The Pixies are my favorite band I'm just now discovering Modest Mouse's early stuff and can't believe they sound this great! DEFINITELY inspired by the Pixies. His screaming chorus sounds quite a lot like Frank Black and the loud QUIET loud formula is very evident.
I like how he just kinda freaks out and screams and smashes the strings with his pick, god I really wish I was around to see Modest Mouse in their drugged out phase
@kurt2552 I did. Top two bands. I also own some of Jack's instruments from TWS days including one of his Rhodes organs. If you were interested I'm nerding out we can link up on social media and I can share some pretty cool stuff. (Sorry if this comes across braggy, I got very lucky)
i love modest mouse, old and new, but their old stuff is definitely the best. lonesome crowded west is one of the most genius albums ever created in my opinion.
God man, this performance STILL sends chills down my spine. Think I caught this recording when this feller posted it a decade ago and it just solidified my love for Modest Mouse a ton. Thanks for sharing so much.
that was nice metaphor, but when it was only isaac, eric and jeremiah their music was less produced and more natural and to me that is when it was pure and at its finest and not much can come close, even themselves now-a-days. all modest mouse is good though i am not debunking them at all, and i am sure that their album coming out will prove it again.
I'm sorry but I love it. The whole reason I loved modest mouse in the first place, all them hundreds of years ago was exactly because they were sloppy and sounded like they recorded everything on a tape player stolen from a community centre. Plus also take into account their infamous early "drunk" gigs.
@1990forever69 It's something that the more you listen to the more you respect. I started listening to them during good news and then when I got older I looked back at their old stuff. After I listened to it a few times through i started catching how good the lyrics were. They were, are, and will remain an amazing band.
toughbail, they were notorious for showing up drunk to performances regularly back then. Still, even if they do get off time, appreciate the energy. They fucking rocked this song.
I was almost two or three when this was shot, but it's nice to have time machines to visit an era I was in yet hardly remember. it rejogges my memory. Especially for indie bands like Modest Mouse that are still going today.
I think it's really a shame that Cobain never got the opportunity to listen to MM - he literally missed it by a couple years and it's probable he'd have heard them in those early days because the Olympia scene was like the weirder little brother of the Seattle scene - in his last years he really believed that rock music was becoming very stale and that you couldn't do anything new with a couple guitars, bass, and drums and Modest Mouse I think would've really changed his jaded perception. I think him and Isaac would've gotten along fairly well at first.
No, this was their sunrise, much like how flowers on a tree look pretty in the spring, they developed into fruit as they matured and "ripened". Modest Mouse has atleast a decade left on them. We'll see where they take us. Who knows? Maybe they'll blow everyone's socks off in 2010 with their new album.
My biggest regret in life is being born in 1998. I wasn't even in existence, let alone old enough to comprehend this was happening in the very state I was born
Isaac never admitted to being an addict. And the only song that is DIRECTLY about drugs is The Good Times are Killing me which is quite an anti-drug message.
ok anyone who thinks modest mouse is "happy" now needs to reread their lyrics/listen to the music. their "happiest" tunes would have to be their most recent big singles, dashboard and float on, and the farthest they go is saying "shit sucks but we can keep going" or "shit sucks but it could've been worse." however, lets not forget a key part of the message is still SHIT SUCKS. also, happiness and music are not antithetical. if you want to complain about someone going clean, look at jeff tweedy.
No he just didnt really take care of himself, yes hes done his share of drugs but I dont think hes ever really been hooked to one substance. I know he was a fan of the Dramamine.
he was also poor. watch the untitled documentary that was filmed around this time, he goes shopping for beer and can only consider the cheapest options (a 40oz for less than a dollar)
I used to hate it, however now I'm just taking it as something different. Now that i'm listening to it more, theres a few songs that I really like... Parting of the Sensory being one of them. Now that I really think about it, the majority of their older songs held empty/negative thoughts/morals, while their newer ones carry a more energetic yet lost feeling. Whatever. Its all aight.
are you kidding spookyghost? almost all of their song are about drugs... you obviously don't know the drug references. I mean seriously, it's all nice on ice? could that be any clearer for example????
Metaphors. 😑 People used to say all Elliott Smith’s music was about him doing drugs but it wasn’t. Not everyone writes about themselves all the time. Sure a few but many times the songs are inspired by people they know/have met, movies/documentaries, stories they’ve heard, ect. Don’t take things so literally.
