Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Brainofdz

kdpjam wrote:

i stand corrected. i just didn't care for their last one too much

I knew what you meant bro. Also,I think they may have put out a compilation in between the last two proper albums.

soulsinging

am i the only one who rather liked "good news"? granted, lonesome crowded west and moon and antartica were better, but i like the last one more than this is a long drive...

im intrigued by this new one though.

freewheelin3

no probs blind melon

im always interested to seewhen people actually started to listen to MM, i got into them when m& A came out and there were not many people hearing them at all, they seem to have a lot of retroactive fans.. i think its easyier to be critical of a band when you might have ingested there whole catalogue in a week (with the aid of d/loads etc) than the span of their actual career...

it seems like a lot of people bout good news and to a lesser extent moon and worked back from there..

no problem with it, i just remeber talking mmodest mouse on here about 4 years ago, and know one really having any idea who they were...

kdpjam

i knew about them in 99......

Brainofdz

freewheelin3 wrote:

no probs blind melon

im always interested to seewhen people actually started to listen to MM, i got into them when m& A came out and there were not many people hearing them at all, they seem to have a lot of retroactive fans.. i think its easyier to be critical of a band when you might have ingested there whole catalogue in a week (with the aid of d/loads etc) than the span of their actual career...

it seems like a lot of people bout good news and to a lesser extent moon and worked back from there..

no problem with it, i just remeber talking mmodest mouse on here about 4 years ago, and know one really having any idea who they were...

I discovered them from a C.M.J (college music journal) writeup of "Lonesome Crowded West" back in 97. They compared them to The Pixies, so I checked them out. I loved it and within a month I bought the rest of their K and Up records releases. I saw them for the first time in may of 97 and became a huge supporter. If you check their setlist website(the fan page, no longer updated) and look under 5/20/00 you will see Blister in the sun(sang by an audience member) That was me, drunk off of my ass.

soulsinging

freewheelin3 wrote:

no probs blind melon

im always interested to seewhen people actually started to listen to MM, i got into them when m& A came out and there were not many people hearing them at all, they seem to have a lot of retroactive fans.. i think its easyier to be critical of a band when you might have ingested there whole catalogue in a week (with the aid of d/loads etc) than the span of their actual career...

it seems like a lot of people bout good news and to a lesser extent moon and worked back from there..

no problem with it, i just remeber talking mmodest mouse on here about 4 years ago, and know one really having any idea who they were...

wow, how hip of you.

i think i bought antartica and good news at the same time, on a friend's recommendation, then worked back. never much took to long drive, but lonesome crowded west is their best. so where does that leave me?

fans that think anything produced during a band's "popular" era is automatically weaker than the stuff they did before/after such popularity are so annoying. it's like the pearl jam fans who swear riot act is better than ten or vs. or the modest mouse fans who say good news sucks becos a lot of people liked it and the fruit that ate itself will always be their best.

mrwalkerb

soulsinging wrote:

wow, how hip of you.

i think i bought antartica and good news at the same time, on a friend's recommendation, then worked back. never much took to long drive, but lonesome crowded west is their best. so where does that leave me?

fans that think anything produced during a band's "popular" era is automatically weaker than the stuff they did before/after such popularity are so annoying. it's like the pearl jam fans who swear riot act is better than ten or vs. or the modest mouse fans who say good news sucks becos a lot of people liked it and the fruit that ate itself will always be their best.

I like riot act better than ten but that's because i think ten is overplayed and teh production blows, anyways reason I came on here was to thank the original poster for the heads up

soulsinging

mrwalkerb wrote:

I like riot act better than ten but that's because i think ten is overplayed and teh production blows, anyways reason I came on here was to thank the original poster for the heads up

hehe, i was misleading there... cos riot act is the only album i like less than ten, solely becos of the production i just wanted to rant about people who act like they're too cool to like the popular releases by a band.

BinGnarly

Im listening to it right now its fuckin great. It reminds me of Lonsome Crowded West mixed with Good News For People Who Love Bad News.

