Good call. At the time I loved BTS and MM about equally, and I still have a deep love for several MM albums, but having seen both live in the intervening years, Built To Spill has pulled ahead in my esteem. Doug Martsch live is next level.
Trucks atlas perfect example* forgot to put that in. It grows on you lol, w that longggg instrumental, I think it’s meant to convey aimlessly driving forever
PLEASE do "building nothing out of something" by modest mouse. That album is like.... one of the most precious things in my life. That's the album I scream cried to recover from nasty things in the pouring rain at night with nothing but the car headlights facing a pond. Now it's like a mark of my healing and I hear it so differently now that it's done what it's done for me. It is so special.
this album is insanely good easily one of my all time favorites. great video. you should listen their debut "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About"
When I was in high school the cd player stopped opening in my dad’s car and this cd was stuck inside for over a year. Love this album and my cheap dad who never got anything fixed!
@@etalex7074 Well, it definitely grew on me in the last few months but I still think it's a very inconsistent album that marks the beginning of MM's decline in quality.
I love this album but I think Moon and Antarctica is a much more accessible introduction to them and it’s just as essential and critically well-regarded as this one.
There later ones are much more accessible this and this Is a long drive for nothing to think about aren't really accessible they can get pretty harsh and garage rock like
Best guitar work of any album ever in my opinion. They convey so many emotions in such an insane way. Isaac is as expressive of a guitarist as he is a vocalist and lyricist.
I wanted to give my own analysis because I think this album is actually very conceptual. I think the overall concept has to do the negative effects that can result from the rapid industrialization and gentrification of society through the mundane-ness that it creates. The singer said that a big inspiration for him was watching so many personal, natural areas he grew up with get replaced by malls and industries. The album seems to go through a lot of different characters/scenarios revolving around different types of mental health issues and harmful behaviors, all stemming from the crushing emptiness and, again, mundane-ness that so many people collectively live under. A lot of the lyrics here also revolve around the inherent contradiction of how such a thing can happen even though we are technically advancing, and there’s many different variants of that lyrical theme throughout, including the title of the album.
One of the best concept albums of the 90's. As the band said, the album was about the "mall fucking" of America; Or as Isaac poetically said "The paving of the American West." Pitch fork has a great documentary about the making of this album on RU-vid that'd I'd highly recommend! Also, the "it's all nice on ice" bit of the last song is a double entendre. It can be taken as it's nice floating on ice above the water which goes along with some of the themes of the song, but it's also a nod to Isaac and Jeremy struggling with meth addiction at the time. Meth is called "ice" so he's saying it's nice being high on meth lol
I've been going through re-listening to "peak" Modeet Mouse in the past week due to a pitchfork video documentary of the making of this album that the almighty RU-vid algo plopped into my feed. Shit holds up real, real well. I was obsesed with them from like 2002-2004. I like your style, man! Cool review. Your face and reaction when the guitar solo kicked in on Trailer Trash wss gold. What a song. Peace.
When interpreting rock music, it's a trope to say that every song is about drugs somehow. Most of the time that's incorrect. However, when interpreting this album and especially the latter half of it - yeah, if you think he's talking about meth he's probably talking about meth. There's actually an uncut version of Trucker's Atlas that goes at least three minutes longer than what got put on the album. The producer and engineers just never told them to stop so they jammed on it for an extended period of time waiting to be told to stop.
You’re listening to some great albums, keep it coming! I have two for you, Elliott smith’s final album-from a basement on a hill and Built to Spill-Perfect from now on. Amazing consistency.
For the love of everything holy, please listen to The Moon and Antarctica, Building Nothing Out of Something, and This is a Long Drive. Listen to everything up to Good News. Modest Mouse is one of my favorite bands. Isaac Brock is a lyrical genius.
