From nautical themes to green screens, the Marr-ified Modest Mouse have covered lots of territory with their videos for We Were Dead Before We Finished Typing This Album Title, but never have they fucked with time quite like they have here, in the clip for the lovely “Little Hotel.” It goes backwards! Like when Seinfeld went to India. Or like in that one video by everybody’s favorite band. Trick’s been done, but it always works somehow. Moving, even if there’s some left unexplained. Think it deserves a slot in our list of best backwards videos of all time?
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is out now via Epic.
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i love this song
The flashing lights are the best part of this video.
‘The Motel’ is a great movie. Short, yep, but good.
lovely. could you put this up on your youtube channel too?
so much fuss about radiohead. yet, this band is so much better.
I absolutely love the Mouse, but not this song or this video.
Wow, they have so many other songs that would have been much better singles.
I love them but this video and song kiiiiilllllsss me. Possibly the only song on the album I don’t listen to.
I think this song is really gentle and pretty. The video is nice too.
some of the other comments are funny to me, since this is my favourite modest mouse song. i’m surprised it’s a single though.
i loved the video. poor kid…
so wait…either she stole somebodies kid or has completely lost hope in the hospital?
the kid died and she took him out of the hospital to lay him to rest in some motel. that was the saddest f-ing video ever! ps kids: don’t smoke cigs at gas stations.
the woman who plays the mother is the theatre teacher at my school. her name is michelle
you should talk to michelle about coping with loss.