I’m back from my extended hiatus of vacations…birthday parties…big work projects…and all night drinking binges in North Korea (seriously you have to try the Kanggye if you can).  It’s been a slow period for big releases…even Modest Mouse could only afford to put out an EP.

 

That said…probably the biggest news in music occurred this month.  One of the greatest websites devoted to music (EMUSIC) has completely changed its operating proceedures.  I could do a top 11 (or bottom 11) of all the changes that have impaired a once great pinnacle of musical hope.  Prices have gone up…downloads per month have gone down.  Sharing eliminated.  Site runs slower.  Site has more bugs.  And what do we get in return?  Catalogs by Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, Modest Mouse and Bruce Springsteen.  Whoopee…who didn’t own all that stuff already?  What a waste.

 

And why is making a list of the best Modest Mouse songs so hard?  What are your lists people?!!

 

 

1.  Trailer Trash (The Lonesome Crowded West)

2.  Dashboard (We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank)

3.  Custom Concern (This is a Long Drive)

4.  Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine (The Lonesome Crowded West)

5.  The View (Good News For People Who Love Bad News) 

6.  Florida (We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank)

7.  Float On (Good News For People Who Love Bad News) 

8.  Breakthrough (This is a Long Drive)

9.  Spitting Venom (We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank)

10.  Doin The Cockroach (The Lonesome Crowded West)

11.  Fly Trapped in a Jar (We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank)

 

Buy the new Modest Mouse EP, No One’s First, and You’re Next.