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I could'nt help but notice a big buzz concerning something called Post Rock, yet I have close to no idea what it's about.  Anoyone care to fill me in ?  What's the sound, who are the major bands, what albums should I try, etc...

 

Thanks for your valuable insights !

 

Melo

The Flaming Lips aren't even prog, much less post-rock.

 

The four pillars of post-rock, that define which direction a post-rock band will go, although many of these are actually second generation post-rock bands are probably Mogwai (more guitar dominant without using e-bow, in their early years heavier than most post-rock), Sigur Ros (ethereal e-bow music with lots of keyboards and whatnot; they never get too heavy), GYBE (more orchestral and melancholic, although from Lift... on the guitars become more dominant), and Tortiose (as far as I know, they do not have the soft-loud formula that other post-rock bands use; they create soundscapes). At least that is how I see it, but I don't have a huge amount of experience so I may be wrong.

 

Moya--GYBE, The Only Moment We Were Alone (this is kind of what early Mogwai sounds like)--EITS, Staralfur or Untitled 08--Sigur Ros, and Ratts of the Capitol (for later Mogwai) are probably pretty good ideas of what you might get from post-rock. And of course, you should check out 65daysofstatic simply because they sound like nothing else.

 

The Flaming Lips post rock???

 

 

I would personally start off with some Godspeed, Sigur Ros, EITS, Red Sparowes, or Mogwai.

 

Exactly what I plan on doing.  As a musician I need fresh ideas and input, and post rock is really intriguing.

 

Judging by what I have read so far, I'll start my explorations with GYBE, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros and Mogwaï.

 

Keep the comments coming and thanks for those already posted.  I'll keep you all posted when I get albums by these bands.

 

Thanks, already listened to Explosions in the Sky (that sample from Earth is not a Cold Dead Place) and I liked it.  Need to hear more from them. 

 

Someone told me that GYBE is mainly responsible for the soundtrack to 28 Days Later, soundtrack which I really liked while watching the film.  Were the songs written for the film or can they be found on one of their albums ?

 

Pandora.com and free napster.com usually have many of these bands because most of them are actually very famous. Napster in particular is good becuause you can often listen to full albums multiple times for free. For Pandora, put in a band, and then once the song finishes delete the station and start another one on the same group. Soon enough you will run into repeats, but in the meantime you get to hear lots of free music that usually is fairly representative of their sound. You do have to be careful, however. For example, Pandora will often play a song from How Strange, Innocence, for EITS, when in fact that album is their debut EP and so is not quite like The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place. Or they will do something from Yangui UXO, when the other godspeed albums (particularly f#a#(infinity)) are not as guitar-dominated. But on the flip side, I once got Providence, which is not a half hour of free music. BTW, if you do listen to it in some form, there's four minutes of silence near the end; your internet/CD player hasn't crapped out. :)

 

And the more obscure groups usually have sample songs on their website or MySpace. One thing I most regret is that I didn't actually hear enough before I made some of my purchases. It's all well and good to read about how much other people like it, but they can be coming from completely different musical perspectives, as I found out.

Not a chance in hell did The Flaming Lips invent post-rock. You clearly should learn more about post-rock. You may think that they are post-rock, but they are not under any commonly accepted definition of the term.

 

I second A Silver Mt. Zion and Do Make Say Think as must-listen. The rest listed are all excellent as well. Once you listen to this genre, it's hard to stop. It just provides a sound that nothing else can deliver.

 

Indeed, I see no connection between The Flaming Lips and post-rock whatsoever... even in their early and more commonly ignored material.

I don't know everything, I just know the bare minimum about post-rock. No need to be a sarcastic ass. The roots of post-rock are Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, Bark Psychosis, and to a lesser extent, Tortoise. But I'm not going to give you a history of post-rock: look it up on Wikipedia or Google. While you're at it, how about you find one website that calls them post-rock? A real website, too, not just some guy on a forum.

The Flaming Lips are adventerous alt-rock. That doens't make them bad, but they're not post-rock, and even calling them prog would be a large stretch.

I also heard this band called Boxes of Squares, I'm not sure if they are post-rock or not but they kind of sound like it if I remember correctly.

Yes, everyone's stupid but you. You still haven't given me a single source that says The Flaming Lips are Post-Rock. You can't just define genres how you wish, even with a genre as nebulous as post-rock: it has to be corroroborated by other people, or we would have musical chaos.

 

Also, I have to warn you: that track by EITS is the heaviest on The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place, and most of the other songs don't come close to rocking that hard. I'm warning you because when I first listened to it that is what I was expecting. Which is much what Mogwai sounds like, who seem to me to be unfairly ignored on this site in favor of GYBE or Sigur Ros.

it would seem that this is the conservative view on music....when i do present a "source" on this trivial topic must it be recognized by a notary as well???

o rly? I think that groups like GYBE or Mogwai do present a "challenge" (even if it's not as much as Ruins or whatever), but even so, I don't necessarily always want to be challenged whenever I listen to music.

as opposed to a fake website??

 

 

thats what ive been saying this whole time

 

the profoundness of this is confusing....what?

I don't even go to The Silent Ballet; it was just the first site I thought of.

 

Oh what glory I have now. And what glory you will have when you change Wikipedia.

 

No, sorry, wrong number.

 

 

EDIT: by the way, not that anybody cares, but F#A# was good! My second post-album that I enjoy! (curiously, by the same band as the first one <LYSFLATH>)....

 

That doesn't mean I regret what i said about CODY and ()... they still suck for me.

 

But GYBE! is a very good group. I can't argue with that.