By the way, for those of you curious, the highway featured in this video is US Route 50, specifically the Nevada portion, which has been nicknamed "The Loneliest Road in America."
Usually comments like this I just consider begs for attention, most likely on songs that are mainstream, but considering that this is Modest Mouse nobody would do that. I’m sorry for your loss, and I’m glad had a great taste in music.
I did that, then looked him up and found he died of old man cancer. He was 35. He was really the only person who accepted me as I was. I will always regret not responding to him sooner.
30+ hour drive from Chicago to Phoenix with my buddy Devin. We had this song on as we looked around in amazement at how different the Southwest is from the Midwest. We loved every second of it. Dev just recently passed and this had me thinking of him. Perfect video for a perfect song. Kudos.
I live by you in Wisconsin. I made those drives many times, 28 hours last year to Arizona, Utah, Colorado. You can always tell when you cross into the west. Different terrain out there and everyone seems happier. Sorry about your friend bro, life's sad
I feel like this is one of those songs where the music says more than the words. The breakdown towards the end makes me feel lost and yet in familiar ground. As if it resembles somewhere you have been and will be again. But you aren't sure why. Ironic it also happens to be about addiction and bad habits... This is one of those songs you can get lost to and find yourself to at the same time. Just a masterpiece.
Its one of those rythms that are timeless, they tap into that day dreaming state where you think of important things that dont have a solution,or melancholia about things passed, but in some moments your more sad or more calm and reserved. Thats the vibe i get
Listening to Modest Mouse makes me feel like I'm in my bedroom, in a cheap one storey house in a very small quiet American town somewhere in the Midwest, where I've lived my whole life (I'm actually Russian and have lived in an apartment on the 5th floor my whole life). It's almost surreal.
First time I heard this was in 1999 when my husband walked out and left my son and me penniless. They played in on this local college radio station called *KNON* I was driving to the store to cash in change I had in a jar. This song has always made me think of the worst night of my life. Now it's just bittersweet. He almost killed me, but didn't break me entirely. Almost though. Felt that way for a few years.
this song reminds me of that feeling in the pit of your stomach you feel when in agony, stressed or overly excited. Thank you for that, it's a feeling most both desire an try to get rid of.
The comments here have been almost as comforting as the song. This song has always entranced me. It got me through some of the roughest times in my life and is like a friend who understands you even when you dont understand yourself. I am so thankful for this song's existence as well as this video's. Thank you.
It doesn't get any better or any worse than this. All emotion is captured in this one song and sobers you as you feel elated by being understood about always feeling misunderstood.
Everytime I'm at work, and it's raining when I get off work, I just put my earbuds in, and put this song on. I sit on the sidewalk, and just watch the rain in the streetlights, and let my brain drift away. I can imagine driving in the rain, and just listening to this song on repeat, and listen as the same melancholy guitar riff, repeats over and over and over again, making me drift away and let my mind wander. It's music like this that speaks to me the most, and clearest. When I listen to this song, I think about my childhood. Old memories of my friends and family who have all but vanished, and died. The memories that nobody will ever be able to replicate or destroy. When music speaks to you, listen, cause sometimes it's the most important messages that music relays back to you in hopes you'll understand.
"I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean But I still can't focus on anything" This song reminds me of a bad relationship, well not outright bad but stagnant and going through the motions anymore and you either stay because you hope it can be saved or you are too scared to be alone so you stay. It speaks of the loss of intimacy that you once had and walking around in a daze because you just don't know what to do. At least that is what I get from it, the great thing about MM lyrics is they speak to everyone differently.
I listen this when I was 16 years old. Now 29 and its the same esence of pure music for me. Always come here when I need some dramamine musically speaking
This song is haunting... Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, The Shins, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, * Edits Arcade fire, Death Cab For Cutie... I don't know what I'd do without them...
Look up bored nothing. He killed him self almost 3 years ago now and only ever put out 2 albums but they're both amazing. The album names are bored nothing and some songs. Some songs is no longer as a full video on UA-cam though.
Drunkenly slapping an improv drum beat to this on my leg while a friend of mine ran and danced high as a kite around the campground we were staying at has solidified itself as one of my better memories I wanna go back
As a young kid I actually had a friend of mine die from an “overdose” of Dramamine. Over the years I’ve had many more friends die of heroin overdose. This reminds me of times I’ve had and times I have not yet had. The hopelessness of reminiscing, but also the hopefulness of the future. Damn I love Modest Mouse
it feels like sitting in a cheap motel at 4am not being able to sleep while having a cigarette and drinking the complimentary coffee they have in the rooms that you steep like tea bags. I love it
@@jamesmac1009 Dude on't be down. Woman used this as such an excuse to just see other dudes. Women are outta control now a days. Build yourself and when they come chose the right one. Most these girls just want your money and time.
For a second I forgot this wasn't the actual music video for Dramamine. So fitting, definitely captured the feel of the song and of course the overall imagery of the album cover. Amazing work!
R.I.P. my son , and we never had the day we need to feel the unconditional love we would have had for one and other. I wait for the next great plane when we reunite and have really real peace. Ngwut wetheppi my boi. I have never nor will ever forget you boi.
This song has been a favorite for all 23 years. This band has saved my life more times than i can count. Keep those you love in your heart. You never know when you'll need em. Keep rockin fellas.
Its been about a year since i saw this comment and everytime i see this video i think 'Damn... This ones for that dudes friend who loved this song.' And i just sit and bob my body back and forth so peacefully. Your simple comment changed the way i think when this song plays and i admire that. This ones for him, bud.
It's sometimes weird, how songs I've been listening to, like a religion, for my whole life, and no one else have even heard it, and the ones I show it to doesn't even remember the song if I show it thrice. This song is a bible to my life. I have so many memories that blast whenever I listen to this song. It never grows old, it just grows stronger.
That's... real dedication to art on their part, given how record labels are nowadays. I'm glad this video exists, and I'm sad that this sort of art can only barely exist at the whim of the copyright holder in our current system. How much of this "semi-transformative" art isn't made because it has so little legal protection?
"And you think you've figured out everything I think I know my geography pretty damn well" Those rather simple lines just sticks out to me everytime, the familiar condescension of the words just fill me with feelings recognition, its the kind of lyrics that make you really think and experience a sort of connection with something hard to describe, exellent stuff.
I’ve had float on on my playlist for a while, but not until recently did I think to look at other songs by the band. I looked through their stuff and I realized that I had heard a lot of their stuff and just didn’t realize it. This is one of my dads favorite bands and he always plays their music. I grew up to modest mouse, I just never knew it. Listening to these songs just opens the floodgates of nostalgia. They’re currently my favorite band/artist by a long shot
My mom passed last year and I've been angry since. I hardly ever cry. For some reason though, this song does it. Makes me think of how it all unfolded, reasons I've been angry, reasons to still be....and I just fucking cry- every god damn time.
Aww friend, I'm sorry for your loss , truly! I know how that feels and also how emptiness and grief and Anger feel.... Thats why I'm grateful for bands like modest mouse, bc they speak on a whole other level and you can feel for once just by heading their words Many blessings to u ✌️
Raw music ! Best of passion, eloquent, humane, that's the stuff we're missing in the compressed, pasted and looped mainstream - there are hands behind these tunes, there's something crude, ragged, veiled, coarse, yet so trained it sounds like master craftmanship. Diamonds don't shine as bright as this kinda stuff.
this was the first MM song someone who used to be my best friend ever showed me, its what got me hooked. we'd stay up till ungodly hours together, just listening to this music in silence. and then he turned on me, and shit went bad between us and i was so hurt because he wasnt as good as i thought he was. and now when i listen to this, all i can think is how theres still a part of him in me, in what i like. and its bittersweet. i miss you, walnuts. i wish things couldve been better between us. i wish YOU couldve been better.
i can somewhat relate to your situation. many groundbreaking people didn't make an impact until well into adulthood. don't be discouraged man. i struggle with it myself. i recently learned robert plant was 22 when led zeppelin 3 came out and that was pretty motivational...you know, after a brief but significant self-loathing phase ha
i can somewhat relate to your situation. many groundbreaking people didn't make an impact until well into adulthood. don't be discouraged man. i struggle with it myself. i recently learned robert plant was 22 when led zeppelin 3 came out and that was pretty motivational...you know, after a brief but significant self-loathing phase ha
1996 was an emotional turning point year for me. I didn't hear this song for the first time until yesterday - it feels more like 2004 than 1996. I wish I had first heard it 25 years ago.
...Modest Mouse...this song probably explains one of the truest parts of me and what i'm going through right now....so thank you for continuing to make great music
the only thing that made me able to wake up for middle school where I was bullied every day was knowing I could listen to this song over and over again on my way too school on the subway...and as I spent my lunches alone...and on the way home...and guess what? ...I still do and my love for Modest Mouse only grows...
I discovered this song at 16. Its been my favorite song for decades. Battled heroin addiction for many years and have been sober for 3. Whenever i get sober i feel like myself again when i play this song as its helped me through many dark days. Went to 3 modest mouse concerts with my dad and we share them as our favorite band
I’m 40 and and just started hearing this song on Pandora a little while ago. Now I’m absolutely blown away finding out it’s from 1996 !!!! I grew up in the sticks, so if it wasn’t the country, classic rock, or pop/rock that got played on the local radio station’s. I didn’t hear it. I can’t even imagine how 14 year old me would have reacted to this!!
