Modest Mouse Band • Page 42

Seems insane to be a modest mouse fan and have never listened to what 95% of their fans consider their best album

 

Ok guys I just finished third planet and I have one question.

Where are the horns?

 

I can only speak for myself, but when I was a lot younger, I remember buying Good News on CD and listening to it and liking it a lot and there was a very annoying person who was doing that cliché 'this album sucks, you need to listen to their old shit before they sold out' routine and I was being anti about and purposely didn't do what they were telling me to do. which is silly and immature, but also I was literally silly and immature at that time, and then I sorta stopped listening to these guys before I ever went back and dove into what their fans seem to always say is their best stuff.

 

So you only listened to good news?

 

I listened to their next couple albums as they came out but I never went back and fell off after Strangers

 

listen to life like weeds right now and then all of moon

 

I am honestly going to the listen to Moon the next time I listen to music

 

Huh

Thing is we actually don’t care. It’d be your loss

 

LCW, M&A and Good News are all all-timers to me. The rest are all decent to great

 

Alright I’m through to Perfect Disguise into Tiny Cities Made of Ashes and I’m seeing my mistakes

 

Good News is my favorite. But Lonesone is the easy second place

 

Doing my homework as well. God these guys are such a Pixies rip off ;)

 

I just double checked, it’s yes

 

The middle of a different city sounds like the cure at 125% speed

 

I agree with this

 

LCW has a live-off-the-floor intensity missing from all that follows (even M&A, which I love, feels much more like a studio construction). With Jeremiah Green dead you are very much hearing a document of something special that no longer exists in any meaningful sense.

 

lol, good point actually

this is an amazing comparison

 

I was listening to TM&A (specifically "Gravity Rides Everything") when I got T-boned on Thanksgiving back in 2019 and it was one of the most traumatic events of my life but it's still a top three album of all time for me and I'm probably going to spin it this morning

 

I also definitely wrote a short story in high school that was almost the exact plot of The Curse finale with a guy getting pulled into space inspired by The Moon & Antarctica lol

 

ah yes The Cure at 125% speed, also known as Primary by The Cure

 

Some brief general notes on TM&A:

- That riff in "Dark Center of the Universe" is so good
- "Perfect Disguise" and "The Cold Part" are such beautiful songs
- "Paper Thin Walls" deserves more credit as one of their poppiest tracks
- "Life Like Weeds" is, of course, one of their best
- "What People Are Made Of" rips so fucking hard and I always feel like "Invisible" is sort of a spiritual successor to that track as an album closer

 

I love bands that attempt to do both of these things on different albums (especially when they're successful), I just think the atmosphere and mood they were able to achieve in the studio for TM&A is unparalleled. It's such a cold and alien sounding record. LCW is definitely a gold standard for that live feel, though

 

Spoilers

 

I also don't think it's cool to spoil the plot of The Moon and Antarctica.

 

this album is great! why didn't one of you guys tell me about this 26 years ago???