The Moon & Antarctica
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Gravity Rides Everything
Oh gotta see, gotta know right now What's that riding on your everything? It isn't anything at all Oh gotta see, gotta know right now What's that... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Checkout.com
    100
    Moment for moment, there's not a more significant collection of songs to spend your life with...
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  2. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    Production notwithstanding, the major-label move is the lyric sheet, which situates their circular minor-key riffs in a congruent worldview: eternal recurrence as infinite regress as cosmic bummer.
  3. Nude As The News
    90
    An absolutely awesome album.
  4. MTV.com
    80
    Remarkably mature and absorbing.
  5. Magnet
    80
    A dark album that shines very brightly. [#46, p.85]
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  6. Salon
    70
    A visit to desolate regions... a 60-minute, 15-song treatise on isolation, displacement and a seemingly bottomless spiritual void.
  7. Spin
    30
    The Moon and Antarctica does show Modest Mouse willing to change. Too bad it wasn't for the better.... Mistaking subject for style, Modest Mouse has chosen to accentuate on a tendency to drift rather than an ability to write emotionally effective songs.

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  1. Positive: 53 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 58
  3. Negative: 0 out of 58
  1. kayleec
    Feb 16, 2005
    10
    I ia and awesome album, with awesome vocals
  2. Dan
    Aug 31, 2002
    10
    well, let's start from the beginning. moon... opens with 3rd planet, easily among the most beautiful songs i've ever heard before well, let's start from the beginning. moon... opens with 3rd planet, easily among the most beautiful songs i've ever heard before continuing into the luscious pop hooks of gravity rides everything and the fiercely individualistic albeit catchy dark center of the universe and the simple, acoustic beauty of perfect disguise. from there on, the songs only grow bigger, more expansive, and ultimately more beautiful. lives is a lovely isaac brock solo number, the stars are projectors a mind-blowing tour de force of mercury rev/yerself is steam intensity, and life like weeds a pained, unpretentious probing into the sadness at the heart. the "i could have told you all that i love you" verse is simply stunning for all of its poetic beauty. absolutely essential. the best offering from one of the best bands around. 3rd planet stands with sparklehorse's sunshine and son volt's windfall as one of the three best songs of the decade. buy this record!… Expand
  4. Jack
    Jul 12, 2006
    10
    Oh yes... Ohhh yes.
  5. StevenL
    Oct 2, 2005
    10
    This is the greatest album I've ever heard in my life. End of story.
  6. TomP
    Jun 29, 2009
    10
    It doesn't matter whether you're a fan or not; you need to get this album somehow, immediately. I'm not exaggerating when I It doesn't matter whether you're a fan or not; you need to get this album somehow, immediately. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is easily one of the ten best albums to come out in this decade.… Expand
  7. tokyomanga
    Sep 21, 2015
    10
    Simply and wonderfully beautiful! There is no better way to describe this than art!Simply and wonderfully beautiful! There is no better way to describe this than art!

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  8. time
    Nov 14, 2006
    5
    Give me a break! Spin magazine was right the first time. And this was back when Spin was considered groundbreaking. Nobody even payed Give me a break! Spin magazine was right the first time. And this was back when Spin was considered groundbreaking. Nobody even payed attention to this album until "Float On" became a hit. People were pissed off at them for making it big so they just went to this album because it was more "Indie" than "Good News..." Hating a band because they had a hit. How pathetic. Good News is not only their best but it's one of the best albums of the entire decade.… Expand

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