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 | It Always Rains On A Picnic | Sad Sappy Sucker |
| 2 | Dark Center of the Universe | The Moon & Antartica |
| 3 | Wild Packs Of Family Dogs | The Moon And Antarctica |
| 4 | Horn Intro | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| 5 | A Life Of Artic Sounds | Building Nothing Out Of Something |
| 6 | Jesus Christ Was an Only Child | Lonesome Crowded West |
| 7 | Novocain Stain | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 8 | Dashboard | We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank |
| 9 | Truckers Atlas | Lonesome Crowded West |
| 10 | Night On The Sun | Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks [EP] |
| 11 | Float on | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| 12 | Gravity Rides Everything | The Moon And Antarctica |
| 13 | I Came as a Rat | The Moon & Antarctica |
| 14 | Custom Concern | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 15 | Heart Cooks Brain | Lonesome Crowded West |
| 16 | Here It Comes | Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks [EP] |
| 17 | Bukowski | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| 18 | Exit Does Not Exist | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 19 | Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset | This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to T |
| 20 | The Ocean Breathes Salty | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |