Solid 4. Lot of good stuff, but only a handful of albums really wormed their way in.
Les Rev soundtrack is their album I like best after Come On Die Young. Wasnāt expecting that.
CODY makes me feel a bit weird, as I was a pretty unhappy teen when it came out. Got a memory of the day I bought it. Came home steaming drunk, put it on the headphones and listened standing up, eating some flaming hot monster munch and a couple of caramel bars. Then got in bed, promptly sat up and then projectile vomited across the room. Canāt listen to the album without thinking about that.
A full 5 for me. And yet I donāt listen to them that much. Not sure why that is.
Was obsessed by them for a brief period before and a little after the debut album came out though. Managed to see them at a tiny gig at the Manchester Roadhouse. And then Iām sure there was some weird gig at Sankyās Soap we attended for a remix album or something?
Think they might be the band Iāve seen most live over the years. Must have caught them about 15 times.
Those first EPs and few albums are all absolutely wonderful, though only the soundtrack to Les Revenants has quite hit the same highs for me in the later half of their career so far.
My head says a 4 because of that, but Iām absolutely enthralled every time I see them live, and even the more recent tracks Iām not as keen on come to life in a different way thereā¦ and looking at the Central Belters tracklistā¦ and I bonded with mates at university over them and we decided to form a band on a drunken walk home from seeing themā¦ so yeah.
Came to them too late I think, after that kind of sound was everywhere. Explosions In The Sky are basically all I want out of that kind of music and never managed to get into Mogwai as a result.
In my ābeing in a teenage band at high schoolā days weād sometimes rehearse at the old Chem19 studios in Lanarkshire (owned by Chemikal Underground) and sometimes thereād be Mogwaiās equipment lying around in the corridors and stuff which was quite exciting for us.