Mogwai

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(thing) by pziemba (1.6 y) (print) ? I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:05:25

Mogwai - Glaswegian post-rock group. You'll love them if you like moody guitars, dynamic soft-then-psychotically loud oscillations, or just damn good music. Mogwai is made up of three guitarists (Stuart Braithwaite, John Cummings, Dominic Aitchison), and a drummer, Martin Bulloch. The band formed in 1996, and released several singles and EPs before their offical LP debut, Young Team.

In 2001, Mogwai released their followup to Come On Die Young, titled "Rock Action". It features a similar sound to CODY, and although Mogwai fans will delight in the sheer power of "You Don't Know Jesus" or the ominous fuzz of "Sine Wave", it probably won't win over any fans who found their earlier releases to be "boring".

Major Releases -
Young Team (LP - 1997)
Ten Rapid (LP - 1997)
4 Satin (EP - 1997)
Kicking a Dead Pig (EP - 1998)
Come on Die Young (LP - 1999)
Rock Action (LP - 2001)

(idea) by dpride (1.9 mon) (print) ? I like it! Fri Apr 14 2000 at 21:17:46

Translated from Chinese, Mogwai means 'devil'

(person) by Mr. Hotel (1.4 mon) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Thu Nov 09 2000 at 2:04:57

One of the finest moments of this band's career (outside of their music) occured when they were playing second stage at T in the Park in 1999 simultaneous to Britpop monsters Blur. Mogwai printed up a whole bunch of shirts that simply read:

blur: are shite

and handed them out to all of the bands that were also playing second stage that day.

The shirts, of course, caused quite a stir. The mogwai website had a very large page dedicated to the responses they received, both negative and positive, constructive and inflammatory. The band generally dismissed comments that were limited to "You guys suck! Blur is the coolest ever!" or "You guys rock! Blur sucks!", but had some great responses to the well thought out arguments and praise expressed. Unfortunately they seem to be lost to the mists of time.

Think of mogwai as the antithesis to Blur: grand orchestrators with no real desire for massive, headspinning fame.

(thing) by Servo5678 (1.6 y) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sat Oct 19 2002 at 12:58:56

A rare species of small, furry little creatures with large ears that, according to the Gremlins novelization, were genetically engineered and sent to Earth. Mogwais are cute and cuddly and will even sing for you if they like you, but these little bundles of puff have a dark side.

There are three important rules for caring for a mogwai. Never forget them and never violate them. The rules are:

Keep it out of bright light. Mogwais hate bright light, and sunlight will melt them, leaving behind a stain that's a pain to clean up.
Don't get them wet. Don't give the mogwai a bath and don't give it a drink. Water causes mogwais to multiply in a painful fashion, and the offspring are never as friendly as the original mogwai.
And most importantly, whatever you do, never ever feed them after midnight. Doing so will cause your cute little mogwai to undergo a metamorphosis into a nasty killer gremlin.

The novelization of Gremlins includes a few more facts about the mogwai that aren't seen in the two movies, Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. One of the most interesting is that mogwais are incapable of outright anger (even though Gizmo the mogwai exhibits this trait in the films. The book explains that the gremlins drove him to anger and that he is the first of his kind to become angry) and are incapable of even swearing. In fact, the mogwai equivalent of a curse word is "stinky ice cream" or "not nice person". Furthermore, at one point there was an entire mogwai civilization on another planet, but after so many of the mogwais went gremlin, their creators rounded up the remaining friendly mogwais and shipped them off to other planets.

In the Gremlins movies the voices of the mogwais were performed by Howie Mandel.

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Imitating a DJ's turntable with your voice	Punk rock and classical would make a kickass combination	Gizmo was insane	Young Team
Rock Action	Gremlins	Why do so many people wear glasses?	Godspeed You Black Emperor!
You're too young to be so old	Happy Songs for Happy People	Blur	Gremlin
SOY! SOY! SOY! Soy makes you strong! Strength crushes enemies! SOY!	Yo La Tengo	My Father My King	I'll give up printf() when you pry my cold dead fingers from it
These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before	Glaswegian	Gizmo	No Education = No Future (Fuck the Curfew)
Slint	Howie Mandel	High Fidelity	Nick Drake

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