modest mouse are a better band than 95% of all bands today.
If you are going to START listening to them, go with this:
it's breaks you into them, I have their entire discography as well, and we're my favorite band for years.
if you like them a lot, then brock's side project Ugly Casanova will make you shit a pickle.(
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