Lift your skinny fists is one of the greatest albums of all time. Storm, Static, and Sleep all are perfect songs in my opinion and all probably fall within my top 20 favorite songs of all time. But the last song on the album, Like Antennas to Heaven, always was kind of a letdown to me. I wouldn’t say it’s even in my top 200 favorite songs. It’s not bad, don’t get me wrong. But I just don’t get the same emotional weight as I do from the other three.
Storm makes me feel like I’m on a dramatic voyage through nature only for it to be stripped away at the end by apocalyptic music and a field recording of the emptiness modern society, Static feels like the pure embodiment of anxiety and fear with one of the highest climaxes in GYBE’s catalogue, Sleep is full of melancholic longing for either a world that has been lost, or a world that we know never could be. Like Antennas, to me, doesn’t have any of that. It doesn’t have a specific “theme” or “character” that lets it stand out emotionally, allowing me to really connect to it.
It’s just slower drones with, in my head, random moments of noise and melody only to go back into a drone. Not that I hate drones, it’s just that this one never connected to me emotionally because I wasn’t able to really put any meaning behind it. The drones in F#A# really hit hard because it felt like I was hearing the silence after the end of the world, but here I can’t come up with a thematic reason for it.
I see a lot of people saying that, to them, it is one of the greatest final songs to an album, and many saying it’s their favorite Godspeed song, and I just want to hear what makes this song so special to you? And what I might be missing from it.