AD Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 (edited) Just wanted to quote what Djed said earlier in the thread, it's been guiding the discussion a little bit.The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and power chords."There have been plenty of discussions about labels blah blah blah... Are here's a definition that I'd think is acceptable for this 'genre' even if it only serves the purpose of framing the discussion.AD Edited November 8, 2005 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dJEd Posted November 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 i should have started this thread weeks ago, i have like 4 albums on the download right now. anyone heard Labradford? i'm checking them out too.whats wrong with the term "fusion?" apart from the standard issues with genre labels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranger Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 actually, I confess I personally have nothing wrong with the label fusion. I was quoting Pat Metheny when refering to Jaco Pastorius, saying "..and how odd it is to see this era of historical revisionism in jazz how this accomplishment is often relegated by people who should know better as being "not jazz" or as "fusion" (possibly the single most ignorant and damaging term ever invented to describe (discount) an important and vital branch of the jazz music tree). jaco at his best, as on this record, defines what the word jazz really means."so anyway, I have no quams with fusion. Just thought I'd throw that out there and see who I pissed off. just kidding...hehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 maybe rather than post-rock it should be called "music that doesn't really sound like rock music, but if you see the band they kinda look like they're a rock band"?Nothing wrong with "post" IMO. Time passes, genres evolve, Westerners have an inherent need to categorize and rationalize, so we label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairySari Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palms Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 what would "post-metal" sound like? hmmmm maybe I could corner the market on that one....Usually refers to more avantgarde metal acts such as Ulver and In The Woods... but also is used to describe more esoteric stuff from the 90s like disEMBOWELMENT, who has a new 2 CD reissue on Relapse that came out this summer that is quite amazing and very ahead of its time. SUNN(0))) is also known as post-metal, as is Isis and some (later) Neurosis.I don't figure too many people on here have any idea about the modern metal scene though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dJEd Posted November 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 i like some Isis, i used to have Panopticon on our PC but we scrubbed it and i'm yet to redownload it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 FYI, if you wnat to check out some "post-rock" that I mentioned, I just posted a link in the BT forum. Nice recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Not Bob Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 How does Slint fit into all of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 yeah good question. i was gonna include them in my original post but really had no idea if they would fit. i think they just re-released spiderland or something in the past couple months.not sure where they fit in though. great band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 [color:purple]Let's just call all music 'organized sound waves' as to not limit a band's path of creativity. only if you agree to leave out the word organized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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