I've been to tons of punk, hardcore, and metal shows, but this was the loudest band I've ever seen. It hurts at first, but then it's a delightful trance.
I first heard Mogwai (Like Herod) driving a beer delivery truck on the freeway, listening to WCBN in Ann Arbor, and I had to pull over and enjoy it, I was dumbfounded. That was 1997. They've been one of my favorite bands ever since. It was an absolute joy to watch your first experience with them.
I used to go into record stores and put on "Like Herod" just to watch people jump out of their skin when it drops. Monster of a track. Mogwai have always been a great band (actually my favorite band ever), but I wish they were still this dangerous!
Great little series of videos! mogwai have been one of my favourite bands since I first heard Young Team in my uni halls room back in summer 98, and instantly fell head over heels for them. I envy you on the sonic voyage you will undertake as you explore their back catalogue. Personal faves of mine are - Ten Rapid - a collection of early singles, with perhaps their best song Helicon 1 Come On Die Young Rock Action Mr Beast Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will As The Love Continues And, when they next tour, you really do need to get some tickets. And some earplugs - I saw them on Friday at Alexandra Palace and my ears only just about stopped ringing this morning.
It makes me so happy that my fave reactor and fellow music nerd is listening to one of my favourite albums ever. Weekend confirmed. Ok, couldn’t wait, and watching your big smile when Yes, I’m… literally takes to the heavens. God that reminds me of my first time, sitting at a desk in a big open office, listening as I wrote some tech instructions for some now-dead software, the guy who lent me the CD three desks down and watching me until I hit that exact moment… and levitated out of my frickin chair. That’s magic shit.
Hell of a debut if you ask me. Mogwai are among the first wave of Post-Rock bands but this is their only record that truly carries that first wave sound.
@@Sir_Blobfish I was just stating an observation but you're not wrong by any means. I'm also a big fan of how they evolved and progressed their sound. They're one of the few bands whose entire discography I enjoy actually.
Thank you, Jim, for reacting to post-rock. It’s naturally continuous with Yes and Rush and other progressive rock you’ve reacted to. Mogwai was inspired by the first American wave of post-rock, especially Slint, Rodan, and Tortoise. What all these bands have in common is restraint and forbearance. They hold back judiciously despite their capacity for chaos and technical cadenzas.
Hello Jim, in the last video you mentionned that people's attention span are less than 3 min. In this era, 2020's, everything has to be fast, one-day delivery, 3 minutes song, go, go, run from somewhere to somewhere else, work fast and hurry. I like your videos very much and watch 100% of them. This music and band is new to me, it's a good and interesting band, very creative art. Can't wait to hear the rest ! Your videos and the music you share with us is a very good way to relax after work. Your smile and happy face is lifting our spirit !
No worries - I think I want to do this intro each time as it looks a lot better and is able to warn people off or lure them in if it's their sort of music. I've recorded the second part, but haven't listened to the last half off the CD yet. Hopefully tomorrow! Sorry it's taken so long to get round to this Richard - you're a very patient man!
at the end of 'yes i am a long way from home' i'm super anxious about how you'll take 'like herod' haha... but you're locked in all the way through to 'mogwai fear satan' and there's a bunch of comfort in that
@@JimNewstead Jim san, your reaction to Like Herod is, hands down, the most fun I've had from youtube in these many years. I'm gonna have to get a few more of their albums out to you hahaha
Jim! I’m here often but speak seldom (unless as you know, it’s Mars). Mogwai are one of my top 5 go-to’s. I hit their library all the time and just hit shuffle and go. Hours go by. Or was it days… They are a deserted island disc band.
Have been listening to your second radio broadcast on Mixcloud and I loved it..again. Keep ‘em coming. Mogwai sounds interesting. It’s a wall of sound here and there that tries to drown you, but doesn’t and leads you back to quiet waters. If you want a Viking soundscape, listen to Danheim or Paleowolf. Just close your eyes and let the music come over you.
Wonderful opening. Your set up is similar to mine. Denon receiver and CD player. I decided I needed to dust off my old cds and buy new ones to support the artists I like.
CDs and records - they are important things. Look after them and they will reward you for years to come. I love my Denons. Also a pair of Wharfedale speakers and a subwoofer.
I saw them Saturday, it was fucking great. Didn't wear earplugs because sound wasn't painfully loud (102db limit in France in closed venues) and goddamn that climax in Like Herod sent me to orbit
Mogwai are one of my favourite bands, I would recommend pretty much everything from them. Their latest, As the Love Continues, is a good place to continue. It's definitely up there with their best, and it's basically a blend of of everything they've done over the 25 years of their career, which makes it a quintessential album imo.
Thanks for doing Mogwai! I've only heard one of their albums before, Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will, which is a really great album. But oddly enough I never dove deeper into their discography, maybe with this set of videos for this album I can further my Mogwai journey.
Hardcore is perhaps my favourite of all their albums, but it does have a much revised approach compared to this and other of their earlier albums... something to love in every one of them, in my opinion... government commissions and special moves, a pair of live albums, give fantastic cross-sections of their sound
if i could recommend one song it would be 'Christmas Steps'... I dunno if it's their 'best', to me, but at the moment it is the one that most pleases my ear
This is quite good. Another new one to me, but I really like it. Having seen your reaction to this, I really think you're going to like that post-metal album I sent you. They started off as a black-metal band and moved to this folk soundscape sound.
@@MaraxisArcanist Brilliant band. Haven't listened to an entire record by them but the bits I've heard were phenomenal. Looking forward to when Jim listens to them on the channel.
I've been a fan of Mogwai since I heard their song 'Hunted By A Freak' for the first time, almost twenty years ago. I had a similar reaction then as you had just now, with a difference being that I had never heard anything like it at the time, Sigur Rós was the only thing that came close. With Mogwai there are no bad albums, though Happy Songs For Happy People (2003) and Every Country's Sun (2017) are my favourites.
Can you believe it, I'm pretty sure that - or one of its contemporaries - was the one that got me into them, too! Might have been Friend of the Night actually, and I Know You Are But What Am I? quickly came along... Then I just gobbled it ALL up...
I even hear some Radiohead here: my iron lungs, let down, the national anthem, ... to name a few songs ... I texted this 5 seconds before you make the Radiohead / Creep reference :)
I'm 14 minutes in to the video, and it just got really, really discordant for my ear. I seriously want to bail, but I'm 2/3rds through, so I'll attempt to ride it out. It does have moments of sonic beauty in the lower moments, though. But, I don't think this is for me. I see Part 2 has been uploaded. Should I give it a try? Or is it more of the same?
I think the majesty of "Like Herod" is in the subtle highlights and counterpoints they weave into their main loop.. they're all very doom'y and stark, in-character, but if you pick them out they do form a really impressive whole.. listen carefully and you'll find it's very precise.. Like Herod is one of their heaviest songs, in their entire catalogue, they deliver a lot of other sounds across this album alone... Ladeeda!
Pam, the tracks all seem to follow a similar trajectory. They start small and grow to an overwhelming crescendo that crashes over you and then ebbs away again. I'm enjoying the music very much but if you are not a fan of the first part, I think you'll find the others of a similar ilk. I've decided to use the format at the beginning as my new video titles and introduction, so you hear about 20 seconds to see if it floats your boat.
@@JimNewstead Oh, awesome! I saw the short and the mention that it may help determine if one wanted to listen, but I didn't parse that to mean the music played was a sampling. I appreciate you spelling that out for me!
You probably will know this and prefer cds but if you search mogwai young team vinyl it may come up. I prefer a pre 2000s bad vinyl to s good cd imo. Post 2000s done on ssl boards sound digitised for me. You might like Polvo they are my fav.
@@JimNewstead Not anymore, Jim! 👍 Watched this video series a few months back and really enjoyed it. Just remembered that the band has announced pre-orders for a vinyl reissue of Young Team and Come On Die Young - the album that follows this one, that you totally need to react to someday 😉 - and they've been live for a couple of weeks now. If you're not opposed to colored vinyl, Young Team is on a sky blue and CODY is on white. Not seeing any other options, i.e. black vinyl, so I hope they spend the appropriate time and energy on quality control for what we get. Had to let you know, especially since YT vinyl has been very rare and pricy for the last decade. It looks to be a wide release, so any of your brick & mortar stores should be getting them. Also thought I read that Amazon, etc. were stocking them for pre-order. Shouldn't be tough to track down at all... at least not for a bit.
New to me ,but not the sound. 1990s post rock for sure. I hear a lot of influences there . It's because of this , I know you'll enjoy a lot of grunge.....I'll refrain from suggestions ( aside from the ones I have🤣🙄) until you're ready. I like what I'm hearing. They're going onto my " return to this" pile.....
