people complaining about post rock being all the same... read this.

mr dave · 10-21-2012, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by crazyaga

Post rock is more varried than those genres^ yet no one complains about them being stagnant. people are bitching only when its post rock.

You either don't discuss music with many people or only discuss it with people who all have very similar outlooks.

Also great job providing value to your subject with examples and opportunities to explore the apparent wealth of artistic variety found within post rock and not just posting a one dimensional gripe.

The other thing, the 3-4 genres you mention are ALL rooted in the fundamental simplicity of their styles (with the power chord rock essentially being a combined extension of Punk and Blues). Folk, Punk and Blues are all ideally about the the live performance and the interaction between the musician and the masses. It actually makes sense for those styles to remain relatively similar, you wouldn't expect a Folkie to show up with a full orchestra and a DJ and rapping lyrics about outer space - it doesn't make sense, you expect one person with an acoustic guitar singing poetic lines about our common lives.

As for Post Rock, I do hear a lot of commonality in the stuff I've heard. In the same way you complain about the overuse of the Pentatonic scale in typical rock music, the perpetual atonal melodies of PR get kind of old too. Same with the build ups that last longer than the average Punk tune; or the rhythms that you can't really dance along to.