Happy Songs for Happy People [Import]

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Full title - Happy Music For Happy People. Japanese edition of the Scottish indie act's 2003 and fourth album, includes the bonus track 'Sad DC'. Rock Action/Toy's Factory.

Happy Songs for Happy People
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • My Favorite Mogwai Album
  • More Rock Action
  • Eh...
  • Continuing the logical progression
  • music for the night.
 Happy Songs for Happy People
Mogwai
Manufacturer: Matador Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009ATKS
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

  1. Hunted By A Freak
  2. Moses? I Amn't
  3. Kids Will Be Skeletons
  4. Killing All The Files
  5. Boring Machines Disturb Sleep
  6. Ratts Of The Capital
  7. Golden Porche
  8. I Know You Are But What Am I?
  9. Stop Coming To My House

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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 Pattison

Album Description

The 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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars My Favorite Mogwai Album.......2007-07-24

For my money, this is their best album. The big difference between this album and some of their others (which are very good as well), is that this album is more fan friendly, a lot of hooks. I can sit down and listen to this whole album any time. With some of their other albums, I find myself forwarding a few songs, not "Happy Songs.." So in conclusion, this band is outstanding, and this is their greatest album, in my opinion.

4 out of 5 stars More Rock Action.......2007-05-31

In a way this album exemplifies the musician's perennial problems of trying to square the circle by coming up with something different whilst staying the same. From the opening notes this is clearly identifiable as being Mogwai and as it progresses can be heard to equal the quality of its predecessors. The individuality of their musical identity creates unenviable inbuilt difficulties: if a piece resembles an earlier recording, the band is laid open to charges of stagnation, of simply having further stabs at basically recording the same album in a new guise; if it differs too much, they risk being accused of losing their identity, or even of selling out and becoming too commercial.

Perhaps tellingly, the two songs that featured in the top ten of the 2003 John Peel Festive Fifty, the only two to be placed, were Hunted By A Freak and the eight-minute epic Ratts Of The Capital, as these side-openers contain the most recognisably Mogwai trademark qualities: the sinister, slow building of the soundscape, the quiet/loud/quiet passages, the tortured guitar. However, elsewhere on the record there are several subtle indications that Mogwai have plenty left to say, musically speaking, and there is more of a democratic band feel than in some of their earlier guitar-led pieces. Four of the tracks are augmented by cello or violin, and a string quartet is employed to atmospheric effect on Killing All The Flies.

As always, the titles remain enigmatic and willfully ungrammatical (Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep; Moses? I Amn't), and in a mark of the new maturity and restraint shown throughout this extremely listenable record, most of the pieces are only three or four minutes long. This is not a record that gives away all its secrets on the first listen, but rewards repeated plays. This is in no small part due to the skilful engineering led by Tony Doogan at the CaVa studios in Glasgow, but also to the collaborative efforts and musical empathy of the band themselves.

2 out of 5 stars Eh..........2006-04-14

It's not that it's bad...it just isn't very good. When I listen, I keep waiting for this catharsis that never seems to happen. They keep bumping against it, but they can't seem to break through. It's getting really difficult to tell their albums apart, and in my opinion they're one of the most over-rated bands out there. Even as a live act they fail to produce the type of energy that gets the blood boiling. I saw them with Bardo Pond, and Bardo completely upstaged them. I don't know...this is good background music, but that's the nicest thing I can come up with.

3 out of 5 stars Continuing the logical progression.......2006-03-14

3 1/2 stars

This is like a more solid, more experienced version of what Rock Action sought to be..It is unfortunate that the success of a mogwai album is almost always deterred by it's insistence on breaking up the amazingly gorgeous or menacingly powerfull songs with ambient filler tracks, but it would be safe to say this album pulls it off classier then in the past. While still feeling like a bunch of tracks rather then a flowing album (Come on die Young is the only one that I feel attains the latter so far), Happy Songs for Happy People dazzles us with it's eclectic beauty, showcasing all of mogwai's sides we have come to love..A downside to this bands increased experience with recording studio albums does come with a bit of instrumental and compositional detatchment however, as the tracks do soar as brilliantly and boldly as ever, but with a more guided mechanic...A small complaint for one of rock's most introspective acts.

4 out of 5 stars music for the night........2005-12-29

i like to listen to this album at night when i am alone. it is a great album to just sit back and get lost in the moods of the music.... i often find my mind drifting between focusing on the music and my own thoughts. it isn't exactly "happy music for happy people" but it's not painfully depressing either.... it is music that might bring you down if you're happy, or bring you up if you're depressed.

one great thing about mogwai is that when you are alone it really enhances the enviroment you are in. i guess you have to listen to experience it, but there is nothing like a long walk at night listening to an album like this.

this isn't the kind of album i listen to everyday, but it is an album i will keep in my catalog for years to come.

out of 10, i'd give this album about an 8.5, therefore i highly recommend it.
100 Hymns & Songs of Inspiration
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Manufacturer: Castle Music UK
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008GEKT
Release Date: 2003-04-14

