Song: "Cody"
Album: Come On Die Young
Artist: Mogwai
Year: 1999
Length: 6:33
Label: Chemikal Underground
Album Rating: 6.1 (out of 10) on Pitchfork
The song that this album appeared on was released just a month after my #40 song "Carry the Zero," which is oddly coincidental and strangely impressive. Pitchfork, and most reviewers, didn't like the album when originally released, but according to Wikipedia,
It received a somewhat muted reception when compared to Young Team. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, writing for All Music Guide, wrote:
| “ | 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. | ” |
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.
Of course, even back in 1999, P4K realized the beauty of the title track "Cody"...
"But it's the album's title track, carrying the record's only vocal, sung in soft sighs, that pulls apart your heart like string cheese, muscle fiber by muscle fiber."
I cannot disagree. #39 of all time.
Of all I knew, her held too few.
And would you stop me, if I try to stop you?
Old songs stay 'til the end.
Sad songs remind me of friends.
And the way it is, I could leave it all
And I ask myself, would you care at all.
When I drive alone at night, I see the streetlights as fairgrounds
And I tried a hundred times to see the road signs as Day-Glo.
Old songs, stay till the end.
Sad songs, remind me of friends.
And the way it is, I could leave it all
And I ask myself, would you care at all.
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