Modest Mouse: Good News For People Who Love Bad News

There's something uniquely captivating about the way Modest Mouse balances hope and despair. On their breakthrough 2004 album "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," the Seattle-based band created a remarkable collection that propelled them from indie darlings to mainstream success without sacrificing their distinctive sound.

Lead singer Isaac Brock's vocals—alternating between Harry Carey-esque drawls and Bobcat Goldthwait-style frantic outbursts—provide the perfect vehicle for lyrics that explore life's darkness while occasionally surfacing for gulps of optimistic air. The hit single "Float On" might have been what introduced many listeners to the band, but diving deeper into the album reveals a treasure trove of equally compelling tracks.

Water imagery flows throughout the record, from "Ocean Breathes Salty" to the recurring theme of floating versus sinking. These aquatic metaphors perfectly capture the album's central tension: how do we stay afloat when life threatens to pull us under? Songs like "The View" surprise with disco-influenced rhythms, while "Bukowski" embraces a nihilistic perspective with surprisingly catchy instrumentation including banjo and horns.

What makes this album endure nearly two decades later is its unflinching honesty about life's challenges coupled with moments of unexpected beauty. The delicate string arrangements on "Blame It on the Tetons" provide a stunning counterpoint to the raw energy of tracks like "Bury Me With It." It's this willingness to explore contrasts—between hope and despair, between punk roots and pop sensibilities—that makes the album such a compelling listen from start to finish.

Have you revisited this album lately? We'd love to hear which non-hit tracks resonated with you most. Sometimes the songs that didn't make radio playlists contain the most profound truths about staying afloat when bad news threatens to drag us down.

Transcript

Introduction to Modest Mouse

Speaker 1 0:00

Harry Carey here from the afterlife.

Speaker 2 0:13

All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris and playing Float On from the album Good News for People who Love Bad News is my co-host Tim. From the album Good News for People who Love Bad News is my co-host Tim. This is the band Modest Mouse from that album. It came out in 2004, and it's really what propelled them to fame later on.

Speaker 2 0:39

One interesting thing about this album regards the drummer, jeremiah Green, founding member member. However, this is the only album that he's never drummed on. I guess there was something going on and I read about it earlier and I've completely forgotten. We'll probably get back to that later. There was some, maybe even some, drama involved in that, but anyway, uh, great album, good, look good drummer, as Nigel Tufnell would say.

Speaker 2 1:11

Anyway, the first three songs are hits. There's a song Float On that Tim is playing. It was their big one. There's another one Ocean Breathes, salty and the World at Large. All three of those were released as singles, so the band's early days, I think, were back in 1992 to 1999. They kind of start off as like a kind of a punk band and probably inspired my nirvana. They're a seattle by and large, a seattle bass band. Issaquah, washington, I think is what it's. Yeah, issaquah washington. Now they're based in portland. Uh, the founding members were isaac brock and that kind of explains like the, uh, the harry carey, uh a lot of things happened and, uh, isaac Brock, the lead singer.

Speaker 2 2:08

from my point of view kind of sounds a little bit of a cross between Harry Carey and, I'd say, bobcat Goldthwait. Got it screams, what about my?

Speaker 5 2:20

wife. My wife is so fat.

Speaker 2 2:24

Okay, thank you, bobcat, but anyway, the guy's voice is a little bit out there and the band is out there, but he sings in a charming way and I get it and it's good stuff. So it's going to be a great album, a great show. We've got great clips. They're funny. We's going to be a great album, a great show. We've got great clips, they're funny. We're going to have a blast. Tim's excited. He loves this band.

Speaker 2 2:52

The members, current members Isaac Brock, tom Peloso, russell Higby, ben Massarella, simon O'Connor, damon Cox. On the album the personnel was Isaac Brock, eric Judy on bass guitar, dan Gallucci, who was also a guitar player, benjamin Weichel was on drums he's the guy who replaced the original guy and Tom Peloso stand-up bass. So it's like these names. They sound like my fantasy football team a little bit. You know that was another observation that I had when I was just kind of looking through all this. But yeah, they're growing on me. It wasn't my you they're they were. They weren't always my go-to, so to speak, but uh, not bad, this is the first album was kind of poppy, you know. They're back in their day. They were a little more alt rock, you know, went into some other things, punk, you know, in that seattle vein back in the day, this is 2004. They've made it big now. It's a good album too. I dug it Like we always do.

Speaker 2 4:16

We're going to list all the songs and then give you the ranking of our top three non-hits at the very end. I have a couple that I'm leaning towards. Right now I won't say, but you know who the winners and losers are. Now there's like 16 tracks all together, but I think three or four of them at least are kind of fillers, even like under one minute, and all the songs are just kind of hit. You know there's it's only 48 minutes in length, 49 almost.

