55. Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News 1/10
2004. Love love love this album. I was a little late to Modest Mouse. Well maybe not. In college it was Jeremy music, one of the bands that my friend Jeremy liked and would play for us along with Sunny Day Real Estate and others. I always enjoyed his music but didn’t have much of it. A couple years after that my cousin Josh told me how much he liked Modest Mouse (basically reminding me of it). I sampled some online and really enjoyed it. I went out and bought their previous three albums, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, The Lonesome Crowded West, and The Moon & Antarctica. When this album dropped, I also bought it. I instantly loved it and listened to it straight thru many many many times. For whatever reason, I’m not as into what they’ve released since Good News. And we’ll all float on okay, and we’ll all float on. Float On is probably their most well known song. It’s a good one even though I’ve heard it so so many times. Well that is that and this is this, you tell me what you want and I’ll tell you what you get. The ocean breathes salty won’t you carry it in, in your head in your mouth in your soul. You wasted a life, why wouldn’t you waste death. Please bury me with it. Good news for people who love bad news… As life gets longer, awful feels softer well it feels pretty soft to me, and if it takes shit to make bliss well I feel pretty blissfully. Are you dead or are you sleeping? The good times are killing me.