#teeth like god's shoeshine

[guerrilla-operator]

Modest Mouse // Teeth Like God's Shoeshine

Here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine He sparkles, shimmers, shines Let's all have another Orange Julius Thick syrup standing in lines The malls are the soon-to-be ghost towns Well, so long, farewell, goodbye

[meezer]

the lonesome crowded west by modest mouse is so fucking good

[theglizzardwizard]

"Well I, I, might be wrong

But you, you, tag along

And we, we, all been wronged

And I get dizzier by the mile"

Found another Eve-fitting song

[blackcr0wkingart]

Here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine; he sparkles, shimmers, shines.

Iteration: Raskol, my No Man's Sky character who has lived many lifetimes in many bodies.

[vvindication]

Music ask 10, 16, 22 (this is matchbookstory btw)

HI SLOAN !!! thanks for the ask ^_^

10. a song that i just found and that i love oh no okay another lets see what else have I found recently ...

Benson Hedges ; fun. holy ghost - when do you come out to play? 'cause if the Lord is gonna find me, he better start lookin' today

16. a song that makes me nostalgic not sure what exactly this makes me nostalgic for but it hurts. <3

Mama's Boy ; Dominic Fike you're made of plastic, I'm just blood when I was born, you were produced

22. a song that reminds me of a character YES ... ANOTHER CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT CHARACTER. Harry dear again cause I have an easily accessible playlist for him hehehe

Teeth Like God's Shoeshine ; Modest Mouse here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine - he sparkles, shimmers - shines

[hibiscuslynx]

rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

ty @stargazing-zanitd and @icestarphoenix for tagging me! im only just seeing this now bc i havent logged in in a while😭😭

Party Poison - My Chemical Romance

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s A Fucking Death Wish - My Chemical Romance

What’s Up Danger - Blackway, Black Caviar

I Am My Own Muse - Fall Out Boy

Tokyo Drifting - Glass Animals, Denzel Curry

Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine - Modest Mouse

Boy Division - My Chemical Romance

Float On - Modest Mouse

ballad of a homeschooled girl - Olivia Rodrigo

A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World, Davey Vonbohlen

tagging: you. yes you reading this post. anyone who wants to do this !! im not following the rules sorryyyy . but idk who’s already done this bc i jst logged in LMAO

[ownerofidaho]

hello :3

1:A song you like with a color in the title

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

[bathroomcube]

okay one modest mouse fan to another... whats ur favorite album. and do you perhaps have a favorite song

long drive is my fav album

and teeth like gods shoeshine is my fav song. it does something to my brain

good news for people who love bad news which i know is such a basic option but its sooooooo good pretty much every song on it is something i want to listen to every day but my favorite song right now is actually march into the sea :3

[ofide]

hi <3 can u do kitty or teddy or yorkie.. my beloved ocs nicknames <3

here you go :)

killed by an angel - sunny day real estate

i want to die - mute frank

teeth like god’s shoeshine - modest mouse

terrifyer - AJJ

you don’t care about us - placebo

this must be the place - talking heads

evil friends - portugal. the man

drove my car - 1 trait danger

don’t bring me down - electric light orchestra

you’re so last summer - taking back sunday

you’ve passed - neutral milk hotel

oh! starving - car seat headrest

remember - alex g

king of carrot flowers pt 1 - neutral milk hotel

i want you to see me now - nussy andrews

english summer rain - placebo

[laserpinksteam]

Will you listen: Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)

[suffercerebral]

hearing teeth like gods shoeshine live would be crazy

[microwavesex]

I was tagged by: @idiotfactory

Rules: shuffle your “on repeat” playlist from spotify or the music service of your choice and post the first 10 tracks

my music taste has been extremely badass and sexy lately, thank you Kyle for giving me an excuse to post this

I tag whoever wants to show off their music, and if you do please tag me/send it my way! I love getting music recommendations

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 763: Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West

I started listening to Modest Mouse after playing a show with them back in ‘96. In the nearly 27 years since then, my attention span with regards to their output has ebbed and flowed. They were a prolific band back in the day, releasing double albums in both ‘96 and ‘97, while also releasing five EPs and singles in that two-year period. I was a broke college student at the time, too poor to buy any records, so my fandom really just consisted of listening in on my housemates’ spins of their records. I loved some of those early 7″s and I loved the debut album, but when a copy of The Lonesome Crowded West wound up in our house, I found myself retreating to my basement room to throw on His Hero Is Gone or whatever else it was I was obsessing over at the time. 

This wasn’t a deliberate slight on The Lonesome Crowded West. The barked vocals and mangled guitar work on album opener “Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine” should’ve been right up my alley. But I was generally more drawn to their fractured down-and-out pop songs, and the new album seemed more like drunk and rowdy indie rock. It would be a few years before I heard a new Modest Mouse song that drew me back into their world. 

But The Lonesome Crowded West was the album where the band went from being local heroes to national darlings of the bespectacled sweater-clad punks. If you lived in a college town or a decently hip part of a bigger city, you probably heard Modest Mouse in coffee shops and bars. Friend’s houses. Record stores. Over the PA between bands at venues. 

I bought this 2xLP when it was reissued in 2014 because I had heard bits and pieces of it out in public over the years, and its charms were beginning to grow on me. I loved the ominous spaghetti western twang of “Cowboy Dan” and the bittersweet nostalgic pop of “Trailer Trash.” It was still a daunting record in length and it still felt a bit more ferocious than what I ultimately craved from the band, but I was glad to have the album in my collection.

I’ve now thrown on The Lonesome Crowded West more since the passing of Jeremiah Green than I ever did in years past. It’s been scratching a very similar itch to Dead Moon, a band that’s been sorta unavoidable here in the Northwest the last few decades. Dead Moon always seemed like they belonged to a different, older crowd. But once I started listening to their albums on my own a few years ago, I realized how many of the songs I recognized from hanging out at the Cha Cha Lounge or record shopping at Singles Going Steady or waiting for the next band to go on at The Comet. It sounded like being young and living in my first apartment on Capitol Hill. Like Dead Moon, The Lonesome Crowded West wasn’t a part of my private soundtrack, but it was certainly a part of my public life. 

Nostalgia can be a poison, but it can also keep us tethered to some aspect of our youth. And that reminder can help keep us in touch with some side of ourselves that isn’t quite as cynical or browbeaten by the world around us. At the very least, it can remind us of a time where we didn’t worry about our peers passing away in the blink of an eye. We were young and careless and going through the growing pains of entering adulthood, and while I don’t want to pretend that they were easy times, they certainly weren’t without a sense of wonder, freedom, and possibility. 

[intertexts-moving]

HEY HEY ROS. LISTENING TO YOUR TRIGUN PLAYLIST RN. LOSING MY MIND HELLOOOOO the song choices r so good. i’m only like halfway thru it rn but goddddd. yeah. love the modest mouse songs on here they fit sooo sos so well. also teeth like god’s shoeshine strikes me as a wolfwood song not sure if that was ur intention but it’s driving me insane anyway /pos

HIII WHISKEY AUGAGH SO GLAD U ARE ENJOYING IT YEAHHHH!!!! & YES that was 100% my intention heheheh... it is. such a wolfwood song i think i'm SO glad it isnt just me. like he is so...... oh if you could compact your conscience and sell it, save it for another time, you know you might have to use it find out the beginning and the end and the best of it here's the man with teeth like gods shoeshine he sparkles, shimmers, and shines you could be ashamed or so proud of what you've done..........