Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse

Pros: Great music. What other pros do you need?
Cons: Great music. What other pros do you need?

The one cool part of my job is that I bring home tons of free music. Honestly, I never listen to the majority of it. It's pretty difficult to dedicate yourself to hours of music listening-even when you have no life like me. Sometimes there has to be ...

Pros: Some really creative, albeit wacky, musical arrangements. Isaac Brock's vocal range is impressive.
Cons: A little gratuitous on the swearing, a few drug references, and some really mean-spirited lyrics overall.

"Are these guys on crack or something?" That's been a common reaction of mine whenever I hear music that is more than a bit baffling, that pushes the bounds of what I think will "work", or that comes coupled with bizarre lyrical scenarios that ...

Pros: Great music built anew from a dozen genres/ eras. Expressive vocals. Smart, surprisingly uplifting lyrics.
Cons: The songs' power partly comes from the context of prior Modest Mouse.

While it disappoints me that only two of the first 25 Epinions on Modest Mouse’s Good News for People who Love Bad News give the album five stars, it intrigues me that no one’s accusing it of being a “sell-out”. It _isn’t_, of ...

Pros: Great pop music, some memorable tracks, slightly askew sense of humor
Cons: Maybe a bit too odd in places, some lackluster tracks

It has taken until now for me to realize that maybe music is headed in the right direction. Of course, I can’t speak to the dire nature of mainstream songs and bands on radio and MTV without cringing, but as far as new albums go of the last year I’ve ...

Pros: Eclectic stuff. Lots of songs grow on you over time.
Cons: Dude, the sky's like, spinning and stuff.

Now THAT'S an interesting cover. And WOW, the CD is pink! The only other pink CD I have is Lisa Loeb's Firecracker. All of a sudden, we've seen Modest Mouse sitting in the more prominently placed sections at music stores, and you might ...

Pros: good songs, and good parts-of-songs; sometimes, just sometimes, they make an effort
Cons: *snore*

[Before I start things off here, I’d just like to apologise profusely for my title. I mean, was it just me that got incredibly, incredibly annoyed when all the reviews of this album were pouring into the site, and each and every single one of them ...

Pros: Lots of really good catchy songs - with substance.
Cons: Two or three tracks that wreck the flow and don't fit in well at all.

Now, for some, this change in direction for Modest Mouse is for the worse; it's "selling out" It's an attempt to get into the mainstream and make some $$$. I like to think of it a slightly different way. It's successfully bringing good, quality music to ...

Pros: Never sticks with a style for more than five minutes at a time
Cons: I get the impression that just a few people don't care for Isaac Brock's voice

I don't care what holiday you're celebrating / have celebrated this time of year, whether it be Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Boxing Day, or even Chrismukkah (because yes, the O.C. rocks, I can admit it, so can you) -- for most people, this ...

Pros: Some exceptional songs along with some cool experimentation
Cons: Much of the experimentation can wear thin at times

Finally, I feel comfortable reviewing this album. After being introduced to Modest Mouse with their previous release, The Moon And Antarctica, I was eager to pick up Good News For People Who Love Bad News. I liked it, but still couldn't get my ...

Pros: Occasional splashes of quality music
Cons: Bad lyrics, mostly bad singing, bad sense of style

Every once in a while, an acclaimed release comes out from the Burroughs-like trip that some critics are on, an album that I look at and say, "What?" This is that album for 2004. Now I know that there are obviously people out there who like this ...

Pros: Very weird, but good all the same
Cons: Some filler

Alright, so during the past few months I have been hearing about Modest Mouse. Epinionators have been writing [awesome] reviews for their newest album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, but before I read any of their reviews I had the idea ...

Pros: It's Modest Mouse! Oh yeah...good songwriting and creative musicianship
Cons: Sometimes a bit too "out there"; definitely whiny

I don't know exactly what it says about the current socio-political climate in the United States, but there seems to be quite the trend in the rock music biz toward more angst-ridden, mopey tracks getting played on the radio. Denizens of the indie-rock ...

Pros: Some Very Good Moments
Cons: The Peaks Aren't As High and the Valleys Are Lower

Man, Modest Mouse used to be a great band. Unfortunately, for us music listeners of the world, this is the point on the MM timeline where they go from being one of the true greats of their time to simply good/average. Much changed for MM in the time ...

Pros: Quirky indie rock with impressive lyrics, infectious songwriting and well-crafted atmospheres.
Cons: The middle section drags; the more country-heavy songs fall flat.

I’ve learned over the years never to limit my musical tastes specifically by genre. I once shunned metal as excessively brutal; now it’s an ever-growing portion of my collection. My stereotypes about rap were destroyed as I listened to and ...

Pros: There's a few good solid songs, and many solid chord progressions.
Cons: The structures, repetition, and half-heartedness kill it all.

I wonder if Modest Mouse had this planned all along. For about... oh, however many five to ten years they've been around, they strategically built themselves a cult following. Once they had achieved that cult following, they conspired to care less about ...