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This is what Modest Mouse sounds like?

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It's kind of boring.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, yeah.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I was actually quite surprised how poppy the song was.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Bobcat Goldthwait leading the Pixies through a cover of "Once In A Lifetime" boring? Whatevs. Rest of the album ok maybe.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The guy just playing the Maracas is kind of funny.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, so cutting, miccio. I'm very impressed.

― rube boi, Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do indie rock people dress like that?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 14 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I didn't mind the second song so much.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 14 November 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This is what Modest Mouse sounds like?

Not generally, no.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 14 November 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

haha it just dawned on me you guys must be talking about snl

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 14 November 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

west coast checking in, I DIG the first song, less intense than anything I've ever heard from them, and better for it, strangely.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 14 November 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe "less intense" is the wrong phrase, maybe less sloggy and heavyhanded.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 14 November 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know there was a another Belushi brother.

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Sunday, 14 November 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I like MM as background music, non-intrusive.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 November 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I like their records but how can a band have been at it for 10+ years and still sound so incompetent live?! It was admittedly charming how nervous they seemed (not in an epic Elliott-Smith-at-the-Oscars way, just very obvious "oh shit we're on SNL" shakes). But still: Brock's guitar was completely out of tune, he sang looking down at his left hand, and neither he nor Maracas Guy could hit even half the notes.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 14 November 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Float On"...is that a lost Happy Mondays song?

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 14 November 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Cancer and my name is Isaac, huh
And I like a woman that loves everything and everybody
And you know what ladies, if you feel that this is you
Then this is what I want you to do

Ooh, yeah, take my hand
Let me take you to Love Land
Let me show you how sweet it could be
Sharing your love with IIIII-saaaac...

― briania (briania), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as good as Mickey then?

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Sunday, 14 November 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

Briania, I love you so much right now.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 14 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

there should be a scientific study on how modest mouse became huge, it's a mystery. put the acrylamide kids on it.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been a great fan of MM, but I will always appreciate Isaac Brock for this (from memory, so forgive any mistakes):

"Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene
He goes to the reservation drinks and gets mean
Goes to the desert points his rifle at the sky
says 'God if I have to die, you will have to die.'"

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

MODEST MOUSE VS. FRANZ FERDINAND WHICH IS WORSE


FRANZ FERDINAND BECAUSE THEY ARE ROCK "BY THE BOOKS"

MODEST MOUSE SOUNDS UNIQUELY BAD!

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I don't see a fair comparison there. Franz Ferdinand are a bunch of dopey kids who don't really know what they're doing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Whereas (not that this makes them good) MM has put in a lot of time and paid their dues, and finally, when it seemed most improbable, broken through with a hit record. They made at least one other album I thought was pretty good, which (in case you haven't already been told a thousand times) sounds VASTLY different from the current one.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

HURTING THAT'S WHAT I MEANT

― Spinning Down Alone You Spin Alive (ex machina), Monday, 15 November 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

OK SORRY

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

it's also sort of lisp ridden, but I enjoy some of it.

― ryebot (ryebot), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)


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