From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #108 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, April 2 2003 Volume 02 : Number 108 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:07:15 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Re: Mogwai killed/helped by swell maps Anyone hear Polak's 2002 album Rubberneckinng? I saw it in a store but wanted to buy it but I was wary that it wasn't as good as Adorable, but if someone could tell me, because I know they are quite EATB influenced. As for Swell Maps, their individual albums are hard to find, ragged but interesting. - --- Ted Turner wrote: > yes..very slint like in form/execution...and very > bunnylike in mood/presence > and general role on planet earth (/for rock & roll) > kinda thing......at > least they were 2/3 years ago....the last coupla > things have been kinda > boring.......i'm even bored with interpol a bit > now...oh well....everyone > should buy 3 swell maps records immediately...that > would be fun to see.... > and would make people happier and better. > > > Ted > > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 07:24 PM > Subject: RE: seven-seas list of influences? OT > Mogwai > > > > Mogwai are very influenced by shortlived math rock > > legends Slint, also if you do see them, wear > earplugs, > > they play extremely loud! > > > > > > > > > > --- looloo wrote: > > > >--->> mogwai (i'm sure they dig em......anyone > know > > > of actual reports to > > > this > > > >> effect) > > > > > > > >No, I heard they are very influenced by Black > > > Sabbath!!!! and I'm not > > > >joking - weird!! > > > > > > > >Shaz > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mogwais influences ..??? > > > > > > heres some extracts from an interview......... > > > > > > It's played on rock instruments, but it owes > more > > > to twentieth-century > > > composers such as Steve Reich and Arnold > Schoenberg > > > than it does to Chuck > > > Berry. > > > . > > > Mogwai started because the members were tired > of > > > playing bad covers of > > > Funkadelic and "Brown Sugar"; they wanted to > make > > > music in the tradition of > > > Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain, to > make > > > records they would want > > > to buy. Braithwaite and Aitchison, both college > > > students in Glasgow, met at > > > a Ned's Atomic Dustbin concert and formed Mogwai > in > > > the summer of 1995. > > > > > > looloo > > > > > > PS shall i get them tix shaz -- do you have a > > > babysitter?? > > > > > > > > > > > > ====================================== > > > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > > > > > ====================================== > > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, > forms, and more > > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > ====================================== > > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > > > ====================================== > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:19:50 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas list of influences? > >Preston School of Industry This name has always stuck in my head -- are they from Preston Lancs? Everytime I see that place name I think of the band! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #108 ********************************