I sometimes listen to this entire album, but always this song in specific when I’m dissociating. It calms me down somehow, despite being such a sad sounding song
Wow, this makes me feel like I'm driving the backroad highways of Utah, I've traveled a lot on those roads. Amazing scenery and quaint towns. Love the video.
This is what being alone and isolated sounds like No one talking to you, just you and your thoughts, everyone pretends your invisible Making you question what you did to deserve this and if your destined to be alone forever in a small fishing town
I'm Brazilian, I met Modest Mouse in mid-2009 and since then I've been with the group. It's amazing the ability that music has in touching the feeling. Thank you Modest Mouse for existing!
My friend passed away on 20th February this year. He was 21. We hadn't talked to each other in a year but I wish we had. RIP Abhinav, I'll live for both of us.
Here I am learning to play this song on guitar and I needed to hear the jam one more time and now the comment section has me crying. Cheers to your tears, remember we're alive and to live everyday like it's our last. Be good to each other, peace.
I listened to this song and watched this video a lot as a kid. When i turned 18, i found a partner, and was with them for 3 years. We went on a roadtrip in 2020 across the west, from NJ to California, and up through the midwest. We lived in a car, and were loving every moment. We eventually started to change a lot as the years went on, and we grew apart from eachother. This song, and video, that id watch on repeat when i was 14, accurately predicted the future. Im in a better place now though. Living in Nepal. I met a girl here, and i might move to germany with her. Life moves on, the road keeps going. This video just acts as a bittersweet reminder to what love and life is. Moving.
I love this song. It's energy is the way I perceive the world- in hues of blue. The visuals couldn't be more fitting. Another of the many videos on this channel that has aided me in dark times ♡
One of the top 5 best Modest Mouse Songs of all time! IMO Reminds me of getting stoned for the first time with all my old friends and driving around aimlessly
I knew someone when we first found this song. We don't know eachother anymore and I bet he tries to pretend we never knew eachother at all. He was so mean to me. I read old messages between eachother from 10 years ago and I couldn't believe how cruel he was. I couldn't believe that I never retaliated. I would never let someone talk to me like that today. The loneliness of this song matches the loneliness of that relationship. He seems like he's doing really well now. I'm doing very well too but probably in different ways. I'm so thankful I dont feel this lonely in my current relationship. Though I do feel a lot of nostalgia for that time. A couple family members were still around then, and I didn't worry about the well being of my parents so much. But I also was in a dark place then. It just seems like darkness you've lived through before was better because you know you got through it.
I used to listen to this song as if it were a lullaby when I was in high school. It made me feel nostalgic for something I’d never experienced. Now at 36, it makes me nostalgic for things I have experienced. The video reminds me of long drives through the desert with my daughter’s father and I wish it didn’t. I wish it still made me nostalgic for things I don’t understand instead.
something about modest mouse songs really gels with driving across the country i drove from atlanta to vegas nonstop a few years back, blasting this album and the lonesome crowded west the whole time
Modest mouse is from WA state...my hubby is a t ow truck driver..we go all over the west coast. This video really has the feel of going east over the passes and into the pseudo desert. I love this band. I love this state ❤
When you realize the meaning behind this line, behind the initial "what did he say? How is that relevant?" It is amazing. We share what we think is good and hide the bad even when it has the same end result. Really speaks leagues of Modest Mouse. Nothing is wasted and everything gives moral outlooks and opinions that truly tell a story with each song.
I’m so sorry to hear about that. 😢 Speaking of road trips, I downloaded this to listen to on my drive out to LA from NJ. After a year and some days, I made the decision to leave my home in the East Coast and go out West. My boyfriend and I had been together over a year and since he had a young daughter, I was open to moving and starting anew. Still together and although there have been some tough times, I never regret my decision. This song, album and band are among the many that hold a lot of emotional significance for us and I’m sure, many more of you.
Your story kinda mirrors mine. I listened to this song and watched this video a lot as a kid. When i turned 18, i found a partner, and was with them for 3 years. We went on a roadtrip in 2020 across the west, from NJ to California, and up through the midwest. We lived in a car, and were loving every moment. We eventually started to change a lot as the years went on, and we grew apart from eachother. This song, and video, that id watch on repeat when i was 14, accurately predicted the future. Im in a better place now though. Living in Nepal. I met a girl here, and i might move to germany with her. Life moves on, the road keeps going. This video just acts as a bittersweet reminder to what love and life is. Moving.
Rip lil bro. No road trip will be the same. Nothing is the same
may he rest in piece
Sorry for your loss brotha.. He lives on in the music and the memories...
Rip❤️
Sorry man
Damn, hit me right square in the feels
By the way, for those of you curious, the highway featured in this video is US Route 50, specifically the Nevada portion, which has been nicknamed "The Loneliest Road in America."
