This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is the debut studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse.

[3] Ryan Schreiber of Pitchfork remarked that Modest Mouse show influence from Pixies and Jane's Addiction.

[3] Lyrically, many of the album's tracks focus on traveling by automobile and the loneliness associated with rural life.

[citation needed] The Albuquerque Tribune called the album "intricate, brainy pop sneaking back into old-time ballads, honky-tonk slide and folk pluck.

"[10] Robert Christgau remarked that Modest Mouse are "so insularly indie they're incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't been softened up by Wowee Zowee and the Meat Puppets".