I started listening to Modest Mouse about two or three months before Good News came out and I had heard all the previous albums before Good News. Good News is one hell of an album but I prefer their older stuff. But Good News came out at one of the best parts of my life and I listened to it every chance I had during that time. So it will always have a place in my heart and remind me of great times.

dont_go_on_me

listening to it now for the first time.

WOW

totally different, but still fucking awesome. prepare to be taken aback by this album...really really interesting stuff on here. I love it...can't wait for more tour dates to be announced!

freewheelin3

soulsinging,

the fact you misunderstood my post completely is something i can overlook, but im just gonna explain, i went out of my to explain that i wasnt early to MM myself, and the crux of my post was meant to be on the retroactive fans(such as myself) find it easier to crtiticize a whole body of work that is heard in a shoirt period of time rather than the actual amount it germinated in..

i just found it interesting that people say its a return to form, or its not as good as their old stuff when everything suggests that a fair chunk of people were not even there when that stuff came out..

i wasnt on a highhorse, but its a hard point to make without appearing i am

anyway great album.. they got a great catalogue of songs now, but it still dont get much better than "edit the sad parts.."

Pearl Jam and toast

First MM song I heard was "Broke" (shortly followed by "workin on leavin the livin" and "other people's lives" - on a mix someone gave me). I've been addicted to them ever since.

boroff89

soulsinging wrote:

am i the only one who rather liked "good news"? granted, lonesome crowded west and moon and antartica were better, but i like the last one more than this is a long drive...

im intrigued by this new one though.

I love Good News. There are some fantastic songs on there. World at Large, The View, Black Cadillacs, The Good Times are Killing Me. . .

The Moon and Antarctica is definitely their best album, but I love Good News just as much as Lonesome Crowded West.

soulsinging

freewheelin3 wrote:

soulsinging,

the fact you misunderstood my post completely is something i can overlook, but im just gonna explain, i went out of my to explain that i wasnt early to MM myself, and the crux of my post was meant to be on the retroactive fans(such as myself) find it easier to crtiticize a whole body of work that is heard in a shoirt period of time rather than the actual amount it germinated in..

i just found it interesting that people say its a return to form, or its not as good as their old stuff when everything suggests that a fair chunk of people were not even there when that stuff came out..

i wasnt on a highhorse, but its a hard point to make without appearing i am

anyway great album.. they got a great catalogue of songs now, but it still dont get much better than "edit the sad parts.."

fair enough, just seemed like you were going out of your way to point out how you knew about them before everybody else and that annoys me usually. my bad. i do see your point... ive done that with bands before (kinda doing it now with decemberists) and sometimes it is tough to give 3-4 early albums a chance when you've just gotten turned on to the latest one.

im really intrigued by this album.

dont_go_on_me

i can't turn this off...it's fantastic!

bharQ

it's true.. i really didn't like the last album aside from 2 songs.. and i LOVE their old shit.. Lonesome Crowded West especially... and this album I actually am digging!!!

I loved Johnny Marr in the Smiths and he basically completes this bands sound on this album.. they sound so much more developed now!

Blind Melon

Yeah... I must admit that I did learn of Modest Mouse when Good News came out, but I did go back and get their whole catalogue... even their EP stuff. I must admit that at first I didn't pay much attention, but lately... they've been the number one band I listen to (even over my favorite band... well maybe not, but ya know)... seriously though, Trailer Trash is sooooo fucking good. That song is just amazing. And I will be replaying this new album a lot. It's going to take a little while to get used to.

Pearl Jam and toast

bharQ wrote:

I loved Johnny Marr in the Smiths and he basically completes this bands sound on this album.. they sound so much more developed now!

Definetly. I'm half way through it and already I'm sensing that this is their best work to date.

soulsinging

alright, enough teasing ya bastards... where can a guy find this?

Jammin909

soulsinging wrote:

alright, enough teasing ya bastards... where can a guy find this?

I second that!!

Come on- it would be a great start to the weekend!