New time follower. Wonderful seeing someone actually reviewing Modest Mouse. There is one song that is so powerful yet little on the lyrics and that The Whale Song Very haunting and the official video is great. Keep up the great work
The video for this track is so good. You should check that out too. Also, Johnny Marr’s guitar work is so easily identifiable - sticks out like a sore thumb
The Moon and Antarctica helped me with my gramma passing 🙃 I listened to Gravity Rides Everything over n over n over and it calmed me soso much! Much love for your lost grandpappy ❤ sincerely!
Yeah I always took the first part of the song as a depiction of toxic optimism, completely disallowing yourself to see any negativity, and later in the song, realizing that doing so prevented you from doing the right things to "right the ship", as it can get to a point where it's too late to fix everything with a few simple actions - corrective measures would have required lots of little tiny things being done previously to make one small thing right later (even needs have needs, tiny giants made of tinier giants - that is, things that seem like a small thing on the outside can actually be a really big deal). If you didn't know, this album was originally conceptualized a concept album about the members of the crew of a ship meeting their demise throughout the course of the album, so even though it shifted from that, the album overall has a strong feeling of "things going wrong and you can't fix it" And yeah, Johnny Marr was in Modest Mouse for a little while during this era, he's talked about working with them again soon.
Piggybacking off of this because you worded the mood of the song better than I could, and I think you’re right, but more specifically, I always thought that this song was about climate change, and the general public’s (and most governments’) apathetic opinion of it. “If the world don’t like us, it’ll shake us just like we were a cold” is the line that made me consider this. And everything else can be seen as that toxic optimism; “eh the world’s fucked, but at least it’s warm out. Everything’s fine, really.” And the “needs have needs/tiny giants” bit is in relation to the course correction that would have been needed to fix the problems. That’s always been my interpretation, but it really could just be a relationship thing, or a wider statement on the human condition, as the website said.
@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai I always interpretted the song somewhere between the climate change view and an indictment of the human condition, namely the hedonic treadmill and its propensity towards complacency. It scales up and down across many relationship paradigms, but I think it comes into focus best at the level of human vs the world. And it doesn't HAVE to be about climate change. It can relate to numerous anthrogenic environmental catastrophes/epidemics. We keep screwing it destroying it, but we keep finding ways to be okay with it, which underscores the album theme... There's no righting this ship, there's no great awakening or revolution that will make any shred of difference save for perhaps quickening the inevitable, because we were all dead anyways before the ship even sank.
Modest Mouse has so many amazing songs. My rec’s would be “Broke” from Building Something Out of Nothing and “The Stars are Projectors” from The Moon & Antarctica.
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Gotta do People As Places As People. Also a great single by Modest Mouse.
Damn right it is!
New time follower. Wonderful seeing someone actually reviewing Modest Mouse.
There is one song that is so powerful yet little on the lyrics and that The Whale Song
Very haunting and the official video is great.
Keep up the great work
The video for this track is so good. You should check that out too.
Also, Johnny Marr’s guitar work is so easily identifiable - sticks out like a sore thumb
Best band on the planet.
Always puts a smile on my face.
This song and this band really helped me through my grandfather's death
The Moon and Antarctica helped me with my gramma passing 🙃 I listened to Gravity Rides Everything over n over n over and it calmed me soso much! Much love for your lost grandpappy ❤ sincerely!
Yeah I always took the first part of the song as a depiction of toxic optimism, completely disallowing yourself to see any negativity, and later in the song, realizing that doing so prevented you from doing the right things to "right the ship", as it can get to a point where it's too late to fix everything with a few simple actions - corrective measures would have required lots of little tiny things being done previously to make one small thing right later (even needs have needs, tiny giants made of tinier giants - that is, things that seem like a small thing on the outside can actually be a really big deal).
If you didn't know, this album was originally conceptualized a concept album about the members of the crew of a ship meeting their demise throughout the course of the album, so even though it shifted from that, the album overall has a strong feeling of "things going wrong and you can't fix it"
And yeah, Johnny Marr was in Modest Mouse for a little while during this era, he's talked about working with them again soon.
Piggybacking off of this because you worded the mood of the song better than I could, and I think you’re right, but more specifically, I always thought that this song was about climate change, and the general public’s (and most governments’) apathetic opinion of it. “If the world don’t like us, it’ll shake us just like we were a cold” is the line that made me consider this.
And everything else can be seen as that toxic optimism; “eh the world’s fucked, but at least it’s warm out. Everything’s fine, really.” And the “needs have needs/tiny giants” bit is in relation to the course correction that would have been needed to fix the problems.
That’s always been my interpretation, but it really could just be a relationship thing, or a wider statement on the human condition, as the website said.
@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai I always interpretted the song somewhere between the climate change view and an indictment of the human condition, namely the hedonic treadmill and its propensity towards complacency. It scales up and down across many relationship paradigms, but I think it comes into focus best at the level of human vs the world. And it doesn't HAVE to be about climate change. It can relate to numerous anthrogenic environmental catastrophes/epidemics. We keep screwing it destroying it, but we keep finding ways to be okay with it, which underscores the album theme...
There's no righting this ship, there's no great awakening or revolution that will make any shred of difference save for perhaps quickening the inevitable, because we were all dead anyways before the ship even sank.
Modest Mouse has so many amazing songs. My rec’s would be “Broke” from Building Something Out of Nothing and “The Stars are Projectors” from The Moon & Antarctica.
I love this song😂
Me too!
You should do "A Beginner's Guide To Destroying the Moon" by Foster the People
Will do!
Trailer trash, Dramamine, Edit the Sad Part and/or Missed the boat. Keep doing some Modest Mouse reactions!!
why you always react to the lame modest mouse songs post 2004?
No such thing as a lame Modest Mouse song dummy :p