MOGWAI - Classic or Dud?

Sorry, no, I don't have it.

the US version had four tracks, but kept the same tracklist as the UK, if that makes any sense

Right! I was wondering if it was just a change of name ... didn't realise it actually had an extra track.

Bugger, I really want to hear this now. If anyone *does* have it ...

hey, if I can track it down, maybe I'll post it. It is one of my favorite tracks of theirs & has a killer bassline & is as close to actual metal as I've heard them sound, regardless of the lack of vox (I tend to like Mogwai best in opposite extremes: total rocking out or droney & ambient).

If noone serves it up based on this exchange, I'll rip it when I visit my parents next week. Much of my CD collection is in boxes in their attic.

That'd be magic: I really don't think I've ever heard it (I've just been through my not-very-impressive Mogwai rarities folder) and yeh, metal-Mogwai is invariably a good thing.

Someone else out there must have it, though ... surely?

Most of us yanks haven't risen yet, so give it a few hours..

Good point, well made.

Success!: Mogwai - Guardians of Space

Dude! Awesome. Downloaded; will listen later.

Aye, cheers, I don't think I've heard this one either.

I like this. It's an oddity, certainly, but my life is the better for hearing it. Thanks!

still classic live

What he said, having just seen them for the first time in...nine years? Close to that. Great show.

Psyched about the live film & album coming soon! Trailer @ http://www.mogwai.co.uk

Yeh, I think there was some talk about this on the Scottish Bands thread, too. Looks fucking ace.

I listened to The Hawk Is Howling yesterday for the first time in ages. While I still maintain they've not made a studio album yet that's really representative of their genius, this one really isn't that far off ...

...but it's so frontloaded!

SCOTLAND'S SHAME, DUDE! SCOTLAND'S SHAME!

that's the only good track in the second half! and it's kinda a one-trick pony. 'biggest bass ever'

'i'm jim morrison, i'm dead' is probably all-time mogwai top-5 tho

Special Moves - track list and MP3 giveaway
Mogwai's first live album will be released on Rock Action Records this spring. Released alongside the live film Burning. The formats will be CD and DVD and limited deluxe triple vinyl box set which will also include the dvd of Burning, set lists and a poster. The artwork was designed by Aidan Moffat.

To mark the announcement of the full tracklisting for this release Mogwai will be giving away a free MP3 of the song 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong taken from the Special Moves live CD via the minisite www.mogwaispecialmoves.com

The track list for the the cd/dvd version is:

- I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
- Friend Of The Night
- Hunted By A Freak
- Mogwai Fear Satan
- Cody
- You Don't Know Jesus
- I Know You Are But What Am I
- I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
- 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
- Like Herod
- Glasgow Megasnake

The track list for the vinyl version is

- I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
- Friend Of The Night
- Hunted By A Freak
- Mogwai Fear Satan
- Cody
- You Don't Know Jesus
- I Know You Are But What Am I
- i Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School
- 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
- Like Herod
- Glasgow Megasnake
- Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home
- Scotlands Shame
- New Paths To Helicon Part 1
- Batcat
- Thank You Space Expert
- The Precipice

The extra songs featured on the vinyl release will be available as a free download with the CD.

those tracklists are pretty ideal. would only ask for 'kids will be skeletons' or 'ratts of the capital' in addition. but yeah, definitive. i'll probably be getting this on the strength of the song-choices

I had a little spat with Braithwaite on Twitter the other day.

loooooooool imo he should do the richey edwards 4 real thing to prove he isn't an act

Quite.

a trifle up 'emselves, aren't they

they're allowed to be.

I had a little spat with Braithwaite on Twitter the other day

Did you? I don't follow him so I missed this ... go on ...

Premiere of the film at the GFT on Feb 28, by the way. I fully intend to be there for it.

This isn't exactly the first live album, is it? I mean, "Government Commissions" was a Peel Sessions disc, which was pretty live. And yes that tracklist looks solid and could be improved only by "My Father, My King".

Which I once had the opportunity to see them play live and WOW

Stuart Braithwaite playing a short 6-song solo set at the opening party for an exhibition of Spacemen 3-related artworks by Natty Brooker at Mono, Glasgow on Sunday 17th January 2009...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v2/p659845636-3.jpg

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p664840244-3.jpg

get a smaller guitar man, y'look like verne troyer

Preorder http://www.mogwaispecialmoves.com/order

i was on the train wi barry burns, or his doppleganger, on Monday.

