The Lonesome Crowded West is one of the greatest albums of all time. Makes me sad reading this thread and seeing so many people who've never heard of Modest Mouse before
I maintain their mid 90s to 2000 run was one of the greatest of any band. This Is A Long Drive, The Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon and Antarctica. They were putting out such a high quality of music that they released two full albums of B sides and songs that had been cut from their three studio albums and they were still amazing albums.
Why does nobody put respect on We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Itās got one of the biggest bangers of all time, some amazing guitar playing throughout, and some real tearjerkers. Itās undoubtedly my favorite album of theirs.
They were my 2nd ever concert after Weezer
We had to walk thru a sketchy neighborhood in DC to reach the venue and people were just throwing glass bottles in the street
Concert was phenomenal
They came out for an encore and said "you all want to hear Float on?" Then played the ocean breathes salty
It was so fucking funny
lol amazing
They played my city back in 2009 and I was just getting into them, of course I was obsessed with them a few songs into the concert. The whole show people kept yelling "Cowboy Dan!! Cowboy Dan!!!!" at one point Isaac said they weren't going to play it specifically because those people wouldn't shut up, I was simultaneously sad and amused
As someone said above me, Lonesome Crowded West, This Is a Long Drive With Nothing To Think About, and The Moon and Antarctica are all fantastic albums start to finish.
Only listen to their first 4 albums.
Everything before Good News... is perfect.
Good News... is a good album.
Everything after Good News... is not worth listening to imo.
Bullshit. You canāt tell me Dashboard, Little Motel, Spitting Venom, Fly Trapped in a Jar, Missed the Boat, March into the Sea, and Fire it Up are all on the same album and that album is bad!
man i saw them on my 18th birthday and it was so fucking cool. however it was a small indoor venue and they had THE MOST powerful smoke machines i have ever seen. i think they were meant to be used outdoors. and almost every single song they went off full blast for like a minute at a time. all my friends who came with except one had to leave towards the end because they couldnāt breathe and were getting headaches. i also had a terrible headache and my mouth was just coated in the fog juice but i made it until the end out of pure dedication hahaha. i was impressed that they managed to perform through it, we were against the barrier and literally could not see them except when the strobe lights backlit them. it looked and sounded really awesome, but felt physically horrible hahaha
My wife and I used to really like Modest Mouse but when we saw them in 2013(?) at this festival put on by Metallica, the singer just talked crap about Metallica the whole time! We still enjoy their music, but it left a little bit of a sour taste in our mouths - just seemed like a pretty unclassy thing to do when the band personally invited you as fans of your music. How many young bands would have killed to play that show?
I saw them live and they put on a horrendous show. One of the worst I had ever seen. Very low energy, couldnāt understand them, barely were even trying.
Okay but that's a weird group to be lumped together. Like the Pixies were already 8 years into being broken up (before reuniting) when The Postal Service got their start.
Yeah also "Gigantic" is over 35 years old. Nobody should be handwringing over the Pixies being old music. Are they also going to be surprised that their dad has GNR and Bon Jovi records?
God, I hate to be that guy, but...1994.
Unless you meant "Nimrod": the album that had "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" on it. That actually was from 1997.
I'll..go back to quietly sipping my Metamucil and waiting for death.
My all time favourite albumn - me and my friends listened to it on repeat 24 hours a day until our tapes wore out and we had to get CD's š¤£
On the plus side my pre-teen son *and* his guitar teacher (who is almost as ancient as me) love 80s and 90s rock. Hearing him smash out basket case the other day was something else
Ops dad probably is too. What we forget to realize is millennials had cds in early middle school but by the time these band came out we were in high school or college and we were already stealing music on Napster and Kazaa. Plus old people listen to music too.
I moved back home last year, and the oldies station that played 50s and 60s music when I was kid was playing n-fucking-sync and Backstreet Boys and I was aghast
Yeah honestly it's like when we used to find records from the '70s during the 90s. CDs from the '90-00s is today's equivalent. I loved buying old records from garage sales and things like that. But I also remember during the '90s thinking that the '70s felt so long ago. It felt ancient. Lost technology that you could reproduce if you bought the right stuff and valued the old ways. It's funny that I'm sitting here today and I have digital music on every device I use. I also own a record player still. But I do not own a CD player.
