Godspeed You Black Emperor - Storm

[@clurgee4923]

The Song divided into parts: Part 1: A beautiful, orchestral masterpiece. Tears to the eyes, a triumphant number in the midst of loneliness. Part 2: Suspense rises. Tempo slows down. Part 3: *WELCOME TO ARCO AM PM MINI MARKET*

[@tayzatun6351]

There is a usually overlooked Part 4: POV: your boss yells at you because of your incompetence while you try not to cry.

[@idontknowwhatpsywaris]

Part 4: sad piano

[@rafaeljovino6001]

@@idontknowwhatpsywaris Part 4: Desolate hightway.

[@MegaSnippezz]

This song truly encapsulates the feeling of loneliness, desire, love, excitement, nostalgia and hope into one. Been listening to it for ten years and it never fails to touch my heart’s core.

[@ChrissieHill]

Same here❤

[@whdbcjebevsjznbfuenwbdfuic5773]

the first part is probably the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard

[@nithinsuku]

it really is.

[@piesar]

cmon everyone get out your lighters and sing along WELCOME TO ARCO AM/PM MINI MARKET

[@TheBlackSpider82]

YAAAASSSS!!!!!

[@breakbeat_hardcore]

WE WOULD LIKE TO ADVISE OUR CUSTOMERS THAT OFFER TO PUMP GAS

[@disjointedhoudini]

*headbangs* IS NOT EMPLOYED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FACILITY

[@BeingZlatan]

This is the most beautiful song i've ever heard in my life.

[@Pr0x1mo]

I remember hearing for the first time i couldn't even finish it because it was too overwhelming

[@flo-dm2im]

exactly ,this is life from the beggining till the end ,explains every best moments of life ,high attack of nostalgy, you're shivering but Storm keeps calm of you

[@FanOfFictionalCharacters]

thanks jerry

[@fr-nkhh]

same

[@banjogyro]

@@Pr0x1mo same with every godspeed album it took me like 3 or 4 tries to finish this song

[@Tiag0IS]

This is the very first time that I'm listening to this song and then suddenly I start crying like a baby, such a breathtaking piece of art.

[@fayswan69]

Saw them in Bilbao for the Yanqui X/O tour and they played this for the encore. It was after 9/11 and around the invasion of Iraq so the Basque were super pissed with the US's reaction and were giving me shit the whole time. Watching the film that played along with the music brought me and those who I was with to tears. We had no choice. The music was rapturing and we couldn't deny it.

[@ck675]

I’ll never be able to count how many times this song has made me cry. Happy, sad, tired, anxious, thankful. Music at its purest form. Godspeed live in another realm

[@tiagoismailercarvalho]

@@fayswan69 it sounds like an awesome experience. I bet this changed your life forever.

[@tiagoismailercarvalho]

@@ck675 because of your comment I return to listen to this song. Here I go into a journey full of emotions, thank you.

[@ck675]

@@tiagoismailercarvalho it’s never too long until I return to this song, it always pops up in my mind. Simply an anthem

[@TooMuchSascha]

There really are two stages of life, there's normal life and your life after you listen to this band for the first time

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

I swear this band completely reshaped the music I listen to. Before this band I basically only listened to alt indie rock (I still do) but after getting into this album, I'm able to listen to whatever genre I want. This album also gave me an unlimited attention span.

[@vepply]

✋️😔

[@richarddehoop2824]

This song brings me into a state of transcendence, the opening minutes are like a drug to me.

[@Crosnertony]

Richard de Hoop the first 7 minutes of this album are miraculously amazing, it's a shame I don't think the rest of the album ever matches it

[@emiliob6250]

Crosnertony im gonna disagree with that, i believe all 23 minutes of sleep are at the same quality as the beginning of the album

[@joyempire462]

@@Crosnertony Like Antennas To Heaven... Is still the best track on the album

[@xanaxodgrindcorelover9191]

the whole thing is good but the first 6m30s of this is just... fucking unmatched. its amazing

[@Xaulb]

Still the greatest Post-Rock album of all time. And that's saying a lot.