Speaker 2 4:53

So like it's a lot of songs, but they're all short. So you know, we'll get through it, it'll be, it'll be good they're, they're fun, fun things here. So, oh, that was nice, it was a nice way to wrap it up there. Um, what else can I say about this? Um, it's kind of dark, it's kind of sullen a little bit. You know, melancholy is is thrown around, and I, I can see that like if you're kind of in a bad mood, or if you're in a bad mood right now, just uh, we'll have fun, we'll uh, we'll make it light, you know, but it is.

Speaker 4 5:34

It is for the, you know, you know and I got to tell you folks, being dead is fantastic.

Float On: The Band's Breakthrough Hit

Speaker 2 5:44

No, that's the wrong message. We're trying to say the opposite. So anyway, with that in mind, let's turn it over to Tim. Tim, how you doing bud? Oh, we're doing good.

Speaker 6 5:55

We're doing good here. Good, yes, this is a little hope versus despair, despair versus hope. That's right. You know, I don't know it's, it's a lot of things. And you're spot on with the uh, the harry carrey and the bobcat. That's, that's good all right, all right, all right, it's yeah, this band is their trajectory maybe started out punk, but it's pop punk they're. They're pushing the envelope to, to palatability of punk, you know, and there's so many things.

Speaker 2 6:35

Well, maybe they're evolving at this point in time and they're learning the business part of it and they're learning just how to blend different genres and that part of it, and they're learning just how to blend different genres. And that that seems to be a big theme in this decade is these bands that are trying not to reinvent music but to maybe take in good elements of a lot of different styles of music, and this band does it in a very clever way.

Speaker 6 7:04

They really do, and they do a lot of tweaking of the studio stuff. They add a little bit of expertise, I would say, on the soundboard, yeah, yeah, subtleties.

Speaker 2 7:21

Yeah, it is. I was going to say that I think it was produced really well.

Speaker 6 7:24

Shout out to there's that producer, saw that guy yeah, they had glockenspiels, they had horns.

Speaker 2 7:31

There's hot horns everywhere on this thing. You know it was recorded on april 6th at sweet tea studio in oxford, mississippi. Shout out to old miss. So yeah, they're alt rock, indie rock, indie pop, all that stuff. Oh, producer dennis herring.

Speaker 6 7:50

Shout out to dennis herring yeah, dennis did a good job you did, but uh, yeah, we should let's.

Speaker 2 7:56

Let's get into the album like before we do. You want to do any shout outs or you want to?

Speaker 6 8:01

oh, you know, let's see we got. You have a friend jay. We have a friend jay the uh from blue hair and coffee, st michael's big, uh, big, modest mouse fan. Talked, talked about that for a good while, while the old school roasts his beans. Uh, the good, old fashioned way and really cool spot. I've heard that St Michael's great coffee. Right on Shout out. Maybe we'll get back in touch.

Speaker 2 8:32

St Michael's Isn't that where they filmed Wedding Crashers? Or it sort of takes place at that.

Speaker 6 8:36

Wedding Crashers.

Speaker 2 8:37

Yeah, the movie Maybe I think it was Okay Like that where they meet their eventual. I don't want to spoil it.

Speaker 6 8:45

but yeah, oh, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 8:47

Yeah, well, anyway, yeah, this a lot of the movie takes place there, but anyway, we digress. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 8:53

When they're doing the football and the tackling.

Speaker 3 8:55

Yeah, okay, yeah, all that.

Speaker 6 8:56

That's yeah. Anyway shout out to floating. Shout out to the hydrated and the dehydrated out there. Okay, um, you know you're buoyant rolling on the river.

Speaker 7 9:10

That's where she'd be Okay.

Speaker 2 9:12

Yeah, there's a lot of water references in this album too, isn't there? Isn't? Yes, yeah.

Speaker 6 9:17

It is the hope and despair, you know. Keep that in mind and keep in mind that all that shit is fucking bullshit okay, we'll get into it.

Speaker 2 9:27

That's. I think it's a good intro, all right, all right. This one track, number one, horn intro. It's just like nine seconds here and spoiler alert this is not going to be in my top three, okay, okay, now this is the world at large. This is a hit. Second most downloaded song.

Speaker 1 10:00

Let's see. I mean, walked away to another plant. I'm going to find another place, maybe one I can stand. I move on to another day, to a whole new town with a whole new way. Went to the porch to have a thought, got to the door and again I couldn't stop. You don't know when, you don't know when, but you still got your words and you've got your friends Walking on to another day.

Speaker 2 10:29

Shout out to the walkers.

Speaker 1 10:30

Oh no, shout out to Spokove.

Speaker 2 10:47

Old wooden ship. So well, I float on. Maybe Would you understand, okay.

Speaker 1 10:58

It's a metaphor for something. It's just like a love song, okay.

Speaker 4 11:16

David spell the blood as it is, I like songs about drifters books about the same.

Speaker 1 11:24

This is about Catcher in the Rye a little bit. Yeah, I was just thinking. Rolling on the river, I always feel like I'm caught in an undertow.

Speaker 4 11:53

Rollin' on the river Well.

Speaker 1 11:55

I just got back from swimming in the pool. Moms beat themselves to death against the lights, adding their brains to the summer nights yeah, this is so like they loop a lot of sounds in the background.

Speaker 2 12:26

Yeah, I was thinking more like about the mood of it. A lot of it is about like loss. Feeling small.

Speaker 7 12:45

Yeah, my feelings are hurt. Yeah, my feelings are hurt.

Speaker 2 12:48

Perfect.

Speaker 7 12:58

And I'll bring all my shoes and my glasses with me.

Speaker 2 13:05

That was beautiful that Saul Rosenberg over the strings. It was a nice little touch.

Speaker 1 13:15

All that shit was fucking bullshit.

Speaker 3 13:17

It's very like staccato.

Speaker 6 13:25

It's very like staccato.

Speaker 2 13:37

There's not much drums going on, not yet Simple lines here. It starts to go to 11 a little bit later. Yeah, this is a more mellow song. All right, there we go. Some scratching kind of goes dead. Oh Goes down to one before it comes back up. Okay, now we're in. Float On. This is the Ghost Pipers song on the album. We've all heard this, right, I think they're almost in tandem these two songs.

Speaker 6 14:26

They're like a yeah, there's no break. One is in relation to the other. Oh, so it's a concept. Well, they say float on in the previous song.

Speaker 1 14:42

so yeah, it's just key. Rock your Honor and we'll all float on a cave. And the world was forged by Tyson better man than Eero? And we'll all float on a cave and we'll all float on. Okay, and we'll all float on anyway. Well, I think Jamaica took every last damn with that scam. It was worth it, just to learn some slide again. Bad news come, don't you worry.

Speaker 3 15:40

The runway it lands.

Speaker 1 15:44

Good news we'll work its way to all them plans.

Speaker 4 15:47

We both got fired on time, a lot of things happen.

Speaker 1 15:50

Some good, some bad, oh yeah, all right.

Speaker 7 16:17

All right.

Speaker 6 16:20

Okay, all right.

Speaker 7 16:24

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Hamilton.

Speaker 6 16:43

Don't worry, we'll all float on.

Speaker 3 16:49

Alright, alright.

Speaker 7 16:53

Alright, alright, and we'll all float on Alright, alright, we'll all float on Alright, alright, take it back, simone, or Dima Dima Dima, all right, all right, all right. What?

Speaker 2 17:16

was that character's name, the guy from I don't know. I mean Matthew Conaghy's character. I can't.

Speaker 6 17:27

Daisy, from Daisy.

Speaker 2 17:32

I gotta look that up.

Speaker 1 17:35

All right.

Speaker 7 17:41

All right, All right. All right, all right.

Ocean Breathes Salty and Dark Themes

Speaker 2 17:47

All right, what do we got here? Ocean breathes salty, Okay, so this is another hit, right yeah we got a hit here.

Speaker 6 18:01

I like this one. Salt, how you doing.

Speaker 2 18:05

Yes yes, all the oh no, salty, salty Salty.

Speaker 1 18:21

Salty rosemary, oh no. Well, that is that and this is this. You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get. You get away from me, you get away from me. Cool, I get my balloons and I lay off the chair. Well, thanks for the time. I need to think. It's felt I had to think a while, I had to think a while. I've watered her down as far as she'll go. I cannot water no more.

Speaker 2 18:56

For some reason, this song sounds better now than it normally does when I listen to it, since we're doing it live Yep, probably.

Speaker 1 19:09

I love that Mm-hmm On your head, mouth Soul.

Speaker 2 19:20

Shout out to Dan Gallucci, I think the keyboards that weird sound effect. Really good keyboards. Yeah, the Gallucci keys the Gallucci keys.

Speaker 1 19:29

He's rolling, rolling Jail.

Speaker 2 19:44

Shout out to Chris Milk, the director of the music video, and say good luck for your sake.

Speaker 1 19:50

I hope heaven and hell. You missed. I really did, but I wouldn't hold my breath. You missed, you wasted life. Why wouldn't you waste death? You missed, you wasted life. Why wouldn't you waste death? Harry Carey, here from the afterlife. Harry Carey, I carry here from the afterlife.

Speaker 2 20:34

It's like I said. I gotta tell you folks Isaac Brock is an American musician, songwriter lead vocalist he's in other bands Cy Pratchett, ugly, casanova. Okay, a lot of wordplay. He's a lot of metaphors.

Speaker 1 21:08

Yes, great bass line yeah.

Speaker 2 21:24

You know, he lived with his mother and sister In Montana.

Speaker 3 21:28

In.

Speaker 2 21:28

Oregon In hippie communes and churches, yeah.

Speaker 4 21:36

And I gotta tell you folks being dead is fantastic.

Speaker 2 21:41

Okay.

Speaker 1 21:53

We were shooting at a mountain of dirt. Well, nothing was broken, nothing was hurt, but I probably really should have been at work. But if my free time's gone, would you promise me this that you will pay, bury me with it.

