Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Cover Art by William Schaff
Studio album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Released	9 October 2000
Recorded	February 2000 at Chemical Sound Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre	Post-rock, instrumental rock
Length	87:21
Label	Constellation, Kranky
Producer	Daryl Smith
Godspeed You! Black Emperor chronology
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1999) Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000) Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (also known as Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! and Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven) is a 2000 double album released by the Canadian instrumental rock group Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Contents 1 Structure and details 2 Reception 3 Track listing 3.1 Notes 4 Personnel 5 References 6 External links

Structure and details

The four tracks on Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven are composed of individually named internal movements. The whole album is instrumental, except for sampled voice inserts.

The inner panels of the vinyl edition released by Constellation contain a diagram used to illustrate the relative lengths of movements within the four tracks; each movement is drawn, by Efrim Menuck,^[1] as a rectangular block with its length determined by the proportion of the track it comprises. Some of the blocks are shifted slightly upwards to show an increase in intensity. The movement title and the numerical length are denoted either above or below the square. The same diagram is provided as a paper insert in the CD edition from Kranky.

The interior covers of the CD feature art by the Rhode Island-based William Schaff.^[1] The double vinyl edition presents the same art, but on the sleeves instead. The flip side contains various images taken by the band.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	84 [2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
Pitchfork Media	(9.0/10) [4]
Canuckistan Music	Review

In 2001, Q magazine named it as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.^[5]

Magnet (1-2/01, p. 45) - Included it in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000."

NME (12/30/00, p. 78) - Ranked #16 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".

Sputnikmusic named it the 6th best album of the 2000s.

Pitchfork Media named it the 65th best album of the decade.

RateYourMusic: Ranked #68 in "Top Albums Of All-time"

Track listing

The album consists of four continuous tracks on the Compact Disc release. Time lengths of individual movements are taken from the official discography.^[6] Times for each movement appear in the album's cover art, but those times are very inaccurate. While the movements of the tracks are listed, the names of the four tracks that make up the album are unlisted on the CD.

Disc one

Disc two

Notes

• "Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III" was originally named "3rd Part."
• "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field" was originally named "John Hughes", presumably after the film director.
• "Monheim" and "Chart #3" were broadcast on 19 January 1999, on John Peel's radio show before the release of Skinny Fists as the first two movements of a piece called "Hung Over as the Queen in Maida Vale." The closing movement, which has never been officially released, was named "Steve Reich" after the minimalist composer.

Personnel

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

• Thierry Amar – bass guitar
• David Bryant – electric guitar
• Bruce Cawdron – drums
• Aidan Girt – drums
• Norsola Johnson – cello
• Efrim Menuck – guitar
• Mauro Pezzente – bass guitar
• Roger Tellier-Craig – guitar
• Sophie Trudeau – violin

Other musicians

• Alfons – horn
• Brian – horn

Production

• John Golden – mastering
• Daryl Smith – production

References

External links

• Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven at Constellation Records
• Speech transcript of the track "Static" at SongMeanings.net
• Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven at Metacritic

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Thierry Amar · David Bryant · Bruce Cawdron · Aidan Girt · Norsola Johnson · Efrim Menuck · Mike Moya · Mauro Pezzente · Sophie Trudeau Gregory Borys · James Chau · James Daytron · John Littlefair · Thea Pratt · Roger Tellier-Craig · Grayson Walker Albums F♯ A♯ ∞ · Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven · Yanqui U.X.O. Other releases All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling · aMAZEzine! 7" · Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada Related articles Discography · Set Fire to Flames · Thee Silver Mt. Zion · Constellation Records · Kranky Records · Music of Quebec · Hotel2Tango · Post-rock