Black Cadillacs Intro Guitar Tab

		
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Black Cadillacs (intro)- Modest Mouse
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Tabbed By: Billy Anglin
Email: billyanglin@comcast.net

Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)

e|----10-----------7---------------------------10----------7--|
B|-------8---10-----------18-----------19---------8--10-------|
G|--------------9-------------16--18--------------------9-----|
D|-----------------------------------17-----------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Marks Average	#1 by Marks at Oct 21, 1970 at 6:00 AM EST
	the opening line still amazes me. it has such a masterful evolution from quiet annoyance to outright anger.

No Picture Ben Rhythm Player	#2 by Ben Jammin at Mar 7, 1972 at 5:43 PM EST
	I have to disagree with what someone said back a while ago, Chameleonica I think... anyway: "And it's true that the clouds just hung around Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral " I think this is how the cars hang out near the funeral, but when the funeral's over the go on, like clouds float away. death is unpredictable like the weather, and when the time comes, the cloud appear and so do the Cadalacs. "And we were laughing at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns" Just how we praise ourselves so much and kind of take our coats off like we're here to stay forever, regardless of the fact that we will soon kill ourselves off with our Wal-Marts and endless parking lots (you have to look at their older stuff and themes of Urban sprawl and Suburban decay) anyway, we will soon go extinct and look like fools by holding ourselves in high regard like we were a race of perfect beings.

No Picture Lex Average	#3 by Lex Nafrodosze at Dec 26, 1973 at 9:14 PM EST
	"And we were laughing at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns" great line and th cadillac one too- thats all i wanted to say. humble thanks

No Picture Jesus Average	#4 by Jesus Christ at Jun 1, 1974 at 1:53 AM EST
	I LOVE this song. "We named our children after towns that we've never been to" is such a great line. and now i want to name my children like that.

No Picture Stephen Average	#5 by Stephen Weber at Oct 25, 1977 at 11:27 AM EST
	Yeah, I hate all parent's groups, but I like when they have the label just to show off. It's really immature how obsessed we are with swearing, but subconsiously I feel cooler with the label on. Fucking parent's groups. Why ban arbitrary words? So kids won't learn them? They will anyway. Besides, if they don't know what it means, then so what? It's not like they'll go around saying "fuck" because they were somehow able to hear it in a song so that it stood out. I mean, we don't expect 6-year-olds to memorize the word "Cadillac", do we? And do we think that they'll learn about sex instantly when they hear the word "fuck"? What would be so wrong about it if they did? Why is sex dirty? Whatever, I'm only 13, there must be something I'm missing that all these 45-year-olds who mindlessly censor Janet's boob so that kids won't see what their face was pressed up against for the first months of their lives (and that girl children already have) aren't missing.

No Picture TonkpilS Average	#6 by TonkpilS at Aug 14, 1978 at 1:51 PM EST
	I must say I agree with sirgarycoleman. I have to believe that a band as great as Modest Mouse would not waste their time on love songs (all the time, if even at all) and they leave you searching for a deeper meaning in the lyrics. At least that's what I think, if not than what good would Modest Mouse be compared to all the other corny rock bands around? Nah, I still think Modest Mouse's lyrics are on the same level of the Mars Volta and the like, though this album is really not their best. Still, I love Modest Mouse.

No Picture Squirrels Lead Player	#7 by Squirrels Dyrant at Jun 11, 1982 at 3:45 PM EST
	Yeah, so much knowledge of facts (names of towns and nouns)but it means nothing, no personal experience. All their learning just made more masks to hide behind, and he's sick of it all.

No Picture Dan Average	#8 by Dan Flores at Jun 19, 1983 at 8:43 PM EST
	Omg! okay now i read something off of this page and i have to say bocmaxima you are wrong. I have to disagree with you. For the fact yeah he say thoes things but like i said he not aiming there he talking about the things that are going on, and it wouldn't go with the rest of the fucking song. For crying out loud he talking about the things that were going in his life and how the whole recdor company rules were pointless and useless and how many people who into music could get fuck over it because they dumb!...for crying out loud.

No Picture [ßĩη& Average	#9 by [ßĩηŁ@Ðэń] at Feb 21, 1997 at 3:38 PM EST
	As far as I can see it, this song definitely has Issac talking about the problems the band was going through. Being in a band becomes more than music, it becomes a game if there are problems with record labels and band members and fame. "And it's true that the clouds just hung around Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral " I think the clouds are the problems, and, like funerals, are unexpected and possibly have no solutions except getting over it. "And we were laughing at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns" I think this is about the band's standing in the music world. They have stayed true to themselves and not sold out, in that they have not settled to writing about completely pointless shit. They still know their roots.

No Picture TAMARA Musical Genius	#10 by TAMARA at Dec 28, 1999 at 12:56 AM EST
	I disagree with most of the first posters... this is not a song about relationsihps. One of the cool things about Modest Mouse is they don't just make stupid love songs all the time like everyone else and this isn't one either. And spoolhardy, yes, you do have a pole up your ass or else you wouldn't even say such a thing.

No Picture Max Wanna Be	#11 by Max Contreras at Jan 12, 2003 at 2:51 AM EST
	First of all, Insulting this record would be like making fun of a kid with down syndrome because many may not know this, but Isaac and the band went through a lot of hardships while making this album: Jeremy leaving, DUI's attempted murder charges, jail time, they actually started over at a point, and the list goes on. you can see it in the lyrics, its about bad news and how bad shit happens, etc. But that out of they way, this was an alright album, but compared to their last 3 LP's it doesn't compare, and its hard to blame the record company because EPIC did a great job with the Moon & Antartica. It was Isaac's choic to make an album with shorter songs, but the thing we love about Modest Mouse IS the 7 minute songs and deep lyrics and cheesy effects. He's supposed to be writing for the FANS not the masses. Regardless, I think this is a very cool song and has great meaning. along with Bukowski, Blame it on the Tetons and The Good Times Are Kiling me.

No Picture sharon Wanna Be	#12 by sharon howell at Jan 5, 2005 at 9:03 PM EST
	Deffinately about a break-up, I love how they do the "fuckfuck fuckin'" and "dumb dumb dumber" lines..