Red Sparowes

[savinggrace]

I've been enjoying listening to many of the bands mentioned in this thread, all of whom I'm discovering for the first time. So, the question is, how late am I to this party?

Anyone have a time line for the "post-rock" movement?

I am a self-fulfilling anachronism...

This could be very tricky.
Because there is so many different styles of post rock. But I can give you the origins.

The drony aspects definitely first emerge with The Velvet Underground. The "epicness" definitely comes earlier than most imagine with prog rock band Goblin. Other earlier influences would be Kraut Rock like Can, Math Rock/ Post Rock like Don Cabellero and Tortoise (and on the noiser side of things John Zorn's Naked City), Epic Doom like Candlemass and Solitude Aerturnus, and Sludge Doom like Eyehate God and Buzzoven all play part into things. I would also say real emo (which is a far cry from what passes as "emo" these days) like Moss Icon and Antioch Arrow. Gravity Records type stuff like Unwound.

Then there is Neurosis.

Godspeed You!..., Mogwai, Neurosis, Isis, and Don Cab really brought alot of these early elements together and is what I look at the beginning of what I view as the second wave of post rock as we know it and the biggest influence on the current wave (which I regard as the third wave).

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Thank you, sir. I remember listening to Zorn way back in the late 80's!