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1	Horn Intro
2	The World At Large
3	Float On
4	Ocean Breathes Salty
5	Dig Your Grave
6	Bury Me With It
7	Dance Hall
8	Bukowski
9	This Devil's Workday
10	The View
11	Satin In A Coffin
12	Interlude (Milo)
13	Blame It On the Tetons
14	Black Cadillacs
15	One Chance
16	The Good Times Are Killing Me

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It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment Modest Mouse started sounding like a real band. For the longest time, singer-songwriter Isaac Brock seemed to exist solely to defy the established rules, forging forward on sheer momentum and ingenuity. Even Pavement looked relatively ordinary in comparison to the band's early releases like 1996's This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About and 1997's The Lonesome Crowded West. But on Good News for People Who Love Bad News, the frontman sounds like he's finally touching the earth, and the band--minus founding member and drummer Jeremiah Green--follows suit. A relaxed mood prevails, not so much in volume but in attitude. On the follow-up to the group's 2000 major label debut, The Moon & Antarctica, big sloppy melodies battle it out with brass on punky epics like "Float On" and "The Ocean Breathes Salty." The lyrics are simpler, the arrangements tamer, but the vitality remains. The prevailing mood is that Modest Mouse has pulled off something extraordinary here: a well-rounded, lovable record that doesn't sound anything like David Gray.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Epic / Sony
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2110700
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2004
Run time ‏ : ‎ 49 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Epic / Sony
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001M7P78
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Matthew

Magnificent!

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024

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Obviously a masterpiece. Record was in perfect condition upon delivery!

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Eric D. Musall

Modest Mouse sells out, hilarity ensues

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2006

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The reviews attached to this album perfectly illustrate how hard it is for an uncompromising indie band with a devoted cult following to compromise a little (but not a lot) and make a good album (but not their best), and still manage to make everyone (or even most everyone) remotely happy.

First of all, I'll say it right up front: 3.5 stars average review? Use your freaking ears, folks - the album is much better and more interesting than that. There's a lot of wholly average and even quite terrible crap on Amazon getting 4+ stars, although often because not many people review it except those insane, pudding-hoarding paranoid psychotics that are into albums made entirely with the sounds of rubbing goat parts together. In any case, 3.5 stars has nothing to do with the album's quality; it's just there to make a point.

What's the point? Well let's see:

1. Modest Mouse sold out! So says all the hardcore enthusiasts who have been DOWN from DAY ONE. I am one of those guys, so I'm here to say: forget those guys. Most of them are allergic to change and *particularly* allergic to their favorite stuff getting even sort of popular. The fact is, "Float On" - while a catchy, poppy, cute little song that surely indicates the band has completely and totally started licking the corporate boots, as it were - is not that different from the more accessible songs on their previous couple of albums. And the rest of the album is mostly pretty difficult, which is totally normal for them.

2. Speaking of difficult, there's all the reviews that read like this: "I loved Float On and I bought this CD and it's all weird and tracks 6, 7 and 9 are just unlistenable WAAAAHHHH." If that doesn't completely disprove the idjits from #1 I don't know what does. But in any case, it makes me happy that the CD is weird and diverse. There are strains of Tom Waits and Pavement and the Pixies here (and many of those strains have been running through Modest Mouse's whole career). These are interesting, good musicians who I would encourage all of you to get to know. If tracks 6, 7 and 9 are just too dang weird for you, stick to Britney Spears. Better yet, just start buying singles off iTunes... you're too dumb to be listening to whole CDs. You see, sometimes artists mix things up a little, and challenge you as a listener. They don't just record the same song 15 times and call that an album.

3. While I'm on that subject, the dumbest review of this CD here on Amazon has to be the one that says Modest Mouse is a one trick pony. One trick? Did they even listen to the CD past the first few tracks? Most people are complaining that the middle section of the album is too weird and different from the hit song, but you think it's too similar? Good god... so this is what a deaf music reviewer would be like. The mind recoils in horror.

