Name: Sad Sappy Sucker
Brand: Glacial Pace Recordings
SKU: 18409314
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Sad Sappy Sucker

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Album: Sad Sappy Sucker
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Birds Vs Worms
2)	Four Fingered Fisherman
3)	Wagon Ride Return
4)	Classy Plastic Lumber
5)	From Point a To Point B (Infinity)
6)	Path of Least Resistance
7)	Always Rains On a Picnic
8)	Dukes Up
9)	Think Long
10)	Every Penny Fed Car
11)	Mice Eat Cheese
12)	Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark
13)	Red Hand Case
14)	Secret Agent X-9
15)	Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?
16)	Call To Dial-a-Song
17)	5-4-3-2-1 Lisp Off
18)	Wood Grain
19)	Bmx Crash
20)	Sucker Bet
21)	Black Blood & Old Newagers
22)	Swy
23)	Australopithecus
24)	Sin Gun Chaser

Album: Sad Sappy Sucker
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Birds Vs Worms
2)	Four Fingered Fisherman
3)	Wagon Ride Return
4)	Classy Plastic Lumber
5)	From Point a To Point B (Infinity)
6)	Path of Least Resistance
7)	Always Rains On a Picnic
8)	Dukes Up
9)	Think Long
10)	Every Penny Fed Car
11)	Mice Eat Cheese
12)	Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark
13)	Red Hand Case
14)	Secret Agent X-9
15)	Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?
16)	Call To Dial-a-Song
17)	5-4-3-2-1 Lisp Off
18)	Wood Grain
19)	Bmx Crash
20)	Sucker Bet
21)	Black Blood & Old Newagers
22)	Swy
23)	Australopithecus
24)	Sin Gun Chaser

Performer Notes

SAD SAPPY SUCKER was originally slated to be Modet Mouse's debut full-length release, but was subsequently shelved in favor of THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST.
Modest Mouse includes: Isaac Brock (vocals).
Recorded in November 1994.
Personnel: Isaac Brock (vocals, various instruments, guitar); Dann Gallucci (guitar); John Wickhart (bass guitar); Jeremiah Green (drums).
Recording information: Dub Narcotic (11/12/1994); Dub Narcotic (1994-1995).
Sad Sappy Sucker is Modest Mouse's "lost album." It was recorded by K Records' Calvin Johnson in 1994 and was supposed to be the band's debut, but delays shelved the record and it disappeared. The 2001 release of Sad Sappy Sucker gives fans an opportunity to see the humble beginnings of one of the Pacific Northwest's most original bands. All 12 songs recorded during the Dub Narcotic Studio sessions are on the album, including the impossible to find Worms Vs. Birds 7". As a bonus treat, there are nine songs from Isaac Brock's Dial-a-Song project. These were on his answering machine every day and could only be heard by calling in. The thick textures, crazy drawl vocals, and grand flair of later Modest Mouse albums such as The Lonesome Crowded West and The Moon & Antarctica are not fully realized on Sad Sappy Sucker. But Modest Mouse's future suburban sprawl is evident in the chug-chug of "From Point A to Point B" and the slow/fast groove of "Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark." On the latter, Brock sings, "Looks like accounting's not accountable for anything or anyone at all." But Sad Sappy Sucker is no case of a "reissue, repackage, repackage" revenue scheme, this album is a gift for die-hard fans, put out by a label that probably loves Modest Mouse as much as the fans do. ~ Charles Spano

Professional Reviews

Magnet (9-10/01, p.103) - "...Comparable to the painfully early works of former basement-punkers Cap'n Jazz and Lync. Every so often...Brock peeks his head out from beneath the wreckage..."