Favorite Modest Mouse Album

RockinInCanada
RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
edited April 2007 in Other Music
Just curious as there seems to be a lot of Modest Mouse fans here what their favorite album is...after listening to all the other day I must say that I have to go with...."This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About"....least favorite is "Good News for People Who Love Bad News"...and ma really digging their new album.....
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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    There was another thread on this within the last month. The responses were quite varied. To me, it is The Moon and Antarctica, and it isn't even close.

    I love the new album as well. I am also in the minority in that I love Good News for People Who Love Bad News. I don't quite understand why people saw it as a huge departure from their other work. Outside of Float On, which was a bit poppier than their normal stuff, it is right in line with everything else they've done. Black Cadillacs, World at Large, The View, The Good Times are Killing Me, Bukowski. . .these are great songs.
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  • RockinInCanada
    RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    boroff89 wrote:
    There was another thread on this within the last month. The responses were quite varied. To me, it is The Moon and Antarctica, and it isn't even close.

    I love the new album as well. I am also in the minority in that I love Good News for People Who Love Bad News. I don't quite understand why people saw it as a huge departure from their other work. Outside of Float On, which was a bit poppier than their normal stuff, it is right in line with everything else they've done. Black Cadillacs, World at Large, The View, The Good Times are Killing Me, Bukowski. . .these are great songs.

    To me is lacks the early grit and raw feeling I had from their previous albums...just my opinion...and no I am not one of those fans dubbing MM sell-outs because of that album...they are a badn that deserves to have their music heard as it is great....however I have been very disappointed to be reading they play less and less of their old stuff at shows...that sucks....
  • Azwethinkweiz
    Azwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is definitely my favorite Modest Mouse album.

    Just pure brilliance.
  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    I've only heard two. I will have to get downloading to hear the rest. But I am totally loving 'We were dead before the ship even sank'.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    the lonesome crowded west. :)
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  • MCG
    MCG Posts: 780
    I'm all about 'Good News For People Who Love Bad News.'
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    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
  • dont_go_on_me
    dont_go_on_me Posts: 877
    As an album - M & A
    Song for Song - WWDBTSES


    I really think that the M & A is one of the best complete through and through albums ever made. Each song flows so well...you can listen to the entire thing in one sitting and feel as though only 5 minutes went by.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    don't_go_on_me wrote:
    As an album - M & A
    Song for Song - WWDBTSES


    I really think that the M & A is one of the best complete through and through albums ever made. Each song flows so well...you can listen to the entire thing in one sitting and feel as though only 5 minutes went by.

    I think that's the thing I like least about M & A. When I listen to an album that feels like 5 minutes went by it usually means I'm bored and not really into it.

    For me I like WWDBTSES and This is a Long Drive
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  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    catefrances wrote:
    the lonesome crowded west. :)

    Marginally concur.
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    catefrances wrote:
    the lonesome crowded west. :)

    ditto
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,997
    Good News for People who Love Bad News and The Moon and Antarctica are my two favorites. Not really sure why the first mentioned gets a bad rap. Some of Isaac's strongest works are on there- (i.e. Bukowski). The Good Times are Killing Me is my favorite track off that album, as it sounds like nothing they've done, plus it's produced by The Flaming Lips which is awesome. Beatiful track. My favorite Modest Mouse tune lies on my other favorite album of theirs, and that's Perfect Disguise.
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  • FreshTendrils
    FreshTendrils Posts: 267
    The Moon & Antarctica has been my favorite album of theirs since the day I got it (which was 3 years ago). I've had Lonesome Crowded West for about a year and it has recently started to pull within sight of The Moon & Antarctica.
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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    don't_go_on_me wrote:
    As an album - M & A
    Song for Song - WWDBTSES


    I really think that the M & A is one of the best complete through and through albums ever made. Each song flows so well...you can listen to the entire thing in one sitting and feel as though only 5 minutes went by.


    i'll agree with this. although i haven't heard lonesome crowded west, which a lot of people seem to like a lot. i have long drive..., we were dead..., good news..., and M&A. i like them all but if i had to rate them i'd probably go

    m&a
    we were dead...
    good news...
    this is a long drive...
  • NuclearTreeFrog
    NuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
    yea I think I had started that thread last month. anyways...

    Lonesome Crowded West gets my vote although they are all really good. Parting of the Sensory off the new one is fucking brilliant.
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  • CM1847
    CM1847 Posts: 577
    I've got no problem saying We Were Dead is my favorite. Good News was decent, but nothing compared to M&A. I enjoy M&A but I think the new one is more consistent from start to finish. The variety is great and the album flows really well together. Never been a HUGE MM fan before, but I am pretty obsessed with the new album.
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    lonesome crowded west and this is a long drive =tie for me. i like 'em all!
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  • offhegoes09
    offhegoes09 Posts: 328
    catefrances wrote:
    the lonesome crowded west. :)
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