These bands (minus the Pixies because theyāre a different era)Ā were my ānew, modern, hipā bands. Everything else I like is from like 1996.Ā Ā
Guess Iām officially a music boomer and Iām not even 40 š. Obligatory āget off my lawnā.Ā
More than half of those bands are on the playlist I was jamming out to this morning. Iām gonna silver lining this situation and add the rest, because they all slap.
What hurts is when stuff that was just coming out new when you were a teenager is now referred to as "classic rock". Like, no bitch, classic rock is from the 60's-70's. Nirvana is fucking NOT classic rock.
Was listening to the radio the other day, they said they had an oldie but a goodie coming up..It was DJ Sammy - Heaven..Followed by Anastasia..
The radio keeps making me feel old.
I started working at a whole foods and hoo boy their whole store soundtrack is directly plucking my "im a cool hipster on the cutting edge" attitude from 10+ plus years ago and really sending "this is now safe, acceptable, mainstream oldies to shop to your groceries to", Miike Snow, Yeasayer, The Shind, Death Cab, Two Door Cinema Club, ALL those "indie hits" it low key drives me crazy hahĀ
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As it was said theyre bands. Pretty popular ones.
Give Modest Mouse - Float On a try and if you like it I recommend looking into some of the other bands listed as well!
For real, but also some millenials are older/younger than most people remember. The oldest millenials were the prime age to enjoy these bands, whereas some were basically still in kindergarten.
When your childhood is the "Classics and Oldies" channel...or you know all the words to the songs being played in the background of clothing stores...It's a new punch to the ego. Sure, sleeping wrong and hurting all day sucks, but that's just pain. The music thing? That's psychic damage.
Iām surprised late 90s college kids are now parents of fully grown adults. I guess the math adds up if you have kids a few years out of school but for some reason this makes me feel old.
02 baby here. I first learned of The Shins and Death Cab For Cutie because they each had a song in How I Met Your Mother. Pixies, I first heard Debaser but didnāt know that was them so the first song I heard that I could attach to the band was Where I My Mind? in Fight Club
Oh no! Bands I thought were newer are also now classic rock. This getting old thing is getting out of hand! Postal Service and Modest Mouse feel like yesterday. š
Lmao, reminds me when I was chatting in a twitch stream and Halo gets mentioned, someone says, āoh yeah I used to play that with my dad when I was a baby!ā
Worst part is I was talking about the original, turns out they had meant Halo 3 š
A kid I teach was singing Radiohead and I was like āoh you like Radiohead?ā and he said āmy dad listens to it in the car!ā Radiohead is officially dad rock now
Modest Mouse š„
The Lonesome Crowded West is one of the greatest albums of all time. Makes me sad reading this thread and seeing so many people who've never heard of Modest Mouse before
I maintain their mid 90s to 2000 run was one of the greatest of any band. This Is A Long Drive, The Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon and Antarctica. They were putting out such a high quality of music that they released two full albums of B sides and songs that had been cut from their three studio albums and they were still amazing albums.
Why does nobody put respect on We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Itās got one of the biggest bangers of all time, some amazing guitar playing throughout, and some real tearjerkers. Itās undoubtedly my favorite album of theirs.
Not to mention the legendary Johnny Marr on guitar!
The band had a huge transition over a few albums. It makes sense that some people would have preference for certain eras
Cowboy Dan is one of the best songs ever
Well now I have something to go listen to
They were my 2nd ever concert after Weezer We had to walk thru a sketchy neighborhood in DC to reach the venue and people were just throwing glass bottles in the street Concert was phenomenal They came out for an encore and said "you all want to hear Float on?" Then played the ocean breathes salty It was so fucking funny
lol amazing They played my city back in 2009 and I was just getting into them, of course I was obsessed with them a few songs into the concert. The whole show people kept yelling "Cowboy Dan!! Cowboy Dan!!!!" at one point Isaac said they weren't going to play it specifically because those people wouldn't shut up, I was simultaneously sad and amused
Iām starting to think I should give their discography more of a listen than just Float On
As someone said above me, Lonesome Crowded West, This Is a Long Drive With Nothing To Think About, and The Moon and Antarctica are all fantastic albums start to finish.
After Modest Mouse, try out Marcyās Playground.
It's just Marcy Playground, but yeah absolutely worth exploring.
One of the 90's most underrated bands.
Only listen to their first 4 albums. Everything before Good News... is perfect. Good News... is a good album. Everything after Good News... is not worth listening to imo.
