Best post rock bands

I'm saying:

1.Godspeed you!black emperor 2.Mogwai 3.Russian circles 4.65dos 5.God is an astronaut 6.Sigur ros 7.If these trees could talk 8.This will destroy you 9.Maybeshewill 10.Explosions in the sky

I started listening to post rock a while back while trying to find rock me Amadeus by falco funnily enough... Ten points to anybody who can get the connection

Thanks to narcist I discovered if these trees could talk who are just incredible. Its so hard to make a top ten from a genre like this, because there are just so many good bands.

What is post rock? Never really heard of it apart from the odd time you've mentioned it

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 instrumental.[2][3][4]

-Wikipedia

Just listen to some of the bands mentioned. Styles vary, some are a bit more electronic, some a re more guitar centric.

This is a fairly definitive playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrzGOTT8MEM

not my thing at all, seems all a little boring to me but alwell I tried to listen to that compilation. I'm very picky though

lol. If "My So Called Life" has an OST, this would be it.

you know what music is post-rock? more classical:

https://youtu.be/UCbLHfYkiwg

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It's usually only the sort of thing pretentious t***s like me like to listen to. There are some bands that I couldn't listen to singularaly I'd have to listen to while doing something, like explosions in the sky for example. However bands like mogwai I can listen to with the objective of listening to mogwai.

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Ew, never could stand playlists made on Youtube.

Okay, I know this is a month old, but let me just revive this thread to send something close to post-rock, kind sorta not really, but I think you might enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PNmwk2Tr_c

Yeah I quite like them, haven't listened to much, but what I'd heard was good. A lot of people class ASMZ as post rock, its hard to classify though I guess, but why categorise it anyway.

If you find any other bands, let me know. I thrive on discovering new music as well.

my #1 would be Johnny Rotten's PiL, I think they really originated the whole anti-rock thing despite what anyone else will tell you

Big Black, Shellac, Slint, Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Mogwai

I don't know if they are technically post-rock according to Wikipedia, but when I was a kid they were called post-punk or post-rock in the music press as well as being called 'noise rock' I think.... as a rule, if Steve Abini recorded it and was really proud of it, then its probably some sort of post-rock

forerunners of the genre are definitely suicide, neu! and to a certain extent joydivision and a few other factory bands like a certain ratio (though ACR is kinda poppy, but hey, it ain't 70s radio rock and 'post-rock' is a pretty broad term that can encompass like anything that eschews rock posturing and sounds)

You ever heard of Alpha Male Tea Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y8ukWMvZyE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4zp3Pn5TY

Slint - Spiderland is a good album, but its a little overrated, I guess itdid start "post-rock", but I'd say there's better, tbh. Mogwai - Mr Beast, The Hawk Is Howling, Happy songs for happy people, and rave tapes are all better, as are most eits, and sigur ros albums. Also millions living will now die -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBD1jGdGFX4 - is my favourite post rock album.

Check out this will destroy you, god is an astronaut, capsian, and red sparrows if you haven't heard them yet.

I don't really listen to any of this pretentious soundscape/angry-noise music anymore, as I get older I realize I like pop-songs and rock posturing and if I want noise its Neubauten all the way. So I'll agree that Spiderland is an overrated album and that pretty much all of it is overrated. Its still rock n roll no matter how you want to deviate from the pop formula.... I mean, the beatles pioneered all of this pop-rock-meets-musique-concrete stuff 50 years ago. I digress.

They Don't Sleep was amazing.

Right on! Well said!