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Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse
Retail Price (not our price): $13.99
Release Date: 1997-11-18
Manufacturer: Up.
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
The opening track, "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine," explodes out of your speakers with sharp, see-sawing guitars and shouted vocals, an irresistible melange of angular rhythms and mighty, powerful dynamics. The rest of the songs are similarly pulled along by some unseen force, driven by an energy found in classic post-punk bands like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 or Drunken Boat. Some reviewers have referenced the Pixies, and while that's not off the mark, this is more like the Pixies undergoing dental work--without anesthesia. --Lorry Fleming

2) Album Description
Issaquah, WA, indie rock trio MODEST MOUSE was formed in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green. This album was released in 1997 and was the band's first for US label MATADOR. And talk about original, the band has something for just about everyone! They can do quiet, brooding acoustics, dark and pounding thrashers, funky jump-around emo, just about anything. The opening track, "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine," explodes out of your speakers with sharp, see-sawing guitars and shouted vocals, an irresistible melange of angular rhythms andmighty, powerful dynamics. The rest of the songs are similarly pulled along by some unseen force, driven by an energy found in classic post-punk bands like Thinking Fellers Union, Local 282 or Drunken Boat.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Well done guys! Well executed!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This anthemic collection of awesomeness breaches the sound barrier of my inner soul as my body sways unconcuosly and I gleefully seek pleasure upon the endless depths of the uncromprehendably classic arrangement of possilby am inkling of the one of the most majestic and awe stickingly poopingly songs of todays inagural pop music for loius armstrong and sufjan stevens. basically this album rocks my face off with a passion.yeah, and its good too.Teeth Like God's Shoeshine(5/5)one of the most epic, emotion encompassing, buttsweating, semen producing masterpieces of today's songs.Heart cooks Brain(5/5)funky,sexy,fun,smart, crazy awesome lyrics that rack the brain like willy james huff. BETCHULAR FEVER!Convienint Parking(4/5)pretty coo pretty cooLounge(Closing Time)an interesting remix to the mouse we learned to loveJesus Christ was an Only Child(3/5)darn girl! that's some hardcore s*#$ dawg!Doin' The Cockroach(5/5)one of the greatest dance arrangements never created, this jam is real brawe! That's the spicy meataball!Cowboy Dan(5/5)freakin classic saget! Its gggggrrrrr8! gr8 sk8 anthem of f8!Trailer Trash(5/5) a piece of trash...from da vinchi! what introduced me to this great bands classic sound! epic solo!Out Of Gas(5/5)this jam is full of gas(no pun intended)-MERCUTIO. Great Lyrics-Opinions Are Like Kittens, I Was Givin Them AwayLong Distance Drunk(4/5) a sweet charming song which made me turned on by tila tequila, a once in a lifetime oppurtinity. Don't watch Tila Tequila while listening to this or else!S*$% Luck(4/5)Awesome fist pumping classic anthem of todays youth!Trucker's Atlas(4/5)It could be a little longer but overall great songPolar Opposites(5/5)me and this song are not polar opposittes! we love each other! Shhh... don't tell!Bankrupt on Selling(5/5)GREAT SONG! GREAT SONG! GREAT SONG! sorry, i didn't know if you heardStyrafoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice Alright(5/5) classic anthem when the drums suddenly come in. your heart spips a beat. Frrreakin awesome closer.But seriously, i do a LOT of cocaine.

2) Movie Music   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is my favorite Modest Mouse CD. It is so ecclectic (as most are). But it really swings around into different songs/styles/beats/tempoes, etc. My favorite MM song is "Heart Cooks Brain", I first heard this in the credits to a movie playing on HBO and I stayed up until it aired again on HBO W (like 4 am) so I could find out who wrote it and go get it. But I put it behind me for a year or so and ended up getting Good News... and Moon & Antarctica first. Then ran out and bought every MM CD I could get my hands on and lived happily ever after. Faves-#1. Heart Cooks Brain, Convenient Parking, Out of Gas, Truckers Atlas, Polar Opposites. A great album!

3) My favorite Modest Mouse album   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is my favorite Modest Mouse album, and that is saying somthing, because I love all of their albums. They have been in constant rotation in my stereo since I first heard them a few years ago. I first heard of Modest Mouse after hearing "Float on" from their album Good News for people Love Bad News. I loved that album so much that I bought the rest of their albums. All of their lyrics are clever, and I absolutely love the differentness of their sound. You can definately tell when you are hearing a Modest Mouse song. My favorite songs on this album are Doin' the Cockroach and Styraphome boots, though all of them are great. Buy this album. You won't regret it.

4) My favorite album of all time   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I don't usually give reviews for albums that already have a good amount but this is a masterpiece I just had to give a five. It is the best, most emotional, rocking, awesome, interesting, fun, depressing, uplifting, expressions of a human mind through music of my days. It still and will always hold a special place in my heart and no month goes without at least one listen of this after listening to it all the way through everyday for the first year I heard it in 2003. Amazing.

5) Easily the best album of the nineties   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I know, that's a lofty statement, what with Radiohead's "OK Computer" and My Bloody Valentine's beloved "Loveless" having also come out in that particular decade. Oh, this is not to mention Pavement's brilliant discography and Neutral Milk Hotel's "On avery island" and "in an aeroplane over the sea", all of which are solid contenders for this title. Moving on.The difficulty with saying something such as the title of this review is that taste in music is extremely subjective. I don't know what will appeal to other people. Hell, I can't even say that this will appeal to Modest Mouse fans, especially newer ones. It is a very different album from "Dead" and "Good News." While I cannot break down exactly what makes this album so unique, I can point out one thing about it that I cannot honestly say about any other cd that I own: When LCW comes on, it doesn't matter if I feel like listening to contemplative indie rock (like "the national"), Metal ("Dethklok"), rap ("three six mafia"), house ("ricardo villalobos"), dance ("justice"), noise (the boredoms), punk (bad brains), electronica (fennesz) or even orchestral music, I stop caring about whether I am listening to the right thing for my mood and I just shut up and listen.