Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Album
Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Album) by Modest Mouse
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Artist Biography For Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse Is An Alternative Rock Band Which Formed In 1993 In Issaquah Washington United States. The Band's Original Lineup Consisted Of Guitarist Isaac Brock Drummer Jeremiah Green And Bassist Eric Judy. Since Being Signed To Sony's Epic Records In 2000 Modest Mouse Has Attained Significant Popular Success With Songs Such As "Float On" And "Dashboard." The Band's Current Configuration Is Isaac Brock Vocals Guitar Tom Peloso Strings Horns Bass Keyboards Jim Fairchild Guitar And Eric Judy Bass . Plummer Has Recently Become The New Drummer For The Shins. Brock Came Up With The Name "Modest Mouse" When He Read The Virginia Woolf Stream Of Consciousness Essay The Mark On The Wall In Which The Author Described The Working Middle Class As "modest Mouse-Coloured People" Brock Frequently Moved Around With His Mother When He Was A Child. Around This Time His Mother Left His Father For His Father's Brother Brock's Uncle . Brock's Mother's House Flooded And Forced Them To Move Into His Mother's New Husband's Trailer But There Was No Room For Brock. Brock Stayed Behind Living In The Second Story Of The Flooded House Until He Was Eventually Evicted By Police. He Then Moved Into A Shed Next To His Mother's House And It Is Said This Is Where Brock Drummer Jeremiah Green And Bassist Eric Judy First Began Playing Music. In 1994 The Band Recorded Their Debut EP Blue Cadet-3 Do You Connect? At Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios Which Was Then Released On Calvin's Record Label K Records. Then Followed A Single With Sub Pop That Was Recorded By Producer Steve Wold At Moon Studios. Wold Who In The Mid-2000's Would Begin To Perform Under The Name Seasick Steve Would Also Perform On The Band's Albums But Was Never An Official Member Of The Band. After Moving To Up Records Modest Mouse Put Out Several Releases Recorded At Moon Studios Including 1996's This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About. This Double LP Was Produced And Recorded By Steve Wold. The Next Offering On UP Was Interstate 8 Also Produced By Steve Wold. 1997's The Lonesome Crowded West Also Recorded At Moon Studios By Scott Swayze Turned Out To Be The Band's Breakthrough Album. The Lonesome Crowded West Gained The Band A Cult Following And Is Now Widely Considered By Many Critics To Be One Of The Defining Albums Of Mid-90s Indie Rock. In 2000 Modest Mouse Released The Moon And Antarctica Their First Album On A Major Label Epic Records . The Band Enjoyed Some Success On Alternative Radio With The Singles "3rd Planet" And "Gravity Rides Everything." Lead Singer Isaac Brock Has Since Put Out An Album With His Side Project Ugly Casanova On Sub Pop Records. In 2003 Drummer Jeremiah Green Quit The Band The Official Word Was That He Was Quitting To Work With His Side Project Vells. He Was Replaced With Two Members Drummer Benjamin Weikel Who Also Drummed For The Helio Sequence And Guitarist Dann Gallucci Murder City Devils . Weikel Being New To The Band And Gallucci Returning To The Band For The First Time Since This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About. On April 6 2004 Modest Mouse Released The Platinum-Selling Good News For People Who Love Bad News Which Scored Two Hits With "Float On" And "Ocean Breathes Salty". In 2004 Jeremiah Green Returned To The Band And Benjamin Weikel Now Drums Exclusively For The Helio Sequence. Dann Gallucci Left The Band In August And They Toured With Hutch Harris Of The Thermals During The Fall Of 2004. Modest Mouse Was Mentioned By Name In The 2005 Supreme Court Decision In The Case Of MGM V. Grokster. Justice Souter Wrote That On The Grokster P2P Network "Users Seeking Top 40 Songs For Example Or The Latest Release By Modest Mouse Are Certain To Be Far More Numerous Than Those Seeking A Free Decameron And Grokster And StreamCast Translated That Demand Into Dollars." In 2005 Multi-Instrumentalist Tom Peloso Who Already Played Various Instruments On Good