'>Slint – Spiderland at #2
These are not serious people.';

'still not as meaningless as "sludge metal" which is always either just hipster thrash or spicy doom

anyway I kinda specifically like the silver mt zion album "13 blues for thirteen moons" but I think that might be more post-punk or something, idk. Most of the explosions in the sky creshendocore shit is just boring.';

'>>121566994
I know what "sludge metal" sounds like though. Post-rock on the other hand has such a diversity that it basically means nothing.';

'>>121566994
YOUR BAND IS BLAND
YOUR BAND IS BLAND AMBITION';

'>>121568783
"post-rock" as a term is so pretentious, hypocritical and self-defeating. By using the term "post" they implicitly suggest that rock has ended and their "new genre" will inevitably replace it, when there's nothing which connects the playing styles or compositional philosophies of the musicians who use the label. Some are so edgeless and relaxed that they could easily be called Easy Listening, and others are so confrontational and music theory driven that they could be mistaken for a satire of contemporary avant garde genres. It's all pointless and any act or musician who welcomes the "post-rock" label is an asshole who has excessively high ambitions and excessively high expectations for future trends in the mainstream. No one used the term Post-Jazz or Post-Blues to refer to the musical styles that succeeded those trends, and it's a farcical undertaking to suggest that such a broad and enduring concept as "rock" is not a peer to those. Everything that came after each of them continued to bear elements and compositional concepts from the monoliths that preceded them. The prevailing theory of music in the contemporary sense is still called Jazz Theory. No one has fundamentally upset those principles or introduced functionality that cannot be rendered or analyzed within that framework, especially not the musicians who claim to be making "post-rock." You would have to create a whole new system of music out of whole cloth and ensure that everything it does is inherently difficult or impossible to identify or analyze under Jazz Theory and somehow get the consequences of that system significant traction to truly claim that it's Post-Rock. I'm sure it's possible, and it may well happen one day, but it isn't today and I doubt very much that anyone alive today will be the one to do it.';

'>>121566934
Also the worst genre of all time since virtually all Post-Rock is bad.';

'>>121566934
>explosions in the sky above disco inferno, gastr del sol, dirty three, cul de sac, duster, moonshake, hood, labradford, etc.
not a serious list. i'm honestly impressed they even included most of these though. hood, moonshake, cul de sac, and the more peripheral early post-rock bands usually get no credit at all';

'>post-rock
half this shit is math rock';

'>Duster
isn't that slowcore';

'>>121570308
this. most of the picks are fine but the ranking is ass';

'>>121566934
post-rock is just math rock but with another name so normies can consume it easier';

'the only even remotely good albums to come out of post-rock are the talk talk ones';

'Talk Talk's later discography was basically prog.';

'>>121575923
I'd say it was avant-pop, and I mean that in a good way';

'Post Rock is gay I'm more into Pre Rock';

'Paleolithic trap is just imagining what trap would sound like in the paleolithic era so is future drill what drill would sound like in an era not named yet and future grime and so on. post rock or proto garage or whatever is just what the people who heard it at the time thought it could have been not really to be taken as literal as post - rock as a movement in history';

'>>121566934
Lots of fine albums on here, but also lots that aren't really post-rock. "Post" genres are inherently hard to pin down, since they're made up of artists trying to buck convention and create something individual. Post-punk had the same "meaningless" problem as post-rock, until it curdled into "either kinda dancey indie rock with spikey guitars and Fall-like vocals or Joy Division ripoffs".';

'>>121570170
>suggest that rock has ended and their "new genre" will inevitably replace it
no';

'>>121570170
Yes, but that’s music critics fault.
Post-Genres problems.';

'>>121568783
All post-rock has one thing in common, it's all just varying degrees of Pink Floyd, but worse';

'>>121582689
Listen to more krautrock, boomer';

'>>121582710
Floyd invented krautrock';

'In the late 80's, the most popular kind of noise punk rock was branded "pigfuck"
I don't want to fuck a pig.
If a bunch of my favorite bands were labeled "anus-core" I'd be like damn that sucks but when does the new hot anus record come out?';

'>>121568783
>I know what "sludge metal" sounds like though.
no you don't because acid bath, eyehategod, high on fire, baroness and mastodon all get called "sludge metal"';

'Post-Sludge';

'>>121566934
When I first listened to post-rock, it was actually around 1975, I was out smoking kush in the Balkan grasslands with Hunter S. Thompson and he was scratching my back for me, and all of a sudden this horrible music came onto our tinny pocket radio and he was like "This is the music of the future! It it lethal to old people, it gives lots of people cancer of the limbs." And he was wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0Nu_WkfRQ';

'>bcnr above don caballero';

'>>121582792
>>121582710
>>121582689
Regardless this is basically semantics. If it was actually Pink Floyd or not there still isn't a single Post-Rock Album of any real value. Just incelbait shit for losers who don't know any better.';

'>>121582262
No this is quite literally what they meant and it went as hilariously poorly as you would respect. Incel/Reddit User Music for "Galexy Brains" who think they're smart for watching NGE or knowing some half assed videogame lore.';

'>>121570204
>>121575837
>>121582689
>>121585022
>>121585034
Worst takes imaginable.';

'>>121566934
Strange list. Putting anything from the past 5 years on a 50 best of all time list is just sloppy and ridiculous, especially if it's some mediocre trash like Sprain and BCNR. There's too much math rock here, like Battles and Don Cab. Swans being included basically disqualifies the whole thing. Stereolab isn't post-rock at all.
On the other hand, they have Grails, Dirty Three, Labradford, etc., which are all worth inclusions. There's too much other stuff missing though, like Tarentel and Do Make Say Think. Overall not a serious list and discredits the publication.';

'>>121584127
>>121589440
I personally don't get why either BCNR or Don Cab are here. The former has post rock elements but not primarily in that genre; and the latter didn't really go into post rock, even in American Don';

'>>121570170
Its like, you almost get it, but not really. Have you tried pulling your head out of your ass yet?';

'>>121589583
that Don Cab came out at a point where post-rock was new enough that it was forever linked to the genre. and still it's one of the best, (probably the best) post-rock affiliated math rock albums. I mean shit that applies for a lot of 1st wave bands that don't sound like the rest of post-rock
it's all arbitrary I don't know why I keep this knowledge in my head';

'>>121589440
>Overall not a serious list and discredits the publication.
that's every "best of" list.';

'>>121570204
cringe

>>121571057
thats why the genre is so difficult because all sorts of weird shit gets lumped in';

'>>121582792
does anyone actually believe that? i feel like atom heart mother was pretty close to that genre';

'>>121566934
The genre name bemused me at first considering people still make blues based music with heavy guitars.';

'top half of the list is pretty boring and predictable, but there are some good picks further down that pleasantly surprised me, like macha
personally I'd like to see some cerberus shoal and circle on the list';