OFF: Mogwai and Tortoise?

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

Well, if the first two Tortoise albums are ' the storm that is AC/DC' then
the Mogwai albums 'Come On Die Young' and 'Young Team' are the massive
hurricane that make the storm look like a mild wind. In short, they will
blow you away....very much an Andy G and CDS favourite - oh, those
guitars!!!.
Andy G.
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Subject: Re: OFF: Mogwai and Tortoise?


> > I'll have to check this one (MNL...) out.  I agree that TNT is ok, but
> > nothing that special.
>
> Yeah, if I hadn't thought so highly of the first two releases, I would
never
> have bought the second two.
> To me they sound a little like this:
> If the first two albums are like AC/DC's Highway to Hell then the 2nd two
> albums are like the Carpenters covering AC/DC's Highway to Hell.  A little
> to clever, a little too well-produced, maybe just a little too nice.
>
> > I mean, inventive and original
> > bands like this should play to more than 400 people, but that'll never
> > happen, and these 400 people should also be going to see bands that I
> think
> > are even more inventive and original.  Instead of 50.
>
> Well, then make with the suggestions of recordings to find (live
underground
> music doesn't really happen here in Belfast).