Good News For People Who Love Bad News.

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New Modest Mouse record out on March 30th.

Best album of 2004.

― 753784, Friday, 2 January 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

Does not compute.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link

InstaNed.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago) link

*bows*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

Best album of 2004.

If no other albums were released in 2004, the Modest Mouse record still wouldn't even make the top 100.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Track listing:

1. Horn Intro
2. World at Large
3. Float On
4. The Ocean Breaths Salty
5. Dig Your Grave
6. Bury Me With It
7. Dance Hall
8. Bukowski
9. The Devil's Work Day
10. The View
11. Satin in a Coffin
12. Eric's Interlude
13. Blame It on the Tetons
14. Black Cadillacs
15. One Chance
16. The Good Times Are Killing Me

Songs in bold are already avaliable from live shows.

― 535, Friday, 13 February 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

Great! Thanks for the info, Isaac! I'll be sure to check you, er, it out.

― Playa Hata, Friday, 13 February 2004 04:12 (twenty years ago) link

Download the whole album.

― 59358, Sunday, 15 February 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

i love the album, you pussy nay-sayers need to shut up and listen to the music

― cgrem, Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago) link

thank you, kathleen wilson

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago) link

listening to it now...still blown away by its greatness.

― kate winter, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link

"i love the album, you pussy nay-sayers need to shut up and listen to the music"

yes! perfect. they're sort of after my time but i noticed that kids don't seem to have to make the formerly crucial choice of whether they are a dork or a jock anymore. you can embody the look of one and employ the language/behavior of the other no problem. so the most culturally important band of the last ten years then?

― duke aging, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

Donut Bitch, you must be from Seattle, did you read Ms. Wilson's article in the Stranger?

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

eat shit!

― Acid! Polizei! (ex machina), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

I demand to know why this thread isn't about the Young Ones spin-off band "Bad News"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

bump

the most disgracefully top-heavy record in recent memory

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

man i still love "float on" quite a lot.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Top Heavy! "Black Cadillacs" and "Blame it on the Tetons" are my 2 favorite tracks on it.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The top part wieghed it down in the puddle of suck harder?

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i won't listen to anything after 'bukowski'

i think 'float on', 'bury me with it' and particularly 'ocean breathes salty' are all great

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Still no information on Vim Fuego.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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'.

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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