High-energy Indie Band
Modest Mouse is an American alternative band. The band was formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington by guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, the band has attained significant popular success.
Brock came up with the name "Modest Mouse" when he read the Virginia Woolf stream of consciousness essay The Mark On the Wall in which the author described the working middle class as "modest, mouse-coloured people."
Brock frequently moved around with his mother when he was a child. Around this time, his mother left his father for his father's brother (Brock's uncle). Brock's mother's house flooded and forced them to move into his mother's new husband's trailer, but there was no room for Brock. Brock stayed behind, living in the second story of the flooded house, until he was eventually evicted by police. He then moved into a shed next to his mother's house and it is said this is where Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy first began playing music.
In 1994, the band recorded their debut EP, Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?, at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios, (read more)
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Worse than you would ever know
Oh, the dashboard melted
But we still have the radio
Oh, it should've been, could've been
Worse than you would ever know
Well, you told me about nowhere
Well, it sounds like someplace I'd like to go
Oh, it could've been, should've been
Worse than you would ever know
Well, the windshield was broken
But I love the fresh air, y'know
(The dashboard melted but we still have the radio)
Modest Mouse Dashboard Lyrics
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We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
1. March Into The Sea 2. Dashboard 3. Fire It Up 4. Florida 5. Parting Of The Sensory 6. Missed The Boat 7. We've Got Everything 8. Fly Trapped In A Jar 9. Education 10. Little Motel 11. Steam Engenius 12. Spitting Venom 13. People As Places As People 14. Invisible
Release Date: 03/20/2007
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- Official site at Epic Records includes news, sound files, biography, and tour dates.
- Modest Mouse Blog » Waiting for Tom
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- MySpace.com - Modest Mouse - Issaquah, WASHINGTON - Indie / Rock
- MySpace music profile for Modest Mouse with tour dates, songs, videos, pictures, blogs, band information, downloads and more.
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- Modest Mouse, a nearly two-decade old indie rock band highly criticized for their atheist lyrical themes, released their fifth album, No One's First and You're Next, on August 4, 2009. While the band shifts their usual hard rock style ...
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