Good News For Modern Man

Good News For Modern Man Artist: Grant Hart
Label: Pachyderm Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 665047000521
EAN: 0665047000521
ASIN: B000035X45


Release Date: 1999-11-30

Good News For Modern Man


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Tracks:

  1. Think It Over Now
  2. Nobody Rides For Free
  3. Run Run Run To The Centre Pompidou
  4. You Don't Have To Tell Me Now
  5. Teeny's Hair
  6. A Letter From Anne Marie
  7. In A Cold House
  8. Seka Knows
  9. Remains To Be Seen
  10. Let Rosemary Rock Him, Laura-Louise
  11. Little Nemo

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  1. Intolerance
  2. Nova Mob
  3. The Last Days of Pompeii
  4. Low to the Ground
  5. Bob Mould

Amazon.com

As one-half of the creative brain trust of Hüsker Dü, Grant Hart brought warmth and a sense of compassion to that legendary band's precise sonic assault. Hart's post-Hüsker output, both solo and with Nova Mob, has been sporadic yet solid. Good News for Modern Man, released over five years since the last studio album, finds no dust on Grant's grooves. Soulful, melodic, and richly textured, Hart's ambitious undertaking overflows with creativity, from the Dick Dale-meets-Beach Boys chorus of "Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou," to the brutal honesty of "You Don't Have To Tell Me Now," to the orchestral bombast that closes "Nobody Rides for Free." As a veteran of one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, Grant Hart ends the century on a high note. <I>Good News for Modern Man</I> is just that. <I>--Kevin Cole</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars great album - great production!.......2005-04-08

This album really is a joy to listen to. I've always been a fan of Grant's work on all the Husker albums, since he was the melodic "McCartney" to the more abrasive "Lennon" of Bob Mould (think "It's Not Funny Anymore" vs. "First Of The Last Calls" on 'Metal Circus' or "Somewhere" vs. "Indecision Time" on 'Zen Arcade'). Grant's songs could be more light hearted and goofy and still rock hard ("Books About UFOs"), and there is plenty of that on "Modern Man." Songs like "A Letter From Anne Marie" and "Seka Knows" really sound amazing in your headphones. There are a lot of tape loops and multitracking that he also used on 'Intolerance.' There are plenty of melodies and great pop songs for any devoted Husker fan to enjoy. I don't know if Grant will come out with any more albums, but I definitely recommend this one!

3 out of 5 stars these other reviews seem generous.......2003-09-21

Just Bought this CD and it seems OK. Far cry from Intollerance and especially Grant's AMAZING Husker DU days. This record is pretty boring, the vocals are pretty drowned out and im not getting the feeling that his older material had. I would expect some better better drumming on this record too. It dosent say who did it but I dont think it was grant from the sound of it. I actually give this an extra star just for old times sake.

4 out of 5 stars really really good, but not a perfect album.......2003-07-28

This album is really good, but as an Husker Du fan, I expected something more hard from Grant Hart. But, well, I'm not just a Husker Du fan! I like the Beach Boys, surf-music, and more. This album will not make your heart explode, like husker du landspeed record, or living end. This album will make you float, like the girl who floated away*.

(*I am making reference to this song: husker du - she floated away. This song would perfectly fit in this album.)

5 out of 5 stars Good news for fans of sonic rock.......2001-08-05

It's interesting that this record came out in 1999. It's a perfect fin-de-siecle piece of music. The main thing to know about this beautiful record is that it's a 'grower' in an old school kind of way. Grant's approach with Good News is unfettered pop melodies, but they all float above very dense, churning kinds of backing arrangements. There are layers and layers of sound: banks of backing vocals, 3D organs, and amazing percussion. Time was obviously taken to make sure that the sounds were warm and full if not necessarily flat-eq perfect and ultra hi-fi. Which brings me to the main reason why I love this record: it's so nice to hear a record come out around 2000 which you can listen to over and over and over again. And the reason why you can is because of the mix of the record, specifically the way the instrumentation is framed . There is an unmistakeable tonality to record, and the mystique of the songs was not stripped away by overbearing production....Grant continues to write familiar yet uncanny songs: the opening track "think it over now" may not blow you away the first listen, but the undeniable melody and timeless guitars will catch up with you. "little teeny" has a nice avant slant to it, and "run, run, run to the centre pompidou", a wry tune about seeing paris, shows why grant matters as a vocalist. The real power on the record is, however, the last track "little nemo". I would theorize this one's about bob mould. It has to be. But anyway, the lyrics have to be read. And the song, a deceptively simple carol which launches into an epic chorus, is one of the best things grant's ever done, including husker's work. The only weak track seems to be 'in a cold house'. but that's nitpicking: check out something which marries master-class pop songwriting with sonic sweetness - get 'good news for modern man'.

5 out of 5 stars Powerful album.......2001-01-27

This is one of the best rock albums I have heard in a long time. I've always enjoyed the later music of Husker Du, which Hart formed with Bob Mould in the 1980's, when they began to expand their pop sensibilities behind the wall of heavy feedback, while still maintaining that edge. Their music was loud and catchy at the same time and they bridged the gap between punk and pop. "Good News For The Modern Man" will certainly get your speakers shaking, but there are some exquisite melodies here - "You Don't Have to Tell Me Now", "A Letter from Anne Marie", "Remains to be Seen" - very lovely songs with hit potential that are most certainly ignored by radio programmers because they are... could it be... a little different than what's on the radio today? More than enough reason to give this disc a listen.

Hart also has some good heavy rockers here, "Think It Over Now", "In a Cold House" and "Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou" which has kind of a surf-rock sound to it... very cool.

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