Modest Mouse (indie, rock, albums, American, track)

sleepy jack · 05-03-2008, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sl1ck

I'll be honest, I don't have a whole lot of Modest Mouse (especially their earlier work), but I think they are a decent band. I don't care much for their last two albums, but The Moon & Antarctica and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About are good albums. I need to get Lonesome Crowded West before I can pass definitive judgment on them though.

If you like those you'll like the Lonesome Crowded West I personally think its better.

Quote:

Originally Posted by enemyat_thesix

Get Building Something Out Of Nothing

It Si Their Best Album

Compilation, not an album. It's called Building Nothing Out of Something by the way.

enemyat_thesix · 05-03-2008, 07:24 PM

a compilation is still an album bro

ther are studio albums
live albums
and compilation albums

sleepy jack · 05-03-2008, 07:31 PM

Alright well in that case, All Night Diner, Baby Blue Sedan and Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive / Negative) are some of Modest Mouse's best songs ever. Particularly the last one.

enemyat_thesix · 05-03-2008, 10:02 PM

mm's two best songs are Never ENding Math Equation and Other People's Lives

imo

sleepy jack · 05-03-2008, 10:04 PM

My favorite is Edit the Sad Parts I think.

Rainard Jalen · 05-05-2008, 02:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enemyat_thesix

a compilation is still an album bro

ther are studio albums
live albums
and compilation albums

Though, I reckon, they should be counted only in the case that the band compiles it. In that case it can still be viewed as a conceptual work of the band.

sleepy jack · 05-05-2008, 02:54 AM

I'm pretty sure they compiled it because it's such an odd grouping of songs and also missing stuff like A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy, Edit the Sad Parts etc from that time. If they'd included all those I'd consider it their best but sadly they didn't.

enemyat_thesix · 05-05-2008, 09:06 AM

as an "odd grouping of songs" it's awfully cohesive.

and a compilation album is still an album regardless of who compiled it. those NOW compilations are just as much albums as tribute compilations, or B-side compilations

sleepy jack · 05-05-2008, 12:29 PM

I said it was an odd grouping of songs because if you look at the tracklist they're taken from all over the place. Which isn't a bad thing, it's cohesive like you said I just don't think if a record company compiled it they would've resisted the urge to possibly turn it into a double album which they could've.

KeithMoon2112 · 05-05-2008, 04:43 PM

Is it me or does Modest Mouse sound like an English band?

Every time I listen to them I imagine them playing in some London bar...idk maybe it's just me.

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