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Originally Posted by Crowquill
Modest Mouse>Citizen Kane
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The sound of Modest Mouse is essentially this. Take one formula, one format for a really really really really really really REALLY annoying song, and make it EVERY song.
All Modest Mouse songs have the same exact format. A military style drum beat, a two note bassline, a one/two chord guitar riff with an annoying Nursery rhyme melody and a tone like a cell phone, a mellotron that sounds like a beaten up Accordion made from junk and played by a 2 year old with cerebral palsy and of course the vocals, which can best be described as a Captain Beefheart robot that can sing only one note, and sings in the exact same key in every song, following the rhythm yet still sounding disgustingly off key and off time. And the robot always malfunctions, has a lisp, and comes off sounding like Daffy Duck doing a very poor Moose impersonation.
Add in some half assed, pretentious semi-nihilistic bullsh*t lyrics and ta da. Modest Mouse.