Anyone else excited about the new Modest Mouse record??

i enjoy me some modest mouse, "tiny cities made of ashes" is one of my fave songs. they played modest mouse on 102.9 today amazingly enough.

heard it

(Edited by stopforme at 5:36 pm on Mar. 30, 2004)

be excited. it's damn good - and i never liked their other albums.

Yeah, I listened to clips on the iTunes store of their old stuff, and didn't really like it. Their Carson Daly Show performance ("Bury Me With It") was fantastic, though, and "Float On" is great. Seems like a promising record.

modest mouse never excited me. nor has any mouse.

Hellllll no. But it's ok that you are.

i bought the new Modest Mouse on vinyl and it sounds fantastic !!!For any vinyl fans out there ......pick it up!!!

i had my modest mouse phase. every good little indie rocker does. i still enjoy some of their music, but my modest mouse albums got shelved with a number of their cohorts when i realized the following about indie rock:

1. i'm a happy individual, and the "sad-bastard" complaining and pining and oh she left me, oh he hurt me, oh life is meaningless combined with a clever metaphor lost its zeal.

2. boys at indie rock shows are, more often than not, not hotties by my view of what consitutes a hottie. it was skinny, glasses, thrift store pants after lanky, desheveled head, grandpa sweater. i realized that i like a boy with some meat, a boy with fire in the belly - readily available to kick some ass if necessary, a boy who would not blow over if the wind kicked up. examples famous hotties: jack black and that red-headed guy from dazed and confused and good will hunting.

I never liked Modest Mouse. I did like Mighty Mouse, though.

snacksmilesback, so you don't like modest mouse's music because you don't find them attractive?

I have to say, Life like Weeds and Never Ending Math Equation are some of my favourite tracks ever and it has nothing to do with what they look like.

(Edited by deathscythe257 at 1:51 pm on Apr. 3, 2004)

no not the band members...the boys in the audience! that's how i pick my bands, by the attractiveness of their fanbase.

that was just a joke. i do still like modest mouse. i enjoyed neverending math equation as well. in general though, i have shifted from my indie rock allegiances. and while my comments on why i do or do not like a band based on the hotties present was in jest, my statements on what constitues a hottie are still legit.

Hmmm...I think that the profusion of those indie rock boys were one of the only things that held my interest about Modest Mouse. You can take those "ass-kicking" men all for yourself & enjoy them : ) Strangely, one of the things that made me walk out of the last MM show I went to was an increasingly loud and annoying group of macho & buff men that turned the show into some kind of testosterone fest- MM's reaction to it was likewise testosterone-y & it turned me off of them completely. So, I think your boys won out in the end.

I love the new record, and it is thus far my fav of the new year. But I'm really looking forward to the Modest Mouse On Mars Volta record...

Will

buy it on vinyl .....i said it before...but go it's good.180 grams baby!

I've had the new cd for a few days and I absolutely love it! Very loud and interesting.

I've been listening to it a lot tonight. I dig it.