Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West - Pitchfork Classic
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- Directed by RJ Bentler as part of the "Pitchfork Classic" series, Pitchfork.tv presents a 45-minute documentary on Modest Mouse's classic 1997 album The Lonesome Crowded West.
Produced & Directed By RJ Bentler
Supervising Producer - Patrick O'Connor
Edited By Jon Leone & Michael Garber
Assistant Editor - Brenden Russell
Camera By Jon Leone, Mark Zemel, Matthew Ellis Siltala, Luke Chmura, Joe Denardo, Brenden Russell & RJ Bentler
Mix By Brendon Anderegg
Graphics By Michael Renaud
Production Assistant - Clay Adamczyk
Special Thanks To Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Eric Judy, Calvin Johnson, Phil Ek, Dann Gallucci, Pete Ritchey, Scott Swayze, Pat Graham, Juan Luis Carrera, Up Records, James Bazan
Photos Courtesy of Pat Graham (bit.ly/10b7DpT) & Michael Galinsky
Some Archival Footage Taken From The Film "Untitled" By Rick Madsen
Archival Materials Provided By Rick Madsen, Jamer Bertram, Jason Foster, Jake Hale, Sean Kobuk, Jonathan Moore, Joe Rockwell, Sean Russell & Sub Pop Records
Live Recordings of "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" Provided By Lish Daelnar (bit.ly/XUz80P)
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I came back here after hearing of Jeremiah's passing. I love how this documentary captures how kind he seemed.
So sweet and soft spoken
Such a gentleman, in the literal sense
He took Covid vax and got turbo'ed. Many such cases.
The Founder of Up Records died of Leukemia. Chris Takimo, you made this album possible. Thank you
Wow I don't recall making this comment, posted that ages ago ahhaa
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RedHotManiac 6 years
@@penis123842 haha
237th like here i love it actually truth be told
Thank you for all of the amazing beats JG. This album is such a masterpiece. RIP
Word.
It wouldn't have been the same without him. Rip.
He genuinely was a one of a kind drummer which doesn't come lightly. Such a bummer he's gone.
"Either that or they just didn't want a guy with an American accent and a lisp yellin' at em"
My favorite part of the whole doc lol
agreed
the last line just made the whole fuckin' doc a whole lot better
i've watched it once or twice before a couple of years ago before but i just sort of forgot about the band untill late and now i've dug in a little deeper i've watched this doc again and it was a ten fold better than the first few times
Actually true - living on the old continent I hadn't heard of MM at all, until a visiting american friend of mine played the dramamine opening riff on my guitar. I've been hooked since then.
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RIP Jeremiah Green!! :(
Wish Pitchfork would make more of these
Sadly P4K is even worse now, it’s just press releases
I feel like modest mouse is such a non dramatic but still very interesting group that is unique to find elsewhere
if you look up The Strokes documentary “in transit” it has a similar vibe, but, it’s about being on the road, not the album
Isaac coined the term "mallfucked" in this documentary
and i coined the term clitspasm
He totally did we use that term a lot
Isaac coins whatever he says, any time he speaks. You are not worthy!
Seriously
Whenever I hear Jeremiah talk, I just wanna give him a big ol' hug.
Ouch poor talented guy
Edit: wait where did the other comment go about Jeremiah ?
Digvalley Music I smoked a joint with him a few years back and it was definitely one of the top moments of my life lol.
@@audio_dregs nice, I smoked some of my homegrown bud (we named it Snuggle Humper) with him a couple years ago in San Diego. That was a sweet time
If they ever make a movie about MM, Thomas Middleditch most certainly has to play Jeremiah.
@@audio_dregs just saw this. LOVE IT.
I've watched this documentary like 10 times. Whoever Pitchfork got to make this did such a great job. Just a drag that Eric isn't in the band anymore.
Eric was/is truly the best one in the band.
neither is the drummer dumass
Rudy Simmons yes he is dumbass
Yeah Jeremiah Green is definitely still in the band. He wasn’t on the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News for personal issues during the time, but returned shortly afterward.
I haven't been keeping up with them since We Were Dead... so I didn't know this until recently. Does anyone know what happened?
When Phil Ek came up all I could think about was "Phil Ek here with a preview for the next Built to Spill album!!"
Same here, man. Same here
+Jem S ahaha catches me off guard every-time after Stab...
