Modest Mouse - Dramamine (This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About) This is not an official video. Copyrights reserved to the respective holders.
My son played this song on his keyboard and sent it to me in 2008 along with the original. He was out of the country studying abroad. He passed away in 2014 from opiates, my god he loved Modest Mouse.
So true especially when he said he wrote "float on" as a response to critics saying their music was too depressing... lol it's a great song but really it's just as depressing as everything else.
This song was shown to me by someone I love with all of my heart. I got him clean and spent every single day with him for months. He ended up dying in an accident on January 12th This is our song... Im going to visit his grave in May and I'm playing this for him on my guitar one last time I love you Ziggy -your Mitzy
This song will forever take me back to when i was 14-16, chilling with my best friend who now lives 600 miles away. When we had no cares in the world, spending the majority of our time together exploring this world. What I would give to go back to those days for just a little while.
I'd give the rest of my life for one day back when life was, i dunno, fucking awesome I guess. No money, shwag weed, big dreams, old 70's car (in mid 90's) you had to enter through the window, Not that everything was perfect, but thinking back, they were as good as it gets. the biggest thing was the friends. where did every one go? did they just get old, like me? when did it end? It's too bad all good things must come to an end, and it sucks that it's always too soon. When I go to bed I always make a wish, to go back in time in a dream. It often works. Sometimes it works so well I want to cry when I wake up, of happiness. That's the only way to go back in time I think. If I didn't have those dreams, I don't think I'd stick around. But that's just me.
Alexandre Ginnsz Reading this comment made me realize how much I need to appreciate the small things in life, instead of hoping for bigger, better things. I'm only 18 so I can't pretend I know what it's like to be old, but I know I'm not getting any younger, and from here onward life will never be the same as now. I hope someday you manage to find happiness in reality, because this comment has opened my eyes to do the same. And until that day comes for you, I wish you the best of dreams.
Whoa!!! I once listened to this on repeat for hours in preparation to meet God on psychedelics. Guess what it worked!!! I've had your exact experience before too, they were a bit similar no joke lol
+Negan When I saw them they played this, Ocean Breathes Salty, Never Ending Math Equation, The Ground Walks With Time In A Box, 3rd Planet, Grey Ice Water, and SO many other amazing favorites. So good
big boss is dead Haha this was great! Sometimes i fucking forget im fucking NEGAN. I been in this cage too long. Im going to slide my dic down ricks throat, and hes going to fucking thank me for it.
Long ago now, this song helped me through a really rough patch in my life. It's the perfect soundtrack for a drive through the night, moving away from a city that has rejected you.
Its music like this that can simultaneously make you feel melancholy but relaxed, contemplative or nostalgic and also at peace. I like finding the melancholy/slightly upbeat songs in every genre. I am drawn to it.
+Nathaniel J. Capenos I also really like this sort of semi happy semi sad music, some good albums for it are Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips, Doolittle / Surfer Rosa - Pixies, The Bends / Ok Computer / Kid A - Radiohead, Big Calm - Morcheeba, Pinkerton - Weezer.
Had to come see this particular video of Dramamine. So many years ago I watched this in my earlier 20s and it fascinated me and that was the start of me becoming a Modest Mouse fan. I’m 36 now and it still hits. Rest In Peace Jeremiah.
I have always thought that a guitarist that can make a simple riff sound amazing is a better guitarist than one who can make a complicated riff sound alright. Isaac is the master of making simple riffs into audible gold. Dramamine is a perfect example of his ability to do this.
I watch this everyday, so good, the video is perfect , it goes so well together. And the cartoon is from the safe driver's education film ''Stop driving us crazy'' from 1958.
This was one of the first songs my partner showed me when we met. He said Modest Mouse was basically his favourite band. We listened to the songs together, although we were physically seperated, our minds were at the same place. I remember these days so vividly, how connected I felt. I wonder what has happened between then and now
this song makes me think about miscommunication in a relationship, somethings wrong, its not working out, but they keep trying to get the most out of it that they can. also dph...
