Modest Mouse ::dashboard:: from grace lee on Vimeo.
YoooToooob has all of MM's official videos embed-embargoed because they're with the fundamentally evil really nice Sony/BMG records. So I got the FAIL, autoplaying official player via modestmouse.com. Resolution is small, but music is goooood. I used Vimeo instead
Some things of note:
- Isaac Brock is seemingly obsessed with the sea/the ocean/hemingway themes/salty sea-doggery
- I would personally sacrifice both your parents to have even an iota of Isaac's songwriting ability
- Banjo is win
- Every MM bassline is brilliant, even the onces that aren't
- Johnny Marr, who joined for "We Were Dead..." is now cred again, and is in fact now elevated to demi-god* status
- Paul prefers their old stuff, but I would happily play "Bukowski", "The Ocean Breathes Salty", "The View", "March Into The Sea" and "Dashboard" on rotation for the next bajillion years
- Behind-the-scenes goodness here
So Modest Mouse are today's Monday Musical Madness
* metaphorically speaking
posted @ Monday, December 29, 2008 4:33 PM