Tracks:
1. Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
2. Heart Cooks Brain
3. Convenient Parking
4. Lounge (Closing Time)
5. Jesus Christ Was An Only Child
6. Doin' The Cockroach
7. Cowboy Dan
8. Trailer Trash
9. Out Of Gas
10. Long Distance Drunk
11. Shit Luck
12. Truckers Atlas
13. Polar Opposites
14. Bankrupt On Selling
15. Styrofoam Boots / It's All Nice On Ice, Alright
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Best Modest Mouse, not nearly as high on it these days, but in my younger days after getting a job as a guitar parts runner from LA to Santa Cruz and back I used to put this album on and Beulah's When Your Heartstrings Break at least once during every trip (and a ton of other records mind you, 12 hour round trips are rough but these two were traditions). Most of this album has definitely aged well though I probably wouldn't be as high on stuff like Trucker's Atlas which second half is a bore only jolted by that moment where the engineer fucked up the tape on accident. Shit Luck feels laughable after half a decade invested in my city's hardcore scene since. But Styrofoam boots and Trailer Trash man. Where it's at.
Most of this album has definitely aged well though I probably wouldn't be as high on stuff like Trucker's Atlas which second half is a bore only jolted by that moment where the engineer fucked up the tape on accident. Shit Luck feels laughable after half a decade invested in my city's hardcore scene since.
Haha I always wait for that part in Trucker's Atlas when I listen to it. I also came up with a theory that the song is overly long so it resembles a long boring drive from Alaska to Florida but that seems unlikely.
And yeah even though his has been in my top 5 albums for like 9 years I've always thought Shit Luck was extremely weak. Favorite track is Doin the Cockroach but lately I've been most fascinated with Lounge (Closing Time). Brock's songwriting (in the non-lyrical, structure based sense) was very strong around this period and I really like the flow of that song through all it's different parts. _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
The whole album is simply a pile of madness and I love it!
Even though it fell out of my favorite 100, my enjoyment hasn't fallen when I listen, as hasn't its hilarious unpredictability. _________________ My Top 100 :
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Man, weird i've been listening/been obsessed with this record for the last week, and actually concluded it might be my favourite album of all time. As a matter of fact, earlier this very same day i was re-watching the Pitchfork documentary about it.
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Been trying to review it on my chart for the longest time but, it's hard to describe how insane, thoughtful and relatable this is, and even to this day i would say it's still relevant as fuck, or at least i think it is, maybe because i grew up in a small town where there was nothing but local dudes and small stores, and now everything is moving so fast i don't even know how to feel about it, and the fact that i feel very disconnected with my surroundings and the people around me, doesn't help at all. Anyway, i'll just say this; love this record, love every single song and i think Convenient Parking tends to be pretty overlooked, one of my absolute favs. OHHHH also, i felt like an idiot because i just discovered Sun Kil Moon covered a lot of MM songs on their record "Tiny Cities" the album itself might not be as cool as it sounds, but i love that there's a lot of admiration, and i just love that.
Even though it fell out of my favorite 100, my enjoyment hasn't fallen when I listen, as hasn't its hilarious unpredictability.
Agree. Even if i know what comes next, im always amazed by it's rawness, catchiness and how dynamic it all feels together, Doin' The Cockroach comes to mind; "One year, twenty years, forty years, fifty years down the road in your life, you'll look at the mirror and say "My parents are still alive!"". And every time i think i'm talking listen to it, i find new stuff, which makes it even more interesting.
agree with a lot of the comments here. i perhaps don't listen to modest mouse as much as i did when i was younger, but isaac and co. are very dear to me.
in defense of shit luck, which really is a dumb track, it was ridiculously popular amongst the skater crowd when this album came out and was frequently used at sporting events.
personally, i'm all about the run from doin' the cockroach (greatest modest mouse ever) through trailer trash, as well as the final two tracks. they're all relatively easy songs to play if you're trying to get into guitar, and doin' the cockroach is particularly fun, which of course it would be.
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