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

This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About by Modest Mouse
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-04-16
Overall rank: 1,060th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 451 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (21st)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (200th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,060th)

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Modest Mouse bestography

This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About is ranked 4th best out of 17 albums by Modest Mouse on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Modest Mouse is The Moon & Antarctica which is ranked number 164 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,566.

Modest Mouse album bestography « Higher ranked (398th)
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
This album (1,060th)
This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
Lower ranked (1,161st) »
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 1,060th | 1990s rank: 200th | 1996 rank: 21st

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 451 votes)
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05/27/2026 10:31 LedZep  Ratings distribution  5,04379/100
 
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04/27/2026 02:30 imacgill  Ratings distribution  2,75779/100
 
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04/17/2026 23:09 Simon_bramhall  Ratings distribution  1,39277/100
 
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04/01/2026 20:01 BorderFreeAndrew  Ratings distribution  15,41274/100
 
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01/24/2026 03:15 lanadeleswift  Ratings distribution  3,69386/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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85/100
From 05/23/2023 06:56 | #297178
Haven't listened to this since high school, but never rated or commented on it until revisiting it this evening.

It's long, all right. But basically every track is exceptional, if prone to long-windedness. They get the balance down by the next two albums.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 06/23/2021 23:52 | #270972
I went into this album thinking I would love it based on my endless enthusiasm for their following three albums. Nothing bad, but this feels like The Lonesome Crowded West's disappointing older brother. Maybe if I listen to this album a bunch I'll get into it more.
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Rating:  
45/100
From 02/11/2020 19:22 | #247690
Although I really like Modest Mouse, I do not really get this album. It starts however really great, but after that, I believe apart from a few songs there is nothing really standing out. Also, I think this album has way too many songs that are too long. That makes me losing interest in the album.
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Rating:  
95/100
From 01/24/2019 23:02 | #230456
i don't feel at all like i fall
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Rating:  
70/100
From 11/27/2017 21:35 | #202189
Dramamine and Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset are two incredible songs, two of the best in the great Modest Mouse catalog. The rest are pretty bad. I'd hoped it would grow on me—their next three albums are three of my favorites—but after two years, I still don't enjoy most of it. There are bits of brilliance sprinkled throughout, like the first 90 seconds of Beach Side Property, but overall I guess it's just not for me.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 03/05/2017 18:33 | #186897
Favorite Tracks: Custom Concern, Dramamine & Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
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From 11/23/2015 18:33 | #153355
My favorite Modest Mouse album
Best song: Custom Concern, Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds, Ohio
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Rating:  
95/100
From 09/04/2015 23:35 | #149270
Nice debut album of Modest Mouse, they really brought some weird, twangy, sounds in this album. Although it think that sounds was taken to another level with Lonesome Crowded West, this is still a good debut album from one of the most beloved indie rock bands of all time.
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From 07/07/2015 01:39 | #145254
Very good album!

Favorite tracks: Dramamine, Might, Lounge, Dog Paddle, Ohio, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset, Space Travel Is Boring

A-
7.5
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From 01/12/2014 05:55 | #100471
GREAT album!
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