Reasonably accurate. After reading a number of interviews with the band, they sounded like a band I would like -- brimming with a healthy disdain for pretty much everything else. Likewise, the influences they'd continually cite -- Stooges, Sabbath, etc. -- all suggested that their music would be right up my alley. Hate to say, however, but I just found their music to be staggeringly dull. Still do
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 May 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
Mogwai seem to be everything to everyone, because with the exception of "Ratts in the Capital," Happy Songs absolutely melts into a single blob of tepidness.
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
CODY blurs into one big homogenous blob for me.
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago) link
tracy is one of the most beautiful tracks imaginable,and mogwai fear satan is incredible,really immense sounding without being ridiculous...loads of the eps and other stuff were really good as well,and cody had its moments,but i never loved it as much as the others,although the run of three tracks towards the end was excellent...
they were great all the times i saw them live as well
i haven't really kept up with them though,i heard and quite liked rock action but never really bothered to get it,and i haven't heard anything since (unless that jewish hymn thing came out since then,which i really liked...)
this thread has made me really want to dig out some of their stuff,i must have a look....
― robin (robin), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
thinking about it,its weird,cause i haven't payed attention to much of that sort of music in ages,even though i used to love it,and in a way it was mogwai who got me out of it,since i heard of surgeon through them and subsequently got into techno...
― robin (robin), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
(i can't find any of my mogwai cds,its wrecking my head)
― robin (robin), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:15 (twenty years ago) link
― umop apisdn (umop apisdn), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
Well when it comes to Young Team I'd say more like Smashing Pumpkins.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
On the way up, only Hunted By A Freak and Ratts Of The Capital grabbed me at all. On the way back just now I thought I'd give it another try - Ratts Of The Capital didn't sound as good as it did yesterday. Hmm.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
Jesus! Thanks for the tip. I might have bought that thing on a whim or something someday.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
Sorry Ned!
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
right OTM.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 7 October 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Slint though.
― strom (strom), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 16 January 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 16 January 2005 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
and they're playing ATP, huzzah huzzah.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 16 January 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link
The BBC version of "New Paths To Helicon" is like a hot wet fuck.... yes it is. Sorry.
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 January 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― zeus, Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Happy Songs For Happy People2. Young Team3. Ten Rapid4. Rock Action5. Come On Die Young (I don't dig CODY)
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 17 January 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― rockaction (rockaction), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― wondering aloud, Friday, 18 February 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Mogwai: Are mostly classic but with more than a smattering of dud.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link