That one's great too.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 13:13 (nine years ago) link
Hang on a minute. I think I'm risking doing a disservice to Mr Beast, which I'm listening to now for the first time since the days following its release. By 2006, the year this album came out, I was becoming a fucking anti-rock weirdo but, as always, I dutifully download whatever the newest Mogwai was at the time and listen to it once or twice. I remember giving this one a "hrmph, I guess that's sort of okay, why do they have to do all that guitar metal stuff."
Something I've learned at age 35 that I didn't know at 30 or 25 or 20 is that if someone's œuvre—not just music, btw—appears monotonous and repetitive to you as a young person, well, let's say that when you get old you will probably end up viewing slow, iterative improvement as more artistically rewarding than you used to. In fact, you may come to appreciate someone's career primarily based on its stylistic continuity and those same subtle adjustments made to a single set of musical building blocks.
Almost every building block on Mr Beast has a 1:1 parallel with something on Rock Action, but in every case it's a significant upgrade. Mogwai albums are like Apple's desktop operating system upgrades. Sometimes you're disappointed there's not really any new "features," but as a grownup you end up appreciating the bug fixes more than the features anyway.
Plus as a 35 year old I'm much, much more into sludgy metal guitar than I was ten years ago ;-)
― fields of salmon, Monday, 20 October 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
congrats on doing your absolute damnedest to spin "mogwai's albums have sucked progressively harder since 2003" into a positive.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
Actually doing my damnedest to spin "my life since 2003" into a positive. But also discovering a weird kind of Mogwai album bias among people of a similar age along the way. And actually I think Mogwai's doing just fine, thank you very much.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28jny6_mogwai-full-concert-live-pitchfork-music-festival-paris_music
― StanM, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
3CD compilation
https://www.musicglue.com/mogwai-1/products/central-belters-cd/
― StanM, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
Huh. Hadn't heard about that at all!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
haha, cracking name
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
(mogwai are from Glasgow and environs in Scotland's "central belt". "belter" is a thing which is of high quality)
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
That looks pretty good but the gulf in quality between the material on the first CD and the others is pretty big.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Surprised they left 'Like Herod' off though.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Music For A Forgotten Future, Like Herod (BBC versh), Fear Satan and Ex Cowboy = CD4
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
xp I've always used "belter" to describe an object or action that is good, e.g. "Brain Easton's recent goal against Aberdeen for St Johnstone was a belter!", or to describe a person who may otherwise be considered a bit of a radge, bam, walloper or haver.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
your first definition is the one I was going for as well.
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
It's a great album title whichever definition you go with.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Brilliantly...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/DulwichHamletFC">@DulwichHamletFC</a> 1-0 <a href="https://twitter.com/bromleyfc">@bromleyfc</a> Reece Johnson's belter after 4 mins the difference. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DHFC?src=hash">#DHFC</a> <a href="https://t.co/00LvYmLQfQ">pic.twitter.com/00LvYmLQfQ</a></p>— Forward The Hamlet (@ForwardHamlet) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForwardHamlet/status/656916486947213312">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
Well, that didn't work. Not that it was an essential contribution.
Forward The Hamlet @ForwardHamletHT: @DulwichHamletFC 1-0 @bromleyfcReece Johnson's belter after 4 mins the difference.#DHFC 8:34 PM - 21 Oct 2015
Reece Johnson's belter after 4 mins the difference.
#DHFC 8:34 PM - 21 Oct 2015
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
who is this compilation designed for though?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 22 October 2015 08:50 (eight years ago) link
Who are any compilations designed for?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 22 October 2015 08:56 (eight years ago) link
Fear Satan is on CD1.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 October 2015 09:02 (eight years ago) link
Mogwai are one of those bands that I honestly *REALLY WANNA LIKE*, but it just never seems to happen.
I feel a bit like this.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 22 October 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link
― Matt DC, Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:02 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good, i only threw it on to pad the length out
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 22 October 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm really loving the new LP, the re-recorded soundtrack to the Atomic film. It sounds like some of the EP+ 6 tunes with quieter guitars and horns. I like it a lot. I'm surprised there isn't more talk about it.
― kraudive, Thursday, 14 April 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
I absolutely love the new Atomic album too. It's has some really beautiful moments and I'm surprised at quite how well it works as a stand-alone listen. I think you're right in saying it sounds quite like that older period at points. I'd have to go back and check the specific songs, but Are You A Dancer? and Tzar remind me of the No Education = No Future EP, I think.
I got tickets yesterday to see them perform this alongside the film at Edinburgh International Festival in August.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 17 April 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
It's easily the best album they've released in over a decade.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 17 April 2016 12:41 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/68150-trent-reznor-and-mogwai-score-leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-film-before-the-flood/
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 September 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
For what it's worth, I listened to Atomic a couple of times right after the Orlando massacre, and heard some of it on the radio since, and it's always seemed somber but alert, all that good shit.
― dow, Friday, 9 September 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Who's up in this? I'm shitfaced and want to put in a Migwau record. I have them all up until 2007 you choose
― fields of salmon, Monday, 3 April 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Rock Action still my favorite.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
me too
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
Toss up between Happy Songs for Happy People and Young Team for me.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
that one from like, 2010 is pretty decent
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
a metalhead friend acquaintance went to go see them live and whined after that they were 'way too loud' which i kind of loved tbh
I'd probably have plumped for the Govt Commissions album.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 08:10 (seven years ago) link
Anyone heard Burns work with Kangding Ray's Daniel Letelier as SUMS yet? An EP is due soon.Interview: http://www.factmag.com/2017/03/28/sums-kangding-ray-barry-burns-interview/
― willem, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 09:25 (seven years ago) link
Rock Action for me too. But yet to hear a recording of Two Rights that comes anywhere close to how it sounds live.
― stet, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 10:38 (seven years ago) link
I guess I need to see them live again. I've probably seen them do that one at least once but those moments are lost in time like tears in the fucking rain.
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 12:11 (seven years ago) link
I have a boot somewhere in which the lads mix in a Martin Luther King speech over 2 Rights.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link
not an album but EP+6 for me
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
rock action as an album is quite good
then come on die young
there was a time when young team was my fave tho but i grew out of it (tracy still great track)
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Details of the new album 'Every Country's Son' were announced this morning, out 1st September 2017. First track "Coolverine" sounds solid, if not immediately earth shattering.
Tracklisting: Coolverine, Party In The Dark, Brain Sweeties, Crossing The Road Material, aka 47, 20 Size, 1000 Foot Face, Don't Believe The Fife, Battered At A Scramble, Old Poisons, Every Country's Sun
I'm still very excited. Produced by Dave Fridmann, talk of at least one "pop" song, plus it's apparently a long album, so there should be an epic or two.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 14 May 2017 09:45 (six years ago) link
Because I was bored and because a mate (in Rutland) want a comp...
Mogwai Fear Rutland
Yes, I Am A Long Way From Home (Young Team)Stanley Kubrick (EP + 6)Glasgow Megasnake (Burning)Kids Will Be Skeletons (Happy Songs)Cody (CODY)You Don't Know Jesus (Rock Action)We're No Here (Mr Beast)New Paths to Helicon Pt.1 (Govt. Commissions)Ratts of the Capital (Happy Songs)Punk Rock (CODY)Mogwai Fear Satan (Young Team)2 Rights Make 1 Wrong (Burning)Superheroes of BMX (4 Satin)Small Children in the Background (EP + 6)My Father, My King (My Father My King EP)
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 September 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
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