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Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
Good News for People Who Love Bad News is an album by Modest Mouse, released in 2004. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 153 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Float On”, on 91 lists and voted number one eight times.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse's fourth album, landed on Epic Records on April 6, 2004, and it was made with a hole in the lineup: founding drummer Jeremiah Green was away from the band for a while, making this the only Modest Mouse release in his lifetime that he didn't play on.
You'd hardly guess anything was missing. The record takes the band's jittery, lopsided indie rock and lets some daylight in. "Float On" is the unlikely hit, a bouncy, shrugging sing-along that sounds like a band deciding, against all evidence, to look on the bright side. "Ocean Breathes Salty" rides a lurching, seasick groove, and "The World at Large" drifts along in a wistful haze.
Those three were the singles. US sales passed 1.5 million by 2006, the album picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album in 2005, and the RIAA certified it double platinum in March 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Good News for People Who Love Bad News on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Float On | 91 | #1 | 8 | 2004–2026 | |
| 2 | Ocean Breathes Salty | 46 | #5 | – | 2004–2025 | |
| 3 | The World At Large | 16 | #32 | – | 2004–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.