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donkeyrobsbank 
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 Posted: February 10 2008 at 06:03 |
ok, so now their strangely pretentious (and yet so shallow) political/ anarchical attitude is preventing them from creating music (and musically they've been one my absolute favorites), these guys definitely have a problem: they think too much  and i think it's really sad what has happened to the sound of asmz (to song-oriented, to much singing), but this a different problem, concerning post rock i'll have to stick to set fire to flames and fly pan am, by far most fascinating (and literally progressive) godspeed-side projects
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Dominic
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 03:57 |
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I already assumed the band had broken up but i suppose they finally decided to submit an excuse to fans so they would stop asking. I don't understand why they would make such an obviously veiled excuse, but i understand why they would finally want to make the break up "official".
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Ricochet
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 03:03 |
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good idea, I'll listen to the albums next week as well.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 02:47 |
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....
Easily my favorite post-rock band and through them I discovered the whole post-rock genre.
I'll have to have a GY!BE marathon now.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 02:33 |
 It's always so hard to accept it's finished, even if the band were on hiatus from 2003 onward. Even worse considering I only discovered them last month too , but a great discovery it was 
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Ricochet
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 01:38 |
 AceBad wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
no, the EP is not a masterpiece. 
only the big gun albums are.
for me, of course...
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How can you say that!! "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" is amazing! I think it's their greatest work...
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I know what the general opinion is on Slow Riot...I just don't think, myself, that's it's the excellent stuff from the full major works. It's detached, as style and spirit, directly from F#a#, some moments are great, the others just okay.
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Ricochet
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 01:37 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
it's not very different musically (though skinnier and more experimental, free-style moments make the bliss out of it), but it's definitely different spiritually (sad, depressing, pessimistic over the edge, poetic over the hardest words and feelings).
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and Godspeed WASN'T the latter? WIth the exception of Lift your Skinny Fists, they're one of the darkest bands I've ever heard
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Yeah, but Silver Mt. Zion go even deeper. Godspeed You! Black Emperor are almost more "monumental' and instrumental in their work, trying to create or portrait static, chaotic, fervent worlds, after going into real stuff like apocalyptic dark impulses, mind-bursting reflections, sorrow and stressful motions - and so - as far as the message or the quality of the dark show goes. In Silver Mt. Zion, I can almost hear the pure moan, unleash of depression, spill of the mind, hazy introvertion etc.
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chamberry
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 21:28 |
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anael
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 21:12 |
OH f**k. 
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 16:01 |
Ricochet wrote:
it's not very different musically (though skinnier and more experimental, free-style moments make the bliss out of it), but it's definitely different spiritually (sad, depressing, pessimistic over the edge, poetic over the hardest words and feelings).
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and Godspeed WASN'T the latter? WIth the exception of Lift your Skinny Fists, they're one of the darkest bands I've ever heard
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AceBad
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 16:00 |
Ricochet wrote:
no, the EP is not a masterpiece.
only the big gun albums are.
for me, of course...
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How can you say that!! "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" is amazing! I think it's their greatest work...
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Ricochet
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 15:50 |
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it's not very different musically (though skinnier and more experimental, free-style moments make the bliss out of it), but it's definitely different spiritually (sad, depressing, pessimistic over the edge, poetic over the hardest words and feelings).
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Prog-jester
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 15:26 |
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it's different musically...but it's the same way awesome spiritually, I agree
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stonebeard
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 14:29 |
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Well, I wasn't exactly expecting them to get back together, really. It's sad news, but A Silver Mt Zion is just as good.
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Prog-jester
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 13:39 |
Okay, relax everybody, Tiny Little Hammers is crappy recorded Motherf**ker=Redeemer bootleg in it's entire 33-minute version, listenable but non-essential. I wonder why it was included in their discography on wiki 
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Ricochet
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 13:13 |
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Prog-jester
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 13:09 |
considering Tiny Little Hammers - it has thousands of listenings on LastFM 
UPDATE: listening to d/loaded file, part 1. This is simply live version of Motherf**ker=Redeemer 
Edited by Prog-jester - February 09 2008 at 13:14
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Antennas
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 13:08 |
That totally, entirely SUCKS...
One of the few bands that indeed fully deserved the name PROGRESSIVE...
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Jesus never managed to figure out the theremin either
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 12:22 |
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Ricochet
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Posted: February 09 2008 at 12:09 |
GoldenSpiral wrote:
That is sad, even though I never really did expect them to get back together.
The "Tiny Little Hammers" EP doesn't actually exist.... whoever wrote the article didn't do their research very well.
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But it's mentioned on Wikipedia too.
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