Ok so I know exactly why I don't like the new album as much as Interstate
8 TIALDFSWNTTA LCW or BNOOS. I do like it, I am listening to it now but I
prefer the other albums except for the self titled ep with the fruit that
ate itself on it. First off I made an extreme point of not listening to
the album before it came out, I also didn't pay attention to track
listings, cause I didn't want to know. I had the ep on preorder from up
and I must say I was disappointed that night on the sun wasn't on the lp
cause I like it the best of songs on the ep. I kinda like I came as a
rat, although I prefer the alternate title of Long walk off a short dock,
the problem with the song for me is simple though. Does anyone else feel
when they hear this song that they have heard parts of it in songs of
various 70's bands? I can't really put my finger on it but at the fist
change that guitar part sounds really familiar to me, plus the I don't
know but I've been told lyrics just amplify that feeling. Ok now what I
don't like about this album. What I loved about every other disc I got
was the way one of the songs would just get jammed into my head and I
would be singing it for a month or more. I drove my tentmate crazy on
this one month snow camping trip a week after LCW was released because I
kept saying the words to Cowboy Dan, and Truckers atlas. I also miss the
mouse that was willing to take a little more of a chance. Like on Dog
Paddle where they all switch instruments, I think they just kind of grew
out of a lot of that unpolished improve stuff at their live shows. So
anyway it is not that I don't think that some of the lyrics are good, it
is just that they don't strike a chord with me the way that the lyrics to
some of the other songs do. Anyone else feel like they lived the
sleepwalking song that the mouse put lyrics to?
Now that being said I am working on a 3 concert review of last weekend. I
have now seen the mouse 12 times. I still enjoyed the show I saw first
best but last weekend was 2, 3, and 4. Anyone who was there saturday in
seattle saw the kind of energy that I saw for 2 hours at the first show I
saw during the awesome redition of cowboy dan. I also loved the full on
stage sound saturday. Normally when they bring another person in the
past, be it violin, moog, or guitar I have thought it fit poorly and
drowned issac but when their were like 7 people up there and it was still
working that was totally the shit. I have been down on their live show
from fall 97 until I saw them last january at the crystal when I thought
hey they really seem to be coming back. Well they are back and they are
fucking awesome. Anyone on the list that missed this tour, go to the next
one the live show is happening again.
bjorn
oh by the way my review of my weekend of mouse will be on www.groovenw.com
so check out the page and I will let you know when the review goes up.