I think that by pausing and reflecting after every song, you miss, especially in the “shorter” songs at ending of the Lonesome Crowded West such as Shit Luck or Long Distance Drunk, the overarching meaning and storyline from song to song. By artificially changing the flow of the listening experience in a way Modest Mouse didn’t intend, you lose some of the “build” that you said the earlier song had. I understand that for the content or yourself, you meditate on every song but to make an overarching statement on a record without getting a complete experience is unprecedented criticism. Would you stop a movie mid-way through and “reflect” on it if you were reviewing it? But you might say, do this when watching a theatre production during intermission or even with this album at the four points where the record stops playing to flip to side B or change to disc 2. I get to simulate that, specifically with this album, it is difficult since the track listing is different on vinyl, but you still should come back to the record to see if your criticism still stands. If you do enjoy their longer and more drawn out "jammy" songs you would probably prefer or at least enjoy Modest Mouse's debut This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. It has almost a post punk twist with this sound and fell and you've said you like Joy Division a lot. It also has a way more raw fell in the production while still having Issac Brock's signature layer vocal takes that I particularly enjoy.
man I've watched you listen to this album like six times now. I love Modest Mouse, I love Isaac Brock's lyrics and how they evolved into a truly bitter and resentful caricature of his oldest and most powerful work. I love Jeremiah Green, God rest his soul; from the very beginning his drums carried the soul of Isaac's vision better than even Isaac could manage. I can't believe I've watched you listen to this so many times and I haven't suggested you listen to any of their other albums. "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About" is one of my absolute favorite road trip albums, it's all of the intensity with none of the extraneous production experimentation. "The Moon And Antarctica" is a dive into the surreal emotions of Isaac coming to terms with his position as a loud-mouthed pseudo-revolutionary. as much as I love the tracks and cohesion on "Good News For People Who Love Bad News," I really think you could skip it and not miss anything, not even Float On. but "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" is absurdly beautiful. Isaac has never been too heavy-handed with his metaphorical language, but "We Were Dead" is a scathing review of what he and his band experienced in trying to send a message with music and being met with nothing but vague success in the form of a really upsetting and shitty Lupe Fiasco song that sampled their "big mainstream breakaway hit." If I had to recommend any one song, it would have to be "Night On The Sun." It's perfect. It's long, but it wastes no time. It's perfect.
You should listen to building nothing out of something. Its like a compilation album or someshit so it doesn't get its proper respect but the shit hits
I feel like Convenient Parking's lyrics is an allegory to heroine use, like the parking lot is the spoon/needle where it's store, the big streets and highways are the blood veins and he later feels like the parking itself is "way back" like, once you go from needle to arm it's hard to drop the addiction. Trucker's Atlas is the same but for coke, he's doing lines and roads on a cheap map from a gas station, going from California to Alaska etc with his nose.
yo bro you should listen to "omoide in my head" by number girl. its a legendary live album with an insanely high score on rym. if not that maybe then a parannoul album, preferably "after the night"
thanks bro... just a great Album one of the best. you got 3 more amazing albums to go... Building Nothing out of Something, The Moon and Antarctica, and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. cheers
Listening to this album drunk is a mistake I’ve done many times before, emotionally damaging me and making me almost do things I will not be able to regret
“This album is having a proud effect on my life…” 😊 Personally, I got to know this band when I was probably Smags age.. was going through a lot and Modest Mouse helped me think more deeply and embrace my atheist/agnostic views. 💚 cheers
God i freaking love shit luck its freaking hard as all hell like that song is like straight hardcore punk and honestly its also crosses into noise rock territory
since you liked trailer trash so much i think youd like their first album, this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about and their compilation album building nothing out of something, also the song edit the sad parts.
After your comments on the first song, I can say I love modest mouse and this album to hell. But I also do feel like a mosquito at 7/11 so very apt description 👍
listen to alice in chains self titled album. it’s sludgy and emotional and gets darker as the album goes on. it’s their last album before the lead singer layne staley died in 2002 and is criminally underrated.
Yeah no joke dude as much as I loved Modest Mouse and Bright Eyes as a teenager I took them to heart way too much and alcoholism fucking sucked and wasn't poetic at all lol Still great bands and amazing songs I was just an idiot for wanting to be like them
Styrofoam boots, he walked on water and then he drowned upside down, went to heaven, met god, god was an atheist. It’s all nice on cuz you don’t drown upside down and have to learn that god has a god who has a god who has a god. It’s turtles all the way down 💯
Its all nice on ice is refering to a drug called ice and how even though its ruining his life and not and making him crazy he loves it to much to give it up he thinks its all nice
Not "multiple times", only once in 1999. The accusation was never substantiated in the slightest and the alleged victim has withdrawn her story. Since then, there never has been someone to corroborate it or any other reports of similar experiences with Isaac. So I'm not sure why you're bringing this up here…
