All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling

All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling is claimed to be the earliest release from Canadian experimental musical collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor.[1][2] According to a 1998 interview with the band, the album was published on cassette in December 1994 and limited to 33 copies.[3] At this point, the group consisted only of Efrim Menuck, Mauro Pezzente, and Mike Moya.[4] No copies of the release are known to exist and the music, if it existed, has been "thought to be lost forever by the band's fans".[5][6]

When asked about the album in a 2010 interview, Efrim Menuck stated that All Lights is a vocal rock album that bears little relation to the band's later work, and that he "keep[s] expecting it's gonna pop up [on the internet] but it never does".[7] In another interview, Menuck stated that the album was a 4-track recording.[8]

In 2013, a Reddit user, who claimed to have purchased a copy of the tape in Moncton, New Brunswick,[9] uploaded photographs of the cassette cover and "audio files of tracks purporting to be the final two songs on the A-side".[10] The user's Reddit account was deleted shortly afterwards, leading some news outlets to suggest the alleged rediscovery could be another hoax.[10]

Supposed track listing
Side A
  1. "Drifting Intro Open"
  2. "Shot Thru Tubes"
  3. "Three Three Three"
  4. "When All the Furnaces Exploded"
  5. "Beep"
  6. "Hush"
  7. "Son of a Diplomat, Daughter of a Politician"
  8. "Glencairn 14"
  9. "$13.13"
  10. "Loose the Idiot Dogs"
  11. "Diminishing Shine"
  12. "Random Luvly Moncton Blue(s)"
  13. "Dadmomdaddy"
Side B
  1. "333 Frames Per Second"
  2. "Revisionist Alternatif Wounds to the Hair-cut Hit Head"
  3. "Ditty for Moya"
  4. "Buried Ton"
  5. "And the Hairy Guts Shine"
  6. "Hoarding"
  7. "Deterior 23"
  8. "All Angels Gone"
  9. "Deterior 17"
  10. "Deterior Three"
  11. "Devil's in the Church"
  12. "No Job"
  13. "Dress Like Shit"
  14. "Perfumed Pink Corpses from the Lips of Ms. Céline Dion"

References
  1. "GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR". Constellation Records. Constellation Records. Archived from the original on May 27, 2000. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  2. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". Omnibus Press. Retrieved July 14, 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. Interview, The Wire, September 1998.
  4. Buckley, Peter (2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides. p. 433. Retrieved July 14, 2020 – via Google Books.
  5. "Reddit user claims to have unearthed Godspeed You! Black Emperor's long-lost debut cassette All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling". FACT. September 16, 2013.
  6. Fox, Matt (October 11, 2012). "How Godspeed You! Black Emperor's ambiguity evolved from a building block to a selling point". Nashville Scene. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  7. "Interview: Efrim Menuck of A Silver Mt. Zion". The 405. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016.
  8. Zahora, George. "Interview with Efrim Menuck". Splendid E-Zine. Archived from the original on August 1, 2009.
  9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s long-lost debut, the limited-to-33 cassette All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling, reportedly surfaces on… Reddit. Tiny Mix Tapes, September 16, 2013.
  10. "Long-Lost Godspeed You! Black Emperor Cassette Allegedly Emerges Online". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014., September 16, 2013.
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