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Boywhiz88 posted:Anyway, what's the consensus? Better than Good News.... or When The Ship....?
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Boywhiz88 posted:Hahahaha. No loving way? I'm sorry but that sounds like something Trent Reznor would have called the remix album of Strangers to Ourselves. He's kidding, no details of the hypothetical second album have been released yet. I'd put this one on about the same level as Good News. We Were Dead is my favorite album of theirs so my perspective is skewed anyway.
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Mar 17, 2015 15:41
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It's my least favorite MM album, but I've also really warmed up to We Were Dead in the last few years - which I thought was a pretty bad album when it first came out. I truly hate "Pistol." Hey, I appreciate the effort in trying something new, but please don't ever try THAT again.
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Mar 17, 2015 20:19
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This is actually a pretty solid album.
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Mar 17, 2015 21:48
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Mt. Modular posted:I truly hate "Pistol." Hey, I appreciate the effort in trying something new, but please don't ever try THAT again.
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Mar 17, 2015 22:44
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On my second spin. I'm that loser who likes everything MM puts out (when I first discovered them as a preteen I went straight from Long Drive to Good News without issue) and I'm a big fan of the record. Even caught myself bobbing my head to Pistol just now. It's easily the worst song on the record but it's still surprisingly listenable, like a mediocre cover/pastiche of Nine Inch Nails. The record as a whole flows really well, and all of the released singles lock together in a cohesive manner with the other songs.
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Mar 18, 2015 01:36
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The start of Pistol is so bad, but the jamming at the end is petty decent. It's always a question of whether or not I want to sit through the poo poo in order to get to that riff. Usually I don't. The album has grown on me a little, mostly i've just developed a tolerance for the more overwhelmingly bad moments of over-production which has allowed me to enjoy the melodies/lyrics more. There is an interesting album here, but boy if you don't have to dig though a lot of mess to get to it. Also, repeating the word 'know' in slightly different contexts isn't much of an album concept. I definitely preferred the boat trip as a motif.
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Mar 18, 2015 02:07
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They played Lampshades On Fire on Fallon tonight. They've got a female keyboardist/vocalist and Isaac was wearing a collard shirt and had his hair slicked back, so that was kind of weird to see. Also they did this little mini jam part at the end of the song that's not on the studio version that sounded very out of tune.
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Mar 18, 2015 05:12
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Pistol sounds exactly like a Ween song. gently caress yeah.
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Mar 18, 2015 05:31
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This will be an interesting album to hear live...I imagine; MM never tour Australia. There is a lot of energy in the new tracks and maybe the bombast will play better in person. The fact that they will have to strip them all back a bit can only help too.
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Mar 18, 2015 07:12
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Album is better than I expected. I like pistol more than the rest, whatever that means.
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Mar 18, 2015 07:21
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I haven't heard Pistol yet. Is it more or less annoying than Steam Engenius?
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Mar 18, 2015 10:43
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It makes Steam Engenius sound like Mozart.
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Mar 18, 2015 13:19
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FactsAreUseless posted:I haven't heard Pistol yet. Is it more or less annoying than Steam Engenius?
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Mar 18, 2015 13:56
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Steam Engenius is loving dope.
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Mar 18, 2015 14:20
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Pistol is Modest Mouse: Miami and pretty funny.
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Mar 18, 2015 20:40
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It's definately a joke song, them looking at trends in the music scene and aping them farcically. Every move that it makes is towards the dumbest, grossest sound possible. You don't accidentally make that many wrong choices.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:32
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How are MM live? I've seen them on Austin City Limits and have heard a bootleg and both sounded like poo poo, but I've got friends who've seen them and they say thay were fantastic. Maybe they're extremely uneven?
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Mar 21, 2015 12:25
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Happy Hippo posted:How are MM live? I've seen them on Austin City Limits and have heard a bootleg and both sounded like poo poo, but I've got friends who've seen them and they say thay were fantastic. Maybe they're extremely uneven? They used to have a reputation for being really awful live. I saw them in 2009 and 2011 or 2012.
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Mar 21, 2015 12:37
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Happy Hippo posted:How are MM live? I've seen them on Austin City Limits and have heard a bootleg and both sounded like poo poo, but I've got friends who've seen them and they say thay were fantastic. Maybe they're extremely uneven? If you have the chance to see them live you should do it. I've seen them in 2004, 2007 and 2009 in fairly large venues and they did not disappoint. Isaac Brock is a charismatic front man and fun to watch. There's also a ton of stuff going on behind him, two drummers, keyboards, guitars, horns, turntables and more! With so much going on and the heavy percussion I can see how bootlegs wouldn't sound great, but, in person they sound fantastic. Also, they don't just play songs unaltered from their albums. They do interesting things like mix songs up by placing lyrics or melodies from one song into another and include long solos which feel fresh and fun instead of tired. All in all, they're super fantastic live. My only complaint is that so much happens during a show that I can't remember half of what happened when it's over.
