I like these guys a lot, and have followed them since Young Team, which is still my favorite record of theirs. That having been said, I think all of their records are great, but can understand someone not liking them at all. They get a sans-waffles NOT CRAP from me.

CRAP.

CRAP.

Bump. I wanna know why CR thinks they're in the top 5 worst bands.

Not liking them, sure. Thinking they've overrated, sure. But one of your most hated bands ever?

Come on Die Young is great... after that things have gone a little soft around the edges. Two albums that sound the same -Rock Action / Happy Songs for Happy People - is never a good thing unless you're AC/DC.

Rotten Tanx wrote:Bump. I wanna know why CR thinks they're in the top 5 worst bands.

Not liking them, sure. Thinking they've overrated, sure. But one of your most hated bands ever?

Yes.

I fucking hate the music of Mogwai.

They are boring, predictable chancers playing a bastardised, low-brow, cock-punchingly vacuous version of Slint et al's 'post-rock'.

They take the sounds and textures of Slint and MBV and any other tried-and-tested 'credible' left-field innovator they consider worth plagiarising and apply music that is at once predictable, simplistic and predictable. And predictable.

They have not one ounce of originality in their stupid, post-rock-cool, box-ticking bodies.

They have inspired exactly one zillion (I have stats) identikit bands to also box-tickingly rip-off seminal left-field bands while creating a scene that simultaneously appears to champion perceived innovation and abject plagiarism.

They are to Slint and MBV what Rossdale's Bush is/was to Pixies and Nirvana.

Fuck them very much.

CRAP.

zero.

...such venom.

but I agree. I'd much rather put on a MBV record than Mogwai... My Father My King was good...

bump

Their work on the film 'Zidane' is pretty good.

Not crap.
Especially live.

But they're using that vocoder thing a bit too much now and it's getting on my nerves....