[@intifadayuri]

Which other ones you like? I'm interested

[@jeyhanarifiskandar]

@@intifadayuri You can check out Soundtracks for The Blind by Swans. It's not necessarily similar but it has kind of the same idea

[@dilby3246]

@@intifadayuri I like Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros as well. Also Spiderland by Slint is good, but it is different than Sigur Ros or GY!BE

[@JackT13]

For me, Laughing Stock by Talk Talk takes the top spot. This is in my top 5 though for sure

[@coba3220]

@@jeyhanarifiskandar Soundtracks for The Blind isn't a post-rock album. It just has some post-rock songs, but it's mostly experimental and noise-type stuff. Almost a complete masterpiece, if you ask me.

[@chrisbrannen813]

I'll never be able to repay the kindness shown to me by my manager for recommending this band to me.

[@chilly5321]

cuz this is great

[@Sternertime]

the piano outro at the end is so beautiful, it came to my mind the other day, hasn't left since.

[@boombewm5828]

18:45 and onwards... Absolutely the best thing my ears ever heard in a while.

[@theonenonlydavargo]

scenario: it’s the apocalypse. you’ve just succumbed to your wounds as military medevac, and rescue teams arrive.

[@BonhamsBongo]

Seen these guys twice already this year, seeing them again next week. Once you've immersed - you can't miss another opportunity to feel like that again

[@Hollowsmith]

The section that begins at 13:56 is one of the most indescribably exotic sounds I've ever heard.

[@saintonsaturn7070]

i picture a cowboy riding his horse through the wild west. weird shit, but super fuckin good

[@toddstoptens1384]

@@saintonsaturn7070 And the cowboy is desperately trying (and, from the sound of it, ultimately failing) to escape the immediate aftermath of a nuclear explosion.

[@yana_2_6_0]

Every time I hear it, it reminds me of Discipline by King Crimson

[@tayzatun6351]

@@saintonsaturn7070 I picture like an inexplicably large hole in the ground made of humongus stone bricks and when you look downwards it's filled with lots of mad soldiers and down there in the pitch black darkness, the soldiers are fighting each other with bare knuckles of bruises and blood and you look from above and the fighting never seems to stop. For days and for weeks, the soldiers fought with the same intensity.

[@saintonsaturn7070]

@@tayzatun6351 sick

[@tescomealdeals]

This is the type of song where each individual section would be a fucking masterpiece on it’s own, but the fact that they’re all THE SAME SONG is what makes this one of the best pieces ever written

[@borgyoh]

I actually tear up at this song! lol...*does 10 push ups*

[@Andy_den]

8 years later and all i can think about is how powerful this comment is.

[@navfromaoty3383]

Andy D Truly the most powerful comment on the KZbin platform

[@Andy_den]

​@@navfromaoty3383 legit blows my mind. the aura it irradiates. it feels like it was a decade ahead of it's time. i wonder where that dude is now.

[@ripelivejam]

@@Andy_den Prob eaten by locusts

[@iz4291]

@@Andy_den i'm wondering the same, hope he's well :D

[@RobertoWCruz]

I just remembered what my first breath felt like. Amazing. The emotions that this track brings you through, it can’t be compared to anything else. It’s humbling, joyful, devastating, worrying, and almost alien. How could I go this long without a single song even touching what this song made me feel? The tempos beat to your chest, the strings move with your bloood, the drums fire with your synapses. Godspeed you! You humble, amazing band!

[@idrisbaso6018]

Yeah dude, i like how you can feel this song so closely

[@ynglos2190]

I wish every person on earth could experience listening to this song at least once in their lives, truly the greatest piece of music ive heard in my young life.

[@regnidde8284]

I love how everyone in the comments is talking about how different parts of the song are their favorites. Really shows how amazing this song is.

[@bry4510]

Easily the most beautiful song I've ever heard. It always moves me to tears.

[@vepply]

😁😁🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@JackT13]

That first piercing horn manages to muster a sense of longing, acceptance, hope and sorrow in one note.

[@905Review]

My first experience with GY!BE was listening to this after a whole day working on a school project. It was so strenuous and on no sleep, when the drums hit in the first movement of the song I started hallucinating colours

[@glikcat]

you were so tired, you experienced synesthesia

[@youfools]

The piano at the end is just so stunning, total bliss, so much emotion packed into a few amazing chords. I don't know how they do it, but GP!BE elicit such a strong emotional response. Dead Flag Blues simply devastates as well.

