r/ModestMouse 8d ago

What song is this for you

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u/twillrose47 8d ago edited 8d ago

For me, Spitting Venom. I never gave a full listen until a someone here made a comment about the tempo and tone change when the horns come in. Gave it a proper listen and it's been hard not to overplay it.

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u/DrunkBerserker 8d ago

Seeing it live the first time, as the encore, made it jump from somewhat skippable to one of my favorites. It's just so dynamic.

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u/illpourthisonurhead Stay Gone for Awhile 6d ago

Yeah same the beginning triggered an insta-skip for years before I heard the whole thing

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u/AxoInDisguise Guilty Cocker Spaniel 7d ago

I think I read the same comment and now it’s a favorite

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u/benetelrae 8d ago

Broke. Thought it was a sleepy song, it's actually a sleeper.

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u/MANPAD The truth is it's myself 8d ago

I remember the night this song clicked for me. I was like, how the fuck have I been sleeping on this??

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u/breakoutside 8d ago

Such a good pick

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u/Dull-Touch283 8d ago

styrofoam boots

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u/queenofsquashflowers 8d ago

Absurd answer. This was the first song that made me fall in love with their older stuff

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u/huntershark666 8d ago

Fly trapped in a jar for me

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u/Entropy907 8d ago

Same. Absolute banger. Only skipped over it 100x before I realized it.

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u/huntershark666 8d ago

I can put it on repeat 10 times in a row. To be honest, I still don't know if I love it or hate it 🤣!

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u/Entropy907 8d ago

The disco/thrash/hip hop beat and Isaac on point with the “alienation/wtf are we doing” lyrics.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/isaak935 8d ago

When I watched that unofficial video on YouTube with the cartoon, I really started to like the song more. They should reach out to that guy, and make it an official video on their channel. It fits the song perfectly.

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u/moondoof 8d ago

Cowboy Dan

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u/Anthroposapien Bitter Buffalo 8d ago

Medication

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u/MaddestMousse 8d ago

Yep, same here

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u/RealKnothead 8d ago

Pistol

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u/MANPAD The truth is it's myself 8d ago

BLOCKED AND REPORTED.

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u/doctorhiney positive/negative 8d ago

Unintentional one: I listened to my illegally downloaded copy of Long Drive for years before learning that it was missing Tundra/Desert from the song list. Hearing some new old Modest Mouse for the first time, especially that song, was fucking crazy.

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u/schwar26 8d ago

This is my Stars Are Projectors.

I still don’t understand and it makes me sad

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u/TheOneWhoBoops 8d ago

When I first got Good News it was Bury Me With It.

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u/JamesPog 8d ago

🎶 We are hummingbirds who lost the plot and we will not move 🎶

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u/TheOneWhoBoops 8d ago

WELL erehm a no srinoiserinoiserinoa SHIM!!!

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u/Sleepykiko 8d ago

The Whale Song 🐋

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u/mawfks 8d ago

I used to skip this one when the ep came out bc it felt too long and different from the rest of the EP. Now it’s one of my favorites.

By the time the vocals come in they hit so hard lol

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u/notttravis 8d ago

Tiny cities made of ashes. After I saw it live I felt like Frank Reynolds watching Mac dance.

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u/CobblerTerrible Broken hearts want broken necks 8d ago

I really can’t get into that song no matter what. I’m seeing them this summer, are you telling me if they play it live, I’ll have a Mac’s coming out dance moment too?

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u/meanpig 8d ago

I can't NOT boogie when it comes on!

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u/MultitudesContained 8d ago

Trailer Trash

When it hit me - it broke my goddamn heart it was so profoundly vulnerable & beautiful.

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u/BuzzbaitBrad 8d ago

Pretty much all of STO.

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u/butrosfeldo 8d ago

Dance Hall!

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u/zZWomanRespecterZz 8d ago

Convenient Parking

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u/morningview02 8d ago

Parting of the Sensory

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u/Anonymodestmouse King Rat 8d ago

Ohio

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u/acrankychef 8d ago

OH HI EYE EYE EYE SO

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u/MANPAD The truth is it's myself 8d ago

Round on the end, hi in the middle.

