Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (June 25, 2021) • Page 22

I got into this band late (2015) but Good News will probably always be my favorite. I heard it for the first time when I drove home from my first date/kiss with my fiancée

 

I'm forever We Were Dead gang as far as the later stuff goes, especially if you add back in Satellite Skin, King Rat and Whale Song to the mix

 

Love everything pre Strangers To Ourselves

 

I love all their albums

 

I honestly think life like weeds is my favorite song ever

 

Ok severance

 

went back and looked at the golden casket tracklist and can barely remember any of these songs.... probably need to revisit it.

 

The golden casket is good but I prefer strangers to ourselves

 

They're both better than people give them credit for.

 

Huh

 

Strangers and Casket are both decent, it’s just hard to imagine reaching for them when I’m in the mood for MM, unless I’m doing a discography run

 

I really think both albums are underrated for different reasons. Strangers lacks as a cohesive whole but also feels career-encompassing in a really cool way with lots of high points. It's almost like a mixtape in that sense. The Golden Casket scratches the same old nu-Mouse itches while also exploring some new sounds for the band. It's the last album we'll have with Jeremiah on it, and I'm super grateful that they're still making albums as good as that, even if it's once a decade.

 

And now I'm gonna throw this record on :)

 

strangers has some great tracks but has some low lows for me. i'd listen to We Were Dead first out of any of the last four, but I think Golden Casket is actually pretty excellent

 

I really wish I liked Casket but the production gives me a headache, Strangers is pretty fun though

 

The Golden Casket is probably my least favorite Modest Mouse record (maybe it beats Sad Sappy Sucker in terms of actual quality, though I might prefer that just for nostalgia), but I probably like it a little more than in 2021. I don't think it's bad, but it's not an album that I think does the best version of anything that makes the band special (I also don't think the songs are particularly strong in context of their discography; many are fine, but nothing gets anywhere near my favorite songs from any other post-Sad Sappy Sucker record). Really hoping the next album is more my speed.

For what it's worth, I usually tend to love the new album from my favorite bands more than most people do, so The Golden Casket is definitely an outlier in that trend. Strangers To Ourselves is just under the tier of The Lonesome Crowded West and Good News For People Who Love Bad News, where I think it might be my favorite when I'm listening to it and then change my mind when I listen to the other one.

 

wild

 

pretty fair I'd say, I usually forget Sad Sappy Sucker exists lol

 

Was saving M&A for a night time listen. Just sat on the tarmac for 2 hours and guess what time it is. Night time

 

Last time I saw MM (with BN), Brock was pretty damn drunk and it wasn't very fun. Worth another shot?

 

Assuming that was the 2016 tour? Honestly, that was the first time I ever saw MM and they blew me away on that tour.

I have since seen them three times (twice in 2018 and once in 2022) and they were pretty good each time. I don't recall Brock acting too weird or intoxicated.

 

I’ve heard of bad modest mouse shows but I’ve never seen one thankfully

 

The Cleveland venue they're playing at this tour is an absolute dump. I may sit this one out.

 

No Texas dates. Damn.