El nombre de la banda deriva de un pasaje del relato de Virginia Woolf titulado "La marca en la pared", que dice: "Me gustaría encontrar unos pensamientos agradables, unos pensamientos que fueran un camino que indirectamente me reportara prestigio, ya que éstos son los pensamientos más agradables, y se encuentran muy a menudo incluso en la mente de la gente de modesto color ratonil, que sinceramente cree que no le gusta oír que les canten alabanzas".
 
ÁLBUMES DE ESTUDIO
 
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996)
 
- Dramamine
- Breakthrough
- Custom Concern
- Might
- Lounge
- Beach Side Property
- She Ionizes & Atomizes
- Head South
- Dog Paddle
- Novocain Stain
- Tundra/Desert
- Ohio
- Exit Does Not Exist
- Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
- Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
- Space Travel Is Boring
 
The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
 
- Teeth like God's Shoeshine
- Heart Cooks Brain
- Convenient Parking
- Lounge (Closing Time)
- Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
- Doin' the Cockroach
- Cowboy Dan
- Trailer Trash
- Out of Gas
- Long Distance Drunk
- Shit Luck
- Truckers Atlas
- Polar Opposites
- Bankrupt on Selling
- Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright
 
The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
 
- 3rd Planet
- Gravity Rides Everything
- Dark Center of the Universe
- Perfect Disguise
- Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
- A Different City
- The Cold Part
- Alone Down There
- The Stars Are Projectors
- Wild Packs of Family Dogs
- Paper Thin Walls
- I Came as a Rat
- Lives
- Life Like Weeds
- What People Are Made Of
 
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
 
- Horn Intro
- The World at Large
- Float On
- Ocean Breathes Salty
- Dig Your Grave
- Bury Me with It
- Dance Hall
- Bukowski
- This Devil's Workday
- The View
- Satin in a Coffin
- Interlude (Milo)
- Blame It on the Tetons
- Black Cadillacs
- One Chance
- The Good Times Are Killing Me
 
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
 
- March into the Sea
- Dashboard
- Fire It Up
- Florida
- Parting of the Sensory
- Missed the Boat
- We've Got Everything
- Fly Trapped in a Jar
- Education
- Little Motel
- Steam Engenius
- Spitting Venom
- People as Places as People
- Invisible
 
Strangers to Ourselves (2015)
 
- Strangers to Ourselves
- Lampshades on Fire
- Shit in Your Cut
- Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)
- Ansel
- The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box
- Coyotes
- Pups to Dust
- Sugar Boats
- Wicked Campaign
- Be Brave
- God Is an Indian and You're an Asshole
- The Tortoise and the Tourist
- The Best Room
- Of Course We Know