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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 11, 2006 13:17:18 GMT -5
Btw, although it doesn't belong in my last post, Ugly Casanova's Sharpen Your Teeth is a great little album...
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 11, 2006 13:20:50 GMT -5
Finally, before this thread is put to bed until the new album comes out... how about best MM song?
Real tough to choose just one, so I'll list my favourite off each of the main long-players:
Exit Does Not Exist
Trucker's Atlas
Neverending Math Equation
Life Like Weeds
The View
Damn, that was tough.
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Post by luke on Feb 11, 2006 16:42:30 GMT -5
Trucker's Atlas
Break Through
Life Like Weeds
Doin' the Cockroach
Cowboy Dan
Not very clear headed right now...but something like that.
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Post by Rit on Feb 11, 2006 17:30:26 GMT -5
Exit Does Not Exist
Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Night On The Sun
Ocean Breathes Salty
Edit The Sad Parts
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Post by riley on Feb 12, 2006 6:32:53 GMT -5
Breakthrough
Polar Opposites
All Nite Diner
Dark Center Of The Universe
It Always Rains On A Picnic
Ocean Breathes Salty
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Post by riley on Feb 12, 2006 6:34:14 GMT -5
The Waydown, from The Fruit That Ate Itself and "You're The Good Things" from Everywhere & His Parlor Tricks should probably be in there too, even if on eps.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Feb 12, 2006 7:09:01 GMT -5
We disagree... put up the bunting!!! I think "All Nite Diner" is their worst song, bar none.
If I was going to add to my original list with a song each from Sucker, Fruit, Interstate 8 and Parlour Tricks then I'd add
It Always Rains On A Picnic
Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat
Edit the Sad Parts
Wilful Suspension of Disbelief
But none of those would make an actual top ten.
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Post by luke on Feb 13, 2006 11:31:02 GMT -5
I disagree with you all, and say that "Ocean Breathes Salty" may be their worst. The biggest pile of emo pussy bullshit they've ever released, IMO, and it embarrasses me to be a long-time Mouse fan and then have people label them sissy music after hearing that crap on the radio. As bad as that track of babies crying.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 13, 2006 11:36:24 GMT -5
What's that song about "We'll All Float On Alright" -? Always reminds me of Stephen King's Pennywise the Clown, from IT. Kinda creepy
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 13, 2006 11:36:48 GMT -5
By the way: that "Float On" song is awesome, imo
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Post by Rit on Feb 13, 2006 11:38:30 GMT -5
o rly?
emo pussy bullshit? it's one of their best crossover riffs, that "you get away from me" part is was pure gold.
it's fluid and stuff... moves from verse to bridge to chorus so seamlessly, i think it's pop genius. teh Pixies Built To Spill wish they could write a song like "Ocean Breathes Salty"
yeah, i can see that someone who doesn't know Modest Mouse might label them non-gods based on that one track, but we're not that snobby are we?
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Post by luke on Feb 13, 2006 11:43:22 GMT -5
Hell yeah we are. When it comes to the Mouse, at least.
The song is just gay. You can as fluid and stiff as you want, but when you're being gay, it just doesn't matter.
It's one thing if you're a band who's supposed to be being gay, like Belle and Sebastian or something. But when you're a band that's been known to kick a fair amount of ass with some pop genius thrown in, then no, it's not okay to cut some sissy sounding garbage like that. It's a terrible song.
Built to Spill, IMO, was always more of a (really good) pop band, whereas Modest Mouse is something entirely more epic.
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Post by luke on Feb 13, 2006 11:46:27 GMT -5
Although, if it were released as a single like Ocean Breathes Salty, there'd be no question that "Blame it on the Tetons" is the worst MM song.
Which is why you gotta thank the Lord for songs like "Bukowski", "Dance Hall", and "Float On", or you'd think the boys had lost their touch.
I'm hoping Brock has ditched the anti-depressants for the next album. Maybe Marr will bring over some left over Smiths anguish from back in the day with him.
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Post by Rit on Feb 13, 2006 11:46:43 GMT -5
Built to Spill were the ones trying to be epic, and failing, while Modest Mouse aimed to be more direct... its just that Issac has an existentialist streak so wide it moves through everything he does, and elevates even the band's throwaway stuff to at least a wide-eyed level.
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Post by Rit on Feb 13, 2006 11:50:58 GMT -5
How's Issac being gay with that song anyway?
It was their crossover album, it worked, the bastards made more money and more fame through that one album than their entire backlog put together, so now Brock gets to kick back and enjoy travelling from gig to gig in somehting other than a 1970s van.
the dude's deserved it. He can write out and out emo-pop like "Ocean Breathes Salty", and he can write songs that will give you the creeps, like "Exit Does Not Exist".
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