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Modest Mouse is an '', their lineup has centered around Brock, Green and Judy. Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined the band in May 2006, to work on the album '' We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank ''. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, the band has attained significant popular success. Elements of Modest Mouse's sound have been likened to or inspired by that of Pixies , Built To Spill , and numerous other Alternative Rock bands. Their name derives from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" which reads "...and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people..." HISTORY In 1994, Brock, Green, John Wickhart, and Dann Gallucci recorded their debut EP, ''''. This double LP was produced and recorded by Steve Wold (at this time Wold was a member of the band as well). The next offering was '' Interstate 8 '', also produced by Wold. 1997's '' The Lonesome Crowded West '', (also recorded at Moon Studios, by Scott Swayze) turned out to be the band's breakthrough album. ''The Lonesome Crowded West'' gained the band a Cult Following , and is now widely considered to be one of the defining albums of mid-90s indie rock. In 2000, Up Records released a singles and rarities collection entitled '' Building Nothing Out Of Something '', which included the entirety of ''Interstate 8'' except for the songs "Edit the Sad Parts" and "Buttons to Push Buttons". That year, Modest Mouse released '' on Sub Pop Records. The band licensed "Gravity Rides Everything" for a commercial for Nissan 's Quest Minivan , a move that Brock has publicly acknowledged as blatantly commercial but necessary to achieve financial stabilityhttp://avclub.com/content/node/23015. In 2001, Modest Mouse released the EP '' Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks '', a collection of unused songs from the ''The Moon and Antarctica'' recording sessions, as well as releasing ''Sad Sappy Sucker'', a collection of songs Modest Mouse recorded in 1994, originally intended to be their debut album, but shelved in favor of ''This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About''. In 2002, they joined Cake , De La Soul , The Flaming Lips , The Hackensaw Boys , and Kinky on the Unlimited Sunshine Tour . In 2003, Green quit the band after suffering a , 2007 .). Later that year, Green returned to the band, and Weikel returned to drumming exclusively for The Helio Sequence. Gallucci left the band in August, and they have been touring with Jim Fairchild of Grandaddy and All Smiles . Modest Mouse was mentioned by name in the 2005 Supreme Court decision in the case of '' MGM V. Grokster ''. Justice David Souter wrote that on the Grokster P2P network, "Users seeking Top 40 songs, for example, or the latest release by Modest Mouse, are certain to be far more numerous than those seeking a free Decameron , and Grokster and StreamCast translated that demand into dollars." ''We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank'' See Also: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank The band had planned and began to play a string of shows on the West Coast Of The United States in August 2006, but an update on Epic Records ' Modest Mouse website stated that the shows would be postponed due to the band working on recording their new album, entitled ''We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank''. The new album was recorded in Oxford, Mississippi , and was produced by Dennis Herring , who also produced ''Good News for People Who Love Bad News''. By June 26 , 2006 , the band had finished recording at Sweet Tea Recording Studio with producer Dennis Herring, and returned to Portland, Oregon to finish Overdub s and Mixing . Johnny Marr is now a confirmed member of the band, co-writing songs for the new album with Brock. Modest Mouse Working With The Smiths' Johnny Marr According to Brock himself, Marr is now "a full blown member of the band,"http://www.nme.com/news/johnny-marr/23826 and he has toured with them to promote We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Brock describes the album as a "nautical named Modest Mouse "the 25th reason to love 2007" because of their up-and-coming fifth album."http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2388&src=blender_ed" The album's first single, ", 2007 . On March 17 they began streaming the entire album for a limited time. The second single is set to be "Missed the Boat", with the video being directed by Christopher Mills (who also directed the Float On video).1 The album, which was originally planned to be released on and stayed there for a few weeks Former Smiths' guitar player reaches number 1 in this weeks American Billboard Chart with sales in excess of 130,000. Brock recently stated that he would like to release the album's unreleased songs on an EP. Eric Judy said he would like to release the unreleased songs from 2004's ''Good News For People Who Love Bad News'' as well.http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=395773 OTHER MEMBERS
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