... We were lucky.
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is a
Concept Album from the American
indie rock band
Modest Mouse. The album was released in 2007 after a 3-year hiatus after their previous album,
Good News For People Who Love Bad News, was released in 2004.
The album contains an over-arching nautical theme. Most notable in the songs
"March into the Sea," "Missed the Boat," and
"Little Motel."The album is also notable as the first album where guitarist Johnny Marr (of
The Smiths) joined as a member of the band. The band also teamed up with James Mercer of The Shins, who provided backup vocals for several songs, most notable "Missed the Boat."
The tracklist for the album is as follows:
1. March into the Sea
2. Dashboard
3. Fire It Up
4. Florida
5. Parting of the Sensory
6. Missed the Boat
7. We've Got Everything
8. Fly Trapped in a Jar
9. Education
10. Little Motel
11. Steam Engenius
12. Spitting Venom
13. People as Places as People
14. Invisible
This Concept Album provides examples of the following:
- And I Must Scream: "Steam Engenius"
- Concept Album.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: "Spitting Venom," "Missed the Boat," "March into the Sea"
- What about "Dashboard"?
- Don't forget "Parting of the Sensory."
- Drone Of Dread
- Ear Worm: OH, AND WE LAUGHED ALL THE WAY TO HELL, SAYING "YES, THIS IS A FINE PROMOTION!!!"
- THE DASHBOARD IS MELTED BUT WE STILL HAVE THE RADIO!!!
- "Cheer up baby, wasn't really always quite so bad for every, bit of venom that came out, the antidote was had, well..."
- The recurring psychotic laugh in "March into the Sea"
- AHAHA!!!
- Accurately described by Marissa Brown of All Music as "Isaac Brock's maniacal Cookie Monster laugh."
- ONE DAY YOU WILL DIE AND SOMEHOW SOMETHING'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON
- IHOLDINMYHANDSTHEBEATINGHEARTOFAROBOT
- WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING! WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT
- Epic Rocking: "Spitting Venom" and "Missed the Boat"
- Four More Measures: "Missed the Boat"
- Indecipherable Lyrics: A little bit
- Last-Second Word Swap: Inverted? It's played with a little here by taking an innocent line, and adding to it to make it double as a curse.
We didn't need the water
But we still built that good Goddamn!
- Looped Lyrics: "Dashboard"
- Love It or Hate It: How it's seen by most fans.
- Lyrical Shoehorn
- Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness: About a 4 or 5
- Mondegreen
- Motor Mouth: Some parts of the album, but most notably in "Steam Engenius"
- Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly
- Precision F-Strike: From "Education"
All this dog and pony
Still monkeys the whole time!
We could not help from flinging shit
In our modern suit-and-ties!
- School Is For Losers: "Education"
- Subdued Section: "Little Motel" and parts of "Missed the Boat"
- "March into the Sea" features some very soft-spoken lyrics and quiet instrumentals inbetween the incredibly violent, and loud, sections.
- Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Little Motel"
- Word Salad Lyrics
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