[@SiliconMolybdenumNitrogen]

I have it on vinyl and two cd copies and the cover tattooed on my arm..just in case i forget they were the best band i ever saw live......

[@charliesimon7595]

damn now i want a skinny fists tattoo

[@NL12382]

Freaks!! Love U All!

[@half-hour7717]

Now I know what tattoo I should get next

[@sunekoo]

Holy fucknuts the moment around 10:09 never fails to give me goosebumps

[@toddstoptens1384]

YES. It’s hard not to feel fucking invincible when that first screaming guitar tremolo comes in.

[@balinthonvari7723]

for me that is the most powerful and touching part

[@aspiniou]

10:12 - if love could speak, it would sound like this

[@eraldylli]

Sounds a lot like a Pelican riff.

[@karanjaburke]

a million times, yes.

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

GY!BE, on a handful of their releases (this one included), reached out to grab the ineffable, the indescribable, a piece of heaven on Earth for us to enjoy, with no ego, no hubris, and they achieved it gloriously. This piece (and this album) will force you to cry, force you to deal with it; for them to have created this, they need to have reached the depths of suffering and the heights of ecstasy to synthesize it all into one glorious celebration of life. This is the power of music. I wept like a baby listening to this two nights ago on the comedown of 3 tabs of LSD - a true cleansing of the soul.

[@JoakimLarsson570]

It's still of the best pieces of music I've ever come across, and I think it'll stay that way until I cease to exist.

[@ZacTBH]

one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

[@confusedcryptid]

The beginning sounds like the appreciation for life you get after a near death experience

[@hotelmario510]

*checks time* HOLY SHIT I'M ONLY SIX MINUTES INTO THIS.

[@gabrielmarques374]

hotelmario510 ?

[@toddstoptens1384]

Efrim Menuck: “Oh, your song is over? Mine’s about halfway through the first movement.”

[@aidanlambert4969]

i remember being high and having a not great night by myself when i clicked on this song for the first time and it was genuinely the greatest listening experience ive ever had

[@banjogyro]

I can't believe how beautiful this is. Especially the ending, my favorite part. How, a rock song with a lot of percussion and guitars ends with nothing but a mesmerizing piano and a sound of a protester lecturing people through a megaphone so distorted no one understand the language. My theory is that he is talking about corporate buildings being builded on a, holy land. And he is unhappy about how they put their towers, killing flowers and trees there to put them.

[@jorgehernandez6147]

It's spanish bro

[@diegomo1413]

Whenever I’m feeling really down, I listen to the first 6 mins of this, thinking about everything that I’ve been through, where I am now, despite it all, and the things I hope to achieve in the future. Always picks me right up 🙂

[@reesespuff939]

The first 6 minutes is peak music

[@DustyRoseWS]

I really like this!! Why on Earth must everyone harshly criticize? If you like it, enjoy, if you don't, search for something else!! It's in tune, it's moving, emotive, etc. and it's someone's artistic expression- at least for one fleeting moment of their life!! Give all music a chance!

[@GokaiiRed]

Werner Sommer t. SoyBoy

[@JennZed]

22 minutes and 32 seconds of my life well spent.

[@KazPranks]

How could anybody come up with this? These guys are gods!

[@emilkubie]

They are time travelers, like literally.

[@nithinsuku]

The harmony at 1-minute mark exuberates such joy it is ineffable.

[@sonikkuffffff]

everything in my gybe videos is artwork i scanned from the respective CD releases of these albums.

[@RamonaRPM]

I never thought that music could be as good as this. My friend gave me this album and upon listening to it I realized what beauty is. Thanks for the upload.

[@mr.croasant2055]

This warm melancholic but hopeful comforting feeling feels like looking back on life and finally accepting the last fate i’ll ever have. The end and start of a great journey and oh how fun it has been.

[@caselbravo]

Such a tremendous song. Thank you for bringing this to KZbin the way it was meant to be heard.

[@AJTwo]

Like magical classical and rock mixed. If the great film score composer Jerry Goldsmith had written rock music, it would have sounded like this.