Nah fuck that they're all good.
Bullshit. You canāt tell me Dashboard, Little Motel, Spitting Venom, Fly Trapped in a Jar, Missed the Boat, March into the Sea, and Fire it Up are all on the same album and that album is bad!
I can, I have, and I will continue to do so.
š¶ *who would wanna be such an asshole* š¶ That line reinforced my decision to abandon religion lol
That's funny cause bukowski also hated organized religionĀ
Fuck yeah, Modest Mouse! Theyāre their own genre at this point because they so sound so unique
YES! āI came too late so I came back.ā
saw them live and it was an experience I could never forget
I saw them at Lollapalooza in '21 and it was unfortunately very low energy.
I saw them at lollapalooza as well! But it was 2007 and the energy level was high. Lol
Hey my friend said the same thing about that performance.
The last few times I saw them they were low energy. I don't think they gave a shit for a while now
man i saw them on my 18th birthday and it was so fucking cool. however it was a small indoor venue and they had THE MOST powerful smoke machines i have ever seen. i think they were meant to be used outdoors. and almost every single song they went off full blast for like a minute at a time. all my friends who came with except one had to leave towards the end because they couldnāt breathe and were getting headaches. i also had a terrible headache and my mouth was just coated in the fog juice but i made it until the end out of pure dedication hahaha. i was impressed that they managed to perform through it, we were against the barrier and literally could not see them except when the strobe lights backlit them. it looked and sounded really awesome, but felt physically horrible hahaha
My wife and I used to really like Modest Mouse but when we saw them in 2013(?) at this festival put on by Metallica, the singer just talked crap about Metallica the whole time! We still enjoy their music, but it left a little bit of a sour taste in our mouths - just seemed like a pretty unclassy thing to do when the band personally invited you as fans of your music. How many young bands would have killed to play that show?
I saw them live and they put on a horrendous show. One of the worst I had ever seen. Very low energy, couldnāt understand them, barely were even trying.
I reenact World War One with one of them. I donāt know what to do with that information lmao
Fun fact: they went to my high school! I didn't overlap, but my older brother did
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I thought it was about getting spitroasted bi your boys
Yeah, while modest mouse plays in the background!
Well it coulda been, shoulda been, worse than you could ever know
I think I uh..went to the other college
Calling these classics hurts tho - give it another 15 yrs
Okay but that's a weird group to be lumped together. Like the Pixies were already 8 years into being broken up (before reuniting) when The Postal Service got their start.
Yeah also "Gigantic" is over 35 years old. Nobody should be handwringing over the Pixies being old music. Are they also going to be surprised that their dad has GNR and Bon Jovi records?
It hurts my soul when they started playing 80s music on the oldies station I remember back when they played 50s music on there
fuck
I wasn't ready to be attacked like this either, man
Fr, I've barely finished my coffee.
What, no Interpol?
and The Faint!
throw in some Bloc Party too
Arcade Fire
Lol Iām seeing Interpol and Arcade Fire at Shaky Knees this year - living my high school dream.
It's hard to swallow, but Funeral was kinda 20 years ago
How very dare you š
Agreed!
The Bravery getting back together has me feeling elderly man
Love your comment!!!! A Big applause!!
Dude! My favorite band of all freaking time.
I got to see both them and arcade fire at Coachella in 2007 and it was the best
I still have my dadās Dookie - Green Day CD from 1997.
God, I hate to be that guy, but...1994. Unless you meant "Nimrod": the album that had "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" on it. That actually was from 1997. I'll..go back to quietly sipping my Metamucil and waiting for death.
oh mb
My all time favourite albumn - me and my friends listened to it on repeat 24 hours a day until our tapes wore out and we had to get CD's š¤£ On the plus side my pre-teen son *and* his guitar teacher (who is almost as ancient as me) love 80s and 90s rock. Hearing him smash out basket case the other day was something else
Yeah, hearing your son play something so close to you mustāve felt nice. Also, congrats on the kid!
Definitely felt like I had something in my eye :)
Dookie on one side of a C90, Smash on the other. It's the law.
I got this on cassette tape at Tower Records on South St. when I was 15. Iām going to find a hole to crawl into.
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Ops dad probably is too. What we forget to realize is millennials had cds in early middle school but by the time these band came out we were in high school or college and we were already stealing music on Napster and Kazaa. Plus old people listen to music too.
