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  1. Since a floor pic won't work with 47 albums. Here is a grid of every Rage Against The Machine self-titled album I own. It was released 30 years ago today, November 3rd, 1992.
    12 points
  2. You’re officially banned from the post thread for taking this long. Mogwai is where you start, not where you end. How dare you.
    4 points
  3. ^ I agree with a lot of that, Derek. To be fair, I can't listen to much of the twinkly, whatever-wave post-rock these days. It all sounds cliched and cheesy. Early Mogwai certainly had the quiet-loud aspect, but the feel was very different. A friend of mine who hasn't listened to Mogwai in a while described that early stuff as "punishing." What I love about Mogwai is the breadth of their catalog. Diving into them now for the first time will surely be an adventure. Even my least favorite Mogwai records are some of my favorite records.
    3 points
  4. What are you asking about the YT remaster, Gumbo? It’s impossible to predict how the new one will sound. All we know is that the original 1997 recording engineer (Paul Savage) is handling it. Are you asking if you should grab this new reissue or spring for an OG press? “Fine”
    3 points
  5. Just completed my Coheed collection recently - https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckgj-xQJ1qN/
    2 points
  6. Yeah, there’s a pretty good sense of uniformity across all 3… but at what cost? 😕
    2 points
  7. If I know Gumbo like I think I know Gumbo, he’s still gonna’ have a soft spot for tremolo-core and favor it to the breadth of sounds that Mogwai covers. In all fairness I sort of get why someone may want to keep a band like Mogwai in their back pocket. They have such a lengthy discography and are held in high regard among most post-rock circles… it’s like having a reserve of good music on tap. But at the same time, if it were me – knowing the band was still active – I’d want to know if they were suited for me or not, and would have to explore them to be prepared for new POs, limited edition reissues, and tour announcements. To each their own though. I feel like Mogwai are kind of the name referenced when discussing quiet-loud-quiet-loud songwriting in post-rock. Which is funny because Stuart and co. hate being labeled “post-rock” if I remember correctly. I do think that people who live for Caspian’s twinkly guitars and cinematic “wall of soaring guitars” - with interest in little else - won’t really get just how much Mogwai bring to the table. There’s a ton to process, especially when being yanked around with styles that you don’t encounter in typical post-rock: slowcore, vocals, vocoder, heavy electronic / synths, etc. There are undoubtedly post-rock bands that incorporate those sounds, of course. But few that integrate them so heavily and frequently as Mogwai. Anyway. I do wish I could go back into their discography blind or with minimal exposure. Especially in 2022. I can only imagine. I think there is a ton and that it can’t possibly just click instantly, all at once. (Especially if it challenges the conventional EITS / TWDY 9-minute guitar crescendos.) But it’s so good and worth the time to explore – even my least favorite Mogwai records are worth owning and sitting down with.
    2 points
  8. Derek - got my album in - muchas gracias!!
    1 point
  9. There was the 2008 remaster as well when they did the boxset and CD releases. My wife, then gf, bought me the box and that has been my main source of listening for the album, so I can't say for sure how it stands up next to the original, but it sounds pretty damn good.
    1 point
  10. Even some of the bands you listed there have evolved and experimented some beyond what I jokingly refer to on VC as Gumbo-core. It's all the optimistic-sounding crescendo post-rock that just bores me to death. I throw Caspian in list (sorry). I discovered CODY shortly after it was released - I was in college at the time. Every album after has hit in just the right way. Just when I think I have a personal ranking/preference, I toss on one that I claim is my least favorite, and I love it, realizing I can't really rank them. Every album has a mood.
    1 point
  11. Lol yeah these designs are bad. When I saw the announcement I didn’t even realize what albums these were. I thought “What is Tiger? They released an album called “Tiger”?” I already have all the other albums minus Lover, so maybeeee? But clear 2xLP is already $35 on Discogs so what’s the point?
    1 point
  12. Like Herod is about as punishing as post-rock gets. I think there’s probably a time and place for crescendo-core but at the same time I think the market has been saturated with that sound for way too long, and anyone following instrumental “rock” for the last 15-20 years is just fatigued by it. Especially after seeing Mogwai live for the first time, back in… 2013, 2014 or so, I feel like I’ve 100% been reaching for their albums more consistently than stuff like Caspian, TWDY, etc. Not that there’s anything wrong with those bands or their ability to write a tune, but it just feels like there is such a deeper well of creative songwriting to draw from with Mogwai. And it spans across so many records, and so many years. Once you figure out which albums satisfy specific moods, and start to attach some memories to them, it starts to feel like there’s almost no bad time to throw on at least one Mogwai record. And this is all coming from someone who was late to the party. It’d be so cool to follow this band from the late 90s. I was in grade school when YT dropped; I didn’t appreciate music as a whole, let alone new genres. I think I downloaded all their stuff in 2011, with the intent of checking them out in chronological order. I remember YT and CODY being so intriguing on first play… and then the next morning, or maybe a couple of days later, HWNDBYW leaked. Hearing that in its entirety really helped me realize that they were something beyond EITS, GY!BE, Caspian, TWDY, ITTCT, and whatever post-rock I was getting acclimated to, all those years ago. Feels like I’ve been pretty loyal to them ever since.
    1 point
  13. If the intent was to keep it sealed and have it collect dust on a shelf, what would it matter if there were divots that impacted playback? Or am I misunderstanding something here?
    1 point
  14. Oh. OH NO. I saw y'all's posts and didn't think it could be THAT bad. Damn was I wrong.
    1 point
  15. That picture looks expensive.
    1 point
  16. I finally pulled a VC. I didn’t add this to my spreadsheet and almost re-bought this a few weeks ago but stopped myself. Got notification yesterday.
    1 point
  17. I was going to say the same thing last night but had to stop myself. Mogwai makes all the pretentious bro post-rock seem even sillier than it already is.
    1 point
  18. LOL at fawning over so much derivative post-rock and then coming to Mogwai. Glad you finally got there Gumbo. Not sure how you're ever going to go back to the copycats now.
    1 point
  19. Not at all, dead quiet in between tracks and the portions not "noise."
    1 point
  20. Well I survived. Felt like a good mix of warped tour and riot fest. My throat has been killing me all week though.
    1 point
  21. this record fucking rips.
    1 point
  22. I am being lazy on getting stuff out to photograph, but I am a few LP's away from a complete Veil Of Maya collection. In the meantime, here is my full VC for their album Matriarch. First Pressing (2015) Gold [x/????] Translucent Purple [x/500] Second Pressing (2022) Neon Violet in Electric Blue w/ Black & Blue Splatter [x/250] Clear w/ Black/Neon Magenta/Yellow Splatter [x/750] Purple and Blue Side A/B w/ Black Splatter [x/2,500]
    1 point
  23. I was today years old when I listened to Young Team for the first time. This is fantastic. I have CODY on cd and it's fine but I can see that album *crushing* on a home vinyl setup. Edit - i'm listening to the 1997 Disc 1 video on Youtube and it sounds wonderful through our home TV stereo setup. Can anyone fill me in on any remaster or remix lineages? Is this era of the release worth getting or should I go for this new remaster? Also, I've purposefully held off on Mogwai so that I still have bands left to discover. I burned through post-rock real fast but wanted to keep some mysteries left to be mined. They are one of them
    0 points
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