Modest Mouse Band • Page 33

Great write up @Aaron Mook! I share a lot of the same feelings with that record. Definitely my fav MM album.

 

Literally no one cares, but this is where I'm at right now, before I give The Golden Casket my first full listen:

The Lonesome Crowded West
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Building Nothing Out Of Something
Strangers To Ourselves
This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
Moon & Antarctica
No One's First, And You're Next
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
The Fruit That Ate Itself
Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks
Night On The Sun
Sad Sappy Sucker
Interstate 8

I can't stress enough that I love every single one of those.

 

Just used Bias Sorter to help me figure out mine lmao

The Moon & Antarctica
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
The Lonesome Crowded West (just moved up a spot or two today)
This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About
Everywhere & His Nasty Parlour Tricks
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Building Nothing Out of Something
Strangers to Ourselves
The Fruit That Ate Itself
Night on the Sun
Interstate 8
No One's First And You're Next
Sad Sappy Sucker

Is it unpopular to think "We Are Between" is a better lead single than "Lampshades on Fire" at this point? Love that song, but it's very in line with "Dashboard" and other MM songs while "We Are Between" feels a bit fresher to me

 

Gonna throw mine out there from my most recent relisten:
We were dead before the ship even sank
Good news
Lonesome Crowded West
Moon and Antarctica
No ones first and you’re next
Everywhere and his nasty parlor tricks
Strangers to Ourselves
Long drive

Then everything else is interchangeabe

 

Building Nothing Out of Something has to be one of the best B-sides collections of all-time

 

Correct.

 

I watched their Lolla performance on Hulu and unfortunately didn't think they sounded very good.

I did see that they played Convenient Parking at the Lolla aftershow though, so that's pretty sweet if that's gonna be in the set on this tour.

 

delta variant is getting pretty bad in philly so I think I may sell my tickets

 

I wonder if Isaac will be back in the jumpsuit

 

Listened to all of Long Drive and man they just jam and rock out so hard on it. Absolutely love this album. The end of Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds is absolutely insane. Is that a guitar making that sound?

 

Wow, I would have paid top dollar to be at this show. Havent been a huge MM fan since Strangers to Ourselves, but to hear Lonesome Crowded West front to back would be epic.

Modest Mouse played 'Lonesome Crowded West' (almost) in full in Seattle

 

This is really unexpected. I would have taken a long, hard look at plane tickets if I'd known this was happening. With the way they typically mix up their sets, I'd be surprised if we got something like this again (especially for a tour).

 

This is a pretty large drop off in venues…wonder if more dates will see venue changes.

 

Lol I'm dumb. I was waiting until the last minute to buy tickets because there were so many available. Now it's sold out.

 

The Cleveland show isn’t until June 5 but there are a TON of tickets still left. Wouldn’t be surprised to see something similar happen. Going from a 5K venue to a 2K.

 

I dont think Modest Mouse is nearly as popular of a draw the last five years. I was a big fan of theirs and saw them numerous times over the past 15+ years, but ever since Strangers To Our Selves I have no interest in seeing them live anymore. I dont like their last 2 albums and to be honest; their live shows arent that great these days. Havent been impressed with their performances since like 2010ish.

 

They played teeth like gods shoeshine tonight, that’s worth the price of admission alone

 

I’ve seen them twice in 3 years and they were awesome.

#fakefans in here

 

Yeah, I saw them four times last year and would've gladly seen more, had it been feasible.

 

I have tickets to the CLE show, and am looking forward to it. I've seen them 3 times since 2016 and they were good to great at all three (some sound issues at one show, but the performance was good)

 

Anyone going to the 25th anniversary store and want to grab me one of those skatedecks? Ill pay shipping and toss in a few extra bucks on top of your cost.

 

https://uproxx.com/indie/modest-mouse-the-lonesome-crowded-west-oral-history/

The anecdote about Isaac leaving the studio during the last seven minutes of Truckers Atlas is so funny to me lol

 

These sound close to early 00s live arrangements, magical to hear em as a 3/4 piece

TLCW isn't one of my favorite albums tbqh, but Moon is, and I really hope to see them do an anniversary tour in 3 years