Album Rating: 5.0

Good News is pretty overhated honestly, We Were Dead is also solid

I just want to be right on first listen once in my fucking life

Is that too much to ask??????????????

Album Rating: 4.0

I prefer we were dead because its more consistently good and spitting venom even rivals the highlights of their first three albums, but good news has plenty of gems despite having its fair share of duds



Also this is absolutely their magnum opus for me, which says a lot considering how fucking good LCW and long drive are

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This and LCW are my top 2 albums ever. Too much Modest Mouse love. My objectivity went from 80% to 63 :/

Album Rating: 4.0

I love the way they used 3 inch horses as like a 15 second interlude at the end of a different city so much



I DONT KNOW BUT IVE BEEN TOLD YOU NEVER DIE AND YOU NEVER GROW OLD

RIGHT WING, LEFT WING, CHICKKEEEEEEEEENNNNNN WIINNNNNNNG

Album Rating: 5.0

You should always keep an open mind about something for the first several listens (unless it's clearly trash).

"You should always keep an open mind about something for the first several listens (unless it's clearly trash)."

So Built to Spill? got it

"really, these are you two favorite albums of all time now? not bad choices, but damn that was quick"

LCW has been roasting for a while now. This might be a bit quick yeahh.

Idk Remain In Light and VU's first two are still realllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy goooooood. But those albums are a bit harder to just sit down and listen to like Moon and LCW

Album Rating: 5.0

if that's what you think, then sure



usually it only takes me a listen or two to tell the difference between broadly "good/not good", anything more specific than that can change a lot

"usually it only takes me a listen or two to tell the difference between broadly "good/not good", anything more specific than that can change a lot"

The thing is, I can always tell something is probably good, I just usually don't like it on first listen. I'm weird like that.

Album Rating: 4.0

Not really there's plenty of music like that for me. It just depends how much time you give something sometimes

i think a lot of people can appreciate // see some value in something on first listen before they truly enjoy it

Album Rating: 5.0

i think a lot of people can appreciate // see some value in something on first listen before they truly enjoy it

i've done both. talk talk's laughing stock was about a 2-2.5 for me on first listen until it became one of my favorite albums ever when i came back to it a few years later

Almost all my favorite albums were growers

Remain in Light was a 2.5 at first

Like Clockwork and In Rainbows were both albums I tried to get into and literally hated for years.

Even LCW felt mediocre at first I just never talked about it much

The entirety of Lives is probably my favorite thing from them lyrically

Album Rating: 5.0

This and Good News are very personal to me



The stretch of tracks after Stars are some of their best

True but I kind of would like a reshuffling tbh

still great tho. it's just Lives and Life Like Weeds would be a great follow up to Stars.

Album Rating: 5.0

Depends, I love how Stars dramatically exits and collapses into the reserved Dogs.