+Jem S "Look for the record with me on the cover!!!" gets me everytime
Jonathan Bridges It's so accurate..."I feel so lost inside, where can I hide? This feels so real to me, this angst inside of me"
Built to Spill predicted Simple Plan
HOLY HELL the spinning homeless dude at 29:35 is a Seattle Center regular I saw him practically every day since I went to school around there. He bought my friends cigs/booze more than once
Cool story bro
+N.K. Revolution Yeah, I would say so, dude.
+N.K. Revolution It actually is a cool story bro. Where is yours?
CrookedSmile I saw a guy on CZcams with a cool story and said cool story bro and when another guy asked me what my cool story was I told him what I saw.
N.K. Revolution Wicked
I love how this documentary is also a story of America in a certain time. Well executed.
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Modest mouse is more american than most bands I know of.
So nostalgic
This documentary is how I discovered Built to Spill back in 2014. From there I discovered a whole world of indie music, so thank you Modest Mouse for being the amazing starting point.
I have listened to MM for about 15 years and never really looked much into them. I find it amazing that their background is everything I envisioned, influences, geography, personality. What I am saying is their music is so authentic that you can feel it's origin and grasp it's intent.
I'm sort of the same way. I rarely look into the bands I like. I usually just know them by their music. This helped me appreciate them even more that I already did.
I discovered MM with their Good News for People Who Love Bad News. I had no clue whatsoever that they emerged in the late 90s...I feel like a total schmuck!! This album is a must have for me now!
same. i listen to them all the time but it never really crossed my mind to look into them much. theyve been my favourite band since highschool & i still feel the same way like ive just heard the 1st time
Yeah it's so cool I literally knew nothing about them but how I imagined them. What's strange is how surreal there music can be but it somehow captures there backgrounds
I really appreciated this comment. Same here. Well said!
Thanks for all the music and memories guys.
RIP to Jeremiah
I caught them in Oakland a few days ago for their Lonesome Crowded West tour.
It was incredible getting to see them play songs that they otherwise would probably never play live. The encore was four songs, all pre-LCW. If you can catch them for this tour, don’t hesitate.
Their LA tickets sold out so fast… so lucky you caught them
Dramamine was the the song that got me hooked on Modest Mouse. It introduced me to all their music and so many other great songs by them. Still one of my favourite songs of all time.
More so than any other band I know, Modest Mouse music really lends itself to stock footage.
Love your videos
Third planet one day?
Like Yoda, Talk backwards you do
this is so funny
I don't live in America anymore, but every time I listen to this album it reminds me of home. All the beauty, ugliness, and strangeness that is America. I love this album so much. Modest Mouse is amazing.
I couldn't ignore the urge to just listen to the album after starting this..
Only two minutes in and starting to get the urge to listen lol
Absolutely, had to click off of CZcams a couple times
Seeing Elliot Smith then is so chilling; it's so sad what happened to him.
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He seemed like such a genuine person. I’ve always wished to be able to like sit on a porch somewhere in the country and jam out with him looking at a sunset lol
The 90's seemed like such a great time for creative kids. This doc was great, well done Pitchfork.
I think what's nice about these record labels is they were supporting some kids with talent not fully formed allowing them time and space and freedom to develop their art.
The past is always a nice place to live in
@@marcodallolio9746 yeah you can't get too nostalgic but sometimes when one door opens another one closes. We move on but there are buried wisdoms that re-emerge at different points in new forms with the right environment. Right now for young people the Internets a big thing, live music was thriving then cause it was a space for strangers to congregate.
it's so hard to listen to modest mouse now that jeremiah is gone💔, he seemed like such a kind soul
"Even once I quit believing in God I was still always looking over my shoulder worried about ya know, being watched ya know. Thats the thing that gets engrained in you, is that your always being watched by something."
Unbelievably hyped for the 25th anniversary tour. Of all the times I've seen them I'm most hyped for this one. My favorite album of all time.
REAL RECKONIZ REAL. I know it's not on this album, but I reallylllllllllllllly wanna see them play "Edit the sad parts"!
@@johnclaudevondon5333 Sometimes all I really wanna feel is loved. Sometimes I’m angry that I feel so angry. Sometimes my feelings get in the way of what it is I really feel I needed say.
@@johnclaudevondon5333 they did!
F*ck me in a bloody stab wound, has it been 25 years? Gimme a time machine! GIMME!!
A 'friend' of mine stole all my cds and I stopped listening to music for a bit as I broke up with my girl at the time. Then I heard float on and had to buy all of modest mouse older albums, lonesome will always live in my heart, they renewed my love in music. Thank you modest mouse!
Have always loved 'Trailer Trash'. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
I personally think that The Moon & Antarctica is their finest album, Modest Mouse at their musical peak, and also my favorite... With that being said, The Lonesome Crowded West absolutely changed my life... The lyrics and style were unlike anything I'd ever heard at the time and the religious motifs Isaac played around with totally confirmed feelings I always had... He saw the world in a different way than most others and could express it better than anyone I've ever known of... Mr. Brock and Co. opened my eyes to a whole new universe of thinking and believing and karmic appreciation... I have a son named Isaac as thank you for this gift of music and knowledge given to the world for all these years... Great documentary by the way!
The Moon & Antarctica is a perfect album. Some others are very close, and The Fruit That Ate Itself is my personal favorite of theirs, but TM&A is just the best.
I just bought VIP tickets to the 25th anniversary Lonesome Crowded West tour, I am so excited!!!! I have been listening to Modest Mouse since this album came out in 97, and it's still one of my favorites. ❤
Fav song/s??
@@ashleybailey5513 The entire album but I am partial to Teeth like God's Shoeshine, Heart Cooks Brain, Truckers Atlas, Styrofoam Boots / it’s all nice on ice, alright, Polar Opposites, Bankrupt On Selling
I took a train to a sleepy little medieval town in Switzerland once, and I decided on a whim to listen to The Lonesome Crowded West. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time. But what I realized then is that for better or for worse, The Lonesome Crowded West is distinctly American, probably the greatest modern american album. I realized that all the people around me there in Europe probably couldn't truly understand The Lonesome Crowded West fully without coming from the states (or canada, I guess). I grew up in white-flight suburbs in the rust belt, right on the edge of the sprawl, and it was so depressing to see the sprawl expand every year. Every year there'd be a couple new strip malls and cookie-cutter subdivisions in place of farms. So many of those storefronts were never filled.
And they're still there....empty...
now i know where they got the idea for the band name. jeremiah's personality.
From a quote in a book
I always thought it was a pun on Mighty Mouse, guess I was wrong
Brian Tully If i remember correctly, it was an old story book 'The Mark on the Wall' - "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."
Spencer Tatum Virginia Woolf
This is the greatest band in the world.
they should do this for each of their albums. id probably buy it
This was a nice journey to take with the band and their friends...thank you.
I'm glad they didn't cut off Trucker's Atlas
This album is so special. Them touring it 25 years later and performing in my city on the 27th of November, two days before my 28th birthday, when I never thought I would make it to 27, was something I can never ever ever be more grateful for. Me and one of my very best friends in the whole world got to see the band play together just before Jeremiahs passing and I can't express how lucky I feel. I never thought I would see this album life, ever. So much love. So so much love. Rest in peace, what a sweet soul.
When Isaac agreed to do this he probably thought, "Well, we might as well put something out there for the fans... they're gonna have to wait a while before the next album..."
Glacial Pace, indeed.
This is the band I grew up listening to. I ended up getting very involved into music mainly because of them and Ween. Building Nothing Out of Something will always hold a place in my heart and I believe is the main reason I become so interested in music. Their entire discography is dreamy yet chaotic when it needs to be. Easily one of the greatest bands ever even without looking through rose-colored glasses.
All hail the mighty Boognish
With you there, Ween and MM seem like kindred spirits, and are the most influential bands on my music taste to this day.
RIP Jeremiah Green 1977-2022
That little Elliott Smith interview was my initial introduction to Modest Mouse.
+Sean Johnson Same here.
I cried when I saw him
Lol that's weird, it was sort of my introduction to ES
Ditto.
I always listen to this album when i travel.. Whether with friends, in a greyhound, solo drive.. Im always listening to it.
Thank you The Lonesome Crowded West. You are the album that changed my life. For both better and worst!
I wish they talked about the album cover
I find a lot of comedy in this comment combined with you profile picture.
I laughed so hard at this comment with your old profile picture years ago, please don't kill the magic :(
@@PatoGuzmanAd what was it
@@jose2226 I assume it used to be the LCW album cover.
