Song Titles of GYBE - Bootlegs v.s. Stream Platforms
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band from Montreal, Quebec. Their music, mainly instrumental in nature, has been noted for its contrasts between ambient soundscapes and chaotic crescendos; use of field recordings and spoken word monologues; and focus on dystopian, anarchist and anti-war themes.
One interesting aspect of GYBE's music is that the songs often have different titles when they are published on the studio albums than they were performed live. This can be confusing for fans who want to follow along with the music, or who are trying to find specific live performances of their favorite songs1.
I have created a table to compare GYBE's song titles on bootlegs and streaming platforms side-by-side. I hope it is a good starting point to find your favorite GYBE songs on bootlegs!
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| Titles on Bootlegs | Titles on Stream Platforms | Notes | |
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| 1998 F#A#∞ (CD Version) | |||
| 1 | The Dead Flag Blues (intro) | The Dead Flag Blues | live versions were heavier than album version |
| 2 | The Cowboy | ||
| 3 | The Dead Flag Blues (Outro) | live versions have been much slower since 2000 | |
| 4 | The Sad Mafioso | East Hastings | |
| 5 | Dead Metheny | Providence | a new outro has been introduced to live versions since 2002 |
| 6 | Kicking Horse on Brokenhill | a.k.a. Bolero | |
| 7 | String Loop Manufactured During Downpour... | a.k.a. Where are you going? looped out with drones as an outro on almost every concert |
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| 8 | J.L.H. Outro | a.k.a. John Lee Hooker BPM varied a lot on specific shows, and something interesting: the song followed hope drone as an intro for their reunion shows around 2011 |
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| 1998 aMAZEzine! Lost in the housse Split 7" | |||
| Sunshine + Gasoline | an early demo for Moya on side A of the split | ||
| 1999 Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P. | |||
| 9 | Moya | Moya | a.k.a. Gorecki |
| 10 | BBF3 | Blaise Bailey Finnegan III | |
| 1999 Radio Sessions | |||
| Monheim | Hung Over as the Queen in Maida Vale | ||
| Chart#3 | |||
| Steve Reich | based on Steve Reich's Violin Phase, performed on radios sessions around 1998~1999, yet never officially released | ||
| 2000 Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | |||
| 11 | Gathering Storm | Storm | |
| 12 | Chart #3 | Static | mostly played before Steve Reich or World Police |
| 13 | World Police | a.k.a. World Police and Friendly Fire used to have a more melodic chorus, the overall sense of the song shifted from sadness (pre-2000) to fury & chaos (post-2000) |
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| 14 | Monheim | Sleep | |
| 15 | 3rd Part | a.k.a. Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III. | |
| 16 | John Hughes | Antennas to Heaven | a.k.a. She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field early variants lacked the second chorus in album and were a little slower |
| 2002 Yanqui U.X.O | |||
| 17 | 12-28-99 (part 1 & 2) | 09-15-00 (part 1 & 2) | like dead flag blues, either part of 09-15-00 was supposed to be played alone without the other part |
| 18 | Tazer Floyd | Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls | |
| 19 | Motherfucker = Redeemer | Motherfucker = Redeemer | a.k.a. Tiny Silver Hammers Sometimes played with George Bush Cut Up |
| 2012 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | |||
| Hope Drone | concert intro since their reunion. no fixed structure, basically improvised drone | ||
| 20 | Albanian | Mladic | |
| 21 | Gamelan | We Drift Like Worried Fire | |
| 2015 Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress | |||
| 22 | Behemoth | Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!' | cut into 4 tracks in the album, but always played as a whole song |
| Lambs' Breath | |||
| Asunder, Sweet | |||
| Piss Crowns Are Trebled | |||
| 2017 "Luciferian Towers" | |||
| 23 | Bosses Hang | Bosses Hang | a.k.a. buildings according to the scene on the projection On this setlist, the band themselves called it old new |
| 24 | Anthem For No State | Anthem For No State | a.k.a. railroads according to the scene on the projection for early variants in 2015, there used to be a 5~6 minute pre-chorus section between verse and interlude |
| 25 | 2 Nouveau Tower | Fam / Famine | |
| Undoing a Luciferian Towers | |||
| 2021 G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | |||
| 26 | Glaciers | A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) | |
| Job's Lament | |||
| First of the Last Glacier | |||
| 27 | Static | Fire at Static Valley | It's not World Police |
| 28 | Cliff | "GOVERNMENT CAME" | |
| Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty waters' rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE | |||
| 29 | OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.) | ||
| 2024 "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" | |||
| 30 | DRONEPIPES | SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS | intro drone since 2024 |
| 31 | CLOUD | BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD | formerly known as 'flowers' between fans |
| 32 | JIMMY | RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD | formerly known as 'feathers' between fans On this setlist, the band called it 'jimmy' |
| 32 | PALE | BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL | formerly known as 'flames' between fans |
| PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS | |||
| GREY RUBBLE - GREEN SHOOTS | |||
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Check this post by u/TheOtherDragonborn for reviews on live variants ↩