Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 2LP Fugazi Statik Selektah and Marco Polo

Statik Selektah and Marco Polo

Let's Get It Up (Johnson/Young/Young) - 3:53

The release has been named one of the essential recordings of the 90s by Rolling Stone

significant for one fairly obvious reason: the addition of Steve Shelley behind the kit

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Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 2LP Fugazi Statik Selektah and Marco PoloTheir last album may have given them a certifiable radio hit, airtime on VH1, and a Kidz Bop tribute, but listening to the follow up to 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, you might get the sense that the members of Modest Mouse are flinching at the spotlight. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, the group's fifth full length release, is denser than its predecessor with tunes that seem willfully harder to penetrate. Even the addition of