The best Issac lyrics : Tell me what you saw And ill tell you what you missed When the ocean met the sky You missed When time and life shook hands And said goodbye When the earth folded in on itself And said goodluck For your sake i hope heaven and hell Are really there but i wouldnt hold my breath You wasted life why wouldnt you waste death.
"Your heart felt good. It was dripping pitch and made of wood. And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass beneath. Well, outside, naked, shivering, looking blue from the cold sunlight that's reflecting off the moon. And baby-cum-angels fly around you. Reminding you we used to be three and not just two. And that's how the world began. And that's how the world will end..
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Sometimes all i really wanna feel is love. Sometimes Im angry that i feel so angry Sometimes my feelings get in the way of what I really feel I needed to say...
You probably know Ugly Casanova, but if not you gotta listen to that album as well... There were some gems I didn't know about for decades that are unique to a re-release from 2015, or something, like Diggin' Holes... dig deep into Modest Mouse demos for some truly amazing and sometimes amazingly weird shit, haha.
Man i love modest mouse and I feel like The Golden Casket is SUCH an underrated album it has such a great message that feels so modest mousy if that makes sense lol
Every new album is always underrated and then it slowly grows on all the MM members. But you're absolutely right, especially in the context of being critical of modern society. It seems like that's often a theme, with novacain stain, back to the middle, and custom concern, we've got everything, etc just to name a few
@@CRuggles3 yeah even though their sound has kind of changed throughout the years they never lost the spark behind the lyrics of their song. Thats why i really like STO and don’t get why it’s hated on so hard. I feel like a lot of the songs off of that album have pretty deep meanings like Coyotes, The Tortoise And The Tourist, and Of Course We Know
Tangentially related, I really wonder if Modest Mouse has read or was inspired by Industrial Society and It's Future/Unabomber manifesto. They deal with such similar ideas in regards to modern society and the direction it's headed. I'd love for Issac to read it just for lyrical inspiration lol Guilty cocksespainial is probably the best song and it's the most underrated, no one even talks about it but it creates such great imagery of leaving nature only to run on a treadmill.
@@DrZombieSharkthat album took time for me to get into but it is amazing. Pups to Dust and Ansel are really good ones from Strangers to Ourselves as well.
I been waiting for a MM official lyrics book so soooo long.... I finally made a homemade MM lyrics book, because i consider them poetry. And believe me I speak three languages and MM lyrics are amongst the best of what I've heard in indie/rock music.
not one MM song about a girl - trust me ive listened to everything. One is about a girl in another city who he thinks is pretty - but the idea about people who lie about things like that.
Interesting, personally I've never felt like that should be a song for Isaac to write about. Already plenty of songs in the world about such a topic. Curious to know what it means to you?
@@withinmotion I just think he isn't one for cliches - as a rule, it's a good rule and you will always get a fresh sounding album. I was thinking today that Spilled Milk Factory might be about relationships, buts it's not romantic or mawkish. It's more about the pain that goes into partnering up and living together and all that.
Maybe the final verse of “Bankrupt on Selling”? Y’know, the one after Isaac has broken your heart with the first 3 verses, then utterly smashed your heart with the 4th verse (the one about going to college) and then he obliterates your heart with the last verse about when she was sober and he was kinder, and you go “good grief, who’s chopping onions in here?” and realise it might be the most beautiful sad song you’ve ever heard? That last bit might just be me though tbh…
@@raddimusmcchoyber3362 yeah Ive always suspected that explaination they gave on the Pitch Fork documentary was untrue - something harder to explain is what is behind that song. But even when he does write about woman; its not explicit that its about a past romantic relationship; "when she used to be sober and I was kinder" - could be about a mother just as easily. - I liked this video a lot but I am still not so sure what the difference between positive dialectic s and negative dialectics is - I asked chat gpt and I read the intro to the paper on JSTOR and both seemed a bit dense and hard to explain. As I understand it he explains feelings through things - kinda like Dylan does with "Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie" - and this is potent visualisation tool. To me Issac is just the guy that tells the truth. Things are never good or bad, they just are - amd he doesnt romanticise or idealise things nor does he preach virtues. "The good times are killing me" is an example when he is really literate about it because he want you to get the message on the first listen. With something like "Buttons to push buttons" he a lot more cryptic because he is unsure about what his view really is. I find MM instructive and humbling;.