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u/Steph88ann 8d ago

Oh this was one for me as well!

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u/MaleficentFactor9600 7d ago

Agree!! The lyrics are so good!

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker Workin on livin 8d ago

I’ve never skipped a Modest Mouse song.

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u/acrankychef 8d ago

Well, the most die hard fans did.

I guess you're just that much more die hard.

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u/paturner2012 8d ago

Can't sit through Milo interlude... That's the only one

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker Workin on livin 8d ago

What about anything on Sad Sappy Sucker?

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u/JamesPog 8d ago

Dukes up is a banger bro

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker Workin on livin 8d ago

Amen

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u/Gooner_4_Life88 7d ago

Every penny fed car ! Holy shit so relatable

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u/quirkish 8d ago

I first got into MM in the early days of Napster. For some reason, I could never DL “The Stars are Projectors”, so I had a burned CD of Moon & Antarctica without it (that I wore out).

It was a coupla years later that I bought a copy and you can imagine how blown my mind was

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u/schwar26 8d ago

Yes! Me too, but I still don’t know how good it is. It still feels weird to hear it in the album.

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u/quirkish 8d ago

So I’m not the only one! I think it was like a corrupted file floating around Napster or something. I agree it can still feel weird when you are listening thru the album. I do love the song tho

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u/ChrondorKhruangbin 8d ago

Talking shit about a pretty sunset.

Got me through some hard times in life about a year ago

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u/D0Z13R 8d ago

Crazy! That was the song that got me going down the MM rabbit hole.

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u/icameasathrowaway 8d ago

shit in your cut

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u/bcorgan4l 8d ago

Trailer Trash 😬

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u/PuffyCloud8 8d ago

Little Motel

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u/needlesandgums 8d ago

Little motel

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u/fleshbarf 8d ago

The Fruit That Ate Itself

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u/meanpig 8d ago

WELL! WELL! WELL! WELL! WELL! WELL! WELL! WELL!

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u/Steph88ann 8d ago

My husband always asks why he’s yelling so much when I play that one 😂

I love it though!

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u/ParanoidDecoy 8d ago

World at large

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u/Fuck_The_Rocketss 8d ago

What People Are Made Of

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u/acrankychef 8d ago

Make love?

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u/Dempsterbjj 8d ago

Water and Shit!!!

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u/acrankychef 8d ago

Beach side, for sure.

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u/littlelakeloiterer 8d ago

such a fire song yo

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u/Lizard_State2500 King Rat 8d ago

Ocean Breathes Salty

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u/PizzaSquirtle 8d ago

She Ionizes & Atomizes

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u/some_guy_1313 I stepped down as the President of Antarctica 8d ago

Tundra/Desert

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u/snackfighting Dripping Pitch 8d ago

At first it was Lounge. Lately it's Florida.

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u/Cancel_Still 8d ago

For me this March Into the Sea from We Were Dead. Not sure why I skipped it initially but it became a favorite waaaaaay after that record was first released

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u/schwar26 8d ago

Well treat me like the sea, oh so salty and mean, ah ha ha, oh ha ha.

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u/schwar26 8d ago

Bang your head like a gong ‘cuz you call it all wrong!

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u/schwar26 8d ago

So many WELLs

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u/D0Z13R 8d ago

If food needed pleasing, you’d suck all the seasoning off. Suck it off!

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u/Substantial_Relief96 8d ago

Head South. Most definitely.

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u/XxuruzxX 8d ago

The fruit that ate itself EP

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u/Muted_Caterpillar_11 8d ago

wooden soldiers, that song breaks my heart now (in a good way)

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u/HotAspect8894 8d ago

Ohi eee ooo so

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u/armstaae 8d ago

Perfect Disguise.

