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Budget Prefuse posted:im going to marry isaac brock
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Feb 4, 2015 13:44
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starbarry clock posted:i only listened to lampshades on fire and it sounds like a modest mouse song whats the problem exactly with it
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Feb 4, 2015 14:19
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The more I think about it, the more depressing it is to me that the same band that put out Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon & Antarctica, Long Drive and Building Nothing Out Of Something is putting out boring poo poo that I don't feel connected to in any way now
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Feb 4, 2015 16:13
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Foppery posted:The wild guitar freakouts at the end of drat near every song were one of the best parts of Lonesome Crowded West era Modest Mouse. Trucker's Atlas is probably at least 5 minutes too long, but those other songs are goddamn classics.
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Feb 5, 2015 00:59
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This furthers my theory that Win Butler's terrible haircut is to disguise the fact that he is what Isaac Brock turns back into when he sobers up.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:01
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That's a joke. There is no explanation for Win Butler's haircut.
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Feb 5, 2015 01:03
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The Best Room is really starting to grow on me. Especially when Brock audibly says "westren.'
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Feb 5, 2015 15:41
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Really? The more I try to give it a chance, the more I never want to hear it again
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Feb 5, 2015 16:07
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I'm annoyed that the album is like 15 tracks again, because Modest Mouse always put about 4 too many songs on their albums.
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Feb 5, 2015 17:26
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Rageaholic Monkey talking poo poo about a pretty sunset.
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Feb 5, 2015 17:52
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rear end Catchcum posted:?? They have like four really solid albums. Dunno what that meant.
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Feb 5, 2015 20:30
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Earwicker posted:most of these bands were terrible from the beginning of their careers and all of them have released a lot of really bad music and even worse, have been widely influential and caused the birth of a large number of new bands who imitate them.
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Feb 6, 2015 18:59
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stay depressed posted:i don't know i mean i listened to the songs in the op and i have to say it feels like a return to form. i'm excited to read another chapter in the modest mouse story. i've been waiting for this for a while so i don't get what all the slap fighting is about.
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Feb 7, 2015 14:23
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Thank you for the song from the Harry Potter Puppet Pals man. I am glad to have been exposed to more of his creativity.
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Feb 8, 2015 13:10
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Maybe the Portal theme song guy can do The Stars Are Projectors next.
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Feb 8, 2015 13:11
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Shunkymonky posted:As someone who came in late and only bought "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" - Parting of the Sensory is legitimately one of my favourite songs of all time - let me just say how much I am enjoying the wierd dancey pop of Lampshades on Fire and The Ground Walks with Time in a Box and hope there is more sooooooo there.
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Mar 3, 2015 13:39
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Seriously? Flu Trapped in a Jar? Also I'm not fond of Little Motel, but Blame it on the Tetons is amazing.
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Mar 4, 2015 17:40
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Holy poo poo it's possible to not like Mechanical Birds?
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Mar 4, 2015 18:37
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Oxxidation posted:I love the opening two minutes! It's when the guitars start to sound like they're exploding that my head aches.
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Mar 4, 2015 18:42
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It's okay to not like certain kinds of music but my 60-year-old mother has seen Modest Mouse live twice without being damaged by their dangerous and powerful guitar sounds so you are literally sadder and weaker than an actual old lady.
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Mar 4, 2015 18:59
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disheveled posted:They stopped playing everything weirder than Doin' the Cockroach by the time Good News came out.
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Mar 4, 2015 21:30
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the great deceiver posted:Ya Fly Trapped in a Jar is one of my favorites on that album but saying one of the best might be a stretch.
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Mar 5, 2015 01:17
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Every Modest Mouse album except Moon and Antarctica has too many tracks.
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Mar 5, 2015 01:18
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Building Nothing Out Of Something doesn't Edit: Except that's not the closing track of Building Nothing Out Of Something! I would cut Other People's Lives, not Working on Leaving the Living. Or I might replace Working with Other People's Lives, I can't decide which I like more, but there shouldn't be anything after Positive/Negative. FactsAreUseless fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 01:26
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Still, one arguably inessential track is pretty good. Building Nothing Out of Something is great. I just wish their other albums were shorter. Lonesome Crowded West is really hurt by this, since it lags a ton in the middle with Out of Gas/Long Distance Drunk/poo poo Luck. And I love poo poo Luck, I just don't think it needs to be on the disc. Get rid of those tracks and suddenly the album has this insane uninterrupted run of some of their best songs: Doing the Cockroach, Cowboy Dan, Trailer Trash, Trucker's Atlas, Polar Opposites, Bankrupt on Selling, It's All Nice on Ice.
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Mar 5, 2015 01:43
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How are those two tracks essential? They're good songs, but when you think "Lonesome Crowded West" those do not first come to mind. They don't fit thematically with the rest of the album, there's no reason to break up Trailer Trash and Trucker's Atlas, and the album already has some straightforward short songs (Convenient Parking, Jesus Christ) so they're not needed for variety. Not every good track needs to be on an album.
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Mar 5, 2015 02:02
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That's legit, I'm mostly just weird about album lengths. Modest Mouse do a way better job justifying long albums than, say, Arcade Fire. Also I like Long Drive better than LCW so I may just be weird.
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Mar 7, 2015 13:03
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So did this leak or release early or something?
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Mar 7, 2015 23:34
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rear end Catchcum posted:No we are just using our imaginations
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Mar 7, 2015 23:57
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I should ask again though: where, specifically, are people listening to this?
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Mar 8, 2015 00:07
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LookingGodIntheEye posted:Has anyone ever tried to compile MM's backcatalog? Because it's huge and most of their best stuff is either on their EPs or backcatalog.
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Mar 9, 2015 11:12
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And it's really hard to avoid Horn Intro since it's only like 5 seconds long, but I've managed it!
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Mar 9, 2015 11:13
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If you pick up their albums, their three long EPs (Building, Everywhere, No One) you'd only be missing a couple worthwhile songs. Off the top of my head all I can think of is Karma Payment, but I know there's more.
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Mar 9, 2015 15:19
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Oxxidation posted:Karma Payment's on the Fruit That Ate Itself EP, which is just as big as the three you mentioned.
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Mar 9, 2015 20:17
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modestmusashi posted:Brock just needs to pull a Mark Kozelek and strip all this poo poo down and find that vulnerable core he was in touch with back when he was angsty and emotional. Styrofoam Boots, but an entire album.
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Mar 10, 2015 11:58
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Oxxidation posted:From like every music outlet on the planet but Pitchfork in particular: quote:The second album will be titled "Strangerer to Ourselves," sources close to Brock confirmed. No release date has been announced.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:48
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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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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Steam Engenius is loving dope.
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Mar 18, 2015 14:20
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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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