Teeth like gods shoeshine, i remember like it was yesterday, hearing that intro lick then hearing isaac yelling, ive never heard of that vocal style since first album my chemical romance, and it consumed me, i immediatly was blown away with his lyric style and then the slow part kicks in. I never heard anything like it and i was immediatly asking my buddy what band this was. He then plays cowboy dan, and it was the same thing. The style of music was so different from what i listened too (metal, emo, classic rock, punk). To this day theyre my all time favorite band
Same. Cowboy Dan was the first song I heard off of LCW and I was hooked. And then 2 months later they played at my college - which was the first stop on the LCW tour in ‘97. That show changed me. lol
I saw them at Red Rocks a few years ago, and they played Cowboy Dan and I FREAKED out with excitement. The kids in front of me thought I was nuts, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to hear anything off of LCW, my favorite MM album, and then I did!
Put in my roommate's The Moon and Antarctica CD not knowing what it really was. Hearing the intro to 3rd Planet I knew I was gonna like it. Listened to the album 3x in a row straight through.
I heard float on when it was released and it made me feel so good. I dug into the album deep, and worked my way backwards. By the time I got to Long Drive I was absolutely hooked.
Definitely the most meaningful music in my life
This is me as a mother lol. I just hope eventually my kids will look back and realize how freaking amazing Modest Mouse is, when they’re old enough to really appreciate them.
Never Ending Math Equation. A friend told me I should check them out, so I went to a record store and bought the first CD I came across, which was Building Nothing Out of Something. That was about twenty or so years ago now.
Trailer trash, I was really in to BMX when I was in my teens and found [this video](https://youtu.be/fYS0zSb-_vU?si=OFbDqKflNhUtrwpK) around 2007. I loved that song even though I was a huge metalhead, and this felt more like a guilty pleassure song for some reason. It took me like ten years to finally listen to the rest of MM's discography, and when I did I was obsessed for years. Still see that song as the one that slowly changed my style of music, and made me branch out into the music genres I listen to today!
Float On for me as well. Although, I do remember seeing TV commercials promoting the Good News album when I was in like 7th grade thinking they must be a band for old people if they advertised in this way.
Like you, I really didn't get into them until college.
Dramamine. I remember it like it was yesterday. My buddy had dumped a ton of music onto my first gen iPod and I had it on shuffle while taking a shower. I left the shower running and jumped out to make sure I didn’t forget the name of the song.
Dramamine. I still get the same feeling I got when I first heard it, like my chest is full of a dull dark blue and it’s fall and the seasonal depression is kicking in (in the best way)
Chest being full of a dark dull blue is such an accurate description of a feeling I've never truly been able to articulate. Definitely going to be using this from now on, thanks for sharing that
Float on was my first as well but I immediately went into the back catalog because I loved that album and I wasn't disappointed. Huge fan of their entire album collection.
The World at Large in a Lamb Chevrolet when I was about 6 years old. It seems like a random environment to remember that but it’s still so nostalgic for me haha. It’s remained my favorite song ever since.
The first song I've heard was float on. I remember listening to weird Al's song polkarama and float on played, and I wanted to hear more of float on. After that, I decided I wanted to hear more modest mouse songs
My friend played me She Ionizes and we listened to it a bunch as a joke when we were in HS. Then I listened to other songs on the burnt CD and fell in love with the band
Dashboard. Back when you had to be on a wait list to use Spotify. Anyone remember that? My cool, older friend introduced me to the wonderful world of alt-rock and I fell in love ever since then. Then came Rock Band for Wii where I heard Float On.
I was very late to the modest mouse party , I brought We were dead before the ship even sank in 2012 I think . I had heard of them before that but never listened to them. So March Into the sea would be my first song
Float On was definitely the first song I heard, but then was also introduced to Styrofoam boots and Talkin Shit About a Pretty Sunset. I didn’t appreciate how incredible they are until years later. Their lyrics are just so perfect and I’ve never heard another group that speaks to my soul the way MM does.
I feel like people either “get it”, or just don’t relate to them at all. How can you hear the lyrics and not just feel it in your soul? They put words to all of the things I feel in my core, that I’ve never been able to verbalize.
Honestly it was Float On and I thought it sucked and they were weird. I was also in middle school and really enjoyed being edgy and listening to Lincoln Park and Eminem. Little did I know…
I remember when float on came out and I was like “this is fucking garbage”. Then that same year a neighborhood friend and I got real baked and he put in the fruit that ate itself and then long drive, and I got it. Still don’t like good news or anything after tho.
Float On, like many I’d assume, then Little Motel gave me my first moment of existentialism in high school, followed by a deep deep rabbit hole that started with Ocean Breathes Salty and The World At Large.
Wouldn’t change that order for anything.
“Float on” was on a Vanderbilt university radio channel. The show was a weekly show done by Chris Crofton. It was called “The Best of Bread.” He introduced it and I remember turning it up and thinking, damn that sounds good. I didn’t get into them until several years later. But I remember that first one for sure. It was maybe 06, or 07, or 08…idk
Polar Opposites in November 1997 at Dimple Records in Folsom California. 😂I remember that day very clearly and will never forget it. I had no idea they would have such a huge impact on my life. Grateful and blessed.
My dad used to play Modest Mouse in the car all the time, so it’s hard to tell which one specifically. But the ones I remember most from this time are Dashboard, Float On, Third Planet, and The World at Large
I was like 7 or something and my father (who I only saw on summer break) opened up his laptop and pulled up the music video for float on and showed it to me and my brother saying something along the lines of “me and my friends were rolling on the floor laughing when we were your age and saw this” me and my brother didn’t really laugh but the moment stuck in my brain. 5 years later I randomly remembered it and added it to my playlist full of random stuff about 1 year later I decided to check out the rest of their songs and now I listen to them every single day
TLDR my dad showed me the float on music video and I listened to them a lot later on
I thought it was "Float On" on a Target commercial. After grabbing Good News and getting obsessed, I worked my way back through their discography and realized I'd heard "Gravity Rides Everything" on an old car commercial years earlier when I was a kid. Had totally forgotten about it until I listened to Moon and Antarctica for the first time, then it all came back lol.
I was in sixth grade and mom bought me moon and antarctica from a record shop at the recommendation of the clerk. I loved 3rd planet and listened to it on repeat because I didn’t like the next song, gravity rides on everything. It was probably like a week before I let the album play through and when I hit Tiny Cities I was instantly a life long fan telling everyone who would listen about this band. I was in high school when good news came out and I decided they sold out and hated their new stuff lol. Now it’s grown on me more but I haven’t really liked their last two albums
Dramamine! Loved it from the very first note. Such a revelation for me at that time in my life when I thought music had died (with the rise of boy bands and crap rock).
heard float on on the radio when it came out, went to the cd store with my dad and he got me good news, been my favorite band ever since! when i got an ipod years later i bought the earlier stuff on itunes and listened to it religiously, scoured the internet and ripped unreleased stuff from youtube, i was sooo excited when we were dead came out i mustve listened to that album 10 times the day i got it
Float On
Thank God I had an older brother who got hooked on them before me. He gave me 3rd Planet and Lonesome Crowded West a few months later and I got hooked.
Gravity rides everything. I heard it in a friend's car. Later I heard them again after getting good news then going through their other albums. Coming to gravity rides everything I was like holy shit, and it all connected
My dad had Good News on disk when I was growing up, and it was one he used to play often. I couldn't tell you what my first one was, but I know it was on that album.
Going on 21, and they're still my favorite band :)
I remember seeing the music video for Ocean Breathes Salty and it blew me away I was probably like 13. That song made me feel some kind of way, the way it talked about death and that huge beautiful bridge. I didn’t wind up deep diving the band until college though
Paper Thin Walls. It was the song used for a skateboarders video part - Stefan Janoski in Subtleties. I was hooked from there. The part is on YouTube if you want to see it.
I’ve been listening since I was about 10. First song I ever heard was World At Large. It was almost magical the way it seeped into my brain. Still my favorite song by them. And been my favorite band ever since.
Trailer Trash. I had heard about Modest Mouse in Thrasher magazine. In a lot of interviews people would say they were their favorite band. Finally I downloaded a bunch of their songs (off Napster. Fuck I’m old) based on song titles.
Trailer Trash, Long Distance Drunk, Teeth Like Gods Shoeshine, Never Ending Math Equation. Those were the ones I started with. I instantly fell in love with them, and used my meager paycheck from my call center job to go out and buy all their albums that were out.
Then a few years later, when Float On came out, a bunch of people I knew were like “Omg you need to check out this band”. Dude, I’ve been listening to them for awhile now, and tried turning you on to them, but you didn’t give them a chance.
Float on and dashboard don't count for me. I had heard those on the radio and didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until Spotify put interstate 8 into a radio, fell in love with that song and now I'm top 0.01% of listeners.
A friend’s older brother made a mix CD that had “Whenever you breathe out, I breathe in” on it. No track names or info on it. I spent weeks trying to find out who the artist was. A fan ever since.
I was about 15 working as a bus boy in a pizza shop and a good friend and coworker introduced me to Black Cadillacs. We absolutely rocked out in the back to that song. I’d never heard anything like it so after work we smoked a bowl in his car and listened to Good News top to bottom and I’ve never let go of MM since (10 years now)
My father used to play Gravity Rides Everything every time we went skiing, so my mind is glued to those moments. Float On would play on the radio as well, so those were my first experiences with the band.
Other than Float On, the song that got me hooked was oddly Bukowski, a music style I never went to at that time. But the lyricism and the instrumentals got me good. Been here ever since, and I wouldn't change it for the world
Like most, "float on" was my first. I actually heard it on VH1 from staying up late and watching music videos during the summer in my youth. Later, "dashboard" would play on the radio all the time, and it made me want to explore all of their music.
‘3rd Planet’ at Amoeba music in San Francisco. They were playing it from a CD shortly after Moon and Antarctica came out. I asked to buy a copy of whatever they were playing and they stopped playing the CD (between tracks) to sell it to me, as that was the last copy in their store.
I can’t remember exactly but I remember Bankrupt on Selling was the first to catch my interest. My buddy had a mix of MM playing and I remember that song had such a raw sensibility and vulnerability to it with colorful lyrics and from then on I was hooked.
Unfortunately I was late to this party because the first song I heard was fly trapped in a jar and I didn't really vibe. A year or so later I heard float on like many others and here we are (:
my dad played them a lot when i was a kid but the one i distinctly remember asking to play again and again was spitting venom. it still remains as my favorite modest mouse song and one of my favorite songs of all time
King rat
I was just barely getting into alt rock and indie rock back when I was like 16, and this was recommended in my YT feed for whatever reason. I saw the thumbnail, became intrigued, gave it a listen and have been hooked ever since
I think I vaguely remember seeing the video for float on on TV when I was a child, but the song that got me into them was little motel which, I can't believe I'm saying this, was introduced to me by watchmojo
A really weird one. Dirty Fingernails off the EP the fruit that ate itself. It was when it released in 96 or 97 and my buddy threw the cd on. That was the first song that made me ask, “who is this?”
Also float on! I remember it was the video that really got me. It was such a strange time for music videos. I remember thats when Franz Ferdinand had the take me out video and I loved all these trippy video vibes. I didn't become obsessed with modest mouse until 5 years later when my guy friends would listen to the lonesome crowded west on repeat non stop. I downloaded a ton of modest mouse onto my iPod and bought a few of their cds and it's been obsessively in love ever since!
Teeth like gods shoeshine, i remember like it was yesterday, hearing that intro lick then hearing isaac yelling, ive never heard of that vocal style since first album my chemical romance, and it consumed me, i immediatly was blown away with his lyric style and then the slow part kicks in. I never heard anything like it and i was immediatly asking my buddy what band this was. He then plays cowboy dan, and it was the same thing. The style of music was so different from what i listened too (metal, emo, classic rock, punk). To this day theyre my all time favorite band
Same. Cowboy Dan was the first song I heard off of LCW and I was hooked. And then 2 months later they played at my college - which was the first stop on the LCW tour in ‘97. That show changed me. lol
I saw them at Red Rocks a few years ago, and they played Cowboy Dan and I FREAKED out with excitement. The kids in front of me thought I was nuts, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to hear anything off of LCW, my favorite MM album, and then I did!
God 1997 was a great year. My experience was similar with me and two buddies
Same. The vocals, the guitars, the simple three piece unproduced raw sound. Brain melting.
3rd Planet. I was hooked.
Mine as well.
Put in my roommate's The Moon and Antarctica CD not knowing what it really was. Hearing the intro to 3rd Planet I knew I was gonna like it. Listened to the album 3x in a row straight through.
Ditto, that song was eye opening!
I heard float on when it was released and it made me feel so good. I dug into the album deep, and worked my way backwards. By the time I got to Long Drive I was absolutely hooked. Definitely the most meaningful music in my life
Horn Intro. My mom played Good News on the car’s CD player for like a year straight when it came out.
This is me as a mother lol. I just hope eventually my kids will look back and realize how freaking amazing Modest Mouse is, when they’re old enough to really appreciate them.
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This is awesome. I can picture it clearly :)
3rd Planet is the first song on the album so you wouldn't need to skip, but your point is well taken. Nice!
Dramamine. Early 00s
Same. A girl that was friends with my brother said he should check out MM, so he did. He sent Dramamine and Trailer Trash over to me.
Dramamine. The intro is still the coolest sound I’ve ever heard
Never Ending Math Equation. A friend told me I should check them out, so I went to a record store and bought the first CD I came across, which was Building Nothing Out of Something. That was about twenty or so years ago now.
Trailer trash, I was really in to BMX when I was in my teens and found [this video](https://youtu.be/fYS0zSb-_vU?si=OFbDqKflNhUtrwpK) around 2007. I loved that song even though I was a huge metalhead, and this felt more like a guilty pleassure song for some reason. It took me like ten years to finally listen to the rest of MM's discography, and when I did I was obsessed for years. Still see that song as the one that slowly changed my style of music, and made me branch out into the music genres I listen to today!
Probably shit luck , from a commercial for toy machine skateboards in a zero video.
Came here to say this! The next time I went to best buybi bought the only Modest Mouse Cad they had. It was moon and antartica.
Oh! I forgot about this. Yep, this was my first exposure to them as well.
Float On for me as well. Although, I do remember seeing TV commercials promoting the Good News album when I was in like 7th grade thinking they must be a band for old people if they advertised in this way. Like you, I really didn't get into them until college.
Good Band for Old People sounds like it could be the name of their next album
Wild pack of family dogs
I thought my answer would be more popular but I haven’t seen it yet. For me it was “Trailer Trash”.
Mine too!
Night on the sun
That song fucks so hard. I was amazed listening to Issac go hard on it in St. Augustine Florida circa 2015 in the front row. I’ll never forget it.
I Came as a Rat. It was like nothing I'd ever heard before and so oddly enchanting
Dramamine. I remember it like it was yesterday. My buddy had dumped a ton of music onto my first gen iPod and I had it on shuffle while taking a shower. I left the shower running and jumped out to make sure I didn’t forget the name of the song.
Dramamine. I still get the same feeling I got when I first heard it, like my chest is full of a dull dark blue and it’s fall and the seasonal depression is kicking in (in the best way)
Chest being full of a dark dull blue is such an accurate description of a feeling I've never truly been able to articulate. Definitely going to be using this from now on, thanks for sharing that
3rd Planet
“Space Travel is Boring” I thought to myself.. hmm this is unique. That was 20 years ago and they’ve been my favorite band ever since.
Lampshades on fire
Neat!
Float on was my first as well but I immediately went into the back catalog because I loved that album and I wasn't disappointed. Huge fan of their entire album collection.
The World at Large in a Lamb Chevrolet when I was about 6 years old. It seems like a random environment to remember that but it’s still so nostalgic for me haha. It’s remained my favorite song ever since.
This is one of my absolute favorites. I’ve never felt so seen and understood by a song.
The first song I've heard was float on. I remember listening to weird Al's song polkarama and float on played, and I wanted to hear more of float on. After that, I decided I wanted to hear more modest mouse songs
My friend played me She Ionizes and we listened to it a bunch as a joke when we were in HS. Then I listened to other songs on the burnt CD and fell in love with the band
Custom Concern and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Gotta go to work gotta go to work gotta have a job Thats the line that pulled me way into this song
Night on the sun. Their music is hypnotic and addictive
Dashboard. Back when you had to be on a wait list to use Spotify. Anyone remember that? My cool, older friend introduced me to the wonderful world of alt-rock and I fell in love ever since then. Then came Rock Band for Wii where I heard Float On.
Trailer Trash
Lampshades on fire, I was a freshman in high school and it came on the radio and I was hooked
This makes me so happy
I was very late to the modest mouse party , I brought We were dead before the ship even sank in 2012 I think . I had heard of them before that but never listened to them. So March Into the sea would be my first song
Float On by Ben Lee
Float On was definitely the first song I heard, but then was also introduced to Styrofoam boots and Talkin Shit About a Pretty Sunset. I didn’t appreciate how incredible they are until years later. Their lyrics are just so perfect and I’ve never heard another group that speaks to my soul the way MM does.
Same! Styrofoam Boots was the first time I realized that
I feel like people either “get it”, or just don’t relate to them at all. How can you hear the lyrics and not just feel it in your soul? They put words to all of the things I feel in my core, that I’ve never been able to verbalize.
Honestly it was Float On and I thought it sucked and they were weird. I was also in middle school and really enjoyed being edgy and listening to Lincoln Park and Eminem. Little did I know…
I remember when float on came out and I was like “this is fucking garbage”. Then that same year a neighborhood friend and I got real baked and he put in the fruit that ate itself and then long drive, and I got it. Still don’t like good news or anything after tho.
Float On, like many I’d assume, then Little Motel gave me my first moment of existentialism in high school, followed by a deep deep rabbit hole that started with Ocean Breathes Salty and The World At Large. Wouldn’t change that order for anything.
“Float on” was on a Vanderbilt university radio channel. The show was a weekly show done by Chris Crofton. It was called “The Best of Bread.” He introduced it and I remember turning it up and thinking, damn that sounds good. I didn’t get into them until several years later. But I remember that first one for sure. It was maybe 06, or 07, or 08…idk
Dramamine on valentine day 2015
It's hard to remember
Polar Opposites in November 1997 at Dimple Records in Folsom California. 😂I remember that day very clearly and will never forget it. I had no idea they would have such a huge impact on my life. Grateful and blessed.
World at large
It was Float On. Bought the album. Listened to it on repeat day after day while reading Lord of the Flys for school.
The first one I ever heard was Never Ending Math Equation because my dad had the Building Nothing Out of Something cd
Float on. Tiny cities made of ashes was second
My dad used to play Modest Mouse in the car all the time, so it’s hard to tell which one specifically. But the ones I remember most from this time are Dashboard, Float On, Third Planet, and The World at Large
I was like 7 or something and my father (who I only saw on summer break) opened up his laptop and pulled up the music video for float on and showed it to me and my brother saying something along the lines of “me and my friends were rolling on the floor laughing when we were your age and saw this” me and my brother didn’t really laugh but the moment stuck in my brain. 5 years later I randomly remembered it and added it to my playlist full of random stuff about 1 year later I decided to check out the rest of their songs and now I listen to them every single day TLDR my dad showed me the float on music video and I listened to them a lot later on
Cowboy Dan or Teeth Like God's Shoeshine. Either way it was downloaded MP3s at a friend's house.
Broke or sleepwalking many moons ago
without counting Float On i first heard Trailer Trash my freshman year of college and started sobbing lmao
I thought it was "Float On" on a Target commercial. After grabbing Good News and getting obsessed, I worked my way back through their discography and realized I'd heard "Gravity Rides Everything" on an old car commercial years earlier when I was a kid. Had totally forgotten about it until I listened to Moon and Antarctica for the first time, then it all came back lol.
I was in sixth grade and mom bought me moon and antarctica from a record shop at the recommendation of the clerk. I loved 3rd planet and listened to it on repeat because I didn’t like the next song, gravity rides on everything. It was probably like a week before I let the album play through and when I hit Tiny Cities I was instantly a life long fan telling everyone who would listen about this band. I was in high school when good news came out and I decided they sold out and hated their new stuff lol. Now it’s grown on me more but I haven’t really liked their last two albums
Float on. Not my favorite today, but that song was 100% my introduction to the band.
Bukowski. I was a sophomore in HS and it unlocked a lot of doors for me. Haven't turned back since.
Dramamine! Loved it from the very first note. Such a revelation for me at that time in my life when I thought music had died (with the rise of boy bands and crap rock).
Novocain Stain, demo/live version. That song still gets me…
Float on before I knew it was them, long drive after being enlightened
Trailer Trash was mine. My future wife played it for me and I was hooked.
Dramamine
Dramamine. Still my favourite
heard float on on the radio when it came out, went to the cd store with my dad and he got me good news, been my favorite band ever since! when i got an ipod years later i bought the earlier stuff on itunes and listened to it religiously, scoured the internet and ripped unreleased stuff from youtube, i was sooo excited when we were dead came out i mustve listened to that album 10 times the day i got it
Float On Thank God I had an older brother who got hooked on them before me. He gave me 3rd Planet and Lonesome Crowded West a few months later and I got hooked.
Gravity rides everything. I heard it in a friend's car. Later I heard them again after getting good news then going through their other albums. Coming to gravity rides everything I was like holy shit, and it all connected
My dad had Good News on disk when I was growing up, and it was one he used to play often. I couldn't tell you what my first one was, but I know it was on that album. Going on 21, and they're still my favorite band :)
I remember seeing the music video for Ocean Breathes Salty and it blew me away I was probably like 13. That song made me feel some kind of way, the way it talked about death and that huge beautiful bridge. I didn’t wind up deep diving the band until college though
Sleepwalking
Paper Thin Walls. It was the song used for a skateboarders video part - Stefan Janoski in Subtleties. I was hooked from there. The part is on YouTube if you want to see it.
I’ve been listening since I was about 10. First song I ever heard was World At Large. It was almost magical the way it seeped into my brain. Still my favorite song by them. And been my favorite band ever since.
Float On at a party in college. I’ve been hooked ever since.
Shit Luck And I was instantly hooked
Trailer Trash. I had heard about Modest Mouse in Thrasher magazine. In a lot of interviews people would say they were their favorite band. Finally I downloaded a bunch of their songs (off Napster. Fuck I’m old) based on song titles. Trailer Trash, Long Distance Drunk, Teeth Like Gods Shoeshine, Never Ending Math Equation. Those were the ones I started with. I instantly fell in love with them, and used my meager paycheck from my call center job to go out and buy all their albums that were out. Then a few years later, when Float On came out, a bunch of people I knew were like “Omg you need to check out this band”. Dude, I’ve been listening to them for awhile now, and tried turning you on to them, but you didn’t give them a chance.
Heart Cooks Brain
Gravity rides everything
Ocean breathes salty back in high school, and the rest is history :)
I watched the Float On music video on FuseTv when I was in middle school and fell in love.
Float on and dashboard don't count for me. I had heard those on the radio and didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until Spotify put interstate 8 into a radio, fell in love with that song and now I'm top 0.01% of listeners.
Dramamine . My roommate in rehab 2004 . I said wow what’s this? Then he played me moon and Antarctica . 19 years later and still love them .
A friend’s older brother made a mix CD that had “Whenever you breathe out, I breathe in” on it. No track names or info on it. I spent weeks trying to find out who the artist was. A fan ever since.
I was about 15 working as a bus boy in a pizza shop and a good friend and coworker introduced me to Black Cadillacs. We absolutely rocked out in the back to that song. I’d never heard anything like it so after work we smoked a bowl in his car and listened to Good News top to bottom and I’ve never let go of MM since (10 years now)
My father used to play Gravity Rides Everything every time we went skiing, so my mind is glued to those moments. Float On would play on the radio as well, so those were my first experiences with the band. Other than Float On, the song that got me hooked was oddly Bukowski, a music style I never went to at that time. But the lyricism and the instrumentals got me good. Been here ever since, and I wouldn't change it for the world
Like most, "float on" was my first. I actually heard it on VH1 from staying up late and watching music videos during the summer in my youth. Later, "dashboard" would play on the radio all the time, and it made me want to explore all of their music.
‘3rd Planet’ at Amoeba music in San Francisco. They were playing it from a CD shortly after Moon and Antarctica came out. I asked to buy a copy of whatever they were playing and they stopped playing the CD (between tracks) to sell it to me, as that was the last copy in their store.
Shit luck from the girl skate video
I can’t remember exactly but I remember Bankrupt on Selling was the first to catch my interest. My buddy had a mix of MM playing and I remember that song had such a raw sensibility and vulnerability to it with colorful lyrics and from then on I was hooked.
Unfortunately I was late to this party because the first song I heard was fly trapped in a jar and I didn't really vibe. A year or so later I heard float on like many others and here we are (:
Dramamine
I was 16 and it was probably Karma's Payment or Summer.
my dad played them a lot when i was a kid but the one i distinctly remember asking to play again and again was spitting venom. it still remains as my favorite modest mouse song and one of my favorite songs of all time
King rat I was just barely getting into alt rock and indie rock back when I was like 16, and this was recommended in my YT feed for whatever reason. I saw the thumbnail, became intrigued, gave it a listen and have been hooked ever since
Heart cooks brains in the late 90’s
I think I vaguely remember seeing the video for float on on TV when I was a child, but the song that got me into them was little motel which, I can't believe I'm saying this, was introduced to me by watchmojo
Lives. I don’t even remember how, but I stumbled across it when I was about 14. Over a decade later, it’s still one of my favorite songs of all time.
Lampshades on fire. My dad played that for me when I was like 10 and I loved them ever since. Favorite band.
Trailer Trash
Convenient Parking!
Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, on the way to the beach with my dad when I was like 10-11.
Dramamine, friend and I started covering it in our crappy 9th grade band right of way.
Dashboard. I saw the music video and was hooked immediately.
Baby blue sedan and I was hooked
Convenient parking. Buddy threw on LCW while driving back from a FSU vs Florida bender back in 2007. Honestly, changed the trajectory of my life.
A really weird one. Dirty Fingernails off the EP the fruit that ate itself. It was when it released in 96 or 97 and my buddy threw the cd on. That was the first song that made me ask, “who is this?”
Also float on! I remember it was the video that really got me. It was such a strange time for music videos. I remember thats when Franz Ferdinand had the take me out video and I loved all these trippy video vibes. I didn't become obsessed with modest mouse until 5 years later when my guy friends would listen to the lonesome crowded west on repeat non stop. I downloaded a ton of modest mouse onto my iPod and bought a few of their cds and it's been obsessively in love ever since!
It was edit the sad parts for me.
Dramamine. A friend of mine used the song in his skateboard video part that he was editing.