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- Lonesome Crowded West
- - 935,186 plays
  - 542 favs
  - 61 shares
Modest Mouse
Released 1997

Polar Opposites
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90,635 plays

Trailer Trash
00:00
83,074 plays

Doin' the Cockroach
00:00
72,301 plays

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songs

- 1
- Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
- 00:00
- 62,239 plays

- 2
- Heart Cooks Brain
- 00:00
- 68,047 plays

- 3
- Convenient Parking
- 00:00
- 57,329 plays

- 4
- Lounge (Closing Time)
- 00:00
- 60,294 plays

- 5
- Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
- 00:00
- 50,356 plays

- 6
- Doin' the Cockroach
- 00:00
- 72,301 plays

- 7
- Cowboy Dan
- 00:00
- 64,233 plays

- 8
- Trailer Trash
- 00:00
- 83,074 plays

- 9
- Out of Gas
- 00:00
- 65,344 plays

- 10
- Long Distance Drunk
- 00:00
- 48,120 plays

- 11
- Shit Luck
- 00:00
- 50,888 plays

- 12
- Truckers Atlas
- 00:00
- 48,812 plays

- 13
- Polar Opposites
- 00:00
- 90,635 plays

- 14
- Bankrupt on Selling
- 00:00
- 66,604 plays

- 15
- Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright
- 00:00
- 55,155 plays

album review

Talk about original -- this band has something for just about everyone. They can do quiet, brooding acoustics like "Bankrupt on Selling," dark and pounding thrashers like "Cowboy Dan," funky jump-around emo like "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" -- just about anything. Throughout the whole album is a white-trash feeling and a sort of down-to-earth analysis of the state of the world, without sounding pretentious. Give this album a listen and you can be sure that you will be singing the rambling, catchy, almost whiny vocals in no time. If you dig indie rock at its very best, go pick this album up. ~ Blake Butler, All Music Guide

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listener reviews

- - A Modest Mouse Classic
  - - By YepItsMe23
    - 5/7/2008 06:45:32
  - A slightly challenging and most definitely unique album, "Lonesome Crowded West" is a far cry from the later "Good News For People Who Love Bad News," the album that got Modest Mouse much of their fame and popularity. Introspective and often sarcastic, this album shares the trademark Modest Mouse sound (both instrumentally and lyrically) as the rest of their works, however the details are most definitely something apart. Catchy hooks from a number of their songs, notably "
    - Lounge (Closing Time)
    " and "
    - Polar Opposites
    " will pull you in while the loud, in-your-face songs like "
    - Shit Luck
    " and "
    - Convenient Parking
    " really make this album shine. It's the slower songs, however, that set the underlying mood, with "
    - Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
    " and "
    - Bankrupt On Selling
    " being two of the most thought-provoking. Overall, the album, while definitely different than the Modest Mouse (or perhaps anything else) you may be used to, is extremely fun and most definitely worth a listen.
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