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Question for post-rockers
Nodaisho:
Two-Lane Blacktop isn't bad, though I associate that with NFS:U, so that could be bias on my part.
Albatron:
--- Quote from: imapiratearg on 28 Aug 2008, 06:35 ---Rob Zombie is god-awful.
Agreed, though, labels are silly.
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Sure labels are silly, but I also think they're necessary. If we didn't have labels, non musicians would only be able to talk about music by comparing it to other music. Instead of silly genre labels, we'd only have silly comparisons, and everytime you describe the awesome new band youve heard, you'd say "have you heard of artist a? They're like artist b but with a good helping of artist c and d, and maybe some e, etc." Labels are just easier.
gardenhead_:
it looks like this thread is going to turn into a "labels are bad/good" debate.
I think they're pretty useless. There is already an example of why in this thread. Bands like Disco Inferno that were originally called post rock sound pretty disimilar to any of the commonly known bands such as GY!BE, Mogwai, Mono et al. I think Ludwig Wittgenstein's idea of language can be applied to music - we can try to categorise it down as much as we want, but we'll either end up with an exeption or genre for each band, or huge collections that are obvious and simple truths ie. Nas makes hip-hop, whilst Explosions in the Sky do not.
Why do you need to convert music into words? Why not just give the person the record/upload The Awesome New Band so they can decide for themself?
bbqrocks:
Decide what for themselves?
Harun:
now if you would turn to page# mediaf!re of the of The Daily Quibble, I have uploaded some excellent albums that 'sound all spacey and shit' (if you want to label them)
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