[@AJTwo]

Listen to the repeating patterns, beautiful violins and tell me (if you are lucky enough to have heard them) that it doesn't remind you of Beethoven on the repeating tune and the Star Trek: First Contact music on the beautiful violins.

[@Rubies4sale]

This genre is called post-rock. Its incredible.

[@barzes345]

the ending movement of storm has such a desperate, bleak sound. It feels like a montage of footage of a terrible terrible tragedy, hearing the panicked voices on the radio, knowing theres nothing that can be done to save them from whatever is happening, that sound is so distinctive and thankfully theres a whole album full of it with Silver Mt Zions debut.

[@Denso481]

Just woke up listening to this song. Today is a good day.

[@ProjectWaffel]

Ive been sitting here drawing for about 3 hours, and I listen to all types of music. This being the case I started off with Rock, then it switched automatically to a slower genre. When it did i didn't notice until now but my drawing started to get better. then this came on and its like my drawing took a huge leap from decent to great. anyway enough of my rambling ,this is an amazing song!!

[@angelpygs72]

I wrote a short story based off the tone of this song, and came out with the best work I've ever done, in my opinion.

[@North0house]

This is, without a doubt, an absolute masterpiece.

[@nithinsuku]

How can someone create something so beautiful.

[@clsagst]

i just can't hold the tears each time i listen to this

[@ЕгорФомичев-ю3щ]

Honestly, I've got to agree with that. ESPECIALLY if we're talking about the first 7 minutes. I mean, make no mistake, the whole song feels absolutely massive in every sense of the word. But there's just something about this section specifically that really manages to tug at my heartstrings no matter how many times I listen to it. The progression, the drums, the simple yet powerful guitar melody. One of the few pieces of music that genuinely made me tear up a bit when I was listening to it for the first time.

[@ascensionbeyond8413]

This is the song I listened to with my best friend I listened to with my best friend when it was unexpectedly the last night we have ever and will ever be able to hang out. It makes me cry everytime and I relate to on another level. Please feel this. I for sure do.

[@xanaxodgrindcorelover9191]

i remember living in a salvation army and looking for a job, needing a place to hang out during the day and a church let me use their piano between serivices. i learned how to play the first 6m25s of storm by ear during that time

[@brownstone1944]

The gathering storm is just impossibly good

[@el_yisu]

7:00 to 8:52 literally feels like nostalgia in a song to me. I constantly feel nostalgic and miss my home country where I feel I was actually genuinely happy because I was so young. I wish I could go back to those days with no worries and run up the mountains with my friends again and look forward to going to school. This song at least gives me some sort of that feeling, I am forever grateful I had an amazing childhood. Hopefully growing up won't be that bad.

[@eatenpancreas]

it's crazy to think this song is 2 years older than me. It is so good and i discovered it quite late in my life

[@jean-philippedesbiens7076]

i feel so grateful that this band exists. I saw them twice at different events in Montreal. This song in particular is probably the one that i connect the most with ( BBF3 is close second ) I can't quite explain why, but there is a message in this song, even if there are no lyrics, that instantly remind me of Montreal and it's people, Montreal as a collective conscience. That sound was familiar from the start because they portrayed such a detailed picture of the scene that you truly feel at home even at the first listen. I'm totally in love with Montreal, my city, they're doing an amazing job to represent the local culture. I give all of my love to anyone that might ever need it. God knows, if you're listening to this, you might be going through a rough time, And if this resonates with you, i want you to know that this music helped me and i hope it helps you too. God damn, i feel alive.

[@ayellowline]

Oh I remember those days 20 years ago... I was obsessed with the whole Canadian post rock/experimental scene. Gybe, Asmz, hrsta, fly pan am... I was amazed by all that music. Those were simpler times. Now everything's fucked. Haven't heard any new Gybe in years. Think I'm gonna go down that rabbit hole again.

[@pr0v0cative4pple]

Those first two movements never fail to make me zealously patriotic for a nonexistent country.

[@spsys]

The greatest post-rock track. And the video is very simple, exactly match with this music. Thank you !

