Modest Mouse

[Stryker_ELM02^K]

if you haven't heard of this band, or you just plain don't like them, then i hate you. Go get some you dopes.

[angryallthetime]

they do kick ass

[phism]

they're alright. i'll be seeing them on 8/1.

peep this lineup:
cake, de la soul, modest mouse, flaming lips, some other band ("kinky" i believe)

[stuperjay]

Originally posted by phism
they're alright. i'll be seeing them on 8/1.

peep this lineup:
cake, de la soul, modest mouse, flaming lips, some other band ("kinky" i believe)

Hey, I'm going to see the same show on 8/10...

[JuicyGoo]

they have the greatest titles for their songs.

"Never ending math equations"

[golivar]

i think the frogs and anal cunt have the best song titles:

frogs - "What Will We Do Now That Grandpa's Dead?" (or something like that)

a.c. - "Living Colour Is My Favorite Black Metal Band"

[Always-Sometimes]

jesus works on a math equation that never even ever really even has any end, if it inspires our creation, we're on the tip of it's tongs it it is sayin' well.....


that's what i got from that song

[phism]

3rd planet is a wonderful song.

as far as song titles, why has no one mentioned anal cunt?

and yeah, that lineup is crazy but it will be a great show. i'm in it for de la soul m'self. and she don't use jelly.

[golivar]

Originally posted by phism
3rd planet is a wonderful song.

as far as song titles, why has no one mentioned anal cunt?

and yeah, that lineup is crazy but it will be a great show. i'm in it for de la soul m'self. and she don't use jelly.


i did. do you remember any other good a.c. song titles?

[shammy718]

Originally posted by 'jim
They're kida iffy live, Issac's a hardcore drunk. What are they doing in the same room as Cake?!

I like the early stuff, they remade a lot of their first songs, clean them up a little. Don't have the same impact. If you can find Interstate 8, that's my favorite, it's got the original Tundra/Desert, really intense. I only have a dub myself.


and The Locust has the best songtitles. They secretly have mewmew writing for them, but he's too shy to tell you.

[Edited by 'jim on 07-28-2002 at 06:34 PM]

i agree, jim... they're playing in SD on 8/12

[mwt.]

Originally posted by phism
they're alright. i'll be seeing them on 8/1.

peep this lineup:
cake, de la soul, modest mouse, flaming lips, some other band ("kinky" i believe)

i'll see you there.

[elemi]

the first time i heard them i was in bc, nice and baked and getting ready for a pleasant homemade spaghetti dinner...a friend played the song "heart cooks brain" a bunch of times and it was love at first listen....
that song slaughters

[goodplastic]

i don't know, i think that moon & antarctica is one of those brilliant big-picture life-changing perfect albums, but that's just me

and human beings ain't made of nothing but water and shit

[shammy718]

saw them last night in town. they were technically very good, good instruments and all. packed venue. but i thought it was a lonely show. i felt that it was emotionally distant,no sense of DIY immediacy...just well-played, tidy versions of their songs. i was bummin...cuz i like their songs so much...i can hear loneliness, awkwardness, joy, and liberation in em...only to watch them played so...SONY (polished and packaged). dont mean to be a downer; i just feel like a jilted lover right now! anyway, keep listenin! have a good week, everyone.

[lolitacomplex]

i saw them live last year, i kind of liked them before, but after i saw them, i realized they TOTALLY SUCK?!
yeah...they do. they were drunk. it was crowded. people were crying. wah wah wah. those goddamn emoindierock kids with their bad haircuts and overusage of the words "amazing" and "beautiful" make me want to shoot myself over and over again.
needless to say, i wasnt very impressed. it was one of the worst shows id ever been to, just cause drunk musicians arent very chamrming. and i wouldnt pay that much for diahrea on a paper plate....seriously..wait, the guitar was okay at a few points. ill give him that...
"talkin thit about a pretty thunthet"
*slllluurrrrppp*
-jo

[lolitacomplex]

yeah dood! i hate that rockstar mentality that bands like that have. they think they can get DRUNK before a show and fuck everything up, walk off stage, barf for half hour, then come back and say you gotta go...uugh...im sorry, but i paid my money.
and im surrounded by stupid kids with the same dyed black flippy haircut.
and theres a drunk guy with a lisp on stage.

i paid $18 for that?
i could make 18 20-minute phone calls!!!
BASTARDS!
-jo

[stinky]

Just bringing this back. I have been listening to them a lot lately and have been enjoying every minute of it. Have they released anything worth mentioning lately?

[falcor]

i think their latest album is 'everwhere and his nasty parlour tricks' not bad.

[lynrei]

i dont like them. sorry, i cant get into it.

