I've been doing some first hand research, and I think I can safely say that:
OLD MOSEST MOUSE > NEWER MODEST MOUSE
Is this true?
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moses mouse?
LOL
i don't like modest mouse. i wont spoil this thread again. as you were.
moon & antartica is best
the last album was weak
you're probably right this time
This time?
Oh I see. You mean 'this time, again. how come wrighty is never wrong?'
haha
I agree, totally. Long Drive, Lonesome Crowded West, and Sad Sappy Sucker are the 3 best MM albums, the new one got old really quickly, and Moon is great but not quite as good as the first three I mentioned. You know your 'Mouse
no
Good News is fantastic, on a par with The Moon And Antarctica I would say. I haven't heard the older ones yet, I really should, I'm sure they're very good.
I disagree
I think the Good News.. is the best album they've done.
The older stuff, which I quite like a lot of, is a bit too proggy for my liking.
The most recent album has all the things I like about Modest Mouse, with all the boring bits taken out.
yes
I agree with the above. And since no-one knows me, I am the rightest of them all.
I've loved Modes Mouse
For about 4 years.
Good News is their best work.
As much as I
adore Good News, I can't help but detest the filler bollocks tracks. The one with the baby laughing, the horn ones... Dance Hall sounds superb until the singing comes in.
It seems to start superbly, then go a bit naff, then get better to the end.
Either Ocean Breathes Salty or The View are my favourites, but I constantly press the skip button all the way through.
i used to do that...
But then i realised how ace the tracks actually were...and stopped, aye.
ImageChange is right.
yeah! 'good news..' did a multitude of very, very good things when i first listened to it. it's incredible. i just haven't got that from 'the lonesome crowded west' yet. 'moon and antarctica' is all kinds of good too, though.
you
could be right there wrighty, then again, you seldom are.
LMAO.
Scathing.
well ive only heard
moon and antartica and good news but i think they are two of the best albums heard for a fair while. whats the early stuff like? surely its not better than float on or ocean breathes salty of paper thin walls.
they're more
polished these day, the earlier albums are a bit more shambolic and out-of-tune, but I think Isaac's gotten a bit more sour and nasty these days, which shows in the music. The earlier stuff's a bit more upbeat, and I'm always a fan of good tunes fighting to get through bad instrument-playing. Think early Pavement, it's quite similar.
I don't not love Good News, I do, it's one of my favourite albums, but I still listen to Moon and Antarctica and Lonesome Crowded West years after I got them, but I can't remember wanting to hear Good News for a long time.
Try and get hold of The Lonesome Crowded West if you like their later stuff, it's about £6.50 on Amazon Marketplace, the song Bankrupt On Selling is worth that alone.
I agree..
..wholehearted with ^kovacs. Good news is ok to a point. it starts very well, but then dies away a bit - blame it on the tetons, devil's workaday etc
I find Moon and Antarctica their most complete work and seems to make more sense as an album rather than a collection of songs they wrote at the same time (see GNFPWLBN). Lonesome Crowded is a close second, with only Shit Luck filling the album. Add Trailer Trash to Bankrupt on Selling and you've spent your £6.50 wisely.
Mind you, I think they are all a fiver now in FOPP :)
I've got Everywhere..., Building Nothing.. and This is a long drive on comp but not cd. None of them grabbed me as much as the other 3, but admittedly I havent listened to them nearly as much so I might well be wrong.
yes
although moon & antarctica is amazing, i prefer the older sound, GNFPWLBN was overproduced and lacked the grungier edge of their up-records sound
I have
The Moon & Antarctica and Good News and I find TM&A to be more complete, as someone above described it. GNFPWLBN was a bit up and down and at times a bit wierd.