drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
edited August 2011
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a brilliant album. I love it as a top 10 release, but jumping straight to 2 when I know your affinity for Foo Fighters was a surprise.
I haven't listened to Fleet Foxes yet, whenever I'm in a nonmetal mood I go straight for my postrock exchange list, so some other music has fallen by the wayside. Foo Fighters is among them, but I've listened to that a few times.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, you were also higher on We're Here Because We're Here than I was.
1. Red - Until We Have Faces 2. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual 3. Sleepmakeswaves - …and so we destroyed everything 4. Trivium- In Waves 5. All Shall Perish- This Is Where It Ends 6. Winds Of Plague - Against The World 7. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Motherland 8. Ghost- Opus Eponymous 9. Toxic Holocaust- Conjure and Command 10. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance 11. Mogwai- Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 12. Scar Symmetry- The Unseen Empire 13. Suicide Silence - The Black Crown 14. Foo Fighters-Wasting Light 15. Turisas- Stand Up and Fight 16. Unearth- Darkness In The Light 17. Amon Amarth- Surtur Rising
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a brilliant album. I love it as a top 10 release, but jumping straight to 2 when I know your affinity for Foo Fighters was a surprise.
I haven't listened to Fleet Foxes yet, whenever I'm in a nonmetal mood I go straight for my postrock exchange list, so some other music has fallen by the wayside. Foo Fighters is among them, but I've listened to that a few times.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, you were also higher on We're Here Because We're Here than I was.
I like it more than We're Here Because We're Here, and if I put that album on this list, it would be top 10, so there's my logic there.
Wasting Light is by far the album I listen to the most out of the whole list, and I still think it's near-perfect. That says a lot about what I think about the two albums above it, and what it will take for Mastodon/Opeth/Megadeth/Landmine Marathon/etc. to get ranked above it. I'd be surprised if it leaves the top 5 and shocked if it leaves the top 10.
cuz its all gimmicky crap. Im not talking about how popular it is. Nintendo makes gimmicky systems; Black Metal has gimmicky music and image. A gimmick is gimmick is a gimmick.
Actually, Cheeze, post-rock can get really gimmicky. Lots of post-rock bands sound exactly the same (exactly like godspeed, usually), but their songs will just be standard bowed and tremolo+echo guitars and a generic buildup starting soft with the loudest most exciting/emotional part at the end. The slang term for this is crescendo-core.
Also, post-rock ain't pretentious, or at least not the bands talked about in this thread. Bad post-rock will sound drawn out, but long songs have just been part of the style.
drinkwine732Posts: 20,418destroyer of motherfuckers
edited August 2011
There are bands who do it right, and bands who do it wrong, just like any other genre.
Jorm is right in saying that there are a ton of generic post-rock gimmicks, but not in the same way as black metal or folk metal. Post-rock as a genre isn't necessarily understood the same way as metal is for me. It's a completely different state of mind for me. Once you get it, you get it.
There are bands who do it right, and bands who do it wrong, just like any other genre.
Jorm is right in saying that there are a ton of generic post-rock gimmicks, but not in the same way as black metal or folk metal. Post-rock as a genre isn't necessarily understood the same way as metal is for me. It's a completely different state of mind for me. Once you get it, you get it.
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I haven't listened to Fleet Foxes yet, whenever I'm in a nonmetal mood I go straight for my postrock exchange list, so some other music has fallen by the wayside. Foo Fighters is among them, but I've listened to that a few times.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, you were also higher on We're Here Because We're Here than I was.
2. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
3. Sleepmakeswaves - …and so we destroyed everything
4. Trivium- In Waves
5. All Shall Perish- This Is Where It Ends
6. Winds Of Plague - Against The World
7. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Motherland
8. Ghost- Opus Eponymous
9. Toxic Holocaust- Conjure and Command
10. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance
11. Mogwai- Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
12. Scar Symmetry- The Unseen Empire
13. Suicide Silence - The Black Crown
14. Foo Fighters-Wasting Light
15. Turisas- Stand Up and Fight
16. Unearth- Darkness In The Light
17. Amon Amarth- Surtur Rising
Wasting Light is by far the album I listen to the most out of the whole list, and I still think it's near-perfect. That says a lot about what I think about the two albums above it, and what it will take for Mastodon/Opeth/Megadeth/Landmine Marathon/etc. to get ranked above it. I'd be surprised if it leaves the top 5 and shocked if it leaves the top 10.
i find most of it pretentious, overly drawn out and boring
Im not talking about how popular it is.
Nintendo makes gimmicky systems; Black Metal has gimmicky music and image.
A gimmick is gimmick is a gimmick.
Also, post-rock ain't pretentious, or at least not the bands talked about in this thread. Bad post-rock will sound drawn out, but long songs have just been part of the style.
Jorm is right in saying that there are a ton of generic post-rock gimmicks, but not in the same way as black metal or folk metal. Post-rock as a genre isn't necessarily understood the same way as metal is for me. It's a completely different state of mind for me. Once you get it, you get it.
I'm also growing concerned for the new Mastodon.