Good News for People Who Love Bad News
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 19 July 2004 Record Label: Epic Rating:   Sales Rank: 3330 | | Look for similar items by category:
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| | Customer Reviews: Good News for People Who Love Bad News (30 January 2007)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 Flaming Lips and Arcade Fire. It seems they enjoy something of a cult status and a reputation for drug problems and general instability though I suspect that this has been ratcheted up for the purposes of publicity. I bought this album on the strength of a few tracks I heard online and can only evaluate this album on its individual merits, not in relation or comparison to their previous records. The first track proper 'The World At Large' is nice enough if fairly derivative of post-Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev, followed by the stunning single 'Float On'. A country-tinged pop masterpiece, its mantra of "Even if things get heavy we'll all float on" is universal in that vital way that great songs can be. The darker 'Ocean Breathes Salty' adds a little Talking Heads style funk into its oceanic pull, again with fantastic hooks and effortless (but obviously complex) shifts in mood. The tenth track 'The View' - another favourite - revisits this stunning mix of unhinged funkiness and hookiness to complete a trio of tracks to rival that of most contemporary artists. Elsewhere, however, results are more mixed: 'Bury Me With It' is a basically a Pixies track, and not a very good one. 'Dance Hall' and 'This Devil's Work Day' ape Tom Waits in the most embarrassingly transparent way. Word of advice: if you are going to imitate a style, choose a less singular one than Waits'. 'Bukowski' survives some literature undergraduate lyrics with some folksy, sea shanty ruminations on God's will. 'Satin In A Coffin' and the Flaming Lips-produced 'The Good Times Are Killing Me' overdo the 'Aren't I F***ed Up' motif, in particular the latter with its catelogue of overt drug references. 'Black Cadillacs' is marred by adolescent swearing in the chorus while 'One Chance' is bog standard College Rock. In contrast, the delicate ballad 'Blame It On The Teutons' is countryfied space pop in the mold of English slowcore merchants Tram. It works well enough as an album, but the three best songs - worth the CD price alone - cast a bit of a shadow over the weaker tracks. Good News for People Who Love Good Music! (08 June 2006)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. Listen to the lyrics (13 February 2006)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 word. This album in my opinion is one of their best. its just so happy. I recommend it to all Modest Mouse lovers! Amazingly Individual! (21 November 2005)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 into each and every song! But I later found out that this was only a slice of their brilliance as there is a huge collection of their CD's and I'm slowly building my music library up with their songs. They are like nothing I've ever heard before and Issac Brock sounds different every song! Good News All Round (28 July 2005)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! 'Good News For People Who Love Bad News' is great music with the perfect amount of quirky for me... 'Float On' is a great song but I also love 'This Devil's Workday'. In fact, the whole album is superb and well worth a listen, especially because I feel like I'm one of the only people in the UK who's aware of their existence. Listen! They're great! |
