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Originally Posted by batreleaser
wow, fuckin triple post here, but i dont think "space rock" (one of the only genre names dumber than post rock" sounds like anything of that we think of as post rock today. i mean spacemen 3 and godspeed, the only similarity i can identify is awesomeness.
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Post-rock is a difficult one, and I'm certainly going to come across as a patronising cunt on this one.
So. Post-rock was a term invented by the Wire around the time of the first Tortoise album to describe them and others. It was retroactively applied to the like of Spacemen 3 and SY. It was a polite term for 'progressive' indie at a time when 'prog' still meant YES who were still (rightly) considered shit in the music press. Remember - this was a time when musical information was, for the overwhelming majority, sired from music mags.
For a while post-rock plodded along, including the more errant edges of college rock and indie. Then Fridge came along, and everyone loved them, for about ten minutes. Then Mogwai appeared, and were probably more popular than Tortoise. Thanks to Mogwai being popular, G!YBE (who hadn't yet moved their exclamation mark) also became popular, and not long after Sigur Ros appeared and were also popular. Meanwhile, the likes of Six by Seven and Doves had the 'post-rock' tag thrown at them. Then, mysteriously, the influence of G!YBE took hold, and nowadays post-rock seems to mean only that particular sort of music (i.e., shit).
Glice's potted history of insignificant half-movements in popular music is also available as an audio tape and glimmering vase.