‘Float On’ - Modest Mouse, 2004
Seeing that the electric picnic festival has just finished up I thought I would mention this song today as it has some related significance to my last adventure at the picnic. As I struggled to maintain the last shreds of human decency late on friday evening this time last year at the picnic I managed to catch these guys playing, i can’t remember the stage but it wasn’t the main one. It was a struggle to get up to the front due the the large audience but I managed it just when they were starting to play this song ( it was probably the end of their set but thats how it took me to get up there). The reason I wanted to get up there badly was to hear this song as it is a kind of an anthem for my mates and I this past year or so and its also the song we played repeatedly on the journey down to the picnic.
The song itself is taken from the album Good news for people who hate bad news which is their fourth studio album. Overall I’m not too sure what to make of Modest Mouse, I guess I could take or leave the band as a whole. Having said that I’ve only have copies of their last three albums so maybe I should get the rest before giving a big thumbs up or down to them.
It’s a really uplifting song lyrically that for me just tells you whatever is going on don’t worry about it and everything will be ok. A song of optimism for those dark days . Its like when a mate pats you on the back and says it alright. Coupled with some a guitar riff and some complementary harmonies it is definitely a song you should have on your playlist to get thru those crappy days. Check out a performance of the song here. We’ll all float on ok…
By the way if anyone is interested, Mark Kozelek a while back issued an album called Tiny Cities which is an album entirely composed of Modest Mouse cover songs. I’ll be posting about Mark in the near future.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
Nice choice, mate. You should tell Ollie you’ve got his favourite song up there
September 26th, 2008 at 5:37 am
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