post rock

Really like Explosions in the Sky.  Haven't heard the other 2.  I agree though, if bands like Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor! are included, Explosions in the Sky are quite similar and at least as good.

Post rock is the modern name for prog rock. If you
call yourself a prog rock band, no one will take you
seriously, except for aficionados, of course.

Call yourself post rock, and all of a sudden you're
cool and people play your CD at hipster parties.

Sad, really.

What's my point here? Dunno. I'll have to check out
those three bands at the start of this thread.

65 Days of Static are british i think, they played at a pub in bristol just down the road from my mums work. I think Useful Idiot knows this band, their debut album "Fall of Math" is ok. Not the best in the genre.

Heptade wrote: Post rock is the modern name for prog rock. If you call yourself a prog rock band, no one will take you seriously, except for aficionados, of course. Call yourself post rock, and all of a sudden you're cool and people play your CD at hipster parties. Sad, really. What's my point here? Dunno. I'll have to check out those three bands at the start of this thread.

Uh no that's wrong. Have you ever heard post rock?  

I didn't know that Heptade. Modern Prog is known as Post Rock.

Oh dear, opened myself up there, didn't I?

I meant if you consider prog rock as the very vague umbrella term under
which all the sub genres new and old, ie post rock, symphonic, RIO, neo
prog, etc, exist, a young band has been much better off not mentioning
that they may consider themselves prog in any way, if they want to get to
MTV...post rock is much more cool.

However, the success of Mars Volta etc, in being proudly progressive may
be changing that, and I couldn't be more happy.

And yes, I've heard plenty of everything. Many of the "post rock" bands, ie
Godspeed, Mogwai, are among my favourites.

I almost want to agree with those who say that post rock is prog. They have some big differences, but the approach to the music is practically the same. If i'm not mistaken, Mogwai once declared itself "prog without capes". In some way, I admire that serious yet adventurous approach to the music without the trolls and fairies and such.

Tortoise is another big post rock name.

frenchie wrote: maybe there are some post rock bands missing from prog archives. QUOTE] Are you kidding? The post rock bands listed here probably makes for about 3% of the genre,quite possibly less. You should definitely add these: Trans Am Slint Labradford Tortoise Add N to (x) Bark Psychosis Gastr Del Sol [QUOTE=Andhi] I disagree. These bands aren't like traditional (symphonic?) prog rock. They're much more ambient. Most don't even have lyrics, or if they do - like Godspeed You! Black Emperor - they're in the form of samples rather than singing.

It doesn't matter if it's not exactly like classic prog. It's still prog. Most don't have lyrics? There is alot of singing in post-rock. Check out Slint for example, most of their songs have lyrics, but not so much that it ruins the track(unlike Genesis for example).

Yeah, I don't get classifying Radiohead and TMV as post-rock either.  In my opinion they'd fit under art-rock and space rock respectively.

Borealis wrote: If Mars Volta is accepted as a post-rock band, then a lot of bands would also get in I guess, like Arcade Fire.

Definitely not. The Arcade Fire arent even close to TMV Good band, but not prog.

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