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- Posted: 11/13/2022 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#4347): We Were Dead Before The Ship Even
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Today's album of the day
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2007.
Country: 
Overall rank: 1,150
Average rating: 77/100 (from 463 votes).
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Tracks:
1. March Into The Sea
2. Dashboard
3. Fire It Up
4. Florida
5. Parting Of The Sensory
6. Missed The Boat
7. We've Got Everything
8. Fly Trapped In A Jar
9. Education
10. Little Motel
11. Steam Engenius
12. Spitting Venom
13. People As Places As People
14. Invisible
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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craola
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Location: pdx 
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- Posted: 11/14/2022 21:00
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this album felt like a bit of a decline for the band, but i've never been able to finger down why. that's not to say i don't love the album. on their own, the songs all have merit, but the album as a whole tires on me pretty quickly. perhaps the production is a little too stuffy?
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MadhattanJack
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- Posted: 11/15/2022 00:38
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| craola wrote: | | this album felt like a bit of a decline for the band, but i've never been able to finger down why. that's not to say i don't love the album. on their own, the songs all have merit, but the album as a whole tires on me pretty quickly. perhaps the production is a little too stuffy? |
The drum sound is definitely more pop-style than on previous MM records, especially the snare drum sound, but the real difference is Johnny Marr, isn't it? He's much more technically skilled and "intricate" than the previous guys (Dann Gallucci, John Wickhart, Ben Blankenship, etc.), but more to the point, he plays a Fender Jaguar about 90% of the time and you can definitely hear it. It's a more "surfy" sound with more definition on the high-end.
I doubt that my own background with MM's stuff is in any way typical, but I bought a copy of Lonesome Crowded West around the time it came out (people were comparing them to XTC for some reason) and I thought it was "just okay," and I didn't buy anything else of theirs until this album came out. I picked this one up mostly because Johnny Marr was on it, so this is probably the album of theirs that I've listened to the most (i.e., more than twice). That's probably why I don't really mind the difference in the sound, along with the fact that I also like Fender Jaguars. I could probably say this is my favorite MM album, but that's not really saying much, I guess! 
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