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What's been going on with the new Mogwai record?

The new Mogwai record is being mixed at the moment. It is incredible. I think this is going to be a word of mouth record. I can't see how this is going to be played on Radio One or Radio Two but you know what – it is probably the greatest art rock record that I've been involved in since My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. Its possibly better than Loveless. It is the record that they have always threatened to make and unless something tragic goes on during the mixing process we will have an absolute masterpeice. For Mogwai this is a creative career high ... sure other records might sell more – but they are going to be hard pressed to beat this record ... this is the record that they have always threatened to make.

It is a shockingly good record – fucking masterpiece.

http://www.poptones.co.uk/interviews/qod_alanmcgee3.htm

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Hmmm...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

One wants to hope. Last album was good but I thought stepped back from Rock Action, currently my favorite of them all...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

What should I do?

― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Dig up the Beatles and fuck them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't sound so bad -- I've fucked dirtier.

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Good advice (x post).

With all respect to Mogwai and I'm sure it'll be great, Alan McGee always says this sort of thing. It's one of the reasons I like him.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Good time to ask:

How much is a CD of Loveless signed by all 4 bandmembers worth?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Your death if you don't give it to me. (I am biased.)

Had I the spare money at the time and had I absolute assurance it was the guitar in question, I would have indeed bid on that guitar that went up for sale a couple of years ago that was, apparently, *the* guitar on the cover of Loveless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I have a similarly signed You Made Me Realise CDS.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

*weeps bitter tears at the unfairness of this world*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I have a copy of this signed by all four band members:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000028TJ.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Alan McGee also said that 18 Wheller’s Year Zero was going to be better than Primal Scream’s Screamadelica. Thanks for the article.

I can’t wait to hear this none-the-less.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I never heard the 18 Wheeler record. Was it better than Screamadelica?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh Adam, you're so contrary!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I am?

I just wanted to tell all of you about my signed Gumball CD.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh! I meant:

Oh Adam, you're so COOL!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but McGee was right about Three Colours Red being the new Sex Pistols. And all the fucking great bands he's signed to Poptones show that he has an unerring eye.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Fuck this bit is priceless!

"Rock'n'Roll Promz is a club idea that I had during the last night of Glastonbury ... I was Djing at the end of Glastonbury ... playing some old school electronic music like Blue Monday and Da Funk by Daft Punk and nobody could hear anything ... so I thought ‘Fuck it' and turned it up to 85 decibels and started to put on just sheer anthems. It was getting so anthemic that it was getting tacky but everyone loved it. ... at first I thought ‘I cannae do it' ... but fuck it they wanted more and more anthems. So I gave it too them – it was insane, thousands of people dancing and singing along to Oasis, Verve, Blur and Kinks records. From that I just realised that I hit on some sort of stream-of-consciousness of what people want in a club."

Congratulations on inventing every shit indie disco in the country Alan!

"It took me ages to think of the name ... I wanted to evoke the spirit of England in 1966 ... hitting something iconic and something in the spirit ... like the classical proms at the Royal Albert Hall only this time it is rock'n'roll and a celebration of rock'n'roll anthems."

That Alan McGee is taken seriously represents EVERYTHING that is wrong in English music culture - conservatism and retaining the status quo (not even) disguised as radical steps!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

His other new club is called 'Now We're Off To Rehab' bcz he's all scary on the drugs! and it's kinda like something a tabloid would say! Woo!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Pretty bizarre to hear a kid from Glasgow banging on about England 1966. Wonders will never cease.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

i have a signed thompson twins single. signed by ALL three members. i'll give you five bucks if you take it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I have a poster signed by every member of Reel Big Fish, with a special note that says, "Hope Your Arm Gets Better..." I'll pay you $15 to take it.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

"playing some old school electronic music like Blue Monday and Da Funk by Daft Punk"

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

This link appears to be dead. Copy/Paste?

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

My new Jim Steinman song:

"Love the Beatles (It's Better Than Fuckless!)"

― donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

daft punk ? old school !

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

This Mogwai album: Does it go loud-soft-loud again? Or will it be soft-loud-soft this time?

― js (honestengine), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

that question mark is supposed to be one of those "does not equal" signs.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

but he was playing it to the rock kids, dan. at CBGBs. everybody thought he was crazy.

― haitch (haitch), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

The new Mogwai: The Death Knell of Rock?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

I preferred fuzz-pop MBV to drone-rock MBV. And this is why I always get outbid on eBay for You Made me Realise and have to make do with an mp3 seemingly taped off of mTV.

― Mippy (Mippy), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

i saw mogwai in glasgow the other week. they did three new songs: one of which i missed because the bar staff at the ABC couldn't find any glasses (seriously: they are lovely people, but they are fucking depressingly shit at their jobs); one of which was blindingly awesome sculpted noise; and one of which was dire clanking dullness, and perhaps the worst thing i've ever heard them play. hmmm. i love mogwai dearly, but i'm not convinced they can top the last two albums.

i hope i'm wrong.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm looking forward to this... But I still think the compilation with Summer, New Paths to Halcion, Tuner, Ithica and others still captures what I love about Mogwai the best.

Congratulations on inventing every shit indie disco in the country Alan!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha. heh. hehe. heh.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

chew, you should go and see them live (if you haven't already), because a large part of their set is now mightily re-tooled versions of summer, helicon 1, like herod etc and they FUCKING ROCK.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

I'd say 'deathknell of postrock' but it DEAD xoxpsis they fucking do not, they'reZSOhisa;oihzfsaujzsa

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather hear Bon Jovi in a disco than wank like the Verve. Can you actually do any other dance to the Verve other than sway sullenly.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

you should go and see them live

I saw them plenty of times around the pre and post 'Young Team' era and they played some of the best live sets I've ever seen - I haven't seen them for a while though, whenever they've played recently I've either been unable to make the date, or they've played in huge venues (where I feel their impact is lost).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately I missed them at the ABC last week cos I was travelling down to Green Man, but I saw em at ATP in Feb and the new song they played was mighty fine and loud all the way through!!

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

x-post: seriously, go see them again, wherever they play. live, they are better than ever. your mind will be blown.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 26 August 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

OK! I'm sure they'll pay Brighton on their next tour (but it will probably be in November when I'm away!)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 26 August 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

That Alan McGee is taken seriously represents EVERYTHING that is wrong in English music culture - conservatism and retaining the status quo (not even) disguised as radical steps!

-- Raw Patrick (rawsweate...), August 25th, 2005.

otfckngm.

who cares what he thinks? 'old school electronic music'???!!!
oh go away fer fck's sake.

― piscesboy, Friday, 26 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)


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