Modest Mouse/Ugly Cassanova

why hasn't this thread been made yet?

I know a lot of people on here are fans. They are my 2nd favorite band (1st being TGA) and they have some of the best and most consistent recorded output than any other band out there. I've also seen them 6-7 times (can't remember) and they attract the absolute weirdest crowd. My favorite record is The Moon & Antarctica (cannot wait for the repress this weekend). The best track being Life Like Weeds. Discuss!

Never really got into them.

The Moon & Antarctica is a great album i really like the song i came as a rat. Ive always wanted to see them live but never got the chance although i could imagine the would indeed attract a strange bunch. Definitely an awesome band and the side project ugly casanova is good aswell

PFREEZY wrote:

Never really got into them.

thats a shame, what was turning you away?

I don't know I've tried a few times. I don't know what to start with. It seems like they try to be weird for the sake of being weird. They also never seem to tour with anyone I like.

i don't like their new stuff...the second album is amazing. Lonesome Crowded West is defiantly one of my top 5 albums

new record is dreadful (not counting king rat or i've got it all(most)). thank god they didn't play any songs from it when they were touring that record. the whale song was a solid track though.


they just announced their summer tourdates today. def gonna try and hit up brooklyn and montclair

is it me or does issac write better songs when he is depressed?

nope, you're not alone. its pretty much fact

I really dig Modest Mouse. I magaged to see them at V festival in Sydney and see Modest Mouse followed by The Jesus and Mary Chain, Queens of the Stone Age and Smashing Pumpkins was an awesome day bonus was seeing Johnny Marr play with them.

Love modest mouse, one of my favourite bands and not to be accused of blasphemy on a TGA forum but I prefer modest mouse. Spitting Venom is one of my favourite songs ever and The Moon & Antartica is an amazing album from beginning to end.

Ugly Casanova have some great songs but the album is a bit inconsistent in comparison to his other releases.

yes very good band , liked them for a good while , gonna be seeing them at Leeds festival.

kieran wrote:

bonus was seeing Johnny Marr play with them.

its a bummer he doesn't play with them any longer.

Yeah we were dead... was a great album. I'm going to see them at Electric Picnic, can't wait.

colmillionaire wrote:

kieran wrote:

bonus was seeing Johnny Marr play with them.

its a bummer he doesn't play with them any longer.

Marr has said that Reading/Leeds festival might be the time for a get together as his other band the cribs are playing the same day. Not that im going.

whoa, thats awesome news!

oldgospelchoir wrote:

is it me or does issac write better songs when he is depressed?

dont most singers? most artists, really.

anyways, this is one of my favorite songs of theirs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJECnOIYSc

"We Were Dead" is my favorite album from them although most seem to disagree.

I'm a fan. Trailer Trash is probably my fav. song by them.

ThisMachineKillsFascists wrote:

I'm a fan. Trailer Trash is probably my fav. song by them.

I agree. I love the lyrics to that song. I can't get tired of it

simo wrote:

"We Were Dead" is my favorite album from them although most seem to disagree.

Yeah i thinks it's better than "Good News..." but "The Moon and Antartica" is my favourite.

everyone watch this. it's amazing

http://pitchfork.com/tv/pitchfork-classic/1912-modest-mouse-the-lonesome-crowded-west/3115-entire-film/

So incredible, watched it yesterday. Made me re-fall in love with the band and LCW. Too good.

FINALLY GETTING A CHANCE TO SEE THESE GUYS.

I CANNOT BE MORE EXCITED.