I love your whole new look. Very professional and what the whippersnappers call groovy and with it and far out. Love this sound from this band. I shall have to tell Jesus, I am afraid. Not in fear and trembling but in glee as in club. I want to eat this music. Gobble it down. Make it a part of me. And never poop it back out. I'm retentive that way. So they have music in Scotland? In Ameriker we also got ourselves some music, but it ain't all that great. Derivative and toady. I did shuffle together a playlist of some good music from this century though, and the best of American bands are on it. It is here (as if you had extra time!): ua-cam.com/play/PLZEINYIMlZTLe4mOn0kln0_Fb4LjfWOFC.html
Hi Jim, it was a real joy to watch you listening to one of my favourite bands for the first time - that moment where the hair on your arms stood up was truly a delight.
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I've been to tons of punk, hardcore, and metal shows, but this was the loudest band I've ever seen. It hurts at first, but then it's a delightful trance.
I came here specifically for the Like Herod explosion reaction. Didn't disappoint. :D
And the aftermath :P "it's so.. phwoar! Animal!" Haha
I first heard Mogwai (Like Herod) driving a beer delivery truck on the freeway, listening to WCBN in Ann Arbor, and I had to pull over and enjoy it, I was dumbfounded. That was 1997. They've been one of my favorite bands ever since. It was an absolute joy to watch your first experience with them.
Nice, you can't go wrong with Mogwai
I used to go into record stores and put on "Like Herod" just to watch people jump out of their skin when it drops. Monster of a track. Mogwai have always been a great band (actually my favorite band ever), but I wish they were still this dangerous!
So much for music to go to sleep to.👍 Love it!
When CDs are produced well, they're as great as sound quality can get, so nothing wrong with them!
Great little series of videos!
mogwai have been one of my favourite bands since I first heard Young Team in my uni halls room back in summer 98, and instantly fell head over heels for them.
I envy you on the sonic voyage you will undertake as you explore their back catalogue.
Personal faves of mine are -
Ten Rapid - a collection of early singles, with perhaps their best song Helicon 1
Come On Die Young
Rock Action
Mr Beast
Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
As The Love Continues
And, when they next tour, you really do need to get some tickets.
And some earplugs - I saw them on Friday at Alexandra Palace and my ears only just about stopped ringing this morning.
And there are a load of wonderful live performances out there too, especially for Mogwai Fear Satan. Keep going. They’re a special band.
great live band aswell, cheers for the video
It makes me so happy that my fave reactor and fellow music nerd is listening to one of my favourite albums ever. Weekend confirmed.
Ok, couldn’t wait, and watching your big smile when Yes, I’m… literally takes to the heavens. God that reminds me of my first time, sitting at a desk in a big open office, listening as I wrote some tech instructions for some now-dead software, the guy who lent me the CD three desks down and watching me until I hit that exact moment… and levitated out of my frickin chair. That’s magic shit.
Love this record! Thanks for being nice and your comments! 👍🏼
Love this comment with a passion
I had forgotten how wonderful this band was. Thanks for reminding me!
You’re very welcome!
You're doing Mogwai now? Awww yeah! I am definitely going to watch all these.
Hell of a debut if you ask me. Mogwai are among the first wave of Post-Rock bands but this is their only record that truly carries that first wave sound.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. They’re evolution through the years is awesome.
@@Sir_Blobfish firmly on my mind too lol, they certainly pushed off into their own waters
@@Sir_Blobfish I was just stating an observation but you're not wrong by any means. I'm also a big fan of how they evolved and progressed their sound. They're one of the few bands whose entire discography I enjoy actually.
@@Gravityys
No doubt, I didn’t mean to suggest you were implying anything negative. My comment was just adding to what you said. All good. 👍🏼😉
My boys were huge fans from the start and I got into them from that..It is tribal and worth hearing more albums.
My face nearly fell off when that thing landed!😱
You and me both!
Thank you, Jim, for reacting to post-rock. It’s naturally continuous with Yes and Rush and other progressive rock you’ve reacted to. Mogwai was inspired by the first American wave of post-rock, especially Slint, Rodan, and Tortoise. What all these bands have in common is restraint and forbearance. They hold back judiciously despite their capacity for chaos and technical cadenzas.
