Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - 2011 Indie Rock - Sealed 180 Grm 2LP
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Label: Epic E2 87125
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, 180 gram,
Inner pic lyric sleeves
Country: US
180 gram reissue. Includes vinyl-only bonus track "I've Got it All (Most)."
Released: 2004
This Issue: 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock
Tracklist
A1 Horn Intro 0:10
A2 The World At Large 4:32
A3 Float On 3:28
A4 Ocean Breathes Salty 3:47
B1 Dig Your Grave 0:13
B2 Bury Me With It 3:49
B3 Dance Hall 2:57
B4 Bukowski 4:14
B5 This Devil's Workday 2:19
C1 The View 4:11
C2 Satin In A Coffin 2:35
C3 Interlude (Milo)0:58
C4 Blame It On The Tetons 5:24
D1 Black Cadillacs 2:43
D2 One Chance 3:02
D3 The Good Times Are Killing Me 4:16
D4 I've Got It All (Most) 3:06
Credits
Bass, Percussion Eric Judy
Composed By Modest Mouse
Double Bass Tom Peloso (tracks: B4, C3, C4)
Drums Benjamin Weikel
Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Percussion Dann Gallucci
Mastered By Howie Weinberg
Producer, Mixed By Dennis Herring
Recorded By Clay Jones
Recorded By, Mixed By Jacquire King
Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, Piano, Lyrics By Isaac Brock
This is one of the more remarkable albums that I have heard in the past 20 years. I previously had really loved THE MOON AND ANARCTICA, and though I might still have a slight preference for that album, GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS clearly establish Modest Mouse as one of the best and certainly one of the most unique bands working in music today. Modest Mouse is one of those bands you know has to be comprised by a bunch of indiscriminate music fans. Hints of an astonishing range of musical artists seem to peek out from behind their various songs. I'm constantly being reminded by bits of their songs of artists as diverse as the Pixies, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Pere Ubu, Yo La Tenga, Sam Phillips, and Built to Spill, as wall as a host of eighties New Wave bands. They have obviously internalized a lot of music and are capable of drawing from those resources as needed to create some grippingly exciting new songs. Sometimes the results would be jarring if they were so amazingly successful. For instance, how many bands manage to include a synthesizer and a banjo on the same song? They are constantly bringing in unexpected instruments or sounds that are not common to rock. I should also add that while a Pacific Northwest band, they really don't sound like a product of that region. The Seattle and Portland bands, for instance, do not seem to have exerted an especially large influence.
Being eclectic is not a guarantee of being especially good. In fact, it could lead to a dissipation of creative energies into such a variety of directions that a band could lack any musical focus whatsoever. Luckily, Modest Mouse manages to be amazingly musical while crafting startling songs. The musicality, the marvelous lyrics, the passionate vocals, and the hooks make every song memorable. And virtually every song is indeed a delight. As with other exceptional albums (as opposed to albums that contain a few good singles with less numbers filling out the disc), you don't want any of the songs to end, and yet when they do and the next song begins, you are equally as content with it. I'll be honest: over the past eight or nine years, I have sometimes felt that rock was in danger of becoming stale and uninteresting, and that the creativity that drove the genre in the sixties, the late seventies, and the eighties was waning. But bands like Modest Mouse are managing to give me hope once again.
Modest Mouse - Float On
"What a beautiful, unbelievable piece of music."
Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
"This is currently my favorite song on the album, with it's blissful, organ driven chorus."
Modest Mouse - The View
"I love this funky groove."
| Condition | New |
|---|---|
| Format | 2LP |
| Label | Epic |
| Color | Black |
