Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
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Larkinhill
October 25th 2023


9215 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean, it got positive critical reviews.



Best songs, all good, are Fuck Your Acid Trip, Back to the Middle, Wooden Soldiers, We’re Lucky, We Are Between and Japanese Trees.



Highly underrated album, at least on Sputnik for sure.

Kompys2000
October 25th 2023


9479 Comments


I'll cop to a itty bitty little soft spot for we are between, it played a lot on the radio at my last job and was a welcome enough reprieve from 311 and the Scorpions that I forgive it for being very easily the most self-parodic MM song to date

Fuck your acid trip on the other hand is grating beyond words, one of their absolute worst

MoM
October 25th 2023


5993 Comments


AMBER IS THE COLOR OF YOUR ENERGY

WHOA OH OHHHH

Veldin
October 26th 2023


6094 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I really liked We’re Lucky off the last album. Also if we’re including Building Nothing in album ranking, that may be my 3rd favorite ahead of this album…idk

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
October 26th 2023


16990 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i ADORE golden casket. fuck your acid trip is rad wtf. i listened to that song 52 times. i consider modest mouse my favorite band although i haven't listened to em much since the 2021 golden casket binge

Larkinhill
October 26th 2023


9215 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Back to the middle is definitely the highlight imo. Fuck your acid trip also. It def has some filler, but so does WWD (and every MM album tbh).

Pikazilla
October 26th 2023


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

we were dead before the shit even sank

JohnnyoftheWell
October 26th 2023


64287 Comments


*stank
Modest Mouse after this album are basically a meme vessel for Brock's accelerating spiral into crank embarrassment tbh

Larkinhill
October 26th 2023


9215 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Dude I fucking love fuck your acid trip. How can you hate that song lol?!

Larkinhill
October 26th 2023


9215 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

AMBER IS THE COLOR OF YOUR ENERGY



WHOA OH OHHHH



Ugh. Haven’t listened to these dudes since high school. Still love Transistor though.

zakalwe
April 13th 2025


42496 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Underrated

Sharenge
March 24th 2026


7357 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I didn't wanna, you gave me DMT - it was you!

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
June 6th 2026


128515 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Is it just me or is some of this Nick Cave-esque at times?

DoofDoof
June 6th 2026


17999 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Nick Cave or Tom Waits?



Also some Talking Heads here I think.



Give ‘Parting of the Sensory’ and ‘Spitting Venom’ time Hawks, top 20 MM tunes I think.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
June 6th 2026


128515 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Tom Waits is an apt comparison too!! Will do bro. I only have to hear the two albums after this then I will have heard their whole discog. Doesn't seem like they got good reception, but will still jam anyways.

DoofDoof
June 6th 2026


17999 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Strangers is half good I’d say, has some of their worst tunes on it though!



The worst this one gets is mediocre in spots.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
June 6th 2026


128515 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I don't even hear anything mediocre here tbh. It's definitely my "least" fav of theirs so far, but it's still pretty damn great. The 3.5 average is pretty spot-on.

DoofDoof
June 6th 2026


17999 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

‘Sensory’ and ‘Venom’ being so great and also being the longest tunes raises this to a 4 for me.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
June 6th 2026


128515 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Invisible is another standout for me. Perfect closer.

Sowing
Moderator
June 6th 2026


46153 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

What did you think of Missed The Boat? That might be my favorite Modest Mouse song. It's just so uplifting.



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