Good call. At the time I loved BTS and MM about equally, and I still have a deep love for several MM albums, but having seen both live in the intervening years, Built To Spill has pulled ahead in my esteem. Doug Martsch live is next level.
Trucks atlas perfect example* forgot to put that in. It grows on you lol, w that longggg instrumental, I think it’s meant to convey aimlessly driving forever
this album is insanely good easily one of my all time favorites. great video. you should listen their debut "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About"
PLEASE do "building nothing out of something" by modest mouse. That album is like.... one of the most precious things in my life. That's the album I scream cried to recover from nasty things in the pouring rain at night with nothing but the car headlights facing a pond. Now it's like a mark of my healing and I hear it so differently now that it's done what it's done for me. It is so special.
One of the best concept albums of the 90's. As the band said, the album was about the "mall fucking" of America; Or as Isaac poetically said "The paving of the American West." Pitch fork has a great documentary about the making of this album on RUclips that'd I'd highly recommend! Also, the "it's all nice on ice" bit of the last song is a double entendre. It can be taken as it's nice floating on ice above the water which goes along with some of the themes of the song, but it's also a nod to Isaac and Jeremy struggling with meth addiction at the time. Meth is called "ice" so he's saying it's nice being high on meth lol
@@etalex7074 Well, it definitely grew on me in the last few months but I still think it's a very inconsistent album that marks the beginning of MM's decline in quality.
For the love of everything holy, please listen to The Moon and Antarctica, Building Nothing Out of Something, and This is a Long Drive. Listen to everything up to Good News. Modest Mouse is one of my favorite bands. Isaac Brock is a lyrical genius.
I love this album but I think Moon and Antarctica is a much more accessible introduction to them and it’s just as essential and critically well-regarded as this one.
There later ones are much more accessible this and this Is a long drive for nothing to think about aren't really accessible they can get pretty harsh and garage rock like
I wanted to give my own analysis because I think this album is actually very conceptual. I think the overall concept has to do the negative effects that can result from the rapid industrialization and gentrification of society through the mundane-ness that it creates. The singer said that a big inspiration for him was watching so many personal, natural areas he grew up with get replaced by malls and industries. The album seems to go through a lot of different characters/scenarios revolving around different types of mental health issues and harmful behaviors, all stemming from the crushing emptiness and, again, mundane-ness that so many people collectively live under. A lot of the lyrics here also revolve around the inherent contradiction of how such a thing can happen even though we are technically advancing, and there’s many different variants of that lyrical theme throughout, including the title of the album.
Best guitar work of any album ever in my opinion. They convey so many emotions in such an insane way. Isaac is as expressive of a guitarist as he is a vocalist and lyricist.
When I was in high school the cd player stopped opening in my dad’s car and this cd was stuck inside for over a year. Love this album and my cheap dad who never got anything fixed!
When interpreting rock music, it's a trope to say that every song is about drugs somehow. Most of the time that's incorrect. However, when interpreting this album and especially the latter half of it - yeah, if you think he's talking about meth he's probably talking about meth. There's actually an uncut version of Trucker's Atlas that goes at least three minutes longer than what got put on the album. The producer and engineers just never told them to stop so they jammed on it for an extended period of time waiting to be told to stop.
"This dude needs serious help" honestly I used to worry about Isaac a lot. He seemed quite self destructive from a fans perspective. Check him out in 2024. He seems so happy and focused on having fun and making good music. Having two little kids since 2015 really seemed to turn his life around. Even after losing Jeremiah (one of his life long best friends and Modest Mouse's drummer) to cancer on NYE 2022, he just seems at peace these days. I hope it lasts.
I've been going through re-listening to "peak" Modeet Mouse in the past week due to a pitchfork video documentary of the making of this album that the almighty RUclips algo plopped into my feed. Shit holds up real, real well. I was obsesed with them from like 2002-2004. I like your style, man! Cool review. Your face and reaction when the guitar solo kicked in on Trailer Trash wss gold. What a song. Peace.
I first discovered this album in 2002 or so and it was my favourite album for many years. It got supplanted by another Modest Mouse Album (We were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank).
Listening to this album drunk is a mistake I’ve done many times before, emotionally damaging me and making me almost do things I will not be able to regret
You should listen to building nothing out of something. Its like a compilation album or someshit so it doesn't get its proper respect but the shit hits
“This album is having a proud effect on my life…” 😊 Personally, I got to know this band when I was probably Smags age.. was going through a lot and Modest Mouse helped me think more deeply and embrace my atheist/agnostic views. 💚 cheers
I think that by pausing and reflecting after every song, you miss, especially in the “shorter” songs at ending of the Lonesome Crowded West such as Shit Luck or Long Distance Drunk, the overarching meaning and storyline from song to song. By artificially changing the flow of the listening experience in a way Modest Mouse didn’t intend, you lose some of the “build” that you said the earlier song had. I understand that for the content or yourself, you meditate on every song but to make an overarching statement on a record without getting a complete experience is unprecedented criticism. Would you stop a movie mid-way through and “reflect” on it if you were reviewing it? But you might say, do this when watching a theatre production during intermission or even with this album at the four points where the record stops playing to flip to side B or change to disc 2. I get to simulate that, specifically with this album, it is difficult since the track listing is different on vinyl, but you still should come back to the record to see if your criticism still stands. If you do enjoy their longer and more drawn out "jammy" songs you would probably prefer or at least enjoy Modest Mouse's debut This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. It has almost a post punk twist with this sound and fell and you've said you like Joy Division a lot. It also has a way more raw fell in the production while still having Issac Brock's signature layer vocal takes that I particularly enjoy.
You’re listening to some great albums, keep it coming! I have two for you, Elliott smith’s final album-from a basement on a hill and Built to Spill-Perfect from now on. Amazing consistency.
yo bro you should listen to "omoide in my head" by number girl. its a legendary live album with an insanely high score on rym. if not that maybe then a parannoul album, preferably "after the night"
thanks bro... just a great Album one of the best. you got 3 more amazing albums to go... Building Nothing out of Something, The Moon and Antarctica, and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. cheers
I feel like Convenient Parking's lyrics is an allegory to heroine use, like the parking lot is the spoon/needle where it's store, the big streets and highways are the blood veins and he later feels like the parking itself is "way back" like, once you go from needle to arm it's hard to drop the addiction. Trucker's Atlas is the same but for coke, he's doing lines and roads on a cheap map from a gas station, going from California to Alaska etc with his nose.
After your comments on the first song, I can say I love modest mouse and this album to hell. But I also do feel like a mosquito at 7/11 so very apt description 👍
God i freaking love shit luck its freaking hard as all hell like that song is like straight hardcore punk and honestly its also crosses into noise rock territory
Styrofoam boots, he walked on water and then he drowned upside down, went to heaven, met god, god was an atheist. It’s all nice on cuz you don’t drown upside down and have to learn that god has a god who has a god who has a god. It’s turtles all the way down 💯
listen to alice in chains self titled album. it’s sludgy and emotional and gets darker as the album goes on. it’s their last album before the lead singer layne staley died in 2002 and is criminally underrated.
since you liked trailer trash so much i think youd like their first album, this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about and their compilation album building nothing out of something, also the song edit the sad parts.
I feel like in doing the cockroach, not knowing what it does is the point of asking what are we doing? without a purpose we are just acting like cockroaches
Yeah no joke dude as much as I loved Modest Mouse and Bright Eyes as a teenager I took them to heart way too much and alcoholism fucking sucked and wasn't poetic at all lol Still great bands and amazing songs I was just an idiot for wanting to be like them
Its all nice on ice is refering to a drug called ice and how even though its ruining his life and not and making him crazy he loves it to much to give it up he thinks its all nice
Not "multiple times", only once in 1999. The accusation was never substantiated in the slightest and the alleged victim has withdrawn her story. Since then, there never has been someone to corroborate it or any other reports of similar experiences with Isaac. So I'm not sure why you're bringing this up here…
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If you like this "Pacific Northwest" indie rock sound, I highly recommend Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On.
Good call. At the time I loved BTS and MM about equally, and I still have a deep love for several MM albums, but having seen both live in the intervening years, Built To Spill has pulled ahead in my esteem. Doug Martsch live is next level.
He’d like Keep It Like A Secret too
"I would hurt a fly" is... something else
Doug Martsch live ROCKS. I completely agree with your sentiment.@@matthewford5094
That was my favorite album period until i discovered unwound
The best written album of all time in my opinion. Certainly a top 5 for me
THIS BUILDING'S TOTALLY BURNIN DOWN
Whenever I hear early modest mouse I just think of 3 dudes driving all over the country in a shitty van. This is a very 90’s America album
Trucks atlas perfect example* forgot to put that in. It grows on you lol, w that longggg instrumental, I think it’s meant to convey aimlessly driving forever
It brought tears to my eyes watching someone experience this album for the first time. Thank you
I think a reaction of new order’s power, corruption & lies would be cool. New order is the band that came from joy division after Ian Curtis’s death
this album is insanely good easily one of my all time favorites. great video. you should listen their debut "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About"
PLEASE do "building nothing out of something" by modest mouse. That album is like.... one of the most precious things in my life. That's the album I scream cried to recover from nasty things in the pouring rain at night with nothing but the car headlights facing a pond. Now it's like a mark of my healing and I hear it so differently now that it's done what it's done for me. It is so special.
Agreed. That album got me through some rough times as a young man
I agree wholeheartedly. "Broke " and "Others people lives" occupy such a special place within me
@@stephenwright3180 never ending math equation, medication, broke, grey ice water, damn near every song on that album
@@CatnapWhisper whenever i breathe out you breathe in (postive negative) is probably in their top 3 songs ever
@@dougyuck that song makes me wanna fall over and weep. Same with workin on leaving the living.
I have been blessed. The Moon & Antarctica is my favorite and I already know you’ll be bombarded with requests for that reaction. As you should be lol
If you haven't checked him out already, Nick Drake's pink moon is an incredible record by an incredible artist
YES
One of the best concept albums of the 90's. As the band said, the album was about the "mall fucking" of America; Or as Isaac poetically said "The paving of the American West." Pitch fork has a great documentary about the making of this album on RUclips that'd I'd highly recommend!
Also, the "it's all nice on ice" bit of the last song is a double entendre. It can be taken as it's nice floating on ice above the water which goes along with some of the themes of the song, but it's also a nod to Isaac and Jeremy struggling with meth addiction at the time. Meth is called "ice" so he's saying it's nice being high on meth lol
I love this album so much but you've gotta listen to their first and third album too
And 4th too
And their Building Nothing Out of Something compilation! It's absolutely brilliant
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@@mtr801Yes he should, way overhated album, it’s honestly great.
@@etalex7074 Well, it definitely grew on me in the last few months but I still think it's a very inconsistent album that marks the beginning of MM's decline in quality.
For the love of everything holy, please listen to The Moon and Antarctica, Building Nothing Out of Something, and This is a Long Drive. Listen to everything up to Good News. Modest Mouse is one of my favorite bands. Isaac Brock is a lyrical genius.
I love this album but I think Moon and Antarctica is a much more accessible introduction to them and it’s just as essential and critically well-regarded as this one.
so are long drive and making nothing out of something for that matter
There later ones are much more accessible this and this Is a long drive for nothing to think about aren't really accessible they can get pretty harsh and garage rock like
I wanted to give my own analysis because I think this album is actually very conceptual.
I think the overall concept has to do the negative effects that can result from the rapid industrialization and gentrification of society through the mundane-ness that it creates. The singer said that a big inspiration for him was watching so many personal, natural areas he grew up with get replaced by malls and industries.
The album seems to go through a lot of different characters/scenarios revolving around different types of mental health issues and harmful behaviors, all stemming from the crushing emptiness and, again, mundane-ness that so many people collectively live under.
A lot of the lyrics here also revolve around the inherent contradiction of how such a thing can happen even though we are technically advancing, and there’s many different variants of that lyrical theme throughout, including the title of the album.
Yep.
»He didn’t move to the city / the city moved to me / and I want out desperately«
My favorite album of all time. I am glad you liked it. The recent 25th anniversary tour played it in full and it was a huge thing to experience.
Best guitar work of any album ever in my opinion. They convey so many emotions in such an insane way. Isaac is as expressive of a guitarist as he is a vocalist and lyricist.
PREACH. Ugly Casanova deserves a shot-out. same deep emotions packaged into a different sound
@@Nagah_spilled milk factory is awesome.
When I was in high school the cd player stopped opening in my dad’s car and this cd was stuck inside for over a year.
Love this album and my cheap dad who never got anything fixed!
Best cd to be stuck in any player
I can hear the hearts beating as one - Yo La Tengo
One of my favorites album it is noisy but also mellow, warm and atmospheric
When interpreting rock music, it's a trope to say that every song is about drugs somehow.
Most of the time that's incorrect. However, when interpreting this album and especially the latter half of it - yeah, if you think he's talking about meth he's probably talking about meth.
There's actually an uncut version of Trucker's Atlas that goes at least three minutes longer than what got put on the album. The producer and engineers just never told them to stop so they jammed on it for an extended period of time waiting to be told to stop.
another banger as expected!
If you haven't listened to Black Country New Road - "Ants From Up There" I highly recommend!
Yes
"This dude needs serious help"
honestly I used to worry about Isaac a lot. He seemed quite self destructive from a fans perspective. Check him out in 2024. He seems so happy and focused on having fun and making good music. Having two little kids since 2015 really seemed to turn his life around. Even after losing Jeremiah (one of his life long best friends and Modest Mouse's drummer) to cancer on NYE 2022, he just seems at peace these days. I hope it lasts.
Mr. Consistency BACK AT IT AGAIN‼️
I've been going through re-listening to "peak" Modeet Mouse in the past week due to a pitchfork video documentary of the making of this album that the almighty RUclips algo plopped into my feed. Shit holds up real, real well. I was obsesed with them from like 2002-2004.
I like your style, man! Cool review. Your face and reaction when the guitar solo kicked in on Trailer Trash wss gold. What a song. Peace.
The Moon & Antarctica is an amazing album from Modest Mouse
try Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound, is a great album :)
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Truely one of the GOATED type albums
A dissonant masterpiece. Modest Mouse's specialty.
The Moon & Antarctica is highly recommended.
if you haven’t already you should listen to heaven or las vegas by cocteau twins. it’s great
I have listened already
@@smags1082 Have you listened to Treasure though? That's another classic album from them
😂 I've now seen this recommended about 4 times and he responds every time lol. Anyway, I second the suggestion of Treasure!!
I first discovered this album in 2002 or so and it was my favourite album for many years. It got supplanted by another Modest Mouse Album (We were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank).
Violent Femmes' iconic debut album, please! You will definitely love it
this album is hectic and charming which makes me wanna recommend Doolittle by the Pixies, that's a great one
RIP JEREMIAH
A perfect drummer.
It was great watching you react to this album, also if you liked this album you'll really like Just got back from discomfort by Brave Little Abacus
Listening to this album drunk is a mistake I’ve done many times before, emotionally damaging me and making me almost do things I will not be able to regret
You should listen to building nothing out of something. Its like a compilation album or someshit so it doesn't get its proper respect but the shit hits
That it does!
Whenever You Breathe Out....is epic.
“This album is having a proud effect on my life…” 😊
Personally, I got to know this band when I was probably Smags age.. was going through a lot and Modest Mouse helped me think more deeply and embrace my atheist/agnostic views.
💚 cheers
I think that by pausing and reflecting after every song, you miss, especially in the “shorter” songs at ending of the Lonesome Crowded West such as Shit Luck or Long Distance Drunk, the overarching meaning and storyline from song to song. By artificially changing the flow of the listening experience in a way Modest Mouse didn’t intend, you lose some of the “build” that you said the earlier song had.
I understand that for the content or yourself, you meditate on every song but to make an overarching statement on a record without getting a complete experience is unprecedented criticism. Would you stop a movie mid-way through and “reflect” on it if you were reviewing it? But you might say, do this when watching a theatre production during intermission or even with this album at the four points where the record stops playing to flip to side B or change to disc 2. I get to simulate that, specifically with this album, it is difficult since the track listing is different on vinyl, but you still should come back to the record to see if your criticism still stands.
If you do enjoy their longer and more drawn out "jammy" songs you would probably prefer or at least enjoy Modest Mouse's debut This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. It has almost a post punk twist with this sound and fell and you've said you like Joy Division a lot. It also has a way more raw fell in the production while still having Issac Brock's signature layer vocal takes that I particularly enjoy.
based.
hello smags, i just pooped myself (also listen to the debut album by american football that would be pretty sick)
it's best we just forget
@@lemmmakestunes8312 it was never meant
You’re listening to some great albums, keep it coming! I have two for you, Elliott smith’s final album-from a basement on a hill and Built to Spill-Perfect from now on. Amazing consistency.
yo bro you should listen to "omoide in my head" by number girl. its a legendary live album with an insanely high score on rym. if not that maybe then a parannoul album, preferably "after the night"
"omoide in my head" is only available on youtube by playlist unforutnately ruclips.net/video/UtiwBmyUklg/видео.html
thanks bro... just a great Album one of the best. you got 3 more amazing albums to go... Building Nothing out of Something, The Moon and Antarctica, and This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. cheers
I feel like Convenient Parking's lyrics is an allegory to heroine use, like the parking lot is the spoon/needle where it's store, the big streets and highways are the blood veins and he later feels like the parking itself is "way back" like, once you go from needle to arm it's hard to drop the addiction.
Trucker's Atlas is the same but for coke, he's doing lines and roads on a cheap map from a gas station, going from California to Alaska etc with his nose.
vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city. you won't regret it bro trust
chill ass vibes all over it
love me some modest mouse. And you should absolutely try Violent Femmes debut album!!
After your comments on the first song, I can say I love modest mouse and this album to hell. But I also do feel like a mosquito at 7/11 so very apt description 👍
You should give Moon and Antarctica a listen. Imo their best album
They had an incredible run of nearly perfect albums.
God i freaking love shit luck its freaking hard as all hell like that song is like straight hardcore punk and honestly its also crosses into noise rock territory
Styrofoam boots, he walked on water and then he drowned upside down, went to heaven, met god, god was an atheist. It’s all nice on cuz you don’t drown upside down and have to learn that god has a god who has a god who has a god.
It’s turtles all the way down 💯
listen to alice in chains self titled album. it’s sludgy and emotional and gets darker as the album goes on. it’s their last album before the lead singer layne staley died in 2002 and is criminally underrated.
I would love to see what you think of
Crywank, Tomorrow is nearly yesterday and everyday is stupid
Love from Australia ❤
That sprint at the beginning 😂
How in the world did I miss this one. TLCW is one of my favorites of all time. Be gentle, please.
since you liked trailer trash so much i think youd like their first album, this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about and their compilation album building nothing out of something, also the song edit the sad parts.
Yoooo love this album🎉
We need a Pinkerton reaction asap
That intro 😭😭
Halcyon Digest from Deerhunter
Second this
My favorite pixies cover band. I really do love them though
Got a few requests for your consideration:
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Brand New - Science Fiction
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
I feel like in doing the cockroach, not knowing what it does is the point of asking what are we doing? without a purpose we are just acting like cockroaches
are you even capable of picking a bad record?
Now imagine what this album means to someone that's been listening to it for the last 25 years.
I am begging for any Van Der Graaf album (H to HE.., Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, Still Life)
I will try to do pawn hearts within the next couple weeks
@@smags1082 WOAH
Yo if you love the "smooth stuff" from this era of Modest Mouse look up the band Mineral. Their songs Silver and February
top 10 album ever
You have to do the Pixies next pleas😢
Blake Anderson's canadian son reacts to cool music on his youtube channel.
One of my top five albums.
"so, uh... shout out to jesus"
that got me 😆
peak modest mouse
This is the greatest album of all time
you should listen to antics by interpol next :]]] !!
This and their “The Moon & Antarctica” are both masterpieces IMHO ❤
Who are what were you accessing those lyrics from cause they were worse than if an AI came up with them
Will you react to Elliot Smith?
Yeah Trailer Trash is THE song on this album for me. That breakdown... almost the whole building nothing album is like that
SUPER ALBUM
Cowboy dan is one of thems hippy uncle.
Holy fuck i love your vids
OH MY GOD DAYUM !!!!!!!
Sunny Day Real Estate!
I couldn't agree more! Such an epic band. Any of the albums are great!
PLEASE listen to ants from up there by black country new road it's one of the best post-rock albums
Yeah no joke dude as much as I loved Modest Mouse and Bright Eyes as a teenager I took them to heart way too much and alcoholism fucking sucked and wasn't poetic at all lol
Still great bands and amazing songs I was just an idiot for wanting to be like them
You should do Violent Femmes self titled record.
Do long drive please!!
i recommend you do hi how are you by daniel johnston and pink moon by nick drake
Love a daniel johnston request
plis black midi cavalcade. i sell my liver
Doin the cockroach is about homeless and the rest of the albums about like drifting around I think maybe I’m not sure
Please do weatherday's come in (would be verry cool)
Giles Corey😈
0:01 zoom!
WHEN SOME DEATH GRIPS OR JPEGMAFIA
Its all nice on ice is refering to a drug called ice and how even though its ruining his life and not and making him crazy he loves it to much to give it up he thinks its all nice
Listen to this album drunk.
The its on ice is nice song is about meth .
Also NO issac is not ok like at all
Please do more MM ☝🏻 several other albums are a little better than this one.
Ice is meth bro
I kind of love this album but Isaac Brock has been accused of rape multiple times so, not sure what to think..
well thats not good
Not "multiple times", only once in 1999. The accusation was never substantiated in the slightest and the alleged victim has withdrawn her story. Since then, there never has been someone to corroborate it or any other reports of similar experiences with Isaac. So I'm not sure why you're bringing this up here…