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UncleBlazer: Jan 27, 2011

Whorelord posted:

I would like post rock but I feel like my head is disappearing up my arse when I listen to it

It attracts a lot of pseudo intellectuals. Just don't make out its deep or any better than any other genre. When you feel your rear end swallowing your head air guitar a bit.

# ? Aug 2, 2015 04:29

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Fluo: May 25, 2007

Bobby Deluxe posted:

there is no post rock there is only dad rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBRoQ91W1rk

Saw Russian Circles live a few times as they supported Boris tour a few times, they're pretty awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2-hJtJrXxc

# ? Aug 2, 2015 04:48

Gibberish: Sep 17, 2002; by R. Guyovich

My annoying Northern England coworker just recommended Chubby Brown as a funny comedian

I swear I'm not making this up, this guy actually exists in real life

# ? Aug 2, 2015 06:59

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

UncleBlazer posted:

It attracts a lot of pseudo intellectuals. Just don't make out its deep or any better than any other genre. When you feel your rear end swallowing your head air guitar a bit.

lol at anyone thinking its deep

# ? Aug 2, 2015 08:59

HJB: Feb 16, 2011; I can't get enough of are Dan

i never got the name, why is there post rock when rock still very much exists

like post punk, post grunge, and (ick) post dubstep are things

also why is rock "after" rock so twee and airy fairy

# ? Aug 2, 2015 09:45

Vitamins: May 1, 2012

it is rock that is good to post to and maybe even post about

# ? Aug 2, 2015 10:10

HJB: Feb 16, 2011; I can't get enough of are Dan

man who post rock send ground mail

# ? Aug 2, 2015 10:23

Fluo: May 25, 2007

Whorelord posted:

I would like post rock but I feel like my head is disappearing up my arse when I listen to it

If you enjoy it who cares, there are utter nasal gazers but theres always some fart sniffers like that in most genres.

HJB posted:

i never got the name, why is there post rock when rock still very much exists

like post punk, post grunge, and (ick) post dubstep are things

also why is rock "after" rock so twee and airy fairy

quote:

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock. Post-rock bands are often without vocals.

I'd say it's 50/50 on the twee and airy fairy stuff, but that's more on the sigur ros end of post-rock and those types of bands.

But theres some great heavier post rock bands. Russian Circles, God Speed You! Black Emperor, Swans, World's End Girlfriend (thought World's End Girlfriend has done some airy albums), Turing Machine, Mono, Pelican, Neurosis, OOIOO, Slint, Mogwai and alot of other bands I love.

Edit:
I think you can normally tell the difference between the airy twee stuff and the non airy twee stuff before you heard them play. Let's test it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5hBkQT3-C8
vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSdTBGhDSg

Fluo fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Aug 2, 2015

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:02

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

HJB posted:

i never got the name, why is there post rock when rock still very much exists

the idea is that rock is very much its own definition, and post-rock (well, post anything - post modernism etc) is aware of the definition of rock and consciously seeks to deconstruct and transcend said thing. so post-rock is not failing to be rock because it doesn't know how, nor is it saying 'rock is dead,' its saying 'we are aware of rock, we could do it if we wanted, but we are using the framework of rock to break free from the definition.'

imagine a hipster fawning about how his band has 'moved past typical rock' and you have got it

source: three loving years of listening to arty fuckers talk about this poo poo like its the most profound revelation ever

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Aug 2, 2015

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:43

Fluo: May 25, 2007

Bobby Deluxe posted:

the idea is that rock is very much its own definition, and post-rock (well, post anything - post modernism etc) is aware of the definition of a rock and consciously seeks to deconstruct and transcend said thing. so post-rock is not saying 'rock is dead,' its saying 'we are using the framework of rock to break free from it.'

source: three loving years of listening to arty fuckers talk about this poo poo like its the most profound revelation ever

Wait till they discover Merzbow and John Cage hahahahahahaha

Fluo fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Aug 2, 2015

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:44

Fluo: May 25, 2007

If I have to hear one more person talk about how they had some mindblowing internal monologue from their experience of how ~*deep*~ 4'33" is god loving drat it

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:46

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Fluo posted:

Wait till they discover Merzbow and John Cage hahahahahahaha

i meant 'post' as any kind of categorisation, mostly how astonished first years are when they finally crack the definition of post modernism.

its like well loving done, now go apply it to every single thing you do for the rest of your sodding education.

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:50

Fluo: May 25, 2007

Bobby Deluxe posted:

i meant 'post' as any kind of categorisation, mostly how astonished first years are when they finally crack the definition of post modernism.

its like well loving done, now go apply it to every single thing you do for the rest of your sodding education.

Fluo fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Aug 2, 2015

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:54

Inexplicable Humblebrag: Sep 20, 2003

lol if you don't listen exclusively to classical British composers while sipping tea

Elgar/Darjeeling 4 lyfe

on another note why is Ceylon tea so good

# ? Aug 2, 2015 11:58

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
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Hello, dear

ceylon tea? :awesomelon:

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:09

Fluo: May 25, 2007

I always saw you as more of a lapsang souchong kind of guy

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:15

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
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Hello, dear

every tea but this tea:

is tea for guardian reading, sandal wearing wally woofters imo

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:15

Inexplicable Humblebrag: Sep 20, 2003

Fluo posted:

I always saw you as more of a lapsang souchong kind of guy

I like it in blends but idk if I could drink a whole pot on its own. I have bought a bunch though so I guess I will find out

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:18

Fluo: May 25, 2007

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

I like it in blends but idk if I could drink a whole pot on its own. I have bought a bunch though so I guess I will find out

Is there a decent tea website in UK yet, like hasbean is for coffee. I tend to have to order from a few sites to get my the stuff I'm after half the time

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:20

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Fluo posted:

you should have a brew called post beer and its just tapwater that you have to drink alongside a flavour tablet and a saline drip filled with alcohol 'in the right social setting.'

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:21

DrWrestling69: Feb 4, 2008; Tracyanne...

Fluo posted:

Is there a decent tea website in UK yet, like hasbean is for coffee. I tend to have to order from a few sites to get my the stuff I'm after half the time

Get huge boxes of jasmine tea from the Chinese supermarket for 60p IMO.

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:22

UncleBlazer: Jan 27, 2011

Fluo posted:

If I have to hear one more person talk about how they had some mindblowing internal monologue from their experience of how ~*deep*~ 4'33" is god loving drat it

I'm lucky to have never encountered anyone who thought it was anything more than a bad loving joke.

Haaahaaa you think he's going to play but he just sits there. Wankers.

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:28

Inexplicable Humblebrag: Sep 20, 2003

Fluo posted:

Is there a decent tea website in UK yet, like hasbean is for coffee. I tend to have to order from a few sites to get my the stuff I'm after half the time

I dunno i asked about this in the last thread and got a load of good individual sites but no one-stop-shop

I buy from the golden monkey tea company and basically spend what I would spend on teabags on leaf instead

E: also seconding 'buy huge boxes of stuff from ethnic supermarkets for pennies' as an idea

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:33

Fluo: May 25, 2007

DrWrestling69 posted:

Get huge boxes of jasmine tea from the Chinese supermarket for 60p IMO.

Its kind of like comparing a instant bog standard coffee to from freshly roasted freshly ground espresso

I have my bog standard everyday tea in bulk from supermarket but when having important guests round it I normally have something more special like silver yin zhen pearls (a white tea), flowering tea once in a blue moon when having a date at home and doing the cooking etc.

Pu-erh can be hit and miss, whittard is only place I found that has a half decent pu-erh.

What I'm trying to say is they tend to be the opposite to everyday cheap teas where you drink 10 a day but I haveb3 or 4 important days with regard to guests a month. Be it business or social.

Just no single one stop shop good site

Works great for for everyday though with regard to the cheap asian shop tea by the kg

Fluo fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Aug 2, 2015

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:50

Fluo: May 25, 2007

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

I dunno i asked about this in the last thread and got a load of good individual sites but no one-stop-shop

I buy from the golden monkey tea company and basically spend what I would spend on teabags on leaf instead

E: also seconding 'buy huge boxes of stuff from ethnic supermarkets for pennies' as an idea

Will have to check out golden monkey tea company, the buy huge boxes of stuff they'd go out of date by the time I'd have got half way through. I do however buy it when I do my tea beers. My chinese tea beer is surprisingly good (i add it end of boil but wait for it to drop in temp to not over extract tanins with regard to green tea but to also not got under the temp I need to get a strong effective coldbreak)

# ? Aug 2, 2015 12:52