Description
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank / Featuring: Dashboard, Fire It Up, We've Got Everything & Missed The Boat / Epic Audio CD 2007 / 88697083992
UPC 886970839921
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Modest Mouse, released in 2007. It followed their previous studio album, 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News. It is the band's only full-length with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr as a member. It is also their last with founding member and bassist Eric Judy. It has a strong nautical theme and was originally envisioned as a concept album about a boat crew that dies in every song.
This album was certified Gold by the RIAA on June 11, 2009. As of February 2015, it has sold 649,000 copies in the US.
| Label: | Epic – 88697083992 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: | Apr 2, 2007 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Style: | Indie Rock |
Tracklist:
| 1 | March Into The Sea | 3:30 | |
| 2 |
Dashboard |
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4:06 |
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| 3 | Fire It Up |
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4:34 |
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| 4 | Florida |
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2:57 |
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| 5 | Parting Of The Sensory |
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5:34 |
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| 6 | Missed The Boat |
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4:24 |
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| 7 | We've Got Everything |
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3:40 |
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| 8 | Fly Trapped In A Jar | 4:29 | |
| 9 | Education | 3:56 | |
| 10 | Little Motel |
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4:44 |
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| 11 | Steam Engenius |
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4:26 |
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| 12 | Spitting Venom |
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8:27 |
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| 13 | People As Places As People | 3:42 | |
| 14 | Invisible |
| 3:59 |
- A&R – Kaz Utsunomiya
- Art Direction – Christian Helms, Isaac Brock, Naheed Simjee
- Band [Modest Mouse Is] – Eric Judy, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Joe Plummer, Johnny Marr, Tom Peloso
- Design – Christian Helms, Geoff Peveto
- Engineer – Clay Jones, Joe Zook
- Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Kyle "Slick" Johnson, Reto Peter, Tom Queyja
- Engineer [Assisted By] – Rob Cooper, Tom Queyja
- Illustration [Booklet Interior Illustrations] – Casey Burns, David Ellis (5)
- Lyrics By – Isaac Brock
- Management – Ravenhouse, Ltd.
- Mastered By – Howie Weinberg
- Mixed By – Dennis Herring, Joe Zook
- Producer – Dennis Herring
