what do british people think about modest mouse?

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do they make you feel backwoods-trailer-park-dirty and shit?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they're rubbish, since you asked.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Modest Mouse are great. ButI am Belgian and have great taste, unlike the British/Tom. WINK WINK

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that "Heart Cooks Brain" is great.

However, when a friend played me a whole album, I hated every minute of it. Unfortunately I was far too stoned to plead with him have mercy upon me an turn it off. Later however, I was able to extarct a promise from him that he would never play it in my presence again. Ever.

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

That vocalist completely ruins it for me. Their albums could be great otherwise.

― Rocco, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I always get them confused with Mouse On Mars.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they are just a bad pavement knock-off. And their name is rubbish. But they have something to do with The National Trust, who I love.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Float On" is a gorgeous and oddly funky song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course I am American.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, WHO ASKED YOU?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Although now I will butt in and say I don't think they sound that much like Pavement.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite like them, and yeah, they sound nothing like pavement. I am British.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the only people who really like this band are under the age of 27. at least this is true in my experience. I'm sure a hundred people will now jump up and contradict me.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I am 27, but why under 27?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly because of the great planetary alignment of (counting on fingers) 1977?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

well a few years ago it would have been "25" but now more time has passed. they seem to have made some deep impression on people who were 21 about six years ago that I was too old to care about at the time. I dunno. Sometimes you hear music at that age and it sticks with you, and voila, band has an instant following for the next ten years.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

in other words: this music is part of a generation that is younger than me and it doesn't resonate with me at all (built to spill similarly, although I like more of their stuff). Sounding like Pavement would be an improvement.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I always found that they were good background music for reading.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i like a few of their songs... some of it is pretty good noisy pop music.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, you are not british.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

or are you?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

we were all once british.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the sun never sets &c.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked that Ugly Casanova album. Oh, wait, i'm not british. but i heart the queen.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

good album title. but IRRELEVANT!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

re: we were all once british

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

this new LP is far better than that moon and antarctica rubbish. i aint brit.

― SEYMOUR THE LEGEND, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like Modest Mouse, and I'm british, but I probably don't count, as I spent most of my life in far flung outposts of the British Empire like Hong Kong, Lincolnshire and the other Hong Kong.

― minolta (minolta), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm. I liked Moon and Antarctica quite a bit, though I've never really liked anything else I've heard (which, admittedly, isn't much). So I dunno what "better than M&A" means for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax! is British in the sense that he has actually been to Uxbridge.

yeah, the pavement comparison was pretty lame. sorry.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i told my uxbridge story on another thread... let me search for it...

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=3180148

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It never gets old!

Full marks for using the words "bird", "deary", and "love".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"we were all once british."

Except for those of us who come from other continents altogether.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i am neither british nor american and i like maybe a half dozen modest mouse songs. their albums are too long and full of garbage, and their singer has a stupid voice

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

White Trash of the World, UNITE!

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Im British and also from Lincolnshire.

(Lincolnshire = Flat shitty, nowhere land, thought of in a similar way to the way Americans perceive 'The Deep South' - except only by people who actually live in Lincolnshire)

I used to *love* pretty much all Modest Mouse songs then gradually I found it harder and harder to listen to the albums all the way through, now I just like the odd song.

― TomB (TomB), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I"ve never heard a Modest Mouse album all the way through. But I like some of their songs - though the singer's voice tries my patience at times. (Full disclosure: I'm not British.)

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

they have never really had any profile here, i think

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

they have literally a few thousands fans in britain, i think.

i have heard 3 MM songs, and really liked Heart Cooks Brain. i see them as being similar to Dismemberment Plan, but i prefer the D Plan.

― lid, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm from Montana (to those in New York: Montana is the US, not Britain), and let me tell you, "The Lonesome Crowded West" perfectly described the region in the title.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I am British and I think they're rubbish, from what little I've heard. Fifth rate indie rock with no redeeming features.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

rickyt otm.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't get where I am today by thinking about Modest Mouse.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread has validated my hypothesis--british people hate modest mouse!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

I really am British and like Modest Mouse... honest.

― elwisty, Monday, 27 December 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

more "rubbish", please.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Gygax's Uxbridge story way more than I like Modest Mouse.

I am British.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

no you aren't!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

don't tell me what i ain't, son.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

you are a liar.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

eat one dick.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one what?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

dick.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

oh.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

rubbish!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

britains hip and happening young indie kids are to busy grooving to the ground breaking future rock 'n roll sounds of the libertines and kasabian to care either way...

― elwisty, Monday, 27 December 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, eat one rubbish too.

xpost

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 27 December 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

what if yer an american and you think that modest mouse are rubbish?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 December 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

start a thread about it?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend said that "Float On" was supposed to be "song of the summer" in NME, something like that. Was he shitting me?

A German friend of mine called them "too clever".

― Bimble..., Monday, 27 December 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

germany must not have any clever people.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

predictably enough, modest mouse are incredibly popular with british student indie kids...

― a, Monday, 27 December 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

british student indie kids should die by the thousands

― Ganbare Goemon (ex machina), Monday, 27 December 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do many Americans hate Modest Mouse so passionately? Is it just 'cos of not liking the music or some ideological sell out thing? I met a guy from the states at a Modest Mouse gig in Brighton and he was bitching about how he would never see them again now they were getting big in America, then he told me how much he loved Blur who as I remember are pretty huge over here and are on a major label...

And if Modest Mouse are crap who are a good US indie rock combo?

― elwisty, Monday, 27 December 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate modest mouse because they are boring and when they don't sound like they are ripping off the Pixies or the Flaming Lips, they sound like they are ripping off the Dave Matthews Band.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 December 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

british student indie kids should die by the thousands

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― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

They have a decent number of fans over here, a generation below me I reckon, yes.

I've seen enough pin badges & t-shirts on skaters/skater-a-likes (also strokes-interpol-killers-a-likes) that I actually thought they were some kind of EMO/credible pUNK (small p) band before I heard them.

They're just okay for me. I can't get tremendously excited, just more indie-mainstream 'intelligent' comfort-zone rock that doesn't kick.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

british student indie kids should die by the thousands

-- Ganbare Goemon (jonathan.william..

hahahahahhahahhahahha

jon you should start a noise band and call your debut album "british student indie kids should die by the thousands".

I am british and have never heard modest mouse. It's a shit mane for a band. I saw mouse on mars live supporting stereolab. they were very good.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

CUTTY started this thread?

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

hey, he was being positive! cant knock a guy for that!

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

are they like new pornographers?

ive never heard them either

is it the kind of music where you should wear a checked shirt, that is a bit chunky? i dont know if british people are very good at that. especially not in hot weather

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm not faulting cutty.

They don't sound like the New Pornographers. Aren't the New Pornographers powerpop? Modest Mouse are more "quirky", right? Also some of their music sounds like a sad man in a crappy apartment.

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

When I worked at that film school, one of the techs would play Float On a lot. He also wrote to visiting porn stars and asked them to appear in his movies and "help explode some of the myths surrounding pornography".

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

FOr what it's worth, Pinback - a band often compared to Modest Mouse - are apparently very popular in the UK and mainland Europe especially. I stress "apparently".

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

(Well, ok, a few more non-Americans may like them more than Modest Mouse, maybe.)

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

is it the kind of music where you should wear a checked shirt, that is a bit chunky?

No, I think you need to be a bit chunky and you wear the checked shirt with short sleeves.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

When british people get chunky they don't wear shirts

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Also some of their music sounds like a sad man in a crappy apartment.

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― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

they are rubbish.

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

"No, I think you need to be a bit chunky and you wear the checked shirt with short sleeves." - describes every exboyfriend i've ever had. no wonder i sorta like them. No wonder they suck.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I think the checked-shirtness of Modest Mouse is part of their appeal. Although I much prefer it to the indie rock we get here in Britain, I'm not all that interested in most US indie rock, however, I really like the earlier Modest Mouse records.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Saturday, 2 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

haha

― cutty, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

[i]british student indie kids should die by the thousands

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THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina) on Friday, July 1, 2005 11:11 AM (1 year ago)[i]

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― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

what do british people think of british people in modest mouse?

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

[i]some of their music sounds like a sad man in a crappy apartment.

Baby BobO (nordicskilla) on Friday, 1 July 2005 16:28 (1 year ago)[/]

good description adamrl

― 600, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ did you see what i did there?

― 600, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

I reckon it's because I did a lot of acid in the summer I started listening to them - but I love them beyond belief. And am Canadian, so sort of.. Diet British. I just got a ticket to see them in a month. Hypnotic, infectious power-pop-rock. I simply don't understand the hate.

― Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

I've only heard one album by them and it was really shitty indie rock bollocks, and I like indie rock bollocks. Most British people are probably not aware of them. We sold the shitty indie rock CD on Ebay.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

listenable.

― jed_, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

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