From Danny Wyatt Sent Fri, Aug 6th 1999, 06:50
From Danny Wyatt Sent Fri, Aug 6th 1999, 06:50
> -----Original Message----- > From: xxx-xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx [mailto:xxx-xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx]On Behalf > Of ! & the Quaternions > > Is it just me, or is post-rock just another idiotic Reynolds misnomer? > Call me crazy and ill-raised, but my parents taught me just one simple > rule: If you're post-anything, you have to be reacting to that particular > anything. And post-rock seems to be going as far as it can to avoid even > referencing rock. Lite jazz, concrete, classical,tropicalia, sure. But "Going as far as [you] can to avoid even referencing" something is a very strong reaction to that something. There is no anti-establishment without an establishment, and you can only feel as positively about a post- or anti- or un- as you feel non-positively about whatever follows the hyphen (but precedes your thinking).