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Points: 2818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2007 at 17:51
Depending on your musical preferences, I would say:

Accessible & melodic:

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun

Hard & Heavy:

Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

Jazzy & Loose:

Do Make Say Think (any of their albums)
Tortoise - TNT

Slightly avant-garde (chamber rock)

A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
Bell Orchestre - Recording A Tape The Colour of the Light

I think these are all good places to start. Smile Mogwai and GY!BE are obvious choices as well, if you do not know them yet.
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Staralfur has captured me...  looks like post rock is about to enter my preferred genres list...
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Originally posted by inpraiseoffolly inpraiseoffolly wrote:

Staralfur has captured me...  looks like post rock is about to enter my preferred genres list...

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Originally posted by soundspectrum soundspectrum wrote:

post rock has absolutly nothing to do with progressive rock. the flaming lips may very well have invented the genre, and a lot these bands that are being mentioned are more so ambient then post rock. i suppose since they arent show offs that writes them off as some non-elitist band eh???
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.
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Post rock is really great stuff! You can't go wrong with Sigur Ros (except maybe Von). It's without question the most beautiful modern music.
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Once you guys start to get more acclimated with the genre, check out the Post-Rock/Experimental Appreciation Thread! Plenty of updates and discussions abound - and there's talk of some deeper bands.
 
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.
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ghandi, i have a feeling that not only do you not know jack about the flaming lips, you have a problem with admitting that you are wrong. could you again remind me where the roots of post rock are??? since you seem to know all about the genre, and about life. dil
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Originally posted by chamberry chamberry wrote:

Originally posted by progismylife progismylife wrote:

I really enjoyed the GYBE I have. But I don't know where to go from there. Except maybe getting more GYBE albums.

You can also check out A Silver Mt. Zion, one of the many GYBE related bands. I think is better to have a bit more variety so check out Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn. It's a very powerful and emotional album. Or you can also check out the "usual suspects" like Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky and Do make Say Think.





I almost picked up some Mogwai but I didn't know where I had heard that name so I didn't buy any. Guess I will have to go back and buy some sometime in the future.
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dunno if they are post rock but definately get some don caballero  , american don or world class listening problem to start with.

tortoise - tnt
godspeed you black emperor is brilliant to.
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Great recommendations! The Dons are amazing, anything you can find is worth it, 'Don Cab II', 'Singles Breaking Up', all great math rock. If you like them, another good band is Oxes. Rachel's is wonderful too, for softer chamber rock.
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Originally posted by soundspectrum soundspectrum wrote:

ghandi, i have a feeling that not only do you not know jack about the flaming lips, you have a problem with admitting that you are wrong. could you again remind me where the roots of post rock are??? since you seem to know all about the genre, and about life. dil


Talk Talk was in the process of releasing their groundbreaking Spirit of Eden while The Flaming Lips were still releasing mediocre '80s pop albums.

I'd have to agree with the others on this one. I'm not exactly understanding where you're hearing post-rock in The Flaming Lips' early work especially.
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if Flaming Lips are postrock then Mercury Rev are prog.......hmmm.......
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Originally posted by CaptainWafflos CaptainWafflos wrote:

Originally posted by soundspectrum soundspectrum wrote:

ghandi, i have a feeling that not only do you not know jack about the flaming lips, you have a problem with admitting that you are wrong. could you again remind me where the roots of post rock are??? since you seem to know all about the genre, and about life. dil


Talk Talk was in the process of releasing their groundbreaking Spirit of Eden while The Flaming Lips were still releasing mediocre '80s pop albums.

I'd have to agree with the others on this one. I'm not exactly understanding where you're hearing post-rock in The Flaming Lips' early work especially.
 
Indeed, I see no connection between The Flaming Lips and post-rock whatsoever... even in their early and more commonly ignored material.
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Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

Post rock is really great stuff! You can't go wrong with Sigur Ros (except maybe Von). It's without question the most beautiful modern music.



Weird picture of a 'spotless and heroic' looking guy you got there! He reminds me a bit of a guy I sometimes bump into on the street, here in Oxford (U.K.). But the guy I bump into has spots and doesn't look a bit heroic. He always eyes me with suspicion. Seems to be thinking that I KNOW him! Anyway, he squints a little, but he looks all the better for that!

P.S. They say he's a singer in a rock group. Surely not one of those fashionable new 'post rock' bands?

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Originally posted by soundspectrum soundspectrum wrote:

ghandi, i have a feeling that not only do you not know jack about the flaming lips, you have a problem with admitting that you are wrong. could you again remind me where the roots of post rock are??? since you seem to know all about the genre, and about life. dil
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.
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I'm reinforcing those who say the Flaming Lips aren't post rock.

I really can't think of any album by the Lips that could be even considered post rock. Confused

Where's the resemblance to Mogwai, GY!BE, Sigur Ros (well, I can kind of see a SMALL resemblance AT TIMES there), Red Sparowes, or similar post rock bands I'm familiar with?
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the Lips, like Mercury Rev, belong to the more far-out end of alt rock.  Like the Rev they've also dabbled in avant-garde and psychedelic stuff but if u ask me they're both about creating the perfect pop song-cycle masterpiece in the vein of Pet Sounds/Smile/Sgt Pepper/Scott 3 rather than going for a Dark Side of The Moon or OK Computer, much less a Millions Now Living Will Never Die or Lift Yr Skinny Fists.........
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im glad to see wikipedias definitions can be regurgatated throughout the world. close your eyes and open your ears.
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I've just recently, in the last 6 months, gotten my hands on some fine post rock. My favorites so far:

GYBE
MONO: Check out "Under the Pipal Tree"
God Is An Astronaut (highly recommend)

Still looking and learning...
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Try Isis's Panopticon maybe. It's kind of post-metal, quite interesting.
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.
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