Come on Die Young
Studio album by Mogwai
Released	29 March 1999 (UK) 6 April 1999 (U.S.)
Genre	Post-Rock
Length	67:32
Label	Matador Records OLE-365
Producer(s)	Dave Fridmann
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (6.1/10) link
Mogwai chronology
Kicking a Dead Pig (1998)	Come on Die Young (1999)	EP+6 (2000)

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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 reperetoire. 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, feedback-laden crescendos and occasionally ambient textures. Near the end of the album, the bombastic "Christmas Steps" breaks away from this quiet tension and displays a return to Mogwai's more well-known distortion-heavy dynamics. Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Example of a bottleneck, with fingerpicks and resonator guitar. ... Audio feedback (also known as the Larsen effect) is a special kind of feedback which occurs when a loop exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker). ... In musical notation, crescendo means that the notes are gradually getting louder. ...

Critical reaction

It received a somewhat muted reception when compared to Young Team. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, writing for All Music Guide, wrote: The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ...

However, it is now praised by many fans and critics as one of the best, if not the best album they've released. It has also been said by some critics that Mogwai will never top Come on Die Young.

Track listing

1. "Punk Rock" – 2:08
2. "Cody" – 6:33
3. "Helps Both Ways" – 4:53
4. "Year 2000 Non-Compliant Cardia" – 3:25
5. "Kappa" – 4:52
6. "Waltz for Aidan" – 3:44
7. "May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door" – 8:29
8. "Oh! How the Dogs Stack Up" – 2:03
9. "Ex-Cowboy" – 9:09
10. "Chocky" – 9:23
11. "Christmas Steps" – 10:39
12. "Punk Rock/Puff Daddy/Antichrist" – 2:14

Trivia

• The track "Punk Rock" on this album samples a speech made by Iggy Pop during an interview on the CBC.
• The album cover is possibly a tribute to Captain Howdy from The Exorcist
• The 'Aidan' mentioned in 'Waltz for Aidan' is presumably Aidan Moffat from fellow Scottish band Arab Strap.

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External links

• Amazon.com page for the album