Modest Mouse live @ Steelhouse, Omaha NE (November 12, 2024) [Complete Set]

The story of how I first discovered Modest Mouse is a bit convoluted but please indulge me. It's from a world before social media and when I first had access to the web as a graduate student in Ottawa Canada.
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Musically, the most important thing I ever did was to join the email list for fans of Bob Mould's 90's band, Sugar. Sugar was a rush of guitar-bass-drums power pop, and a bit of a palate cleanser after his first two solo albums post Husker Du (the lovely and largely acoustic 'Workbook' and the harrowing acid bath of 'Black Sheets of Rain').
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Not only were the members of the Sugar list replete with fantastic musical recommendations, but the list gave me my first opportunity to participate in a "tape tree", a construct through which a "taper" who had recorded a live concert would distribute it on cassette tape to a small set of "branches" tasked with making copies and distributing to others ("the leaves"), who would trade for a copy of said tape in exchange for a tape of their own (e.g. a couple of albums, one on side A and another on side B, a mix tape). It was through such a tape tree that someone thought to include a handful of Modest Mouse songs as filler on a tape containing other music sometime in early 1996 --- I definitely recall 'Broke'. It was also through a tape tree that someone else passed me another tape containing 'Interstate 8' and 'This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About'. So, when 'Lonesome Crowded West' was released towards the end of 1997, the timing couldn't have been better for me to pick it up at the epic Boxing Day sale at Shake Records in Ottawa Canada.
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Live, I had the good fortune to see the band on the 'We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank' tour, with Johnny Marr of The Smiths on guitar. And I've seen the band these last two years on their tour with Pixies and Cat Power. But my first time seeing the band was with my buddy Chris L. on an epic evening during 2004's 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News' tour, with a young Wolf Parade as openers prior to the release of their fantastic 'Apologies to The Queen Mary' album.
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So sure, I just saw Modest Mouse in Chicago a few months back but here was an opportunity to see the band play 'Good News...' front to back, an opportunity I could not pass up. And as a fan of Three Mile Pilot and its offshoots, that the band would have The Black Heart Procession in tow crossed off another item on my bucket list. This recording looks and sounds great and I hope you enjoy it! May it allow you to relive a great evening for years to come...

ps. This recording goes out to the many fine folks who humored this Canadian and made him feel welcome far away from home. drop me a line and say hi...
pps. as always, please support these bands by getting out to see them live when you can, abd by picking up their music and merch.

00:00 (an introduction)
Set One: Good News...
00:20 (the band takes the stage)
00:25 Horn Intro
00:51 The World at Large
05:11 Float On
09:16 Ocean Breathes Salty
13:00 Dig Your Grave
13:30 Bury Me With It
17:06 Dance Hall
20:39 Bukowski
25:14 This Devil's Workday
28:35 The View
33:16 Satin in a Coffin
35:41 Interlude (Milo)
36:36 Blame It on the Tetons
41:30 Black Cadillacs
44:31 One Chance
47:26 The Good Times Are Killing Me
Set Two: the rest
52:11 (the band returns)
53:51 Paper Thin Walls
56:50 3rd Planet
1:01:43 Satellite Skin
1:05:23 The Whale Song
1:10:42 History Sticks to Your Feet
1:14:54 King Rat
1:19:24 I've Got It All (Most)
1:22:42 Night on the Sun
1:30:43 (end credits)