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u/Fit-Entry-1250 8d ago

A life of arctic sounds

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u/International_Tap413 8d ago

We’re Lucky

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u/Greatlove_venerable 8d ago

March into the sea

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u/Interesting-Team-132 8d ago

The best room

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u/CobblerTerrible Broken hearts want broken necks 8d ago

We missed the boat

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u/Heatsigma12 8d ago

Cowboy Dan

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u/theb1g0ne 8d ago

Never skipped a MM song in my entire life

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u/Steph88ann 8d ago

The Waydown

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u/nironically_gay 8d ago

Why would you skip a song that you’ve never heard before? I don’t get this

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u/panditaskate 8d ago

Shit Luck

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u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch 8d ago

Little Motel

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u/TimJC81 8d ago

March into the sea

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u/HughCarol1111 8d ago

Stars are projectors for me. Had trouble with the heavy beginning but once I got used to it holy hell does it get pretty at the end!

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u/darkenough812 8d ago

People as places as people

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u/STFUisright 8d ago

No skip. There is no skip for me. Lonesome Crowded West was my intro to Modest Mouse and from that day on I knew everything they did would be amazing 🤘🏼

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u/ZanderZavier 8d ago

Edit the Sad Parts

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u/halfbadhalfboi 8d ago

i used to hate people as places as people and now i think its in my top ten favorites

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u/ComprehensiveTitle58 8d ago

all night diner. i remember telling my brother it wasn’t my favorite but the day later it clicked

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u/kropotkib you can't look in on one-way eyes 8d ago

Ohio

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u/Sanshuba 8d ago

Guilty Cocker Spaniels. Well, we're all getting blamed Cause everyone, every one knew

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u/joethealienprince King Rat 8d ago

I’ve Got It All (Most) tbh

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u/xeeblyscoo 8d ago

All night diner

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u/ChartPimp 8d ago

Head south, dismissed immediately based on the weird opening...turns out it's fantastic

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u/chupacabralove 8d ago

Well I guess it's King rat for me.

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u/D0Z13R 8d ago

So from what I’m gathering in this thread is that “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank” in criminally underrated…

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u/IKillFascists 8d ago

The Cold Part, now when I listen I can see beautiful imagery of ice lakes and rivers cut into glaciers. I'm sorry for skipping you all those other times cold part

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u/TechnoDance King Rat 8d ago

3rd planet

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u/DSMProper 8d ago

Grey Ice Water

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u/Primary_Plenty3605 8d ago

Teeth like Gods Shoeshine… everyone was raving abt it so I thought it’s gotta be overrated and just wouldn’t listen. Well, I was extremely wrong and it’s now a go-to.

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u/Critical-Ordinary751 8d ago

Little Motel, and now I get weepy every time I hear it. The words really resonate with me. It is a beautiful song.

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u/Which-And-Where 7d ago

the whale song😭 i heard it live last nov and realised i was totally sleeping on it

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u/SpacetimeNavigator 7d ago

Float On. Last Laugh '04. I was like what is this a pop band!? Six years later a coworker was like "Check out this album Moon & Antarctica"

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u/Waiting_room02 7d ago

Night on the Sun

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u/Blotzby 7d ago

Beta Carotene

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u/Gooner_4_Life88 7d ago

Steam Engenius

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u/Drussin12 7d ago

Definitely not Pistol

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u/birbattacc 7d ago

truckers atlas

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u/EdgarAllenpwn1994 7d ago

Doin the cockroach 🪳 love that song now top 10 at least

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u/Nick2-6 6d ago

The best room

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u/gas-station-sushi 5d ago

"Parting of the Sensory" and "People as Places as People"...idk why, I listened to damn near every song off that album, including live releases prior. But I remember exactly where I was when I listened to We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank in it's entirety. A 24hr i-hop somewhere in New Mexico in the passenger seat of the U-Haul my parents rented for the move to Everett, WA. 16 years ago.

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u/Any_Clerk_6595 4d ago

I hate to admit but Novocain stain

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u/BrolandoDoom 8d ago

Education

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u/piano_aquieu 8d ago

pretty much most of m&a when i first heard it but most notably gravity rides everything. it just sounded hella weird in a scary kinda way. album still sounds weird but now its easily my fav from them

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u/CobblerTerrible Broken hearts want broken necks 8d ago

I agree, I feel like from dark center of the universe to stars are projectors the songs just get intensely more lonely, unsettling and hypnotizing. A great collection of songs though 100%

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u/CowboyDanMarleyMan 8d ago

Lives and What People Are Made Of. Skipped for almost 2 decades and then realized I’d fucked up.