by
Modest Mouse
- Record Label: Sony
- Release Date: Mar 20, 2007

- Summary: 'We Were Dead,' the Isaac Brock-led band's follow-up to its breakthrough 2004 hit 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News,' is their first release to feature their newest member, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. The Shins' James Mercer guests on three tracks.
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
Dashboard | |
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Well, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still had the radio Oh, it should've been,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 38
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Mixed: 5 out of 38
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Negative: 0 out of 38
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This 14-track-strong album is very much good news for people who loved Good News for People Who Love Bad News.
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Music dignitaries and primordial fans will be contented. If they’re smart, they’ll rejoice.
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It's a successful experiment... largely because the differences between Marr and Mouse turn out to be more harmonious than anyone could have expected.
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In the end, it's not as excellent as their early work, but still pretty entertaining.
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The album as a whole does drag on, and the songs aren't as immediately grabby as those on their last disc, but We Were Dead is more interesting and varied than Good News.
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We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank is a really good, if not necessarily phenomenal, rock record.
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It’s inoffensive, painfully so, with the smell of something run through focus groups from the get go, written and produced by committee to sell the greatest number of copies.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 131 out of 152
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Mixed: 13 out of 152
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Negative: 8 out of 152
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DjimiJun 14, 2007
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JoeHMar 17, 2007
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rustinaMar 24, 2007
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PhilipMMar 18, 2007
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G_doDec 29, 2007
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SamCMar 9, 2007
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noonenobodyMar 16, 2007none
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