This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

After moving to Up Records , Modest Mouse released two full-length albums and other recordings including the 1996 LP This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About . Steve Wold also recorded and produced this album (and at the time was assisting in the recordings as well, but was not officially part of the band) along with the next offering, Interstate 8 . The 1997 album, The Lonesome Crowded West (also recorded at Moon Studios, by Scott Swayze) served as the band’s breakthrough. The Lonesome Crowded West gained the band a cult following , and is now popularly considered to be one of the defining albums of mid-1990s indie rock. During this time, Nick Kraft became involved with the task of refining the band’s sound. Prior to its release, the band had recorded the EP The Fruit That Ate Itself . In 2000, Up Records released a singles and rarities collection entitled Building Nothing Out of Something that included the entirety of Interstate 8 except for the songs “Edit the Sad Parts” and “Buttons to Push the Buttons”.