News For People Who Love Bad News Officially Joined The Band. In 2006 Johnny Marr Former Guitarist For The Smiths Became An Official Member Of The Band. On March 20 2007 The Band Released Their Fifth Album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Four Singles Were Released From The Album "Dashboard" "Missed The Boat" "We've Got Everything" And "Little Motel". The Album Debuted At #1 On The Billboard 200 Album Chart. James Mercer Of The Shins Provides Backing Vocals On Three Songs. In 2009 They Released No One's First And You're Next An EP Of Unreleased Songs From Around The Time Good News And We Were Dead Were Recorded And Two Songs That Had Already Been Released "I've Got It All Most " And "King Rat". The Video For King Rat Was Directed By Late Actor Heath Ledger. In 2009 Johnny Marr Left The Band And Was Replaced By Jim Fairchild Formerly Of Grandaddy. The Band Performed At Several Festivals Throughout 2009 And 2010 Including The Main Stage Of The Reading And Leeds Festivals In 2010. After An 8 Year Wait The Band's Latest Full-Length Is "Strangers To Ourselves" Released March 17th 2015- Two Weeks After The Original Release Date March 3rd 2015. The Album Art Is An Aerial Photo Of An RV Resort Located In Mesa Arizona. Five Singles Were Released Before The Album "Lampshades On Fire" "Coyotes" "The Ground Walks With Time In A Box" "The Best Room" And "Of Course We Know". Drummer Jeremiah Green Passed Away From Cancer On December 31 2022 At The Age Of 45.
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Modest Mouse Is An Alternative Rock Band Which Formed In 1993 In Issaquah Washington United States. The Band's Original Lineup Consisted Of Guitarist Isaac Brock Drummer Jeremiah Green And Bassist Eric Judy. Since Being Signed To Sony's Epic Records In 2000 Modest Mouse Has Attained Significant Popular Success With Songs Such As "Float On" And "Dashboard." The Band's Current Configuration Is Isaac Brock Vocals Guitar Tom Peloso Strings Horns Bass Keyboards Jim Fairchild Guitar And Eric Judy Bass . Plummer Has Recently Become The New Drummer For The Shins. Brock Came Up With The Name "Modest Mouse" When He Read The Virginia Woolf Stream Of Consciousness Essay The Mark On The Wall In Which The Author Described The Working Middle Class As "modest Mouse-Coloured People" Brock Frequently Moved Around With His Mother When He Was A Child. Around This Time His Mother Left His Father For His Father's Brother Brock's Uncle . Brock's Mother's House Flooded And Forced Them To Move Into His Mother's New Husband's Trailer But There Was No Room For Brock. Brock Stayed Behind Living In The Second Story Of The Flooded House Until He Was Eventually Evicted By Police. He Then Moved Into A Shed Next To His Mother's House And It Is Said This Is Where Brock Drummer Jeremiah Green And Bassist Eric Judy First Began Playing Music. In 1994 The Band Recorded Their Debut EP Blue Cadet-3 Do You Connect? At Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios Which Was Then Released On Calvin's Record Label K Records. Then Followed A Single With Sub Pop That Was Recorded By Producer Steve Wold At Moon Studios. Wold Who In The Mid-2000's Would Begin To Perform Under The Name Seasick Steve Would Also Perform On The Band's Albums But Was Never An Official Member Of The Band. After Moving To Up Records Modest Mouse Put Out Several Releases Recorded At Moon Studios Including 1996's This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About. This Double LP Was Produced And Recorded By Steve Wold. The Next Offering On UP Was Interstate 8 Also Produced By Steve Wold. 1997's The Lonesome Crowded West Also Recorded At Moon Studios By Scott Swayze Turned Out To Be The Band's Breakthrough Album. The Lonesome Crowded West Gained The Band A Cult Following And Is Now Widely Considered By Many Critics To Be One Of The Defining Albums Of Mid-90s Indie Rock. In 2000 Modest Mouse Released The Moon And Antarctica Their First Album On A Major Label Epic Records . The Band Enjoyed Some Success On Alternative Radio With The Singles "3rd Planet" And "Gravity Rides Everything." Lead Singer Isaac Brock Has Since Put Out An Album With His Side Project Ugly Casanova On Sub Pop Records. In 2003 Drummer Jeremiah Green Quit The Band The Official Word Was That He Was Quitting To Work With His Side Project Vells. He Was Replaced With Two Members Drummer Benjamin Weikel Who Also Drummed For The Helio Sequence And Guitarist Dann Gallucci Murder City Devils . Weikel Being New To The Band And Gallucci Returning To The Band For The First Time Since This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About. On April 6 2004 Modest Mouse Released The Platinum-Selling Good News For People Who Love Bad News Which Scored Two Hits With "Float On" And "Ocean Breathes Salty". In 2004 Jeremiah Green Returned To The Band And Benjamin Weikel Now Drums Exclusively For The Helio Sequence. Dann Gallucci Left The Band In August And They Toured With Hutch Harris Of The Thermals During The Fall Of 2004. Modest Mouse Was Mentioned By Name In The 2005 Supreme Court Decision In The Case Of MGM V. Grokster. Justice Souter Wrote That On The Grokster P2P Network "Users Seeking Top 40 Songs For Example Or The Latest Release By Modest Mouse Are Certain To Be Far More Numerous Than Those Seeking A Free Decameron And Grokster And StreamCast Translated That Demand Into Dollars." In 2005 Multi-Instrumentalist Tom Peloso Who Already Played Various Instruments On Good News For People Who Love Bad News Officially Joined The Band. In 2006 Johnny Marr Former Guitarist For The Smiths Became An Official Member Of The Band. On March 20 2007 The Band Released Their Fifth Album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Four Singles Were Released From The Album "Dashboard" "Missed The Boat" "We've Got Everything" And "Little Motel". The Album Debuted At #1 On The Billboard 200 Album Chart. James Mercer Of The Shins Provides Backing Vocals On Three Songs. In 2009 They Released No One's First And You're Next An EP Of Unreleased Songs From Around The Time Good News And We Were Dead Were Recorded And Two Songs That Had Already Been Released "I've Got It All Most " And "King Rat". The Video For King Rat Was Directed By Late Actor Heath Ledger. In 2009 Johnny Marr Left The Band And Was Replaced By Jim Fairchild Formerly Of Grandaddy. The Band Performed At Several Festivals Throughout 2009 And 2010 Including The Main Stage Of The Reading And Leeds Festivals In 2010. After An 8 Year Wait The Band's Latest Full-Length Is "Strangers To Ourselves" Released March 17th 2015- Two Weeks After The Original Release Date March 3rd 2015. The Album Art Is An Aerial Photo Of An RV Resort Located In Mesa Arizona. Five Singles Were Released Before The Album "Lampshades On Fire" "Coyotes" "The Ground Walks With Time In A Box" "The Best Room" And "Of Course We Know". Drummer Jeremiah Green Passed Away From Cancer On December 31 2022 At The Age Of 45.
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Good News For People Who Love Bad News Is The Fourth Full-Length Album Recorded By Alternative Rock Band Modest Mouse. The Album Was Released By Epic Records On April 6 2004 On Both CD And 180g/m² Vinyl Record. It Was Rereleased On DualDisc On October 11 2005. The First Two Singles From The Album Were "Float On" And "Ocean Breathes Salty " Both Of Which Debuted On American Radio Stations In The First Half Of 2004. The Vinyl And DualDisc Editions Of The Album Also Contain The B-Side "I've Got It All Most ". On The Vinyl Edition The Track Is Placed At The End Of The Album. On The DualDisc Edition It Is Placed Between "Bury Me With It" And "Dance Hall". The Song "Bukowski" Is Dedicated To The Late Poet Charles Bukowski. The Song "The Good Times Are Killing Me" Was Originally Going To Be Released As The Normal Mix But Instead They Added The One Mixed By The Flaming Lips. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Appear Also On Tracks 1 "Horn Intro" And 9 "This Devil's Workday" Or 10 On The Dualdisc Edition. A Video For "The World At Large" Was Also On The Dualdisc. It Is Called "Stiff Animal Fantasy". This Was Planet Sound's #1 Album Of 2004. It Was Also Nominated For A Grammy In 2004 For Best Alternative Album. The Album Was Certified Platinum By The RIAA In August 2004. As Of March 19 2007 It Has Sold 1 509 675 Copies In The United States.