My friend went to see them and *gasp* he talked with isaac.

just thought id say ive seen them too btw to join the bandwagon.....pretty ok, woz like 3 yrs ago so cnt remember much

My favourite song of theirs would probably be either 3rd Planet or Styrofoam Boots.

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Isaac Brock is god.

There isn't a song on any one of their albums that I couldn't personally relate to during my high school years.

About the selling out thing, I'm pretty sure that the only hypocrisy is coming from people who called them sell-outs. If there was a quote from Eric Judy from 1996 wherein he said "Modest Mouse doesn't believe in selling music for profit," then the story would be different, but I hate it when people rag a band for getting known. I didn't hear "Gravity Rides On Everything" (off of Moon And Antarctica) on the commercial until AFTER Good News came out.

It's true they wouldn't be nearly as popular in the mainstream without MTV playing "Float On" every 10 seconds last summer, but that isn't the band's fault. They made the music they wanted to, then MTV decided it'd be very hip of them to "break" M.M. through to the general public. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to be poor. Sure it's nice to play small clubs for 10 years, and have about 30 people know who you are, but it's even nicer to be able to live in comfort and still make music that doesn't suck. Also, it gives everyone who listened to Modest Mouse before Good News the right to say they did, and who doesn't enjoy doing that? ;)

And if you actually get your music in a TV commercial, you can get a chance to expose thousands of Top-40 zombies to some actual good music. If I still haven't convinced you that there's nothing wrong with bands leasing their music for commercial purposes, consider the fact that "New Slang" by The Shins has a line about "the dirt in your fries," and it was featured in a McDonald's commercial.

Takin' the man down from the inside...

Everybody needs to coooooooooooooooooooool down! Music is music. Listen to it. It's good. And as for Modest Mouse, they're even better then music itself. "The World At Large", "Blame It On The Tetons", "3rd Planet", "One Chance", "Bankrupt On Selling", "A Different City" and "Dramamine" are my favorite of their tunes.

i like 'paper thin walls', but i'm not mad about the rest of their stuff to be honest

Christ - I'm SO TIRED of indie elitism... if a band makes it to the charts or is on the wrong label then they 'suck' or are 'sellouts'. You really need to get a grip if that's the way you think as it DOESN'T MATTER! If the music is good, it's good!

Besides the fact that many small/insiginifact bands are being signed by major labels now right out of the gate.

Anyways - Modest Mouse are very good. I lived in Seattle and from ~90-2001 and for some reason I never got into them. Had plenty of friends that liked them but for some reason I never check them out. I wish I had of course now! First album I bought of theirs was Good News for People Who Love Bad News and it's fantastic. Have all their albums now, but still prefer Good News for People Who Love Bad News. Float On is one of the best singles of the last 5 years.

thers some bands where no matter what lable their with, theyre still rad. modest mouse is definetrly one of them. you cant get more original and awesome than then.

moudest mouse are all right...not great