Wow- I couldn't have imagined a more imperceptive interpretation of this album...
The thing is that he DOES augment the album- by reducing the flash/bang of the music, the incredible lyrics are allowed to own the spotlight. And my god do they! When Modest Mouse sings it- you can hear the poetry, but you aren't absorbed or reflecting on the intentions of it. When Sun Kil Moon does it, the poetry SINGS. Neverending Math Equation has become easily one of my favorite songs of all time, but the SKM version, not the Modest Mouse.
Even after a lot of listening to Modest Mouse, I had never experienced the poetry in the lyrics the way I do with the Sun Kil Moon versions.
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LBookwood said on June 12, 2007:
Wow- I couldn't have imagined a more imperceptive interpretation of this album...
The thing is that he DOES augment the album- by reducing the flash/bang of the music, the incredible lyrics are allowed to own the spotlight. And my god do they! When Modest Mouse sings it- you can hear the poetry, but you aren't absorbed or reflecting on the intentions of it. When Sun Kil Moon does it, the poetry SINGS. Neverending Math Equation has become easily one of my favorite songs of all time, but the SKM version, not the Modest Mouse.
Even after a lot of listening to Modest Mouse, I had never experienced the poetry in the lyrics the way I do with the Sun Kil Moon versions.