I wasn’t actually a reader of “TMFTML”:http://www.popfactor.com/tmftml/, but when I noticed a reference to it, I went to see if it had re-opened because Chet had been a fan.
Mostly, I just want to echo “the assessment”:http://www.popfactor.com/tmftml/archives/001851.html#001851 of Modest Mouse’s latest album, ??Good News for People Who Like Bad News??, which was an album I listened to quite a lot during my stint in DC.
I can’t express my feelings towards Modest Mouse. They are an untelegenic band, the lead singer is rather older and not nearly as scrawny as I had imagined. His voice isn’t that great–it’s better than mine, but that says fuck-all–and he mutters indistinctly, and the guitars twang in odd ways, but Lord, the lyrics make me feel 19 again when the lyrics to songs meant everything in the world.
When the idea of Bob Dylan in Victoria’s Secret commercials never would have even occured to rational people.
This is the first album I’ve heard in years that has well and truly taken the top of my head off and set it back down askew.
bq. Woke up this morning
And it seemed to me
That every night turns out to be
A little more like Bukowski
And yeah, I know he’s a pretty good read.
But God who’s wanna be?
God who’d wanna be such an asshole?
