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This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

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Released
  
April 16, 1996

Length
  
74:03 (CD)

Artist
  
Modest Mouse

Producer
  
Seasick Steve

Recorded
  
October–November 1995

This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
  
Interstate 8 (1996)

Release date
  
26 March 1996

Label
  
Up Records

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Studio
  
Moon Studios, Olympia, Washington

Genres
  
Indie rock, Alternative rock, Punk rock

Similar
  
Modest Mouse albums, Indie rock albums

Modest mouse this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about full album


This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Modest Mouse. The album was released on Up Records on April 16, 1996, on both compact disc and vinyl formats. The vinyl release contains two extra tracks, "Edit the Sad Parts" and "A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy". "Edit the Sad Parts" was later included on Interstate 8 and the Up Records compilation, US, while "A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy" remains available only on the vinyl editions released by Up in 1996 and Glacial Pace in 2014. Many of the tracks focus on traveling by automobile and the loneliness and isolation associated with rural life.

Contents

Modest mouse dramamine


Track listing

All lyrics written by Isaac Brock; all music composed by Modest Mouse.

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", "She Ionizes & Atomizes", and "Head South"
  • Calvin Johnson – extra vocals on "Head South"
  • Other

  • Produced by Steve Wold
  • Engineered by Scott Swayze & Steve Wold
  • Photography by Isaac Brock
  • Songs

    1Dramamine5:42
    2Breakthrough4:07
    3Custom Concern4:28

    References

    This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About Wikipedia