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  Type Album
  Artist Mogwai
  Cover Mogwai-government_commissionsjpg
  Background darkturquoise
  Released 21 February 2005
  Recorded Maida Vale/Hippodrome
  Genre Post-Rock
  Length 67:00
  Label PIAS Recordings / Rock Action Records
  Producer
  Last Album '' Happy Songs For Happy People ''<br />( 2003 )
  This Album '''''Government Commissions'''''<br />( 2005 )
  Next Album '' Mr Beast ''<br />( 2006 )


''Government Commissions'' is a live album by the Post-rock group Mogwai , released in 2005 . The album is a compilation of live performances recorded between the years of 1996 and 2003 for the BBC Radio . Following the death of John Peel in 2004 , Mogwai decided to dedicate this album to him, one of the band's greatest champions, and for whose show many of the tracks were recorded. The collection might serve sufficiently as a greatest hits album, but cannot, mainly because of the omission of a few well loved tracks like "Christmas Steps" and "Mogwai Fear Satan". The live versions of these songs are different enough to warrant separate listening, especially "R U Still in 2 It" which has been changed in this case to just a beautifully expanded version of the opening theme.


TRACK LISTING

# "Hunted By a Freak - 4:09
# "R U Still in 2 it - 6:18
# "New Paths to Helicon pt. II - 2:51
# "Kappa - 4:23
# "Cody - 6:07
# "Like Herod - 18:32
# "Secret Pint - 4:32
# "Superheroes of BMX - 7:29
# "New Paths to Helicon pt. I - 8:11
# "Stop Coming to My House" - 4:40


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