4. Back to the hardcore faithful: "their first few albums were so much BETTER." Well - yes, they were. But this is still a good album by a great band. This is like season 7 of The Simpsons, when the show was still good and delivering a ton of great jokes, but was in retrospect teetering on the brink of suckulence. Only time will tell, with MM, if they are teetering on the same brink. But I'll tell you this: I own The Simpsons Season 7 on DVD. It's a good one. And this CD is good too. Not as good as "Lonesome Crowded West," but it's good. In spots it's certainly easier on the ears and more liable to make me get up and dance around like a freak in my living room, so that's something.

I've got nothing else to say. My honest, objective review rating would be 4 or 4.5 stars - but someone has to take responsibility for trying to drive this average back up to where it should be. Hell, Amazon should step in and just "fix" the numbers. The only good thing that has resulted from this "making no one happy" situation is that over a hundred copies of a really good CD are available for cheap to the people who are grown up enough to make a good investment. The rest of you can save your pennies for that new Guided by Voices spinoff (now with extra tape hiss!), or downloading all the latest reggaeton hits online.

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Great album, horrible manufacturing

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2022

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The last six albums I've purchased recently happened to all be from Modest Mouse. I have had to send three of them back for exchanges (one of them I had to exchange twice). There is clearly no quality control. Luckily the exchange process was fast and smooth, and easy.

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ale

Great album

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2022

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For alt/Indie lovers, this band is great! The vinyl came undamaged, and works perfectly. No skipping or other artifacts showing shoddy manufacturing. Great purchase!

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Bryan...

The Good Times....

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014

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Really we heard enough of both the singles of this album.... forget those songs...

"The world at large" is a tragic lullaby about finding the reason of life and realizing its too late to do anything about it.Things are getting older, people are leaving this earth, and you never reached your goals... a stand still life procrastinated by idleness...
Another great song is the punk song "Dance Hall." The guitar contrasts of distortion and echoing makes the song stand out as one of the songs that a person can skank to in a large pit of indie rockers, pop punkers, and dredlocked rastas...
I have to say however, "The View" is my favorite song with its funk like guitar and the blend of the sounds of the synthesizer with the drums makes it sound like a electro song...
Really this album has a variation of song styles that is over shadowed by its singles...
Modest Mouse is all over the place which is hard to categorize them. They come up with folk tunes like "Blame it on the Tetons" or the slow bluegrass song "Satin in a Coffin" which is why they get the label of indie rock.

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Robert Self

Quite simply- BRILLIANT!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2005

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A sixteen song fireworks display of brilliance. I buy about 50 albums a year, and this is the best IN A LONG TIME. Not many groups have the lyrical talent to toss in references to Bukowski ("Who would wanna be such an [...] ), Prometheus, and God ("Who'd wanna be such a control freak?")- all in the same song- and somehow still come off as sounding personal. After three listens you'll have fantasies of sitting down and interviewing the fellows.

Problem with most bands with brains (and Modest Mouse clearly has some smarts) is that when the lyrics get too heady the band comes off sounding musically forced and impersonal (think of Rush, for example). Modest Mouse avoids all that and makes it all work without the feel of contrivance. What the album lacks in rock indulgence it makes up in pure nervous tension. At times the tension reaches levels not heard since The Residents.

For us freethinkers, the album serves up snippets of personal philosophy set to some stunning music ("We have one chance. One chance to get everything right...My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so much to me...").

Get it then listen to it three or four times in a row until you GET IT.