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Mar 21, 2015 18:28
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They were pretty average the one time I saw them and they didn't play any of my favourite songs. 
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Mar 21, 2015 19:42
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I quite like Pistol and I'm pretty definite that it comes out of them working with Big Boi (though apparently the five tracks they actually did with him got binned for sounding too clean, haha) it's got that super-busy, almost too much going on at once sound. I like the album quite a bit so far, the tracks are a little more individually interesting than I found a lot of what was on We Were Dead.
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Mar 22, 2015 12:16
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The rest of Sugar Boats is good in proportion to how much the first few seconds before the vocals suck.
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Mar 24, 2015 20:52
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Overall it reminds me a lot of Alec Ounsworth's solo album Mo Beauty, especially Wicked Campaign (which really should get mentioned more because it's excellent).
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Mar 24, 2015 20:56
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not a terrible album in the scheme of things, but definitely worse than WWD and Good News, which have if anything only grown on me over the past few years. just feels a little too dirge-like on the whole -- slow and uneventful. the livelier moments are decent, but just made me want to re-listen to the better livelier moments from WWD (dashboard is a fuckin choice song btw, and the first 1/3rd of WWD is overall just amazingly well done)
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Mar 25, 2015 04:29
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Tonight they played Be Brave on the new Late Late Show. That was a pretty interesting song choice, and it came out sounding way cooler than, say, Lampshades on Fire from Fallon a few nights ago.
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Mar 25, 2015 06:16
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Happy Hippo posted:How are MM live? I've seen them on Austin City Limits and have heard a bootleg and both sounded like poo poo, but I've got friends who've seen them and they say thay were fantastic. Maybe they're extremely uneven? I've seen them live like 7 times over the past 10 years. They are usually good but can be very variable. Issac used to get completely poo poo rocked before shows, gently caress up lines, and gently caress up songs mid-way requiring restarts, but that kind of poo poo doesn't happen anymore. Saw them last year and they loving sucked. They were also playing in a po dunk poo poo town which seems to have a lot to do with how much they give a poo poo. If they play in San Fran., LA, etc. It will be a good show. If its some shithole with shithead crowds like Fresno, Bakersfield, Reno, etc. then they do the bare minimum and get the gently caress out.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Tonight they played Be Brave on the new Late Late Show. That was a pretty interesting song choice, and it came out sounding way cooler than, say, Lampshades on Fire from Fallon a few nights ago.
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Avalanche posted:I've seen them live like 7 times over the past 10 years. They are usually good but can be very variable. Issac used to get completely poo poo rocked before shows, gently caress up lines, and gently caress up songs mid-way requiring restarts, but that kind of poo poo doesn't happen anymore.
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Sugar Boats is my favorite track by far, and this fan-made lyric video is one of the best I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxnO8SXQmpo It's an old Fleischer cartoon called Bimbo's Initiation, but the way it synced up with the song with only minimal editing is impressive. Anyway, the album is a bit of a disappointment considering the extremely long wait but there are a few standouts. SweetMercifulCrap! fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:Sugar Boats is my favorite track by far, and this fan-made lyric video is one of the best I've ever seen: That video's pretty good, and also reminds me how hosed up cartoons of that time could be. "Torture, torture, torture, torture, torture, torture, DANCING"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjR_3owWUY4
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Album is decent, put me in the undecided group for pistol, but the rest of the album is pretty solid. They played here last year, and I thought it was a really good show. They're playing again in Brooklyn this year so it'll be interesting to hear the new stuff too, last year they played stuff from a lot of their albums.
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Apr 18, 2015 18:00
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I'm sorry, I only listen to Modest Mouse albums if there's a song named Lounge in them.
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Nanomashoes posted:I'm sorry, I only listen to Modest Mouse albums if there's a song named Lounge in them.
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Apr 24, 2015 12:32
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FactsAreUseless posted:That's funny, I only listen to lounge music covers of Modest Mouse songs.
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Apr 24, 2015 14:14
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FactsAreUseless posted:That's funny, I only listen to lounge music covers of Modest Mouse songs. Please, link me some Modest Muzak.
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Nanomashoes posted:I'm sorry, I only listen to Modest Mouse albums if there's a song named Lounge in them.  The Best Room
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Apr 25, 2015 02:23
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Pistol has become my third favorite track behind Sugar Boats and Lampshades on Fire.
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I honestly do like this album the more I hear it, but man, I still do not like Pistol.
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