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Post by Pea on Nov 9, 2010 12:10:07 GMT -8
ive heard great things about them. i suppose it's time i check them out!
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Post by interstateeight on Nov 9, 2010 17:52:48 GMT -8
I could really see that happening. I hope mimicking birds, and modest mouse both make an appearance. modest mouse hasn't been around the area since 2008, and like you said the mimicking birds just hit it big with the festival circuit. in fact, I'm just gonna go ahead and throw a completely random prediction out there.... I give sasquatch a 90 percent chance of putting both of them on the bill. Thats right... you heard it. spread the news I saw Modest Mouse in September 2009 in Spokane. They played Bumbershoot in Seattle the night before. Clearly what he meant to say is that Modest Mouse does not tour nearly enough, and as long as I am not seeing them three times a week, he is correct.
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Post by Lump on Nov 9, 2010 20:57:15 GMT -8
A bit off topic, but I8, I played in a little Modest Mouse cover band for a little cover show we do in town every Halloween. Being Eric Judy is fun. (Did Talking Heads, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Rage Against the Machine too)
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 10, 2010 10:52:03 GMT -8
I saw Modest Mouse in 2000 (Moon and Antarctica) and it was fucking intense. I've seen them three or four times since, and each time it is progressively more disappointing. Nevermind that their new music is about as bad as it can be.
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Post by wolfhat on Nov 10, 2010 16:30:01 GMT -8
I saw Modest Mouse in 2000 (Moon and Antarctica) and it was fucking intense. I've seen them three or four times since, and each time it is progressively more disappointing. Nevermind that their new music is about as bad as it can be. I've had a similar experience with them. I first saw them years ago and the show was amazing, but every time I've seen them since it has been less and less mind blowing. I don't think their new music is awful, but it definitely doesn't compare to their first 3 LPs.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 10, 2010 16:41:29 GMT -8
Hate to say it, but the problem is Isaac got sober.
Years ago, when the internet was a baby (and before [adult swim]), the Williams Street people maintained a flash-based website for Space Ghost Coast to Coast at ghostplanet.com. One section of that website listed music and film recommendations from the creators of the show, which is how I got turned on to Modest Mouse. I had gathered a small collection of what would be called 'indie' music from stuff I had seen on MTV2, but when I went to Amazon.com to order 'Moon and Antarctica', the rabbit hole of Amazon recommendations blasted the gate open for me. A couple weeks later I had my first copy of 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea', and it was all over.
So I have a special place in my heart for Modest Mouse, even if they continually disappoint me these days. Last I saw `em was at Sasquatch, and I was so bored I couldn't even pay attention to them.
However, there was one last *really* special MM performance that I can point to. It was a few months before 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News' was released. I was sitting, reading a book in Col. Summers Park in the vicinity of 20th and Hawthorne in Portland where I lived at the time. There is a group of houses overlooking the park, from which I could hear a band rehearsing that sounded an AWFUL lot like Modest Mouse. When the singer started in it removed all doubt; later, when the record came out, I recognized 'Bukowski' which I had heard in an embryonic form that day.
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Post by Lump on Nov 10, 2010 16:45:42 GMT -8
Hate to say it, but the problem is Isaac got sober. true story
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Post by wolfhat on Nov 10, 2010 16:51:24 GMT -8
Wicked story, HG. If that was me at that point in time I would have lost my shit.
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Post by know ID yuh on Nov 10, 2010 17:56:31 GMT -8
Hate to say it, but the problem is Isaac got sober. true story Many believe this (including myself), but I also think he recently got used to be sober. I've seen some dreadful Modest Mouse shows, but caught the residency in Portland a year ago, and thought they were solid. Brock still exhibited some madman tendencies, and I still couldn't understand a word he was saying between songs. Then again, I also feel like they hate festivals, and go all out for their paying customers in the smaller venues.
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Post by Lump on Nov 11, 2010 6:42:57 GMT -8
Many believe this (including myself), but I also think he recently got used to be sober. I've seen some dreadful Modest Mouse shows, but caught the residency in Portland a year ago, and thought they were solid. Brock still exhibited some madman tendencies, and I still couldn't understand a word he was saying between songs. Then again, I also feel like they hate festivals, and go all out for their paying customers in the smaller venues. also true
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Post by interstateeight on Nov 12, 2010 14:10:39 GMT -8
It's 2010 and I'm still hearing about Modest Mouse getting worse, disappointing live, and that Isaac is a bummer since he got clean or whatever. That's cool. You know who's terrible? George W. Bush! No blood for oil! Also, what's the deal with Garden State?
lumpy: I bet that was a shit ton of fun.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 12, 2010 14:41:48 GMT -8
I8 just know he hot shit.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 12, 2010 14:42:43 GMT -8
I was liking not liking Modest Mouse before it was cool.
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Post by Pea on Nov 12, 2010 16:56:45 GMT -8
i hope modest mouse brings back that sweet LED cube again next year
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Post by topspin on Nov 13, 2010 2:14:35 GMT -8
I would totally be down for modest mouse playing both the sub and headliner spot.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo............... I'm finnalyyyyy drunk posting
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Post by interstateeight on Nov 15, 2010 8:59:01 GMT -8
I would totally be down for modest mouse playing both the sub and headliner spot. Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo............... I'm finnalyyyyy drunk posting 1.) ME FUCKING TOO 2.) Welcome, I hope this isn't the last time.
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Post by doumak on Nov 16, 2010 21:45:46 GMT -8
from my CMJ time: Baths Miniature Tigers Ty Segall Cloud Nothings Violens Young Man Houses
general CMJ buzz: Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr. How to Dress Well Wild Nothing Gold Panda Hey Champ The Drums
not at cmj and hopefully not at sasquatch: Die Antwoord.
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Post by bradberad12 on Nov 22, 2010 10:26:53 GMT -8
from my CMJ time: Baths Miniature Tigers Ty Segall Cloud Nothings Violens Young Man Houses general CMJ buzz: Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr. How to Dress Well Wild Nothing Gold Panda Hey Champ The Drums not at cmj and hopefully not at sasquatch: Die Antwoord. I picked up the Dale Earnhardt jr.jr. EP, and liked it very much...however it's only four songs so not much to go on...has anyone seen a live show?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Nov 22, 2010 10:56:35 GMT -8
I'd like to see The Bird and the Bee at Sasquatch.
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Post by wolfhat on Nov 22, 2010 15:36:18 GMT -8
I'd like to see The Bird and the Bee at Sasquatch. Did you miss them? They were there a couple years ago:
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