The Post-Rock Showdown - Who's The Best?
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tangerinedream
Density of Sound
The following bands could be described as 'post rock'
The Envelopes
The Stamps
The Letters
The Postal Service
as far as i know only one of them actually exists, but hey - if your looking to start a watery sounding indie band, probably with quite a weak singer and songs about sitting on one side of the room too frightened to talk to girls take one of the other three names by any means.
*generosity is knowing no bounds*
and the postal service are ok actually imo.
I suppose
The Bollards
The bits that hold fence panels together
could be names, but I think they don't quite have that same ring, that connection with the process of communication across distances that music is about.
wtf am i on about?
*hangs head*
The Envelopes
The Stamps
The Letters
The Postal Service
as far as i know only one of them actually exists, but hey - if your looking to start a watery sounding indie band, probably with quite a weak singer and songs about sitting on one side of the room too frightened to talk to girls take one of the other three names by any means.
*generosity is knowing no bounds*
and the postal service are ok actually imo.
I suppose
The Bollards
The bits that hold fence panels together
could be names, but I think they don't quite have that same ring, that connection with the process of communication across distances that music is about.
wtf am i on about?
*hangs head*
clandestino
no llevar papel
tangerinedream said:
actually there is a band called Envelopes - they're playing the Montague Arms in New Cross tomorrow - ie Thursday - they're meant to be pretty good, in an indie pop fashion.
you also missed out The Postcards, from Brockley.
Sigur Ros are my favourite band full stop, so not much choice for me. I love the new album and think it's the best thing they've done. I don't really count Von as a proper Sigur Ros record - it's mostly aimless drifting noise, and was recorded before Kjartan had joined the band. 'Takk' is wonderful. The bit with the brass band is just glorious.
But I don't really think they're post rock particularly.
Surely Slint are the best post rock band?
clandestino
no llevar papel
Jibby! said:
i don't get them either. i just thought they were a total slint/labradford rip off when i first heard them - all of the post rock cliches ponderously recycled. i saw them live and thought they were a joke. the oasis of post rock.
kained&able
Here for the football.
silly name for a genre. in fact anything with the word post in its title is just silly.
out of the bands listed mogwai obviously.
and godspeed are a big pile of decaying donkey shite.
dave
out of the bands listed mogwai obviously.
and godspeed are a big pile of decaying donkey shite.
dave
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Do you feel anger or simply pity for such a person? It's a tough one. Certainly you know never to trust them ever againkained&unable said:
clandestino
no llevar papel
akirajoel said:
what the fuck?!?
Godspeed are the fucking bollocks!!! FACT.
i just didn't think they brought anything new to the genre - they're competent enough, but pretty much everything they did i'd heard previously from slint and labradford. whereas mogwai really did add something - even if it was, essentially, just ditching the mumbling and whacking up the volume.
ianw said:
Erm... seriously... are we talking about the same band here?
Godspeed You Black Emperor.
www.brainwashed.com/godspeed
Say what you want about them - but they sound a hell of alot different than Slint and Labradford.....
clandestino
no llevar papel
ok, i'm happy to have my mind changed on this. god knows most of my friends seem to like them too. i heard one record which i thought was boring and derivative, and i saw them at the first atp and thought the same. since then i haven't bothered to keep up. maybe they've improved.
please recommend a couple of their best songs and i'll go back and listen to them.
please recommend a couple of their best songs and i'll go back and listen to them.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
my personal favourite godspeed album is f#a#infinity. doesn't really make sense to listen to them track by track so you should get the whole album.
clandestino
no llevar papel
as i say i've sat through an album and a show and didn't like either so i'm not going to buy another record. but recommend a song or two for me to download and i'll give 'em a whirl.
Here we go
how'd we get here so fast
If you're ever going to be won over by them, I'd recommend the tracks 'lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven' and 'moya'(which i was turned onto by tangerinedream the other week') I find some of it dirge too but these two definitely get my stamp of approval
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
out oif those listed my vote is for GYBE!
not a very good poll though - where's rachels for starters?
not a very good poll though - where's rachels for starters?
kained&able
Here for the football.
it like a cross between grunge(the quieter bits) and emo(rhe louder bits).
Its a made up name from nme.
dave
Its a made up name from nme.
dave
*Miss*Sparkle*
please, call me Sparkle
akirajoel said:
That's a great album. Was it that one that came with squashed cents in the sleeve?
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
*Miss*Sparkle* said:
No, that f/a/infinity symbol! (can't find the right characters on the keyboard) - Which is in my opinion, slightly better than Akira's favourite, but it depends on my mood.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
Here we go said:If you're ever going to be won over by them, I'd recommend the tracks 'lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven' and 'moya'(which i was turned onto by tangerinedream the other week') I find some of it dirge too but these two definitely get my stamp of approval
Moya can fix my head, pretty much no matter how in pieces it is. It's just a distilation of how it feels to be sad and frustrated and angry and lost and confused and wrong, but why that shouldn't make you give up and turn in on yourself. I love it deeply. It sounds even more incredible on vinyl as well.
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