GYBE Live Setlists & Bootleg vs. Album Titles Guide

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About GYBE
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band from Montreal, Quebec. Their music, mainly instrumental in nature, has been noted for its contrasts between ambient soundscapes and chaotic crescendos; use of field recordings and spoken word monologues; and focus on dystopian, anarchist and anti-war themes.

One interesting aspect of GYBE's music is that the songs often have different titles when they are published on the studio albums than they were performed live. This can be confusing for fans who want to follow along with the music, or who are trying to find specific live performances of their favorite songs.

I have created a table to compare GYBE's song titles on bootlegs and streaming platforms side-by-side. I hope it is a good starting point to find your favorite GYBE songs on bootlegs!

F# A# ∞

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
1998 F#A#∞ (CD Version)
1 The Dead Flag Blues The Dead Flag Blues (intro) live versions were heavier than the album version
2 The Cowboy
3 The Dead Flag Blues (Outro) live versions have been much slower since 2000
4 East Hastings The Sad Mafioso
5 Providence Dead Metheny a new outro has been introduced to live versions since 2002
6 Kicking Horse on Brokenhill a.k.a. Bolero
7 String Loop Manufactured During Downpour... a.k.a. Where are you going?
looped out with drones as an outro on almost every concert
8 J.L.H. Outro a.k.a. John Lee Hooker
BPM varied a lot on specific shows, and something interesting: the song followed hope drone as an intro for their reunion shows around 2011

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
1998 aMAZEzine! Lost in the house Split 7"
Sunshine + Gasoline - an early demo for Moya on side A of the split
1999 Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada E.P.
9 Moya Moya a.k.a. Gorecki
10 Blaise Bailey Finnegan III BBF3

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
1999 Radio Sessions
Hung Over as the Queen in Maida Vale Monheim
Chart#3
Steve Reich based on Steve Reich's Violin Phase, performed on radios sessions around 1998~1999, yet never officially released
2000 Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
11 Storm Gathering Storm
12 Static Chart #3 mostly played before Steve Reich or World Police
13 World Police a.k.a. World Police and Friendly Fire
used to have a more melodic chorus, the overall vibe of the song shifted from sadness (pre-2000) to fury & chaos (post-2000)
14 Sleep Monheim
15 3rd Part a.k.a. Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III.
16 Antennas to Heaven John Hughes a.k.a. She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field
early variants lacked the second chorus in album and were a little slower

Yanqui U.X.O.

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
2002 Yanqui U.X.O.
17 09-15-00 (part 1 & 2) 12-28-99 (part 1 & 2) like dead flag blues, either part of 09-15-00 was supposed to be played alone without the other part
18 Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls Tazer Floyd
19 Motherfucker = Redeemer Motherfucker = Redeemer a.k.a. Tiny Silver Hammers
Sometimes played with George Bush Cut Up

ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
2012 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
- - Hope Drone concert intro since their reunion. no fixed structure, basically improvised drone
20 Mladic Albanian
21 We Drift Like Worried Fire Gamelan

Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
2015 Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
22 Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!' Behemoth cut into 4 tracks in the album, but always played as a whole song
Lambs' Breath
Asunder, Sweet
Piss Crowns Are Trebled

"Luciferian Towers"

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
2017 "Luciferian Towers"
23 Bosses Hang Bosses Hang a.k.a. buildings according to the scene on the projection
On this setlist, the band themselves called it old new
24 Anthem For No State Anthem For No State a.k.a. railroads according to the scene on the projection
for early variants in 2015, there used to be a 5~6 minute pre-chorus section between verse and interlude
25 Fam / Famine 2 Nouveau Tower
Undoing a Luciferian Towers

G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
2021 G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
26 A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) Glaciers
Job's Lament
First of the Last Glacier
27 Fire at Static Valley Static It's not World Police
28 "GOVERNMENT CAME" Cliff
Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty waters' rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE
29 OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.) -

"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"

# Titles on Stream Platforms Titles on Bootlegs Notes
2024 "NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD"
30 SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS DRONEPIPES intro drone since 2024
31 BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD CLOUD formerly known as 'flowers' among fans
32 RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD JIMMY formerly known as 'feathers' among fans
On this setlist, the band called it 'jimmy'
33 BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL PALE formerly known as 'flames' among fans
PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS
GREY RUBBLE - GREEN SHOOTS

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