Modest Mouse/YMMV

• Broken Base: Between the fans of their older stuff (The Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon & Antarctica), and the fans of their newer stuff (Good News, We Were Dead), although they overlap.
• Critical Dissonance: Good News is regarded better by fans than it is by critics, though it's still fairly well regarded by critics.
• Face of the Band: Isaac Brock. Most interviews of Modest Mouse are just him, and given that the band has changed its lineup so much it's obvious he is the frontman.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: The line "I broke every bone in my goddamn jaw" from Might is pretty amusing seeing as Isaac Brock did just that three years after writing the song.
• True Art Is Angsty: Their most critically acclaimed album, The Moon & Antarctica, is probably their most cunningly stark and depressing one, helped in no part by the absence of vocals on many lengthy portions of song. In general, they are decidedly not a happy, fun band.
  • Brock's jaw was wired shut for some of the recording of the album, forcing the band to make the album largely instrumental.
• Tear Jerker: "Little Motel" is rather poignant.
  • A lot of their songs can count as this.
• True Art Is Incomprehensible: Their most critically acclaimed album, The Moon & Antarctica, is also probably their most mindscrewy. Oddly enough, it's mostly because they balance on a precipice between "oblique" and "foggy as London". A common theme on all of their albums.