Modest Mouse is an American alternative band. The band was formed in 1993 in issaquah, Washington, USA by guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, the band has attained significant popular success with songs such as Float On, Dashboard and Missed the Boat. Brock came up with the name "Modest Mouse" when he read the Virginia Woolf stream of consciousness essay The Mark On the Wall in which the author described the working middle class as "modest, mouse-coloured people." Brock frequently moved around with his mother when he was a child. Around this time, his mother left his father for his father's brother (Brock's uncle). Brock's mother's house flooded and forced them to move into his mother's new husband's trailer, but there was no room for Brock. Brock stayed behind, living in the second story of the flooded house, until he was eventually evicted by
1 | A Life Of Artic Sounds | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
2 | Bmx Crash | Sad Sappy Sucker |
3 | Bukowski | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
4 | Dashboard | We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank |
5 | The Good Times Are Killing Me | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
6 | Never Ending Math Equation | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
7 | Cowboy Dan | Lonesome Crowded West |
8 | Ocean Breathes Salty | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
9 | Dark Center of the Universe | The Moon & Antartica |
10 | Doin' the Cockroach | Lonesome Crowded West |
11 | A Different City | The Moon & Antartica |
12 | Dukes Up | Sad Sappy Sucker |
13 | Shit Luck | Lonesome Crowded West |
14 | The Cold Part | The Moon & Antartica |
15 | Gravity Rides Everything | The Moon And Antarctica |
16 | Space Travel Is Boring | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
17 | Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat | The Fruit That Ate Itself |
18 | Other People's Lives | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
19 | The World At Large | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
20 | Interlude (Milo) | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |