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Originally Posted by sidewinder
Or Britpop? Sheesh.
One subgenre that I think has failed to split off into something more descriptive is post-rock. Initially it separated bands that used rock instruments in more inventive ways than traditional, such as Stereolab for example. Electronics were also a big part of the mix. Then post-rock was adopted for bands playing moody, atmospheric instrumental rock. Now you can't even call Stereolab post-rock because people will think they're atmospheric instrumental rock. And many of those bands aren't really experimenting or doing anything particularly innovative. It's fucking atmospheric instrumental rock! Why don't we have such a genre? There are many more recent bands that I think the label post-rock would apply to, but because they're not instrumental atmospheric rock, I don't and neither does anyone else.
On RYM, there are hundreds of metal subgenres and sub-subgenres yet we don't have anything to separate stuff that was originally called post-rock from the more recent post-rock. If anything, people have retroactively started calling original post-rock indietronica, which I think is bullshit.
No genre name should end with an 'a' anyway.
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Post-Rock to me is a genre that needs someone to do something new with it I mean I love a lot of post - rock bands, but as you said bands like Tortoise, Stereolab, and Slint aren't really considered post-rock because they aren't doing what everyone else is which like you said is dreary usually melancholy atmospheric rock.