[lynrei]

how about reggie and the full effect? any fans?

[Hyde]

is this a new song?

http://static.zed.cbc.ca/users/n/namesake/files/Modest_Mouse_Float_On.ram

[nancyK]

Originally posted by lolitacomplex
i saw them live last year, i kind of liked them before, but after i saw them, i realized they TOTALLY SUCK?!



awww man!! what a disappointment.. )=
i tried to catch their show in SF early nov but their tix were soldout.. put up an ad on craiglist and everything.. sigh

[nancyK]

they're playing all over so Cali for a week in March.
henry fonda or HOB sunset??

when i listen to Sleepwalking (Couples Only Dance Prom Night) i seriously wanna piss my panties

[jsoy]

aren't these guys infamous for being terrible but the shins or built to spill are infamous for opening and being really good...

[shammy718]

i like isaac brock's lyrics..songs about loneliness and other things. so i was really disappointed at their last show in my town. it just lacked the immediacy that i guess i was kind of expecting. i'm checking out their show next month and hope to not be let down again...

[Shoujo~Dojo]

isnt there supposed to be a new album coming out?

[GONG_LORD]

When I saw then in 2001, they had a great show!

[key_loser]

I saw them...oh...in 2002, it was good.

[fancyk]

The thing that I don't like about Modest Mouse live is that they extend their songs. So even if it's a song that I do like, they make it waaaaay too long.

-k

[abutilon]

they're new album is out April 6th !!!!!
i just heard a new song on the way to work, and isaac brock isn't the lead vocalist. he's on the track towards the end.
it sounded... like modest mouse... and that's incredibly happy to me.
he's and a**hole on stage and it's not uncommon fo rhim to get mad and quit playing. i guess he has issues.

[shammy718]

^ i have it and it's pretty good. not what i usually picture when i think of them but it's growing on me.

[vegAsian]

sorry, but i cant barely stand modest mouse...
the TA in my college's printmaking shop would
bump that shit over, and over, and over, and over...

[peko-chan]

Originally posted by vegAsian
sorry, but i cant barely stand modest mouse...
the TA in my college's printmaking shop would
bump that shit over, and over, and over, and over...

that's it, D.

we're breaking up.

[fancyk]

I freaked out when I heard their song on that Nissan commercial.

-k

[t@nkgirl]

i just got the new cd 'good news for people who like bad news'
anyone else listen to it, what do yo think?
i can't stop listening to 'float on'

[shammy718]

^yeah, me too. i'll be seeing them this monday!

[stinky]

is it available in stores now?

[Empty Screams]

someone gave me a copy of this and i like it a lot.

[shawgirl74]

i love "float on"

[angoraphobia]

float on always makes me happy and puts me in a better mood i dont care how hippy-ish the lyrics are.....

[angoraphobia]

ok...so im listening to Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks....wow....i really love it.....how come no one told me before? hehehehe

[Theft Culture]

Originally posted by shammy718
^yeah, me too. i'll be seeing them this monday!
How was Modest Mouse this time? I did not go but plan to hear the album at the Whistle Stop on April 5.

[shammy718]

^better than the last show. it was my first time at the new soma (sports arena). packed show. they sounded really good. the guitar work was insane. the crowd was pretty obnoxious (talking and heckling throughout) and i wasn't into isaac brock's banter, but the music was good...his songs are still devastatingly beautiful (to me at least). maybe i'll see you at the whistle stop!

[stinky]

i saw them a couple months ago, my first time, and they were great. i had always heard they suck live but they seem to have cleaned up their act, now that they do nissab commercials. they did cowboy dan last, and unfortunately turned into cowboy jam that lasted forever.

[Mutterlein]

the single rocks so much.

[Amuse_Me]

Originally posted by lynrei
how about reggie and the full effect? any fans?

Fucking Love Reggie!!!!!!
"hey lionel richie!"

[akuma]

goot inturvoo (http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4014)

[key_loser]

somebody tell me all about the modest mouse show they just saw, please!

[Killjoy]

hello....i have "good news for the ppl that love bad news" and i was wondering which one, in your humble opinions, i should get next...

[key_loser]

that's the only one you have?

[Killjoy]

yes. don't hit me.

[key_loser]

The Moon & Antarctica, I'd say.

[Killjoy]

thanksmuch

[abutilon]

building nothing out of something, i'd say.

[shammy718]

i like

This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

&

The Lonesome, Crowded West

[key_loser]

It's unanimous!

[key_loser]

If you get Sad, Sappy Sucker next, you'll have their oldest and newest material.

Anyone catch the blurb with Mr. Brock in this week's EW? Damn, I love him.

