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post #46 of 484
5/29/10 at 10:33am

Slint is awesome. I'd say Spiderland is where post-rock as we know it today all started.

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post #47 of 484
5/29/10 at 11:49am
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Slint is awesome. I'd say Spiderland is where post-rock as we know it today all started.


Thats a challenge, find a post rock album that was released earlier than 1991.

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post #48 of 484
5/29/10 at 12:09pm
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Thats a challenge, find a post rock album that was released earlier than 1991.


Well, Bark Psychosis' debut EP All Different Things was released in 1989 and already had post-rock stylings. Also, Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden from 1988.

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post #49 of 484
5/29/10 at 12:32pm
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Presently enjoying the German band Long Distance Calling and their heavy guitar driven experimental, largely instrumental rock

 

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post #50 of 484
5/30/10 at 1:32am
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Well, Bark Psychosis' debut EP All Different Things was released in 1989 and already had post-rock stylings. Also, Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden from 1988.


An excellent album......

 

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post #51 of 484
5/30/10 at 3:58am

I'm not entirely convinced about Talk Talk being post-rock though. I'm probably in the minority on this, but... yeah.

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post #52 of 484
5/30/10 at 4:06am
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If anything I say the first true post rock album was Public Image Ltd and First Issue/Public Image from 1978. It crossed genres, was more of a musical diversion from rock than punk ever was and it was very experimental.

 

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post #53 of 484
5/31/10 at 10:43am

I like Talk Talk, but that is NOT post-rock.  Talk Talk was 80's new wave.  Sure, it was the less poppy side of new wave, but it's still 80's new wave.  It's no more post rock that early Depeche Mode was.

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post #54 of 484
5/31/10 at 11:09am

Trying to restrict post-The Colour of Spring Talk Talk to just 1 genre is futile.

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post #55 of 484
5/31/10 at 11:17am
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I agree Talk Talk are not post rock, but I see where they can fit into the development of the genre. An example would be David Sylvian of the band Japan who has, as a solo artist produced some beautifully experimental and progressive jazz fusion/rock/pop. Later Talk Talk albums, of which I have enjoyed all, also became more experimental and fit into the same sort of mix of styles.
Post rock is where instrumentation has developed beyond the standard and become more experimental. It itself is a sub genre of progressive rock. So maybe the likes of Talk Talk and David Sylvian have become post pop. I referenced PIL above and they are post punk. It is the taking of a traditional genre and developing it that makes the sound 'post'. Talk Talk and PIL pre-date the post rock movement
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post #56 of 484
5/31/10 at 11:37am
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Soothing yet anthemic, ef and the album Mourning Golden Morning

 

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post #57 of 484
5/31/10 at 11:39am
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Soothing yet anthemic, ef and the album Mourning Golden Morning

 

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Saw them live last year, really great band!

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post #58 of 484
5/31/10 at 11:42am
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I agree Talk Talk are not post rock, but I see where they can fit into the development of the genre. An example would be David Sylvian of the band Japan who has, as a solo artist produced some beautifully experimental and progressive jazz fusion/rock/pop. Later Talk Talk albums, of which I have enjoyed all, also became more experimental and fit into the same sort of mix of styles.
Post rock is where instrumentation has developed beyond the standard and become more experimental. It itself is a sub genre of progressive rock. So maybe the likes of Talk Talk and David Sylvian have become post pop. I referenced PIL above and they are post punk. It is the taking of a traditional genre and developing it that makes the sound 'post'. Talk Talk and PIL pre-date the post rock movement


I have the David Sylvian - Robert Fripp record, which is pretty cool.  Kinda prog-fusion. 

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post #59 of 484
5/31/10 at 12:18pm

A great post rock ban from Australia, Laura.

 

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post #60 of 484
5/31/10 at 10:47pm
FWIW, these are my personal favorite post-rock albums of the last decade:

MINDBLOWING:
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1999)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000)
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain (2005)
Sigur Rós - Takk... (2005)

EXCELLENT:
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs (1998)
The Evpatoria Report - Golevka (2005)
The Evpatoria Report - Maar (2008)
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence (2000)
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (2001)
Grayceon - Grayceon (2007)
Microfilm - A Journey to the 75th (2004)
Mooncake - Lagrange Points (2008)
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (1999)
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland (2007)

GREAT:
A.Armada - Anam Cara (2008)
Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent (2009)
Cam Butler - See (Symphony No. 1)
Caspian - The Four Trees (2007)
Ctrlaltdelete - Mondegreens (2005)
Dirty Three - Horse Stories (1996)
Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are (2000)
Ef - I Am Responsible (2008)
El Ten Eleven - El Ten Eleven (2004)
The For Carnation - The For Carnation (2000)
God Is an Astronaut - God Is an Astronaut (2008)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F?A?8 (1997)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)
Jakob - Dominion (2004)
LITE - Phantasia (2008)
Maybeshewill - Not for Want of Trying (2008)
Maybeshewill - Sing the Word Hope in Four-Part Harmony (2009)
Mogwai - Young Team (1997)
Mogwai - Come on Die Young (1999)
Mogwai - My Father My King (2001)
Mogwai - Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996 - 2003 (2005)
Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006)
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009)
Mt. - Lethologica (2006)
Neil on Impression - The Perfect Tango (2006)
Parabstruse - Old Sentimental (2008)
Pg.lost - Yes I Am (2007)
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (2006)
Red Sparowes / Gregor Samsa - Red Sparowes / Gregor Samsa (2005)
Russian Circles - Enter (2006)
Russian Circles - Station (2008)
The Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood (2005)
Saxon Shore - The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore (2005)
September Malevolence - Surviving Destinies (2004)
Signal Hill - The EP (2007)
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Heima (2007)
Sigur Rós - Hvarf / Heim (2007)
A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (2008)
The Six Parts Seven - Everywhere and Right Here (2004)
The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces (2007)
Slint - Spiderland (1991)
Stellardrive - ERS-2 (2007)
Sweek - The Shooting Star's Sigh (2004)
Té - If That Is What Is Being Thought, Liberated Sound Talks the Depth of [Musical] World. (2005)
Té - [Sore wa, Narihibiku Sekai kara Genjitsutekina Oto wo ?uta?ô to suru Shikô.] (2007)
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain (2005)
Toe - Book About My Idle Plot on Vague Anxiety (2005)
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land (2005)
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