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Album Description

Full Title - 100 Hymns & Songs Of Inspiration. UK box-set featuring 100 tracks performed by Britain's finest Cathedral Choirs including, Gloucester Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, Sheffield Cathedral, & many more. Five standard jewel cases housed in a slipbox. Castle Pulse. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The picture.......2006-12-11

I haven't purchased the CD but the picture of the inside of a church on the cover is not of a British church, like one would assume since it says its a recording of British choirs. This picture is of Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Just thought i'd let you know. I'll be honest; I'm one to judge things by it's cover and if the company took such care to choose a 'British' church for their British choir CD, I'm willing to bet the music is equally well selected... I'm being sarcastic. But I gave the product 5 stars because I didn't want to hurt its ratings just because i'm cynical. But check out the church if you're ever in Montreal, it's truly beautiful... here I'm not being sarcastic.
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    Happy Songs for Happy People
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      		Happy Songs for Happy People
      Mogwai
      Manufacturer: Toy's Factory
      ProductGroup: Music
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      Release Date: 2003-06-02

      Tracks:

      1. Hunted By a Freak
      2. Moses? I Amn't
      3. Kids Will Be Skeletons
      4. Killing All the Flies
      5. Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
      6. Ratts of the Capital
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      8. I Know You Are But What Am I?
      9. Stop Coming to My House
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      Full title - Happy Music For Happy People. Japanese edition of the Scottish indie act's 2003 and fourth album, includes the bonus track 'Sad DC'. Rock Action/Toy's Factory.

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      Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: "Sad Dc".
      Happy Songs for Happy People
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • My Favorite Mogwai Album
      • More Rock Action
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      		 Happy Songs for Happy People
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      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 Pattison

      Album Description

      The 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.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars My Favorite Mogwai Album.......2007-07-24

      For my money, this is their best album. The big difference between this album and some of their others (which are very good as well), is that this album is more fan friendly, a lot of hooks. I can sit down and listen to this whole album any time. With some of their other albums, I find myself forwarding a few songs, not "Happy Songs.." So in conclusion, this band is outstanding, and this is their greatest album, in my opinion.

      4 out of 5 stars More Rock Action.......2007-05-31

      In a way this album exemplifies the musician's perennial problems of trying to square the circle by coming up with something different whilst staying the same. From the opening notes this is clearly identifiable as being Mogwai and as it progresses can be heard to equal the quality of its predecessors. The individuality of their musical identity creates unenviable inbuilt difficulties: if a piece resembles an earlier recording, the band is laid open to charges of stagnation, of simply having further stabs at basically recording the same album in a new guise; if it differs too much, they risk being accused of losing their identity, or even of selling out and becoming too commercial.

      Perhaps tellingly, the two songs that featured in the top ten of the 2003 John Peel Festive Fifty, the only two to be placed, were Hunted By A Freak and the eight-minute epic Ratts Of The Capital, as these side-openers contain the most recognisably Mogwai trademark qualities: the sinister, slow building of the soundscape, the quiet/loud/quiet passages, the tortured guitar. However, elsewhere on the record there are several subtle indications that Mogwai have plenty left to say, musically speaking, and there is more of a democratic band feel than in some of their earlier guitar-led pieces. Four of the tracks are augmented by cello or violin, and a string quartet is employed to atmospheric effect on Killing All The Flies.

      As always, the titles remain enigmatic and willfully ungrammatical (Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep; Moses? I Amn't), and in a mark of the new maturity and restraint shown throughout this extremely listenable record, most of the pieces are only three or four minutes long. This is not a record that gives away all its secrets on the first listen, but rewards repeated plays. This is in no small part due to the skilful engineering led by Tony Doogan at the CaVa studios in Glasgow, but also to the collaborative efforts and musical empathy of the band themselves.

      2 out of 5 stars Eh..........2006-04-14

      It's not that it's bad...it just isn't very good. When I listen, I keep waiting for this catharsis that never seems to happen. They keep bumping against it, but they can't seem to break through. It's getting really difficult to tell their albums apart, and in my opinion they're one of the most over-rated bands out there. Even as a live act they fail to produce the type of energy that gets the blood boiling. I saw them with Bardo Pond, and Bardo completely upstaged them. I don't know...this is good background music, but that's the nicest thing I can come up with.

      3 out of 5 stars Continuing the logical progression.......2006-03-14

      3 1/2 stars

      This is like a more solid, more experienced version of what Rock Action sought to be..It is unfortunate that the success of a mogwai album is almost always deterred by it's insistence on breaking up the amazingly gorgeous or menacingly powerfull songs with ambient filler tracks, but it would be safe to say this album pulls it off classier then in the past. While still feeling like a bunch of tracks rather then a flowing album (Come on die Young is the only one that I feel attains the latter so far), Happy Songs for Happy People dazzles us with it's eclectic beauty, showcasing all of mogwai's sides we have come to love..A downside to this bands increased experience with recording studio albums does come with a bit of instrumental and compositional detatchment however, as the tracks do soar as brilliantly and boldly as ever, but with a more guided mechanic...A small complaint for one of rock's most introspective acts.

