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OK straight up - no pigeon hole of music divides me more than that of 'Post Rock'. At one end of the scale you have Godspeed, Dirty Three, Explosion In The Sky, Silver Mt Zion, Mogwai, Sigur Ros etc. who makes me want to make music. At the other end of the scale you have the 4000 rich kid Strymon-powered bands that would provide me with a bright side to Putin nuking London.
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Hopefully younger music listeners are less prone to the music "pigeon hole" syndrome.
I didn't 'pigeon hole' these bands - they did. Although I disagree with pigeon holes it does make it easier than agreeing to go with a mate to see a new band and not knowing whether having a clue whether is going to be the new Black Lace or the new Slayer.
How is it age related? Go onto soundcloud and check out young bands and you'll notice they pigeon hole themselves - it helps the search engine.
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Actually I don't think it does really. People limit their creativity by trying to emulate rather than innovate and in turn actually pigeon hole themselves.
I used to run a record store and insisted on of ditching genre sections thinking it was illogical. Sadly it was an utter disaster. It' amazing how much time you can spend debating where cross-over artists should be stocked and most record companies set strict instructions as they believe certain genre labels to be cooler than others.
None of this is really relevant to what I originally posted though.
But with other genres I could tell you exactly why I think one track is good and another is pants. I can't do that with post-rock.
@Grunfeld - That is more or less it completely. It literally extend from some reminding me what's great about music and others that just make me angry. It's very, very hard to define what or why. I do think a large amount of it could be a biasedness against the amount of hipster bands in London who are just noise and reverb on repeat. No other genre evokes suggest extremes in me though.
John Murphy's In The House In A Heartbeat and Godspeed You Black Emperor's Dead Flag Blues are two tracks that can make me love music all over again if I've had enough.