Thread 127527013

>*le epic crescendo tediously builds over 15 minutes by beating a musical passage that might sound cool like a dead horse*
>*followed by 10 minute epic free form ambient/drone passages, so riveting*
>oh my god you guys le evil supermarket chain doesn't let illegal mexican windshield washers to scam people on their premises, isn't capitalism mean and not awesomesauce? :(
>oh my god you guys society doesn't allow you to sleep on the beach like a fucking bum from the 1920s anymore, what has the world come to? we'll make some old faggot or tranny read lines over dramatic piano or violin so you better start crying right now
>alright back to the 6th shitty crescendo of the album that totally doesn't get old by the third listen

Can't believe I liked this gay shit when I was 15

Depending on the year it was when you were 15, it can be very much forgiven. But if you weren't 15 in the early 2000s, you have no room to shit talk.

>>127527013 (OP)
Let it all out man, we’re here for you.

>>127527013 (OP)
Many are saying this

>>127527013 (OP)
This is the direction that post-rock should've taken.

>>127527013 (OP)
I dont believe that this band gets hate now because people organically grew out of it. I think Gen Z's loudest dimwits who have no attention span couldn't take the music anymore, and people followed suit

>>127527201
>entire career is paint by numbers crescendo-core
>slapping their stupid politics on top of it
Yeah. I wonder why everyone outgrew their gay bullshit.

>>127527230
Obviously they use crescendos, but not all their music is like that after the hiatus, and some of it stands up to their best pre hiatus material.

Their gay name has kept me from ever listening to them even once. I guess I’ll finally check it out

>>127527170
That one's much harder to replicate

>>127527035
Yeah

>>127527201
I think it's good that Godspeed gets shit. I think they had a hypnotic effect in the late 90s and early 00s because it was tapped directly into a bad mix of late 90s malaise and early 00s anxiety. The music uses it somewhat cynically to sell socialism/communism wrapped in idealism (but what else is new?), but that made a lot of sense at the time. Anti-corporatism/anti-consumerism bullshit was at a fever pitch (No Logo got popular around then but there were a billion examples in books, movies, everywhere), so their imagery and semi-anonymity, plus refusal to write short songs, made them very appealing. I've said it before and I'll repeat it now, post rock only made sense at that specific time. I actually give Godspeed all the credit in the world for disbanding in 2002. It was the only smart move and it was in fact consistent with their whole thing. Post rock ended around then. It's no surprise that they much more cynically came back in the 2010s. Their army of liberal nostalgia fans are what they deserve for it. This music simply could not age well and any instance of it beyond 2002 was anachronistic. If you weren't there, you missed it. The end.

>>127527201
Yeah

>>127527230

What came before them? Glenn Branca?

>>127527281
I think Yanqui UXO was their best album, but I would be lying if I said that I didn’t feel absolutely overjoyed when Don’t Bend Ascend was released.

>>127527239
I would give Godspeed's newer stuff a try if they didn't shoehorn this completely embarrassing bullshit on top of their music, I highly encourage you to read this faggotry

>>127527308
let em cook

>>127527013 (OP)
>might sound cool like a dead horse*
AI ahh post

>>127527308
>I would give Godspeed's newer stuff a try if they didn't shoehorn this completely embarrassing bullshit on top of their music
They've never done any differently

>>127527281
One of the best post-rock albums was released in 2011. It doesn't all sound the same.
>>127527308
None of this matters to me. All that matters is the music, which is almost entirely instrumental.

>>127527307
>I would be lying if I said that I didn’t feel absolutely overjoyed when Don’t Bend Ascend was released
I laughed at it. My memory is that they made some limp attempt to indirectly defend their return on the back of the ongoing War on Terror (something something people have become accustomed to unending war, etc. etc.), but in 2012. I know these types because I'm very familiar with the Mile End and where these people are from in Montreal. You can tell that they were personally wounded by Obama. No matter how leftist their claims and associations, they are just Canadian liberals, and that record amounted to nothing more than "fuck you Obama!!!!" the album. I haven't followed their bullshit since 2002. There's just no need. There never will be.

>>127527358
>One of the best post-rock albums was released in 2011. It doesn't all sound the same.
It's possible to say that, for example, some of the best punk albums have been released in the last 15 years. I could say that some of my favourites definitely have been. But that doesn't mean punk hasn't been dead and gone for decades.

>>127527013 (OP)
could always be worse OP. you could've been into explosions in the sky, which is like the equivalent of going to an already mediocre restaurant and asking for someone to regurgitate your meal into your mouth instead of eating it yourself.

>>127527405
That's a good point. You're right, the genre is almost all stale and has been for years. Whenever I see people praise a new post-rock band, its always the most boring faux-cinematic crescendo core imaginable. Anyone doing anything different gets a different genre label now, I guess. Back then, practically everything instrumental was lumped into it.

>>127527489
kek

>>127527358
Yeah and the music isn't good you nerd

>>127527323
>ahh post

>>127527308
mfw i read this shit. "avant-garde" artists try so hard to come across as visionary and they just appear like insufferable hacks most of the time

>>127527531
I look like this and say this.

>>127527531
>didn't dispute the AI accusation
gotcha, bitch

>>127527013 (OP)
>its not a phase mom

>>127527552
I think it's great. It provides a beautiful primer to the Canadian leftist, specifically the Montreal leftist (very concerned about landlords - except right now when immigration has led to catastrophic rent prices), that I've had to suffer my whole life. Though, Godspeed has always been like that.

>>127527594
Noooooooo :(

>>127527489
Or you could have a shitty tattoo of one of their album covers on your arm

>>127527013 (OP)
I have really good memories of smoking weed to their albums in 2006. I saw them in 2011 and again this year. I don't really listen to them anymore but they still put on a good performance. The crowd was full of huge faggots though.

