Mogwai - Music For A Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)

[@keikohara32]

I am Japanese. There was a very big earthquake that year. And my beloved had cancer. It was a very, very dark and hopeless year. I hated my life. This song is very good. This song was the source of overcoming despair. Whenever I went to visit her in the hospital, I always listened to this song. In deep despair.

[@tommorrison1414]

What a beautiful, poetic comment. I hope you have found peace in life again.

[@Tazwinator]

❤

[@omicroneridani7456]

I do hope life has got back to smiling at you, madam. Be strong...

[@aureliadisimone1792]

My girl, 3yo, use to fall asleep listening this song since she was 6months old.. when I was pregnant I used listening this song watching the mountains, so astonished, so excited, so deeply happy, so... what I can say.. still in love, every night, with my baby and this song

[@silenceofthehills7610]

I hope she grows up to become a huge Mogwai fan like me.

[@manelkh3706]

Your daughter is going to have an amazing taste in music once she grows up.

[@kelvinkiat9814]

Well i'm happy for you and your daughter.

[@leila8562]

Is so sweet to share that, that song is truly amazing, so deep words are just not enough it's an exploration to listen.... Stay safe, you and your dear daughter.. Big hello from france

[@Michael_______]

@@leila8562 ♥️

[@erkkapehto9125]

The part starting at 12:41 has this atmosphere of something that you have loved is ending. I imagined a person who is dying thinking: "This was it, this was life, I am so grateful to have lived in this beautiful world but now it's my time to go" This imagined scene got me into tears

[@mry82]

I've got a list of post rock songs for my funeral...

[@dreamersontherun2537]

@@mry82 If you could share that.

[@mry82]

@@dreamersontherun2537 They are saved here and there in bookmarks... I will try to remember to make a playlist on youtube and share it...

[@Lehigh_Sky_High]

This is like dark chocolate flavored music for my soul.

[@MrsUnicornlove]

Why is this so accurate?

[@guyinred_yt420]

Yessir

[@Michael_______]

Dark chocolate with a hint of raspberry at the end. Maybe raspberry chocolate red wine. Red chocolate wine is a thing and it's delicious. I'm very lonely lol

[@DoseofTruth]

Now we find dark chocolate contains many heavy metals from the geo engineering and whatever else

[@juankraut1621]

Post-Rock is purely a Re-Evolution of Modern Music. Simply take us back to the human greatness achieved in Classical Music composers. We can be captured again in the moods and emotions of our present time. Basically we take conscience that there is nothing more sacred than perturbation of the atmospheric pressure, is the air that surrounds us and so we breath... Musik.

[@Mintfriction]

Adele is rushing here because of your comment

[@thiagopacheco8048]

Awesome

[@Gerbs1913]

Jk Garassino Deep.

[@daveated]

Juan Kraut rock ?

[@ptanyuh]

It is BREATHE with a motherfucking E. Why can't people spell this fucking word!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!

[@岩の下駅]

Thank you for not putting ads on this. God bless you!

[@michaellee7308]

I remember coming across this video in 2013 when I was living and teaching in South Korea. I had heard of Mogwai, but this was my gateway to their music. I listened to this song often on long subway rides. 12:20 hits and it’s like a montage of all the beautiful and difficult moments of your life should be playing. This song really takes you through your own personal past, present and future. Wonderful song and still my favorite Mogwai track.

[@kharding9495]

I look at pictures of my old childhood home, to this song. And I look at it on recent realtor sites. How it's changed. How some parts are barely recognizable. Its all been renovated, repainted and all traces of my childhood has been scrubbed from the walls and sterilized into "modern decor". I see flashes of my old toddler photos on the white-washed walls. All the blurry warmth of childhood has been removed, and all that stands is a dwindling spark in my memory.

[@truefunksoul8638]

That sounds like bringing to mind memories of a forgotten future, one might say?

[@stevendavies417]

3.50 -- this part is just so beautifully fragile.

[@Gerbs1913]

This song has that feel that it would belong in a scene after a battle where the hero or heroes are looking out over a field of death and destruction, and then have to carry on.

[@marianavarro8557]

that's exactly what I imagined the first time I played this song

[@stevenkerr340]

that notion you describe and the song title are almost the same, comtemplation of lifes never to unfold, children never to be born and the potential futures squandered and turnd to dust.

[@swannhat514]

feels like a cinematic invitation to take a step back, like a ghost in a futuristic city

[@John-cq4xp]

Nothing like Mogwai- never has been, never will be. In a league of their own.

