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From:
Danny Wyatt
To:
! & the Quaternions , Arthur Purvis
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Date:
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 01:50:44 -0400
Subject:
RE: (idm) oval and post-rock
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quoted 9 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message----- > From: idm-owner@hyperreal.org [mailto:idm-owner@hyperreal.org]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).