GYBE! = Glass rip off?

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A friend of mine brought up a notion that the new Godspeed record is, basically, a Phillip Glass rip off. His arguement was that the last two tracks (or 2/3's of the record) sounds like it came right off of the score to Powaqqatsi by Reggio. It struck me kind of funny at first, but once i thought about it more, their themes are completely similiar, in that GSYBE!'s whole stance on technology encrouching on nature mirror's that of the film. Anyone else having or had similiar thoughts?

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes, this is a beautiful connection, your friend should be rewarded with something wonderful and unique:
give him head.

― samuel, Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

is the record just maddening and endlessly repetitive oscillating arpeggios for 74 minutes? if so godspeed is even more boring than i previously thought

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

that would make them interesting.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

haven't heard the new one but i wonder where they can go anyway.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is this album even out?

― earlnash, Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

no, 4th Nov for UK, 11th Nov for US/Canada

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

6 days after the new Sigur Ros. Honestly, you wait for one good album and then two come along at once...

― Callum (Callum), Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yup -- the Chameleons' Neverending Now and Soft Cell's Cruelty Without Beauty. Mmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 October 2002 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

The early stuff also bears a passing resemblance to Tubular Bells

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yet their mailing fans always clamour over spegetti westerns.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

now that's USEFUL!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, you also forgot The Church's Parallel Universe. Three albums at once!

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

D'oh!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm holding out less hope for the new GY!BE than I am for the Sigur Ros, but I have to admit that I'm holding out even less hope for the new Church album...they haven't had a particularly stellar record lately. And I used to love them so! O lost!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

GYBE should do 2 sets each night of their next tour. The first can be Powaqqatsi and the second can be Ummagumma

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 27 October 2002 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

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