Modest Mouse – Dance Hall

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  General Comment:THE LOUD NOISES THAT RUSH THROUGH THE SPEAKERS MAKE ME WANT TO PLAY IT ON AN EPIC SOUNDSYSTEM

  Flag Orienteon September 06, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:Wow. I didn't know anyone actually liked this song, I thought it was just filler to make the good songs ( i.e. float on, bury me with it, bukowski, world at large) seem better.

  Flagged Modestmouse1115on March 02, 2010   Link

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    I'm not sure how someone with a username composed entirely of the band name wouldn't respect this song or consider it "good". It reminds me of "Shit Luck" and "Breakthrough", all of which are raw and excellent.

    Flag althoson December 19, 2012  
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  General Comment:Sounds a bit Tom Waits-esque to me (a good thing though)

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  General Comment:I remember hearing when I was little about a dance hall being part of a prison
  
  * The Dance hall was the area of prison cells adjacent to the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, where the condemned inmates spent their last day before their execution.
  
  
  I have no idea if this has any relevance to the song... but there are a few times where he mentions about jails and prisons. It also fits with the underlying dark tone in his voice and the slight buzzing of electricity and helicopter noise at the start of the song. I realized this a long time ago but I felt I had to post it.

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  General Comment:Man, Modest Mouse is by far my favorite band and I love basically ALL their music. And the Good News album is great...
  
  But I absolutely hate this song.

  Flagged MaidenRocks99on July 10, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:i love dancing to this song. with a few shots and a couple friends.

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  General Comment:"isaac is always drunk..."
  
  how do you know? Do you know him personally?

  Flag lookdeeperon March 13, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:ive always amagined the video for this song with just random shots of people on the side of the street dancing with different styles like the "white man dance" and just crazy different dancing i can see a large black lady booty dancing, a nerdy white guy break dancing and a normal blue collar man in a suit dancing the white man dance, this song makes me smile when i see all of these people dancing
  
  

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  General Comment:hes gonna do things HIS way on HIS time where ever he feels like.
  
  hes gonna dance hall every day.
  so what?
  
  also everything will be fine,
  no cares at all because lifes gonna end so what the fuck is order for?
  
  "Well somehow or another I fell for every scam.
  But I was dancin' on the tin roof, cat be damned."
  
  thats what i think it means

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  General Comment:What an ass. And a Hot Water Music fan, too.
  
  Eugh.

  Flagged PaperStreeton September 29, 2006   Link

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