it's like minnie ripperton without minnie ripperton and re-named after some norwegian local taxidermist who's biological dad was a travelling krautrock performer in the 70's.
I think it's safe to say you like everything since the 1977-78 world tour of Emerson Lake and Palmer, which, scholars agree, signaled the death of rock and roll.
I've had tremendous luck on the emu post-login "home page", y'know, with all those thumbnail pics and samples. A lot of great ambient and electronica (which is what I tried to fine tune it to give me; I don't need emu's help to find jazz, y'know?). I would skip over anything that said rock or alternative when my mouse arrow hovered over it. Last night, however, I figured, what the hell, let's listen to some of the samples from these bands that have rock/alternative/punk labels, because emu doesn't always do such a great job of categorizing stuff. I liked a lot of what I heard. The reviews/details of these bands almost unanimously refer to them as post-rock.
Mostly instrumental, more noodling than jamming, music made by kids who grew up listening to only the instrumental parts of Velvet Underground songs and think Galaxie 500 was a seminal moment in rock history, some may be into odder shades of jazz. The music, definitely, does not rock. They're kind of like a thinking man's jam band.
I think a band like Do Make Say Think, whom I've dl'd previously, would fit the post-rock category. There's a handful of similar sounding bands in my sfl bucket that I've been on the verge of buying but just can't summon up the interest to hit the dl button.
BTW, brittleblood, I would appreciate a little more effort than simply copy-pasting the wikipedia definition into a post, okay?
I think a band like Do Make Say Think, whom I've dl'd previously, would fit the post-rock category. There's a handful of similar sounding bands in my sfl bucket that I've been on the verge of buying but just can't summon up the interest to hit the dl button.
There's some great, free post-rock on the 12rec netlabel, particularly Milhaven.
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwich. does that mean i spelled krautrock correctly???
by the way, i figger some post-rock hevvy is gonna appear and have a bit of exposure to the lucky dragons. i dig the samples but 25 np's is a steep toll for a bunch of 2 minute trax. thawts?
and whoever rec'd wildbirds + peacedrums gets an extra sunny day this month.
Post-rock is as useful a term as post-punk. Post-punk was heavily used in the late 80's and 90's. As the music have shifted a bit since then, post-rock has taken over as the new generalized music style. Next decade it will be post-pop, post-indie, ???
Theorizers, speculators, conjecturers, conjurers, dismissed jurors, hypothesizers and randomly selected members of the anesthetized public agree, all the original melodic ideas in pop/rock music had been used up by 1966; this, along with the dizzying altitudes of high being reached while playing or listening, prompted many to incorporate the non-rock and often, the non-musical in their quest for the innovative. The result did produce some genuinely interesting hybrids and some thoroughly enjoyable moments when limited to small doses; unfortunately, it also opened the door for those with several species of insect wedged in their hindquarters, to produce some the most non-rocking beeps, squirts, twiddles, farts, burps, side-long bloats and ornamental pomp ever committed to recordable media. The evolution of this genre continues, to this day, to produce artists firmly tented in both camps and to most assuredly not rock.
It does serve well those times you want nothing more than to sit back and scratch your ponderin patch or simply need something a little more spicy to mustard your buns.
well - explosions in the sky - arguably a core post-rock band - has done some brilliant work. try "first breathe after coma" if you've never had exposure to them.
I really really like Lift Your Skinny Fists to Heaven by godspeed you! black emperor, which is almost universally considered post-rock but which is also kind of now a punchline of the genre to the point where I wonder whether I can admit to liking it without a red face, but check it out; it's only 6 credits for a double album.
Also Machinefabriek, which I would not consider post rock, but has some of I think that electronicish sound you like; also a free album of that is here.
@ 68 - I got Lucky Dragons Dream Island Laughing Language back in the cheaper days - and I like it, but don't necessarily think it's worth all those nps - it's one of those things that sounds good and I enjoy it, but somehow get very bored with it at the same time - if that makes any sense. Maybe I post like it?
