Song: "Bankrupt on Selling"
Artist: Modest Mouse
Album: The Lonesome Crowded West
Year: 1997
Length: 2:53
Label: Up Records
Rating: 8.9 (out of 10) via Pitchfork for the album
Modest Mouse's "breakthrough" album found a place on my Top 5 albums of all-time, and this little gem at the end of the record (song 14 out of the 15 song collection) still wows me upon every listen. From the all music guide to the album:
Talk about original -- this band has something for just about everyone. They can do quiet, brooding acoustics like "Bankrupt on Selling," dark and pounding thrashers like "Cowboy Dan," funky jump-around emo like "Jesus Christ Was an Only Child" -- just about anything. Throughout the whole album is a white-trash feeling and a sort of down-to-earth analysis of the state of the world, without sounding pretentious. Give this album a listen and you can be sure that you will be singing the rambling, catchy, almost whiny vocals in no time. If you dig indie rock at its very best, go pick this album up.
#28 Favorite Song of All-Time
Well, all the apostles,
They're sitting in swings
Saying I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era
So all of the businessers in their unlimited Hell
Where they buy and they sell and they sell all their trash to each other
But they're sick of it all
And they're bankrupt on selling
And all of the angels
They'd sell off your soul for a set of new wings and anything gold
They remember
The people they loved, their old friends
And I've seen through 'em all, seen through 'em all, and seen through most everything
All the people you knew were the actors
All the people you knew were the actors
Well, Ill go to college and Ill learn some big words
And I'll talk real loud
Goddamn right I'll be heard
You'll remember the guy that said all those big words he must have
Learned in college
And it took a long time
Until I came clean with myself
I come clean out of love with my lover
I still love her
Loved her more when she used to be sober and I was kinder
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