Good News For People Who Love Bad News.

If you were to graph the album, it would be in the shape of a U. Starts great, sags a bit in the middle, then picks up again at the end.

I agree with Kornrulez to some extent (certainly not the Korn ruling bit) but I think the first half is great and the second half does that U - I could live without 12-15 - though I do like Black Caddilacs on its own, not so much with the rest of the record. Whoever said they don't listen to anything after Bukowski is really missing out on The View. That song is so great!

Personal faves: World at Large, Ocean Breathes Salty, Bury Me With It (!!!!!), Bukowski, Satin in a Coffin, the View, The Good Times Are Killing Me

bah!
worst MM album of em all.
if the new shit sounds this bland, i'm out for good.
it's as if they went for 'bland' and hit it dead on!
shoulda just called in 'us trying to really not be good but well produced'.

"Float On" is such a great song. Are all their other songs that good?

all of their other songs are just as great if not better, but in totally different ways

which is to say that "Float On" is happy and their other songs are sad

I just gotta say that I am impressed and amused that this thread is kickin' right now. Can't stop/won't stop

Good News is a good album. Not a great album or a great Modest Mouse album even, but it's not bad at all and I played the hell out of it when I first got it. I think Kornrulez is right about the quality "U," although I wonder if those middle songs are all bad or if they're just victims of the sequencing. I will say that I would have no problem cutting it down to:

1. Horn Intro
2. World at Large
3. Float On
4. The Ocean Breaths Salty
5. Bury Me With It
6. Bukowski
7. The View
8. The Devil's Work Day
9. Satin in a Coffin
10. Black Cadillacs
11. One Chance
12. The Good Times Are Killing Me
13. I've Got It All (Most)

...which I think would make a very fine single LP, although it somewhat guts the album's particular "feel" by axing the Tom Waitsy stuff and "Blame It On The Tetons." Whatever, they drag. Modest Mouse doing straight shiny rock is a much more interesting experiment and I think that's what I linger on on this record. "Ocean Breathes Salty," "Black Cadillacs," "I've Got It All" and "One Chance" all belong in the Mouse canon IMO.

I'm just glad they didn't make Moon And Antarctica II.