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David Thierry

Went up a notch

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2008

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This is Modest Mouse on a whole new level and some of their fans don't like it but I think they're really rockin'. Previous efforts were stuck in that hillbilly indie plunkin' rhythm thing that's so popular with those who want music they deem "authentic" but hey even The Clash learned to play their instruments and rose to a higher level and I think that may be what's happened here. The musical energy seems more vital to me although I admit to loving the gentle "Blame it on the Tetons" as much as that pop dance hit "Float On" that so many reviewers tend to dismiss perhaps because it's just so damn good and the supposed fans preference is still for music that is what I think of as awkward. I'm amused that so many "fans" dismiss what I consider remarkable lyrics as inferior. I think Brock is one of the most outstanding songwriters we have at this time and everyone concerned is performing on a higher level than they did in the past ten years. This cd rocks and the follow up cd We were Dead rocks even more.

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Gilberto Alduncin

Gran disco

Reviewed in Mexico on November 10, 2023

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Es un gran disco de esta gran banda, para quienes no la conocen será una buena forma de hacerlo.

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Tutto bene

Reviewed in Italy on February 17, 2023

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Venditore consigliato

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Anderson Moreira

justo

Reviewed in Brazil on November 16, 2019

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fazia tempo que tava atrás desse disco, achei aqui por um preço justo!

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Nicht alltäglich, irgendwie besonders.

Reviewed in Germany on April 22, 2020

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„Good News For People Who Love Bad News“ nannte die amerikanische Band „Modest Mouse“ ihr viertes Album, welches 2004 auf dem EPIC-Label erschien. Mit dieser neuen Veröffentlichung sind die Musiker ein deutliches Stück poppiger geworden, als noch auf den ersten drei Alben. Und was man hier hört ist beileibe kein leichter, sondern eher etwas eigenwilliger Pop bis Rock. „Good News For People Who Love Bad News“ ist wahrlich kein „Wohlfühl-Album“ geworden, sondern eine Platte, die man sich erst mal genauer erarbeiten muss.

Schräge Töne gibt es eine ganze Menge auf dem Album und mit nichts anderem wird der Hörer auch durch das zehn Sekunden lange „Horn Intro“ in das Album eingeführt. Aber solche Beispiele gibt es noch mehr. „Bury Me With It“, „Dance Hall“, „This Devil's Workday“ oder „The View“ klingen einfach ein wenig abgefahren und es bedarf schon einiger Durchgänge, bevor sich einem diese doch manchmal ziemlich schrägen Harmonien und eigenwilligen Gesangspassagen besser erschließen.

Andererseits gibt es aber auch die Stücke, die wunderschöne Melodien aufweisen, sofort ins Ohr gehen und dort auch verbleiben. „The World At Large“, „Bukowski“ und auch “ Satin In A Coffin“ sind solche Nummern, die dabei allerdings alles andere als nach Massenware klingen. Dieser etwas ungewöhnliche „Touch“, der mitunter wie eine Mischung aus den „Pixies“, den „Talking Heads“ und den „Stranglers“ klingt, diese besondere Note ist dabei immerfort bei allen Titeln zu hören und durchgehend gegenwärtig.

Wie, um das Bild des „Nichtalltäglichen“ noch abzurunden, gibt es auch drei ganz kurze Tracks auf dem Album, die eher experimenteller Natur sind und zusätzlich noch ein wenig zur Auflockerung in Form weiterer Abwechslung beitragen. Und ehe man sich auf diese kleinen Einschübe eingestellt hat, sind sie auch schon wieder vergangen.

Fazit: Keine Radiomusik gibt es auf „Good News For People Who Love Bad News“ zu hören. Oder sagen wir mal so: Nur sehr eingeschränkt radiotauglich das Ganze. Aber auf „Good News For People Who Love Bad News“ von Modest Mouse gibt es Spannendes und Besonderes zu hören. Wer gerne mal über den Tellerrand des Alltäglichen hinaussieht beziehungsweise hinaushört, die oder der hat hier durchaus die Möglichkeit etwas Neues zu entdecken.

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monkey

plutôt bon retour

Reviewed in France on February 28, 2015

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sans doute pas la plus grande verve du groupe, encore que...
du nouveau dans le son du groupe. Moins incisif mais plus varié.

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