We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (2007)

Modest Mouse

5 Marr flew to Portland in 2005 for a trial with Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock (“He’s a pusher of buttons,” the guitarist reflected. “He was interested in getting ferociously drunk, and playing at each other at incredible volume…”). Initiation passed, Marr supplied sharp-elbowed riffs to counterpoint Brock on the likes of Dashboard and We’ve Got

Everything. “I took it as a triumph for alternative music,” noted Marr when the album topped the US charts. “Music like ours didn’t get to number one in America…” Download: Dashboard