Speaker 2 22:08

Yeah, this is where the Bobcat Goldquake's really coming out. Yeah, this is where the Bobcat Goldquake's really coming out. Harry Caray too. Hey.

Speaker 1 22:19

I'm proud of it but it helped me out a bit. I just don't need none of that Mad Max bullshit. Well, the tube got tight and it's pointed to the seams, but I can't get out of half of it. I can't be real clean, but if it's getting, Thank you very much. Fusion.

Speaker 2 22:51

Scott Bale. It's the Antichrist. We're having a.

Speaker 7 22:53

Scott Bale. This really bumps me up.

Speaker 1 23:00

This bumps me up. That really bumps me up.

Speaker 3 23:08

Wow, wow.

Speaker 1 23:30

Wow.

Speaker 2 23:34

Yeah, we're going into a part of the song that I overlooked and I'm liking this. I'm liking this. The wedding.

Speaker 3 23:46

This is catchy man.

Speaker 2 23:59

I think the drumming's pretty good. The fill in as you said the news.

Speaker 1 24:14

Ron, are you paying attention? No, so what? So let's dance. Well, the fans they come and the fans they go. God, I love the rock and roll. Well, the point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck. We said we weren't taller than that. Hey, eric, eric, eric.

Speaker 4 24:44

Three weeks we've been talking about the Platt Amendment. Oh shit now.

Speaker 7 24:52

What are you people On dope, on dope.

Speaker 6 25:00

I love that line. I've got bad news. You're going to fail, mr Hans Platt. Yeah exactly, you're going to fail, mr Hands class.

Speaker 2 25:06

Yeah, exactly One of these days we need to do the soundtrack for some of these movies. We'll do. We can look at that in the works. Great music on Fast Times. Watch the news. All right, so that was Bury Me With it. Watch the news All right, so that was Bury Me With it. Watch the news. This one's called Dancehall, dancehall On dope.

Speaker 1 25:42

On dope.

Speaker 2 25:48

So, what so, what so, what so, let's dance.

Speaker 6 25:57

So what? So what? Scott Baio, scott Baio, scott Baio dances.

Speaker 2 26:12

Yes, I'm sure he does Cha-cha Every day, though he was his uncle at the Fonz, though he was in that dance contest.

Speaker 6 26:30

Can I do a dance? Dance One, two one, two, three.

Speaker 5 26:59

I'm dope these babies can go off.

Speaker 6 27:01

The past does not exist and I'm told it never will. All right, All right. That's about the coolest thing I've heard all day.

Speaker 2 27:11

All right take it easy, Jim. Why don't you stop talking for a while?

Speaker 6 27:40

Maybe, sit, the next couple plays out. The news is just an abomination Nowadays no news, it's good news.

Speaker 7 27:59

Very good news, yes yes, all the whole.

Speaker 5 28:00

Oh no, yes, the whole railway.

Speaker 1 28:14

And I was holding my cat, so what so?

Bukowski and Nihilistic Undertones

Speaker 2 28:24

let's dance. All right, you tell him Rodney. All right, catchy tune. This one's called bukowski a piece of excrement just what you just said.

Speaker 1 28:42

That is beautiful a smudge of excrement surging out to sea. I I can never write that.

Speaker 2 28:51

Neither could I actually. I think it's Bukowski.

Speaker 1 28:53

To me that every night turns out to be a little bit more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know it's a pretty good read. But God, who'd want to be God who'd want to be A little banjo effect. God who'd? Want to be God. Who'd want to be God would want to be Such an asshole.

Speaker 2 29:11

That's pretty strong.

Speaker 6 29:26

It's angry at God. Yes, that's what we're dealing with here.

Speaker 1 29:32

If God takes life, he's an Indian giver. So tell me now, or you'll tell me never, who would want to be, who would want to be such a control freak.

Speaker 6 29:44

Nihilistic writing by Bukowski.

Speaker 1 29:46

Who would be such a control freak?

Speaker 3 30:21

You're freaking me out.

Speaker 1 30:30

Is there a recording in the background? Should see it all. Well, take what you want from me. You deserve it all.

Speaker 2 30:34

As a Brock lived in DC back in 1992.

Speaker 1 30:37

That's interesting. Our hearts just get dissolved.

Speaker 2 30:42

Then he moved to New York in East Village.

Speaker 1 30:45

Or just a better way to fall.

Speaker 2 30:49

It was there that he, eric Judy and Jeremiah East Village it was there that he, eric Judy and Jeremiah Green first started practicing music together, okay.

Speaker 1 31:05

That's kind of cool.

Speaker 2 31:08

These songs do have a lot of disease. I keep some watch for all of you, if he's really so damn religious my problem is I can't see what.

Speaker 1 31:12

who would want to be? Who would want to be such a control freak? Are you? Some kind of freak. Well, who would want to be? Who would want to be such a control freak?