      4 out of 5 stars music for the night........2005-12-29

      i like to listen to this album at night when i am alone. it is a great album to just sit back and get lost in the moods of the music.... i often find my mind drifting between focusing on the music and my own thoughts. it isn't exactly "happy music for happy people" but it's not painfully depressing either.... it is music that might bring you down if you're happy, or bring you up if you're depressed.

      one great thing about mogwai is that when you are alone it really enhances the enviroment you are in. i guess you have to listen to experience it, but there is nothing like a long walk at night listening to an album like this.

      this isn't the kind of album i listen to everyday, but it is an album i will keep in my catalog for years to come.

      out of 10, i'd give this album about an 8.5, therefore i highly recommend it.
      Happy Songs for Happy People
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        		Happy Songs for Happy People
        Mogwai
        Manufacturer: Toy's Factory Japan
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000093FJ5
        Release Date: 2003-04-22

        Tracks:

        1. Hunted By a Freak
        2. Moses? I Amn't
        3. Kids Will Be Skeletons
        4. Killing All the Flies
        5. Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
        6. Ratts of the Capital
        7. Golden Porsche
        8. I Know You Are But What Am I?
        9. Stop Coming to My House
        10. Sad DC [*]
        Broadway
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          		Broadway

          Manufacturer: Intersound Records
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          All Works by BernsteinAll Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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          ASIN: B00005YOX8
          Release Date: 1996-03-04
          Best of Broadway
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            		Best of Broadway

            Manufacturer: Intersound Records
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            GeneralGeneral | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
            ASIN: B00000DUNW
            Release Date: 1996-03-04
            Somervell: Maud No1-13; Gentle Maiden
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              		Somervell: Maud No1-13; Gentle Maiden

              Manufacturer: Collins Classics
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              General ModernGeneral Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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              ASIN: B000007SZU
              Release Date: 1998-06-23

              Tracks:

              1. O Mistress Mine - Christopher Maltman
              2. Orpheus With His Lute - Patricia Rozario
              3. Sweet Kate - Christopher Maltman
              4. Songs Of Innocence: The Shepherd - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              5. Songs Of Innocence: The Blossom - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              6. Songs Of Innocence: The Lamb - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              7. Songs Of Innocence: Nurse's Song - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              8. Maud: Birds In The High Hall Garden - Christopher Maltman
              9. Maud: Go Not, Happy Day - Christopher Maltman
              10. Maud: Come Into The Garden, Maud - Christopher Maltman
              11. James Lee's Wife: James Lee's Wife Speaks At The Window - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              12. James Lee's Wife: By The Fireside - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              13. James Lee's Wife: In The Doorway - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              14. James Lee's Wife: On The Cliff - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              15. James Lee's Wife: Among The Rocks - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              16. James Lee's Wife: The Bargain - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              17. James Lee's Wife: Fain Would I Change That Note - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              18. James Lee's Wife: Shepherd's Cradle Song - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              19. James Lee's Wife: Come To Me In My Dreams - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              20. James Lee's Wife: Dainty Little Maiden - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              21. James Lee's Wife: When Spring Returns - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
              22. The Shropshire Lad: Loveliest Of Trees - Christopher Maltman
              23. The Shropshire Lad: When I Was One-And-Twenty - Christopher Maltman
              24. The Shropshire Lad: There Pass The Careless People - Christopher Maltman
              25. The Shropshire Lad: In Summer-Time On Bredon - Christopher Maltman
              26. The Shropshire Lad: The Street Sounds To A Soldier's Tread - Christopher Maltman
              27. The Shropshire Lad: On The Idle Hill Of Summer - Christopher Maltman
              28. The Shropshire Lad: White In The Moon The Long Road Lies - Christopher Maltman
              29. The Shropshire Lad: Think No More Lad, Laugh, Be Jolly - Christopher Maltman
              30. The Shropshire Lad: Into My Heart An Air That Kills - Christopher Maltman
              31. The Shropshire Lad: The Lads In Their Hundreds - Christopher Maltman

              Music:

              1. He Wants You/Babe I'm on Fire [CD-single] [Import]
              2. Heaven [CD-single] [Import]
              3. Hours [Import]
              4. I am Be
              5. In the Pursuit of Leisure [Import]
              6. Isn't Anything
              7. Juxtapose
              8. Kein Zurück
              9. La Folie [Import]
              10. Latin Caribbean Party, Vol. 1

              Music

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              Music

              Fanfare: the 1997 World Tour [Import]

              Mozart: Symphonies 32, 35, 38

              Luchesi: Violin Sonatas Op. 1

              M-M-Mel Live [Live]

              Lost Decade [Import]

              Meyerbeer: Le Prophète [Box set]

              Junior's Bedtime Songs

              L'art Des Jongleurs, Vol. 3

              Love in the Hot Afternoon/Paper Rosie

              Memorial, Volume 2

              King Missile

              Filmtreffer 1 [Import]

              It's Progressive, Vol. 3 [Import]

              Galuppi: Il Filosofo Di Campagna

              So This Is Goodbye