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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 post-rock group Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Structure and details

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is structurally and conceptually closer to a symphony than a conventional pop or rock album.[original research?] The four tracks are composed of internal movements, with different sub-titles, that fade into each other. The whole album is instrumental, except for sampled voice inserts, and starts with an almost orchestral crescendo somewhat reminiscent of Ravel's Bolero.

The inner panels of vinyl edition released by Constellation contain a diagram used to illustrate the song names and lengths; each movement is drawn, by Efrim Menuck,[1] as a square block and the length of the block is governed by how much of the song it takes up. Some of the blocks slowly move upwards to show a raise. The movement title and the numerical length are 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

In 2001, Q magazine named it as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.[2]

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".[3]

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.[4] 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
1.1: Storm
No.TitleLength
1."Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven..."6:15
2."Gathering Storm/Il Pleut à Mourir [+Clatters Like Worry]"11:10
3."'Welcome to ARCO AM/PM...' [L.A.X.; 5/14/00]"1:15
4."Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way"3:52
Total length:22:32
1.2: Static
No.TitleLength
1."Terrible Canyons of Static"3:34
2."Atomic Clock"1:09
3."Chart #3"2:39
4."World Police and Friendly Fire"9:48
5."[...+The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now]"5:25
Total length:22:35
Disc two
2.1: Sleep
No.TitleLength
1."Murray Ostril: '...They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach...'"1:10
2."Monheim"12:14
3."Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III."9:53
Total length:23:17
2.2: Antennas to Heaven
No.TitleLength
1."Moya Sings 'Baby-O'..."1:00
2."Edgyswingsetacid"0:58
3."[Glockenspiel Duet Recorded on a Campsite In Rhinebeck, N.Y.]"0:47
4."'Attention...Mon Ami...Fa-Lala-Lala-La-La...' [55-St. Laurent]"1:18
5."She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field"9:43
6."Deathkamp Drone"3:09
7."[Antennas to Heaven...]"2:02
Total length:18:57

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
Other musicians
  • Alfons – horn
  • Brian – horn
Production

References

  1. ^ a b "Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (artwork page)". Constellation Records. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
  2. ^ Q magazine (2001). "A Selection of Lists from Q Magazine – Q 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". Q magazine. Retrieved 2006-12-20.
  3. ^ http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1067376
  4. ^ Official discography
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