MarkieDood )
“I think I know my geography, pretty damn well!” 🤙🏼🛣
Neat add on. Cool friend. 🤗 a hug from Kentucky.
I walk a lonely road--
Is it the only one that you have ever known?
R.i.P. my sweet son, I have a picture of you learning to play this. I miss you.
Usually comments like this I just consider begs for attention, most likely on songs that are mainstream, but considering that this is Modest Mouse nobody would do that. I’m sorry for your loss, and I’m glad had a great taste in music.
My condolences
And my blessings
I could never imagine losing my daughter I send u condolences I can never fathom to comprehend
I'm sorry ♡
this song feels like finding an old photo of someone you use to know and realising its been year since you last spoke to or even thought about them.
labRat2752 very specific
this is so specific and yet describes the feeling of the song almost perfectly...
I did that, then looked him up and found he died of old man cancer. He was 35. He was really the only person who accepted me as I was. I will always regret not responding to him sooner.
A year? Five years!!!
Wishing I could actually forget them for a year.
30+ hour drive from Chicago to Phoenix with my buddy Devin. We had this song on as we looked around in amazement at how different the Southwest is from the Midwest. We loved every second of it. Dev just recently passed and this had me thinking of him. Perfect video for a perfect song. Kudos.
Ash 1 awe comments like this make me sad
Dude I just made pretty much the same trip, just from Michigan to Phoenix. And the Midwest and southwest are like different worlds
Made the drive from Pittsburgh to Tucson.
Raleigh, NC to L.A. I had to pick up a friend in Austin. The slow sunset west of El Paso is other worldly. Cheers, Mate.
I live by you in Wisconsin. I made those drives many times, 28 hours last year to Arizona, Utah, Colorado. You can always tell when you cross into the west. Different terrain out there and everyone seems happier. Sorry about your friend bro, life's sad
I feel like this is one of those songs where the music says more than the words.
The breakdown towards the end makes me feel lost and yet in familiar ground. As if it resembles somewhere you have been and will be again. But you aren't sure why. Ironic it also happens to be about addiction and bad habits...
This is one of those songs you can get lost to and find yourself to at the same time. Just a masterpiece.
Perfect comment.
Absolutely. He doesn’t need to sing even
Wow this was so beautifully written great comment
Its one of those rythms that are timeless, they tap into that day dreaming state where you think of important things that dont have a solution,or melancholia about things passed, but in some moments your more sad or more calm and reserved.
Thats the vibe i get
Listening to Modest Mouse makes me feel like I'm in my bedroom, in a cheap one storey house in a very small quiet American town somewhere in the Midwest, where I've lived my whole life (I'm actually Russian and have lived in an apartment on the 5th floor my whole life). It's almost surreal.
Sdravstviietya, mon tovarisch
Dude, it was two stories but yeah.
Same
I'm living in the Midwest and this album makes me want to head aimlessly westward until I get to the Rockies
That is literally my life right now
First time I heard this was in 1999 when my husband walked out and left my son and me penniless. They played in on this local college radio station called *KNON*
I was driving to the store to cash in change I had in a jar. This song has always made me think of the worst night of my life. Now it's just bittersweet. He almost killed me, but didn't break me entirely. Almost though. Felt that way for a few years.
you deserved better. hope you're alright now
Wow, hope you are living your best life now.
@@exetion how do you know they deserved better
God loves you . Love him back he will set you free. In Jesus name I pray .
@William U wow. Cool .
this song reminds me of that feeling in the pit of your stomach you feel when in agony, stressed or overly excited. Thank you for that, it's a feeling most both desire an try to get rid of.
@Enigmatic Petiole I know right? I think that the instrumentals are mostly responsible for that, your mind goes into a trance
That’s the best description I’ve ever heard. It’s so true.
The comments here have been almost as comforting as the song. This song has always entranced me. It got me through some of the roughest times in my life and is like a friend who understands you even when you dont understand yourself. I am so thankful for this song's existence as well as this video's. Thank you.
It doesn't get any better or any worse than this. All emotion is captured in this one song and sobers you as you feel elated by being understood about always feeling misunderstood.
This song means so much to me and I can't describe why.
Same
Same
How about now? It’s been three years describe it
Yup. Sane
@@evanherrera5948oh I hope they answer
I love how no matter how many times I listen to it it always sounds better than the last time I listened to it.
RIP Jerimiah you will be missed and your music will live on forever.
