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Music : We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
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We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank by: Modest Mouse List Price: $18.97 CD-Charts Price: $13.97 You Save: $5.00 (26%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0828768613924 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: March 20, 2007 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 1015 MPN: 686139 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Limited edition two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) Japanese pressing of the 2007 album from the U.S. Alternative superheroes features one bonus track ('King Rat') plus a bonus DVD that contains three videos: 'Dashboard', 'Float On' and 'A Fisherman's Tale). . We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is a new chapter in Modest Mouse's career with the new infusion of Johnny Marr and the extra percussion muscle brought by Plummer and Peloso. The new album features instant radio hit 'Dashboard.' Sony. 2007. Amazon.com: Their last album may have given them a certifiable radio hit, airtime on VH1, and a Kidz Bop tribute, but listening to the follow-up to 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, you might get the sense that the members of Modest Mouse are flinching at the spotlight. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, the group's fifth full-length release, is denser than its predecessor with tunes that seem willfully harder to penetrate. Even the addition of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr to the line-up seems incidental, as Modest Mouse's off-kilter sound stays largely intact. But keep listening and it becomes obvious that the band hasn't lost any of his pop bite, especially midway through with a sweep of terrific songs like "Missed the Boat," "Education" and "Little Motel." It's hard to tell if there's another "Float On" in the bunch. In fact, the first single, "Dashboard," is one of the weakest Isaac Brock has ever penned. With Shins James Mercer adding lovely vocals to "Florida," however, it hardly matters. --Aidin Vaziri Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Great CDThis is a great CD...I bought it for the song "Dashboard"- the song is awesome...Fire it up is also a pretty good song. I would say that it is worth getting this CD, especially since the songs really aren't played on the radio. I have heard "Dashboard" a few times on the radio, which is what peeked my interest in this CD. I have Modest Mouse's other CD (Good News for people who love bad news), so when I heard the song on the radio, I immediately recognized it as Modest Mouse. If you are a Modest Mouse fan, you should certainly buy this CD! Rating:  - not like old modest mouseI was not a big fan of good news for people who love bad news but this is not any better there are a couple of good songs if you want good modest mouse get the lonesome crowded west or the moon and antarctica dont bother with this or good news for people who love bad news. Rating:  - FantastickIt's one great song after another. If you don't feel like dancing to Fly Trapped in a Jar, Education and Steam Engenius check your pulse. Little Motel and Parting of the Sensory display Brock's quieter singing abilities and he does have them. The louder harder songs are more demanding of those abilities and you gotta have it to do it. I think they managed to equal and surpass the previous issue Good News for People Who Love Bad News and this is a band that is peaking. I just hope the peak last at least 20 years as I rarely find music that satisfies me like this does. Another masterwork some have called a magnificent mess. Well, it is magnificent. Rating: - Modest Mouse makes an album with an anchored parachute on its coverIt's actually more like a 4.5, but it pains me to see only 4 stars on this album's 'average rating'. It ought to to be about 4.5 stars. I find it hard to compare Modest Mouse albums with each other when it comes to quality, so i will only tentativly say that this is probably their best Epic release(my favorite is actually the odds and ends compilation Buliding Nothing Out of Something). So the other reviewers have pretty much hit on everything I was planning on. Yes, this is anything but the sound of Modest Mouse 'selling out'. Yes it's dense, yes that guy from the Shins sings on a few tracks (best result is "We've Got Everything"). Yes, one of the highlights is the towering epic "Spitting Venom". Most of the songs are high-energy, fast and ... Read More: Rating: - EtceteranoughMaking clanky dance pop seems to be a major fetish these days. With Franz Ferdinand and Panic at The Disco revisiting this new wave station, Modest Mouse up the ante on "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank." There's plenty of choppy pop to go around for those that love it. Kind of like Canadians Hot Hot Heat, MM also has an affinity for The Cure's Robert Smith-style vocal yelps. Both "March Into The Sea" and initial single "Dashboard" whoop it up in grand style. Better still is "Missed The Boat," which is my favorite track here. Isaac Brock also has a way with the chopped up lyric. "We've Got Everything" is a sad tale of details of folks who have done everything, "tried everything as half-a--ed and liars." All through ... Read More: |
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