[@SupaFlyModz]

just got this on vinyl. one of the top 5 albums in history hands down

[@erylin3526]

“You born once, and then, you born again 10:13”

[@JohnNada80]

I want this playing at my funeral.

[@Danishkringle3000]

This is some real gourmet shit right here

[@OreoSmithOfficial]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who was crying in the middle of the song when all of a sudden I hear "Welcome to ARCO AM-PM Mini-Market"

[@vepply]

😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂🎉🎉😂😂🎉🎉🎉😂😂🎉🎉😂🎉🎉😢🎉

[@metashrew]

I remember being on a long flight and i put this song on. I had heard it once before, but i didn't remember much, all i knew is that i liked it. nothing will beat the feeling getting surprised by 10:11 and then looking out of the window of the plane.

[@rojaynazir1668]

Every section of this song is done masterfully my own favorite section starts at 17:45 where the heavy distortion guitar part fades into the AM/PM sample and it feels like a drug experience. Its a great example when music can paint a vivid image in my imagination with very few words. I can almost taste the moist air in the parking lot at night. The piano piece is simple yet very impactful, each stroke is very well placed. The distorted background voice of man speaking in a megaphone (at least that is how it feels to me) sounds/feels like a religious speech or a from a mosque in an Islamic country. This song is a journey, but most of their songs are. but those last 5 minutes stand out to me personally. I love these guys.

[@HopelessNecromancer]

This is the type of song that I think would play in the end credits of your life

[@vepply]

💀💀💀😭😭💀💀💀💀

[@HopelessNecromancer]

@@vepply STOP 😭😭 I don’t even remember writing this lmfaoo

[@JohnMiller-mmuldoor]

Every few years i listen to this album, and then I have to make myself stop. It’s been a few years at this point. OH BOY!

[@arborlightsband]

The love and attention that's gone into making these videos is astounding. Congratulations, you're my new favourite KZbinr!

[@seraphinablossom7257]

This song is perfect, thanks replika.

[@diegoqre]

3:11 when the drums come in it’s when you lift your skinny fists

[@rachelb6624]

hearing this song live is breathtaking GY!BE ilu

[@asjagiovinazzo7764]

this song makes me love life

[@CaptainComposte]

wow, those pictures at the end were powerful and so was the music accompanying it.

[@cqfd8434]

This is art.

[@Ziedricht]

It fucking is! Montreal represent!

[@JH22364]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Forever

[@Niallad94]

It's kinda unusual, but i think the only one i want to marry with when i'm old is called music.

[@noradosmith]

I've never heard this band before. This is beautiful, damn

[@DarknessHowls]

Thanks so much for providing such high quality audio+video! The songs on this album especially benefit from it.

[@pixelperfect1729]

10:11 All rise for the RateYourMusic Anthem.

[@sonikkuffffff]

@arborlightsband Thanks. KZbin is infested with improperly ripped, transcoded, and overall horrible quality videos. Music is one thing I will not allow to be treated like this. Music is art. It's meant to be experienced without interruptions or audio artifacting. Would you like to view the actual Mona Lisa painting or will you settle for a JPG photograph? The quality of your videos is down to all of you. Only you can improve the state of KZbin. I wish I could disable viewing in 240-480p.

[@asyntheticsound]

uh, i'm guessing they recorded the man for a reason. "it's been a long long time, a long long time coming" is pretty cryptic, and in that, it is heavy and therefor can be interpreted in any way by the listener. this is why i love GY!BE so much - because they leave everything up to my (our) own interpretation. we fill in the blanks and we give the songs their own meanings.

[@hopscotchoblivion7564]

I heard this in the show Silicon Valley! THEY ACTUALLY PUT THIS SONG!!!

[@howesteve]

God speaking in this piece

[@arbermagique]

10:13 is everything we all know crumbling down. Everything on fire. Everything moving to another level...

[@Sparabolle]

love this track, can't stop to listen it

[@kelechi_77]

This video looks like a movie

[@charlesfransis]

I'd been looking for high quality GYBE vids for sometime on youtube. Thank you so much :)

[@jaydenrhoelnatividad2739]

I remember listening to this music back in 5 years ago. Grabe, ang angas naman itong tugtong na ito!

