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Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (video collection)

Monday, Nov 23, 2009

Twelve years ago this week: future platinum-selling Modest Mouse released their second full-length album, The Lonesome Crowded West, one of the best albums of the ‘90s. It was a sign of things to come, filled with dynamic shifts, the raw energy of Isaac Brock’s voice, and the dark, eerie sound that they’ve refined so that you can identify a Modest Mouse song in the space about about a chord and a half.


“Out of Gas”


“Cowboy Dan”



  
“Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine”


“Heart Cooks Brain” (fan video)


“Jesus Christ Was an Only Child”


“Doin’ the Cockroach”


“Truckers Atlas”


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