Everytime I'm at work, and it's raining when I get off work, I just put my earbuds in, and put this song on. I sit on the sidewalk, and just watch the rain in the streetlights, and let my brain drift away. I can imagine driving in the rain, and just listening to this song on repeat, and listen as the same melancholy guitar riff, repeats over and over and over again, making me drift away and let my mind wander. It's music like this that speaks to me the most, and clearest. When I listen to this song, I think about my childhood. Old memories of my friends and family who have all but vanished, and died. The memories that nobody will ever be able to replicate or destroy. When music speaks to you, listen, cause sometimes it's the most important messages that music relays back to you in hopes you'll understand.
why would you sit on the sidewalk while it’s raining
@xtramoist thats horrible. LOL. Some people just like to do things differently. This is how he handles things. Now stop making me laugh. 😅
@@dexceles why the fuck not
It’s crazy how you can hear this song even when it’s not playing
That's legit. I work around loud machinery but this song played in my head all day
Yes
Modest Mouse in a nutshell
"Here's some music" -lisa Simpson
That is called an auditory hallucination and I'm sorry to tell you but you obviously suffer from some form of psychotic disorder.
"I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean
But I still can't focus on anything"
This song reminds me of a bad relationship, well not outright bad but stagnant and going through the motions anymore and you either stay because you hope it can be saved or you are too scared to be alone so you stay. It speaks of the loss of intimacy that you once had and walking around in a daze because you just don't know what to do. At least that is what I get from it, the great thing about MM lyrics is they speak to everyone differently.
This songs feels like you accepted death and are ready to move on
Perfect description
Pretty much
My thoughts exactly
Absolutely this.
Yessss
I listen this when I was 16 years old. Now 29 and its the same esence of pure music for me. Always come here when I need some dramamine musically speaking
Rip my boyfriend he was 24 and had big dreams. this song brought him so much joy. nothing will ever be the same
keep playing this song for him, never stop🤍
I love you.
@@jacobadam6804 I love you more
@@nitemarehippygirl510 Should we hug?
@@jacobadam6804 if you want to, sure.
This song is haunting... Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, The Shins, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, * Edits Arcade fire, Death Cab For Cutie... I don't know what I'd do without them...
try death cab for cutie
Broken Bells Highroad
Look up bored nothing. He killed him self almost 3 years ago now and only ever put out 2 albums but they're both amazing. The album names are bored nothing and some songs. Some songs is no longer as a full video on UA-cam though.
Joey Cape thanks for the suggestions
Joey Cape love broken social scene and obviously modest mouse never heard of any of the rest of them
Rest in peace Jeremiah. Thank you for the love and the music.
Drunkenly slapping an improv drum beat to this on my leg while a friend of mine ran and danced high as a kite around the campground we were staying at has solidified itself as one of my better memories
I wanna go back
It’s one of those songs that even if you’ve never herd it before makes you feel so nostalgic.
As a young kid I actually had a friend of mine die from an “overdose” of Dramamine. Over the years I’ve had many more friends die of heroin overdose. This reminds me of times I’ve had and times I have not yet had. The hopelessness of reminiscing, but also the hopefulness of the future. Damn I love Modest Mouse
it feels like sitting in a cheap motel at 4am not being able to sleep while having a cigarette and drinking the complimentary coffee they have in the rooms that you steep like tea bags. I love it
“We kiss on the mouth but cough down our sleeves”
That verse has a different feel in 2020
My ex of 5 years broke up with me a couple of months ago so this song hits close to home twice as hard.
Fuck this year.
@@jamesmac1009 fuck 2020 indeed
@@ezramotz1995 grammar police
@UC8n05CMtiJuXBujeGtI1vEg fuck yo ex and fuck 2020
@@jamesmac1009 Dude on't be down. Woman used this as such an excuse to just see other dudes. Women are outta control now a days. Build yourself and when they come chose the right one. Most these girls just want your money and time.
I come back to this every time. This is one of the greatest songs ever.
it's honestly really strange how a song can bring so many bad memories but also make someone feel so much hopefulness
For a second I forgot this wasn't the actual music video for Dramamine. So fitting, definitely captured the feel of the song and of course the overall imagery of the album cover. Amazing work!
This song definitely takes you on a journey. It's like leaving a bad relationship. Love it!
this is the best youtube account ever. never stop doing this
+Hunter Simons Thank you very much.
can you do an ohio one? :>
Hunter Simons I wanna fuck whoever made this
halfjaw oh shit Ohio would be heaven
Hunter Simons if
R.I.P. my son , and we never had the day we need to feel the unconditional love we would have had for one and other. I wait for the next great plane when we reunite and have really real peace. Ngwut wetheppi my boi. I have never nor will ever forget you boi.
This song has been a favorite for all 23 years. This band has saved my life more times than i can count. Keep those you love in your heart. You never know when you'll need em. Keep rockin fellas.
Dude these videos are amazing. Seriously one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen and it's fanmade. That is crazy.
John Doe the first time I saw modestmouser vids I thought they were the official ones
Who made this?
not fan made
John Doe q
REST IN PEACE TO MY DEAR FRIEND HE LOVED THIS SONG MORE THAN ANY OTHER this one goes out to you man
@William Santos supongo que su amigo fallecio
Its been about a year since i saw this comment and everytime i see this video i think 'Damn... This ones for that dudes friend who loved this song.' And i just sit and bob my body back and forth so peacefully. Your simple comment changed the way i think when this song plays and i admire that. This ones for him, bud.
I cant find a long lost friend who loved this song so dear and I’m so scared for the worst news about him.
The man I thought I was goin to marry loved this song. He committed suicide in 2018. I miss him everyday.
Thinks it’s dope y’all still comeback to this side of UA-cam after all these years
It's sometimes weird, how songs I've been listening to, like a religion, for my whole life, and no one else have even heard it, and the ones I show it to doesn't even remember the song if I show it thrice.
This song is a bible to my life. I have so many memories that blast whenever I listen to this song. It never grows old, it just grows stronger.
We are all the same but different on so many levels
wait, this isn't the official music video? It's so perfect....
there is no official music video. Both unofficial vids are beautiful, and i'm glad they didn't get copyrighted.
That's... real dedication to art on their part, given how record labels are nowadays. I'm glad this video exists, and I'm sad that this sort of art can only barely exist at the whim of the copyright holder in our current system. How much of this "semi-transformative" art isn't made because it has so little legal protection?
This song sounds like motion sickness. Isaac is a genius.
*I first heard MM in 8th grade, I'm now in my early 20's and this band is hitting harder now..*
Same lol
thats funny. I first heard Modest Mouse in 8th grade as well. But now I'm 35 lol. I got majorly back into Modest Mouse in my early 20s as well lol.
Such simple visuals paired so perfectly with how the song feels. You're a gift to Modest Mouse fans everywhere.
"And you think you've figured out everything
I think I know my geography pretty damn well"
Those rather simple lines just sticks out to me everytime, the familiar condescension of the words just fill me with feelings recognition, its the kind of lyrics that make you really think and experience a sort of connection with something hard to describe, exellent stuff.
This song forever holds a place in my heart, so amazing! Every time feels like the first time I hear it.
this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever had the pleasure to hear
I’ve had float on on my playlist for a while, but not until recently did I think to look at other songs by the band. I looked through their stuff and I realized that I had heard a lot of their stuff and just didn’t realize it. This is one of my dads favorite bands and he always plays their music. I grew up to modest mouse, I just never knew it. Listening to these songs just opens the floodgates of nostalgia. They’re currently my favorite band/artist by a long shot
I can’t listen to this band anymore without heartache
Same here
This song makes me feel a special kind of sadness/melancholy and I love it.
My mom passed last year and I've been angry since. I hardly ever cry. For some reason though, this song does it. Makes me think of how it all unfolded, reasons I've been angry, reasons to still be....and I just fucking cry- every god damn time.
Aww friend, I'm sorry for your loss , truly!
I know how that feels and also how emptiness and grief and Anger feel....
Thats why I'm grateful for bands like modest mouse, bc they speak on a whole other level and you can feel for once just by heading their words
Many blessings to u ✌️
Music is the key to our emotions
I understand your pain .. my mom died in a car accident 7 years ago almost & it still feels like it was just yesterday that we put her to rest
Modest mouse never fails to put you in a vibe of its own and it doesnt matter where you are
Still the only song I never skip in my library. I will not turn off the car or the player until it's over.
Timeless
Same.
I still have yet to find anything even close to this sound, absolutely mindblowing
I've commented before but it's been years. I wanted to let you guys know I'm still jamming to this song. It still makes me feel.
Raw music ! Best of passion, eloquent, humane, that's the stuff we're missing in the compressed, pasted and looped mainstream - there are hands behind these tunes, there's something crude, ragged, veiled, coarse, yet so trained it sounds like master craftmanship. Diamonds don't shine as bright as this kinda stuff.
this was the first MM song someone who used to be my best friend ever showed me, its what got me hooked. we'd stay up till ungodly hours together, just listening to this music in silence. and then he turned on me, and shit went bad between us and i was so hurt because he wasnt as good as i thought he was. and now when i listen to this, all i can think is how theres still a part of him in me, in what i like. and its bittersweet.
i miss you, walnuts. i wish things couldve been better between us. i wish YOU couldve been better.
This song does _not_ sound like it came out 23 years ago...
I don't think it did
woah it did. lols. So there was dramamine back then too
@@itsmebutwhoami8177 ... Not sure if that was a serious question or not, but Dramamine has been around since 1949.
@@mcktbfl yeah I just didn't know it. I haven't researched about dramamine hehe
WHAAAAAAAAT?
