Your favorite Modest Mouse album

NuclearTreeFrog
NuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
edited April 2007 in Other Music
I'm probably in the minority but I'd have to say The Lonesome Crowded West.
"The sun is shining, but not for me."
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    We Were Dead..
    Moon and Antartica
    Lonesome Crowded West
    Building something out of nothing
    This is a Long Drive..
    Good News..

    Then all of the small, b-side or whatever the hell's on them albums like "sad sappy sucker".

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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    The Moon and Antarctica. Such a brilliant album. One of the best to be released by anyone in the last ten years or so.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    i would also have to say The Moon and Antartica. Such a GREAT album. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes always makes me want 2 dance :)
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  • JSBE
    JSBE Posts: 1,078
    NuclearTreeFrog wrote:
    I'm probably in the minority but I'd have to say The Lonesome Crowded West.

    i would whole-heartedly agree with you, although i do love building something out of nothing.

    i do like the new one, i just feel that there is something missing, or just a little too much...if that makes sense.
  • off_the_record
    off_the_record Posts: 843
    this is tough. i'd probably go with lonesome followed closely by this is a long drive.
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  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    this is a long drive...
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
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  • noalarms
    noalarms Posts: 40
    The lonesome crowded west followed by the new one. The new one is amazing.
  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    I always felt that they were too inconsistant and not even album to albun like song to song, I like them but the new one is the only one I can listen to front to back without getting bored or just shutting it off
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  • Dick Jones
    Dick Jones Posts: 777
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    I always felt that they were too inconsistant and not even album to albun like song to song, I like them but the new one is the only one I can listen to front to back without getting bored or just shutting it off

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  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    i haven't celebrated their entire discography and can only name you a couple songs but my vote goes to lonesome crowded west because bankrupt on selling and trailer trash are my 2 favs that i've heard from them (so far)
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
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  • alobar
    alobar Posts: 310
    kdpjam wrote:
    this is a long drive...

    YES!

    This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About

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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Dashboard is the only song that I love by them...........amazing song
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  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    Dick Jones wrote:
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    go on
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  • OutOfBreath
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    Moon and Antarctica, followed by We Were Dead.
    M&A is just about the only consistent album MM has ever made, and it blows my mind still. Not a single weak song, and it all flows together like a good album should.

    Now dont get me wrong, I do love MM, but on many of their records it's a mess of great songs, weirdness (I can like that), weirdness that doesnt work and outright noise (and not in a good way). There are always 2-5 songs I feel would be better off left out. M&A avoids it, and clinches a spot in my top-10 of all time. We were dead also almost pulls that off, but at least the "down" songs are not as down as in the past.

    That's my opinion anyway. :)

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  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    Lonesome Crowded West... I just love the feel of the whole album... plus it has Trailer Trash. Ionno, it kind of seems like there are some issues that he dealt with when he lived in Minnesota was it? I forget where he lived out west with his mom... then she abandoned him and shit.
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Lonesome Crowded West
    We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

    I know that I'm in the minority, but I think the Moon & Antarctica is probably my 4th or 5th favorite MM album.
    NERDS!
  • NuclearTreeFrog
    NuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
    I don't dislike Moon and Antarctica but its one of my least favorite MM albums
    "The sun is shining, but not for me."
  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Is 'Good News For People Who Love Bad News' a bad album? I really dig it, but I haven't heard much else from Modest Mouse.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    I always felt that they were too inconsistant and not even album to albun like song to song, I like them but the new one is the only one I can listen to front to back without getting bored or just shutting it off

    i kinda feel the same. all of their albums seem to have some tracks that are just plain skippable or filler or sound exactly the same as the 2 around them. especially their early albums. i never could get into long drive... it has some amazing songs, but they were surrounded by two songs on either side that sounded identical and put my brain asleep. i think the problem i have with long drive and lonesome crowded is that they are both like 75 minutes long. if they pared them each down to normal album length... 50 minutes or so, they would be sheer genius. they release enough ep's and b-sides to do that. i think that's why the new album is my favorite. then it's kind of a toss up between moon and antartica and good news for me, depending on my mood. then lonesome crowded.

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