This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is the first full-length album by
alternative rock band
Modest Mouse. The album was released on
Up Records on March 26, 1996, on both
compact disc and
vinyl formats. The vinyl release contains two extra tracks, "Edit the Sad Parts" and "A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy". "Edit the Sad Parts" was later included on
Interstate 8 and the Up Records compilation,
US, while "A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy" remains available only on the vinyl editions released by Up in 1996 and Glacial Pace in 2014. Many of the tracks focus on traveling by automobile and the loneliness and isolation associated with rural life.
Sad Sappy Sucker was supposed to be released before
This Is A Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, but it was delayed until 2001.