Talk:Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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In the Progressive Rock page, there's a mention of whether the band should be considered Progressive Rock. Seeing as it includes many of the same conventions, should it be? -Anonymous
Image request was successful! Thank you, Tothebarricades.tk
Paulo Oliveira 00:13, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
- I'd love to have an image of them performing. Could such photographs qualify as fair use? --Tothebarricades.tk 19:45, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
∞ -- Someone else
- Thanks! --Camembert
- The band released its early work on the Kranky record label, but joined Constellation Records after their original contract ran out.
Are we sure this is correct? I thought that their vinyl releases were on Constellation and their CDs on Kranky (I'm pretty sure this is the case with f# and Slow Riot at least). --Camembert
- You're right. The earlier albums were released as CDs on Kranky and LPs on Constellation; both the LP and the CD of Yanqui U.X.O were produced by Constellation alone. I'll fix it. --No-One Jones 13:07, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- The Constellation catalogue will confirm this (and why I didn't check it beforehand, I don't know.) --No-One Jones 13:10, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Buraku Empororu — this romanization turns up quite a few hits on Google but it is bogus. The original documentary title was "ゴッド・スピード・ユー! BLACK EMPEROR," which could be romanized as "God Speed You! Black Emperor." A romanization that reflected the Japanese pronunciation would be "Goddo Supīdo Yū! Burakku Emperā."--Tokek 00:04, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] formerly known as Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- "(formerly known as Godspeed You Black Emperor!)"
Were they? (or were? they) -- I thought that moving the ! to the very end was something that the fans did unofficially. When/why would they change their band name (or rather punctuation), if they ever did? --69.214.227.51 06:32, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Well, I don't know why they'd do it, but the covers of my vinyl copies of f#a#∞ and the Slow Riot EP both say "Godspeed You Black Emperor!". --Camembert
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- AFAICT, they were Godspeed You Black Emperor! for all their releases before Yanqui U.X.O., which was the first release as Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It may be that was just a fleeting thing, and it may be changed back, or they may change it again (see A Silver Mt. Zion). sjorford →•← 12:26, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- They talked to the director of the film before the release of Yanqui UXO and discovered that they had translated it wrong. So it's not an aesthetic change like Silver Mt. Zion's name changes; the exclamation point is supposed to be after "You". --Tothebarricades.tk 20:09, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
well, if you really want to be technical, there should be no capitalization. godspeed you black emperor! now godspeed you! black emperor ...
[edit] Side Projects
Is it really fair to call all of those bands side projects? Some of these bands may share members with Godspeed, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're second-bannanas. I think that a better term would be "Related Projects" or "Related Bands." I'm going to change it unless anyone has any problems with it.Timothyreal 20:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Should this page have a link to long song titles like this?
==See also==
- List of songs with particularly long titles
- Gbeeker 01:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] F♯A♯∞
The title of this album is listed with both letters capitalized at cstrecords.com and at AMG. What is the source for spelling it with lowercase 'a' and 'f'? --G0zer 03:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I've got the vinyl release here right in front of of me and there are no capital letters at all. 194.97.112.69 21:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC) (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Klotzambein)
- It is common practice to write music notes in capital letters. However, it is gybe's common practice (at least on their album sleeves) to use lower case letters for virtually every song/album title. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 23:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Also see WP:NC#Album titles and band names. The band name is all lowercase on the vinyl sleeve as well. This implies that the lowercasing of the album title is stylistic, which should not carry over to Wikipedia. Note though a comment in the edit history for the album article saying that sharp symbols show up as boxes on Windows XP. Depending on how prevalent that problem is, I think the name should be either "F♯A♯∞" or "F#A#∞". --PEJL 06:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
