Welcome to Millennial Masterpieces, where I’ll look back at a great album released within the past 17 years and see what its legacy is. Fourteenth in the series is the mainstream crossover effort from chronically sardonic midwest indie kings Modest Mouse: Good News For People Who Love Bad News.
Released: April 6th, 2004
There’s a rather contentious recurring statement that’s been made on this blog over the years, and that’s “music (as a viable commercial commodity) is dead”. Although I still stand by it, I will concede to the fact that it is arguable, and that some recent developments have breathed new life into the medium.
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This is Ten Quick Q’s with Chet Everton Jr., where every week we ask everyone’s favourite slacker millionaire doofus a series of questions and see what his valuable insights are.
our world has a lot of animals. there are the normal animals that everyone knows like the dog and the cat and worm. then there are the mysterious animals that you never hear about. some of them are really cool and do crazy things like change colour or run really fast or fly. some of them look really crazy like aliens! and some of them are not impressive, they are actually kind of boring in fact. its just like why. here are a whole bunch of animals you probably did not know existed, but thats alright because they arent really that cool.
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Welcome to the Weekly Fiver, where I’ll pick five recently released songs of varying degrees of quality and thoroughly break them down for you. No two songs will be on the same tier, and they’ll be listed from best to worst. The top song will be an excellent must-hear tune, while the bottom song will be one you ought to stay away from or else you will make your ears sad. It’s all very scientific.