will hears it again .... when tree falls in the forest and nobody is there, does it make a sound?

[@spittingblood]

ioreodream I thought it was 2005, when I saw 28 Days Later in the cinema, but the release date here was 2003 so I don't know. I was 20. I'd just started smoking weed, so I was in this constant blissful fog and as a fan of the apocalypse the movie blew my mind - the scenes of empty streets and the godspeed music especially. I came out of the cinema and two raggedy junkies were picking at sores on each others' skin. After that I bought the cd and lay on an old brown couch smoking bucket bongs, half passed out. The silence then the final music always surprised me and blew my mind. Then without fail the heavy front door would slam shut in the wind and scare the shit out of me.10 years later and a lot of shit, and gsybe has been a constant - I still love it just as much despite how much I have over-listened to them. I saw them a year or two ago and after all that build up was not disappointed in the slightest, a great thing to tick off in my life.

[@ioreodream]

spittingblood Love it! Somethings just get better with time. Like there is a universal truth to them. Thanks for sharing.

[@Siakulu]

best thing ever: "skip the silence 21:00-24:50" sonikkufffff really made good upload lol, also that silence part scared me at first, thought song was done

[@AuthenticCelestial]

favourite bit is in the outro at about 18:36, when you first get that major interval. it's just the saddest thing. talking about this music on the internet really distances me from the deep feelings that this music arouses, though. something that words are too cheap and vague to capture, something that is probably too much a product of individual experiences to share.

[@followingtheroe1952]

Music itself is an emotional language

[@EllyLugosi]

Yes!!! I love this!!!! 💙 These guys are gut-renching.

[@MrPacMan36]

@@followingtheroe1952 Lookup "smile newgrounds" that's the first I've ever heard any of Godspeed. Back in 2004

[@vt7097]

YESS! love that one so much.

[@BarrenFieldsofDust]

you seem like a deep person with a vast range of understanding of feelings

[@eCitaroFan]

This song transports my mind to somewhere else. A very unique experience! Godspeed! You Black Emperor are sooo good! Also I live in Providence , RI, so bonus points for godspeed!

[@PinzAndNeedlez]

"Do you think the end of the world is coming?" This one line had me thinking for a very very long time. Personally, I think it ended long ago, were just in the horrible depressing aftermath we call our world.

[@beastieboysfanclub1534]

The world has ended hundreds if not thousands of times only to be replaced by a new world that becomes more and more alien as time passes. The world is going though one of those periods, soon it will be completely unrecognizable.

[@ZacTBH]

capitalism's "infinite growth" mindset is incompatible with our finite world, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, if we keep going down this path, will be the end of humanity as we know it. "I open up my wallet, and it's full of blood." everything we do for money harms the world in some way, our money has blood on it. So poignant.

[@TheD00RS23]

24:50 JLH Outro, best thing in the world.

[@pocketwatchofblood]

Where are you going? Where are you going? Creepy and beautiful at the same time.

[@divorced_dog]

Kicking Horse on Brokenhill is one of their best movements ever. Perhaps it’s second only to Locks of Love III.

[@schattigepoepie]

you think the end of the world is coming?

[@ferdinandbardamu.]

No, so says the preacher, man, but I don't go by what he says

[@brazilbr4415]

Indeed

[@rob108k3]

Indeed my brother

[@apuapustaja5628]

let's hope so

[@whdbcjebevsjznbfuenwbdfuic5773]

yeah

[@beptopismo]

Divorce&fever was the most beautiful thing ever

[@youtubeisevil]

Yes

[@Turtledotbe]

Thank you for uploading :)

[@prestoncantrell]

Oh my god...I don't know what to say or think of my life....my dog just howled at this song and he is mute....I don't understand...I'm just so confused right now...

[@FenixiaDuo]

This is the epitome of Post-Rock music. It is the equivalent to such epics like "2112", "Stairway to Heaven", "Free Bird", and albums like Dark Side of the Moon, Quadrophenia, Sgt. Peppers, etc. One can only imagine how they created this ominous piece of art.

[@newforestpixie5297]

In my mind , from those Dark Side of the moon perhaps trod new ground in production or tubular bells as ‘first ambient ‘ same year or were they lucky or rich enough to be noticed ? Zappa was splicing and looping prob before 67 / sgt pepa The rest of these “classics” are now diminished to pop with over exposure or sound dated.but that is just my opinion . & yes Keith moon was brilliant apparently- I cant drum so dunno what’s so extra about him.

[@mustafakuloglu771]

This is incredible :)

[@MsBickle76]

Excellent find Sherlock Homes. Holy shit, your amazing!

[@algireaux1364]

11:00 Kicking horse on brokenhill is my favorite becuase it perfectly relfects my depression.

[@gexisunderrated]

16:40-21:26 is so fuggin good.

[@trucklovingfather]

0:00 to 29:02 is so fucking good

[@AndrewChumKaser]

It sounds like the sky breaking.

