No One's First, And You're Next - Modest Mouse
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Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics What's this?

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8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 22 Ratings

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  • Summary: Modest Mouse releases an album with tracks from the "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" and "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" recording sessions.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    91
    "Perpetual Motion Machine" is about fish who wish they could walk so they could find out how it feels to fall down, and "Whale Song" bemoans Brock's metaphorical uselessness as it demonstrates his capacity for beauty.
  2. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    These supposed table scraps left off their previous two albums, Good News… and We Were… respectively, run a gauntlet that finds the band revitalized, lively and tremendously wonderful.
  3. No Ripcord
    60
    As a collection of odds and ends, No One’s First… is a necessarily disjointed album. It’s alternately disappointingly simple and refreshingly unique from song to song, torn between country, radio rock and classic Modest Mouse.
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    ‘The Whale Song’ may offer a solitary crumb for old skool Micers to nibble, but unfortunately this EP will not offer much else.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. DerekG
    10
    listen to this 10 times or more and tell me it's not fantastic.
  2. GlennP.
    10
    9.5, but I can't, so I rounded up. Wish it was an LP, and not an EP, but I can't complain about that. Unfortunately, this means we now have to wait another 10000+ years for more Modest Mouse.… Collapse
  3. Simon
    8
    Pure fun. More good Modest Mouse. (At least, if you liked the last album.)
  4. GT
    1
    Why does Modest Mouse continue to make random, aimless songs?

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