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Old 03-08-2004, 12:37 PM
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Originally posted by Avian
Actually, it looks like both are wrong. Their official page:

http://www.cstrecords.com/html/godspeed.html (look at page title)

it's

Godspeed You! Black Emperor


Avian
Avian, are you hanging out with Mary Jane today? That link brings up a pic that cleary says Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Secondly, thier homepage is here. I have all thier cds. I just looked them over to make sure. On F#A#(infinity), Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada, and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, thier name was "Godspeed You Black Emperor!" On thier last album, Yanqui U.X.O., they changed thier name to "Godspeed You! Black Emperor." So some websites have the first one and some of them have the last one.


I think the difference is this. The first three releases are on Kranky and the last one is on Southern. My guess is that it's a contractural thing and they couldn't record with Southern under GYBE! and had to rename themselves, so they picked GY!BE. Similar to the way Styx had to re-record "Lady" as "Lady '95" to get it on thier Greatest Hits album.

So my ideal would be to have all of the tracks listed as GYBE!, because if the bands was indexed both ways, two Godspeed tracks could play very close together because SAM would read it as two seperate artists.
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