Expanded reissue hits digital outlets on April 5th with physical to follow on May 17th
On April 5th, Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings will release a digital expanded edition of Modest Mouse’s 2004 breakthrough album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News for its 20th anniversary. The digital release, Good News For People Who Love Bad News: 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition, features eight bonus tracks, including new remixes from Poolside, Jacknife Lee, Dan the Automator, MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden, and more.
Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Deluxe Edition) will be available as a 2 LP vinyl set on May 17th. Remastered for vinyl in opaque baby pink and opaque spring green, the package includes an alternate album cover, an eight-page booklet, and five of the new remixes.
Released by Epic Records on April 6, 2004, Good News For People Who Love Bad News offered a unique blend of existential lyricism and innovative soundscapes that helped Modest Mouse break out of the rock underground after more than a decade of existence. The album, which has been certified double platinum for US shipments of two million copies, is hailed as an alternative classic on the strength of songs such as the modern rock chart-topping, five-times platinum single “Float On,” the gold-certified “The World At Large” and “Ocean Breathes Salty.”
The album was written by Isaac Brock, Dann Gallucci, Eric Judy and Benjamin Weikel, with additional contributions from Tom Peloso, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and The Flaming Lips. Its success propelled Modest Mouse to new levels of visibility without compromising its hard-won artistic freedom, which was no small feat at a time when many once-independent acts were creatively waylaid after signing to major labels.
The band has also shared the video for “The World At Large/Stiff Animal Fantasy,” directed by Jason Foster and Isaac Brock. It was previously only available on the DVD side of the Good News For People Who Love Bad News DualDisc and has been upgraded to HD.
A five-minute interview titled, “Schoolhouse Brock – Modest Mouse On Trial” directed by and featuring Isaac Brock from the DualDisc has also been upgraded and is available now. A must-see, the interview perfectly encapsulates Brock’s penchant for straight-faced dry humor, and features the band’s actual lawyer at the time Dave Frishberg, who was a pianist, vocalist and composer, and well-known for writing and singing the classic Schoolhouse Rock song “I’m Just a Bill.”
Modest Mouse will tour this summer with Pixies and Cat Power, beginning May 31st in Charleston, South Carolina.
1. Horn Intro
2. The World At Large
3. Float On
4. Ocean Breathes Salty
5. Dig Your Grave
6. Bury Me With It
7. Dance Hall
8. Bukowski
9. This Devil’s Workday
10. The View
11. Satin in a Coffin
12. Interlude (Milo)
13. Blame it on the Tetons
14. Black Cadillacs
15. One Chance
16. The Good Times Are Killing Me
17. The World At Large (Enough Love to Kill Us All/Jeremy Sherrer Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
18. Float On (Dan the Automator Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
19. Ocean Breathes Salty (Poolside Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
20. Bury Me With It (Jacknife Lee Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
21. Bukowski (Congleton/Godbey Remix)
22. The View (Andrew VanWyngarden Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
23. One Chance (Dennis Herring Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
24. The Good Times Are Killing Me (Justin Raisen Remix) [Previously Unreleased]
