"Missed the Boat" is a song by American

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band Modest Mouse and is the sixth track on their 2007 album, '' We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank''. The song was released as the second

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from that album and peaked at #24 in '' Billboard's''

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sings backup vocals on "Missed the Boat".

Music video

In 2007,

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and Modest Mouse asked fans to direct and film a video for the song. The contest ended on May 22, 2007. Christopher Mills, who also directed the " Float On" video, directed the green screen sequences used in the contest. The winning video, directed by

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, that is Christopher Louie and

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, shows a robot who directed himself in a video about a robot who runs away from home.Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat Vote
Another video, shown on MTV2 and

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, features segued segments of other submitted videos, with the winning video only appearing for five seconds.

Chart performance

Popular culture

This song appears in the '' Scrubs'' episode "My Waste of Time" at the end of the show.

References

External links

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