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Mogwai, Happy Songs for Happy People

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1072016

Disk length: 44m 23s (10 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2003

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Hunted By A Freak 4:16
2. Moses: I Amn't 3:01
3. Kids Will Be Skeletons 5:27
4. Killing All The Flies 4:34
5. Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep 3:05
6. Ratts Of The Capital 8:25
7. Golden Porsche 2:48
8. I Know You Are But What Am I 5:17
9. Stop Coming To My House 7:25
10. Data 0:00

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Review

Adventurous Scot rockers Mogwai may never shake reputation for creating brutal music, but Happy Songs for Happy People demonstrates that they can do more than render the aural equivalent of being sucked out a spaceship airlock. Until now, Stuart Braithwaite had taken on the role of Mogwai's bandleader by proxy, his tumultuous guitar playing serving as the outfit's hallmark. Now, however, multi-instrumentalist Barry Burns has stepped to the fore--albeit, with much more restraint--crooning effects-heavy vocals on "Hunted By a Freak" and teasing out a meditative piano line on the ghostly "I Know You Are But What Am I?" Indeed, more than any other Mogwai work, this album aims to create sheer bliss. Even the amp-busting crescendo of "Ratts of the Capital" matches its dark-metal pomp with chiming orchestra bells and starburst lead-guitar lines. No sudden banjo interludes or guest vocals jar with the album's slow passage toward its conclusion. True, it's hard to shake the feeling that they'll never again write something as monumental as Come On Die Young. But Mogwai still sound lush and powerful. Their time hasn't passed. --Louis PattisonThe fourth album from Glasgow's kings of glowering, volatile quasi-instrumental rock is subtler than their previous work, compositionally beautiful but intense and trance-inducing at the same time. 9 tracks. Matador. 2003.

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 9 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 44m 23s

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 9 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 42m 26s (-2m 3s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 46m 23s (+2m)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 9 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 41m 56s (-3m 33s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 9 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 41m 53s (-3m 30s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 9 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 41m 51s (-3m 28s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 15 (+5 tracks), Disk length: 1h 6m 53s (+22m 30s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 1h 10m 46s (+26m 23s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 1h 10m 48s (+26m 25s)

Happy Songs for Happy People

Tracks: 11 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 15m 18s (+30m 55s)

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