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Ten is kind of a random number but I wanted to do a CD for someone and so I need about an hours worth of suggestions. So any suggestions as favourites much appreciated.

I can't beleive this isn't a repeat thread, so if it is, my apologies, and please point me that way, thanks.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

has mogwai written more than ten tracks???

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Can't help thinking I'm missing a couple here but...

Summer
New Paths To Helicon Part 2
Haunted By A Freak
Small Children In The Background
Mogwai Fear Satan
Superheroes Of BMX
Stanley Kubrick
My Father My King
R U Still In 2 It
Kappa

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

more here: Mogwai POX

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

off the top of my head, i'd say every good mogwai CD needs:

helicon 1 (for distilled perfection)
fear satan (preferably the "mogwai remix" from kicking a dead pig)
stanley kubrick (or something from that EP, for the sheer brass-band genius of it)
2 rights (although the version on the album doesn't do justice to how monumental it now sounds live. there's a version on their website from ATP 2004, but even that doesn't quite capture how majestic it can be)
hunted by a freak (for freakiness)
ratts of the capital (for genius)
golden porsche or secret pint (for balance)
my father my king (for ROCK)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

that was an x-post and i didn't really read gerry's when it came up first ... helicon 2 over helicon 1?!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that's bad craziness.
I Know You Are But What Am I is surely the highlight of Happy Songs.
Far too many others for me to pick right now...

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I wanted something light and plinky. Don't give me your bold face when you ignored the live noisy as fuck masterpiece that is Summer.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Summer
Helicon 1
BMX
X-Cow
CODY

Sine Wave
2 Rights
Christmas Steps
Jesus
Take Me Somewhere Nice

― Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gentleee as you move (Leee), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

D to E, pretty easily found B-side, is pretty essential I think.

― twoblackeyes (twoblackeyes), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

ignored the live noisy as fuck masterpiece that is Summer

and "like herod". i ignored that too :(

"helicon 1" was my first mogwai experience, you see. after what felt like a lifetime of turgid britpop jism in the late-mid-1990s, suddenly i heard this ... this explosion of beauty. without wishing to sound like ~~an utter cock~~ ~~more of a cock than usual~~ my usual self too much, it represented a glorious new dawn.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

OK, this is what I went for in the end.

Helicon 1
Summer
A Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters
Mogwai Fear Satan
Christmas Steps
Burn Girl Prom Queen
Close Encounters
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
I Know You Are But What Am I?
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong (live at ATP 2004)

1 hour 18 minutes of gloriousnessness.
Thanks for the suggestions.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

OK, did you see what I did there?
Put 2 Rights on twice - i mean it's good and everything but...
So...I've changed it and taken the non-live one out and replaced it with Kappa and Stanley Kubrick.

OK then. Incidentally Mogwai fans, have any of you seen the film Comsequences of Love which features an excellent soundtrack including Moses I Amn't and Tracy?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

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