Post Rock

chamberry wrote: soundspectrum wrote: I hope your basking in all your glory. But things can change, after all your beloved wikipedia can be edited by anybody but not without signing up for FREE. I just may be able to rewrite history after all. I believe there is a winter load waiting for you at the silent ballet, open up. Things may change at wikipedia, but it still wont change the fact that The Flaming Lips are post-rock.

I simply can't understand why everybody claims Explosion In The Sky to be a great band .
I mean, I saw them on tv long time ago, I think the song was called Greet Death and I thought: "This has to be the most boring band ever. Music can't get any more boring than this". If I can remember well, I almost slept while hearing and seeing these guys, really .

Totally directionless noise, sorry guys. Is just my opinion.

Fede wrote: I simply can't understand why everybody claims Explosion In The Sky to be a great band . I mean, I saw them on tv long time ago, I think the song was called Greet Death and I thought: "This has to be the most boring band ever. Music can't get any more boring than this". If I can remember well, I almost slept while hearing and seeing these guys, really . Totally directionless noise, sorry guys. Is just my opinion.

Well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it of course.

However, EitS, (and a lot of this genre for that matter) is all about subtlety.  They aren't going to throw anything in your face.  They have incredible sense of melody and harmony, but they don't blast it out.  Instead they develop it.  It's just a different style of composing. 

Now, if you'd like me to recommend some REAL directionless noise, I can do that as well...

Yes, sometimes they take a while to get to the point, but I think it's worthwhile everytime.


Edited by GoldenSpiral - February 09 2007 at 19:17

micky wrote: stonebeard wrote: Dream Theater are now Canterbury guys. Just thought you'd like to know. .... walking away from that one... again.. I'd still love to know just what the hell Post Rock is, the definition didn't do much for me...  I'd love to have a Post Rock specialist liason with the Art Rock team as we get every Tom, Dick and Harry thrown at us for inclusion.

Post-rock is a bit too nebulous to define in a few sentences.  Best bet is to listen to a few tracks from the bands suggested toward the beginning of this thread, and you'll get the idea.

My best bet for a general definition would be music that aims to create a certain mood or tell a story through instrumental modulation, rather than a show of technical skill, but that still probably doesn't help much

Originally posted by chamberry

Originally posted by soundspectrum I hope your basking in all your glory. But things can change, after all your beloved wikipedia can be edited by anybody but not without signing up for FREE. I just may be able to rewrite history after all. I believe there is a winter load waiting for you at the silent ballet, open up.

Things may change at wikipedia, but it still wont change the fact that The Flaming Lips are post-rock.

thats what ive been saying this whole time


defining something is not just insisting what it sounds like to you but balancing it with respect and awareness of music history and criticism.  Its amazing how pple who apparently listen to so much music can in reality be listening to so very little.

^Could you please explain how The Flaming Lips are a Post-Rock band? I don't hear it in their music, neither does anyone else on this site.

Edited by Philéas - February 10 2007 at 05:51

soundspectrum wrote: I hope your basking in all your glory. But things can change, after all your beloved wikipedia can be edited by anybody but not without signing up for FREE. I just may be able to rewrite history after all. I believe there is a winter load waiting for you at the silent ballet, open up.

^^^ I do care.  Good to know.  Starting with ( ) and Come on Die Young was a bad move and it's good to know that you recovered.

And frankly T, if you like complex heavy instrumental, you'd better get the F***ing Champs 'Champs III', and soon ...pleeeeez