Sounds From The Junkshop #29 - The Longpigs
"There is not yet a neat media label to describe you and me and this age/Well fuck them" - The Longpigs , Gangsters , 1999 Certain bands always seem to get written off from the get go as sounding like they're deliberately trying to be a cross between two other successful bands. For example, I remember Embrace (local to myself) being pilloried a lot in the early stages of their career for sounding too much like a blatant cross between Oasis and the Verve (harsh in my opinion as their second album absolutely pissed on both of the overblown turgid-fests that were Be Here Now and Urban Hymns in terms of quality). Sheffield natives the Longpigs were another band who seemed to get it in the neck as the general consensus when they broke through was that they just seemed to be trying a bit too hard to sound like a cross between Radiohead and Suede. It's a shame really because they were a decent band. I first got wise to them after hearing their third single ...