"Like Herod" | ||||||||||||||||
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Song by Mogwai from the album Mogwai Young Team | ||||||||||||||||
Released | 21 October 1997 | |||||||||||||||
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MCM Studios Hamilton, Scotland |
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Genre | Post-rock | |||||||||||||||
Length | 11:39 | |||||||||||||||
Label | Chemikal Underground, Jetset | |||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, John Cummings, Martin Bulloch | |||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Paul Savage | |||||||||||||||
Mogwai Young Team track listing | ||||||||||||||||
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"Like Herod" is a song by Scottish post-rock Mogwai from their 1997 debut studio album, Mogwai Young Team, written by Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, John Cummings and Martin Bulloch. As well as being a fan-favourite, the song is a live staple, and an extreme display of Mogwai's quiet/loud dynamic contrast method. An 18-minute-long version of "Like Herod" (recorded live by Steve Lamacq from a BBC Radio Session at the BBC Recording and Broadcast Studio in Maida Vale in March 1999) appears on Mogwai's live compilation album, Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003. The song was originally titled "Slint", referring to the influential American post-rock band Slint.Stuart Braithwaite has said that "Like Herod" is his favourite song from Mogwai Young Team.
"Like Herod" is an 11-minute 39 second long instrumental in the key of E minor. The song begins with a bassline similar to that of the Manic Street Preachers' song "Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart":