A clip from a recent interview that is making me giggle. Isaac talks about how he exclusively listens to the radio while driving, and his disdain for his kids’ music requests.
“These people do not listen to good music”
Ha! Brb gonna go listen to watermelon meow meow and the chicken song.
Tonight will be my 7th time seeing them. I see they’ve switched it up pretty much every night. Please god let them play truckers atlas and heart cooks brain. I’ve never seen either live and will be so stoked!
Anyone else got anything they are dying to hear?
Specifically the guitar solo at around 2:03 in most versions of the song. It's Bernard Sumner playing, recorded in 1980.
MM has long been my favorite band, and Ceremony has long been one of my favorite songs, and I never realized how much the lead guitar sounds exactly like Isaac. Something about the style of the melody and the tone, especially that middle solo, could be taken straight from Isaac's brain. Except Isaac was 5 years old.
Just thought the similarities were cool. I don't know if MM ever mentioned new order or joy division as an influence but I bet they liked this song a lot. The drums and bass also rip on Ceremony, especially on live versions where they play it fast
Here are the results of the Dream Setlist poll from last week.
We only had a dozen or so participate--and yet we had 132 songs voted for at least once, which I think really speaks to the immensity of Modest Mouse’s catalog!
After adding the 25 songs with the highest votes we hit exactly two hours of playtime, so that’s where I stopped. (Full disclosure: for any voter who felt strongly about only *one* specific song being played, I counted it as 3 votes toward that song.)
They are in ascending order, with the songs with the most votes as the encore!
Dirty Fingernails
All Night Diner
Pups to Dust
March Into the Sea
Satin in a Coffin
Parting of the Sensory
Missed the Boat
The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box
Life’s a Dream
We are Between
Lampshades on Fire
Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
Trailer Trash
Cowboy Dan
Lives
Dashboard
King Rat
Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine
Breakthrough
Broke
3rd Planet
ENCORE
Night On the Sun
Spitting Venom
Paper Thin Walls
Bukowski
Thank you to all who participated! While I can’t say that we speak for all 7,000+ followers of this sub, it was fun to read your responses and to put the list together. And it would be a badass set imo.
March on!
I had my first ever digital camera, a Canon S400. I had it in night mode without the flash so it had a long shutter speed and I accidentally discovered a technique I call "swirly vision." I'm actually a much bigger fan now than I was then (I know now what I knew then
but I didn't know then what I know now) and I think the pics fit the music so well. I love the colorful lights and the kaleidoscopic, almost double-exposure style.