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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Feb 13, 2006 15:54:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I own it but mostly as an afterthought. It's kinda cool to see how they've pregressed.
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Post by luke on Feb 13, 2006 16:01:02 GMT -5
I feel about the same way. Some great tunes, but more of a good study than a good listen.
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Post by luke on Feb 24, 2006 11:45:25 GMT -5
This is funny. Onion AV asks celebrities to put their iPods on shuffle and tell them what comes on, and the very first thing on Isaac Brock's iPod to pop up is Frank Black. www.avclub.com/content/node/45620/4Oh, and then he calls Belle and Sebastian a "one trick-fuckin'-pony", which is just great. |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Mar 29, 2006 4:33:01 GMT -5
Cheers luke - finally got around to reading that. The more I look into Brock's influences and favourite bands (there's a video interview on their official site where he talks about this subject too - worth watching just to see Brock play both roles) the more I wonder why MM produce music I enjoy so much.
I've started a completist thing now, just in terms of downloading. Bit of a forlorn hope, I know.
Here's good stuff I got last few days:
Whenever you see fit (with 764 Hero)
White Lies, Yellow Teeth - This is excellent
I've Got It All (Most)
Blame Yourself (Live at okc in 2002)
And on the flip side (not so good):
A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy (might be okay, but can't get a good bit rate download and it's hard to tell much at 32kbps)
Buttons to Push the Buttons
I also hereby note that, judging by the live bootlegs I've heard, they can sometimes sound fucking awful live. Unbelievably bad. And Isaac's stumbling stage 'banter' can be suspect. I'll still be going to see 'em when they tour the next album though, if they hit the UK.
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 29, 2006 7:39:22 GMT -5
i voted for 'building something out of nothing,' although 'the moon and antartica' comes in at a close second....
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Post by luke on Mar 29, 2006 9:04:55 GMT -5
They're definitely a live band who is either completely infallible, or completely awful, never too much inbetween.
I'll download some of those tunes. Got that new Built to Spill, anyway, it's kinda gotten me in the mood for this stuff.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Mar 29, 2006 15:02:41 GMT -5
Got that new Built to Spill, anyway, it's kinda gotten me in the mood for this stuff. I dunno much about Built To Spill, but that's got my interest. I have seen them listed before as contemporaries or 'followers' of Modest Mouse on those daft 'similar artists' or "If You Love This Then You'll Definitely Like: Kaiser Chiefs" (no I fucking won't) type of lists. Sisyphus - cool choice. I'm glad that album got a vote. Like Riley said, it definitely flows like a cohesive album. I don't know whether that's due to good track order, happy accident, or the fact that Isaac revisits the similar themes and images throughout his work, lending it a cohesion across the years. |
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Post by Rit on Mar 29, 2006 15:06:17 GMT -5
the track with 764 Hero is tops.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Mar 29, 2006 15:09:18 GMT -5
Yep. It's about 14 minutes long and about 2 chords. Yet it doesn't seem to drag at all.
Mind you, Movement is one of my favourite albums, and if there's more than two chords on the whole bloody thing I'd be amazed. Sometimes we don't need no fancy shit, eh?
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Post by Rit on Mar 29, 2006 15:10:16 GMT -5
Movement is minimal to an extreme.. even the vocals barely qualify as monotone.
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Post by Rit on Mar 29, 2006 15:11:26 GMT -5
another long song that Modest Mouse do that's great (and one of my top 5) is "Night on the Sun"
i love that tune. I once forced all my buddies to listen to it in rapturous silence. Of course, they dissented and probably thought i was turning gay... but damnit! that song is awesome.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Mar 29, 2006 15:52:01 GMT -5
I agree. We can like the song without being bum bandits, I reckon.
If we're talking long songs, I reckon it's hard to see past "Edit the Sad Parts" and "Trucker's Atlas".
I now have a settled top three, made of those two tracks and "Life Like Weeds"
"Life Like Weeds" is the perfect song. I fucking love the ending, after the whammied, distorted chords. Some proper musician like Skvor might know what's going on there, either side of Isaac singing "All this talking all the time 'til the air fills up, up, up until there's nothing left to breathe"
There's this really sick, sustained guitar sound droning through it that always gets me. It's amazingly complex just for an outro. Great stuff.
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Post by luke on Mar 29, 2006 16:17:10 GMT -5
Built to Spill are good. Not as good, and not as consistent, but they'll work over a MM fix. Check out the latest one.
Completely agreed on Life Like Weeds.
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Mar 29, 2006 17:16:07 GMT -5
Mr. Brock is doing an artificial that he is bending and sustaining with a whammy bar, with the help a couple of pedals probably. Yes, the end of that song is probably one of the most trascendant things I have ever had the pleasure to hear. It's probably my favorite song on that record, even though that record and the new record go back and forth over which one is my second least favorite. While I like the cuteness of some of it, I still just can't get into alot of "Sad, Sappy Sucker".
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Mar 29, 2006 17:17:55 GMT -5
Built To Spill has been somewhat of an influence on Issac Brock. When he was a kid growing up in Issiquah (suburb of Seattle) he was really into this band called Treepeolpe that had Doug Marsch playing guitar in the band. You could say that both of resulted in influences of mutual affection, but BTS has been around much longer. This had been an argument for a while, which is which, but really, that sound has been throughout the Northwest for awhile.
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