Next step, Christmas #1
Why are post-rock bands so...inconsistent with their volume levels? Mogwai plays Atomic was polite where it should have howled, while GYBE's last tour was simply deafening
― theo, Friday, 26 February 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
Great success
“It’s been an incredible journey...” Mogwai (@mogwaiband) score their first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with As The Love Continues ❤️ https://t.co/xwNrF1Agwv— Official Charts (@officialcharts) February 26, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
ah that's nice for them
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
BOOM. Stuart was just on Scottish TV news talking about it. I had a wee lump in my throat.
― stirmonster, Friday, 26 February 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
Never had them down as a band who’d beg people to buy their album to get a number 1 but fair fuck’s to them if they pull it off
it must be pretty exciting to be in with a chance of having a no. 1. More power to them i say.
― stirmonster, Friday, 26 February 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
i don't keep up with them that much these days but thinking back to 20 odd years ago when it was so cool to me that barry burns' girlfriend's gran lived in my street, stuart had went to my high school, and that my pop punk band "the dirty lovers" (that never played a gig) practiced at the same place where they had recorded young team it does really warm the heart to see them achieve this milestone
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
Mogwai (@mogwaiband) score their first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart
awesome
Never had them down as a band who’d beg people to buy their album to get a number 1
they can totally pull it off because it's such an unlikely #1, it's a shared victory
Mogwai plays Atomic was polite where it should have howled, while GYBE's last tour was simply deafening
Precisely the inverse of the Sept 99 gigs lol. "Polite where it should have howled" describes that GYBE set perfectly.
i don't keep up with them that much these days
I've heard all of 2 tracks they've done since Rock Action tbh
They were one of my favorite bands in 97-98, CODY was a bit disappointing. YT sounds amazing, hiring Dave Fridmann to make a Steve Albini record was a misstep imo.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
rock action is my favorite mogwai album lol, all killer no filler
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
i liked ex-cowboy but it feels unfinished structurally or something. my favorite pieces of theirs were things like Summer and Katrien where Dominic leads
I liked the track with Gruff Rhys the most on Rock Action, SFA were my other fave then
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
"barry burns' girlfriend's gran lived in my street"can I get your autograph pls
― StanM, Friday, 26 February 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
onya fellas
listened to a few songs off the album, file under enjoyable
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 27 February 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
I'm a big fan still and love the new album. Really pleased for them.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 27 February 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
About 2/3rds of the way through Stuart's book right now, it's.. fine, as far as these type of fucks go. Nothing really revelatory, but I actually found his early show going career list more endearing and relatable than Thurston's (for a recent comparison).
Seems like he mostly regrets coming off like such an abrasive knob in early interviews, basically it sounds like the more he mouthed off the more print they got and he was happy to feed it if it meant more coverage for the band, even if he felt conflicted about it. He also seems to regret the Blur shirt thing, not that he doesn't think Blue are shite, but rather that he thinks the timing of the shirts shot themselves in the foot a little in the long run.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:11 (one month ago) link