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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 12:26 am
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theplatypus wrote:
It appears that a prerequisite to being a post-rock band is to have song titles that sound like lines from a 15-year-old's poetry journal.
A 15-year-old child prodigy, in the case of Godspeed.
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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 12:45 am
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Some favorite song titles:
Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend Motherfucker=Redeemer I Love You, I’m Going To Blow Up Your School The Distant & Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties Suicide by Star We Were Exploding Anyway I Will Hammerpunch Your Clavical
Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 2:36 am
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Some favorite song titles:
Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend Motherfucker=Redeemer I Love You, I’m Going To Blow Up Your School The Distant & Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties Suicide by Star We Were Exploding Anyway I Will Hammerpunch Your Clavical
If enjoying these makes me an introspective 15 year old then I don't wanna grow up.
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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 2:44 am
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I was thinking more along the lines of "Tonight We Burn Like Stars That Never Die" and "They Move on Tracks of Never Ending Light" and "Fireflies and Empty Skies" and "Exploding My Heart Into the Ever Expanding Forever After".
Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 2:46 am
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Oh, right on. I'm with you there.
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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 2:57 am
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theplatypus wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of "Tonight We Burn Like Stars That Never Die" and "They Move on Tracks of Never Ending Light" and "Fireflies and Empty Skies" and "Exploding My Heart Into the Ever Expanding Forever After".
Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 9:10 am
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And I Want to Fall From the Stars Straight into your Arms.
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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 12:10 pm
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I mostly enjoy the heavier post rock bands these days. Pelican, Russian Circles, EITS...but i dig some of the more mellow ones too...Mono, Godspeed, Mogwai...the big ones.
The thing about post rock --and a big part of why I kind of stopped listening to it-- is that most of it all sounds the same. The bands all seem to follow the same blueprint of slow build > mini crescendo > ambient decay > slow build > big crescendo > fade. Don't get me wrong, i fucking love that formula when it's done well but it's hard to get excited about it when every band does it, and the dynamic changes become so predictable. I've listened to a bunch of the songs posted in this thread that were new to me and i found i could predict most of the dynamic changes almost to the beat. It's not a bad thing cause the music is great, it's just not compelling enough for me to want to listen to more.
Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 12:50 pm
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mf wrote:
I mostly enjoy the heavier post rock bands these days. Pelican, Russian Circles, EITS...but i dig some of the more mellow ones too...Mono, Godspeed, Mogwai...the big ones.
The thing about post rock --and a big part of why I kind of stopped listening to it-- is that most of it all sounds the same. The bands all seem to follow the same blueprint of slow build > mini crescendo > ambient decay > slow build > big crescendo > fade. Don't get me wrong, i fucking love that formula when it's done well but it's hard to get excited about it when every band does it, and the dynamic changes become so predictable. I've listened to a bunch of the songs posted in this thread that were new to me and i found i could predict most of the dynamic changes almost to the beat. It's not a bad thing cause the music is great, it's just not compelling enough for me to want to listen to more.
This is pretty much where I stand. That Yndi Halda album of which I posted a sample above is one of the last 'typical' post-rock albums I really got into. After that I moved on to either heavier, darker stuff or, to the opposite, less demonstrative things, and overall things that tend to favor atmosphere over buildups/climax.
Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 1:01 pm
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I may as well mention Cult of Luna as one of my favourite post-metal / post-doom bands, if this thread extends to that.
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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 9:46 pm
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Yeah it was one of those posts that merely warranted an IRL nod of the head. Soz.
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Post subject: Re: Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock threa
Posted: Fri October 18, 2013 9:46 pm
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zeb wrote:
zeb wrote:
So no one had my back re: Slint?
mf wrote:
The thing about post rock --and a big part of why I kind of stopped listening to it-- is that most of it all sounds the same. The bands all seem to follow the same blueprint of slow build > mini crescendo > ambient decay > slow build > big crescendo > fade.
Very much this, though I never listened to much of this stuff to begin with. I used to listen to Mogwai a bit back in the day but they do nothing for me now. Like Heathen, things that trend towards a less bombastic, more textural sound are my preference.
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