Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - godspeed you black emperor!
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9.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 61 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 61
  2. Negative: 2 out of 61

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  1. LukeC
    Aug 16, 2009
    10
    This album is unlike any other. It is utterly timeless, an instant masterpiece and clearly will always be a masterpiece. Having this album feels like an honour.
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. friedchicken
    Oct 14, 2007
    10
    How can something be beautiful/hopeful yet be apocalyptic staffan? anyways, great album. best post rock album ever.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JamesR.
    Nov 7, 2001
    10
    listen
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. ArmandT
    Nov 5, 2006
    10
    Perhaps the greatest album of all time. There is no other band like Godspeed and there never will be.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. DavidC
    Jul 6, 2007
    10
    Just the most astonishingly beautiful album ever released.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. SteveC.
    Oct 14, 2001
    10
    In a thousand years, music will sound like this. in a million years, the world will sound like this.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. HelimO
    Oct 14, 2002
    10
    Whola! Listen to this!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. DanG.
    Sep 19, 2002
    9
    This album makes me want to cry... pure beauty and horror over 80 minutes.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. wo
    May 9, 2004
    10
    10 it!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. AViewAM
    Nov 2, 2006
    10
    I'd been listening to this album in awe for two straight years. Then I saw it on vinyl in a little record store in Victoria. Needless to say, I snapped it up. Best. Album. Ever.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  11. naveedSultan
    Jul 9, 2007
    3
    I can't figure out why everyone thinks this album is mind blowing, I honestly beleive it's waaaaaay behind Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky. I don't think i'll be able to grow into it.
    • 0 of 2 users said yes
  12. Staffan
    Sep 6, 2007
    10
    The most beautiful, apocalyptic and hopeful record ever made. The record really helps when the world just feels cold. This is gonna be my favourite album forever and ever.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  13. HéctorO
    Dec 19, 2001
    10
    this album will change your life
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  14. PauvoB.
    Aug 14, 2001
    10
    One of the best albums ever made! This is what music is all about.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  15. AdC.
    Jun 14, 2002
    10
    Listen. You can hear them marching from the other side. Soon they will be with us and the world will shake. Or, they are the greatest band on the planet. No one comes close to their constant challenge of beauty and so-called progress. Come the end, I'm on their side.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  16. robertom
    Oct 24, 2003
    10
    this is the most increadible album ever made by these guys!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  17. damon
    Jun 20, 2004
    10
    perfect! nothing else to say.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  18. BenjaminBunny
    Jun 8, 2004
    10
    The defining instrumental rock LP that no one will ever top. Listen and be blown away.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  19. IsraelB
    Oct 16, 2005
    10
    Breathtaking beautiful.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  20. chadn
    Dec 16, 2005
    10
    i have been listening to this CD for two years and it never gets old.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  21. DaniiC
    Apr 19, 2005
    10
    It's ridiculous, indescribably beautiful, and something that must be checked out by the individual. reccommended by a friend with excellent taste ^__~
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  22. JonL
    Nov 4, 2006
    10
    Oh man, albums like this are what make wading through hours of modern indie rock mediocrity worth the plunge. Full of eerie dissonance, deeply moving sections of pure, organic, rollicking emotion, and a bottomless melancholy both hopeful and apocalyptic, nostalgic and foreboding. Insanely, insanely beautiful and human. Possibly the album of the decade.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  23. BB
    Aug 12, 2006
    10
    I've never felt so moved by instrumental music. It continually surprises me and makes my body churn with inspiration each time I listen.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  24. Kanada
    Sep 7, 2006
    10
    One of those albums that, if people had any taste, would be lauded for years with all sorts of musical, personal, and even spiritual accolades. "Transcendent" is not too strong a word to describe it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  25. ChrisR
    Oct 6, 2007
    7
    Holy crap! It's Sigur Ros on heroin! (Or should I say more heroin???) Way to go you crazy French Canucks!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  26. FrankC
    Jan 31, 2008
    8
    I had this composition for at least three now and evertime I listen to it a new layer of it is discovered. I usually stop dead in my tracks when it kicks in. Great music and blows away guest when they least expect it
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  27. nicom.
    Dec 14, 2001
    9
    i am very critic about music but this is soooooooooooo good en full of brilliant stuff: this is music in his strict form and a standard for other POST-ROCK bands after MOGWAI WE HAVE A TRUE WINNER.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  28. Jerry
    Dec 30, 2002
    10
    It's truly mesmerizing (in a good way) -- very inspiring and emotionally uplifting; fell in love with this album since the first day I've heard it
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  29. ChrissyF.
    Aug 17, 2002
    10
    This is post rock at its best. I cannot find a single flaw .. it is almost too good to be heavenly.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  30. Dan
    Feb 13, 2003
    10
    Whoa. This album is one of the most brilliant and beutiful things ive ever heard in my life. It is HANDS down the best album of 2000 and itll take some hard compition to overthrow it as the best album of the decade (well "Thought for Food" by the Books almost touches it in the Beuty Factor) and without hyperbole.........This is one of the best albums ever made (and probably the 2nd most overlooked) Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  31. StianM
    May 12, 2003
    10
    This album is just incredible. The more quiet parts are just beautiful, and the harder parts will blow you away. Can they ever make a better album than this?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  32. DomS.
    Aug 12, 2003
    10
    I came across this album with no knowledge of the band, let alone progressive rock. It defines the genre, hands down. Efraim can be a pretentious bastard all he wants as long as he keeps this up.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  33. ZapMan
    Nov 16, 2005
    10
    The GREATEST record of all time. Sleep is the simply the best "song" in the universe. I just can't live without this truly exceptional work of art.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  34. Joe
    Feb 18, 2005
    10
    A very awesome indeed. I have heard a lot of claims that Godspeed is rather pretentious. I don't think this can be true because they are so loyal to their beliefs and would never sell out.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  35. bend
    Feb 15, 2006
    9
    extreamly emotional and moving. however, its not perfect. the songs tend to spend too much time building up and the payoffs are over much too quickly. despite this fact, this is still very beautiful and needs to be listened to by everyone who enjoys music.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  36. ii
    Jan 11, 2008
    5
    I fell asleep while listening
    • 0 of 2 users said yes
Metascore

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Godspeed's records will either blow your head off or leave you shrugging, depending on where your personal quest for freedom is taking you.
  2. Unwinds slowly, slipping between ghosted noise-and-field-recording passages and the sustained explosions of big, bombastic caterwaul that have become Godspeed's signature sound.
  3. Not only has the group taken their sound and refined it even more, but even the ambient soundscapes and parts between the actual songs are more well constructed.