Hello Jim, in the last video you mentionned that people's attention span are less than 3 min. In this era, 2020's, everything has to be fast, one-day delivery, 3 minutes song, go, go, run from somewhere to somewhere else, work fast and hurry. I like your videos very much and watch 100% of them. This music and band is new to me, it's a good and interesting band, very creative art. Can't wait to hear the rest ! Your videos and the music you share with us is a very good way to relax after work. Your smile and happy face is lifting our spirit !
I'm glad you enjoy them! It keeps me out of trouble!
Oh, happy day!! I am beyond grateful you, you magnificent fellow. Super psyched to be the prototype for the new intro (i think?)
it's been such a long, hard road, and to see your goosebumps just lights me right up my friend
No worries - I think I want to do this intro each time as it looks a lot better and is able to warn people off or lure them in if it's their sort of music.
I've recorded the second part, but haven't listened to the last half off the CD yet. Hopefully tomorrow!
Sorry it's taken so long to get round to this Richard - you're a very patient man!
at the end of 'yes i am a long way from home' i'm super anxious about how you'll take 'like herod' haha... but you're locked in all the way through to 'mogwai fear satan' and there's a bunch of comfort in that
@@JimNewstead Jim san, your reaction to Like Herod is, hands down, the most fun I've had from youtube in these many years. I'm gonna have to get a few more of their albums out to you hahaha
Haha! Yup!
Jim!
I’m here often but speak seldom (unless as you know, it’s Mars). Mogwai are one of my top 5 go-to’s. I hit their library all the time and just hit shuffle and go. Hours go by. Or was it days…
They are a deserted island disc band.
Thanks Bill - nice to see you pop up!
@@JimNewstead
You have a fan for life my friend. Glad to see you’re keeping at it
Have been listening to your second radio broadcast on Mixcloud and I loved it..again. Keep ‘em coming.
Mogwai sounds interesting. It’s a wall of sound here and there that tries to drown you, but doesn’t and leads you back to quiet waters.
If you want a Viking soundscape, listen to Danheim or Paleowolf. Just close your eyes and let the music come over you.
Thank you! Will do!
Strange.... I'll keep listening, just to see what happens next. Enjoyed Part 1! :)
Excellent! See you tomorrow Dr Xlerb!
great album! got that cd too when it came out!
Wonderful opening. Your set up is similar to mine. Denon receiver and CD player. I decided I needed to dust off my old cds and buy new ones to support the artists I like.
CDs and records - they are important things. Look after them and they will reward you for years to come. I love my Denons. Also a pair of Wharfedale speakers and a subwoofer.
I saw them Saturday, it was fucking great. Didn't wear earplugs because sound wasn't painfully loud (102db limit in France in closed venues) and goddamn that climax in Like Herod sent me to orbit
mannn, good on you :) gotta love how they still play their earliest mega-tracks...
Mogwai are one of my favourite bands, I would recommend pretty much everything from them. Their latest, As the Love Continues, is a good place to continue. It's definitely up there with their best, and it's basically a blend of of everything they've done over the 25 years of their career, which makes it a quintessential album imo.
Thanks for doing Mogwai! I've only heard one of their albums before, Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will, which is a really great album. But oddly enough I never dove deeper into their discography, maybe with this set of videos for this album I can further my Mogwai journey.
Hardcore is perhaps my favourite of all their albums, but it does have a much revised approach compared to this and other of their earlier albums... something to love in every one of them, in my opinion... government commissions and special moves, a pair of live albums, give fantastic cross-sections of their sound
if i could recommend one song it would be 'Christmas Steps'... I dunno if it's their 'best', to me, but at the moment it is the one that most pleases my ear
@@richardm6985 i will check that out, thank you for the recommendation
This is quite good. Another new one to me, but I really like it.
Having seen your reaction to this, I really think you're going to like that post-metal album I sent you. They started off as a black-metal band and moved to this folk soundscape sound.
That DOES excite me! Thanks so much, again.
Solstafir?
@@Gravityys Got it in one!
@@MaraxisArcanist Brilliant band. Haven't listened to an entire record by them but the bits I've heard were phenomenal. Looking forward to when Jim listens to them on the channel.
@@Gravityys I've only discovered them in the last year or so. Really great stuff. I'm surprised anyone guessed who I was referring to!
I've been a fan of Mogwai since I heard their song 'Hunted By A Freak' for the first time, almost twenty years ago. I had a similar reaction then as you had just now, with a difference being that I had never heard anything like it at the time, Sigur Rós was the only thing that came close. With Mogwai there are no bad albums, though Happy Songs For Happy People (2003) and Every Country's Sun (2017) are my favourites.
