Modest Mouse - Tube Fruit, All Smiles, and Chocolate (1993)

 

1. Tossing Your Weight
2. Measure My Sleep
3. Bliss Phones Explanation
4. Custard Toothed Alpha Bet
5. Race Car Grin
6. The Gravity Involved in Climbing
7. Super Saver Day
8. Piggy Tails Buries Carburetor in the Desert
9. Go On Out, Come On, Carry Off (On)
10. Livin' Your Life in Two
11. Uninvited
12. Immigration Office Spelling Bee
13. Ignoring Each Other, Together, For It
14. My Name on a Letter in the Mailbox
15. Bulldozers on High
16. Novocain / Peppermint Soda

Modest Mouse released a couple demo tapes before their first album came out in 1995. In fact, one of the demos called Sad Sappy Sucker was supposed to be their debut but didn't get released till after the popularity of their third album in 2001. However this demo came before it and seems to feature all exclusive songs. One of the songs Race Car Grin is not to be confused with Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark from Sucker, though I like this one better. I cut out some songs to make it about an hour. 

Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker (2 CD) (1994)

 

Disc One:
1. Worms vs. Birds
2. Four Fingered Fisherman
3. Classy Plastic Lumber
4. From Point A to Point B (∞)
5. It Always Rains on a Picnic                               
6. Dukes Up                   
7. Every Penny Fed Car                                     
8. Mice Eat Cheese                               
9. Red Hand Case                                   
10. Ugly Casanova                               
11. Play Taps
12. Sad Sorta Angry                                 
13. Treat Me Like a Mammal                           
14. Inanimate Know How                             
15. Don't Know Direction
16. …But They're Not Singing Ghosts
17. In Like Roses
18. Nosaysisaysnoone
19. The Neck, A Throne for Bad Ideas
20. Eviction Day for the Guilt   

Disc Two:
21. Call to Dial-a-Song / Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?
22. Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark
23. Secret Agent X-9                           
24. Part Time Pastenseolith                                 
25. Playground for the Shotgun Kids
26. Ding, Urch, Ding                                 
27. Study to Use a Crayon
28. Alone on the Shelf                           
29. Rolloff                               
30. Teacher's Field Trip to the Moon
31. The Trouble With…                                         
32. Jumpsuit or Jumpship                                     
33. Teeth Mean Smiles                                           
34. N.R.G.                                 
35. Kirchie's Song                                   
36. Wingtips 
37. Election Song

This is a 2 CD version of Modest Mouse's album Sad Sappy Sucker. It was recorded in 1994 and intended to be their debut album but it wouldn't get released until 2001 after the popularity of their album The Moon and Antarctica. The released version had 15 songs and 9 bonus tracks which came from a Dial-a-Song service the band ran at the time which was similar to TMBG's Dial-a-Song. The only person that left a message was Spencer Moody of the Murder City Devils. 

There was also a demo tape on cassette with the same name that came out the same year but the only tracks they shared in common were the bonus tracks which were mostly 30 seconds long so I cut out all of those except for the message. The original tape had a lot of good stuff on it so I don't know why they didn't use it. The original album tracks comprise of tracks 1-9 and then 21b-23. The first disc makes up the real album and the second disc makes up the solo stuff since I cut out the Dial-a-Song stuff. Also the tracks Classy Plastic Lumber and Play Taps began with the same spoken word intro so I cut it out on both of them so they would be 1:26 long.