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albummaster
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Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 12/29/2015 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1856): F♯A♯∞
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Today's album of the day
F♯A♯∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1997.
Country: 
Overall rank: 307
Average rating: 84/100 (from 332 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Nervous, Sad, Poor...
2. Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful...
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 12/29/2015 21:19
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This is the track listing/times for the vinyl reissue from 2010, not from any of the original releases. Unfortunately, the site doesn't differentiate between such things, but I'm pretty sure it's the original listings that we all know and love (or hate). I think you'd have to be daft to prefer the reissued material
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Lowkey
Gender: Male
Age: 28
- #3
- Posted: 12/29/2015 21:21
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gorgeous, haunting, look at the cover and you'll know what it's all about
bless up
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago 
- #4
- Posted: 12/29/2015 21:27
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I used to defend my frustration with this album with some stupid "it condones rape" message (based on, you know, the "kiss me, for these are the last days" thing), but nowadays I just find GY!BE to be boring*. This is one of their better releases, but I still prefer peak Explosions in the Sky. To borrow the genius of Lester Bangs, Godspeed's music is sentimentality disguised as profundity, but Explosions is openly sentimental, which makes them the truly profound ones.
*Save for All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amps Drooling, which I've heard and loved to death. If anyone wants a link, hit me up.
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SuedeSwede
Ognoo
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Location: On a cloud 
- #5
- Posted: 12/29/2015 22:02
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The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
It went like this:
The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies
Picked through the rubble
And pulled out their hair
The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze
I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days"
You grabbed my hand
And we fell into it
Like a daydream
Or a fever
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truly one of the most chilling albums of all time. and yeah the hour long CD version is so much better
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HazeyTwilight
boyfriend in your wet dreams
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Location: Elmo Knows Where You Live 
- #6
- Posted: 12/29/2015 22:09
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| SuedeSwede wrote: | | the hour long CD version is so much better |
This. This album is a post-rock staple, obviously. Although I do prefer Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada a bit more, I still love this.
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Last edited by HazeyTwilight on 12/29/2015 22:10; edited 1 time in total
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HoldenM
To Pedantically Split Infinitives
Gender: Male
Age: 30
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alelsupreme
Awful.
Gender: Male
Age: 28
- #8
- Posted: 12/29/2015 23:34
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Whichever version it is that ends the second track with a whole bunch of horrible squealing I don't like that version. Aside from that this is amazing.
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| Romanelli wrote: | | We're all fucked, lads. |
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- #9
- Posted: 12/30/2015 05:07
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| Applerill wrote: | | "it condones rape" message (based on, you know, the "kiss me, for these are the last days" thing) |
| Applerill wrote: | | All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amps Drooling, which I've heard |
two prime pieces of Charlie-grade nonsensical and dishonest horseshit to bring me back for a One Post Return Tour thanks and good night
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Anti
I Dream of Drone
Age: 29
Location: Somewhere in Ohio
- #10
- Posted: 12/30/2015 05:20
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| Satie wrote: | | two prime pieces of Charlie-grade nonsensical and dishonest horseshit to bring me back for a One Post Return Tour thanks and good night |
This made me crack up!
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