Modest Mouse Band • Page 28

"Wicked Campaign" is the only song on that record I find boring, the rest is fun with some pretty classic MM guitar work and lyrical content

 

Yeah I really enjoy it but it’s their weakest.

 

please let there be a new record coming, pleeeeeeasssseee

 

Revisiting those one-off singles and "Poison the Well" is a banger

 

100% agree. I give it time and return and I'm like... This just isn't fun for me. I do love "The Best Room" though!

 

a record store leaked an August release

 

I see that this band is going to continue their run of having the worst album covers, eh?

 

Yup I'm amped lfg

 

Can’t speak for all albums but the cover for We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is one of my all time favorites of any band

 

fuck about a cover new songs & a headliner

 

I like all their album covers besides this one.

 

They have great artwork and this one isn't terrible either, feels like them

 

Definitely a handful of good songs! But for the most part, yeah, I can't say I enjoy it as a whole.

 

We here to fight about Pistol again? Pistol is good.

 

it's awful!

 

I honestly thought they would never release another album at this point

 

The live iteration from the last few years is pretty damn tight, so glad new stuff is on the way


I never found strangers as egregious as some make it out to be, the back catalogue more than makes up for the (very minor imo) misses on that album

 

I can't imagine not liking Strangers because it literally just sounds like a highlight reel of the two albums before it lol

Also "Pistol" rules because it's absolutely bonkers. I mean, what are we here for

 

Please stop asking, I will not be doing a countdown for this album.

Thank you.

 

"These Western concerns are all I ever really learned to be concerned with
But don't you, don't you know it's hard
Feeling tired every time that you try?
Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time?"

 

Love they way he sings that last line.

 

I actually don't mind Pistol, though Isaac's vocals are pretty rough in the first verse. I can fux with weird, but it really isn't all THAT weird. I'd like to hear them go full-on weird, like some Young Jesus / Mars Volta type shit.

TBH it's not so much that the songwriting is bad. I just lose interest very quickly while listening to that record.

 

Strangers also has their best single: Lampshades

hard to make self-aware, nihilistic criticisms of your own species so catchy.

 

I got very into MM over quarantine

they were the last band I saw too

that said I haven't been a huge fan of anything post-Good News so keeping my expectations low, but I really hope it's good

 

I do think Strangers is their weakest (though there are some great songs on it) but I never really understood the negativity towards We Were Dead.