[@8Metaphysicist8]

@sonikkuffffff Definitely, quality should never be ignored when it comes to delicate, intricate instrumental music like this. I couldn't stand listening to all the other low quality Godspeed vids. Come to think of it, I couldn't even really get into GY!BE until I listened to your high quality videos. And now, I love this music.

[@ibrahimelhaddad7272]

It is a journey in deed fabulous!!

[@outlxndish]

welcome to the vibe zone we have a bed just in case you wanna cry and we have chips only dill pickle so dont get your hopes up

[@oke.565]

i want the intro to be played whilst im dying

[@philold09]

Just ordered this Album partially because of this video and partially because of TheNeedleDrop

[@BarbarackObama]

try "The Rainbow" by Talk Talk (and more generally their whole "Spirit of Eden" and "Color Of Spring" albums)

[@ck675]

RIP Mark Hollis. Talk Talk is so incredible and one of the most influential bands of all time. Among the godfathers of post rock

[@tesseract137]

I feel like I traveled around the ages and worlds then I just woke up in x place and just falling down to the end

[@matiasmacrettbaterista]

Abrazos desde buenos Aires Argentina!

[@_ADINFINITUM]

Lift Yr Skinny Fists/Gathering Storm = the birth of creation Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP = the end times

[@Patrick0540]

This is great stuff.

[@rodrigosalinas1423]

Escuchando este tema escribí esto, es lo que me insrpiró. Espero les guste Los Senderos del Devenir Apreté los dientes y seguí adelante. No miré atrás. Solo me dejé llevar. Como un torrente de agua, a través de territorios desconocidos. Crucé una selva de inmumerables senderos, brazos de agua intentaron retenerme. Batallé con toda la fuerza de mi cuerpo para continuar. Montado en una canoa, atravesé un rio de árboles de mandarina y pomelos. De ramas amarillas, de aire con aromas de infancia. De campos y palmeras. De ciénagas y animales con hermosos colmillos. Me deslicé, lentamente, hacia un sueño desbocado. Agarrado a su crin, surcaba la luna abrazado a mi caballo. Desperté a una noche oscura e inmensa. No supe, ni entonces ni después, si había pasado un dia, o dos, o si acaso un segundo. El tiempo perdió sentido, el espacio se mostró en su esencia, inabarcable. Seguí avanzando, sin prisa. Una tempestad arrastró mi barca hasta el océano. Creí ver, en el fondo del agua cristalina, un par de ojos mirándome fijamente, llamándome a su escondite. Resistí a su encanto, y continué. El océano se volvió mar, el mar se volvió orilla, y la orilla se volvió bosque. El sonido de la lluvia marcó el ritmo de mis pasos. Caminé, impulsado por el viento, sin detenerme. Racimos de uvas, plantas de frambuesas, panales de miel coronaban los costados del camino, invitándome a un banquete. Pero no me detuve. El bosque se convirtió en un desierto de escombros. Vi las ruinas de todas las civilizaciones que existen, que existieron y que existirán. Vi mi casa de día, vi mi muerte de tarde, vi mi amor de noche. Seguí andando. Una luz destellante brotó del suelo, se expandió e inundó el cosmos por completo. Floté en su interior, adormecido. Mis cutículas primero, mis dedos después, se convirtieron en plumas. Mis brazos en alas. Levanté vuelo. Seguí. Creí ver la oscuridad al final del túnel. Creí ver carrozas empujadas por elefantes. Creí escuchar el sonido de una orquesta desde lo hondo de la negrura. Guitarras. Violines. Flautas. Me dejé guiar por la música. Di de frente con una montaña, me adentré en sus cuevas, una a una, persiguiendo la danza majestuosa de luciérnagas y medusas. Un laberinto de luz y sombra se abrió ante mí. En el lapso de una vida encontré la salida. Vi el final de los tiempos amenazando con su llegada. Me senté a la sombra de un árbol. Azaleas, rosas, madreselvas, tulipanes y más florecieron de mi vientre. Cerré los ojos. Con mi última voluntad lancé un grito, como una lanza, hacia el cielo. Aún hoy sigue vibrando.

[@ledmartilmn]

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[@MrMayorqw]

+Rodrigo Hache Fabuloso!

[@FERMUSICA]

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