Agree 100% with everything you just said. 👍🏼😊
The Hawk is Howling is probably my favorite LP. Funny as it is one of the band’s least favorite.
Can you believe it, I'm pretty sure that - or one of its contemporaries - was the one that got me into them, too! Might have been Friend of the Night actually, and I Know You Are But What Am I? quickly came along... Then I just gobbled it ALL up...
Back again ❤
Awesome 👏
Any time I need a pick me up
Aww…. Hope all’s well
I even hear some Radiohead here: my iron lungs, let down, the national anthem, ... to name a few songs
...
I texted this 5 seconds before you make the Radiohead / Creep reference :)
Haha! That’s the way it goes, my friend!
I'm 14 minutes in to the video, and it just got really, really discordant for my ear. I seriously want to bail, but I'm 2/3rds through, so I'll attempt to ride it out.
It does have moments of sonic beauty in the lower moments, though. But, I don't think this is for me.
I see Part 2 has been uploaded. Should I give it a try? Or is it more of the same?
I think the majesty of "Like Herod" is in the subtle highlights and counterpoints they weave into their main loop.. they're all very doom'y and stark, in-character, but if you pick them out they do form a really impressive whole.. listen carefully and you'll find it's very precise.. Like Herod is one of their heaviest songs, in their entire catalogue, they deliver a lot of other sounds across this album alone... Ladeeda!
Definitely go through all four parts.
Pam, the tracks all seem to follow a similar trajectory. They start small and grow to an overwhelming crescendo that crashes over you and then ebbs away again. I'm enjoying the music very much but if you are not a fan of the first part, I think you'll find the others of a similar ilk.
I've decided to use the format at the beginning as my new video titles and introduction, so you hear about 20 seconds to see if it floats your boat.
@@JimNewstead
Oh, awesome!
I saw the short and the mention that it may help determine if one wanted to listen, but I didn't parse that to mean the music played was a sampling.
I appreciate you spelling that out for me!
You probably will know this and prefer cds but if you search mogwai young team vinyl it may come up. I prefer a pre 2000s bad vinyl to s good cd imo. Post 2000s done on ssl boards sound digitised for me. You might like Polvo they are my fav.
I actually much prefer to listen on vinyl, but it’s insanely expensive to get this record!
@@JimNewstead Not anymore, Jim! 👍 Watched this video series a few months back and really enjoyed it. Just remembered that the band has announced pre-orders for a vinyl reissue of Young Team and Come On Die Young - the album that follows this one, that you totally need to react to someday 😉 - and they've been live for a couple of weeks now. If you're not opposed to colored vinyl, Young Team is on a sky blue and CODY is on white. Not seeing any other options, i.e. black vinyl, so I hope they spend the appropriate time and energy on quality control for what we get. Had to let you know, especially since YT vinyl has been very rare and pricy for the last decade.
It looks to be a wide release, so any of your brick & mortar stores should be getting them. Also thought I read that Amazon, etc. were stocking them for pre-order. Shouldn't be tough to track down at all... at least not for a bit.
@@Eksayle you da real MVP!
New to me ,but not the sound. 1990s post rock for sure. I hear a lot of influences there . It's because of this , I know you'll enjoy a lot of grunge.....I'll refrain from suggestions ( aside from the ones I have🤣🙄) until you're ready.
I like what I'm hearing. They're going onto my " return to this" pile.....
I love your whole new look. Very professional and what the whippersnappers call groovy and with it and far out. Love this sound from this band. I shall have to tell Jesus, I am afraid. Not in fear and trembling but in glee as in club. I want to eat this music. Gobble it down. Make it a part of me. And never poop it back out. I'm retentive that way. So they have music in Scotland? In Ameriker we also got ourselves some music, but it ain't all that great. Derivative and toady. I did shuffle together a playlist of some good music from this century though, and the best of American bands are on it. It is here (as if you had extra time!): ua-cam.com/play/PLZEINYIMlZTLe4mOn0kln0_Fb4LjfWOFC.html
Thats a brilliant list MrWonderous! There's also a lot of bands that aren't from 'merica! Ah, Doves. Happy place :)
Hi Jim, it was a real joy to watch you listening to one of my favourite bands for the first time - that moment where the hair on your arms stood up was truly a delight.
Interesting band that I have most of their output but don't listen very often. I find the massive repetition to get quite boring.