Speaker 7 31:26

What a freak.

Speaker 2 31:38

These guys are freaks man.

Speaker 1 31:42

You're freaking me out, evil me Good songs, do you?

Speaker 3 31:46

know Evil me.

Speaker 1 31:52

Oh yeah, I know Satan. What good curse can you throw Well on that ice and on that cake.

Speaker 2 32:10

I can't make it to your wedding but I'm sure I'll be there to get you awake.

Speaker 1 32:13

You were talking in circles that day. When you get to the point, make sure that I'm still awake.

Speaker 7 32:20

How much more black could this be? And the answer is none.

Speaker 1 32:30

None more black. This is this is.

Speaker 6 32:32

This is good, this is really.

Speaker 2 32:41

I fucked up the last line.

Speaker 4 32:43

Come on Sean.

Speaker 1 32:58

This devil's work.

Speaker 2 33:02

Come on, swing baby, you platinum, I guess even the devil submits his time cards through workday.

Speaker 1 33:11

That's funny. I could sell myself a job. I could hang myself on trees and all the folks I know are gone. All the people that you know, all the people that you know, all the people that you know Floating in the river are logs.

Speaker 6 33:35

I don't know, I don't know about this one, but yeah, I'm not a fan of the horn. This one, it's got that avant-garde, sort of like Squirrel Nut Daddy's kind of theme going on.

Speaker 7 33:53

Yeah, Like that 1920s yeah like the mob Rolling on the river. That's where she'd be.

Speaker 6 34:04

What.

Speaker 1 34:07

I'm going to take this sack of puppies. Oh no, oh no, oh God.

Speaker 2 34:16

This song is offensive on like every sense.

Speaker 1 34:20

My feelings are hurt.

Speaker 2 34:30

I can actually taste it.

Speaker 5 34:34

Do the dead bird?

Speaker 7 34:54

This is really bumming me up.

Speaker 2 35:02

This really bums me up. Okay, I need to do this song. Okay, well, bobcat, for good measure, just extends the pain we got some joy. Okay, the view. This is called the View. Hello, joy Behar.

Speaker 1 35:18

I'll pull you. Shut out your mouth and look where it got you. My mouth runs on two Shots from both sides. Well, we've got the land, but they've got the view. Well, now, here they come. We've got the land, but they've got the view.

Speaker 6 35:29

Well, now, here they come, They've got the view.

Speaker 5 35:32

I made out with Jane Fonda.

Speaker 2 35:37

Who did you make out with?

Speaker 5 35:38

I made out with Jane Fonda. That was really good. You can't be the Prince of Syria, I hope it won't play on you.

Speaker 1 35:44

Well, I hope mine did too.

Speaker 6 35:50

This one's got some sauce. Well, I hope mine did too this one's got some sauce.

Speaker 1 35:55

Oh it does. Yeah, oh, it's funky. As life gets longer, I'll fulfill softer words. Disco it's pretty soft and angry and if it takes shit to make sense, then I feel pretty blissfully he called the shit cool.

Speaker 2 36:19

Never go out on the road again, go go.

Speaker 1 36:24

Go go. Shout out to both sides now here's the clue what a freak we are fixed right where we stand life. It rips us in. Yeah, I hope it will play on you.

Speaker 2 36:47

I hope my it's a natural palate cleanser from the last song. It's very yeah.

Speaker 6 37:06

The keys are really good. It's a layered sound.

Speaker 2 37:12

Calucci's holding it down.

Speaker 3 37:14

I never know what she's doing back there she's making out with Jane Fonda.

Speaker 5 37:19

Yeah, I made out with Jane Fonda. That was really good.

Speaker 7 37:28

I never know what she's doing back there what?

Speaker 5 37:33

is she doing? I made out with Jane Fonda. That was really good.

Speaker 3 37:37

You kissed Back there. You look a little stressed. Oh, I'm stressed.

Speaker 1 37:56

As life gets longer, awful feels softer and it feels pretty soft to me. And if it takes shit to make bliss, well I feel pretty blissfully. If life's not beautiful without the pain, well, I just would rather never, ever even see Beauty again. Well, as life gets longer, all I feel feels softer and it feels pretty soft on me.

Speaker 2 38:22

I'm like Reed left the band. I'd say they've had a nervous breakdown Around 2003,. So they brought in Benjamin Michael. I guess he was like leaving to work with his side project Bells Bells.

Speaker 6 38:39

Yeah, b-e-l-l-s Okay.

Speaker 2 38:44

Same year he and Judy appeared on Adam Corker's first solo album.

Speaker 3 38:48

It's like B-E-R-S-S-N-N.

Speaker 2 38:50

That's all.

Speaker 7 39:07

It's just key rock.

Speaker 1 39:09

Your Honor and yes, I'm ready. Thank you.

Speaker 2 39:12

Great sense.

Speaker 4 39:12

You let one ant stand up to us.

Speaker 3 39:19

It's called.