Isaac was only 21 when this song was released. Holy shit!
+Don Beck He actually would have been 20. Very impressive. He had/has a mind ahead of his time.
Don Beck really makes you resent the fuckall you've done with your life
turtlesinabox breloom
i can somewhat relate to your situation. many groundbreaking people didn't make an impact until well into adulthood. don't be discouraged man. i struggle with it myself. i recently learned robert plant was 22 when led zeppelin 3 came out and that was pretty motivational...you know, after a brief but significant self-loathing phase ha
i can somewhat relate to your situation. many groundbreaking people didn't make an impact until well into adulthood. don't be discouraged man. i struggle with it myself. i recently learned robert plant was 22 when led zeppelin 3 came out and that was pretty motivational...you know, after a brief but significant self-loathing phase ha
This is the nicest comment section ive ever seen. Good job
Want a challenge, read Pink Floyd's wish you were here comment section without crying
Look thru most of their songs on utube . surprisingly its 99 percent civil
Marnie Lord fuck you
it’s bc we’re all sad :(
Basically every modest mouse songs' comment section
1996 was an emotional turning point year for me. I didn't hear this song for the first time until yesterday - it feels more like 2004 than 1996. I wish I had first heard it 25 years ago.
...Modest Mouse...this song probably explains one of the truest parts of me and what i'm going through right now....so thank you for continuing to make great music
Remember listening to this together with you, Missi, every now and then in your car. It was our jam, wasn't it? I miss your sweet face.
the only thing that made me able to wake up for middle school where I was bullied every day was knowing I could listen to this song over and over again on my way too school on the subway...and as I spent my lunches alone...and on the way home...and guess what? ...I still do and my love for Modest Mouse only grows...
This could play forever....
I discovered this song at 16. Its been my favorite song for decades. Battled heroin addiction for many years and have been sober for 3. Whenever i get sober i feel like myself again when i play this song as its helped me through many dark days. Went to 3 modest mouse concerts with my dad and we share them as our favorite band
I’m 40 and and just started hearing this song on Pandora a little while ago. Now I’m absolutely blown away finding out it’s from 1996 !!!! I grew up in the sticks, so if it wasn’t the country, classic rock, or pop/rock that got played on the local radio station’s. I didn’t hear it. I can’t even imagine how 14 year old me would have reacted to this!!
This song is from 1996?No way....!?!
@@Justgonetogetsomemilk Yeah that was exactly my reaction when I found out 🤣
I sometimes listen to this entire album, but always this song in specific when I’m dissociating. It calms me down somehow, despite being such a sad sounding song
Wow, this makes me feel like I'm driving the backroad highways of Utah, I've traveled a lot on those roads. Amazing scenery and quaint towns. Love the video.
The only way I can think to describe this use of imagery combined with this song is hypnotic
YOURE IN MY BAND
almost sickening
Otherworldly or psychedelic might be good descriptors as well.
This video and song Perfectly encapsulate that moment on a long lonely Highway that you realize it wasn't all your fault.
This is what being alone and isolated sounds like
No one talking to you, just you and your thoughts, everyone pretends your invisible
Making you question what you did to deserve this and if your destined to be alone forever in a small fishing town
💯
This song CUTS through a depression.
I was in the middle of Smokey mountain National Park around Smokemont listening to this song and it was one of the most beautiful moments in my life.
Just like the cover of the album. It came to life. Incredible
I'm Brazilian, I met Modest Mouse in mid-2009 and since then I've been with the group. It's amazing the ability that music has in touching the feeling. Thank you Modest Mouse for existing!
This is exactly how I feel when I listen to modest mouse. The visuals match my emotions somehow.
+wm41ification Me too
wm41ification becuase it's similar to the album cover lol
is it because you are listening to modest mouse when you are driving in a car? lol
wm41ification is it bc he's traveling swallowing Dramamine?
wm41ification i knowwww
My friend passed away on 20th February this year. He was 21. We hadn't talked to each other in a year but I wish we had. RIP Abhinav, I'll live for both of us.
This song perfectly encased how it’s like to feel mad at somebody close to you.
Here I am learning to play this song on guitar and I needed to hear the jam one more time and now the comment section has me crying. Cheers to your tears, remember we're alive and to live everyday like it's our last. Be good to each other, peace.
I listened to this song and watched this video a lot as a kid. When i turned 18, i found a partner, and was with them for 3 years. We went on a roadtrip in 2020 across the west, from NJ to California, and up through the midwest. We lived in a car, and were loving every moment. We eventually started to change a lot as the years went on, and we grew apart from eachother. This song, and video, that id watch on repeat when i was 14, accurately predicted the future.
Im in a better place now though. Living in Nepal. I met a girl here, and i might move to germany with her. Life moves on, the road keeps going.
