It was one of the 100 songs that impacted his life. Last week a buddy sent me a playlist to commemorate his birthday. “Float On” is on numerous playlists (including our Ultimate Summer Playlist) that I have made or my friends have made and sent my way. This usually follows by a bunch of 20-year-olds ‘shazaming it. Usually, it is a mid-30-year-old, like me, singing it. It’s a song that if you spend enough time at a karaoke bar it will come on. Since 2004, Modest Mouse’s “Float On” has, without realizing, been instrumental in my life. An event that knowingly and unknowingly changed us. We were a bunch of New Yorkers watching the United States bomb Iraq as retaliation for September 11th. I was a high school senior who along with my fellow classmates went to Paradise Island for our Spring break. A moment while you’re in it you know you will never forget. TVs showed the beginning of the invasion while the DJ played Outkast’s Bombs of Baghdad. I know this well because I was at Señor Frogs on my Spring Break in Nassau, Bahamas. The March before this interview, The United States started bombing Iraq. The president Brock is referring to is George W. I just want to feel good for a day,” he continued. “Our president is just a fucking daily dose of bad news! Then you’ve got the well-intentioned scientists telling us that everything is fucked.
It was the first single off of Good News for People Who Love Bad News. He was discussing the band’s new single, ‘Float On’. “I was just kind of fed up with how bad shit had been going on, and how dark everything was, with bad news coming from everywhere,” Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock told The Onion in 2004. Retrieved March 14, 2010.Modest Mouse’s ‘Float On’ Not Only Holds Up But Is An Anthem For Today
It was also covered by Mark Kozelek and Goldspot, whose version later appeared on the television series The O.C. The song was covered by Ben Lee, whose version can be heard on the soundtrack for the 2006 film John Tucker Must Die. Track listings Ĭanada Rock Top 30 ( Radio & Records) At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, "Float On" was nominated for Best Rock Song, losing to U2's " Vertigo". 351 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2014. In December 2009, Rolling Stone named it the 39th greatest song of the 2000s. 94 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time. In July 2009, it was also voted in at No. In 2013, when Triple J created a new list of the Hottest 100 songs of the past 20 years, Float On appeared at No. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1 hit on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Nearly six months after its release, it became the band's first No. The song was released to alternative radio on March 8, 2004, and was the first Modest Mouse song to gain mainstream popularity. The final few notes of " The World at Large" lead into the opening notes of "Float On". The song is in the key of F ♯ major with a tempo of 101 beats per minute.