Line #15 Music/Mogwai


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mogwai2.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Mogwai in 2017. Left to right: Dominic Atchison, Martin Bulloch, Stuart Braithwaite, Barry Burns]]
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4	-> '' 'Cause this music can put a human being in a trance-like state and deprive it for the sneaking feeling of existing.\
5	'Cause music is bigger than words and wider than pictures.\
6	If someone told me that'' Mogwai ''are the stars, I would not object.\
7	If the stars had a sound, they would sound like this.''
8	-->-- From "Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home"[[note]]an interpolation of a music review of Mogwai by a student named Mari Myren[[/note]]
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10	Mogwai are a PostRock band hailing from Glasgow, Scotland. They are also [[GenreBusting very hard to describe]], due to their eclecticism. A few constants, however, include their very legendary {{Instrumentals}}, their love of distortion and effects, and an average song length of about [[EpicRocking 6 minutes.]]
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12	Their lineup has included:
13	* Stuart Braithwaite: Guitar, Vocals (1995-present)
14	* Dominic Aitchison: Bass, Guitar (1995-present)
15	* Martin Bulloch: Drums (1995-present)
16	* Barry Burns: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Flute, Vocals (1998-present)
17	* Luke Sutherland: Violin, Guitar, Vocals (unofficial touring member, 1998-2016)
18	* Brendan O'Hare: Keyboards, Guitar (1997)
19	* John Cummings: Guitar, Laptop (1995-2015)
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21	Do not confuse with the creatures from ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''. Contrary to popular opinion, the band have disproved that they named themselves after said creatures.
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23	----
24	!!Discography:
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26	'''Studio albums'''
27	* ''Mogwai Young Team'' (1997)
28	* ''Come On Die Young'' (1999)
29	* ''Rock Action'' (2001)
30	* ''Happy Songs for Happy People'' (2003)
31	* ''Mr. Beast'' (2006)
32	* ''The Hawk Is Howling'' (2008)
33	* ''Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will.'' (2011)
34	* ''Rave Tapes'' (2014)
35	* ''Every Country's Sun'' (2017)
36	* ''As the Love Continues'' (2021)
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38	!Mogwai provide examples of...
39	* EarlyBirdCameo: Barry Burns provided the backmasked monologue on ''Mogwai Young Team'''s "Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home." This was a year before he joined the band.
40	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Central Belters'', released in 2015 and compiling songs from their early singles to their then-recent EP, ''Music Industry 3, Fitness Industry 1''.
41	* {{Instrumentals}}: [[ExaggeratedTrope It'd be easier to list the songs that do have lyrics.]]
42	* LongRunnerLineUp: a Type 2 with Braithwaite, Aitchison, Bulloch, Burns and Cummings (and Sutherland, if you count him), lasting from 1998, when Burns (and Sutherland) joined, to 2015, when Cummings left.
43	* PerishingAltRockVoice: When the vocals appear at all.
44	* PopStarComposer: They've contributed to the soundtracks of several documentaries, most notably contributing 4 songs to climate change documentary ''Before the Flood''.
45	** They performed the score for ''Film/TheFountain'' composed by Music/ClintMansell.
46	* {{Sampling}}: Numerous tracks on ''Come On Die Young'' sample clips from random TV shows.
47	* SixthRanger: From 1998-2016, Luke Sutherland was a long-time touring mate and friend of the band, playing backup guitars and violin on a fair amount of their songs, and co-writing [[StepUpToTheMicrophone and singing]] "Mexican Grand Prix" from ''Harcore Will Never Die, but You Will''. Throughout his 18-year run, however, he was never officially a member of the band.
48	* StageNames: For their first album, ''Mogwai Young Team'', the band used them. Braithwaite was credited as "[=pLasmatroN=]," Aitchison as "DEMONIC," Bulloch as "bionic," Cummings as "Cpt. Meat," and O'Hare as "+the relic+". These would be dropped by the time of ''Come On Die Young''.

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