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I wish post-rock was split in two
Splunkle:
I am in agreeance with Mr. Carter. I find the entire concept of Post-blah confusing. But I suppose its one of those word that people overuse - just like "blah-core" and "blah-wave". At least this time it is in front. =/
Radiowar:
The whole thing about post-rock is that it's basically music that uses rock instrumentation for non-rock music. That's why so many different sounds technically fall under post-rock.
dancarter:
If that's the case, anything outside of what can be considered 'normal' rock music could be post rock. Industrial with guitars, pop-rock, college rock..anything. Oi. This was all much simpler when there was just a sound and a signifier, like 'pop-punk' or 'folkmetal'. Abstract terms just monkey up the works.
nuisance:
Yeah, of course it's an awful sounding term, but it did have its uses and I think those artists I mentioned do make music that suggests something beyond rock stylings that could not have been made before.
I guess my beef is simply that I was getting into this music when the genre meant one thing, and at that time it was a useful enough term for music I really liked. Now most people relate it to a whole lot of other shit that I don't like in the slightest.
I also find it confusing that a lot of music that I consider rock (eg. Mogwai, most definitely Sigur Ros) is suddenly post-itself. Bands I grew up on like Loop, Ride, Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine were all just as textural and whatever else, but they were considered rock and, IMO, rightly so.
Radiowar:
I don't see what's so confusing about it. To me post-rock is just a logical extension of modern rock...I think the same for any genre still applies to post-rock though, in that if you listen to enough of it you'll be able to tell what's post-rock simply by listening to it and not really having to use some kind of guidelines or definition.
Read the wiki for a better definition than mine. If you read it it explains why Mogwai is post-rock but My Bloody Valentine or other shoegazer bands aren't.
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