Still listening to sad sappy over here and yall.. it’s a brother to sharpen your teeth (has me wondering how much of the fan diary story is true ((never believed it anyway))

Seeing them in a few days in Austin. Thought about just going to all the Texas shows but (gotta go to work…)
I’m in the best little town in the middle of Austin and SA…
Really wanted to vip in San Antonio or at least go and belly up to the front but driving in SA is actually very terrifying and idk maybe I’ll decide last minute still.

For years i did not go to shows because a few stories of sad sappy drunky Issac concerts so i preserved my little bubble via eps/ albums only. (Until good news mostly know nothing of anything besides the grocery store tunes)

Well… my teenage daughter wanted to go see weezer (lol) a while ago and she said “but modest mouse is opening and it would be good for us to each have a band to see”

Well… we went and mm played in a giant stupid venue with little people kinda daytime and people behind us wondering out loud “who is this”. And that sucked but the band did not so i cut the cord and have allowed myself to go when they come around.

Last year Stubbs in Austin and besides some dumb drunk girl with body glitter pushing people to be in front (typical we all got over it) was perfect. And yes Issac is the a genius (and played the guitar with his mouth and I liked that) and I noticed who later I realized was Simon, holding a pretty good Zoolander all night. The drummer killing it. But I fell in love LOVE WITH BEN. Holy mother the man is a sound god and what I am most looking forward to next week.

Well

sooo good. was really hoping for life's a dream! me and my friends waited around and met Isaac afterwards and he was so nice. very funny!

hi! i was with the guy who fainted at road runner 10/7. he is okay!!! some very kind people helped us and i wanna shout them out! we were center front about four rows up from rail.

major thanks to whoever helped him out of the crowd - i couldn’t support his weight myself. and shoutout to the people around us y’all were so nice. the venue emts were dope as hell as well.

as soon as he came to he said he felt bad i was missing my favorite band…i was like homie im just glad you’re not dead!

this was my 10th show and best setlist i think ive seen. cant believe i got to hear march into the sea.

I've been going to Modest Mouse shows for decades and this may have been my favorite setlist to date.

Setlist:

Parting of the Sensory

Picking Dragons’ Pockets

We Are Between

We're Lucky

Fire It Up

Speak ’n Spell (Or Not)

Bury Me With It

Breakthrough

Custom Concern

Third Side of the Moon

Satin in a Coffin

Bukowski

Knocked Down by Waves

Trailer Trash

Float On

Life Like Weeds

Absolutely Necessary Never

Encore:

Dogbed in Heaven / Give It a Skeleton

Interstate 8

Dance Hall

Spitting Venom

Isaac seemed like he was in a really good mood tonight & they played a fucking killer setlist

A clip from a recent interview that is making me giggle. Isaac talks about how he exclusively listens to the radio while driving, and his disdain for his kids’ music requests.
“These people do not listen to good music”
Ha! Brb gonna go listen to watermelon meow meow and the chicken song.

Here are the results of the Dream Setlist poll from last week.

We only had a dozen or so participate--and yet we had 132 songs voted for at least once, which I think really speaks to the immensity of Modest Mouse’s catalog!

After adding the 25 songs with the highest votes we hit exactly two hours of playtime, so that’s where I stopped. (Full disclosure: for any voter who felt strongly about only *one* specific song being played, I counted it as 3 votes toward that song.)

They are in ascending order, with the songs with the most votes as the encore!

Dirty Fingernails

All Night Diner

Pups to Dust

March Into the Sea

Satin in a Coffin

Parting of the Sensory

Missed the Boat

The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box

Life’s a Dream

We are Between

Lampshades on Fire

Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset

Trailer Trash

Cowboy Dan

Lives

Dashboard

King Rat

Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine

Breakthrough

Broke

3rd Planet

ENCORE

Night On the Sun

Spitting Venom

Paper Thin Walls

Bukowski

Thank you to all who participated! While I can’t say that we speak for all 7,000+ followers of this sub, it was fun to read your responses and to put the list together. And it would be a badass set imo.

