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Did punk rock get it right?

When did you get interested in Modest Mouse?

I liked them before I heard anything from "Good News..."
13
32%
I like them now that I've been introduced to them through "Good News..."
14
34%
I still don't like them.
5
12%
Modest WHAT???
9
22%
 
Total votes: 41

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Rusty
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Post by Rusty »

just download the entire album and burn it, if you're not sure

Queens Of The Stone Age-Someone's In The Wolf

Once you're lost in twillights's blue
You don't find your way, the way finds you...

Tempt the fates, beware the smile
It hides all the teeth, my dear,
What's behind them...

So glad you could stay
Forever

He steps between the trees, a crooked man
There's blood on the blade
Don't take his hand

You warm by the firelight, in twilight's blue
Shadows creep & dance the walls
He's creeping too..

So glad you could stay
Forever


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Post by Sufjan Stevens »

Umm. Download the album and give it a few listens.

Modest Mouse is a band that grows on you. Odds are, the two songs you don't like will end up being your favorite songs (unless one of them happens to be Dance Hall) in a few weeks.

But yeah, download it first. That's your safest bet.

And on top of that, if you're going to buy a Modest Mouse record, get The Moon & Anarctica or The Lonesome Crowded West. Why? I don't know, I just like them better.
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
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Post by Soozy »

I'm downloading the rest of the album now. I'm not sure if those old ones will be available over here - so I might be stuck with the new one for now if I do decide I like it.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Post by Reyna »

Sufjan Stevens wrote:I used to make fun of you for liking them, but that was mostly because I didn't like you that much.


I didn't like you that much either. But now I find you kinda humorous. :P
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Post by Bananababy »

I listened to them before their new CD. I haven't actually heard anything but Float On from their new one. I remember the days when I'd ask people, "Have you heard of Modest Mouse?" and they'd be like, "Huh??"
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Post by xoNoDoubt69 »

i really like float on. i should download the rest of the album.
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Post by Rusty »

i havn't heard anything

Queens Of The Stone Age-Someone's In The Wolf

Once you're lost in twillights's blue
You don't find your way, the way finds you...

Tempt the fates, beware the smile
It hides all the teeth, my dear,
What's behind them...

So glad you could stay
Forever

He steps between the trees, a crooked man
There's blood on the blade
Don't take his hand

You warm by the firelight, in twilight's blue
Shadows creep & dance the walls
He's creeping too..

So glad you could stay
Forever


Image <----------------- click and listen!
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Post by Soozy »

I bought the new album. And got tickets to see them in August at a show that was just announced today so yay :D
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Post by xoNoDoubt69 »

:D i downloaded the album but haven't listened to it yet.
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Post by SellYourSoul »

I did the big mistake of buying the album based on one song. I wish I had just gone on iTunes and bought 'Float On' and left it at that.
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Post by starseed_10 »

definitely not a mistake. give the cd a chance......
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Post by Sufjan Stevens »

Yeah, well hell froze over. Modest Mouse has officially sold over 1million copies of "Good News For People That Love Bad News."
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
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