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Originally Posted by markl
WAY WAY over-rated. -Mogwai- I was suckered into buying a bunch of their albums and they all left me dozing--- YAWN! .
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I have to say something here, only so that people who've never heard Mogwai don't give up on a great band without having heard them.... I don't even understand how they keep getting mentioned in a SR thread. Any similarities between them are only on the most superficial level. SR are new-agey atmospherics mostly, whereas Mogwai's essence is more of the 'guitars up to 11' variety. Their appeal for their fans is mostly found in the balance/tension between prettiness and flat out noise music. No one's ever done that nearly as well, if that's your thing.
Two things I will say about Mogwai are that their albums could be seen as uneven for the non-diehard, and also that to really understand them you need to see them live. But don't take my word on any of this, if you're curious, check out this live recording in FLAC, which sounds good and I'd say is fairly representative:
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-d...b.php?id=17733
It's not illegal at all, bands have to give their permission to have shows on this site.
A band that Trans Am and Mogwai wish they could be???? Which means they're....... a mariachi band? Yodellers? I honestly have no idea what you could mean by that. But then, you spend winters in Ontario and go to Califoria in summer, so you're obviously one sick, sick individual
Back on SR, I don't mind them, I've actually somehow seen them three times.... on their last tour a couple years ago they played an unreleased song, 'milano' I think it's called, that gives me hope that their next album could be really good. It was the best thing they played that night, stunning. But you only have to see both bands to see that there's barely any point of comparison between them and Mogwai. Which is good since SR coming along when they did... similarities would only be a ripoff if they existed.