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 | Mice Eat Cheese | Sad Sappy Sucker |
2 | I Came as a Rat | The Moon & Antarctica |
3 | Doin' The Cockroach | The Lonesome Crowded West |
4 | Path Of Least Resistance | Sad Sappy Sucker |
5 | Dig Your Grave | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
6 | Missed The Boat | We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank |
7 | Styrofoam Boots - It's All Nice on Ice,... | Lonesome Crowded West |
8 | The Devil's Work Day | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
9 | A Different City | The Moon & Antartica |
10 | The Cold Part | The Moon & Antartica |
11 | 3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters | Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks [EP] |
12 | Head South | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
13 | Head South | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
14 | Perfect Disguise | The Moon & Antartica |
15 | Dirty Fingernails | The Fruit That Ate Itself |
16 | Medication | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
17 | You're The Good Things | Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks [EP] |
18 | Bmx Crash | Sad Sappy Sucker |
19 | All Night Diner | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
20 | Bury Me With It | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |