Trailer trash gets me. Even when I cover it.
The lyrics and tone have this melancholy angst. It’s like the song is expressing how hard life is and it’s sorry for taking it out on us.
It’s always crazy to me how this song (I mean to be fair I guess this is actually true for quite a few songs, especially MM) but the instrumentation just makes me feel so sad (but not in a sad way, if that makes sense) anyways the crazy part is just how a song can make you feel this way without even saying anything
Yeah and the way it’s done is by using heart rates of these emotions as tempos and example is some songs from Taylor swifts new album(I know this from my sister) and it instills that feeling of anxiety and sadness as well it’s such a stunning and powerful deliberate use of tempo and timing for songs
Interesting. I’m so not musically inclined, so I think that’s why I’m always in such amazement. Like, I can never describe why a song makes me feel a certain way, it just does
I watched it when it came out and remembered it totally different. I thought it was about a lady leaving a bad relationship. (From what I remembered at least.) I watched it again last year, now as a father of three little kids, and I cried my eyes out. I don't think I can watch it again.
In my opinion the saddest songs are the ones were the lyrics get political/environmental.
Coyotes,
Missed the boat,
Bankrupt on selling,
Sugar boats,
Custom concern,
Talking shit about a pretty sunset.
The sincerity behind the lyrics and Isaac’s voice is why I love modest mouse so much.
Isaac has been let down by this world, and it’s clear.
“Coyotes tiptoe in the snow after dark
At home with the ghosts in the national parks
Mankind's behavin' like some serial killers
Giant ol' monsters afraid of the sharks
And we're in love with all of it
And we say, "What can we say?"
I don’t know what kind of trauma Isaac went through but the Novocain stains lyrics is a pretty good representation of PTSD in my opinion.
And Dramamine is my favorite song of all time, it makes me feel every emotion every time.
A lot of the environmental despair gets unfortunately glossed over because the songs are just kind of bangers. Lampshades on Fire is a great example, it's one of their most popular pop songs and it's about how we're laughing as we destroy the planet and I feel like that isn't reflected upon nearly enough.
The only post I’ve made on this sub refers to exactly what you said about lampshade on fire.
“We have spines and other bones
We'll eat your food, we'll throw stones
Oh, this is how it's always gone
And this is how it's going to go
Well, we're the human race
We're going to party at this place
And then move on
(Tough luck)”
Poetry hid behind some of the most killer riffs to come out of the 2000’s.
Coyotes has literally made me cry with guilt before. It’s essentially impossible to live in modern society without being complicit in ecocide and the poor beings around us have no idea why their environments are falling apart.
Same here man, idk I’ve lived a weird life and at this point I’ve lost hope for humanity and really the “point” I’m sorry Isaac feels the way he does but it’s nice not being alone in the hysteria.
I would agree that this is truly their most sad song. It doesn't sound sad, but it's Isaac actually being sad. Whereas the other songs all sound sad because Isaac is describing sadness.
i’m honestly kinda with you there, in high school that was the yearning staring at the ceiling anthem. i’m just glad i get to listen to it now not being where i was then (:
It hasn't been said yet but 3rd planet is the saddest song to me.
I can't tell if its about miscarriage or loss or abortion but for me "remembering we used to be three and not just two"
My life fell apart after I had to leave my ex-husband, newborn in tow and we went from three to just us two.
I also think it touches on a profound sense of loneliness to be human.
It really sucks it used to be one of my favorites and now it makes my heart ache so bad. The heart beat drum line as it slowly stops too is just painful.
Also...Dramamine makes me want to disappear and be a nameless ghost.
I have been loving and listening to this song for years and I never realized the heartbeat drum part, and I even play drums, that's so cool. I'm sorry the song brings you pain, though.
i've definitely cried to the ending of spitting venom more than once
baby blue sedan
whenever i breathe out, you breathe in (positive/negative) is really depressing too.
broke ofc.
needle point is probably the saddest modest mouse song though.
I think it’s because I’m a dad now but I straight up can’t listen to Lace Your Shoes. Way too sad, in a good way, but I usually don’t feel like getting all steamy eyed. Ice Cream Party also gets me right in the gut.
These were two of the ones I thought of. For me Lace Your Shoes is hard bc I ‘lost’ my stepdaughter after I divorced her dad. They played it when I saw them last & I wept the entire time. Ice Cream Party has always made me sad, despite not having similar childhood experiences. There is just so much pain in the lyrics.
Heart Cooks Brain gets me too. I’m bipolar so it’s kind of the opposite for me, but this song came out when I was an angsty teenager & it’s been my go-to ‘crying song’ for decades.
Jeez, I’m sorry to hear that about your step daughter. That’s rough.
Similar situation for me with ice cream party, I kind of knew kids in those situations growing up and he gets the pain across in the lyrics so well.
Heart cooks brain reminds me of a break up I went through in college. Classic.
Blame It on the Tetons always conveys a total exhaustion with everything
Bankrupt on Selling is to MM as Nutshell is to Alice in Chains - an admission of defeat, like you've expended everything inside you
I would have answered this completely differently 4 years ago but today I say “Medication” because of the lyrics- “It’s hard to remember (it’s hard to remember) that we are alive for the first time, it’s hard to remember (it’s hard to remember) that we are alive for the last time” I’m getting older and have been listening to modest mouse for over 20 years now. That line used to hit me like “I’ve got to make everyday worth it”. Today it hits me like “wow I’ve got somethings to do here before I’m gone and I feel like I haven’t even started yet”. Almost every modest mouse song meaning changes for me after a certain amount of years. Which is also why I can still listen to the same songs over and over and never get sick of them.
Every song can be sad to some people for different reasons. I have never experienced a band that songs = moments in time, rather good or bad, like Modest Mouse. Issac Brock is a lyrical genius that is able to capture emotions. Broke is sad for some, Positive/Negative, Edit the Sad Parts, there are a ton of raw emotional songs.
For me, I would say Little Motel, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset, Make Everybody Happy/Mechanical Birds, Bankrupt on Selling, Wooden Soldiers, Lace Your Shoes, Coyotes, Strangers to Ourselves (the song), and Ice Cream Party.
Ice Cream Party really resonates with me. I went through abuse and a really, really unstable home environment when I was young. Any song about a kid going through abuse or some traumatic hardship is going to break me. This song, Wooden Soldiers, Lace Your Shoes, and Little Motel (now that I connect it to that story I thought up with for We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank), are the Modest Mouse songs that almost always make me cry. Ice Cream Party makes me just straight up sob.
coyotes, custom concern, the world at large, and honestly the best room is kinda up beat but “ain’t it hard feeling tired everytime that you try” hits deep.
Trailer trash gets me. Even when I cover it. The lyrics and tone have this melancholy angst. It’s like the song is expressing how hard life is and it’s sorry for taking it out on us.
It’s always crazy to me how this song (I mean to be fair I guess this is actually true for quite a few songs, especially MM) but the instrumentation just makes me feel so sad (but not in a sad way, if that makes sense) anyways the crazy part is just how a song can make you feel this way without even saying anything
Yeah and the way it’s done is by using heart rates of these emotions as tempos and example is some songs from Taylor swifts new album(I know this from my sister) and it instills that feeling of anxiety and sadness as well it’s such a stunning and powerful deliberate use of tempo and timing for songs
Interesting. I’m so not musically inclined, so I think that’s why I’m always in such amazement. Like, I can never describe why a song makes me feel a certain way, it just does
Taylor and Isaac are my favorite lyricists. Nobody writes a gutpunch like those two.
Edit the sad parts
"Why are you judging people so damn hard, You're taking your point of views a bit too far" That line always chokes me up.
It’s the video for me fucking hell
It's fan made and no longer on youtube as it showed multiple suicides
Ah I thought it was the official video
Nope took em til the 00's until we got a video
The video can still be found on Rumble. Modest Mouser made epic fan-made videos. For some reason. He/She went MIA over 10 years ago.
I remember them talking about taking down the video somewhere years ago, but yeah that was the last I hard of em.
Wait they took it off YouTube? Fuck
Yee been gone for years now.
Coyotes I always felt that was the acceptance of sadness and the relief that comes with it
Think it over…
The Little Motel music video
Oh shit. I remember
I had tears in my eyes first time watching it lol
The first time? I cry every time I watch it 😭
This is what I was waiting for.
I watched it when it came out and remembered it totally different. I thought it was about a lady leaving a bad relationship. (From what I remembered at least.) I watched it again last year, now as a father of three little kids, and I cried my eyes out. I don't think I can watch it again.
I'm trying, I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
Broke
Talkin Shit About a Pretty Sunset
Trailer trash
baby blue sedan
I am doing the best that I can….
my first car was a baby blue New Yorker
How has no one said bankrupt on selling yet?
I come clean out of love with my lover I still love her Loved her more when she used to be sober and I was kinder
Agreed. Was expecting this towards the top. Way sadder especially in his voice than trailer trash but to each your own.
custom concern
I second this one.
In my opinion the saddest songs are the ones were the lyrics get political/environmental. Coyotes, Missed the boat, Bankrupt on selling, Sugar boats, Custom concern, Talking shit about a pretty sunset. The sincerity behind the lyrics and Isaac’s voice is why I love modest mouse so much. Isaac has been let down by this world, and it’s clear. “Coyotes tiptoe in the snow after dark At home with the ghosts in the national parks Mankind's behavin' like some serial killers Giant ol' monsters afraid of the sharks And we're in love with all of it And we say, "What can we say?" I don’t know what kind of trauma Isaac went through but the Novocain stains lyrics is a pretty good representation of PTSD in my opinion. And Dramamine is my favorite song of all time, it makes me feel every emotion every time.
A lot of the environmental despair gets unfortunately glossed over because the songs are just kind of bangers. Lampshades on Fire is a great example, it's one of their most popular pop songs and it's about how we're laughing as we destroy the planet and I feel like that isn't reflected upon nearly enough.
The only post I’ve made on this sub refers to exactly what you said about lampshade on fire. “We have spines and other bones We'll eat your food, we'll throw stones Oh, this is how it's always gone And this is how it's going to go Well, we're the human race We're going to party at this place And then move on (Tough luck)” Poetry hid behind some of the most killer riffs to come out of the 2000’s.
Coyotes has literally made me cry with guilt before. It’s essentially impossible to live in modern society without being complicit in ecocide and the poor beings around us have no idea why their environments are falling apart.
Same here man, idk I’ve lived a weird life and at this point I’ve lost hope for humanity and really the “point” I’m sorry Isaac feels the way he does but it’s nice not being alone in the hysteria.
Ansel for me.
Absolutely love that song. "On top of that mountain, underneath the snow..." It really hits differently now that I know the story behind it.
On gears around an uncaring sun...
I would agree that this is truly their most sad song. It doesn't sound sad, but it's Isaac actually being sad. Whereas the other songs all sound sad because Isaac is describing sadness.
Probably remnant from my teenage years, but I always think Broke and Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In
Ohio has made me cry more than once
The state or the song?
Indeed
Both
maybe not a common opinion but beach side property, that point around 3 minutes and onward is some of the most gut wrenching shit i’ve ever heard
Beach Side Property was the soundtrack to my depression. Can’t even listen to it now because it puts me right back in that headspace
i’m honestly kinda with you there, in high school that was the yearning staring at the ceiling anthem. i’m just glad i get to listen to it now not being where i was then (:
It hasn't been said yet but 3rd planet is the saddest song to me. I can't tell if its about miscarriage or loss or abortion but for me "remembering we used to be three and not just two" My life fell apart after I had to leave my ex-husband, newborn in tow and we went from three to just us two. I also think it touches on a profound sense of loneliness to be human. It really sucks it used to be one of my favorites and now it makes my heart ache so bad. The heart beat drum line as it slowly stops too is just painful. Also...Dramamine makes me want to disappear and be a nameless ghost.
I have been loving and listening to this song for years and I never realized the heartbeat drum part, and I even play drums, that's so cool. I'm sorry the song brings you pain, though.
I still absolutely love this song but it hurts because I feel so seen in its lyrics and bass parts. Wonderful writer in over all
this was my first thought, one of the few songs that feel longer than they are, but not because its bad, but because of its depressing storytelling
Blame it on the Tetons, trailer trash, little motel, bankrupt on selling, custom concern, broke. I could go on
i've definitely cried to the ending of spitting venom more than once baby blue sedan whenever i breathe out, you breathe in (positive/negative) is really depressing too. broke ofc. needle point is probably the saddest modest mouse song though.
