Modest Mouse
This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
Label:  Up Records 
Date:  4/9/1996
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Dramamine    
      2.  
      		 Breakthrough    
      3.  
      		 Custom Concern    
      4.  
      		 Might    
      5.  
      		 Lounge    
      6.  
      		 Beach Side Property    
      7.  
      		 She Ionizes & Atomizes    
      8.  
      		 Head South    
      9.  
      		 Dog Paddle    
      10.  
      		 Novocain Stain    
      11.  
      		 Tundra/Desert    
      12.  
      		 Ohio    
      13.  
      		 Exit Does Not Exist    
      14.  
      		 Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset    
      15.  
      		 Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds    
      16.  
      		 Space Travel Is Boring    
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      Frontman Isaac Brock's claim that he's being stalked by his own alter ego was not the first bit of evidence that Modest Mouse isn't your usual pop band. Witness the entirety of this 1996 indie debut from the Washington trio that inspired a major-label bidding war. This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About finds Brock cruising with cohorts Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green (plus an occasional cellist) through a landscape of intoxicatingly original lo-fi tunes. Sure, Brock's early vocals make Nikki Sudden sound like one smooth crooner, but their strained quality offset the primitive elegance of his guitar work, giving a passionate vulnerability to "Breakthrough," "Custom Concern," and other treatises on life in the lost lane. --Bill Forman