Your Sunday Afternoon Awesome Vegetarian Post of Awesome Vegetarianness is Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths and current member of Modest Mouse.   Now, I could actually talk about Marr’s most famous band, but whenever I talk about The Smiths, I get the uncontrollable urge to try and find Morrissey and beat him up.   WE GET IT.  You’re sad.   Go home.

So, let’s talk about Modest Mouse instead.   Marr surprised everyone by joining the band a few years ago, as Modest Mouse and The Smiths had never been mentioned in the same sentence together, ever.   The creative force behind Modest Mouse is Isaac Brock, who is not a vegetarian, as far as I know.   He is, however, possibly insane.   I would probably bet money on it.   But he can sure write a good song.   Here’s a non-video for “Trailer Trash,” off of Lonesome Crowded West, which happens to be my favorite album of theirs.

That’s pretty, isn’t it? Since Marr joined the band, they’ve gotten, for lack of a better word, poppier.   Not that this is a band thing.   Here’s the video for “Dashboard,” (youtube won’t let me embed it for whatever reason) which is off their latest record, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.   Watch this, and tell me it’s not a brilliant rock song.

So, that’s that.   Johnny Marr for whatever reason joined Modest Mouse, and they started writing the catchiest music around.   Not that Modest Mouse wasn’t amazing to begin with.   Now get out there and build up that Modest Mouse record collection (aside from Lonesome Crowded West you might like to pick up The Moon and Antarctica or Building Nothing out of Something), and as always, takepart to get your free vegetarian starter kit.