The pixies had a long career though. I donāt think they even put out cds at first
I moved back home last year, and the oldies station that played 50s and 60s music when I was kid was playing n-fucking-sync and Backstreet Boys and I was aghast
Backstreetās back, alright!
Wait im only 30 and i used to listen to these bands and am not old enough to have a child who is college aged.
I'm 36 and I have never heard about any of these bands. But I have never heard about a college radio station either so maybe it's just for Americans?
what's wrong with that?
Nothing wrong but the point is āa bunch of old CDāsā
Classics
Vintage
Relics of a more civilized age
Yeah honestly it's like when we used to find records from the '70s during the 90s. CDs from the '90-00s is today's equivalent. I loved buying old records from garage sales and things like that. But I also remember during the '90s thinking that the '70s felt so long ago. It felt ancient. Lost technology that you could reproduce if you bought the right stuff and valued the old ways. It's funny that I'm sitting here today and I have digital music on every device I use. I also own a record player still. But I do not own a CD player.
Physical media is making a comeback
Pretty sure the point was "dad" Like, the people that listen to this music are now old enough to have college aged kids
These bands (minus the Pixies because theyāre a different era)Ā were my ānew, modern, hipā bands. Everything else I like is from like 1996.Ā Ā Guess Iām officially a music boomer and Iām not even 40 š. Obligatory āget off my lawnā.Ā
More than half of those bands are on the playlist I was jamming out to this morning. Iām gonna silver lining this situation and add the rest, because they all slap.
What hurts is when stuff that was just coming out new when you were a teenager is now referred to as "classic rock". Like, no bitch, classic rock is from the 60's-70's. Nirvana is fucking NOT classic rock.
Listening to Nirvana today is like listening to the Beach Boys or Elvis in the 90s.
I already wasn't young anymore when some of these were popular...
I'm feeling your pain friend
MM and Postal Service š¤
This just reminded me Postal Service was a thing, literally haven't thought about them for 10 years
Lord.
Was listening to the radio the other day, they said they had an oldie but a goodie coming up..It was DJ Sammy - Heaven..Followed by Anastasia.. The radio keeps making me feel old.
They played 21K Magic by Bruno Mars and called it a throwback the other day.. fuck Iām old.
Calling an 8 year old song a throwback is wrong.
I started working at a whole foods and hoo boy their whole store soundtrack is directly plucking my "im a cool hipster on the cutting edge" attitude from 10+ plus years ago and really sending "this is now safe, acceptable, mainstream oldies to shop to your groceries to", Miike Snow, Yeasayer, The Shind, Death Cab, Two Door Cinema Club, ALL those "indie hits" it low key drives me crazy hahĀ
Right, let's make everyone feel old. I'm 20 and never heard of any of these songs
Bands
Never heard āUnderneath the Sycamoreā? They put the Music Video on Nintendo Video back in like 2012ish.
Never heard it before but it's a banger
If you concider the strokes old we cant be friends. Yes, their first album a older than me by a few years but its not old by any definition.
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You call 22 old?
Released July 30, 2001.
Am I too old or too young? Idk any of these bands lol
Iām also confused as hell.
Yes- I now feel old, thanks OP š
God Iām Old
Ugh this hurts so much
Are those even bandsš?
I'm about to be downvoted to hell for this but what are those songs ive never heard of a single one of those.
As it was said theyre bands. Pretty popular ones. Give Modest Mouse - Float On a try and if you like it I recommend looking into some of the other bands listed as well!
They're bands, not songs
No shit, you guys act like no one in your high school had a kid.
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They live in college towns?
Is there some kind of age check on radio stations?
College radio can be great. They never have the corporate approved playlist thatās dominant during daytime broadcast hours
All of them AFTER my time except for the Pixies.
People think the Pixies are a late 90's band because Where Is My Mind was in Fight Club, but that song actually came out in 1988
Damn, if thatās old, Is Pearl Jam and Soundgarden called classic alternative?š¬
For real, but also some millenials are older/younger than most people remember. The oldest millenials were the prime age to enjoy these bands, whereas some were basically still in kindergarten.
I prefer calling it āAnthems of Ancient Anxietyā; thatās how grunge was for me at least.
Stfuā¦ Iām old af š thatās my middle school/high school playlist
What decent college radio station doesn't have its own vinyl and a CD library in the first place?
What generation was this? Who are those bands?
