Talk:The Moon & Antarctica

Genre
Alternative rock? I know this album was on a major, but does this album sound influenced by nirvana, sonic youth or soundgarden? Any thoughts on a better classification?
 * how the hell is it influenced by nirvana? They are indie rock, not alternative -- 69.234.106.60 23:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * what an utter idiot that person is. "alternative rock" may be meaningless but even under its worst possible definition it never said you had to be influenced by "grunge." Modest Mouse is clearly an alternative rock band and/or an indie rock band. If you define indie as a genre rather than a type of label, it means exactly the same thing alternative used to mean. besides, Modest Mouse actually strikes me as one of the most similar bands to Nirvana... Nirvana's Unplugged album, or certain tracks on In Utero for instance. in terms of having the "folk-punk" style and even the style of lyrics at times, and even the part of the country- I think they have a lot in common and that might explain why these bands somehow resonated with the general American public as well, where richer, more hipsterish indie rock bands like Pavement didn't... of course they never signed with a major label either. 172.171.115.147 06:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Because this album was released under Epic, it cannot be labeled as an Indie Rock album...Epic is not an Independent label, it's owned by Sony BMG. --Narcolepticpathos (talk) 07:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Modest Mouse is very very much influenced by Pixies. Which would classify them as Alternative. The phrase has really just come to mean "any rock music released after 1991 that is not punk, metal, nor country rock." Stuart 24.188.47.232 (talk) 17:19, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Generally, the term 'indie' when used in the UK, tends to refer to a specific genre of music, rather than the status of their record label; in line with this popular trend, record producers will often coerce their artists into imitating the style of so-called 'indie'. Neptune777 (talk) 01:14, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

The reference provided for "indie rock" doesn't work though. It only references the band as being part of "indie rock" but does not specify the release as being part of the genre. It should mention that the album belongs to that style, like, for example this page uses specific references that identify the album as part of a specific genre. --190.159.187.70 (talk) 00:16, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, as a sidenote. indie rock is considered as an alternative rock subgenre. Not all alternative rock is grunge or noise rock influenced. --190.159.187.70 (talk) 00:20, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

This album is connected
All song titles serve as redirects to this album or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 17:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Track Listing
Removing the second track listing because of redudancy.

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BetacommandBot 04:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Duplicate professional reviews
I noticed that two reviews links point to the same contents: Is it necessary to keep both?
 * Robert Christgau (A-) link
 * The Village Voice (A-) link

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:15, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Isaac Brock didn't write most of the songs on M&A, it was Edgar Graham. --> http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Modest-Mouse-Biography/5060A5065DFEF70948256C5400264BF2

-ssbbrules June 19th 10:58:53 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssbbrules (talk • contribs) 14:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC)