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Good News For People Who Love Bad News Image
Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 213 Ratings

  • Summary: Produced by Dennis Herring (Camper Van Beethoven), the latest release from the Seattle-based indie rockers sees a return of guitarist Dann Gallucci (last with the band on Sad Sappy Sucker) and a new drummer (Benjamin Weikel) as well as a guest spot from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

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Float On
I backed my car into a cop car the other day Well, he just drove off, sometimes life's okay I ran my mouth off a bit too much, oh, what did I... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 32
  2. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Ultimately, what makes Good News so successful is that it retains the melancholy mood of past works, while at the same time adding depth and maturity.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    90
    A real-life pop record. Well, not pop in the Girls Aloud sense of the word obviously, more in the drop-dead, fuzz-box brilliant 'Here Comes Your Man' sense. [10 Jul 2004, p.48]
  3. This is a great band's most fully realized and mature album in a career already dotted with highpoints.
  4. On the group's fourth proper album, a mightier Mouse refine their weirdness and become a pop band while grasping at dark truths that pop ordinarily denies.
  5. No bad news here, just more headline-making from an innovative, ever-maturing group of musicians.
  6. Uncut
    40
    There are some pleasantly elaborate, wayward songs here... Forays into funk and Tom Waits' scrapyard are cringe-inducing, though. [Sep 2004, p.110]

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 8 out of 117
  1. Dec 11, 2020
    10
    It is such a great album that I've been listening to it frequently ever since I stumbled upon it, a whole year ago.
  2. JoshM
    Nov 2, 2004
    10
    This CD is the best CD ever made excluding Blink 182's CD: Enema of the State.
  3. karlh
    Jan 8, 2006
    10
    a fantasticly beutiful alternitive indie album, one of my most listened to album of all time. this is one of my all time favourite albums, i a fantasticly beutiful alternitive indie album, one of my most listened to album of all time. this is one of my all time favourite albums, i rrecomend it to everyone Expand
  4. CharP
    Apr 14, 2004
    9
    I thought this album was awesome, and even better in concert
  5. May 1, 2017
    9
    This is Modest Mouse being creative, deep and mature as ever. While it could be argued that some tracks lower the overall quality bar set upThis is Modest Mouse being creative, deep and mature as ever. While it could be argued that some tracks lower the overall quality bar set up by "The World at Large", "Float On" and many others, the album is still a stud in the Modest Mouse discography. Expand
  6. Redsank
    Sep 3, 2004
    8
    This CD is not as good as "lonesome west" but still a very good album. It definitely doesn't hang together as well, and some tracks This CD is not as good as "lonesome west" but still a very good album. It definitely doesn't hang together as well, and some tracks are... less than satisfactory... but their lyrics are always excellent. Expand
  7. darrenp
    Apr 17, 2004
    1
    I like hotdogs. This CD had none. WTF?

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