Comments on: Album Review: Mogwai’s “Mr. Beast”

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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:26:29 +0000

[...] of the millennium when i was obsessed with scottish bands.Â snow patrol, belle & sebastian, mogwai, trashcan sinatras, arab strap, the reindeer section… anything that came out of glasgow [...]

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:55:59 +0000

Oh, I remember the good old days, all right… I spent most of them playing designated driver.

Any future cred I might have ever achieved was permanently lost when I saw Linda Ronstadt as a 6th grader in 1990, but my eardrums are still pretty much intact.

I guess we can’t all be rockers. Oh well.

By: hotshotrobot

hotshotrobot — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:18:23 +0000

Any album that triggers a discussion about earplugs HAS to be good.

My right ear has been a little fucked up in the upper register ever since i saw KISS on their “Hot in the Shade” tour in 1990 with Slaughter and Faster Pussycat supporting. Eric Carr’s tank-esque drums pounded my eardrums into mush.

Then he got a brain tumor and died.

By: amber

amber — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:45:19 +0000

hahaha, that makes two former club kids on the ssc staff. ah, the good old days…i can’t really remember ‘em.

: p

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:34:53 +0000

As a former club kid, I highly recommend the reusable rubber ones. They come in multiple sizes (this is especially great if you have freakishly small ears like me), they don’t look as conspicuous as the others (which only look cool if the venue is blacklit) and, in my experience, they cut out the excess noise without cutting out everything.

By: amber

amber — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:51:08 +0000

well, i used to be staunchly against earplugs because i had it fixed in my head that louder was better. if i still couldn’t hear properly the next day, the band did a good job! hahaha such is youth.

i am beginning to come around though. i should get some. i’m already blind as a bat, i really don’t want to be deaf along with it.

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:44:25 +0000

really an awesome album. (and review…thanks, amber)

but don’t you know enough to wear earplugs at shows? i say this sincerely and as a live show junkie with serious hearing issues…earplugs make the world a better place. invest in some now.

By: Sam E.

Sam E. — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:41:57 +0000

That good, eh? I missed this when it came out — I’ll have to check it out.