Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Good News for People Who Love Bad News

by Modest Mouse

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02/06/2008
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Pop
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Modest Mouse: Isaac Brock, Eric Judy, Dann Gallucci, Benjamin Weikel. Additional personnel: Tom Peloso, The Flaming Lips, The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band, The Dirty Dozen Band. Recorded at Sweet Tea, Oxford, Mississippi. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band offers the opening fanfare for Modest Mouse's sixth full-length, GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE BAD NEWS, a fitting intro for the outfit's most majestic record to date. On their prior major-label recordings, the (formerly) indie icons opted for wandering, spacey arrangements to accompany Isaac Brock's magnificently obtuse poetics. GOOD NEWS revives the immediacy of the band's earlier releases, but furthers the production values (without too much polish), and out pours some of the most commanding pop-rock imaginable. The first single off of GOOD NEWS was the wonderfully catchy "Float On," with its syncopated, disco-like beat and Zen simplicity exemplified in the opening line "I backed my car into a cop car the other day. Well, he just drove off. Sometimes life's okay." Brock's trademark wistful vocals rest on the music as well as they ever have, equally at home on the serenely beautiful "The World at Large" and the choleric, Pixies-esque "Bury Me with It." The album closes fittingly with a visit from alt-rock royalty, as the Flaming Lips drop by on the sublimely sweet "The Good Times Are Killing Me."

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Product Details

Artist
Modest Mouse
Recording Environment
Studio
Media Content Format
Album
CD WOW! Sales Rank
#8086
Media Format
Audio CD
Number of Discs
1
Year of release
2004
Original year of release
2004
CD 30days Sales Rank
#6093
Cast & Crew
Modest Mouse (Music Performer)
Dennis Herring (Producer)

Press Reviews

[H]ands down their best album yet....Their revered ill-tuned shrug-rock now does the eclectic boogaloo... CMJ (p.6)

...[H]eralds an expansive new phase for the formerly scrawny Northwest combo." - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (4/9/04, p.84)

Ranked #2 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2004" - "Keeping life's demons at bay is what occupies Modest Mouse in its finest hour. Magnet (p.66)

4 (out of 5) - "Beautiful Mojo

4 stars out of 5 - "[M]oments of simple, exultant joy are plentiful... Mojo (p.102)

9 (out of 10) - "Brilliant NME

4 (out of 5) - "Bonkers Q

4 stars out of 5 - "They're Seattle's best kept secret, but on the strength of this album they won't remain so for much longer. Q (p.p.103)

8 (out of 10) - "Irresistible Rocksound

Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "Brock's dark psyche has never been more fun to stare into. Rolling Stone (pp.146-150)

[H]alf expansive, burnished radio-rock, half swampy Delta hoodoo-hollerin' that reeks of Brock's Southern sojourn....In Brock's cities made of ashes, his demons still glower where the homestead meets the highway." - Grade: A Spin (p.103)

Ranked #4 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "[They] kept their sense of rhythm without feigning the funk... Spin (p.67)

4 (out of 5) - "Classic The Fly

4 (out of 5) - "Quirky The Times

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Horn Intro (9)
  2. World at Large (4:32)
  3. Float On (3:28)
  4. Ocean Breathes Salty (3:49)
  5. Dig Your Grave (12)
  6. Bury Me with It (3:49)
  7. Dance Hall (2:57)
  8. Bukowski (4:14)
  9. This Devil's Workday (2:19)
  10. View (4:13)
  11. Satin in a Coffin (2:35)
  12. Interlude (Milo) (58)
  13. Blame It On the Tetons (5:24)
  14. Black Cadillacs (2:43)
  15. One Chance (3:04)
  16. Good Times Are Killing Me (4:16)

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