Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About download mp3

The album was released on Up Records on April 16, 1996, on both compact disc and vinyl formats. Many of the tracks on the album focus on traveling by automobile, and the loneliness and isolation associated with rural life. More Modest Mouse albums. Strangers to Ourselves. No One's First and You're Next. Show all albums by Modest Mouse.

This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is the debut studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on April 16, 1996 by Up Records. Many of the album's tracks focus on traveling by automobile and the loneliness associated with rural life. All lyrics written by Isaac Brock; all music composed by Modest Mouse. Isaac Brock – guitar and vocals (drums on "Dog Paddle"). Jeremiah Green – drums (bass on "Dog Paddle"). Eric Judy – bass (guitar on "Dog Paddle").

The album was released on Up Records on April 16, 1996, on both compact disc and vinyl formats. Many of the tracks focus on traveling by automobile, and the loneliness and isolation associated with rural life  . It helped me through it and a lot of other things going on at the time! Actions.

Author onlymodestmouse 2,350. THIS IS A LONG DRIVE FOR SOMEONE WITH NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT by Modest Mouse (1996) (Album Tab) -. Isaac Brock - guitars, vocals, (drums on "dog paddle") Jeremiah Green - drums, (bass on "dog paddle") Eric Judy - bass, (guitar on "dog paddle")  . As a last thing, this is what he does at 4:48 in the song, What you do is you strike the chord really fast (tremolo-ish picking): e- B--10-- G--9-- D--11-- A- E

This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About" expands upon the themes of emotional and geographic isolation found in the band’s early recordings, and finds the band mixing slow, brooding numbers with thrashing guitar workouts. The general mood here is one of loneliness and desperation, eloquently expressed through both the lyrics and the rhythmic, sprawling instrumentation.

Dramamine," for instance, with its driving, mid-tempo beat and ricocheting guitar line, sums up the hopelessness of a doomed relationship, while the frantic "Head South" deals with the feeling of "being ashamed of your old space. The mandolin, slide guitar, and cello featured throughout the album give the songs a certain degree of depth that makes them stand out from average indie rock fare.

As the Modest Mouse reissue train keeps rolling, the sound on these pressings continue to be fantastic and this is no exception! BUT I do have to ask if anyone else has noticed these tiny glitchy type noises all throughout the pressings for both This ia a Long Drive and Lonesome Crowded West. I have a colored version and black version of both and I notice this on every one. It's not overwhelming like a pop and it's not indiscernible like crackling; it is the same exact sound that appears in the background of the sound stage and it is pretty clear in quieter passages.

Modest Mouse quickly found purchase in the Pacific Northwest scene. In 1994, they made their first EP with Calvin Johnson in Olympia for his twee-punk label K Records, as well as a single for Seattle's Sub Pop. They also recorded the album Sad Sappy Sucker, which sat on the shelf until 2001, when it did indeed turn out to be their most K-style record-bright, baggy, and loose at the seams. During this time they veered off into a wilderness of their own devising, debuting with the darker and tauter This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About on Up Records in 1996