Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
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Artist: Modest MouseEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-09
Music Label: Up.
Soundtracks:
- Dramamine
- Breakthrough
- Custom Concern
- Might
- Lounge
- Beach Side Property
- She Ionizes & Atomizes
- Head South
- Dog Paddle
- Novocain Stain
- Tundra/Desert
- Ohio
- Exit Does Not Exist
- Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
- Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
- Space Travel Is Boring
Free Music Notes for This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Free Music Review: You know what I'm never going to forget?
Hit: 5 Stars
Though I don't remember the day or year, I'll always remember how I felt the first time this played through my speakers. The way I thought the first song ("Dramamine") was unearthly beautiful...then the way every song after that blended into each other and I wasn't sure WHAT the hell that noise was.
During song #2 I remember thinking, "Wow...this guy has a really distinct way of screaming through his nose." By the time song #4 came on, I'd decided it was the dirtiest piece of music I'd ever listened to. Not dirty as in immoral, but dirty as in it literally felt like I was scrubbing my ears against a metal washboard. 70 minutes of "Long Drive" was too much at first. It was raw. Not just unpolished, but RAW - in a way I thought might crack the CD if I played it too fast.
My impression was how horrible it was. Yet I listened to it again. Then just once more. Then once more after that. Suddenly it didn't sound so dirty anymore, and I began questioning my judgement of it. If this is so bad, why am I liking it so much?
I was lucky enough to see Modest Mouse live in 2006 and they opened the show with "Dramamine" and I thought I might have been dreaming. Considering how bad I thought it was initially, this album has long since become one of the best things in my life. Lay on your back, turn the volume up, and watch how the whole world turns as navy blue as the album cover. I'd give this 10 out of 5.
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About Poster
Frontman Isaac Brock's claim that he's being stalked by his own alter ego was not the first bit of evidence that Modest Mouse isn't your usual pop band. Witness the entirety of this 1996 indie debut from the Washington trio that inspired a major-label bidding war. This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About finds Brock cruising with cohorts Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green (plus an occasional cellist) through a landscape of intoxicatingly original lo-fi tunes. Sure, Brock's early vocals make Nikki Sudden sound like one smooth crooner, but their strained quality offset the primitive elegance of his guitar work, giving a passionate vulnerability to "Breakthrough," "Custom Concern," and other treatises on life in the lost lane. --Bill FormanAlternative Rock Music CDs
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