I can't figger out how to do a block quote here, so here's a block of quote:
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The term "post-rock" is believed to have been coined by critic Simon Reynolds in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex, published in the March 1994 issue of Mojo magazine...He used the term to describe music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes..."
Reynolds, in a July 2005 entry in his blog, claimed he had used the term "post-rock" before using it in Mojo, previously using it in music newspaper Melody Maker. He also said he later found the term to not be of his own creation, saying in his blog, "although I genuinely believed I was coining the term, I discovered many years later it had been floating around for over a decade."
So, even if Reynolds wasn't the first to use the term, his was the first use to MATTER, and he used it for Bark Psychosis. Kinda by definition, then, that's where your exploration of post-rock music should start.
Emu has only one album of theirs, and it's one of my all-time fave emu discoveries...maybe even my VERY favorite, and I say that as one of the geezers dating back to the unlimited download days. It's called Codename Dustsucker, and it (post-)RAWKS. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
Hey, and it'll cost you $150 (or 90 quid) to read Simon's whole Bark Psychosis review online - no kidding - but I love the first sentence: "THESE DAYS, ALTERNATIVE = ANTIQUATED." (His caps.)
Yes friends, alternative = antiquated...in 1994. Don't you feel old? Indeed, antiquated?
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Mostly instrumental, more noodling than jamming, music made by kids who grew up listening to only the instrumental parts of Velvet Underground songs and think Galaxie 500 was a seminal moment in rock history, some may be into odder shades of jazz. The music, definitely, does not rock. They're kind of like a thinking man's jam band.
I think a band like Do Make Say Think, whom I've dl'd previously, would fit the post-rock category. There's a handful of similar sounding bands in my sfl bucket that I've been on the verge of buying but just can't summon up the interest to hit the dl button.
BTW, brittleblood, I would appreciate a little more effort than simply copy-pasting the wikipedia definition into a post, okay?
by the way, i figger some post-rock hevvy is gonna appear and have a bit of exposure to the lucky dragons. i dig the samples but 25 np's is a steep toll for a bunch of 2 minute trax. thawts?
and whoever rec'd wildbirds + peacedrums gets an extra sunny day this month.
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It does serve well those times you want nothing more than to sit back and scratch your ponderin patch or simply need something a little more spicy to mustard your buns.
Also Machinefabriek, which I would not consider post rock, but has some of I think that electronicish sound you like; also a free album of that is here.
And check out this too - Cloudkicker - sort of I guess post metal.
@ 68 - I got Lucky Dragons Dream Island Laughing Language back in the cheaper days - and I like it, but don't necessarily think it's worth all those nps - it's one of those things that sounds good and I enjoy it, but somehow get very bored with it at the same time - if that makes any sense. Maybe I post like it?
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The term "post-rock" is believed to have been coined by critic Simon Reynolds in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex, published in the March 1994 issue of Mojo magazine...He used the term to describe music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes..."
Reynolds, in a July 2005 entry in his blog, claimed he had used the term "post-rock" before using it in Mojo, previously using it in music newspaper Melody Maker. He also said he later found the term to not be of his own creation, saying in his blog, "although I genuinely believed I was coining the term, I discovered many years later it had been floating around for over a decade."
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full article here.
So, even if Reynolds wasn't the first to use the term, his was the first use to MATTER, and he used it for Bark Psychosis. Kinda by definition, then, that's where your exploration of post-rock music should start.
Emu has only one album of theirs, and it's one of my all-time fave emu discoveries...maybe even my VERY favorite, and I say that as one of the geezers dating back to the unlimited download days. It's called Codename Dustsucker, and it (post-)RAWKS. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
Hey, and it'll cost you $150 (or 90 quid) to read Simon's whole Bark Psychosis review online - no kidding - but I love the first sentence: "THESE DAYS, ALTERNATIVE = ANTIQUATED." (His caps.)
Yes friends, alternative = antiquated...in 1994. Don't you feel old? Indeed, antiquated?