Speaker 2 39:20

Satin in a Coffin.

Speaker 1 39:23

You were laying on the carpet like you're satin in a coffin. You said do you believe? Like you're sat in a coffin? You said you believe what you're saying? Yeah, right now, but not that often. Are you dead or are you sleeping? Are you dead or are you sleeping? Are you dead or are you sleeping?

Speaker 4 39:42

God, I sure hope you are dead. I'm on no sleep, no sleep. You don't know what it's like in there All night long.

Speaker 1 39:50

Things are creaking and cracking and that red light is burning my brain.

Speaker 6 40:05

Shout out to my cocoa.

Speaker 1 40:10

Oh, cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. Come on, sharon, now the blues been softened since the air, the breeze, our coffin.

Speaker 3 40:29

Well, Now the blues been softened since the air.

Speaker 2 40:33

She's nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album Times. You know, I left you Flood. I was nominated for Best Rock Song.

Speaker 1 40:42

After you know, the blues been softened Since the air is our coffin. Well, Now the blues been softened since the air. Michael returned to drumming exclusively for the Delia sequence. You said do you believe what you're saying? Yeah, right now, but not that often. Are you dead or are you sleeping? Are you dead or are you sleeping? Are you dead?

Speaker 3 41:16

or are you sleeping? You're freaking me out. Can I show you I'm dead.

Speaker 2 41:25

I guess I and Brock. Yeah, he lost a couple of friends he says lost a couple of most important people before this album came out and sort of explains all the doom and gloom right, probably not sleeping well. I'm on no sleep, it's called Probably not sleeping well, I'm on no sleep. It's called interlude me-lo, hi-lo. It's like 58 seconds, so I cut past it. Well let's uh.

Speaker 6 42:05

Phoebe. What does Phoebe have to say?

Speaker 5 42:07

Anyhow, if you think that I'm going to sit around and wait for you, you can forget it.

Speaker 2 42:10

Okay, that's a yes. Okay, it's fine. All right, this is on. Blame it On the Tetons. What's this about?

Speaker 1 42:24

Blame it on the Tetons. Yeah, I need a skid coat now. No, my dog won't bite you, though it had the right to. Yeah, I wouldn't give her credit cause she knows I would have let it happen. I'm prairie dogging it.

Speaker 6 43:00

Shout out to those halfway through digestion Halfway, okay, it's good stuff. Get a good meal in. Yeah, just get. Get a good meal in, just get in the tub.

Speaker 2 43:14

Get that body temperature up to 101.5.

Speaker 6 43:18

I need a cola, sometimes A birch beer.

Speaker 2 43:26

High in calories, but worth it?

Speaker 1 43:28

Is it Just our blank expressions? Try and look interesting.

Speaker 6 43:32

Just eat an apple.

Speaker 1 43:35

Blame it all on me. Cause God.

Speaker 3 43:38

I need a cold one. I blame myself.

Speaker 2 43:48

Yeah, just eat an apple, Almond butter, I don't know, yeah, a little honey.

Speaker 6 43:54

Yeah, a little cinnamon, nice healthy snack. Yeah, some demerara sugar.

Speaker 1 44:15

These strings are very lovely.

Speaker 3 44:22

Yeah, they should call this. Well, this piece is called Lick my.

Speaker 2 44:25

Love Pump. Oh God Okay. That was cheesy, oh God Okay.

Speaker 1 44:30

That was cheesy.

Speaker 2 44:34

Just take it easy, champ, I know, I know I'll sit. The next couple plays.

Speaker 1 44:45

Oh no, oh no, oh Spiders, problems after it creates a problem, blame it on the T-Tons. Got your butt back here, thelma, now.

Speaker 2 45:18

God damn it. Where did that come from?

Speaker 1 45:22

Okay, Just take it easy, champ. Everyone's a building burning With no one to put the fire out. Standing at the window looking out, call the fire department.

Speaker 3 46:00

This one's out of control.

Speaker 1 46:02

Ready for time to burn us down?

Speaker 2 46:30

Everyone's an ocean drowning. I'm not gonna give you a light.

Speaker 7 46:33

I'm gonna show you the light.

Speaker 2 46:55

Nice pedal. It's a nice fiddle Violin. Can you ever tell a difference?

Speaker 6 47:00

No, they're all violins to me. Yeah, that was a nice little Outro. Wow, great outro, great song, very delicate.

Black Cadillacs and Final Thoughts

Speaker 2 47:32

Yeah, subtle, simple lines intertwining.

Speaker 6 47:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 47:58

It's Black Cadillacs outside Of you and we were done, done, done With all the fuck, fuck fucking around, alright.

Speaker 3 48:09

Kicked out a couple matches.

Speaker 1 48:10

You're so true to yourself. You were true to no one else. I should put you in the ground. I've got the time. I've got the hours. I've got the shades. I've got the hours. I've got the shades, I've got the weeks. I can tell to myself.

