35 minutes of official video from the 6 music live thing they did yesterday lunchtime. might be available in audio-only mode for foreigners. and i think it might be red-buttonable for those of you reading this on their televisions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b097slq0/6-music-live-2017-7-mogwai
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 12:11 (six years ago) link
(red button appears to be finished: http://www.tvguide.co.uk/mobile/channellisting.asp?ch=636#268011962 )
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
God they're so boring. This cross the road tune they keep playing on 6music, you know exactly what it's going to do from the second it starts.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 13 October 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
yeah the new album was a whole load of nothing
― imago, Friday, 13 October 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
maybe, maybe 'party in the dark' was ok, they should just give up the whole post-rock thing
― imago, Friday, 13 October 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
it's all been downhill since rock action tbh
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
i only have 'mr. beast', an album that rarely gets mentioned, so i guess that's indicative as to its place in the catalogue.
― mark e, Friday, 13 October 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
never listen to their records but generally catch them live
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 13 October 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
xp. their first bad album for me.
my friend worked in a record shop and gave me a mr beast t-shirt. it just said mogwai on the front, or so i thought. i put it on and went outside - in glasgow - and a wee ned shouted at me "hawl you, mr beast, ya mad paedo*" or words to that effect. as it said "Mr Beast" on the back.
*beast means paedophile or sexual offender in the west of scotland
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Mr Beast is where the rot set in for me: a combination of vastly diminishing returns and horrible overly-compressed production.
I still enjoy the first 3 LPs and the early EPs
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
blimey.weird album title choice then.to be honest, i don't think i have ever listened to it all way through before boredom sets in and i change it for something different.
― mark e, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
Stuart Braithwaite did the album ranking thing a little while ago and very unusually for this sort of thing he seems to be pretty much right afaichttps://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/rkqn4y/rank-your-records-mogwai-stuart-braithwaiteFor this LP I liked the first single, not that keen on the second at all, still hoping it will live up to the former but sounds like maybe I'm in for a disappointment.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
with jim here, can't say i've cared about anything after rock action (which is their best)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 13 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised to see fans of Rock Action (which is my favorite album of theirs), it's historically been dismissed on ILM. Anyway, this is most interesting thing I've heard about Mogwai in a long time:
And I think we’re gonna do a reissue of (Rock Action) with another CD of music, a lot of which people haven’t heard.
― Klingon T'Kuvma Why Don't You Love Mah? (Leee), Friday, 13 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
Agree with Stuart that Happy Songs is the best one, Rock Action probably second. I'll say it again, though: Music For A Forgotten Future is their finest hour (give or take their Earth remix)
― imago, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
Young Team only at #4 is insane. Yes, the band member is wrong about his own albums.
Young Team and CODY best ones by a mile imo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, October 13, 2017 11:09 AM (twelve seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aye.
and if you could include EPs ten rapid might be my favourite
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 October 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah def!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
Young Team is great, but patchy. It has the much inferior version of Xmas Steps. HSFHP works better as an album, even if it doesn't have the hits. I would also say 10 Rapid is probably the best overall.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 October 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
I mean CODY obviously
Young Team has the inferior version of Summer
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 October 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
‘Rock Action’ remains my favourite.
― michaellambert, Friday, 13 October 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
I agree they've been dull since Rock Action. Still a great live band, like.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 13 October 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
I loved their soundtrack work for “Les Revenants”, so there’s that.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 13 October 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Hardcore Will Never Die is great, and seconded for Les Revenants (although it's very soundtracky). Quite like Rave Tapes, but Beast / Hawk etc are lifeless, and the new one is a non-event.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
Hawk gets off to a wonderful start but then loses itself in noodling later on. Mr Beast is kind of all rubbish
― imago, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
― mark e, Friday, October 13, 2017 10:10 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to clarify this: although beast is used to mean that and the members of mogwai will know that, i don't think that use of the word is the intent of the name of the album
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
Their most popular song on Spotify, by a factor of 2, is Kids Will Be Skeletons - absolutely one of their best songs, but I wonder why it's so disproportionately popular? Was it in Twilight or something
― imago, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Strange
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
right gotcha. what about take me somewhere nice', that's second by miles...
― imago, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
Spotify isn't showing the popular songs in order of plays! Something called "Hungry Face" is in 8th place with 11 million plays.
Anyway, RA > CODY > 10 Rapid, then God Mr. Beast can have the rest.
― Klingon T'Kuvma Why Don't You Love Mah? (Leee), Friday, 13 October 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
― imago, Friday, October 13, 2017 2:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
people love stuart's dulcet tones?
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 October 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
maybe the first Mogwai you hear is your favorite? that would be CODY for me.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 October 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
Last June by chance I went out with Barry Burns until 4am, across the road from the lab where I first heard “Ex-Cowboy” about 20 years earlier. This was in Hobart, mind, which made it all pretty surreal.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 13 October 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
They've always had a strong line in boring, e.g. you don't know jesus in rock action is pretty zzzz. But there's usually a non boring highlight on their albums, e.g. the sun smells too loud on the hawk is howling. The new one though is indeed snores from start to end.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
those are pretty unusual choices for boring track and highlight imo! takes all sorts i guess
― imago, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
i learned that a long time ago yet it remains surprising.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
The Sun Smells Too Loud was my takeaway from that album, as it happens. The rest dull as fuck.
Boring /= repetitive. Especially with this band. Boring = predictable, which is generally what they are on their more dynamic stuff.
The Nonkeen records from last year scratched the itch for me that Mogwai never have been able to.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
you don't know jesus in rock action is pretty zzzz
waht this is like their best song! (After 2 Rights and Helicon 1.)
― (I am a robot.) (Leee), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
idk it was the one from rock action playing when i glanced at the screen thinking 'hurry up, when's 2 rights coming on?'
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
dude, that whole album is like 38 minutes long lol
― imago, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
there was a wee season or two after it came out that the sun smells too loud was always played at half time at celtic home games
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
was good pie-line muzak
I seem to have said pretty much the same thing twice above, but almost everything pre-CODY = classic, everything after that = dud. In particular 10 Rapid is their best album by a mile.
― toby, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
All the score in 'KIN' is created by one of our favorite bands in the world, Mogwai. Dream collaboration. You wait to you hear this album world. https://t.co/oaZlRCFkhE— Jonathan & Josh Baker (@RedBikeBlueBike) April 27, 2018
the gwai have done another soundtrack
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 April 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luM6oeCM7Ywhow does this have 70,000,000 views??
― salt sugar fat, that's where it's at (rip van wanko), Sunday, 20 May 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
the comment section is basically an entire forum on depression and suicide ideation. not sure how this happened but there is your explanation. (reading further it seems 9gag has something to do with it, and that there's as much trolling as sincere outpouring)
― imago, Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
i mean i'm watching 13 Reasons Why S2 at the moment - trying to recall whether this song featured in S1. I think it might have?
― imago, Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah it does have a unique comments section (and kinda cool I'm), but i didn't consider that the comments section of any one indie some might take on a life of its own like it apparently has
― salt sugar fat, that's where it's at (rip van wanko), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
I'm=imo