This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is the debut studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse. It was released on April 16, 1996, through Up Records.
Music and lyrics
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is an indie rock with certain elements on the album also drawing comparisons to Built to Spill
Lyrically, many of the album's tracks focus on traveling by automobile and the loneliness associated with rural life, which Gentry delineated as "emotional and geographic isolation."
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| rev2Score = A−
| rev3 = Pitchfork
| rev3Score = 6.8/10 <br />8.5/10
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The Albuquerque Tribune called the album "intricate, brainy pop sneaking back into old-time ballads, honky-tonk slide and folk pluck." Robert Christgau remarked that Modest Mouse are "so insularly indie they're incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't been softened up by Wowee Zowee and the Meat Puppets".
Track listing
Vinyl edition
Personnel
Modest Mouse
- Isaac Brock – guitar and vocals (drums on "Dog Paddle")
- Jeremiah Green – drums (bass on "Dog Paddle")
- Eric Judy – bass (guitar on "Dog Paddle")
Additional musicians
- Steve Wold – slide guitar, mandolin, guitar, backup vocals
- Brent Arnold – cello
- Nicole Johnson – vocals on "Custom Concern", "Ionizes & Atomizes", and "Head South"
- Calvin Johnson – extra vocals on "Head South"
Others
- Produced by Steve Wold
- Engineered by Scott Swayze & Steve Wold
- Photography by Isaac Brock
References
External links
- This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About lyrics at Interstate-8