[@lukeomatik]

STUNNING

[@shunmp3]

Nice to find this track in ONE video!

[@ecajgunn]

This song is perfect, in every sense of the word.

[@josephciorra]

awesome track thank fro the upload

[@yourconscience3237]

Masterpiece

[@perromuerto6643]

love it love it !!! new night music

[@wayfechylde3]

@TheWolvesRemain that's one of my favorite things about this band. they're really just masters of that incredible ambience.

[@Pwnscarx]

@redlipslouis It's even better on the vinyl copy, where the record gets caught in an infinite loop and plays that bit nonstop until you turn it off.

[@supertommy1000ify]

"Deliver us from The Gathering Storm" And in the next album there is "Gathering Storm"

[@waldorfthepig1431]

Gonna do my best not to forget about this song, and this album. Feel like it’s the type of thing that’ll have a different meaning depending on where I’m at in life.

[@lessthanthreemetal]

"String Loop Manufactured During Downpour" never fails to haunt me

[@North0house]

Perfection.

[@ferouihamza]

Kicking Horse on Brokenhill starts like a les rallizes dénudes song

[@payas0insan0]

Wich?

[@ferouihamza]

@@payas0insan0 all of them

[@skirtboi]

it does sound like mizutani

[@jonaswhitt4322]

Was not expecting a Les rallizes reference here lmao, but yah you be right

[@nico.atreides]

"... do you think the end of the world is coming?"

[@Sternertime]

awe inspiring song...

[@AC-kq5de]

String Loop Manufactured During Downpour... i heard it in the animation "Smile!" from Aleksander Wasilewski.. from 2004. On Newgrounds. How dark and beautiful it is..

[@ElectronicDisease]

@aenima98 its magical. god bless the people unaware of this!

[@TheSeph1984]

12:02 to 16:40... the last breaths of a dying man

[@MrZuchiS]

Dead metheny is so fucking good, one of my favourites from GYBE :D

[@Friedeggonheadchan]

This is not actually "Constellation Records 1997", since Providence only appeared on the CD version of the album released by Kranky in 1998.

[@turntyle]

these beats are delicioussss~

[@donovan942]

3:30 one of my most favorite instrumental pieces of music oat

[@flaphead848]

19:30 i cannot get over this part

[@supertommy1000ify]

Dead Metheny is so so underrated, for me it's one of GY!BE greatest moments

[@MuadDib1402]

16:40 onwards. When the world has burnt down this will be the soundtrack.

[@jack101starZ]

I’m now officially a changed person after listening to this.

[@Abby_Sciuto]

18:00 Smile.

[@oxytw8830]

17:54 for Smile by Alek Wasilewski

[@Naxmiummich]

Thx man

[@chrissennfelder7249]

Silence. Just listen to it, for fucks sake.

[@SecretofMuffin]

Wow.

[@spirosvitsos7602]

im not sure what instrument it is but in the opening that violin sounding thing is one of the best things i have ever heard intensely sad and beautifull

[@youtubeisevil]

I agree, I would love to hear more music like that, especially that melody gets me.

[@amandathomas6188]

For haunting violins, I recommend Frozen Warnings by Nico. 👍 John Cale worked with her on that song. I imagine he played the strings. It’s an incredible piece of music.

[@oscarlohr]

This needs to be in the new 28 days later movie

[@GustavoParra28]

i really want to learn how to make those loops, they are so seamless.

[@MauricioJara]

Throughout my listening experience of this album, I couldn’t help but draw parallels between F# A# Infinity and the works of Cormac McCarthy. “This, this, this is the perfect place to get jumped.” “But do you think the end of the world is coming?” “No; so says the preacher man, but I don't go by what he says.” “Indeed.”

[@aquafinabottle]

ive noticed a lot of gy!be fans and cormac mccarthy fans are one in the same, myself included. my favorite band and my favorite author

[@TayTayChan]

Ahh, lovely track. Check out Sleep by these guys, another great one. I don't know any other songs yet since I just discovered them. :)

[@sayidkariman2410]

Every song they made is a masterpiece

[@sayidkariman2410]

Wow 7 years ago

[@gabrieltorres2381]

That intro though.

[@KimInChains]

@TheD00RS23 I play this online game called "Eve Online" (a space mmo) and there's nothing that fits better with warp jumping through a solar system than the outro you mentioned. It sounds like time travel. :)

[@LucasCandSousa]

i would pay to see the video of that intro again...

[@devilbhrothesavage2807]

When the last track is an album of his own...

[@edencommittee]

kicking horse on brokenhill is so fucking good and im not seeing enough people talking abt it

[@alex_belmont]

where are you going bruh?

[@wllulu]

4:00 this shit is tearing my heart

[@SohrabF]

thx very much for upload. but i`m very curious tht how u upload full length tracks and others can not do it? considering the fact that ur uploads are very high quality as well. do you use any special software? or ur a friend of youtube admins? LOOOOL but really i`m curious abut it... anyway thx again for this good work.