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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Modest Mouse |
| Record Label: |
Epic (USA) |
| Contributing Artist: |
The Flaming Lips |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Lo Fi |
| Release Date: |
April 06, 2004 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Horn Introduction 2. 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. Devil's Workday 10. View 11. Satin in a Coffin 12. Interlude (Milo) 13. Blame It on the Tetons 14. Black Cadillacs 15. One Chance 16. Good Times Are Killing Me |
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Modest Mouse: Isaac Brock, Eric Judy, Dann Gallucci, Benjamin Weikel. Additional personnel: Tom Peloso, The Flaming Lips, The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band, The Dirty Dozen Band. Recorded at Sweet Tea, Oxford, Mississippi. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band offers the opening fanfare for Modest Mouse's sixth full-length, GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE BAD NEWS, a fitting intro for the outfit's most majestic record to date. On their prior major-label recordings, the (formerly) indie icons opted for wandering, spacey arrangements to accompany Isaac Brock's magnificently obtuse poetics. GOOD NEWS revives the immediacy of the band's earlier releases, but furthers the production values (without too much polish), and out pours some of the most commanding pop-rock imaginable. The first single off of GOOD NEWS was the wonderfully catchy "Float On," with its syncopated, disco-like beat and Zen simplicity exemplified in the opening line "I backed my car into a cop car the other day. Well, he just drove off. Sometimes life... |
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