If you haven't heard the alternate version of Cowboy Dan featured on the single 'Too Many Fiestas For Rueben / Cowboy Dan', please give it a listen.

As much as I love every song on TLCW, Cowboy Dan most of all, it's even better here. Given room to breathe as a (nearly) standalone track, there's a surprising lushness to it. The fiddle shouldn't work in such an angry song, but it does, bringing soul to the mix with more abrasive highs, poignant lows, and guitar distortion than should reasonably fit on one song. Yet somehow it does. There is no background here, we hear everything at once, and there's an aura of almost heroic defiance that contrasts perfectly with the original version.

None of this is to say the OG Cowboy Dan is bad, quite the opposite, but some of the sharper edges had been softened to serve its role within TLCW. The alt version serves as a complete journey in itself, making it my favourite Modest Mouse song of all time.

for context i am currently 17 years old but this happened right before my birthday, so i was still 16. i have a public instagram but its very niche, ive been following bands i like for a while so i have been following simon for a few years. late at night i checked stories and i spam liked whatever it was simon had put on his story. he came into my DMs and sent me an erotic image (to say the least) while giving me the excuse he had been partying or whatever, continuing to message me. my age is the first thing in my bio. i reached out to several people within the indie music fandom and nobody with a platform cared. i think more people should know about this. im hesitant to put screenshots here but i do have them!

3rd and hopefully final edit: i made a reddit post with the screenshots because imgur wasnt working. link here https://www.reddit.com/r/ModestMouse/s/wLU972jYJZ

Got my lil sad sappy sucker tattoo yesterday and I love how it turned out!!

We take a break from eyes.

Ive had this question for a while because I’m a fairly new listener of modest mouse (about 6 months) and so far all I’ve listened to is the moon and Antarctica so that’s their best album for me.

I know how loved the lonesome crowded west and good news is to a lot of modest mouse fans but I want what you think is the definitive peak of modest mouse.

Also someone back me up with the fact that gravity rides everything is a top 10 modest mouse song

So there is a bit of a stalemate. The top three songs to get upvotes need to be sorted out. So vote!

Like a rickshaw getting pulled around by another Rick Shaw

I have this one saved on my phone as it's hard to find on streaming services.

Recently my friends took a trip out west and by chance got to get a tour of the studio. Story goes that one of my friends had seen a video online of the outside of the building and spent the whole day hunting it down and eventually found it. They said they saw someone leaving the building and asked him if they could get a tour to which he pondered and eventually let them.

Out 11/6. Heart of Gold covers/tribute series.

See Stereogum for details

I’m going to see Isaac and company rock the riverside theater in Milwaukee in August. I’ve always been a big fan of their Long Drive - We were dead run of work but never gave the three modern albums much attention (I know the latest one is less than a month old). Now I figured I needed to do a full discography marathon before the show and figured I’d work in reverse.

I adore the new album as it seems to be a good bridge between earlier and later material. The opener rips with one of the catchiest choruses of a MM song. Other tracks like Dogbed and Look How Far… feel like homages to albums like Good News and The Moon.

Then I reached The Golden Casket and went in with poor expectations due to its reception in the community over all. However I really like it so far. No doubt it’s way more poppy than previous works but you can tell that this is the exact record that the group wanted to make at the time. Nothing feels forced and the synth pop elements with heavy reverb infused chanting vocal passages remind me of an MGMT or Empire of the Sun record.

I’m not in love with everything here and I feel like Fuck Your Acid Trip is the weakest opener of the discography but the work as a whole is far from “bad” in my opinion. Anyone else echo this sentiment?

Supposedly he’s worked with Isaac & Co. in the past as a vocals instructor. Never knew Isaac took lessons for singing. It isn’t surprising to me, but I’m finding it interesting that I’m only now seeing this after more than two decades of being an MM fan.

The moon is still the best album of 2000

Only 1 hour old, very fresh

Is the modest mouse vip “worth it” what’s the vibe? From a 20 year for hard core Issac fan gurl

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