slint stopped making records. they win.

I've been following Mogwai since Young Team, by which point I was already Slint fan. Like many posters here, I never made any connection between the two bands, though I suppose they work within the similar idioms at times. I love both bands' records.

I suppose I deserve to die, though, because I prefer Mogwai to Slint. Waffle Factor of 3.

placeholder wrote:I suppose I deserve to die, though, because I prefer Mogwai to Slint.

Sure do.

I prefer june of 44, and shipping news to both, however slint smokes mogwai, come on!

for me, it's about the impact Slint made on me and my friends when Spiderland came out - we were at an impressionable age (18/19), and it sounded SO original - we couldn't understand where it had come from at all. So when I heard Mogwai, they just fit into that box, they didn't have the shocking originality that Slint had. I think that's one of the things i'm still listening for in music, a band just being themselves. There's nothing new under the sun etc, but when you combine a group of people who are all being honest and open, something happens...

so Slint.

ps - i just read that back and it reads like i'm saying mogwai aren't honest or open, which is not what i mean at all. I'm just still thrilled about Spiderland. soz lads.

I just sat around searching clothes that hadn't been washed in months for hairs that couldn't possibly be mine.

Mogwai.

Spiderland is great.

and 'Xmas Steps' is a motherfucking song.

but i can't really be bothered with either as of the last several years...