[@andrewortiz9226]

try listening to spongle... spongles music is better

[@truefunksoul8638]

@@andrewortiz9226 Shpongle has got nothing on Mogwai (and I even know how to spell the band's name) but the real mystery is why you assume no one has ever heard anything else that you've heard, like you're the only one who knows of both bands, and we all must agree with your opinion. "try listening to spongle" then your mind will be changed because "spongles music is better" is just so lame and patronising. Is it a contest like the Olympics of music or did the guy just state (correctly) that there is nothing like Mogwai? Try not forcing your opinions on other people.

[@draibamixtapes]

@@truefunksoul8638 I will never try Spongles.

[@giuseppethesantis]

I think that the only one that come similarly in the same emotional spot are some tracks from Sigur Ros

[@projectiongibbo]

God is an astronaut are as good as mogwai

[@robertarusso]

I've only just recently discovered that I like listening to Mogwai while writing. I thought I needed absolute silence, but I was wrong. They inspire me.

[@riccardoamedoro9362]

Ti capisco perfettamente, ci ho scritto tre romanzi ascoltandoli ;)

[@nicobike]

Same here! this is perfect for doing uni homework

[@manelkh3706]

This track always, always calms me down. No matter what I'm doing and where I'm at. It's absolutely magical and Mogwai are a group of geniuses

[@julivertjones1037]

No sad images come to me with this music. Walking barefoot in the countryside in a mild summer night with full moon. Silence.... Just this

[@Aaron628318]

About halfway through I'm thinking that I don't want it to end, and I'm relieved to find I've still got more than 10 minutes left.

[@truefunksoul8638]

I was thinking that at 6 minutes, so I still had 17 minutes to go.

[@Chiselfield]

Beautiful, 23 minutes of otherworldly calm.

[@Marceline.Abadeerxo]

12:17 onward always makes me so sad. It sounds like you're saying goodbye to someone...it makes me so sad. Really beautiful piece.

[@adamclarke3485]

And the static at the end of the track being the empiness that follows as the person you've said goodbye to has finally gone. A lingering static almost like a desperate desire to just have one more moment with them. Holding the line for a flicker within that static....a voice. a broken hope.

[@adamclarke3485]

@Pragmatist23 Pragmatist23 Much love my friend.

[@Nox.INkRecords]

@Marcelline A. It certainly is one of the most extraordinary Post-rock tracks.

[@Nox.INkRecords]

@Pragmatist23 Pragmatist23 I lost my Father in an almost exact manner. I feel you.

[@manelkh3706]

@Pragmatist23 Pragmatist23 I feel for you, I hope you're doing well

[@TERRITOIRELIBRE]

2019 and still think it"s the best song to fall asleep.

[@user-pb3cf5ws8f]

Believe In Post Rock. Jakob dominion is another of my favourite sleeping long tracks

[@bebopganymede]

Me too man. Been listening to this for years

[@mazairsamedov3274]

it`s 2018. Still listening

[@peterpeter4254]

@Ouyama Samuel Oh my god. Is it?

[@mr_yutzy]

2020.

[@banjoleb]

late 2020

[@DNS-FRANK09]

It's 2024. I'm still listening

[@zuzannaskadanowska6940]

I never really liked long songs... until I found this one. It stole my heart. Definitely one of my favorite Mogwai tracks.

[@fotheon-9955]

its such a long song but yet so short

[@NahuelG]

IT is long, passage of time i mean.

[@michaelwilliams2231]

So many emotions in one piece of music, truly beautiful

[@islandiris2009]

Still one of my favorites!!! That relaxes me sooo much that I can play it again and again and again......

[@WinglesDragon]

Anyone ever have a melody or piece of music that just, for some reason or another, speaks to your soul? Like, this isn't the most complex piece, or the most original, or most interesting, or whatever. But this piece, specifically the melody at the beginning and end, makes me feel at home. Whenever I just don't know what to do with myself I just put this on repeat. Even got it tattooed behind my ear. It's weird, but I find it comforting.

[@truefunksoul8638]

Got what tattooed behind your ear, the title? On your skull? The Singing Mountain or Music For A Forgotten Future? I just realised you mean the musical notes, how many is it? Or on the back of your ear cartilage? Fuck! Sounds painful. I'm gonna say 5 notes, back of actual ear. Dedication to the cause. Kudos.

[@WinglesDragon]

@@truefunksoul8638 I have the first 8 notes tattooed on my neck behind my ear. And it's actually one of the least painful places to get a tattoo.

[@impuredeath2]

Sadness of this beautiful music goes really deep into my bones....very beautiful feeling of this sadness goes really deep down in my being.....

[@humfmrgh]

How can something so cold feel so warm...

