Favorite Post Rock Band?
 

Which post rock band do you love the most? There's so many of them I feel I've only heard a drop in the ocean of the genre. I think I like Mogwai the most, but I just discovered Explosions in The Sky debut and love it. I love the epic feel of their music.

So who do you choose? Mogwai? Godspeed You Black Emperor ? Slint ? Tortoise? A Silver Mt. Zion?

slint.

godspeed

Mogwai. I love a lot of other post rock bands (Godspeed, Tortoise, Slint, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Fly Pan Am, Silver Mt Zion, Redjetson, etc), but no one can make me feel such emotions as Mogwai. It's incredible how they can make an absolutely beautiful song with only a repetitive piano pattern ("I Know You Are But What Am I?"), or create tension during minutes for a really brief but intense explosion ("Christmas Steps"). Everything's perfect about them, I really love them. Plus the blog on their website is hilarious

The Sex Pistols.

Mogwai hands down. Last two album weren't too good, however I still adore their earlier output (EP+6!)

Fly Pan Am as well as majority of the Constellation roster used to be (or still are) very good indeed.

Bowery Electric's Beat was sheer heaven.

Flying Saucer Attack had some great albums.

Long Fin Killie was good too.

:).

Slint by a country mile. And that's coming from one of the biggest Mogwai fans around.

We couldn't guess by your nickname at all ;) (great track anyway)

Slint!

I like the Red Sparowes a lot.

Talk Talk (Spirit of Eden / Laughing stock) & Mark Hollis solo
Sigur Rós

For me it would have to be Mogwai.

Slint's "post rock" now? Odd... I can see them inspiring bands within the genre, but I typically think of stuff like Godspeed or Do Make Say Think when I think of post rock. Post and math rock have really been meshed together, I guess.

So, in that case: A Minor Forest.. but I'd say that's math rock... Gastr Del Sol.. but to me that's folk.. so I'll say World's end Girlfriend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-rock_bands

mogwai are one of the boringest bands in the world. really, really boring.
all the bands who play in this apparent genre, and started out after the term "post rock" was coined pretty much suck.
i saw pelican play tonight; BBBBBBOOOOOORRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!!
luckily for me they were only the support act and high on fire who were the main band totally killed it.

i hate the fucking term and 95% of the bands associated with it, but a band that takes slint's dynamics as ripped off by mogwai but in an incredibly emotional way AND are masters of songwriter is mono, so that's my favorite, whatever the fuck it means.

godspeed, slint (i think theyre post rock), tortoise, mono, stereolab on their more ost rock-isah days. not a big fan of this genre.

Mogwai.

the originators, the practitioners, the perfectionists of the form.

bowery electric aren't really post rock, are they? but they were good.

slint by a long shot

my favorite post rock band is wu-tang clan.

haha

Silence Kit

earth crisis

Tortoise!

Sigur Ros
Explosions in the Sky
Mono
Giardino di Miro

favorites, I'd say:
paik
morkobot
65 days of static

if those qualify in the "category".

i like a lot early mono and mogwai outputs, i like eits.
june of '44 ?
I like now defunct The Sea, Like Lead.
Giardini di mirò were really nice, especially live, but their more song-oriented latest album, hmmm, I don't like much.
red sparowes are really good.
September malevolence and evaptoria report are quite nice.
The Low Frequency in stereo have some nice songs.
Tortoise are great on many occasions.
Dianogah are nice.
ultraviolet makes me sick are nice too.
anoice are reaaaally nice too.

Tie between Slint, Talk Talk, Tortoise, and Sigur Rós.

I'd put Stereolab in there as well, but I'm not sure if they're considered "post-rock." I've heard people call them such before, though.

"Beat" was post rock.

"Lushlife" was shit.

EITS
Mono
Godspeed
ASMZ
Slint

Seefeel

A certain slice of Cul de Sac.

I loathe the term "post rock" though, and most of this music can easily verge toward the sterile or the saccharine very easily.
I don't think Flying Saucer Attack are post-rock in the least.

How could I've forgotten. "Quique" is my anti-depressant.

Well, the term was originally coined by Simon Reynolds to describe bands like them, Main etc etc, so I just thought that they'd deserve a mention because I also happen to like their music. Rubbish way of describing music, mind. I'm not entirely sure about Bark Psychosis being a post rock band as such either.

I'll add Hood to my list as I've just seen them referred to as post-rock.

I know these guys personally, the bass player Richard is a very nice person.

do make say think

Tortoise. The genre was invented to describe them after all. Slint to me are a post-punk band, though that doesn't make them any less awesome.

the Stones

Sorry, but that's simply not true, even though Tortoise were, at one point, the band that you immediately thought of (perhaps with Mogwai too) when you heard the term post-rock.

Those two and Godspeed.