Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Year: 2000
Release date: 2000-10-23
Overall rank: 92nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 1,346 votes)
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Award Top 100 albums of all time (92nd)

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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven is ranked as the best album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

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Overall rank: 92nd | 2000s rank: 10th | 2000 rank: 2nd
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2026bonnequestionBEA Top 200 Reorganized According To My Taste76/100 -
2026 imjoebroTop 19 Music Albums of 200015/191
2026 PurplepashTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s70/1006
2026LittleM1971Top 90 Music Albums of 200013/904
2026UnliveableWiltsMy Top 250 Albums (101-200)20/100 -
2026mianfeiTop 59 Music Albums of the 2000s4/5919
2026 RockyRaccoonPost-Rock3/100 -
2026Juneof44Top 50 Music Albums of 200022/503
2026 imimesisTop 100 Greatest Music Albums61/10039
2026 AAL2014Top 45 Music Albums of 20001/455
2026jackharrison21Top 100 Greatest Music Albums8/10091
2026stareaterogni0nTop 100 Greatest Music Albums4/10097
2026TastyandTemptinTop 23 Music Albums of 20003/235
2026blueandthemoonTop 56 Music Albums of 200029/563
2026leniadTop 100 Greatest Music Albums88/10013
2026areminderTop 100 Greatest Music Albums64/10036
2026Exist-en-cielTop 21 Music Albums of 20002/215
2026 Graeme2Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s33/10014
2026araidernomoreTop 99 Music Albums of the 2000s81/994
2026 AvalancheGripsHow Justified are the Top 1001/100 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 1,111
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 12,687
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Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 1,346 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 85.7/100, a mean average of 84.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.

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From 07/11/2024 16:40 | #304236
Maybe the best post-rock album of all time?
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From 11/02/2023 14:34 | #299753
5 out of 5.

Otherworldly.

(Listen to this while playing strategy videogames, its insane.)
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85/100
From 08/31/2022 03:40 | #289117
Solid album
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90/100
From 02/03/2022 21:20 | #280605
One of my favorite albums. Apocalyptic and turbulent. Sometimes hopeful?
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80/100
From 02/01/2022 18:11 | #280419
Musically, it’s really good. These guys are talented. The down side, for me, is that it’s tough to lock in on these songs. My brain wanders a bit too easily, I guess.
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From 09/24/2021 12:34 | #274130
Buen disco!!!!!
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95/100
From 09/02/2021 00:02 | #273184
Some of the more "uplifting" moments feel like the background music to those corny motivational videos you'd likely see on Facebook (i.e. Dhar Mann). But then you get the darker moments and then I realized that this is the stark contrast of day to day life, sometimes it feels awful, sometimes it feels great. Brutally honest and brilliant.
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From 09/01/2021 02:18 | #273155
The fact that an instrumental album that runs for nearly 90 minutes sits within the BEA Overall top 90 says it all how special this album is

Essential listening for all true music aficionados
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From 07/25/2021 19:42 | #271940
This album truly takes you on a journey from the slower and more delicate sections to the louder and chaotic sections. Both are just as elegant as each other and really make the album a cohesive record. Storm, Sleep and Like Antennas To Heaven are near perfect post rock songs that are all around 20 minutes of pure bliss. The mastery of the instruments on display is mesmerising and truly stuns you right from the opening of Storm. Static on the other hand, doesn't live up to the same levels in my opinion. Whilst the song is still amazing, it just doesn't create that same atmosphere that the other 3 do so well. That is the only thing keeping me from giving the album a perfect score.
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From 06/16/2021 21:30 | #270722
Lindo e completamente doloroso!
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