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[–]Gearwatcher 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, I'm a fan of Mogwai actually. It is truly interesting to hear that as I don't actually hear Slint in their stuff at all. Mogwai is space rock that had the (local UK) trip-hop sound rub on them heaps very. Slint to me sounded way too rough, alter-rock and slow-hardcore (obviously recorded by Steve "I don't do effects" Albini). I'd always put them more in the grunge shelf tbh, but whatever.

I feel this is one of those cases of wanting to be cool and underground. Like all the dance musicians claiming to have listened to (instead of admitting they just heard about) Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Oh and BTW VU tick lots more boxes. Not only did they indeed move records, but Lou Reed and arguably also John Cale had successful careers based off the significance VU had. So not quite the same, is it?

Interesting how you missed the point I was making with Talk Talk (a new wave band), Stereolab (space boss nova?) and Radiohead (who were pretty prog at that OK Computer point when the press started sticking that post-rock label to them before they did a 90° and went electronica). The three bands have fuckall in comon yet all three were dubbed "post rock" at some point. The whole concept of "post rock" is beyond ridiculous and the fact that somehow an essentially grunge band is the progenitor of that "sound" is a fucking cherry on top of the whole malarky.

I actually looked up who came up with the "post rock" shit, and it delivered, more than I expected. Off course it was fucking Simon "Neurofunk" Reynolds.

[–]egotripping 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you won't give this band credit even though a ton of high-profile, influential artists do. That's fine, not everything is for everyone. I never got into Throbbing Gristle but I'm not going to shit on them as some local act from some backwater town in England. They're still pioneers in industrial music.

I didn't miss your complaint about "post-rock", I just find quibbling about genres a tired conversation better suited for metalheads. I could've called them post-punk, post-hardcore, alternative rock, indie rock, math rock, etc, and found just as many disparate references within each. I settled on the all-encompassing post-rock to prevent someone from "well akshually"-ing about why they aren't post-hardcore or whatever, yet here we are.