dood i totally agree that the drumming is completely top notch. that boy
keeps up with 11 minute truckers atlas perfectly, keeping a real tight
set. man. they are so damn good!
i keep thinking of more lines too.. but its all pretty obvious that pretty
much 92% of modest mouse's stuff is downright phenomenal, so i wont go and
post them (although someone pretty much got a lot of the others that i
thought of)
although i think styrofoam boots is pure genius. the whole damn beginning
is mastery at its best.
and blah blah blah
ruxx
np -make-up "little black book"
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, ryan wrote:
> I think one of the main components that makes Modest Mouse so original
> is the delivery of the lyrics, combined with the lyrics themself. I
> mean, how many people have you heard sing like Issac? He breaks up
> words at the most unexpected syllables, like "she ionizes and atomizes"
> look at all the lyrics to that song, he is doing some crazy shit with
> those vocals.
>
> The other thing I wanted to bring up is that I personally believe that
> Modest Mouse's originality wouldn't be maintained without the equal
> originality of both Eric and Jeremiah. Jeremiah's drumming is epic and
> Eric's basslines practically define the modest mouse sound because they
> are always played so high yet somehow always sound so pure and full,
> even though they're not low and thumping. just thought I'd spit out
> these thoughts r
>