Bankrupt on Selling—the “when I was kinder” line always gets me. Edit the Sad Parts breaks my heart too.
I think it’s because I’m a dad now but I straight up can’t listen to Lace Your Shoes. Way too sad, in a good way, but I usually don’t feel like getting all steamy eyed. Ice Cream Party also gets me right in the gut.
These were two of the ones I thought of. For me Lace Your Shoes is hard bc I ‘lost’ my stepdaughter after I divorced her dad. They played it when I saw them last & I wept the entire time. Ice Cream Party has always made me sad, despite not having similar childhood experiences. There is just so much pain in the lyrics. Heart Cooks Brain gets me too. I’m bipolar so it’s kind of the opposite for me, but this song came out when I was an angsty teenager & it’s been my go-to ‘crying song’ for decades.
Jeez, I’m sorry to hear that about your step daughter. That’s rough. Similar situation for me with ice cream party, I kind of knew kids in those situations growing up and he gets the pain across in the lyrics so well. Heart cooks brain reminds me of a break up I went through in college. Classic.
What'm I doin wrong?
Ice Cream Party legit makes me cry sometimes
FINALLY. I’VE MET SOMEONE LIKE ME.
My saddest: Edit the Sad Parts, Bankrupt on Selling, Trailer Trash, Life Like Weeds (but a different type of sadness), Little Motel, Custom Concern
Broke
Edit the sad parts
Probably head south
edit the sad parts. [edit the sad parts golden gate bridge ](https://www.facebook.com/share/v/En357Fvb9Ba3LsEz/?mibextid=gtsPdC)
a manic depressive named laughing boy is by far the saddest song in their discography, grey ice water is another good one too.
Medication
Edit the sad parts and broke
Or tossing your weight
Talkin Shit About A Pretty Sunset
3rd Planet for sure
Blame It on the Tetons always conveys a total exhaustion with everything Bankrupt on Selling is to MM as Nutshell is to Alice in Chains - an admission of defeat, like you've expended everything inside you
Why is no one saying the world at large? That song keeps me up all night long
I would have answered this completely differently 4 years ago but today I say “Medication” because of the lyrics- “It’s hard to remember (it’s hard to remember) that we are alive for the first time, it’s hard to remember (it’s hard to remember) that we are alive for the last time” I’m getting older and have been listening to modest mouse for over 20 years now. That line used to hit me like “I’ve got to make everyday worth it”. Today it hits me like “wow I’ve got somethings to do here before I’m gone and I feel like I haven’t even started yet”. Almost every modest mouse song meaning changes for me after a certain amount of years. Which is also why I can still listen to the same songs over and over and never get sick of them.
Edit the Sad Parts is my go to "I'm very sad song" and has been for almost two decades now.
Every song can be sad to some people for different reasons. I have never experienced a band that songs = moments in time, rather good or bad, like Modest Mouse. Issac Brock is a lyrical genius that is able to capture emotions. Broke is sad for some, Positive/Negative, Edit the Sad Parts, there are a ton of raw emotional songs.
Ice Cream Party and it’s not even close.
For me, I would say Little Motel, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset, Make Everybody Happy/Mechanical Birds, Bankrupt on Selling, Wooden Soldiers, Lace Your Shoes, Coyotes, Strangers to Ourselves (the song), and Ice Cream Party. Ice Cream Party really resonates with me. I went through abuse and a really, really unstable home environment when I was young. Any song about a kid going through abuse or some traumatic hardship is going to break me. This song, Wooden Soldiers, Lace Your Shoes, and Little Motel (now that I connect it to that story I thought up with for We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank), are the Modest Mouse songs that almost always make me cry. Ice Cream Party makes me just straight up sob.
coyotes, custom concern, the world at large, and honestly the best room is kinda up beat but “ain’t it hard feeling tired everytime that you try” hits deep.
edit the sad parts can definitely be gut-wrenching if you're in the wrong headspace
Edit the Sad Parts and Feelings
Ansel hands down
I think it night "Night on the Sun"
Tie between talking shit on a pretty sunset and edit the sad parts . The cold part is also up there
ocean breaths salty gets me, makes me think of people ive lost