I listened to a lot of Modest Mouse during high school. I never met anyone else who enjoyed their music but their music just spoke to me. I didn’t even know all the lyrics but everything about it was just correct to me. I’m learning more about the band now almost 15 years later. Still love them!
this is the friendliest youtube comment section ever. Love modest mouse, always sang their songs when we were doing ruck marches or especially uncomfortable training for the army.
Using its all nice on ice for the credits scene is the greatest thing humanity has achieved.
ive watched this documentary like 6 or 7 times over the last 5 years and have became so familiar with so many bands that feature in this documentary and watching this again is such an enriching experience
Something about Bankrupt on Selling breaks me every time. I loved what Dann said about Isaac being more honest in his lyrics than in conversation, it just seems such a beautiful medium of expression
Dann Gallucci is the reason why I bothered giving modest mouse a chance. Huge murder city devils fan. Saw them in my hometown in the late 90's
I'm curious what the result of a collaboration between elliott smith and modest mouse would have been.
Same
I think the same about Elliott and Kurt. Mary Lou Lord says that they were a lot alike and would've ended up working together had Cobain lived.
Sad
Immodest Mouse
Honestly though, Elliott was never keen about letting anyone else play anything else on his albums
So true, god rest his beautiful soul
I always forget how good Modest Mouse is, then I remember and listen to them for days on end.
Love this. Jeremiah's drums on Truckers Atlas is epic.
"didn't want a guy with an American accent and a lisp yelling at 'em" hahaha
When did they say that exactly?
Trailer trash is such a great fucking song
***** Why do you say that?
+matthew woodall Y ES
My fav rn is teeth like gods shoeshine
Remember when Pitchfork did stuff like this?. Now it’s just a Billboard charts hip-hop site
Nothing wrong with hip-hop, man. Lots of critical acclaimed records of this generation are mostly hip-hop records.
@@zackzallie8735 I love hip-hop, and good hip-hop always had a place on Pitchfork. But if I ever need my fix of Bad Bunny, DaBaby, and Megan Thee Stallion news I know where to head.
@@xx-ug9hn Music genres are dumb. It's a segregation for music creativity; anyone can do any styles of sound waves.
@@zackzallie8735 cool
@@zackzallie8735 of course there’s nothing wrong with hip hop, but pitchfork should just stick to rock/indie rock lol
RIP Jeremiah Green. You beautiful man.
Now 25 years later and still one of my all time favorite albums. Super pumped for the upcoming LCW tour and specifically to hear a handful of songs I haven't heard live yet! See you in Chicago!
29:02 loving that duster shirt, stratosphere is exceptional.
I was looking for this comment, thank you
I never noticed this until now. That's so awesome.
Does anyone else wanna hug the shit out of Jeremiah Green?
Yes! I saw him in concert and just kept wondering how that adorable little teddie bear could use so much forcefulness when drumming.
talking shit bro? Tyler hella
When I was a little kid, my mom would listen to good news for people who live bad news when it came out in the car all the time. As a kid I just thought they sounded super weird and some songs were even creepy lol. I specifically remember thinking ocean breathes salty made me super sad. Now almost 20 years later and they’re my favorite band of all time. Funny how music taste changes over the years.
Heartbroken...so sad today. I love this awesome band!
I can’t possibly express how much I love modest mouse
Thank you for everything you did for us all Jeremiah, rest easy.
"I think Rule #1 is just don't answer questions you don't really know the answer to."
Can this man please moderate our political debates? :^)
should do one on the glow part 2
Yeeeesss pleeasee let this happen
More people need to know about that album
they must locate phil elvrum first
I gott introduced to MM by Sun Kil Moon's "Tiny Cities" album which consists only of MM covers. So good! I'm glad Mark Kozelek introduced me to them....
It's my favorite album of all time. Blew me away the 1st time I heard it. Subsequently, it helped through rough parts of my life more once. Been a huge fan for 20 years. Thanks for all the great music. RiP Jeremiah.
Probably the best rock album from the 90s…
+Iván Valencia are you fucking high??No fucking way this is the best album..Way more grunge albums better than this...shit even Korns self titled is better.
+Iván Valencia are you fucking high??No fucking way this is the best album..Way more grunge albums better than this...shit even Korns self titled is better.
Aphex Twin is pretty much the God of electronic music and Korn are legends...Im into everything and not just modest lisp.
*****
licking grunge? you know there are way more 90s albums that are better than this..nirvana-Nevermind, In Utero. Alice in Chains- Dirt. Soundgarden- Superunknown. Smashing pumpkins,Siamese Dream and Melon collie.Aphex Twin Richard D james album even!!lol Wu Tang Forever! 36 chambers, Gza Liquid Swords. Snoop Dogg-Doggystyle, Dr. Dre- the Chronic, I could go on and on...
you forgot Eiffel 65.
This was so good, LOVE MODEST MOUSE since hearing tundra desert on a toy machine skate video way back in the day, I was hooked instantly.
Probably my favourite album ever I’ve played it countless times and never gets old
"They stick with it they can get somewhere" damn right Calvin.
Awesome documentary. Since the very first time I heard them, which was back in 1997, I've been a huge fan. Musical style all of their own. Great music with emotional lyrics (which I'm sure many can relate to) is simply contagious. They are by far my favorite band. Period!
Will always love this album. It should be rediscovered for decades to come.
Just heard this album for the first time a few days ago. And I can't. Stop. Playing it. And I mostly listen to hip hop lol. I came here looking for a music video and found this. Awesome.
I have seen this documentary many times, and just now noticed Isaac’s nails are painted silver in it.
Masterpiece album, by the way!
Awesome to see it has past its 20th anniversary.
never heard about the band, and now i've watched this film, and goin' to buy all of their records
I just learned of Jeremiah's death last month and had to come watch this again. Thank you. Best wishes, as little as it means, to his wife and six year-old son.
I bought it after watching this doc and never hearing a song before
Poison te wel man!
Shame they didn't talk about Heart Cooks Brain, probably the best song Isaac ever wrote.
Probably the best album made since the 70's. Please come back and do some shows in Canada!
Lonesome crowded West help me through some really rough times. Love modest mouse one of my all time favorites
One of the greatest albums ever made. I'm planning on driving to Phoenix this December to see them on the Lonesome Crowded West 20th anniversary tour. I can't wait.
Nevermind on the show. I see resale tickets are between $145 and $900 each. Bummer.
Love this documentary so much. Everyone who is anyone seems to be here
"One of my favorite lines on that record is just the concept of someone tryna take out God"
probably the most badass thing I've heard anyone say
definitely remember you telling me those exact two sentences at the tav within the past two years. Patrick James
That's the concept behind Bloodhail by Have a Nice Life. It's based on an epic myth about "The Great Hunter" building a staircase out of bodies towards the heavens and then killing God with a bow and arrow(s).
That was totally off topic, sorry. Ha ha ha.
There's a whole comic based on that idea it's called Preacher, also was adapted as a tv show by amc
Sail On, Jeremih ... Thanks for he beats .
the “Pitchfork Classic” that went down nearly 100 spots in your redux 90s album list
Great piece. Fantastic series. Would love to see one for Wowee Zowee
Honestly any Pavement record would be a nice study.
Me an my best friend used to talk about how this album was a masterpiece over beers and joints and such….RIP BIG Bird….. I miss you brother
my favorite album that everyone asks me to change when I've got the aux
what is ppls deals
For anyone wondering what the song is around 5:30 ish, it turned out to be a live jam of "Breakthrough". The show is from September 9th, 1997 at the Mercury Theater in Knoxville, TN
great documentary. one of my favourite albums.
the best times of my life have always been in a cars/vans that are over capacity screaming the lyrics to these songs with my friends
Please pitchfork. Just make another one of these already.
This is my idea of something romantic. A document of a bygone era in modern music. Thank you, Pitchfork. I'm just smiling from ear to ear now.
"Broke". That version is on the end of "Interstate 8", but there is also a 7" single version which can be found on the early singles compilation "Building Nothing Out Of Something" released 1999 by Up Records
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Watching this in anticipation for the 25 year anniversary tour and I am so excited to hear it live!! This band has gotten me through so much stuff and this was a beautifully made documentary!
Jesus, Isaac Brock was and is a genius. I listened to "This is a Long Drive..." today for the first time, then watched this. I used to think "Modest Mouse has a cool name, but the band is kind of boring". I'm so glad I stopped and tried out their music more. I have infinite more respect for Isaac, and I'll be listening to "Lonesome Crowded West" and "This is a Long Drive..." a whole lot in the near future.
are you still listening to them?
Greatest album of all time
Glad I saw this, just makes me love them even more.
the Live at Sunburst - Interstate 8 is just about my favorite thing Modest Mouse has done.
“And I shout that you’re all FAKE “! My favorite. 😽