What’s In A Name? The Reason These Bands Were Named After Animals

Modest Mouse Is From A Passage The Mark On The Wall

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The Virginia Woolf story had this passage “I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasant thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.”

Somehow, they’ve been around since 1992, but really made it big with their hit single “Float On” in 2003.