Post-Rock

Applerill · 2011-08-23T09:10:39-04:00

Sucks. Really, it might now be my least favorite respectable genre. To giive you an idea of how much I hate it, let me tell you about my favorite post-rock band, Sigur Ros. Don't get me wrong; Agaetis Bonbon is a pretty good album with some amazing moments, but more than half of it is filler. And their other albums seem to be exponentially worse (at least accprding to Pitchfork). Moreover, their arrogance and pretension is like Kanye, but without the talent and taste to back it up. "We're gonna change the world, whether you like it or not", really? Maybe you did change it a little, but only in the same way that T-Pain did with autotune. Okay, that's my favorite post-rock band. What do I think of the others? Slint: Great musicianship, but horrible, horrible songwriting. Kid A-Era Radiohead: A joke. For a long time, this was in my top 50 most-played albums on iTunes, amd not because it was good. Because people told me it was a "grower", I listened to it over. And over. And over. And to this day, I still think it sucks. As the BBC stated, "Give Johnny his bloomy guitar back!" Goodspeed: Seth Rogen summed them up best when talking to his girlfriend during the Pineapple Express: "You're gonna get into Godspeed You Black Emperor... And then you'll become a lesbian" Don Callabero: MATH ROCK?!?!!? ...No. Just no. Talk Talk: ........(Crickets)......Yawn.... Battles: Okay, these guys aren't too bad. Despite their obscene amount of pretension, they have more taste than most other post-rock bands. And I respect that. Now, I'd like to end this with some reasons why post-rock sucks. 1. It's prog without the Hammonds: Hammonds sound sexy. Cheesy synth? Not so much. 2. It's too bright; There's simply not enough distortion. This is a huge issue they share with cheesy prog-metal bands like Symphony X. 3. The songwriting is ATROCIOUS: Pardon my rarely-used obscene language, but in the metal community, we're always accusing bands like Dream Theater and Yngwie Malmsteen of what we call "instrumental masturbation", where they don'tknow how to "keep it simple, silly". But wjen you think about it, many of these post-rock bands aren't much better. Seriously, they need consulting from Page and Iomi Services to come up with better riffs. -------- Okay, guys, I think I got my point across. I'm sorry if my writing is a bit sloppy; I typed this all up on my iPad, so typing was a bit difficult. But does anyone agree with me on this?

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Hayden wrote:

Ironic Karma wrote:

My friends and I all adore post-rock, it's such an exhausting genre of music to listen to. GY!BE, Sigur Ros, Slint, Tortoise, and Mogwai are my favorites.

I can see why so many people hate it, and honestly I just think it's their lose frankly

I've never heard an album by Tortoise 🤔 Might do that tomorrow. Any recommendations?

I've heard their first 3 and they're all more than worth listening to. Possibly my favourite post-rock group.

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One of my favourite genres, although really underrated in my chart and on this site.

Haven't seen mentions of
- The Album Leaf
- Caspian
- Crippled Black Phoenix
- Mono
- Red Sparowes
- Tides From Nebula

All superb bands.

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