Modest Mouse Band • Page 11

The only problem with Strangers is that it didn't match the impossible hype it set for most people for a band who hadn't released an album in eight years. Most people had sky-high expectations because of the long layoff in between albums.

Notice I say 'most' because I think the album is still pretty good. Not top-tier Modest Mouse, but a very, very fine album.

 

Coyotes is still one of my favorite MM songs

 

"The Ground Walks" is their best song since Good News

 

There are so many strong tracks on STO: Lampshades, Shit in Your Cut, Ansel, Ground Walks, Coyotes, Sugar Boats, God is an Indian, The Best Room.

I pretty much like every song on the album. Never skip anything.

 

I reeeeeally like STO but I also didn't wait 8 years for it so I have a different view

 

Pups to Dust is my fav on strangers

 

Not to mention "The Tortoise and the Tourist." (I also love "Pistol," haha.) Really the only song I don't care for on STO is "Wicked Campaign." I like the album more than I like We Were Dead, fwiw.

 

I still think "Pistol" is a wild failure lol

I like We Were Dead more but it is a really good record

 

I agree with this. I like Strangers, but it's easily my least favorite of theirs.

 

The guitarwork on We Were Dead is amazing. Not the biggest fan of Strangers but I admittedly only listened to it maybe 3 times

 

I love Strangers, I think it holds up just fine to their other work, my only disappointment is the song "Poison The Well" they were playing live isn't on it!

 

my man

 

Spending a lot of time with their discography lately.

 

Me too, though mostly up to Moon. Truckers Atlas is kind of crazy in that it made me love the sprawl so much

 

I really gotta give Strangers some more time one of these days.

 

I'm very reluctant to do that

 

Strangers is a good album

 

Strangers is good but Science Fiction is the better 8 year wait album

 

it's very very very hard for me to forget how vehemently i hated whatever single i heard from the album but like i know if i just give it a real real try i will get past it and at least appreciate it

 

Coyotes is one of my favorite MM songs

 

Pistol is the only real dud on the album. The rest of it is good, but I can see how people think it pales in comparison to their previous work.

 

Pistol is so bad hahah. I do like that album a lot though

 

was pistol a single?

 

Still very into Pistol lol. I think a lot of that album is acceptable but boring, but at least that song is trying.

 

the singles were lampshades, coyotes, the ground walks, and of course