Dear Call All Destroyer, here is how to make Mogwai's first two studio LPs as good as or even better than Rock Action and HSFHP:

1. Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home
2. Like Herod
3. Tracy
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4. R U Still In 2 It
5. Mogwai Fear Satan

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1. Punk Rock
2. CODY
3. Helps Both Ways
4. Y2K Non-Compliant Cardia
5. May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door
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6. Oh! How The Dogs Stack Up
7. Ex-Cowboy
8. Chocky
9. the last 3 minutes of Christmas Steps w/ Luke Sutherland on violin and Iggy Pop's speech overlaid backwards

^^^awesome albumz

btw I don't think it would be hard to get a segue from the noise-out at the end of Chocky into the guitar figure that concludes CS (as soon as the drums cut out, is when I would pick it up)

New studio album in Feb. 2011 -> http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/52392

Mogwai play Stereo next Sunday 29th August!

Tickets onsale tomorrow morning 11am in person from Monorail or online from Ticketmaster (link is currently non-working).

Mogwai say:

Glasgow - Stereo 29th August

We are playing a show next Sunday August 29th at Stereo in Glasgow. Moon Unit are playing too. Doors are at 8pm. Tickets will be available online tomorrow morning at 11am here . They will also be available in person from Monorail records at 11am tomorrow. Tickets are £10 and proceeds will be going to Lanarkshire Cancer Trust and aid to the victims of the floods in Pakistan.

I could pretty much explode with excitement at the prospect of seeing them at such a tiny venue!

BTW, Re: Special Moves live album: tomorrow.

Physical items will ship on 8/23.
Digital downloads will be available on 8/23.

who got this today?:

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CD/LP Track listing

1. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead"
2. "Friend of the Night"
3. "Hunted By A Freak"
4. "Mogwai Fear Satan"
5. "Cody"
6. "You Don't Know Jesus"
7. "I Know You Are But What Am I"
8. "I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School"
9. " 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong"
10. "Like Herod"
11. "Glasgow Megasnake"
additional tracks on LP version and available through download
12. "Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home"
13. "Scotland's Shame"
14. "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1"
15. "Batcat"
16. "Thank You Space Expert"
17. "The Precipice"

Burning live DVD track listing:

1. "The Precipice"
2. "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead"
3. "Hunted By A Freak"
4. "Like Herod"
5. "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1"
6. "Mogwai Fear Satan"
7. "Scotland's Shame"
8. "Batcat"

I did on Monday.

Me too. It's very good.

Forgot how much I still loved "Christmas Steps" -- good to have the reminder.

My personal Mogwai gigography, thus far...

1998.09.16 - Northgate Arena, Chester (supporting Manic Street Preachers)
2001.11.03 - Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
2003.10.19 - Barrowlands, Glasgow
2005.08.18 - ABC, Glasgow
2005.11.29 - Arches, Glasgow
2006.04.27 - Usher Hall, Edinburgh
2006.09.23 - Barrowlands, Glasgow
2007.07.14 - Custard Factory, Birmingham (Supersonic Festival)
2008.04.26 - Tramway, Glasgow (Triptych Festival)
2008.10.21 - Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
2010.08.29 - Stereo, Glasgow

I have the Mogwai Season Ticket for the 5 Scottish shows at the end of this month as well.

Shamefully, having a) grown up in Scotland and b) been into Mogwai since around 1999/2000, the Perth show at the end of the month will be my first time ever seeing them live. At least it's in my hometown, right? The 16 year old me would have exploded. May have a ticket for the Feb Edinburgh show too, which would help work on the total.

I dig their name, I dig their song titles, I dig their album covers and titles. But there's nothing *very* captivating about the band where I feel I have to amass multiple albums. It's unfortuante that in the sort of post-rock realm that if something touches upon being visual, it's given the OK to be recorded. I try looking for a hook but then realize there isn't supposed to be one, and really that's sort of where the subgenre fails: I usually have a hard time differentiating album to album, song to song.

i think mogwai's albums have been kinda stale since c. 2003 or so, but i'll still see 'em live when i can

show i caught Mr. Beast-era was immense

I've repeatedly tried to like them, but never gotten anywhere. (I don't like most things, come to think of it.)

The new Remember Remember album (on Mogwai's Rock Action imprint) is very lovely.

Was listening to that this morning! Good stuff.

I remember seeing him years ago playing a bar on a Sunday night where nobody was interested. He started getting heckled so he'd record the heckles and loop them into the songs.