Modest Mouse has been making some of the best alt/indie records around for ten years or so. I think I've already ranted on people who think they know Modest Mouse after hearing Float On. Isaac Brock has been easily one of the most gifted and prolific songwriters in the American indie scene for the past ten or so years. Even now that he got a little bit of fame, most of that art will still go unnoticed, and that's really too bad, because the guy is about as sincere as a musician comes.
But it really is a laughable set of people who dismiss Modest Mouse as "mainstream" or "poppy" or something like that because of one video MTV picked up. I'm sure that they think they're being hip or whatever but what they're really doing is admitting that they hadn't heard of a band that released some of the best records of the past few years until they got on MTV, and made a snap judgement once they saw it there.
Oh, I make no judgements, I don't even know what they sing. I just know I've heard the name on the radio and they've been in concert here. I think.
Just give me David Bowie and I'll be fine. Listen to Bowie, you don't need to listen to anyone else, because they are all copying one of his bright ideas that he has already abandoned.
It's sad, isn't it. Most of the people who actually know their stuff will never get to a high paying executive job, because they are needed in the underbelly doing the grunt work. So the people who don't know enough to be useful, but too much to make it profitable to hire someone else get promoted.
That's straight out of Scott Adam's The Dilbert Principle. Heh.