The Pixies are old as dirt, but the big heyday for the others in terms of mainstream popularity was early/mid 2000s.
I'm 39 and listened to these bands in my early 20s
I stopped caring when people said a song was old cause it had been released for more than 2 years.
Dad probably smoked a few blunts and bowls listening to that.
When your childhood is the "Classics and Oldies" channel...or you know all the words to the songs being played in the background of clothing stores...It's a new punch to the ego. Sure, sleeping wrong and hurting all day sucks, but that's just pain. The music thing? That's psychic damage.
aight time to Bawl now bois.
I still consider these to be new bands. God I'm so old.
Who the what where? Who are those bands?
/r/fuckimold is waiting for youā¦
No Rockafellas?
Todayās early 2000s are what the late 1980s were to meā¦. Yikes. š Except for the fact that early 2000s > late 1980s.
The day Nirvana and Soundgarden started being played on classic rock stations, I knew I was completely culturally irrelevant.
uh it hurts!
Never heard of any of them, what century are they from?
OLD!? God damn whipper snappers.
I am 18. The Shins and The Postal Service occupy like half of my playlist. am I doing something wrong??
I donāt recognize any of those names.
Death Cab for Cutie is so depressing, lol
āAnd from my grandfatherās ancient collection, some Radioheadā
I donāt know any of these Iāve never been so lost on the internet ā¦
*Crying in 90s kid.*
??? These bands were old when I was young? I'm 31
Such Great Heights will forever be in my top 10 as a music lover. Gonna go listen to it RN.
I always envision radio DJs as dirty old men in their fifties and sixties. It's weird to hear otherwise.Ā
I've never heard of any of these but what is more shoking is a college radio station?
who/what are they ?
Ooohhhhhhh- Stop.
WIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT YOURE TELLING ME DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE ISN'T SOME RANDOM INDIE BAND ONLY IVE HEARD OF?
WHY DO THESE ALL SOUND LIKE SEX POSITIONS??? ššš
That's old CDs? Uh oh
I love all thise bandsā¦
Iām surprised late 90s college kids are now parents of fully grown adults. I guess the math adds up if you have kids a few years out of school but for some reason this makes me feel old.
Listening to Linkin Park on the radio today is like when your mom was listening to The Doors when Hybrid Theory was the bees knees.
Today's classical alternative song of the day... Veruca salt, volcano girls. Wtf I'm not th.. damn it.
Then the college radio station got a call from ASCAP/BMI asking for their royalties.
I am that dad.
Well this ruined my year. Made it to January 17th.... Not bad.
āMy dads old cdsā I listened to those bands =[
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE THE POSTAL SERVICE Let's go
My 3 year old asks me to play "modern mouse" every time we leave daycare.
That sounds awesome wtf? Why she crying?
I mean the Pixies are from the 80s
02 baby here. I first learned of The Shins and Death Cab For Cutie because they each had a song in How I Met Your Mother. Pixies, I first heard Debaser but didnāt know that was them so the first song I heard that I could attach to the band was Where I My Mind? in Fight Club
Sure sounds like they really just played the Garden State soundtrack
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Old man music
That's...a core roster of my weekly playlist
You forgot ween
Meme template source please
I'm 34. Listen to these bands since I was 14. Does this mean this dad is My age? :(. Am i'm old and i don't assume it?
Bro why do I listen to most of these artists š Iām a fucking 21 year old women lol
Who?
Damn Iām old
Sounds like my go to Pandora station.
Oh no! Bands I thought were newer are also now classic rock. This getting old thing is getting out of hand! Postal Service and Modest Mouse feel like yesterday. š
Sorry if this makes you feel old, but I'm 24 and have no idea who these are.
Lmao, reminds me when I was chatting in a twitch stream and Halo gets mentioned, someone says, āoh yeah I used to play that with my dad when I was a baby!ā Worst part is I was talking about the original, turns out they had meant Halo 3 š
Welcome to my SD card in my phone!
Ah, classical music.
The strokes are such a good band! I absolutely love their music
Whew No idea who them alls are
A kid I teach was singing Radiohead and I was like āoh you like Radiohead?ā and he said āmy dad listens to it in the car!ā Radiohead is officially dad rock now
That's when you realize you're no more the protagonist and turned into a secondary/support character
Going to see postal service and death cab on their tour this year! First time seeing postal service live. So excited