Modest Mouse es una banda estadounidense de indie rock formada en 1993 en Issaquah, Washington, por Isaac Brock (cantante y guitarrista), Jeremiah Green (baterista) y Eric Judy (bajista). Desde el álbum debut de la banda, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, lanzado en 1996, la alineación del grupo se ha centrado en Brock y Green. Judy estuvo en cada álbum de la banda hasta su salida en 2012.
El nombre de la banda deriva de un pasaje del relato de Virginia Woolf titulado "La marca en la pared", que dice: "Me gustaría encontrar unos pensamientos agradables, unos pensamientos que fueran un camino que indirectamente me reportara prestigio, ya que éstos son los pensamientos más agradables, y se encuentran muy a menudo incluso en la mente de la gente de modesto color ratonil, que sinceramente cree que no le gusta oír que les canten alabanzas".
ÁLBUMES DE ESTUDIO
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
- Dramamine
- Breakthrough
- Custom Concern
- Might
- Lounge
- Beach Side Property
- She Ionizes & Atomizes
- Head South
- Dog Paddle
- Novocain Stain
- Tundra/Desert
- Ohio
- Exit Does Not Exist
- Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
- Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
- Space Travel Is Boring
The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
- Teeth like God's Shoeshine
- Heart Cooks Brain
- Convenient Parking
- Lounge (Closing Time)
- Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
- Doin' the Cockroach
- Cowboy Dan
- Trailer Trash
- Out of Gas
- Long Distance Drunk
- Shit Luck
- Truckers Atlas
- Polar Opposites
- Bankrupt on Selling
- Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
- 3rd Planet
- Gravity Rides Everything
- Dark Center of the Universe
- Perfect Disguise
- Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
- A Different City
- The Cold Part
- Alone Down There
- The Stars Are Projectors
- Wild Packs of Family Dogs
- Paper Thin Walls
- I Came as a Rat
- Lives
- Life Like Weeds
- What People Are Made Of
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
- Horn Intro
- The World at Large
- Float On
- Ocean Breathes Salty
- Dig Your Grave
- Bury Me with It
- Dance Hall
- Bukowski
- This Devil's Workday
- The View
- Satin in a Coffin
- Interlude (Milo)
- Blame It on the Tetons
- Black Cadillacs
- One Chance
- The Good Times Are Killing Me
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
- March into the Sea
- Dashboard
- Fire It Up
- Florida
- Parting of the Sensory
- Missed the Boat
- We've Got Everything
- Fly Trapped in a Jar
- Education
- Little Motel
- Steam Engenius
- Spitting Venom
- People as Places as People
- Invisible
Strangers to Ourselves (2015)
- Strangers to Ourselves
- Lampshades on Fire
- Shit in Your Cut
- Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)
- Ansel
- The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box
- Coyotes
- Pups to Dust
- Sugar Boats
- Wicked Campaign
- Be Brave
- God Is an Indian and You're an Asshole
- The Tortoise and the Tourist
- The Best Room
- Of Course We Know