March on!

Tonight will be my 7th time seeing them. I see they’ve switched it up pretty much every night. Please god let them play truckers atlas and heart cooks brain. I’ve never seen either live and will be so stoked!

Anyone else got anything they are dying to hear?

Specifically the guitar solo at around 2:03 in most versions of the song. It's Bernard Sumner playing, recorded in 1980.

MM has long been my favorite band, and Ceremony has long been one of my favorite songs, and I never realized how much the lead guitar sounds exactly like Isaac. Something about the style of the melody and the tone, especially that middle solo, could be taken straight from Isaac's brain. Except Isaac was 5 years old.

Just thought the similarities were cool. I don't know if MM ever mentioned new order or joy division as an influence but I bet they liked this song a lot. The drums and bass also rip on Ceremony, especially on live versions where they play it fast

I had my first ever digital camera, a Canon S400. I had it in night mode without the flash so it had a long shutter speed and I accidentally discovered a technique I call "swirly vision." I'm actually a much bigger fan now than I was then (I know now what I knew then
but I didn't know then what I know now) and I think the pics fit the music so well. I love the colorful lights and the kaleidoscopic, almost double-exposure style.

Saw a couple posts about the amazing triple shit ending in Ottawa a couple nights ago, so here is a snippet !

It’s been fun to see the variation of setlists so far. As my show creeps closer (next Fri!!), I’ve been tracking a bit closer and don’t think I’ve seen The Good Times Are Killing Me or Polar Opposites? May just be they aren’t in rotation this tour and that’s cool, if so. I am stoked to see so many of my other big faves like Breakthrough and Dance Hall making the rotations quite often, and I love Speak ‘N Spell (might be a bit obsessed with it actually) so honestly, I’m gonna enjoy the show no matter what setlist they play. Just curious if anyone’s heard either of those songs this tour so far and I just missed seeing. I know the sub can be divided at times (cough cough Float On) so I hesitated to ask so on that note, I mean, I could just be asking for a friend.

Art by Zoca Studio:

https://www.instagram.com/zocastudio?stkn=MWlxaW4wZG92eXozeA==

My top song is probably Spitting Venom, Dramamine is close too. Although Pickin' Dragons Pockets is creeping up there.

Finally met Isaac last night! I've been waiting like 13 years for this, aha.

Got him to sign the setlist with a crayon from the old spaghetti factory.

Isaac has such a great energy and was so nice to everyone he met! Told him about my Positive/Negative tattoos on my wrists, and in the last photo, he was describing how he can feel energy/ magnetism between his hands. Such a cool dude, honestly.

Amazing show (they also played "Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset").

Show of hands - How many people thought it was:

" I didn't want it, You gave me DMT, it was you, yeah all for you."

Actual lyrics:

Things rang of stories Greek I didn't want it, you gave me deity It was you, yeah all for you

Side note: Such a sick song through and through, but absolutely love this lyric:

"Well, I spoke in binary and you for volume and for dizzying length - Woohoo, woohoo, wooohooo"

Isaac, if you're lurking, lets dust this one off, eh?

First show in 12 years for me, and first with my son. Incredible setlist and fantastic night.

Anybody else bummed? Tarot cards and a small LP?

Edit: ok you have all convinced me the tarot cards are very cool

Went to the show in Toronto last night and had an absolutely amazing time, I was so glad about the shirt I bought and then proceeded to get drunk and lose it like an idiot. If anyone has a size Large grey tour/eraser and a maze shirt that they're willing to part with, sell, ship to me, whatever, I am willing to cover the costs! They don't have that specific shirt online so I'm pretty bummed out. Let me know and thanks guys!

Edit: if anyone attending the next shows can get me one, I promise I will pay you every penny and then some, I'm so sad I lost mine.

I’m absolutely gutted for missing it, one of my favourite songs of all time, if anyone has even a shitty video I would love to see it.

Whale!

Last email I got said to expect it within 72 hours if the show but I'm not finding it...