Modest Mouse is also never afraid to be honest. Their songs sometimes break the fourth wall. It is easy to understand why so many young, emotional kids gravitated to this new sound, because the band provides an aspect of openness and universality that is so easy to connect with.
It was like someone finally heard our struggle to balance our hormones and our emotions; they scream just like we needed to. They were as angry and ugly as us, but they were something to aspire to be, instead of settling and choosing not to change. Modest Mouse was such an important band for the development of Gen Z kids and millennials. Skip to content Toggle navigation.
Sounds x June 30, While Modest Mouse's records were always technically impressive with flashes of real beauty, they ultimately came off as self-indulgent: ambitious but sloppy, intelligent but over-intellectualized. Too often, it seemed, those fragile harmonies and intricate melodies would meander into mere experimentation for experimentation's sake, or collapse outright into dissonance.
Maybe this was a genuine expression of the band's vision. Maybe it was the calculated product of a neo-punk ethic that equates accessible pop music with evil. Who cares? For that matter, what's the difference? Their stuff left me cold. Great songs. Never had the urge to hear them. The band's live show, friends said, would change my mind.
It did not. Ansari is correct that no one fakes ejaculation on stage at a Modest Mouse concert. The near-capacity, sweaty, very white crowd of 4, ranged from high schoolers to graying alterna-dads, with most fans hovering in their late's. Save for a few teenage girls in tie-dye skirts and the occasional dude with blonde dreadlocks, the crowd was flamboyantly plain.
The men wore wire-rimmed glasses and thrift shop t-shirts; the women stuck to loose jeans and Chuck Taylors—that nearly sexless, aggressive underdressing GenX suburbanites use to express apathy, anti-materialism or both.
The show was a technical disaster, with murky sound and endless glitches. Even before the first note, the band stood on stage twiddling their thumbs for a full minute while a sound guy tried to get a microphone working.
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