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 | Lives | The Moon & Antarctica |
| 2 | Might | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 3 | Jesus Christ Was an Only Child | Lonesome Crowded West |
| 4 | The Ocean Breathes Salty | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| 5 | The Cold Part | The Moon And Antarctica |
| 6 | Trucker Atlas | The Lonesome Crowded West |
| 7 | Novocain Stain | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 8 | Bankrupt On Selling | The Lonesome Crowded West |
| 9 | A Life Of Artic Sounds | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
| 10 | Dramamine | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 11 | Summer | The Fruit That Ate Itself |
| 12 | Bukowski | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| 13 | What People Are Made Of | The Moon & Antartica |
| 14 | Heart Cooks Brain | Lonesome Crowded West |
| 15 | The Stars Are Projectors | The Moon And Antarctica |
| 16 | Gravity Rides Everything | The Moon And Antarctica |
| 17 | Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark | Sad Sappy Sucker |
| 18 | Long Distance Drunk | Lonesome Crowded West |
| 19 | Dukes Up | Sad Sappy Sucker |
| 20 | Alone Down There | The Moon And Antarctica |