FadedMyxomatosis

I enjoy alot of Modest Mouse, but lately they have become way too folky. I personally enjoy King Rat alot, along with a few songs from other albums. I'm by no means a dedicated fan, albeit I do love Indie music- they are too much of a mess of sounds right now to keep my attention.

TheBig3

so what do you like about indie?

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FadedMyxomatosis

What I meant was, they are so folky sounding on too many tracks,

loveissucide

Folky is very much an exaggeration,the effect gone for is Waitsian

And if you love indie music,you've surely grown to appreciate the folky stuff considering how heavily many indie musicians are influenced by folk and country.

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PhantomandaFly

they're okay, but I think overrated.

HeartsMadeOfStrings

Their old stuff is certainly not overrated - it is genius created from emotional and environmental depression (both lyrically and musically), as well as the band flat out knowing how to come up with incredible jams using simple chords and rhythms.

Working on getting everything from "This Is a long Drive.. " up to "The Moon and Antarctica" (this includes Sad Sappy Sucker too, ignoring its delayed release date) on hard copy (it's all on my iTunes already). Most of my favorite lyrics of all time come from MM, and deservedly so.. Brock really puts meaning behind the phrase "beauty through simplicity".

Everything they did pre-2001 is amazing in my eyes, although I also like Ugly Casanova a lot. There are a couple of tracks I like off "Good News.. " and "We Were Dead.. ", but nothing in comparison to the likes of any of their old material.

Err, yeah!

million dollar basher

I agree that their early material was great in that it showed an unbelievable amount of promise, especially from Brock. But I think that "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" was the summation of all that potential. The production value of the album was superior to anything they'd ever churned out, yet the integrity of the tracks themselves weren't compromised in the slightest. The content retained Brock's trademark brand of cynical misanthropic mean-heartedness, but the songs offered a maturity that the earlier albums lacked. Beyond that, the album feels like every solitary member of MM was acting with a collective goal in mind, whereas in previous albums ("This is a Long Drive" and "Everywhere and His Nasty.." and especially "The Moon and Antarctica") the vast majority of the emphasis rested on experimenting with sonic ideas.

That being said, some of the early albums are personal favorites of mine, especially when I feel like taking an emotional journey back to my high school days (haha) but I feel that "Good News" was their strongest album to date.

Violent & Funky

I couldn't have stated it any more perfectly myself. Thank you for that...

virdrag

I think We Were Dead is definitely an underrated album. I actually personally find it to be a bit more of a consistant album than Good News was (Still am unsure on whether I like it better though.) Both Parting of the Sensory and Spitting Venom have got to be among my favorite Modest Mouse songs!

And yes, I love Modest Mouse. ^.^

Erucolindo

I love some Modest Mouse. I have 4 of their albums and they're all great. My favorite has to be The Moon and Antartica. Its different from the regular Modest Mouse sound, but I love it.

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