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* InsistentTerminology: While Godspeed and its side projects are almost universally considered PostRock, the band members themselves aren't too fond of the term. If asked, [[FaceOfTheBand Efrim Menuck]] is most likely to identify with the ethos and aesthetics of PunkRock.

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* InsistentTerminology: While Godspeed and its side projects are almost universally considered PostRock, the band members themselves aren't too fond of the term. If asked, [[FaceOfTheBand Efrim Menuck]] Menuck is most likely to identify with the ethos and aesthetics of PunkRock.
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* LongTitle:
** ''Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven''.
** ''All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling''.
** Songs themselves don't qualify all that often ("Strung Like Lights at Thee Printemps Erable" is probably their longest song title, but beside that, long song titles are more Music/SilverMtZion's thing), but movement titles often do. Many of these are simply very long examples of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, though others are {{Word Salad Title}}s. Examples include:[[note]]Punctuation intact from album packaging, with the exception of changing double quotation marks to single quotation marks per standard work title convention[[/note]]
*** "'Nothing's Alrite in Our Life...'/Deadflagblues (Reprise)"
*** "String Loop Manufactured During Downpour"
*** "Il pleut à mourir [+Clatters Like Worry]"
*** "'Welcome to Barco AM/PM...' [[[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles L.A.X.]]; 5/14/00]"
*** "Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way"
*** "[+The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now]"
*** "Murray Ostril: '...They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach...'"
*** "Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III"
*** "[Glockenspiel Duet Recorded on a Campsite in Rhinebeck, N.Y.]"
*** "'Attention...mon ami...fa-lala-lala-la-la...' [55-St. Laurent]"
*** "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field"
** The two twenty-minute tracks on ''G_d's Pee at State's End!'' have their longest titles by far, since the tracks themselves are just lists of their movements. Thus, we have (capitalisation as per the band's Bandcamp):
*** "A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job's Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (ROCKETS FOR MARY)"
*** "'GOVERNMENT CAME' (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE"
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Dewicking.


* ExcitedShowTitle (and sometimes ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName): Given the exclamation point in their name. Also, the album titles ''[='=]Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!'' and ''G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!'', and the song title "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'".
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* NotChristianRock: Religion and the religious appear throughout their music, and the band have been known to play concerts in churches. However, they most certainly are not Christian rock. (Not least because several members are Jewish).
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor [[note]] (formerly Godspeed You Black Emperor!, often abbreviated to GYBE or GY!BE or shortened to Godspeed You!, and erroneously God Speed You Black Emperor!, sometimes God's Pee in their liner notes) [[/note]] are a Montreal based symphonic post-rock band. They are known for their movement-based, side-length suites, inclusion of samples and field recordings, and employment of minimalism in their music.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor [[note]] (formerly Godspeed You Black Emperor!, often abbreviated to GYBE or GY!BE or shortened to Godspeed You!, and erroneously God Speed You Black Emperor!, sometimes God's Pee in their liner notes) [[/note]] are a Montreal UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} based symphonic post-rock band. They are known for their movement-based, side-length suites, inclusion of samples and field recordings, and employment of minimalism in their music.



** The opening movement of ''[='=]Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress[='=]'' seems very deliberately reminiscent of Music/BlackSabbath's style (it bears a particularly strong resemblance to "[[Music/{{Paranoid}} War Pigs]]"). Several reviewers have noted the similarity.
** "Steve Reich" kinda speaks for itself: It's right there in the title. Same with "J.L.H. Outro," named after {{blues}} legend John Lee Hooker (although it's more like a SpaceRock take on his style of blues).

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** The opening movement of ''[='=]Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress[='=]'' seems very deliberately reminiscent of Music/BlackSabbath's style (it bears a particularly strong resemblance to "[[Music/{{Paranoid}} "[[Music/ParanoidAlbum War Pigs]]"). Several reviewers have noted the similarity.
** "Steve Reich" kinda speaks for itself: It's right there in the title. Same with "J.L.H. Outro," named after {{blues}} legend John Lee Hooker Music/JohnLeeHooker (although it's more like a SpaceRock take on his style of blues).



* WritingAroundTrademarks / BlandNameProduct: Despite the recording sampled in the song clearly saying "Welcome to ARCO AM/PM," the album liner notes identify the movement name as "Welcome to Barco AM/PM... [[[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles L.A.X.]]; 5/14/00]." The reason why probably falls under one of these tropes.

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* WritingAroundTrademarks / BlandNameProduct: WritingAroundTrademarks[=/=]BlandNameProduct: Despite the recording sampled in the song clearly saying "Welcome to ARCO AM/PM," the album liner notes identify the movement name as "Welcome to Barco AM/PM... [[[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles L.A.X.]]; 5/14/00]." The reason why probably falls under one of these tropes.

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* ''F♯ A♯ ∞'' (Pronounced 'F Sharp A Sharp Infinity,' 1997; CD version, which was completely re-recorded and featured new material, was released in 1998)

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* ''F♯ A♯ ∞'' (Pronounced 'F Sharp A Sharp Infinity,' 1997; CD version, which was completely re-recorded a new recording of a new arrangement running more than twenty minutes longer than the LP and featured featuring a wealth of new material, was released in 1998)1998. Nonetheless, a ninety-second segment from the end of "Nervous, Sad, Poor..." only appears on the LP.)



* ''All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling'' (Demo, 1994, re-release 2022[[note]]The demo was said to be lost since only thirty-three copies were said to be made. Someone had found the demo in 2013 and posted two songs on Side A of the demo but didn't post anything else after that. The demo was finally leaked on 2022 and the band posted it on their bandcamp as a charity release two weeks after the leak.[[/note]])

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* ''All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling'' (Demo, 1994, re-release 2022[[note]]The demo was said to be lost since only thirty-three copies were said to be made. Someone had found the demo a copy in 2013 and posted two songs on from Side A of the demo to Website/{{Reddit}}, but didn't post anything else after that. The demo was finally leaked on 2022 and in 2022; the band posted it on their bandcamp Bandcamp as a charity release two weeks after the leak.ten days later.[[/note]])


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** Efrim Menuck repeatedly expressed surprise that ''All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling'' hadn't leaked. When it finally did, the band's response wasn't to try to get it taken down; instead, they sold a better-quality rip of it on Bandcamp as a charity fundraiser (while noting that it sounded nothing like their later material).
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Recorded mostly by Efrim Menuck alone with some help from Mike Moya and Mauro Pezzente, the demo was originally intended to be Menuck's retirement from making music, and bears little resemblance to the band that followed. However, despite Menuck's intentions, the inchoate project gathered local interest and was soon being asked to perform around the Montreal area, and gradually new members joined on and began helping compose new material.

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