[@mongreal84]

Perfect OST for these disgraceful times

[@ShaktiChaturvedi]

This is beautiful, someday I will climb a mountain and just sit on top for minutes listening to this masterpiece :)

[@brianhiggins7994]

I am crying here (tears of joy) climb that mountain 🤙

[@ShaktiChaturvedi]

@@brianhiggins7994 I will :)

[@vyacheslavnedosekin225]

This music has some consonance with The Verve's I See Houses. So chill and dreamy. Reminds me of dandelion fields of my childhood.

[@doischatos2779]

I don't have words to shown my opinion of this song! The song make me remember the rain or when I am waking up.

[@skyz6239]

listening in 2020, this felt good, thank you

[@weaseltown]

289k views. I'm about 500 of those at least. Been listening to this since the day it was posted. So so so much has happened in my life since then. Wishing you all the very best.

[@Eckull]

This is my focus song, I put it on when I need to focus on work or studying and it always seems to do the trick.

[@bensherstinskymusic]

I like how the picture is Coruscant lol

[@NahlonDein]

Feels as if this music would fit perfectly in a movie scene where the protagonist is wandering the ruins of the past great city's of our future. Slowly...falling apart...in time.

[@Marcelelpouel]

I listen to this song every morning going to work :)

[@Adallace]

Mic Bois Appropriately ominous presage to the work day? Or do you find it uplifting or inspiring? I listen to this track fairly often, because I think it's beautiful and amazing, but it unfortunately also depresses me or makes me anxious like there's an impending doom I can only subconsciously sense.

[@Marcelelpouel]

Adallace because its smooth and relaxing :)

[@NotLegato]

on the way to work? a good way to start the day off with looming existential dread.

[@strafeist3545]

@@NotLegato the thing with mogwai is that it's much more subjective that most other forms of music. music with less apparent / inherent meaning (although the composer may have an intended motive or meaning for the song) tends to appeal directly to the soul of the listener, accentuating a selection of the most intrinsic, embedded and eradicable essences of his being for you, the song yields looming existentential dread, for this guy it simply sounds relaxing

[@dieterthesar1935]

Been to the Monument Of A Forgotten Future today. In Gelsenkirchen, Germany. It still sounds from inside the Rock.

[@slashisgod9299]

I love the art found in the background of post rock music on youtube

[@matthewchambers-sinclair8772]

It's like how an abstract painting can often say far more than a realist one. Rosetta Stones for this kind of language are often inherent, but just need some allowances.

[@natemitten5787]

Mogwai's music taps into the beauty and pain of life

[@mkvrtgo]

Greatest post rock track i ever heard

[@TheMacswanson]

Beautiful. Thank you Fijisaki for sharing ♥

[@morganlake41632]

Is this time signature 32 over 4? I count 32 beats in that single phrase before it repeats.... Tool has a 21 beat phrase in Reflection. Yet another of the many reasons why Mogwai should join Tool and Rush as one of the greatest bands in music history - with a 20 year career. Stuart, please give us one more album that surpasses the genius of what you have already laid down. Its not that I don't adore what you have already done for the development of my emotional life...I just want more - greedy artist that I am. So grateful foe evetything you have done over the years. Warmest wishes for you and your sublime souls.

[@morganlake41632]

Please use Cat - your touring drummer for the next album. The reasons are obvious....as well as she deserves it. I want to hear how she would stand on the shoulders of what Martin has done with her own vision and sensitivity.

[@Nox.INkRecords]

Epic stuff! The beginning notes reminded me "Civil Twilight - Letters From The Sky" for some reason :D

[@doischatos2779]

Thank you

[@echelonxc2852]

reminds me of metro 2033 redux and metro last light

[@GrayWolf448]

Echelonxc does sound alot like music that would be used in the metro series. sound of the music really matches in with i guess you can say the depressive, and destructive setting. that was the most immersive game that i have ever played, sad there arent many like it.

[@kasetbakkal]

mostly because of the title of ''post rock'', might say thats around the same idea. Think about the fallout soundtrack, for example

[@raineaye]

Mogwai's creations always stimulate my third eye.

[@pseudoconscious]

Lorraine Wise same. I have heard that they are on the record for saying that they do not have specific narratives in mind when putting the music together. That does not seem to stop narratives from coming into view whenever I listen, however.

[@imkwyl_jr]

My third nipple is stimulated through this tune.

[@dieterkatzbach2672]

@@imkwyl_jr whoOw..... Me too but i have 4 Nipples

[@elizabethholland2293]

This is a song for cold nights, when you’re somewhere high up

[@strafeist3545]

Elizabeth Holland If you say so

[@joaohypepereira]

Or plain high

[@narisenbara5117]

Let us marry and be merry.