@@SoSo-li6dn I think I have to respectfully disagree, in that I believe that he is talking about a romantic partner in the last verse on “Bankrupt...” What a brilliant, succinct way you use to describe IB’s lyrical approach by the way, the few lines in your comment starting “To me Isaac is just the guy that tells the truth”. That bit you wrote clicked perfectly in my head, “oh, this person has just brilliantly summed up what I find so compelling about ‘Long Drive’ and (especially) ‘Lonesome Crowded’”. And I totally agree that he doesn’t ever otherwise really write about women/romance etc. Similar to Joe Strummer in The Clash, never really wrote about relationships etc. I’d be interested to see if not writing about that is intentional on IB’s part, or if his creativity/muse just doesn’t move him in that direction.
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The best Issac lyrics :
Tell me what you saw
And ill tell you what you missed
When the ocean met the sky
You missed
When time and life shook hands
And said goodbye
When the earth folded in on itself
And said goodluck
For your sake i hope heaven and hell
Are really there but i wouldnt hold my breath
You wasted life why wouldnt you waste death.
You may be right. But he has so many awesome lyrics. And after seeing them again last week with Pixies the new band and Isaac Are as good as ever!
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?
"Your heart felt good. It was dripping pitch and made of wood.
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass beneath.
Well, outside, naked, shivering, looking blue from the cold sunlight that's reflecting off the moon.
And baby-cum-angels fly around you. Reminding you we used to be three and not just two.
And that's how the world began.
And that's how the world will end..
Is this ocean breathes salty ?
@@Praisestothemosthigh369 yep
OK guys, I’ve been reading my lawyer friend’s books, I haven’t yet found a law that covers the absolute criminal offence that is the disparity in views between this channel’s 2 videos. Please share them with your music-minded pals (esp the MM one!), because 1) they’re superb and deserve to be viewed, 2) I’m still grateful 18 years on to the girl who got me hip to “Lonesome Crowded…” and 3) I really hope the creator of this channel doesn’t get discouraged, because he is very talented indeed.
Haha wow! thank you so much for the kind words. It means the world :)
The Moon & Antarctica is the Dante's Inferno of indie rock. The whole album is a throughout composed story.
Sometimes
all i really wanna feel
is love.
Sometimes
Im angry
that i feel so angry
Sometimes
my feelings
get in the way
of what
I really feel
I needed to say...
One of my favorites...
You probably know Ugly Casanova, but if not you gotta listen to that album as well... There were some gems I didn't know about for decades that are unique to a re-release from 2015, or something, like Diggin' Holes... dig deep into Modest Mouse demos for some truly amazing and sometimes amazingly weird shit, haha.
Edit the sad parts which sounds like manic depressive name laughing boy
Where's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank??
Man i love modest mouse and I feel like The Golden Casket is SUCH an underrated album it has such a great message that feels so modest mousy if that makes sense lol
Every new album is always underrated and then it slowly grows on all the MM members.
But you're absolutely right, especially in the context of being critical of modern society. It seems like that's often a theme, with novacain stain, back to the middle, and custom concern, we've got everything, etc just to name a few
@@CRuggles3 yeah even though their sound has kind of changed throughout the years they never lost the spark behind the lyrics of their song. Thats why i really like STO and don’t get why it’s hated on so hard. I feel like a lot of the songs off of that album have pretty deep meanings like Coyotes, The Tortoise And The Tourist, and Of Course We Know
Tangentially related, I really wonder if Modest Mouse has read or was inspired by Industrial Society and It's Future/Unabomber manifesto.
They deal with such similar ideas in regards to modern society and the direction it's headed. I'd love for Issac to read it just for lyrical inspiration lol
Guilty cocksespainial is probably the best song and it's the most underrated, no one even talks about it but it creates such great imagery of leaving nature only to run on a treadmill.
Back to the Middle is my favorite song on the new album. Isaac has a way of always ending the album with perfection and leaving me yearning for more.
@@DrZombieSharkthat album took time for me to get into but it is amazing. Pups to Dust and Ansel are really good ones from Strangers to Ourselves as well.
RIP Jeremiah Green
Isaac is one of a kind
I been waiting for a MM official lyrics book so soooo long.... I finally made a homemade MM lyrics book, because i consider them poetry. And believe me I speak three languages and MM lyrics are amongst the best of what I've heard in indie/rock music.
Ditto.
Greatest band ever, Isaac Brock is the closest thing to a Messiah or prophet we'll ever get. He's my hero ❤
Agreed!
More folks in the "music content creation" (yuck) space need to be talking about this band.
I think so too!
Great video, mate. It would please me if you did another.
Great Essay about one of my favorite bands !
Thanks a lot!
Looks tougher than all get out.
not one MM song about a girl - trust me ive listened to everything. One is about a girl in another city who he thinks is pretty - but the idea about people who lie about things like that.
Interesting, personally I've never felt like that should be a song for Isaac to write about. Already plenty of songs in the world about such a topic. Curious to know what it means to you?
@@withinmotion I just think he isn't one for cliches - as a rule, it's a good rule and you will always get a fresh sounding album. I was thinking today that Spilled Milk Factory might be about relationships, buts it's not romantic or mawkish. It's more about the pain that goes into partnering up and living together and all that.
Maybe the final verse of “Bankrupt on Selling”? Y’know, the one after Isaac has broken your heart with the first 3 verses, then utterly smashed your heart with the 4th verse (the one about going to college) and then he obliterates your heart with the last verse about when she was sober and he was kinder, and you go “good grief, who’s chopping onions in here?” and realise it might be the most beautiful sad song you’ve ever heard?
That last bit might just be me though tbh…
@@raddimusmcchoyber3362 yeah Ive always suspected that explaination they gave on the Pitch Fork documentary was untrue - something harder to explain is what is behind that song. But even when he does write about woman; its not explicit that its about a past romantic relationship; "when she used to be sober and I was kinder" - could be about a mother just as easily.
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I liked this video a lot but I am still not so sure what the difference between positive dialectic s and negative dialectics is - I asked chat gpt and I read the intro to the paper on JSTOR and both seemed a bit dense and hard to explain.
As I understand it he explains feelings through things - kinda like Dylan does with "Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie" - and this is potent visualisation tool.
To me Issac is just the guy that tells the truth. Things are never good or bad, they just are - amd he doesnt romanticise or idealise things nor does he preach virtues. "The good times are killing me" is an example when he is really literate about it because he want you to get the message on the first listen. With something like "Buttons to push buttons" he a lot more cryptic because he is unsure about what his view really is.
I find MM instructive and humbling;.
@@SoSo-li6dn I think I have to respectfully disagree, in that I believe that he is talking about a romantic partner in the last verse on “Bankrupt...” What a brilliant, succinct way you use to describe IB’s lyrical approach by the way, the few lines in your comment starting “To me Isaac is just the guy that tells the truth”. That bit you wrote clicked perfectly in my head, “oh, this person has just brilliantly summed up what I find so compelling about ‘Long Drive’ and (especially) ‘Lonesome Crowded’”.
And I totally agree that he doesn’t ever otherwise really write about women/romance etc. Similar to Joe Strummer in The Clash, never really wrote about relationships etc. I’d be interested to see if not writing about that is intentional on IB’s part, or if his creativity/muse just doesn’t move him in that direction.
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Thank you 😊
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I hope I'll be seeing more of this beautifully written, edited and narrated content.
I wish you well, and I'm optimistic you'll find time and passion to keep making such quality video essays 😊
Thank you so much! 🙂
fire video! these lyrics are still relevant today.
Thank you!
This feels like a PBS documentary, and I love it
do more modest mouse
Great quality video and content man!
Thank you! much appreciated.
The Golden Casket may have been referential to Jeremiah Green's cancer. He died the year after it was released.
Wow really good. The editing is top notch!
Thank you Jose!
This is a wonderful video ❤
as a huge modest mouse fan, this was awesome!! the quality of your content made me surprised by the size of your channel. i just subscribed; i'm looking forward to seeing more from you!
Thank you so much Sebastian. Very big mm fan here as well so knowing you appreciate this video means a lot!
Absolutely!...Very well put together...thanks a lot.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
This was cool, thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome. Thank you for the kind words!
Excellent content🙌🙌
Thank you Ward :)
If someone calls MM indie rock one more time I'm gonna poop my pants
seriously wtf does indie rock even mean
Well, they were indie in the '90s lol
They’re obviously alternative grunge pop
@@jr2904 yeah, they were an independent rock band but that doesn’t really explain their genre lol
I really enjoyed this
Extremely well made!
Thank you! ✨