This video just acts as a bittersweet reminder to what love and life is. Moving.
This song... has been with me for many, many years. And still is. A soul-song, can't even describe... 💜
Where are you guys nowadays?
I love this song. It's energy is the way I perceive the world- in hues of blue. The visuals couldn't be more fitting. Another of the many videos on this channel that has aided me in dark times ♡
Part of growing up is realizing we will never get an official video this good
One of the top 5 best Modest Mouse Songs of all time! IMO
Reminds me of getting stoned for the first time with all my old friends and driving around aimlessly
Lost my son in 2019. He always liked this group. Seems like he’s still here when I’m listening 😢
I knew someone when we first found this song. We don't know eachother anymore and I bet he tries to pretend we never knew eachother at all. He was so mean to me. I read old messages between eachother from 10 years ago and I couldn't believe how cruel he was. I couldn't believe that I never retaliated. I would never let someone talk to me like that today.
The loneliness of this song matches the loneliness of that relationship.
He seems like he's doing really well now. I'm doing very well too but probably in different ways. I'm so thankful I dont feel this lonely in my current relationship. Though I do feel a lot of nostalgia for that time. A couple family members were still around then, and I didn't worry about the well being of my parents so much. But I also was in a dark place then. It just seems like darkness you've lived through before was better because you know you got through it.
I'm new to modest mouse. Found them like 7 mins ago. Gave a few song a quick listen, love it
Never had chills for a whole 5 minutes and 54 seconds till this song
As a truck driver this is my everyday view, great vid and god do I love this song, kudos.
I used to listen to this song as if it were a lullaby when I was in high school. It made me feel nostalgic for something I’d never experienced. Now at 36, it makes me nostalgic for things I have experienced. The video reminds me of long drives through the desert with my daughter’s father and I wish it didn’t. I wish it still made me nostalgic for things I don’t understand instead.
something about modest mouse songs really gels with driving across the country
i drove from atlanta to vegas nonstop a few years back, blasting this album and the lonesome crowded west the whole time
+Solomon Carter I agree 100%
It feels like my heart is drowning.
themoroseghost .....or growing? .....or settling.....alot of thier outros make one wish they lasted at Least a half hour
Haven't heard it in years. Cried in the best way hearing gravity rides everything then this.
We've all been there
It feels like my heart is going to burst
God, I get goosebumps everytime I listen to this song.
Somber, sad, nostalgic, melancholic, reflective, beautiful..
"I still can't focus on anything" is a stupidly hard hitting line, especially as a student with a lot of duties and responsibilities.
Modest mouse is from WA state...my hubby is a t ow truck driver..we go all over the west coast. This video really has the feel of going east over the passes and into the pseudo desert. I love this band. I love this state ❤
You people are making me cry. Many great memories associated with this song, it’s actually what made me love The Mouse
Rest in peace Jeremiah
"We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves"
Evan Gates gives me goosebumbs everytime i hear it
When you realize the meaning behind this line, behind the initial "what did he say? How is that relevant?" It is amazing. We share what we think is good and hide the bad even when it has the same end result. Really speaks leagues of Modest Mouse. Nothing is wasted and everything gives moral outlooks and opinions that truly tell a story with each song.
Sums up a stagnant relationship that you're still in for some reason and haven't left yet because it's better than being alone.
Those are some of my fav mm lyrics.
I'll cough on her next time do keep the relationship fluent
My best friend showed me this song and I couldn't be more grateful.
Still can't get over this dude's fan videos being better than most music vids! 🤘
I’m so sorry to hear about that. 😢 Speaking of road trips, I downloaded this to listen to on my drive out to LA from NJ. After a year and some days, I made the decision to leave my home in the East Coast and go out West. My boyfriend and I had been together over a year and since he had a young daughter, I was open to moving and starting anew. Still together and although there have been some tough times, I never regret my decision. This song, album and band are among the many that hold a lot of emotional significance for us and I’m sure, many more of you.
Your story kinda mirrors mine.
I listened to this song and watched this video a lot as a kid. When i turned 18, i found a partner, and was with them for 3 years. We went on a roadtrip in 2020 across the west, from NJ to California, and up through the midwest. We lived in a car, and were loving every moment. We eventually started to change a lot as the years went on, and we grew apart from eachother. This song, and video, that id watch on repeat when i was 14, accurately predicted the future.
Im in a better place now though. Living in Nepal. I met a girl here, and i might move to germany with her. Life moves on, the road keeps going.
This video just acts as a bittersweet reminder to what love and life is. Moving.
Man, that was professional as hell. Thank you so much.
Thank you Yhetti64. Also, thank you for introducing me to Kanye West's Bound 2. Changed my life.
+Modest Mouser changed your life more than Modest Mouse did? I hope not haha.
JJ ;)
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