>>127527681
>smoking weed
>The crowd was full of huge faggots though.
So you live in Canada?

>>127527307
Don't bend ascend was good, and most of it was written before their hiatus. They'd performed Mladic prior to their breakup.

>>127527702
Close, San Francisco. Getting super high to Yanqui UXO at 16 was great

>>127527489
Yet somehow infinitely better than Godspeed's MUH RENT, MUH DESERT RETARDS, MUH KANADA rinse and repeat dog shit.

>>127527201
The first three albums are undisputed masterpieces. There is no growing out of them

>>127530407
'fraid there is. This shit sucks.

>>127527244
i refuse to refer to them as anything other than Godspeed because the entire name is retarded

>>127531199
post your top 10 post rock albums and ill be able to pretty quickly suss out how full of shit you are

>>127527013 (OP)
>hating popular thing

>>127532583
How about you tongue my asshole instead, you seething fucking faggot. No one cares about Godspeed anymore. Boring ass faux-deep crescendo core horse shit.

>>127527035
Remember Explosions in the Sky?
They used to capture my emotions all the time back then but now it's almost impossible to listen to. What happen to me?

>>127533348
If you can't listen to and enjoy Your Hand in Mine, then you lost your soul.

>>127527013 (OP)
>>127527230
>>127527281
you can smell the millennials malding

Once again, "sophisticated rock" ends up being watered-down classical.

>>127527381
>I'm very familiar with the Mile End and where these people are from in Montreal.
sure you know it now, but were you familiar with Mile End in the early 90's?
how old were you then?

do you live in MTL? i spend a long time there, gone now tho

>>127527702
>burger is desperate to delude himself into believing his shithole country isnt a shithole
copious cope
>>127533348
you exited puberty

>>127527013 (OP)
Why are you acting like losing touch with your youth and becoming a miserable old man is a good thing. You were cooler at 15 buddy

>>127533640
>adult
>still enjoying Godspeed
Nigga, you're embarrassing.
>>127533688
Infinitely cooler than the fags that still listen to this gay shit. Grow up.

Efrim needs to make some more ASMZ albums

>>127533655
>sure you know it now, but were you familiar with Mile End in the early 90's?
In the early 90s, no, but in the late 90s, yes. But I've been familiar with it and the city in other ways for a good long time, picrel.
>how old were you then?
Old enough let's say.
>do you live in MTL? i spend a long time there, gone now tho
I do yeah. If you left before the pandemic, then bless you, because you missed seeing it finally die forever. There is almost no memory of what it was left standing even in 2019, no matter how loud the chrous of "but have you been to Griffintown lately?"

>>127533715
>nigga
>fags
>gay shit
>grow up

>>127533727
i left long before that and visited before the pandemic and it did seem grim.
also seemed to be a huge increase in black people (but not American black people) - what's the story there?

>>127533737
Learning how green text works, huh?

>>127527013 (OP)
Never got into them. Just went straight to Glenn Branca.

>>127532583
nta but you're supposed to grow out of post rock by your early 20s, maybe mid 20s if you're an american

>>127533825
Why is that? Which genres are supposedly more mature?

>>127533786
French African and Haitian immigration massively increased since the 2010s, ditto with Arabs. Ahuntsic-Cartierville, but basically anything beyond Jean Talon, is a medina by this point. I could go on here but it's too depressing. You'd also be shocked at the prices for anything/everything here now (or maybe not).

>>127527201
it's shitty music with no emotional power. is it supposed to be sad? there's sadder music. is it supposed to be epic and harrowing? there's better music for that. is it supposed to be politically inspiring or a 'biting commentary'? there's better music for that. is it supposed to be melancholy and manic depressive? there's better music for that. it's just not very good is the thing. Pure old/mu/ slop.

>>127533653
only bad sophisticated rock fits that description. good sophisticated rock is unironically way better than the vast majority of WAM. WAM lost the plot in the 20th century, and the Classical era was already shit before that anyway. Baroque and Romanticism were the only genuinely musical periods of WAM.

>>127533825
This is not how well-adjusted adults think. Come back when you've hit 30

>>127534072
Sounds like a lot of cope

>>127534156
Yeah, it can be hard having based taste and not applying ridiculous metrics to one's self.

>>127533314
keep your mentally ill faggot fetish to yourself you disgusting freak

>>127533653
there is no pretense that post rock or godspeed is supposed to be sophisticated rock or that its related to classical in anyway outside of using traditional instruments, you totally made that up so you could feel condescending for once in your pathetic life

>>127533314
>>127533825
>people who don't like post rock and don't know anything about the genre don't like post rock band
what a shocking revelation

>>127527013 (OP)
the only good post-rock is emo adjacent, this crescendo-core midwit-slop is awful

>>127534303
>liking this trash
>thinking you have based taste
>>127534384
Try not to get any of your tears on my taint while your licking my ass
>>127534423
It's not that. Godspeed just sucks dick

>>127533867
Arab, too.
Interesting.

i know real estate has increased massively.
I lived at Waverly and St Viateur long ago and the 3-story building (so three "4 and 1/2's" is how we used to refer to them) I was in sold for $349,000. All three units.
I could barely afford rent back tho

>>127527013 (OP)
Not music.

>>127527201
That might be a part of it, but I can also believe that it might get old after awhile for many people. I still enjoy listening the them occasionally, but I also understand if people grew out of them. But I don't think these people are in the majority. If anything, /mu/ hate is always just exaggeration expressed through shitposting that might become a meme or not. If you fell for it, well that's on you.

That's about the music though. Their peak redditry and tranophillia are a different thing.

>>127527281
>if you didn't live in the late 18th century you can't get Mozart
Sure senpai.