Music CD - Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News

	Music CD: Good News for People Who Love Bad News Artist: Modest Mouse List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $6.00 Your Save: $ 7.98 ( 57% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Horn Intro 2. The World At Large 3. Float On 4. Ocean Breathes Salty 5. Dig Your Grave 6. Bury Me With It 7. Dance Hall 8. Bukowski 9. This Devil's Workday 10. The View 11. Satin In A Coffin 12. Interlude (Milo) 13. Blame It On The Tetons 14. Black Cadillacs 15. One Chance 16. The Good Times Are Killing Me
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0696998712522 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2004-04-06 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Good News For Any People Comment: Top to bottom, 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News' is an exceptional album. The songs are original, sometimes catchy, and always interesting. However, it is an album with a learning curve, if you're not quite used to music that embraces a certain amount of dissonance. Chances are, though, if you like later Pixies albums, you'll dig 'Good News' (though I'm not necessarily comparing the two bands too closely). The high spots can probably be tiered. There are extremely good fast/aggressive tunes, like 'Bury Me With It', 'Black Cadillacs' and 'Dance Hall' - which are very Pixies-esqe (sorry) - and more mellow, philosophical songs, like 'Blame it on the Tetons', 'One Chance', and 'The Good Times are Killing Me'. All of them are good, even the singles, which, if you can get past how popular they became at one point, you can probably get back into. I highly recommend this whole album. It's excellent. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Comment: I love Modest Mouse!!! This was the album that got them into the mainstream market, and generally that means a sellout of sorts. It's a great album, that's why it's popular. Customer Rating: Summary: It was all worth it just to learn some slight of hand! Comment: I must confess this was my intro to Modest Mouse (thank you corporate radio!) , however I had only heard Float On. I took a chance and bought it and after a few listens (Those horns are really stupid); I fell in love with Modest Mouse or Timid Turtle, whoever. The great lyrics and twists in musical styles and tempoes, etc. Going back now having the other CDs this is their thing. If you want a concept album, or another "Tommy" or "Quadrophenia"; they are not your band. Each track might fit on another album and tie in with other songs the band has made but they fit together like adopted children. Different and yet each one great. The whole album is witty and sardonic to say the least. My absolute favorite is: The View (not the show), Float On, Satin in a Coffin, Bukowski, Blame it on the Tetons. If you like the Who, Shins, Soul Coughing, Pixies and Smiths I would recommend this band/album. Customer Rating: Summary: Aidin Vaziri is a dumbass Comment: "It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment Modest Mouse started sounding like a real band." were they a fake band before? if anything they were more real before they started sounding like everything else. there's something positive to be said about questioning the 'established rules.' working on your own terms for what you believe in, instead of following these 'established rules,' is what creativity--the central nervous system of music--is; it is how steps forward are made instead of circling the same path forever. where would the human race be without the individual and our ability to think and act for ourselves? modest mouse's view on life is healthy, however those people like Aidin Vaziri who do not know how to live their own lives can go ahead and follow the flock of society. Customer Rating: Summary: Modest Mouse put a smile on my face!! Comment: I love it when I discover "GOOD" music and a good tune and this is what I found on this album the Jazzy "Horn Intro" which flows straight into "The World At Large" - what a wonderful song, aided by peoples interpretation through YouTube. "Float On" is such a feel good song and is a song that I could never tire of!! Reminds me of "You Get What You Give" By The New Radicals in that you never get tired listening to the song. "Bukowski" a nice stripped down song good use of the Bass, IMHO, this also applies to "Satin In A Coffin" Of the tracks on this album "One Chance", "Float On" & "The World At Large" would be the stand out tracks for me. Would I recommend this album - YES! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment Modest Mouse started sounding like a real band. For the longest time, singer-songwriter Isaac 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. But on Good News for People Who Love Bad News, the frontman sounds like he's finally touching the earth, and the band--minus founding member and drummer Jeremiah Green--follows suit. 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 like "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