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    Top Albums of 2008

    in Someone Else's Song

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    So far I have to say:

    My Morning Jacket-Evil Urges

    Very fun record and I like how they are evolving.

     

    The Raconteurs-Consolers of the Lonely

    Much better than their first.

     

    Dr. Dog-Fate

    Raphael Saadiq-The Way I See It

    Mates of State- Re-Arrange Us

     

    Biggest Disappointment: Beck-Modern Guilt

    My Morning Jacket...

    in Someone Else's Song

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    It was 2003 and I came home from baseball practice absolutely exhausted. My dad told me to go to my room and listen to tracks 8 and 9 (Run Thru and Rollin' Back). I passed out halfway through Run Thru. I was then force-fed It Still Moves wherever we went (baseball game, out for breakfast, uncle's funeral) and eventually, on my own terms, I liked them.

    New My Morning Jacket Album!!!

    in Someone Else's Song

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    "ART ROCK | My Morning Jacket, "Evil Urges" (ATO) Having spent its first decade building a loyal following straddling patchouli-scented jam-band fans and Pitchfork-quoting indie-hipsters -- an Allman Brothers for the alt-country crowd, or space-rock Wilco fronted by a reedier-voiced Lenny -- the Louisville, Ky., quintet My Morning Jacket began to walk the experimental/art-rock tightrope on its last album "Z" (2005), and it was rewarded with its biggest commercial success. Underscoring his desire not to be typecast as, you know, a mix of jam band fan and indie-rock hipster, bandleader Jim James told the New York Times, "I don't want people to think anything when they hear 'My Morning Jacket.' I just want them to think of a question mark."

    Well, a question mark lingers over the group's fifth studio release, all right, but it isn't the one James was hoping for. Instead, the query is how the heck the group could have expected to pass off such a sprawling, chaotic and ultimately unsatisfying mess as inspired experimentation or stylistic diversity.

     

    Working with producer Joe Chiccarelli (the White Stripes, the Shins), it's as if the band was being steered by a GPS set to lead it into the most troublesome terrain imaginable, veering away from the reliable routes of alt-country, folk-rock and dramatic guitar jams, man, in favor of funk grooves, electronic ambient bleeps and blatant, embarrassing Prince tributes. While there are a few echoes of earlier triumphs, notably in the rousing "I'm Amazed," serious missteps such as the title track, the "Midnight at the Oasis" '70s AM radio tribute "Thank You Too!" and the unbelievably, unbearably annoying "Highly Suspicious" are so dire, the overall disc never recovers.

     

    The themes of acting impulsively and bravely leaping into the void permeate the proceedings. "If you touch me, well I just think I'll scream/'Cause it's been so long, since someone challenged me/And made me think about the way things are/Made me think about the way they could be," James trills in "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream, Pt. 2." But sometimes when you leap, you fall, and there is no inherent nobility in experimentation if all the results just fail."

    Jim DeRogatis

     

    Ummm....ok...

     

    Someone over on the MMJ boards posted this response to his review:

    Shame on the sun-times for hiring a critic like that. Its like he dosent even try to listen to the music. I bet as soon as heard evil urges, during the first 10 seconds, he probably said to himself

     

    " Hey, this isnt alt country, this isnt the mmj i was expecting to hear, i not even going to even attempt to listen to the music and ill just point out the obvious when i see it...oh look, hes doing a prince impersonation, that will be a great line to put in my unimformed review"

     

    Can't say I disagree with the poster

    Via Chicago's Top 100 Albums of All Time: Summer 2008 edition

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Work in Progress (as of 6/14/08) this is how it stands so far:

     

    1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco

    2. Z-My Morning Jacket

    3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots-The Flaming Lips

    4. Welcome Interstate Managers-Fountains of Wayne

    5. Once OST-Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

    6. Demon Days-Gorillaz

    7. Get Behind Me Satan-The White Stripes

    8. A Ghost is Born-Wilco

    9. Evil Urges-My Morning Jacket

    10. Sea Change-Beck

    11. Abbey Road-The Beatles

    12. Sumday-Grandaddy

    13. Let it Be...Naked-The Beatles

    14. Consolers of the Lonely-The Raconteurs

    15. Chronicle Vol. 1-Creedence Clearwater Revival

    16. The Muppet Show-The Muppets

    17. The Good, The Bad and The Queen-The Good, The Bad and the Queen

    18. Odelay-Beck

    19. Sky Blue Sky-Wilco

    20. Born Again in the U.S.A.-Loose Fur

    New My Morning Jacket Album!!!

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Posted this on another site:

     

    http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/my...acket/evilurges

     

    Metacritic score is 74 right now with 18 reviews in. General rule of thumb on this site is that the score usually comes down as more reviews come in. If you look at all of the recent scores on the left for other bands, this is a very average score at best. For comparison, other MMJ releases on this site were as follows:

     

    It Still Moves - 83

    Z - 90

    Okonokos - 80

     

    You can't argue with the data, people aren't feeling as much love for this album. :ohwell

     

    Oh well, still my favorite album of 2008

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