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About Modest Mouse
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Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band. They were formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, bassist John Wickhart, and guitarist Dann Gallucci [2]. However, since their 1996 debut album This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their lineup has been centered around guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, the band has attained significant popular success. Elements of Modest Mouse's sound have been likened to or have been inspired by those of Elliott Smith, Pixies, Built to Spill, and numerous other alternative rock bands. Their name derives from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall".
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We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
(2007)
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Pitchfork Rating: 7.8
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Their last album may have given them a certifiable radio hit, airtime on VH1, and a Kidz Bop tribute, but listening to the follow-up to 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, you might get the sense that the members of Modest Mouse are flinching at the spotlight. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, the group's fifth full-length release, is denser than its predecessor with tunes that seem willfully harder to penetrate. Even the addition of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr to the line-up seems incidental, as Modest Mouse's off-kilter sound stays largely intact.
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Good News For People Who Love Bad News
(2004)
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Pitchfork Rating: 7.9
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It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment Modest Mouse started sounding like a real band. For the longest time, singer-songwriter Isaac Brock seemed to exist solely to defy the established rules, forging forward on sheer momentum and ingenuity. Even Pavement looked relatively ordinary in comparison to the band's early releases like 1996's This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About and 1997's The Lonesome Crowded West. But on Good News for People Who Love Bad News, the frontman sounds like he's finally touching the earth, and the band--minus founding member and drummer Jeremiah Green--follows suit.
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Horn Intro |
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The World At Large |
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Float On |
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Ocean Breathes Salty |
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Dig Your Grave |
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Bury Me With It |
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Dance Hall |
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Bukowski |
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The Devil's Workday |
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The View |
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Satin In A Coffin |
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Interlude (Milo) |
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Blame It On The Tetons |
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Black Cadillacs |
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One Chance |
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The Good Times Are Killing Me |
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Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks
(2001)
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Pitchfork Rating: 7.8
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Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, an eight-song EP from Modest Mouse, is a mellow affair. The release combines old tracks from Night on the Sun (an out-of-print vinyl-only EP), remixes, and outtakes from the The Moon and Antarctica sessions along with a couple new songs. "Willful Suspension of Disbelief" is a sedated intro that didn't make it onto Moon, but it sets the perfect tranquil mood to introduce this disc. Although the new track "You're the Good Things" builds intensity with quickening drumbeats and front man Isaac Brock's tension-filled vocals, most of the songs on this album float in a dreamier state.
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Willful Suspension Of Disbelief |
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Night On The Sun |
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3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters |
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You're The Good Things |
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The Air |
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So Much Beauty In Dirt |
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Here It Comes |
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Sad Sappy Sucker
(2001)
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Pitchfork Rating: 7.0
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After stepping up to the major-label plate with The Moon and Antarctica, Modest Mouse reach back to their roots with Sad Sappy Sucker. Sucker is actually the band's first recording, released in 2001 but created back in 1994. It was shelved in favor of Lonesome Crowded West as their debut, but Sucker is still a fine piece of the Modest Mouse lineage.
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From Point A To Point B |
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Path Of Least Resistance |
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It Always Rains On A Picnic |
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Dukes Up |
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Think Long |
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Every Penny Fed Car |
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Mice Eat Cheese |
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Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark |
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Red Hand Case |
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Blue Cadet -3, Do You Connect? |
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Call To Dial A Song |
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Woodgrain |
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BMX Crash |
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Sucker Betru |
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Austral Opithecus |
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Singunchaser |
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Classy Plastic Lumber |
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The Moon And Antarctica
(2000)
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Pitchfork Rating: 9.8
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With their interstellar (really!) lyrics and angular song structures, Modest Mouse tend to defy their self-deprecating band name. In truth, the trio's got some lofty ambitions, and The Moon and Antarctica indulges their grand dreams with pristine production and a vivid sonic backdrop. It also dives deeply into their geographical obsessions--always with the same subjective twists that made The Lonesome Crowded West and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About such inspired wonders. Isaac Brock opens Moon with meditations on the universe's shape--all twisted into such a solipsistic tangle that they illuminate immediately how much these songs are about the mind as about the world.
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Building Nothing Out Of Something
(2000)
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Pitchfork Rating: 8.9
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Loneliness, boredom, and random observations have been at the heart of Modest Mouse's skewered musical universe through all their releases. The Issaquah, Washington-born trio has also been able to spin very-long-playing albums that catered to the group's core obsessions, with both its full-length Up Records releases--This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About and The Lonesome Crowded West clocking in at more than 70 minutes in length. So it's refreshing to hear this supremely odd rock band at its most economical. Building Nothing Out of Something catches singles, compilation tunes, and more--none of which were ever intended to be sequenced as an album.
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Never Ending Math Equation |
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Broke |
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Medication |
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Workin' On Leavin' The Livin' |
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All Nite Diner |
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Baby Blue Sedan |
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A Life Of Arctic Sounds |
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Sleepwalkin' |
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Grey Ice Water |
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Whenever You See Fit
(1998)
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Whenever You See Fit |
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Lonesome Crowded West
(1997)
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Pitchfork Rating: 8.9
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The opening track, "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine," explodes out of your speakers with sharp, see-sawing guitars and shouted vocals, an irresistible melange of angular rhythms and mighty, powerful dynamics. The rest of the songs are similarly pulled along by some unseen force, driven by an energy found in classic post-punk bands like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 or Drunken Boat. Some reviewers have referenced the Pixies, and while that's not off the mark, this is more like the Pixies undergoing dental work--without anesthesia.
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Teeth Like God's Shoeshine |
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Heart Cooks Brain |
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Convenient Parking |
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Lounge (Closing Time) |
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Jesus Christ Was An Only Child |
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Doin' The Cockroach |
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Cowboy Dan |
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Trailer Trash |
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Out Of Gas |
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Long Distance Drunk |
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Shit Luck |
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Truckers Atlas |
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Polar Opposites |
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Bankrupt On Selling |
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Styofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alright |
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This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
(1996)
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Pitchfork Rating: 6.8
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Frontman Isaac Brock's claim that he's being stalked by his own alter ego was not the first bit of evidence that Modest Mouse isn't your usual pop band. Witness the entirety of this 1996 indie debut from the Washington trio that inspired a major-label bidding war. This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About finds Brock cruising with cohorts Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green (plus an occasional cellist) through a landscape of intoxicatingly original lo-fi tunes.
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Modest Mouse Album Reviews
From Pitchfork: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
From Pitchfork: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
From Pitchfork: The Moon & Antarctica [Expanded Edition]
From Pitchfork: Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks EP
From Pitchfork: Building Nothing Out of Something
From Pitchfork: The Lonesome Crowded West
From Pitchfork: The Moon & Antarctica
From Pitchfork: Night on the Sun EP
From Pitchfork: Sad Sappy Sucker
From Pitchfork: This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
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