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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. Jeremiah Green, who played drums on all other Modest Mouse releases, did not perform on this album due to his temporary absence from the band. 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". It was Planet Sound's #1 Album of 2004. It was also nominated for a Grammy in 2005 for Best Alternative Album. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA in August 2004.〔(Searchable Database ) Retrieved 22 November 2011. Note: User must define 'Artist' search parameter as "Modest Mouse".〕 As of March 19, 2007, it had sold 1,509,675 copies in the United States. The album's title comes from a line in the song "Bury Me with It".〔("Bury Me With It" lyrics ) Retrieved November 22, 2011.〕 ==Reception== 〕 | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev2Score = B+ | rev3 = ''The Guardian'' | rev3Score = | rev4 = ''NME'' | rev4Score = 9/10 | rev5 = Pitchfork Media | rev5Score = 7.9/10 | rev6 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev6Score = | rev7 = ''Spin'' | rev7Score = A | rev8 = Tiny Mix Tapes | rev8Score = | rev9 = ''USA Today'' | rev9Score = | rev10 = ''The Village Voice'' | rev10Score = A– }} The album has a score of 83 out of 100 from Metacritic, earning "universal acclaim".〔 Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album all five stars and said that "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."〔(Tiny Mix Tapes Review )〕 ''Spin'' gave it an A and said it was "Half expansive, burnished radio-rock, half swampy Delta hoodoo-hollerin' that reeks of Brock's Southern sojourn."〔 ''Filter'' gave it a score of 92% and said that it would soon be "one of the best albums of 2004".〔 ''NME'' gave it a score of nine out of ten and called it "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."〔 ''Billboard'' gave it a favorable review and called it "a daring yet accessible disc".〔 ''The New York Times'' also gave it a favorable review and called it "the best Modest Mouse album yet."〔(The New York Times Review )〕 E! Online gave it a B+ and said that "If there's a touchstone band for this album, it's Little Creatures-era Talking Heads cranking out songs that are joyously eccentric, celebratory and catchy."〔 Playlouder gave it four stars out of five and stated: "It just feels that amidst his bare and heartfelt explorations of life and the old wooden box wherein we all end up, Brock has learned to dance, learned to allow himself a smile." ''Mojo'' gave the album four stars out of five and said that "Moments of simple, exultant joy are plentiful."〔 ''Q'' also gave it four stars out of five and said that the album consisted of "45 bonkers minutes".〔 ''Alternative Press'' likewise gave it four stars out of five and stated, "If ''Good News...'' isn't the pillar-like masterpiece Modest Mouse fans have waited years for, it's proof that things haven't completely fallen apart."〔 ''Dusted'' gave it a favorable review and called it "a more varied album than ''The Moon and Antarctica'' (which did seem to have only one speed), and with the return of original member Dan Gallucci, Brock appears to have revived the heavy lead guitar playing of their early work."〔(Dusted Review )〕 ''The A.V. Club'' also gave it a favorable review and stated, "The songs still rely on Brock's echoing guitar patterns and Mobius-strip lyrics, delivered in the voice of a harried, hip-hop-inflected square-dance caller, but though the vehicle stays the same, the scenery outside the window changes considerably."〔(The A.V. Club Review )〕 Neumu.net gave it a score of seven out of ten and said, "While the album is not as cohesive a vision, many of its songs are more focused."〔(Neumu.net Review )〕 ''The Austin Chronicle'' gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said, "No bad news here, just more headline-making from an innovative, ever-maturing group of musicians."〔(The Austin Chronicle Review )〕 Yahoo! Music UK gave it a score of seven out of ten and said that "At these transcending moments, 'Good News...' is elevated into excellence. But overall, there is too much Mouse that bores and not enough Mouse that roars." Almost Cool gave it a score of 6.75 out of ten and said that "Probably the biggest complaint could be that the group has tightened up their sound even more on this release, leaving behind even more of the roughshod qualities that made their earlier discs blister with such energy."〔(Almost Cool Review )〕 Other reviews are very average or mixed: ''The Guardian'' gave the album three stars out of five and called it "A useful addition to a genre that prizes brain over brawn."〔(The Guardian Review )〕 ''Blender'' also gave it three stars out of five and said that "(is ) adept at wringing out emotion while straddling sentimentality, but too often here, gauche studio affectations make his sap sound plain cheap."〔 Nude as the News gave it a score of six out of ten and stated, "A lot of major label-imposed ideas, like rhythm guitar and a heartbreakingly conventional new bass sound, combine to utterly ruin the record's first half. If you can make it through to News' innards, however, an EP's worth of something like better-recorded, more thought-out Lonesome Crowded West material awaits."〔 ''Stylus Magazine'' gave the album a C and said of Modest Mouse, "Gone is pretty much everything they’ve learned in the last eight years or so, ditching all the progress they’ve made in favor of just making another Modest Mouse record. The results, needless to say, are disappointing."〔(Stylus Magazine Review )〕 ''Uncut'' gave it two stars out of five and said that "There are some pleasantly elaborate, wayward songs here... Forays into funk and Tom Waits' scrapyard are cringe-inducing, though." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good News for People Who Love Bad News」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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