MOGWAI - Classic or Dud?

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.

I mean CODY obviously

Young Team has the inferior version of Summer

‘Rock Action’ remains my favourite.

I agree they've been dull since Rock Action. Still a great live band, like.

I loved their soundtrack work for “Les Revenants”, so there’s that.

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.

Hawk gets off to a wonderful start but then loses itself in noodling later on. Mr Beast is kind of all rubbish

*beast means paedophile or sexual offender in the west of scotland

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, 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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Strange

right gotcha. what about take me somewhere nice', that's second by miles...

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.

right gotcha. what about take me somewhere nice', that's second by miles...

― imago, Friday, October 13, 2017 2:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people love stuart's dulcet tones?

maybe the first Mogwai you hear is your favorite? that would be CODY for me.

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.

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.

those are pretty unusual choices for boring track and highlight imo! takes all sorts i guess

i learned that a long time ago yet it remains surprising.

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.

you don't know jesus in rock action is pretty zzzz

waht this is like their best song! (After 2 Rights and Helicon 1.)

idk it was the one from rock action playing when i glanced at the screen thinking 'hurry up, when's 2 rights coming on?'

dude, that whole album is like 38 minutes long lol

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

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luM6oeCM7Yw
how does this have 70,000,000 views??

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)

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?

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

I'm=imo

some=song omg fuck posting on a phone

CODY released 20 years ago the day

"Helps Both Ways" came on shuffle the other day and it brought me back to my fair youth!

Reckon they’re all probably into eurorack now.

Rather like the new one.

Back in September 1999, I had the chance to see GYBE and Mogwai at two separate shows the same week. Mogwai had this little thing called 'dynamics,' which among other things meant, say, not playing the same damn song over and over again and again, including the encores. Now guess how quickly I feel asleep at the GYBE show -- standing ten feet from the stage, I should note. Labradford blew them off the stage while playing at one/one-hundreth of the volume level.

ROFL

All true!

Fwiw I saw both of those shows in I think the same week of Sept. 99 as well (presumably on the opposite coast, at Maxwell's in Hoboken) and that is a hilariously immoderate reaction. The wording, the indignation... It's all very funny

I think "Mogwai had this little thing called 'dynamics'" and "now guess how quickly i fell asleep" were my favorite parts

'blown off the stage by labradford' is the saddest of all epithets

Out of the two shows I would say Ganger played the weakest set, but it's true that Labradford were better than GY!BE

I think that was the same week as the Matador 10th anniversary show at Irving Plaza where some guy yelled "DON'T DO IT!!" over the silence just as Stuart Braithwaite was about to kick the distortion on for the loud part of 'Like Herod' and *the entire place* including Stu erupted in laughter.

single sounds like Snow Patrol

lol xp

Dying at “DON’T DO IT!”

awesome

Re: one/one-hundredth of the volume level tho. Idk, I distinctly remember being surprised and disappointed that GYBE were soooo quiet. Only time i've seen them live.

At the Matador 10th show Mogwai's set was followed by the Cornelius Group who I wouldn't say blew them off the stage exactly but it certainly would have been a little sad if Mogwai had followed them instead.