This song reminds me of coming down off of shrooms for the first time. Driving home after a 6 hour trip where I spent all my time in the woods, alone, marveling at the beauty I had never taken the time to see in the simplicity of the world - feeling and experiencing the true power of the human brain and the immense amount of phenomena around us we fail to perceive. Only to realize as soon as I got home, all of that would fade, and slowly I would fall back into place - words came back to the forefront of all interactions, manmade things became real again, and slowly my sensory dulled back to its base level. The serenity in realizing the beauty around us, but simultaneously coming to the realization that alone, I could probably never appreciate it for what it truly is on a consistent basis without completely ostracizing myself from all that is modern life... that feeling forever lingers with me, the way this song just patters on in repetition. It's like being lost, but found at the same time, in a cycle. Never knowing where you're going, or where you are, only that you belong somewhere else.
Reminds me of summer 2016. I hung out with the same 3 or 4 friends like every day and it was beautiful. My friend asked me to learn this song on guitar because it was one of her favorites. I just remembered this one today and thought of her. I've reached out a couple times since then but no luck. Guess that's how it goes sometimes. Maybe I'll see her again one day. I really miss her. She was one of my best friends. It always stayed platonic which was the best part for me. We could just be real with each other and never had to worry about the impression we made. We got along well and I loved those times together.
SAME HERE! Heard that song on Pandora one day and decided to look for more. The rest is history. They are still my favorite band for 5 years strong. Its so unique and I swear their songs never get old!
Travelling swallowing Dramamine Feeling spaced breathing out Listerine I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell ya And that you'd killed the better part of me If you could just milk it for everything I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean But I still can't focus on anything We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves Travelling swallowing Dramamine Look at your face like you're killed in a dream And you think you've figured out everything I think I know my geography pretty damn well You say what you need so you'll get more If you could just milk it for everything I've said what I said and you know what I mean But I can't still focus on anything
I believe Modest Mouse as a group has been thru so many moments in life and their experiences overall are the lyrics that are misunderstood to many except the handful of people that get it and can relate. I have made some bad decisions in my past as far as when I was finding myself and that struggle throughout the process was me to begin with. When I was trying to understand the person starring back in the reflection in the mirror. I was looking for the answer and it was right there all along. I had been letting this confusing society/world get to me and take over who I am. In the days long before I was confused and now it is all making sense because I wanted it to. I took the steps to make it that way the best way I could. So, with that being said, Modest Mouse as a group seems like they are trying to make sense out of what they have been thru via the lyrics, the beat, the way of how I feel and think so much when I listen to a tune from them.
I used to watch this video just out of high school. Id get home from hanging with the guys and be stoned watching/listening and just get lost in the music and this video at 1 in the morning...now im 32 with 3 kids and it still hits me exactly the same...fuck time flys
i hear ya man.... i posted this video when i was 16 and now i'm about to turn 33 and have a young daughter of my own. i hope she likes this song as much as i did when she's older!
The cartoon is called "Stop Driving Us Crazy!", it came out in 1959. For those of you who are wondering. You can find it on youtube, just search for it.
I remember this was the first modest mouse song I had ever heard, on this exact video, about ten years ago. It's pretty amazing in a sense that it's still up, and has become something of a digital keepsake to me.
Sometimes I get too busy and go through long stretches where I don't listen to much music. I'm listening to all of the MM albums again today for the first time in about a year and sweet baby Jesus is it amazing. It's like discovering them all over again. Sometimes I have to listen to the same track over and over again like this one and Trailer Trash. MODEST MOUSE IS THE SHIT!
This song and Modest Mouse as a whole, saved my life. Without their music I wouldn’t be here today. I made a promise to myself that I would see them play live at least once in my life. I’m finally going to fulfill that promise this summer 2024
Love to see it. I didn't get to see them until a couple years ago, and it now I'm about to see them for the 3rd time in just as many years. Godspeed buddy
One of the best songs ever created ever.. Seriously.. Absolutely fucking beautiful..amazing! I've loved this song for many years, it's one of those songs that you sing from the heart, beautifully written, sang & played, I can't say much more except how beautiful this song is & those lyrics haunt my mind :) fucking non stop goose bumps :)
I remember this song from high school, my best friend and I were taking mushrooms with some other people, decided to ditch them and sneak over to his house at like 3am. Spent the night over there in his room tripping, listening to this song, and drawing some really great artwork. I miss you Zach, I'm sorry we drifted apart.
This song gives me a feeling that I can't explain. Like a sad happiness and a sense of comforting loneliness. Like warm, yet cold and depressing nostalgia? It's hard to explain, like I said.
Jebus, this old cartoon goes so well with this song. The first few times I saw the video, I thought it was made for it. First heard the song in 2007, and I still listen to this song often. It speaks something to me!
this was one of my brother Mike's very favorite songs, he passed away in May only 5 months after my sister passed away, both abruptly and unexpectedly. sometimes I miss you guys so much I just want to turn the whole world to Ash and Dust
This is my go to song when I'm struggling. Crazy how something can relate to so many situations. I was a victim of rape and sexual assault. These lyrics perfectly summarize what I felt and continue to struggle with.
Lyrically it's a short but sweet song. I still to this day have no clue how he can articulate a relationship so well without really even talking specifics.
Seriously so beautiful, everything about it. The texture of this song is something else, serene but bouncy. It gives me chills. It's like walking through your mind when you're just fuckin' done with the world but you know there's brightness out there and you're dragging your feet despite knowing you just want to lay down and stop.
what makes you think i was just talking about the lyrics ? music itself expresses so much. the sounds, the chosen effects, the melody and of course the chords remind me of a shroom trip it just gives me that feeling you dont have to understand the lyrics to get what a good song trys to tell you^^
it's very clever and original what you created here, especially with the transformation of the traffic intersection cross into the Red Cross into the graveyard cross. love it!
Shows how many forget to appreciate time, the meaningless arguments and disagreeing crossroads create stupid accidents, stupid mistakes. I wish I'd seen this earlier; a great reminder to the importance of our already ending lives.
all the modest mouse albums are on my ipod i just recently got it back after thinking it was stolen and this is one of the bands i was really pissed about not being able to hear at my leisure. Modest Mouse are just friends I have yet to meet. Speaking of memories this reminds me of driving to San Diego...
Beautiful video. Combined with the song, it captures the anxiety of living in a postmodern/late capitalist culture like nothing I've ever seen before, except MAYBE the matrix. Thank you to whoever made this.
This is my first time listening to Modest Mouse beyond what was played on the radio. I've never heard this song before, nor knew it existed.... so me=pretty dang stoked.
"Bad song on mushrooms" Ok listen ... A bad trip on shrooms is nothing compared to the paranoia and dysphoria created by dph and dipenhydramine. That's what this song is about. Taking more than the recommended dose of dramamine to get high. You get spacy and confused and hallucinate--not like psychedelic hallucination though. Like realistic hallucinations. And you enter a state of delerium. That's exactly what the song is portraying.
Relevance = 0 This is that one song I can never get sick of hearing, it's reminiscent of all the great times I've had over the years. It's fucking fantastic.
+lala vasquez Well, considering MDMA binds serotonin transporters and chemically alters the brain in devastating ways if not manufactured properly...he probably did quite a bit, and I'm amazed he could even string a sentence together.
Thank you. This comment regarding drugs amused me because a) I like the linking of being on drugs and listening to this b) this song makes me feel like being influenced by drugs c) I am under the influence of drugs
Lol I wrote that coming down from DXM combined with some weed. What a crazy experience. This song filled me with so much nostalgia and I wanted to cry. Awesome video too. Definitely fits the vibe.
There's some cryptic understanding to this video that matches the extremely ambiguous way I feel and process this song intellectually and that's okay because I'm an eccentric snowflake and the world panders to my sense of entitlement if I don't get my way. I don't know if I should do Heroin, Kill Myself, Or write a novel about my Heroin addiction. -Melancholy Pseudo-Intellectual Hipster