quoted 18 lines A few off the top of my head: Don Caballero (buy everything), Storm&Stress,> A few off the top of my head: Don Caballero (buy everything), Storm&Stress,
> Table (hard to
> find, but worth the search), Bastro (future Gastr Del Sol/Tortoise members
> playing white-knuckled mayhem with many interesting time changes; beware
> first EP, recorded w/drum machine), 90 Day Men (from Chicago; ignore the
> "singer"'s British affectations), Colossamite (start w/"All Lingo's
> Clamor"), Dazzling Killmen (anything), Lustre King (new LP has many great
> moments, but more bad ones), Johnboy (start w/"Claim Dedications"), Stinking
> Lizaveta (think instrumental-period Black Flag with beards; start
> w/"...Hopelessness And Shame"), early Slint, Rodan (Slintastic), Bitch
> Magnet (start w/"Ben Hur"), Hurl, Crain, Honor Role/Breadwinner/Butterglove
> (all great & cut from the same tattered Voivod patch), Iceburn, um...
>
> There's lots more, but I'm behind a desk and can't bother worrying about it
> at the moment. The definiton's sort of broad, but think loud post-hardcore
> bands playing w/finesse, infrequent elliptical (and generally bad) lyrics,
> numerous asymmetric time signatures, and six degrees of separation from
> Chicago or Louisville. King Crimson's "Red" appears to be a template.
hmm...i would disagree with the majority of your list...
the only authority i would have on this subject is that before
electronics, i was in a math rock band...
tortoise is not math rock...there is nothing in tortoise that is
slightly mathrock....the textbook description of math rock goes
something like this...
angular music, usually in odd time signatures, many tempo changes,
start-stop rythms...
of course, the "classic" math rock band is don caballero...storm&stress
is not math rock at all. to even compare them to that just because they
share members is silly...other "classics" would be rodan, a minor
forest, breadwinner, bastro...
the other stuff on your list is all shlocky chicago-esque music...
yeesh...aren't i the dork...
-joshua...