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It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment Modest Mouse started sounding like a real band. But on Good News For People Who Love Bad News, front man Isaac Brock sounds like he's finally touching the earth, and the band--minus founding member and drummer Jeremiah Green--follows suit. For the longest time, singer-songwriter 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. 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 such as "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. --Aidin Vaziri
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Modest Mouse are a David Lynch movie of a band. Bristling with a charming weirdness, and sparkling like a pair of... ruby slippers.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News, is more accessible and lifting listening experience than The Moon & Antarctica. Like The Flaming lips, they have a knack for making statements about life, death, mortality and spirituality, in a celebratory tone. "Bury Me With It," "Devil's Work Day" and "Satin in a Coffin" are eerily creepy, yet wonderfully erratic (Brock's vocals somewhere between Tom Waits and the Tazmanian Devil).
Good News for People Who Love Bad News continually delivers, while demonstrating the contrast of harsh and beautiful things about music, and life. In fact, not only are Modest Mouse fascinating, but they occupy a space all of their own somewhere between The Black Heart Procession and The Flaming Lips.
A splendid record.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News, is more accessible and lifting listening experience than The Moon & Antarctica. Like The Flaming lips, they have a knack for making statements about life, death, mortality and spirituality, in a celebratory tone. "Bury Me With It," "Devil's Work Day" and "Satin in a Coffin" are eerily creepy, yet wonderfully erratic (Brock's vocals somewhere between Tom Waits and the Tazmanian Devil).
Good News for People Who Love Bad News continually delivers, while demonstrating the contrast of harsh and beautiful things about music, and life. In fact, not only are Modest Mouse fascinating, but they occupy a space all of their own somewhere between The Black Heart Procession and The Flaming Lips.
A splendid record.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I absolutely love this album - it's revived my love of music and has inspired me to buy other CDs of the same genre. I came across this band completely by accident. I was in Melbourne for a conference and sitting in a cool bar, when this CD was put on - and I loved it immediately. What I like about it is the variety of songs on it - you can see all kinds of different influences, ranging from Tom Waits, The Cure, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, The Clash, etc. with some amazing lyrics. It's made me want more, more and more.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Amazing. This album is just beautiful. It was the first album i bought by Modest Mouse, and it became the start of my collection. I heard 'Float On' orginally, and i was just blown away. It's unlike any other music i have heard, and it has the ability to move you emotionally. You can feel the emotion and feeling dripping off every song.
It's refreshing to hear a range of different instruents being used in accompaniment to traditional rock instruments, such as violin and the horn. There's a strong theme of the ocean in this album, not just because of the lyrics, the sounds take you away from where you are, and you feel you could be by the ocean.
When i first bought the album, i found some of the songs very strange, such as ' Bury me with it', 'Dance Hall' and 'This Devils Workday', but they soon grow on you as you appreciate their original sound. I find it amazing that they are relatively unheard of over here, but i think they are an acquired taste, especially as the singers voice is very country sounding. Overall they are an amzing band, and this album is great to buy for your first Modest Mouse album; you will not be disappointed.
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Obssessed over this
Good news for people who love bad news is a great blend of the angry, sentimental and mental that Modest Mouse are so good at
Published 8 months ago by Jack
grea
this is a varied, eclectic album. I bought it simply for the song 'float on' but there's at least 8 other songs which are great
Published on 5 April 2010 by Mr. Garry Ogg
Good....yeah, different but I like it
Been a MM fan for a while now (funny how many reviews open with similar) so this was a little different than I expected... Read more
Published on 28 July 2009 by O. I. Masters
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Modest Mouse don't seem to attract the same admiration on this side of the Atlantic as they do in the indie press in the States, where they are mentioned in the same breath as the... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2007 by Demob Happy
Listen to the lyrics
Modest Mouse not only make music sound good, what they sing about is excellent. Its just so relative to everything it makes me want to nod my head in agree-ment if thats a... Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2006 by Gracetheface
Amazingly Individual!
This is the only album I have heard of theirs and at first listen i would have thought that it was recorded in the beginning of their career because of the immense energy they put... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2005 by "baltibabe"
Good News All Round
I first heard Modest Mouse through The O.C. - they played on the show and I heard their song 'The View' - and I liked what I heard so decided to buy the album. And I love it! Read more
Published on 28 July 2005 by C. L. James
Modest Mouse. good news for people who love bad news
This is a brilliant album. I can understand why I can't find anybody that's even heard of them here in the UK because I hadn't until I chanced upon them, but that was a fantastic... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2005 by "lionkiller"
a modern materpiece
This is the first MM album I ever brought although since I have purchased most of their back catalogue (a sign of its greatness) and I can safely say this is the most easily... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2005 by "littlehales1"
WOW
I became a modest mouse fan a little while back when i was taken to a gig in New York. They are quite simply amzing.
I personally Think this is their best album out. Read more
I personally Think this is their best album out. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2004 by Lead Meister
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