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Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: coldcut on 12 Oct 2005, 02:23: So I've been staring at Marten's Mogwai poster for a good 200(?) strips and I figure it's high time I figure out what they sound like. Generally I can figure out a decent starting point through Amazon and the like, but in this case I'm stumped.

Help me QCers, you're my only hope!
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: MilkmanDan on 12 Oct 2005, 08:02: To be honest, it's all good, but I'd just get Young Team to startwith. It's a goddamn classic.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: TrueNeutral on 12 Oct 2005, 08:47: I started with Happy Songs for Happy People and that's what I ended with. Not because I don't completely love it, but because I have no money.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Snapman on 12 Oct 2005, 11:47: Rock Action, their 3rd studio album, is their most accessible, and a good starting point.

Although their best is probably Come On Die Young. It's their most difficult album, and requires a lot of patience, but it works so well as a whole.

Young Team has a few great tracks, but is horribly inconsistant. Happy Songs For Happy People is solid, if unspectacular.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Valrus on 12 Oct 2005, 13:38: Ok, I have an admission to make: I don't like "Like Herod." Can you guys tell me what justifies its being 11 minutes long? I will then use my superpower of letting other people influence my opinions to realize that I like that song after all. It's foolproof!
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Kid Modernist on 12 Oct 2005, 16:12: Young Team is the shit.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: TheLoweringTide on 12 Oct 2005, 21:19: Come On Die Young was my introduction, and I love the band, so I assume that will work. Though I can't really think of a bad introduction.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Storm Rider on 12 Oct 2005, 21:36: I'm having more or less the same problem. I downloaded 'Like Herod' because I heard it was one of their best, but quite frankly, it bored me.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Valrus on 13 Oct 2005, 04:59: YOU'RE NOT HELPING
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: McTaggart on 13 Oct 2005, 07:06: It's probably one of their best once you've gotten into them and know what they're trying to do.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Valrus on 13 Oct 2005, 19:29: Quote from: McTaggart
It's probably one of their best once you've gotten into them and know what they're trying to do.

Expliquez, s'il vous plaît.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: kevin. on 15 Oct 2005, 17:22: I say get rock action, realise they are awesome, then hurry out and buy everything else they've done. always seemed to me that happy songs for happy people gets kind of overlooked, noone ever seems to mention it...i think its marvelous.

then realise you love this type of music and go get some mono, silver mt.zion and fly pan am records.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: ramenXnoodles on 16 Oct 2005, 10:38: I started with Rock Action.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 16 Oct 2005, 11:09: My first one was also Rock Action, and I love it to pieces, but I think Come On, Die Young is a better album. Well, actually this is only true if you don't include Rock Action's song Take Me Somewhere Nice. That's one of the best Mogwai songs ever.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Coolhanderik on 16 Oct 2005, 12:50: I got happy songs for happy people first, since it was the only one I could find...I like it alot but there's just other stuff I've wanted to buy more than more mogwai stuff...I'm sure I'll buy something else by them eventually...
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: like Herod on 16 Oct 2005, 14:19: Hello.

From my name you can probably guess my opinion on the Like Herod question. Its stunning and disturbing and raw.
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Jooooosh on 16 Oct 2005, 15:07: I love my Young Team cd, but my favorite mogwai cd so far is either Come On Die Young or Government Commisions. that being said they all kick ass

rock on
Title: Good Mogwai album to start out with
Post by: Radiowar on 17 Oct 2005, 19:05: Can't stand Young Team. Come On Die Young would be the starting place for me. Maybe even Happy Songs For Happy People.