The logical conclusion to rock music.

Putting any one of these songs in a club should be considered a safety hazard.

The soundtrack to taking a heroic amount of muscle relaxers, lounging on some yacht watching the sunset. All the while, thinking you're funniest person on God's green earth. So yeah it's perfect as far as I'm concerned.

One of the best things to crawl out of the cesspool that is Olympia, Washington. Shame this is the only full length project we got from the band, though they live on as an inspiration on groups like Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Heavenly, The Promise Ring amongst others... and I guess the guitar playing on Beck's second album where he sings the blues. Well sings the blues in the traditional sense.

The angst. The self-hatred. The Lync inspiration. The Calvin Johnson. The aimless guitar noodling that somehow assembles into a perfectly crafted track? Yeah, this is the best era of Modest Mouse by a mile. Concluding it with M&A is just the cherry on top.

Named one of my characters in Fallout: New Vegas Cowboy Dan. The city did indeed move to him, not the other way around.

On a more serious note, Trailer Trash is up there (albeit with stiff competition) as the most devastating Modest Mouse song.

This song reminds me of the time I was in Idaho attending a Mormon funeral. Now, I am not Mormon. No shade to them of course! Nice people and all that. But man, I was a walking representation of shit they didn't like. The sin of caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol and drug use were crawling up my back and in their eyes my soul was beyond salvation. Hell, the funeral may as well have been for me only it would have been a more somber affair with many statements akin to "well, he made his ... read more