This song makes me want to kick life in the balls and tear down walls. I want to sprint into fire and swim through ice. Shit, this song makes me want to live so much.
The first Mogwai track I ever heard. Must have been around the time Young Team came out. I was all of 16 years old, lying in bed, lights off, and switched on XFM to find this playing. Totally blew me away, and I was shit-scared the DJ wouldn’t say who it was at the end. They must have because I went out and bought the album soon after. Amazing how this memory has stayed with me now for nearly 30 years. I live in Japan now, and just found out the bank on the album cover is 15 mins from where I work. I feel a little pilgrimage might be in order.
from shona's website: "Another highlight was playing with the mighty Mogwai at Glasgow Barrowlands to two sell-out audiences! It was a fantastic experience to play with the band I first recorded with when I was 13."
Holy batshit, what are these guys smoking? This track popped up on my Pandora a while back and at first I was amused at the title. Thought I'd give it a minute and see where it went. It kept going and going and going and I knew I had to buckle myself in for this ride. Had no idea when it would end. I don't do drugs but felt like I did when it was finally over. The joy of discovering new music like this is what keeps us going. At least for me.
If you ever get the chance to see them live, do so and make sure you absolutely buckle in for the ride. They will take you to the stars and back on an amazing voyage. Honestly can't recommend enough.
it's special, but every track & whole album are on their places as tracks & album, all great. Unlike pop albums where there are like three songs and the rest is fillers.
I've seen them live about 10 times. There's always nervous trepidation waiting to see if there's a flautist along for the ride that night. Either way this song will never die.
i remember once, working nights at jcb plant, radio 1 on the speakers and the moment when machinery got quiet for a while and mogwai fear satan occured. i had a 16 minute thrill.
After living 65 years and experiencing the whole discography of Sonic Youth & Fugazi, playing a Telecaster myself, I now discover Mogwai. I am giddy with the prospect of getting to hear their musical voice. I will take suggestions on the order to which one should experience their albums.
Probably too late, but I think chronological order is the best way to go every time (with books as well) if your focus is the author. Especially in this case, I recommend starting with Young Team, then Come On Die Young, Rock Action, Happy Songs For Happy People and so on. I think those four albums are essential to understand how their sound changed so much through the years.
Im going to survive being alone and by myself Im going to end searching to find someone or some meaning Its just the way it is slow and dreary i need to flow along with it like a dead fish Ive got nothing to proove Nothing to loose so much to do Yet nothing to look forward to Im going to stay and dwell Untill it takes over me I m not letting this chance go by Let go Loosen up Catch its hold Tear it apart
This song instantly turned me into Mogwai fan but then I became disappointed because nothing they ever made then came close to the pure catharsis that is this track
+Ivan Malek Hi, big Mogwai fan here. I understand what you mean. This track is like their post-rock opus magnum, but... have you tried New Paths To Helicon P1 and Superheroes of BMX. The first one has the biggest climax I have ever heard. It literally pushes tears out of the eyes. The second one on the other hand is very unusual post-rock track - my personal all time favorite to be honest - which has an amazingly addictive sound and structure. Check it out if you haven't yet. Cheers mate.
Excellent but even the album version doesn't even come close to seeing it live, as with any of their songs. Definitely a band you need to see at least once in your life
I have seen Mogwai more times than any band apart from The Fall. Fear Satan is immense! I saw them at the Queens Hall in edinburgh on The Happy Songs For Happy People tour - I was on a balcony at the back of the hall and I felt a breeze on my face, started looking around for an open window or door and then it hit me, quite literally...It was coming from the speakers that 4 of them were standing in front of. Saw them last night at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow and they were fantastic as per usual, although the mud was a pain in the ass, i forgot about it very quickly. And yeh, The Cure headlined but not for me!
Greetings from a fellow Mogwai and Fall fan. I also wallowed in the mud at Bellahouston Park but fuck was it worth it ! Living in Orkney I have to choose my gigs wisely.
This is one of the songs that marks a certain time/event in your life. It cinematizes a specific point and imprints on your memory forever. I was on a plan when I first listened to it and all my surroundings went away. A year or so later I was leaving one city for a new career halfway across the country. This song always reminds me of those last few weeks when everything was right but also anxious regarding an enormous change. It's exciting and tense in the way only post-rock can be. Enormously moving track.
This track, in fact - this album, was a game changer! People say TalkTalk's last two albums were 'Post rock ground zero', then i hear that it was Bark Psychosis - neither sound like this, although they are both excellent bands (Talk talk's last two albums anyway!). I have heard similar, mostly German music from the 70s and Rhys Chatham and Glen Branca from New York (late 70s/early 80s), oh - and Fushitsusha etc from japan (late 70s/80s/90s/00s/10s but this has such melody inside the noise. Symphonic noise. 'If the stars had a sound, they would sound like this'...
@ross666ssor Ross, glad I could help buddy. I've been ill and music that we listen too helped enormously. It's is good to keep tabs bro. You never know when you might really require it bro. You're welcome 😊
Weird, at the time I never heard much cosmische stuff being mentioned regarding mogwai, despite the obvious similarities, just lots of people talking about the US bands between Slint and Fugazi who were far more distant.
+Umang Dhawan I have never seen people sush each other at a live performance! Everyone was just standing there with closed eyes, it was sincerely divine...a hell lot more than what i expected it would be. Although i wished they had played White Noise.
"The curse it lives on in their eyes, the mariner he wished he'd die, along with the sea creatures but they lived on, so did he...." i can't help but sing it in the beginning of the song.... Iron Maiden fans will understand!
This is a masterpiece. I’ve heard it so many times, live and album. Picked it up in my thirties and completely in love. Turned my wife to metal after she saw rhem live in Utrecht (though they did not play this song). Young Team in itself is a groundbreaking album. Very, very good.
This song makes me thing of Piping down the valleys wild, by Blake: Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of peasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me: 'Pipe a song about a lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.' So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
This is a fantastic song by Mogwai, but go to many of the live versions, like the BBC's Quay Sessions...man, it's just beautiful. Still fearing in September, 2019...
Probably because it's a British TV series. Chances are it wasn't aired anywhere else. Go watch an episode or two, I believe they're on RU-vid. It's a comedy just to clarify.
Played this track for my dad once. He didn't like it. Said he didn't want to hear the same chord progression throughout the whole song or something like that. He hated aphex twin too haha. He was a musician himself and when i visited him in 2017 he acted quite snobby towards my taste of music as if his opinions were relevant. Anyways, i wish he was more open minded. Maybe we'll jam out to some mogwai someday.
+Abraham Uitzil “Uitzi” post rock, rock experimental o progresivo sea cual sea, estas bandas me llenan de alegria y esperanza q la musica puede aun evolucionar y crear maravillas complejas y artisticas sin llevarlo a lo simplon y comercial
Just marked it up( to use an expression)I reckon not only has it aged well it is also a masterpiece .There is an under current to it inspired by Satam whom they feared thats why it's so good
thank you mogwai! i love this track so much. i dont know how but as soon as i listen to this, my messed up brain is... mh clear, free dont know to discripe. it just feel good! like medicine haha. thx!