Speaker 3 48:24

I've got words but I can't speak. Well, I was dark, dark, dark With all the stuff, stuff, stuff Going round. I never fucked anybody over In my life, in every moment. I ain't complaining, I ain't blaming you, I ain't blaming you.

Speaker 1 48:43

I didn't know that the words you said to me meant more to me than they ever could you. I didn't lie and I ain't saying. I told the whole truth. I didn't know that this game we were playing even had a set of rules. We named our children after towns that we'd never been to, and it's true that the clouds hung around Tampa's a good kid name Tampa.

Speaker 6 49:23

Get over here Tampa, what about?

Speaker 2 49:24

Soda Tampa, Soda yeah. Seven Shout out to Seven yeah.

Speaker 1 49:35

Glenn Burney.

Speaker 6 49:36

Get over here.

Speaker 2 49:41

Yeah, what other cities?

Speaker 6 49:42

Dallas. Maybe Dallas is not a bad name.

Speaker 2 49:47

I think it's better than Tampa. It's my son, memphis.

Speaker 1 49:54

Memphis yeah.

Speaker 6 49:58

Crayola Brown. Shout out to the the crafty fuckers out there what the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 1 50:16

What the fuck is he talking about? Alright, that was a nice way to end that one.

Speaker 2 50:21

Okay, this is called One Chance. What the fuck is he talking about? Alright, that was a nice way to end that one. Okay, this is called One Chance. We might be coming down to the end soon. Let me see when are we at. Got one more after this? Alright, so we're making progress here, going good, going good, going good. I have one chance to get everything right.

Speaker 1 50:54

Get everything right. We have one chance, one chance to get everything right. We have one chance, one chance and if we're lucky, we might. My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so much to me. Well, isn't that special? I bet it's right. I've seen so many ships sailing Just to head back out again and go off thinking.

Speaker 6 51:54

Old wooden ship. We'll see you next time. That's an interesting concept to me. Yeah, why would you? Why would you? I don't know, sorry, sorry, folks.

Speaker 2 52:25

But yeah, I don't have a response for the box.

Speaker 6 52:33

Did you hear the song? I might have perused it. It's got good harmony.

Speaker 1 52:42

I mean it's a little repetitive. I kind of like this part. I like the bass line, my family, they mean so much to me. I just don't think that it's right. I've seen so many ships sailing just to head back out again and go on sinking. All right, yeah, just saying, let it out, give it some air. Man, play with it a little, a little bit.

Speaker 2 53:19

That's right, okay.

Speaker 6 53:21

I could have seen more there, yeah.

Speaker 2 53:26

Actually.

Speaker 6 53:27

So this is Can we smoke in here? Yeah, Eric's got those pockets.

Speaker 2 53:31

The good times are killing me. There's some meandering, some rambling. It's going to start rocking pretty soon, right?

Speaker 1 53:56

Here we go, dr. God, I've got water and I know you can carry on. Shrugged off, short-sighted, false assignment. And what can I say?

Speaker 2 54:13

The lyrics are kind of clever.

Speaker 1 54:17

Have one, have twenty more, one more, zend-o, it does not relent.

Speaker 2 54:25

See why it's not made for a Grammy.

Speaker 1 54:29

The good times are killing me. Kick bop, buzz, cut dick, head spin like what I said I made out with Jane Fonda. The good times are killing me. The good times are killing me.

Speaker 5 55:02

I made out with Jane Fonda the good times are killing me.

Speaker 7 55:08

It's just key. Rock your Honor.

Speaker 2 55:11

And yes, I'm ready. Got fed up with all that LSD. There were no drugs involved. I never know what she's doing.

Speaker 1 55:20

I got fed up with all that LSD. There were no drugs involved. I never know what she's doing.

Speaker 4 55:34

I'm on no sleep.

Speaker 2 55:36

That was clever.

Speaker 1 55:39

Late nights with no no sleep.

Speaker 3 55:42

That was clever.

Speaker 1 55:53

No sleep.

Speaker 2 55:58

You let one ant stand up.

Speaker 3 56:00

How do you like?

Speaker 2 56:01

your whiskey.

Speaker 6 56:02

Whiskey, yeah, warm Like neat, or on the rocks Warm I like it with ice, a little club soda, a little ginger ale, a little root beer, a little lime, a little Dr Pepper. Give me a reserve and I'll squeeze a lime in it.

Speaker 2 56:23

There you go and just piss the bartender off. So bad.

Speaker 6 56:26

Oh my God, that's it. Yeah, they're just like what are you doing, Doing?

Speaker 2 56:34

Doing Like sit there and make a couple plays on it.

Speaker 6 56:37

You're like oh my God, it's a hundred year old bottle. You look a little stressed. Oh, I'm stressed. I mean the bite to it is, it's not. I'm more of a cocktail guy than a hard liquor drinking it straight kind of guy. I don't know, I'll do it, but I like the old fashioned.

Speaker 2 57:09

It's probably a better way to take your medicine.

