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View Poll Results: Rate And Discuss We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank By Modest Mouse
Excellent 16 23.53%
Very Good 24 35.29%
Average 17 25.00%
Poor 7 10.29%
Awful 4 5.88%
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Old 11-10-2008, 02:23 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I'm not a big fan of this album but I enjoy Little Motel alot!
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Old 11-11-2008, 08:01 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Everyone who ever said this album was bad please listen to "Spitting Venom" one of the best songs of the album. Please listen then comment
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Old 11-12-2008, 09:04 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I don't think the album is bad at all. I just don't LOVE it. But there are plenty of good songs and I still play it once in a while.

Everybody talks about how amazing The Moon & Antarctica is and I keep saying to myself I really need to listen to it...hopefully I'll get around to it some day.
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Old 11-18-2008, 04:36 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Poor.
It was a huge step back form their previous work. They used to have meaning, now most of the songs are just garbage.
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Old 11-21-2008, 05:30 PM   #35 (permalink)
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i vote fire it up as the best track on the album.... missed the boat close second.
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Old 11-24-2008, 05:07 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Poor.
It was a huge step back form their previous work. They used to have meaning, now most of the songs are just garbage.
Agreed. Definitely a step back from their earlier stuff..
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Old 11-25-2008, 06:52 AM   #37 (permalink)
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My favorite album by them is the one almost no one's heard of:
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Old 11-25-2008, 09:29 AM   #38 (permalink)
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I liked it more then their earlier stuff but less than Good News For People Who Love Bad News.
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Old 11-25-2008, 12:09 PM   #39 (permalink)
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My favorite album by them is the one almost no one's heard of:
What's so appealing about Sad Sappy Sucker? Unusual lyrics beyond the point of comprehension at times, horrible sound, and not really any meaning to their songs which completely changed from then to now. Don't get me wrong, I love SSS but to say it's better than Lonesome Crowded West is just silly to me.

Were Were Dead... was one of those albums I woke up right when Best Buy opened for and excitedly raced inside to grab a deluxe version. I hurried back to my car and blasted it. March Into The Sea is still my favorite album, it sets a MM-ey tone of lonliness and anger. And the album for the most part continues with that there along with water. This seemed like much for of a Modest Mouse-like theme than Good News to me. And I enjoyed it as a follow-up from The Moon and Antartica more so than Good News. Going straight through the album, every song has something to offer I think and I have gone through an obsession with each, most recently "Little Motel" and originally "Steam Engenius"

This album is excellent and was a personal classic to me since it was released.
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Old 11-25-2008, 01:42 PM   #40 (permalink)
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First off - Lonesome Crowded West I would argue is the best Modest Mouse album, that whole album is an excellent listen all the way through.

Second of all, this album is definitely not the best Modest Mouse album but not the worst, I would have to say the best song on the album however is Parting of the Sensory which leads me to wonder if the person a couple posts back actually listened to the album when they said that Modest Mouse's newer lyrics have no meaning... Meanings are pretty easy to pick out in most of the songs on this album.

It's definitely a cleaner sound than the earlier Modest Mouse albums but I would also argue not quite as clean as Good News which I would say is a good thing, it seems more characteristic of the band.

All in all - Good album.
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