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Magicaltroll
11-04-2005, 06:34 PM
I've got a question.
What does "Post" mean in a genre name?
Because I've always thought it means something that is slower than the normal genre.


I thought I would make this a thread because I didn't know where to ask, and I thought maybe some other people would like to know too.
Six Foot Revolver
11-04-2005, 06:34 PM
It is a prefix which means after.
Moses
11-04-2005, 06:35 PM
It means it has more emphasis on progressive elements in atmosphere usually if it comes before a genre.
Magicaltroll
11-04-2005, 06:39 PM
I knew the meaning of the word, but not when it's combined with a genre name.
Six Foot Revolver
11-04-2005, 06:39 PM
It means more progressive in atmosphere usually.
Not really, just post rock normally is progressive and atmospheric. A brilliant example is Godspeed you! Black Emperor.
Shadows
11-04-2005, 06:40 PM
I think it means they took the genre but progressed it and did unusual things with it.
Six Foot Revolver
11-04-2005, 06:42 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_rock

Pretty much explains all.
Kage
11-04-2005, 06:50 PM
Generally it means the use of standard (insert genre here) instrumentation to create unusual sounds that are somewhat oustide of the genre the band is actually playing in. But it's basically come to be a genre of instrumental-based atmospheric rock or metal.
Neurotoxin
11-04-2005, 07:13 PM
The prefix "post-" is used to label a new genre formed through the progression of another genre.
Lord Abortion
11-04-2005, 07:15 PM
Post-office is a new genre formed through the progression of offices
Permanent Solution
11-04-2005, 07:17 PM
Post is what happens when you take influences from one genre, but take it somewhere relatively far from where it started, so that it's clearly not said genre, but the influence is still clear.
Steerpike
11-04-2005, 07:21 PM
Post is what happens when you take influences from one genre, but take it somewhere relatively far from where it started, so that it's clearly not said genre, but the influence is still clear.

Sounds about right. Take for example the post-punk scene. There are some straight-up post-punk bands like The Pixies.

But the movement is more famous for spawning distinctive sub-genres such as New Wave (The Police, The Cars), Goth (The Cure, Joy Division), and New Romantic (Adam Ant).

All these bands have a punk influence, but have progressed beyond the trappings of the base genre to form something of a bastard child out of it.
nowitzki
11-04-2005, 08:49 PM
Post-office is a new genre formed through the progression of offices
:lol: , excellent definition.
Rompus
11-04-2005, 09:14 PM
Post-office is a new genre formed through the progression of offices

so kind of like if they made an office space 2?
Kage
11-04-2005, 10:37 PM
so kind of like if they made an office space 2?
No, not at all.
Toaster
11-04-2005, 11:14 PM
I always thought of post- as meaning "after", so the genre that comes after the root one. It sort of makes sense.
i am the robots
11-04-2005, 11:19 PM
Sounds about right. Take for example the post-punk scene. There are some straight-up post-punk bands like The Pixies.

But the movement is more famous for spawning distinctive sub-genres such as New Wave (The Police, The Cars), Goth (The Cure, Joy Division), and New Romantic (Adam Ant).

All these bands have a punk influence, but have progressed beyond the trappings of the base genre to form something of a bastard child out of it.

Would Post-Metalcore work for bands that keep getting labeled 'Metalcore' but have nothing to do with Hardcore? Because some of these bands do sound similar to certain Metalcore bands, minus the Hardcore parts.