stip wrote:I mean they're probably more potentially impressive songwriters right now than they were on Vs. They've been at this for a long time and Eddie, for instance, I think is far more adept at writing melodies now than he once was. But there is a primal, visceral, elemental, desperate energy to this album that elevates absolutely everything it touches. And I don't think they'll ever be able to tap into that again. They're grasping for something here they eventually found, and even if they let go I don't think you reach for it again in quite the same way
Ive played with musicians who have gone through serious jazz training and musical scholarships. I always found their songwriting to suck after they get all that knowledge.
When ament talks about how none of them were really songwriters and that Jeremy never really had a key change.... I roll my eyes. Who gives a shit? The primal instinct is usually the best one. Its now showing in their song writing. They are trying too hard because it seems as though they now have an idea of what a song should be. How it should be structured.
Grip it and rip it, bro's.
