honeyisfunny wrote:Their music always interests me because it seems the antithesis of a lot of the music people like on places like this forum in that it is usually really simple and no offence meant to Martin but the drums are never insanely complex and they rarely fuck with time changes. This seems to provoke this whole thing where people in bands who may have similar tastes as Mogwai get really uppity that a band that doesn't slave over things like they do can be successful. They draw the most horrendous criticism and it's usually from people in bands who feel hard done by somehow.

Shouldn't this have been in the Mclusky thread?

Hah!

Honestly though, get off that horse of yours, she is so high! We've all got bands we can't stand for no good reason other than not being able to stand them, non?

NOT CRAP

Along with Slint, at 18 yrs old they changed my interests in music forever. My interests have since gone off in other directions, but they opened my ears to an awful lot of things and blew my mind many times.

Not a big fan of what they're currently doing, and I rarely listen to the records. Still would say that they have some really great moments, particularly on CODY and Mogwai Young Team.

I have "lost interest" in them, in that I don't listen to them anymore and haven't enjoyed the last few records, but I would be a massive hypocrite if I said they were crap, especially as I formed a band seven years ago with the specific aim of sounding like them because I was so enamoured with the music. Luckily we realised with in a year that being in a rip-off band was a shit and boring idea, and tried to go off and do our own thing, but they were still inspirational.

NOT CRAP with some hearty yet respectful waffles

I don't understand how anyone could vote crap for Mogwai.

Honestly, I don't understand it.

If you think they're crap, go see them live.

Not crap.

simmo wrote:NOT CRAP

Along with Slint, at 18 yrs old they changed my interests in music forever. My interests have since gone off in other directions, but they opened my ears to an awful lot of things and blew my mind many times.

Not a big fan of what they're currently doing, and I rarely listen to the records. Still would say that they have some really great moments, particularly on CODY and Mogwai Young Team.

I have "lost interest" in them, in that I don't listen to them anymore and haven't enjoyed the last few records, but I would be a massive hypocrite if I said they were crap.

NOT CRAP with some hearty yet respectful waffles

You and I might just be the same person.

These are my exact thoughts but typed out by another's fingers. Very strange. Strange and erotic. Ok, not erotic.

Alberto the Frog wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:Their music always interests me because it seems the antithesis of a lot of the music people like on places like this forum in that it is usually really simple and no offence meant to Martin but the drums are never insanely complex and they rarely fuck with time changes. This seems to provoke this whole thing where people in bands who may have similar tastes as Mogwai get really uppity that a band that doesn't slave over things like they do can be successful. They draw the most horrendous criticism and it's usually from people in bands who feel hard done by somehow.

Shouldn't this have been in the Mclusky thread?

Hah!

Honestly though, get off that horse of yours, she is so high! We've all got bands we can't stand for no good reason other than not being able to stand them, non?

Touched a nerve obviously, I'm sorry.

honeyisfunny wrote:

Alberto the Frog wrote:

honeyisfunny wrote:Their music always interests me because it seems the antithesis of a lot of the music people like on places like this forum in that it is usually really simple and no offence meant to Martin but the drums are never insanely complex and they rarely fuck with time changes. This seems to provoke this whole thing where people in bands who may have similar tastes as Mogwai get really uppity that a band that doesn't slave over things like they do can be successful. They draw the most horrendous criticism and it's usually from people in bands who feel hard done by somehow.

Shouldn't this have been in the Mclusky thread?

Hah!

Honestly though, get off that horse of yours, she is so high! We've all got bands we can't stand for no good reason other than not being able to stand them, non?

Touched a nerve obviously, I'm sorry.

Oh hell yes, I cry into my pillow about this stuff nightly.

Boo to the hoo, as they say.

Mogwai is not crap by any means.

EP+2 is near perfect in my opinion
Young Team and CODY were both paradigm shifting for me and I think a lot of other people at the time.

I think the first song I ever played live was a cover of 'XMAS Steps'.

For me they peaked on "2 Wrongs Make 1 Right" with Pajo on the banjo.

I sort of grew out of them shortly after Rock Action but they've had a few moments since then.

The last show I saw them at was horrible though.

quiet.... RETINA SEARING PURPLE STROBE LIGHT...quieter
quiet....Loud... LOUDER... RETINA SEARING PURPLE STROBE LIGHT... etc.

Zidane: NC!
Mogwai: NC with some waffles

I like them, I like Young Team and like them live. But never seen the big fuss everyone makes over them. It's hard for me to see past the "indie boy's band they like cause it makes them look clever when most of the time they listen to Hard Fi or Futureheads" label I will always see them as having.

Maybe if I heard a really good album of theirs I would change my mind. I'm still waiting.

NOT CRAP, WF 9.

Crap with a healthy dose of waffles. By the time I heard them I was already familiar with most of the things that so influenced them and was not particularly impressed. I do however have friends who discovered a lot of good stuff as a result of liking Mogwai, so fair enough.

Plus apparently they are nice guys, and they are indeed quite acceptable background music, I've had several very interesting conversations stood at the back during Mogwai performances. Not bad enough to offend, inconsequential enough that I never, ever think of them unless provoked by some outside factor, like this thread.