xcollapseofmyheartx

i just got everywhere and his nasty parlour tricks

xcollapseofmyheartx

what is your favorite modest mouse song/album?

xcollapseofmyheartx

i always like playing my guitar along to custom concern on the drive cd.

Thrice

The one where they didnt SELL OUT

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

EDGE

gotbacktheplague

Isaac Brock is god.

There isn't a song on any one of their albums that I couldn't personally relate to during my high school years.

About the selling out thing, I'm pretty sure that the only hypocrisy is coming from people who called them sell-outs. If there was a quote from Eric Judy from 1996 wherein he said "Modest Mouse doesn't believe in selling music for profit," then the story would be different, but I hate it when people rag a band for getting known. I didn't hear "Gravity Rides On Everything" (off of Moon And Antarctica) on the commercial until AFTER Good News came out.

It's true they wouldn't be nearly as popular in the mainstream without MTV playing "Float On" every 10 seconds last summer, but that isn't the band's fault. They made the music they wanted to, then MTV decided it'd be very hip of them to "break" M.M. through to the general public. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to be poor. Sure it's nice to play small clubs for 10 years, and have about 30 people know who you are, but it's even nicer to be able to live in comfort and still make music that doesn't suck. Also, it gives everyone who listened to Modest Mouse before Good News the right to say they did, and who doesn't enjoy doing that?

And if you actually get your music in a TV commercial, you can get a chance to expose thousands of Top-40 zombies to some actual good music. If I still haven't convinced you that there's nothing wrong with bands leasing their music for commercial purposes, consider the fact that "New Slang" by The Shins has a line about "the dirt in your fries," and it was featured in a McDonald's commercial.

Takin' the man down from the inside...

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So it's easy to think the end's coming soon
But though sometimes the signs from heaven are vague
Early November we got back the plague

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xcollapseofmyheartx

sell out? they put float on on mtv and they sell out?

Thrice

No...Jesus! You always say stuff i never said! Where did I say that?

Please Show me! They sold out because they used to bitch about everyone else that sold out. They were always indie as hell...they were "the model indie band" then they went and signed with a big label...thats why they are sell outs...they traded in their pride for money.

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

From Cosmic Left Feild...

I saw them in concert on the Unlimited Sunshine tour before they "sold out" and they sucked alot. Give me the sell out mouse anyday.

xcollapseofmyheartx

"The one where they didnt SELL OUT"

I cant stress the fact that mm has been signed with epic for almost 4 years now. ever since float on got air time, everyone pretty much sh*t their pants. float on is a good song. and theyve made (i think) 7 or 8 albums, 3 have been with epic. one song got put on. just one. what would happen if some other bands that you like got airtime?