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Biography
Infobox album | Name = Come On Die Young| Type = studio| Artist = Mogwai | Cover = Mogwai-come-on-die-young-cover.jpg| Released = 29 March 1999| Recorded = Tarbox Road Studios , Cassadaga, New York , USA, Cava Studios , Glasgow , Scotland| Genre = Post-rock | Length = 67:32| Label = Chemikal Underground , Matador Records|Matador | Producer = Dave Fridmann | Last album = Mogwai Young Team (1997)| This album = Come On Die Young (1999)| Next album = Rock Action (album)|Rock Action (2001) Come On Die Young (also known as CODY ), is the second full-length studio album by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai , released on 29 March 1999 by Chemikal Underground .
Overview
It is somewhat different from the rest of Mogwai's work because of its reserved tone. The album's second track, "Cody" is much more like a traditional pop song than most of the band's repertoire. Still slow and meandering, it features an uncharacteristically distinct melody , slide guitar and relatively prominent vocals. Much of Come On Die Young consists of slow, quiet, drum-driven tracks containing tense, Audio feedback|feedback -laden crescendo s and occasionally ambient textures. Near the end of the album, the bombastic " Christmas Steps (song)|Christmas Steps " breaks away from this quiet tension and displays a return to Mogwai's more well-known distortion-heavy dynamics. The album's title derives from a Glasgow gang of the same name.Cite news |url= http://books.google.co.uk/books? id=8yoEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA27& dq=mogwai& client=firefox-a& cd=2#v=onepage& q=mogwai& f=false |title=The Scottish Scoundrels in Mogwai Give Glasgow a Good Name |author=Douglas Wolk |work= CMJ New Music Monthly |issue=69 |date=May 1999 |page=27 |accessdate=February 9, 2011
Critical reaction
Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|2.5|5Cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/come-on-die-young-r403028 |title=Come On Die Young - Mogwai |author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |work=allmusic.com |accessdate=February 9, 2011 | rev2 = Pitchfork Media | rev2Score = (6.1/10)Cite web |url= http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19974/Mogwai_Come_On_Die_Young |title=Mogwai: Come On Die Young |author=Brent DiCrescenzo |work=pitchforkmedia.com |date=March 29, 1999 |accessdate=February 9, 2011 | rev3 = Rolling Stone | rev3Score = Rating|3.5|5| rev4 = Drowned in Sound | rev4Score = (10/10)Cite web |url= http://drownedinsound.com/releases/4734/reviews/589-mogwai-come-on-die-young |title=Mogwai: Come On Die Young |author=Tim Whitehouse |work=drownedinsound.com |date=March 18, 2001 |accessdate=February 9, 2011 | rev5 = Robert Christgau | rev5Score = CCite web |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php? id=2443 |title= Mogwai: Come On Die Young It received a somewhat muted reception when compared to Mogwai Young Team . Stephen Thomas Erlewine, writing for Allmusic , wrote:
cquote|Perhaps Come On Die Young wouldn't have seemed as disappointing if it hadn't arrived on the wave of hype and expectation, but the truth is, it pales in comparison to their own work.
Track listing
All songs and music were written by Mogwai.
# "Punk Rock:" – 2:08 # "Cody" – 6:33 # "Helps Both Ways" – 4:53 # "Year 2000 Non-Compliant Cardia" – 3:25 # "Kappa" – 4:52 # "Waltz for Aidan" – 3:44 # "May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door" – 8:29 # "Oh& #33; How the Dogs Stack Up" – 2:03 # "Ex-Cowboy" – 9:09 # "Chocky" – 9:23 # " Christmas Steps (song)|Christmas Steps " – 10:39 # "Punk Rock/Puff Daddy/AN?ICHRIS?" – 2:14
Trivia
"Punk Rock:" samples a speech made by Iggy Pop during an interview on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC , broadcast on 11 March 1977.cite news| url= http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/music/topics/102/ | work=CBC News
The album cover, which features the face of Dominic Aitchison , was inspired by Pazuzu (The Exorcist)|Captain Howdy from The Exorcist .
The 'Aidan' mentioned in the title of "Waltz for Aidan" is presumably Aidan Moffat from fellow Scottish band Arab Strap (band)|Arab Strap . Moffat provided vocals for the songs " R U Still in 2 It " and " Now You're Taken " on Mogwai's Mogwai Young Team|debut album and 4 Satin|EP , respectively.
The song "Cody" featured in the second episode of the first series of teen drama Skins (TV series)|Skins .
Personnel
;Mogwai
Stuart Braithwaite – guitar , Singing|vocals on "Cody"
Dominic Aitchison – Bass Guitar|bass guitar
Martin Bulloch – Drum kit|drums
John Cummings – guitar
Barry Burns – piano , keyboard instrument|keyboard , guitar, flute
