They’re Running in the Street Among Us All!
This is a track called “Sunshine + Gasoline” from Godspeed You Black Emperor!. It originally came out on a split 7” included with the print zine aMAZEzine, a copy of which I have around here somewhere. Though I believe this recording pre-dates the band’s debut album, the theme was adapted for “Moya” from the Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP. I love this track for its cheap sound and epic (but simple) melody, but I really love it for the spoken intro. Godspeed did this sort of thing often, but this particular monologue is my favorite, as a man talks about the good old days when “geeks”—wild men who were either alcoholics or on drugs, and behaved like animals—were kept in cages and toured in sideshows, as opposed to mixing with the general public.
My latest Resonant Frequency is about Godspeed. It’s a grab-bag of ideas about a band that went away for a while and seems even more important and interesting now. I also talk about trains.
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