[@jayjones9125]

It has a winter solstice vibe for sure

[@jayjones9125]

I will tell you how perfectly right you are.

[@TheNovantacinque]

un pezzo stratosferico.

[@-maxgomez.1134]

This specific piece reminds me of Endgame.

[@AnAwkwardlyPlacedSausage]

Aye, its Coruscant

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"whatever you need it's yours." ,daniel"'

[@moseleyclouis8916]

such a masterpiece...

[@jameshowlett7079]

When you're standing on the precipice of all you left behind. Beautiful track.

[@krustopia1]

Grim yet Gorgeous

[@mkvrtgo]

Still good. Still remembered

[@Brytons_Thoughts]

15:25 Hell yeah.

[@humfmrgh]

Reality check; gorgeous...

[@Chamorristaxd]

Auto Rock xD

[@rowanfortuin3570]

This is perfect for listening to while studying

[@vickypsilou2964]

Rowan Fortuin did the same too

[@Neosuburban]

This makes me cry.

[@thattech477]

It makes me think of the show westworld somehow. The music is season 1 seems to ask the same questions, if it looks like anything to you

[@kloetenknebel]

this song is my soundtrack for the dark tower

[@kloetenknebel]

and the screen looks like lud.... .... in better times

[@kloetenknebel]

thank you, you did it welll. Enough of humor, this is a matsh. go back on you´re seat, relax and enjoy it.

[@daynos374]

Sounds like it's from 28 weeks later

[@REDPRISM]

Ikr I wonder what the future will be like for the next couple of years

[@AdmiralValdemar]

@@REDPRISM I’d advise against coming here. It sucks.

[@boooringlearning]

woww

[@marcosrojas238]

I have a feeling that I will be leaving this world soon, I think everything is lining up for to happen. My body begins to transform, it begins to feel what my inner being feels, PAIN. The nights are terrible. I feel that little by little I am fading, that I disappear from this world. Nothing comforts me anymore, my chest hurts and I don't know why, maybe it's a sign.

[@soldout9625]

Is it a physical illness or a mental one; depression ? Anyway, hang in there please, seek help, and surround yourself with close ones. Stay safe.

[@truefunksoul8638]

Self-pity always makes for great reading in KZbin comments. More people should spew out their suicidal ideations on social media I say. Why not pollute the comment section of an epic piece of music? Thanks so much for the 'vibes'.

[@morganlake41632]

I want my wife to play this for me on my death bed final moments - ride that chord all the way out....Lovely guys....such sublime souls you have,,,

[@stevendavies417]

This sounds like it comes from a similar musical place to Chopin's 'Raindrop' prelude.

[@boooringlearning]

great

[@kingofcarrotflowers5364]

I'm sorry to vent. My cat just died, it's 3AM and I got nowhere to burry him right now, we're outside, he's on his comfy bed and I'm smoking my last ever pack of cigarettes. He was attacked by dogs and died in my arms which are all bitten and bruised from wrestling him away from them. He's craddled with his favourite cheese and the snacks I didn't have the opportunity to feed him. If he goes to somewhere eternal, maybe the snacks will be eternal there as well. To a future with you that I'll never be able to have a memory of, I'm sorry I couldn't do more

[@sparkpenguin]

never be sorry to vent. someone will usually see it and it help them or you. this hits me hard because of the way i have lost a kitty years ago. the thoughts of my poor gentle giant boy going out like that still haunt me. they broke in through my porch and caught him hiding under the bed. he thought he was safe. i wasn't there and he must have been so terrified and confused. i'd just bought him a new collar and a toy. and treats for him and his brother. that awful feeling of them never being enjoyed hangs around every time a cat dies and makes me sad and anxious whenever i buy something for my lil guys and fawn over how happy they'll be. i just say this feeling is crushing and makes me afraid every time i kiss them or say goodbye when i leave. you're feeling it the way i do with that disbelief and pity and sadness when one passes away violently, leaving happy memories unmade, even for all of the ones you had together. goodnight to your sweet kitty. law enforcement and AC did nothing to help us. there are problem dogs in our neighborhood again who follow kitties home and have also broken into my apartment and hurt one of my boys terribly. he lived but-- twice now?? it's insane. this time the authorities are more helpful and taking it seriously. i hope you can find some kind of justice even if it only helps to know you might spare another family a tragedy to their pets or children.

[@DoseofTruth]

Dogs broke into tour apartment?

