Rate the Musician Week 2: Modest Mouse

[Kane Knight]

David Bowie ends the week with an 82 average. Since there's currently only one artist, I'm not going to bother with charting the lead.

This week, I took the suggestions and picked one. The others are in a Wordpad file on my computer, so I can get to them later, but this week, the artist in question is Modest Mouse.

Remember, I only tally the votes as per the poll, so if you want your vote counted, make sure to vote for it. If you want to explain or discuss your vote, more power to you. Poll coming.

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, bassist Eric Judy, and guitarist Dann Gallucci.^[1] Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their lineup has centered around Brock, Green and Judy. Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined the band in May 2006, along with percussionist Joe Plummer (formerly of the Black Heart Procession) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, the band has attained significant popular success. Elements of Modest Mouse's early sound have been likened to or inspired by that of Pixies, Built to Spill, and numerous other alternative rock bands. Their name derives from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" which reads "...and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people..."^[2]