Speaker 6 57:15

Do you need that to have a good time?

Speaker 2 57:18

No, you know it's a risk for me. I mean depending on how much you drink.

Speaker 6 57:25

Sometimes, you can't A risk for 99% of people and a lot of people yeah.

Speaker 2 57:32

All right, so I guess we got through it. Okay, there we go. So yeah, we got another one of the books. Now we got to do our top three.

Speaker 6 57:42

Let's go to the list here okay, here's the list.

Speaker 2 57:43

Here you go.

Speaker 6 57:44

I'm gonna go um what's your number three. I like Bury Me With it. I think that had a. That's my number three. Okay, it's sort of um back into that punk sort of darkness, but it was also very clever and um, just great melody and sort of back into that punk sort of darkness, but it was also very clever and just great melody.

Speaker 2 58:05

Yeah, doesn't he get like really Harry Carey in that?

Speaker 6 58:08

Yeah, the screaming, the screaming, yeah, and that's what he's about. That's what I like about this band is that when he goes kind of vocally off, the rails Right, which is the fun part about this band. I don't always keep it curtailed. You don't even know what they're talking about, which is like it's ambiguous a lot of the times.

Speaker 2 58:31

I agree, I agree. My number three is going to be that last one. We heard the Good Times Are Killing Me.

Speaker 6 58:36

Okay.

Ranking the Non-Hits

Speaker 2 58:37

I thought it was, I don't know. I just thought it was. Uh, I just thought it was. It was clever, it was had a nice little melody to it. So that'll be my number three okay.

Speaker 6 58:50

Um, you know, number two for me blame it on the tetons, the outro okay and the the raw, like sort of delicateness of of it was a good juxtaposition to a lot of their harder punker songs it was one of the better songs on this album.

Speaker 2 59:14

Yeah, it was. That was a bubble. I want to know what Tetons are.

Speaker 6 59:17

I want to know what Tetons are. It's kind of a weird title. Blame it on the Tetons.

Speaker 2 59:22

Well, in Yellowstone National Park they have the Teton Mount, yes, so I mean, I don't know if that's the number one thing that comes to mind, for me, I mean now like women's breasts, have been referred to as Tetons. The Tetons, so I don't know if they're, you know they're using it in that crude of a fashion and that's what they're saying Like, blame it on. Like, whatever his heartbreak is, blame it on the Tetons.

Speaker 6 59:52

Blame it on Jane Fonda's Tetons, you know.

Speaker 2 59:55

Maybe that's who he's referring to.

Speaker 6 59:57

Yeah.

Speaker 2 59:57

Maybe it's come full circle with our sound clip.

Speaker 6 1:00:00

I don't know Joy.

Speaker 5 1:00:03

I made out with Jane Fonda, all right.

Speaker 2 1:00:07

So I'm going to go. Am I number two? I'm going to go, Bukowski.

Speaker 6 1:00:12

Nice yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 1:00:15

Yeah, I just that wasn't. He kind of goes off the rails a little bit there too right, just that wasn't he kind of goes off the rails a little bit there too right, he does. Yep, it was just, uh, the nihilistic. It was very nihilistic, and that's what I liked about it, and that's that's their wheelhouse right there.

Speaker 6 1:00:29

So that's my number two okay, I'm going with the view of our number one no surprise, pop edge yeah I mean the view.

Speaker 2 1:00:40

Yeah, I really liked it it's my number one too, because it cuts through the rest of it. It's sort of like a disco song yeah and the fact that they had that range and they did it well and it just gives the whole. It just gives more depth to the album okay and so, yeah, it was just executed very well. Also, good drumming Great look, good drummer.

Speaker 6 1:01:06

Yeah, a lot of the others are fillers and those, I think, four. We mentioned five.

Speaker 2 1:01:12

Yeah.

Speaker 6 1:01:13

Are solid, solid songs other than the three that are great, great, great hits.

Speaker 2 1:01:19

Yeah.

Speaker 6 1:01:19

Float on being my favorite.

Speaker 2 1:01:22

Yeah, it's probably my favorite as well. The World at Large is a close second, though, for me.

Speaker 6 1:01:27

I like Ocean Breeze Salty, slightly better than the World at Large, maybe.

Speaker 2 1:01:32

Yeah, well, that's okay, man, that's where we diverge. We can't hit, but yeah.

Speaker 6 1:01:36

I love the aquatic theme here and you know, water is eternal. We're made up of water.

Speaker 2 1:01:45

Yeah, put that into some deep context. Yeah.

Speaker 6 1:01:49

Way down, way just deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper. All right Bowtied.

Speaker 2 1:01:55

Yep, go-tied, and let's see Roll-tied, go-tied. Okay, yep, go Tide and let's see Roll Tide, go Tide.

Speaker 6 1:02:05

Are we putting a bow on this? The water's cold.

Speaker 2 1:02:08

Okay, all right, we're out of here. Thanks for listening, guys, take care.