[key_loser]

Entertainment Weekly?

Didn't see it.

Whatever happened to the rape charge?

Yes, and I have no idea.

[Killjoy]

Originally posted by key_loser
If you get Sad, Sappy Sucker next, you'll have their oldest and newest material.

:confused:

[key_loser]

"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.
Although parts of Sucker are experimental compared to the band's current polish, this isn't some rarity to be enjoyed only by collectors. Breezy melodies build into jagged choruses as singer Isaac Brock shows he can be both tender and playfully aggressive. Most of the songs clock in between two and three minutes, leaving room for numerous gems in the course of the 24-track album. While 12 of the songs come from a recording session with K Records' Calvin Johnson, a chunk of Sucker material comes from Brock's "Dial-a-Song" phase, during which callers heard new songs by dialing into his answering machine. These experiments range from lo-fi combos of distorted instruments and whiny vocals to complete songs, like the bluesy rock jam on "Secret Agent X-9." The Dial-a-Songs--and a message left by Murder City Devils front man Spencer Moody ("Call to Dial-a-Song")--are both comic relief and proof that Modest Mouse didn't gain their indie-rock cult status by accident. The talent's been there from the beginning. "

[Killjoy]

ah thanks for the clarification. i think what i'll do is hunker down and listen to sound clips of all of the cds mentioned. thanks for the input all.

[key_loser]

I really, really


REALLY like some of the stuff on Sad, Sappy Sucker.

Four-Fingered Fisherman and Dukes Up, are especially good.

[shammy718]

^i really like that singer...

[BAOH]

i really like modest mouse......but i liked them more when they called themselves primus.

tccic, b.
(take care cuz i care, bitches)

[key_loser]

So, um... who is senor fatty in their music video? He sure doesn't look like anybody I recognize.

[hippyjonny]

Originally posted by shammy718
i like

This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

&

The Lonesome, Crowded West

just got these two

['jim]

Anybody listening to the new one? I hate it.

[joetron2030]

I gave up on them shortly after hearing "The Moon and Antarctica".

['jim]

I really never got the last one, but I heard it and I didn't hate it.

[Thirty Nine]

Listened to it on the HMV headphones and sounds good...too bad everyone`s probably (including myself) expecting something spectacular just because Johnny Marr`s signed on. I couldn`t detect a jangle or a flourish by him, which means he`s still a brilliant player for whatever the music calls for.

Sure Modest Mouse existed long before, I fucking hated their fans cos they`re all a certain type of people; in my case, collegiate rockers who liked them surrounded me like cancer--Sad Sappy Sucker sounded like all their early records, whiny, contrived, defeatist...white. I much prefer all the bands that followed from there on, but who am I to say, I`m a huge Smiths fan and half of the world fucking hates them and their guitar player joins fucking MM!

[will]

Havent heard the new one but its getting heavily panned.. So I guess I'm not missing anything.

[Thirty Nine]

It`s obvious their fanbase grew up to be rock critics, or just that the ones who were honed on their Up releases can`t make the same transition The Band did, which was either avoid repeating themselves, boredom, wanting to buy a house...I can`t imagine Isaac Brock being "like that" but maybe he buys stocks and has an eye on "futures".

Most bands are like that, where outgrowth and distancing happens over the years, especially because they stick around longer (those with more consistent output like MM experience that, with heavy touring) and god forbid, score a hit song or two along the way.

Despite being on a major label for almost ten years now, their ethic is still effectively independent and yet still the long-term effects of the indie aesthetic has taken its toll. An artists who release less product and are more sporadic tend to keep longer (fuckin, anybody from New Order, Kate Bush...Scott Walker comes to mind but the wrong idea; Bjork is a *bad example cos she`s always putting out product but keeping it quite interesting) fanbases. Maybe?

[joetron2030]

I will say that MM and I parted amicably when I gave up on them. I don't hate them for their current sound. I just don't find it very interesting.

Artists change and fans can choose to following along or not.

As for Bjork, while I enjoyed "Vespertine", "Medulla" did nothing for me. I'm curious to hear her next album though. I'm always interested in hearing what she's up to.

['jim]

I guess a lot of people gave up on them cause they were of the biggest "lounge" bands I guess, seem like everybody used to like them, now nobody even bothers to comment. Oh well.

I can't really pinpoint why i hate the new record, I guess it's not bad. I dunno. I don't even feel like listening to again to find out. I was mostly a fan of Brock's guitar playing, and I already like Marr, so I was curious how that'd work...they almost cancel reach other other. I can't tell if his singing has gotten worse or if it's the heavy overproduction letting you hear it better. Whaddayagonnado?