I only like one Modest Mouse album and 2004's Good News For People Who Like Bad News was it. It was the album that helped break the band to the mainstream and it's probably the album that real Modest Mouse fans, the people who have been hanging off Isaac Brock's nuts since day one, absolutely hate. GNFPWLBN signaled a shift in Modest Mouse's music away from angular, disjointed songs to a more conventional song structure, which made listening to Modest Mouse much more enjoyable and a whole lot less work. And then they released a couple more albums which I couldn't be bothered to listen to. But I still like GNFPWLBN, so there's that.
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