Young Team: Mogwai: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Yes! I am a long way from home

2. Like Herod

3. Katrien

4. Radar Maker

5. Tracy

6. Summer (priority version)

7. With Portfolio

8. R U still in 2 it

9. A cheery wave from stranded youngsters

10. Mogwai Fear Satan

Product Description

Album Description

2 CD Remastered Deluxe Edition includes a bonus disc with nine additional tracks of sessions, unreleased tracks and live cuts.

Album Details

Second Full-length Release, this Time with the Addition of Former Teenage Fanclub and Telstar Ponies Member Brendan O'hare.

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4.4 out of 5 stars (39 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, July 26 2008

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T. Bigney (Nova Scotia, canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Young Team (Audio CD)

Mogwai weren't the first rock band to stack up thick, hypnotic layers of ambient drone, thread in some raw cellos and violins, maximize the rushing crescendo, and then proudly brand the result "post-rock." But they are, inarguably, some of the most successful noodlers their field has seen. Dealing in pedals, ploys and big, galactic drama, Mogwai consistently capture the experience of loping up every last hill in Scotland, then tumbling back down with a gorgeous, triumphant blast of sound. While Mogwai's output may be perpetually swelling, it's hardly facile: Young Team, the band's stunning 1997 debut, pulled together unexpected bits of found sound, carefully tinkered piano, and plenty of now-trademark crashing guitars, each lulling wave of sound eventually punctuated by an explosion of feedback or jarring soft-loud shift. Successfully transcending the tedium of instrumental drone rock, Young Team remains a thrilling listen, dynamic, arch and occasionally terrifying: Check the unforeseeable guitar eruption three minutes into "Like Herod". You will fall out of your chair.

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5.0 out of 5 stars There's nothing else in the world like this., Jun 30 2004

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mike "pumpkinhead27510" (chapel hill, NC) - See all my reviews

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This has got to be one of the most genre-defying albums I've ever heard. Very unique. Too dynamic to be considered minimalism; too jarringly noisy and heady to be sad-core, yet the gentle soothing passages throughout are far too ambient to be considered noise-rock. This is beautiful noisy music. If you're expecting some exruciating lo-fi guitar-noise garage-bound trash, look elsewhere. Mogwai is VERY refreshing in the sense that it's arty, dissonant, ambient, tasteful AND well-produced. The sound is HUGE. The music itself requires patience, because it does take a good 4 or 5 listens to really sink in. I admit some of it does seem like overkill, but turn it up and before you know it you'll be lost in it's crushing waves of sound. "Mogwai Fear Satan" is beautiful beyond beleif. I saw them perform it live...there are no words to describe that experience. They play VERY loud. If they come near you, DEFINATLY see them. Loudest show I've ever been to, with The Damned being a close second. Buy this album!

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5.0 out of 5 stars in the top 100 best albums of the '90s!, Jun 25 2004

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lost_weasel (200 bars) - See all my reviews

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"Mogwai weren't the first rock band to stack up thick, hypnotic layers of ambient drone, thread in some raw cellos and violins, maximize the rushing crescendo, and then proudly brand the result "post-rock." But they are, inarguably, some of the most successful noodlers their field has seen. Dealing in pedals, ploys and big, galactic drama, Mogwai consistently capture the experience of loping up every last hill in Scotland, then tumbling back down with a gorgeous, triumphant blast of sound. While Mogwai's output may be perpetually swelling, it's hardly facile: Young Team, the band's stunning 1997 debut, pulled together unexpected bits of found sound, carefully tinkered piano, and plenty of now-trademark crashing guitars, each lulling wave of sound eventually punctuated by an explosion of feedback or jarring soft-loud shift. Successfully transcending the tedium of instrumental drone rock, Young Team remains a thrilling listen, dynamic, arch and occasionally terrifying: Check the unforeseeable guitar eruption three minutes into "Like Herod". You will fall out of your chair." --Amanda Petrusich from pitchfork.

like Godspeed You Black Emperor's debut, "F#A# infinity", mogwai's "Young team" is also one of the greatest albums of the 1990s, setting a great example for post-rock. "Young team" is different. Yes, it has normally long running songs... 65 minutes on the whole album. and giving you the epic 16-minute, "Mogwar fear Satan". there is not a single skippable track on this ten-tracked album. having great ambience on "Yes! i am a long way from home", some of the best guitar playing i've ever heard "Like Herod", beautiful slow and melodic song "Tracy", and a epic song that differs from all the rest... "Mogwai fear Satan".

Not only is this one of the greatest albums of 1997, its one of the greatest albums in the '90s. period.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Mogwai: Not my cup of tea
It's certainly not a horrible album, it's just not very interesting, in fact the whole post-rock genre isn't half as interesting as all the art school geeks pretend it is. Read more

Published on Jun 22 2004 by toots11

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, But Not The Masterpiece It's Made Out To Be
I like Mogwai as much as the next person, but I'll be the first to admit that their records can be pretty spotty and inconsistant. Read more