Best Modest Mouse Album.

IamNotNumber

Lets see how things stand after the release of 'strangers to ourselves'!
Its a good album no doubt but where does it stand amongst their glittering discography.

This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
Strangers to Ourselves (2015)

Anesthetize

Good News for People Who Love Bad News

The Moon & Antarctica without a doubt. I feel like their first two albums were building up to it and that it's the logical conclusion of the early part of their career. It's one of the very, very few albums that I would rate a solid 10/10. From beginning to end it is magnificent and is the band's definitive statement.

After The Moon & Antarctica they were just never as good. Good News for People Who Love Bad News was decent enough overall and had some good tunes. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank was just bad, the less that can be said about it the better. Strangers to Ourselves is okay but it feels very inconsistent. For every song I enjoy on it there's another song that reminds me why I disliked We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

IamNotNumber

Strangers to Ourselves

Metacritic Score- -Album

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User Scores

70 Strangers to Ourselves 7.8
78 We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 8.6
83 Good News For People Who Love Bad News 8.8
82 The Moon & Antarctica 9.2

just posting this to say that its quite close between all these albums altough M&A is by user scores far ahead.

Rothko

I've only listened to their first two albums but out of those two, I'd pick their debut. I plan on listening to more of their stuff though.

IamNotNumber

Strangers to Ourselves

174 views ..6 votes ..jaysus it doesnt cost anythin to vote!!

OhHiMark

The Lonesome Crowded West

Anesthetize wrote: »

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank was just bad, the less that can be said about it the better.

Eh, what? That is a fantastic album. Spitting Venom, Little Motel, Parting of the Sensory are all among my favourite Modest Mouse songs.

IamNotNumber

Strangers to Ourselves

Its not really about which album is better thats an unwinnable debate.I reckon alot of its is down to when you got into then ,I didnt hear of MM till float on hit the charts so it harder to appreciate how good those early album are.
I like tracks off all these albums ..we had an interpol top 5 lets do a MM top 5 songs.I am pretty there are MM tracks I haven't heard espically from the earlier albums. Favorite MM record would have being a better thread title.

Rothko

IamNotNumber wrote: »

174 views ..6 votes ..jaysus it doesnt cost anythin to vote!!

Well, I didn't vote because I've listened to the first two albums.

Griever931

Good News for People Who Love Bad News

The Moon & Antarctica. A close call between that and the 1st 2 albums.

Everythin coming up Milhouse

The Moon & Antarctica

IamNotNumber wrote: »

Metacritic Score- -Album

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User Scores

70 Strangers to Ourselves 7.8
78 We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 8.6
83 Good News For People Who Love Bad News 8.8
82 The Moon & Antarctica 9.2

just posting this to say that its quite close between all these albums altough M&A is by user scores far ahead.

It's a pretty similar story on rateyourmusic.com but with the Lonesome Crowded West just shading it.

Strangers to Ourselves 3.00

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank 3.33

Good News for People Who Love Bad News 3.62

This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About 3.76

The Moon & Antarctica 4.00

The Lonesome Crowded West 4.03

The Lonesome Crowded West does have less ratings though, 6,524 rating and 220 reviews, to The Moon & Antarctica's 8,786 ratings and 269 reviews which might be a factor.

Anyway the Lonesome Crowded West gets my vote. It's one of my favourite albums of all time, there's not a bad song on it and it captures a band completely in sync with each and IMO at the peak of their powers both lyrically and musically.