#221

It’s the Modest Mouse/Boredoms crossover you never knew you needed!

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#222

Judging from the 3 songs they’ve put out from it (or what I assume they were from that record) - I’m glad they’ve seemingly ditched it.

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#223

Loved them ever since I heard John Peel play Doin the Cockroach.

Five.

Bought Lonesome Crowded West as soon as I could and it blew my socks clean off. Bought everything else I could when I saw it.
My girlfriend got The Moon & Antarctica but we split up before I could really listen to it properly. Didn’t really care for it when I did hear it, may have had bad associations of course.
Didn’t really keep track of them after that. Loved it when I heard Float On on the radio for the first time having assumed they’d split up or whatever.

This is a very very VERY good song from their later stuff that I like and listen to a lot

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#224

LONG post coming soon hopefully (I swear, every time it’s a band important to me I end up having an insane morning and missing the discussion), but I’ll say for now that in the horrible alternate universe where Billy Corgan never picked up a guitar, you’d all be dealing with having to read “non-Brock” / “Brockesque” / “non-Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine” type adjectives and disclaimers in every thread.

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#225
  • Brock
  • Misty
  • Ash
  • One of the others that don’t exist

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#226

I like this universe A LOT

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#227

I’ve had a few drinks and just want to say that this band means more to me than anything else in the world - it was the base of one of the best friendships I ever had and quite frankly they saved me from myself countless times <3

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#228

Well the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you’ll end up where you were

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#229

‘Modest Mouse things you were slow to realise’

That the chords to ‘The World At Large’ are the same as the following tune on the album ‘Float On’, only slowed down.

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#230

Didn’t know that. I started seeing her name around a lot a while later but she seems to have disappeared again

#231

There were a few new songs too I think, the Swim Until You Can’t See Land single was definitely out by then as I have a little flyer for it somewhere that I picked up at the merch table at that gig, and I feel like Living in Colour was played. I remember them ending on Square 9 as well as they all went off and left Grant drumming the outro on his own to finish the set

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#232

Should have been a fan for a lot longer than I have been.

Heard “heart cooks brain” on a matador compilation and LOVED it. Got very excited and saw a record by them in a Manchester record shop called “Sad Sappy Sucker” so I bought it and skipped home excitedly.

It was utter dogshit and I was so disappointed.

Wasn’t until much later and the ability to easily listen to stuff on the Internet that I realised that sss wasn’t really representative and got into their classic albums but by then they were really a spent force. Shame.

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#233

Oh you actually enjoyed the musical pairing? I assumed you were giving the chef’s kiss because they were both named for timorous beasties.

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#235

Can’t believe The Moon And Antartica is 20 years old.

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#236

That was one of the defining memories of that night.
Grant absolutely destroying it on the drums and everyone loving it. :grinning:
Aye prob was closer to release of Winter but it hadn’t dropped yet maybe.
What a night eh!

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#237

A little from column A
A little from column B

:smile:

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#238

Aye I think that single came out well in advance, album was out some time the following year

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#239

love this song a lot

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#240

I loved James Mercer’s backing vocals on that album and thought “wow The Shins must be really good if he’s the lead singer!” But I’ve listened to a couple of Shins albums and find them a bit nothingy. Shame.

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