[@sparkpenguin]

in my case in the absence of op yes. it actually happened again just this past april. unsocialized dogs-- large dogs particularly-- will want to kill anything they see. even if it's someone's pet baby through a window. dog owners need to be more responsible and not just adopt huge vanity breeds if they live in the city where there is a lot of old construction. more reasons than that, for their own animals' comfort and wellbeing, but for consideration of others in their community especially if the work full time and have a thing for leaving their pets in an unsecured environment.

[@BasileusHorus]

I remember discover this song on 2012 and then thought the new elected president was a terrible choice. I've come again to this video and hear what right now, it feels like a blink of a past lifetime, at least 3 times gone. Everything is crumbling down, now just rest to await for the final moments: so many things could be done right and wrong... it doesn't longer matter.

[@skyz6239]

amazing

[@myriamjaen7170]

TOP !!

[@thefool5999]

Watch the video "Charlie Chaplin final speech in The Great Dictator" while you listen to this.

[@andrepacheco8851]

beautiful!

[@janrychly6651]

A classic

[@alternativaliguria]

Amazing stuff

[@StevenKellyBelly]

you rock my soul

[@chrisreuvers5174]

This song helped me get through my divorce. Terrible pain and a new beginning. Finding magic again.

[@HenryCasillas]

🌻

[@HenryCasillas]

❄️

[@HenryCasillas]

🧭

[@sophiesf5893]

Feels like leaves falling

[@Lupain]

5:22 Damn thats almost like the main menu theme of "Project Zomboid".

[@MrAlexCookie]

great!

[@jayjones9125]

When the soundtrack is better than the event

[@Sixsoul]

Mogwhy does this have to end???

[@floggingPan]

Calming ^_^

[@TheAmyr]

@Kes1996 can you suggest more emotional and epic songs like this?

[@natemitten5787]

Just realized the photo is padme's apartment on Coruscant

[@TPrange]

14 people remember the future

[@flaviodepetris8331]

Hermosa canción 👌

[@rafaelgameiro9236]

Am I the only one thinking that this music would be perfect for the GoT score?

[@yyesterdayy]

Add some rain and voila its perfect

[@phew9418]

Nope. Its perfect the way it is

[@AgricolaGeo]

I thought its person of interest soundtrack when i heard first time

[@wakeforldmusic]

🖤

[@Antibearvirus]

This could easily have been split into 3-4 songs.

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"how can I make you see who I am?" mogwai?

[@OrchestralOrg]

*Jesus is God. Literally all of everybody else is Satan. GOD IS GREEDY. ONLY HIM GOOD. ONLY HIM. EVERYBODY ELSE BAD. REAL BAD.*

[@BasileusHorus]

@@OrchestralOrg that's catharism, for a sect that was hunted down and buried down into forgotten for such extremism and heretic beliefs, in southeast France. All creation comes from God and Evil it's just a human term for viewpoint that we don't want to understand.

[@doischatos2779]

0_o

[@kelvinkiat9814]

This song keeps me from suicide. Reminds me how it's not worth it but keeps coming and it won't end.

[@stephielulu9096]

Never give up!

[@meiiazouzi8221]

i love this band so bad im still alive bcs of them

[@Josh-gt3rt]

Just waiting for an answer..

[@vegadomis32988]

I think the music just sold this painting

[@danielping122]

this song is one the reason of why I can get good grades in my uni...

[@Kes1996]

insegnami

[@danielping122]

@@Kes1996 praticamente ogni volta che hai difficolta a studiare metti questa canzone poi e ti dici quando finisce la canzone faccio una pausa Pero di solito a quel momento sei abituato e non c'e piu bisogno della pausa

[@gmcintyre]

sounds like i've just put the kettle on

[@mgtowanonymous3120]

What if all we are is just a level of experience. Does an ant have a soul? How much bacteria and organs is inside that ant ?? How many bacteria organs ect are inside its bacteria ? Ect Ect Ect Ect Ect The way the earth orbits the sun... its just like an atom... what if the sun and earth is an atom an we are the thing that allows the atom to live inside of someone or something mind an thoughts or part of what makes this thing what it is?? U have to ask ya know... Just like the end of that melody sheep video.. they speculate there is "multiple universes" and showed our universe next to many as like basically blood cells . Man... If it goes that deep. An even if it is all we are. It was a pleasure to get to experience the ability to feel. Even the shit feelings for me which is majority of my experience . BUT. it is experience non the less. An for that. I am grateful. For the odds of my existence are o so incredibly rare .... An yet.. Here I am. Tiz truly .. A beautiful thing. 8)

[@00DemonicAngel00]

I swear...the guys from MOGWAI aren't humans at all! They must be angels vessels, 'cause no mortal is capable of making such Godly music. I am too sinful and unworthy for this.