My Morning Jacket - EVIL URGES = amazing

mole1985 · June 2008

I got this today on the recommendation of this thread and i'm quite pleased. 'I'm Amazed' is an outstanding track. Where should i go from here? Anyone recommend another MMJ album?

Rhinocerous Surprise · June 2008

mole1985 wrote:

I got this today on the recommendation of this thread and i'm quite pleased. 'I'm Amazed' is an outstanding track. Where should i go from here? Anyone recommend another MMJ album?

If you like I'm Amazed... probably It Still Moves. But really you can't go wrong... Z, Okonokos, At Dawn, and the Tennessee Fire are all amazing.

newwetkojak · June 2008

the good songs are great, but the bad ones are really f'n bad.

evil urges and touch me get things off to a classic start. perfect tunes

highly suspicious is an awful parody of a prince funk tune. c'mon jim... you could have tried a little harder on this one.

i'm amazed and thank you too are also good, the latter coming a hairs width away from becoming bad 1970's AM lite rock, but it's executed perfectly.

sec walkin and two halves unfortunately fall into that bad AM lite catagory... sounds like kenny rodgers or charlie pride or something. bland and uninspired. just terrible. a serious pothole in the middle of the record.

librarian is a show stopper. a moody blues-sounding tune that is absolutely fucking amazing. great lyrics.

look at you, aluminum park, and remnants are ok, but are kinda standard MMJ tracks. nothing too exceptional, but not bad either.

smokin from shootin is another perfect song, still definitely mmj, but pushing things further out.

touch me pt2 is another classic. these two will probably be held up alongside paranoid android as a modern indie classic.

overall, evil urges has it's moments, but it is a fatally flawed record imo. all of the reviews i've read hail it as the best thing to come out in years, a true "album" in the sense that every track is essential to one another and pushes MMJ's boundaries to their limits. not really. their next one is hopefully a more streamlined and focused effort.

Igottago · June 2008

newwetkojak wrote:

the good songs are great, but the bad ones are really f'n bad.

evil urges and touch me get things off to a classic start. perfect tunes

highly suspicious is an awful parody of a prince funk tune. c'mon jim... you could have tried a little harder on this one.

i'm amazed and thank you too are also good, the latter coming a hairs width away from becoming bad 1970's AM lite rock, but it's executed perfectly.

sec walkin and two halves unfortunately fall into that bad AM lite catagory... sounds like kenny rodgers or charlie pride or something. bland and uninspired. just terrible. a serious pothole in the middle of the record.

librarian is a show stopper. a moody blues-sounding tune that is absolutely fucking amazing. great lyrics.

look at you, aluminum park, and remnants are ok, but are kinda standard MMJ tracks. nothing too exceptional, but not bad either.

smokin from shootin is another perfect song, still definitely mmj, but pushing things further out.

touch me pt2 is another classic. these two will probably be held up alongside paranoid android as a modern indie classic.

overall, evil urges has it's moments, but it is a fatally flawed record imo. all of the reviews i've read hail it as the best thing to come out in years, a true "album" in the sense that every track is essential to one another and pushes MMJ's boundaries to their limits. not really. their next one is hopefully a more streamlined and focused effort.

Great review..I very much agree. As far as the critics go, its kind of like giving Denzel Washington an oscar for Training Day. Not nearly his best work, but he was due for some credit. Same thing with MMJ in this case.

At this point Highly Suspicious has lost all its luster for me. Yeah it was fun at first, but now its an automatic skip. Smokin from shootin and touch me 2 are the best segment of the album by far, and if the album was more in tune with what they had going there, it could've been much better.

restlesssoul · June 2008

im definately still not feeling sec walkin. its just such a weird song, the country just comes out of left field. but the rest of the album is solid for me.

mole1985 · June 2008

newwetkojak wrote:

the good songs are great, but the bad ones are really f'n bad.

evil urges and touch me get things off to a classic start. perfect tunes

highly suspicious is an awful parody of a prince funk tune. c'mon jim... you could have tried a little harder on this one.

i'm amazed and thank you too are also good, the latter coming a hairs width away from becoming bad 1970's AM lite rock, but it's executed perfectly.

sec walkin and two halves unfortunately fall into that bad AM lite catagory... sounds like kenny rodgers or charlie pride or something. bland and uninspired. just terrible. a serious pothole in the middle of the record.

librarian is a show stopper. a moody blues-sounding tune that is absolutely fucking amazing. great lyrics.

look at you, aluminum park, and remnants are ok, but are kinda standard MMJ tracks. nothing too exceptional, but not bad either.

smokin from shootin is another perfect song, still definitely mmj, but pushing things further out.

touch me pt2 is another classic. these two will probably be held up alongside paranoid android as a modern indie classic.

overall, evil urges has it's moments, but it is a fatally flawed record imo. all of the reviews i've read hail it as the best thing to come out in years, a true "album" in the sense that every track is essential to one another and pushes MMJ's boundaries to their limits. not really. their next one is hopefully a more streamlined and focused effort.

I agree with pretty much everything you just said

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun · June 2008

the middle sucks, but Remnants and Amazed are great.

and I love Highly Suspicious. its bizarre but it works. i dont care for evil urges though, and its similar. too safe.

i still think Sec Walkin was made because of a lost bet.

South of Seattle · June 2008

newwetkojak wrote:

highly suspicious is an awful parody of a prince funk tune. c'mon jim... you could have tried a little harder on this one.

It's like Mike Patton hittin' Prince from behind.

newwetkojak wrote:

i'm amazed and thank you too are also good, the latter coming a hairs width away from becoming bad 1970's AM lite rock, but it's executed perfectly.

sec walkin and two halves unfortunately fall into that bad AM lite catagory... sounds like kenny rodgers or charlie pride or something. bland and uninspired. just terrible. a serious pothole in the middle of the record.

I was thinking Christopher Cross myself;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkIuKXwmlU&feature=related

newwetkojak wrote:

overall, evil urges has it's moments, but it is a fatally flawed record imo. all of the reviews i've read hail it as the best thing to come out in years, a true "album" in the sense that every track is essential to one another and pushes MMJ's boundaries to their limits. not really. their next one is hopefully a more streamlined and focused effort.

I agree 100% with this.

restlesssoul · July 2008

im still all over this record. HANDS DOWN record of the year for myself. i dont care what comes out in the last 6 months, i dont think it will beat this, save for the HIP.

the wolf · July 2008

i just got this album last night. spun it 3 times in a row because i just couldnt really decide what i thought.

now im giving it another go, and i have decided that half the album is brilliant, and the 25% is so so, and the other 25% is just plain not so great.

but the half that is birlliant, is...........well, BRILLIANT !!

highly suspicious almost wrecked the whole thing for me though lol.

ledvedderman · July 2008

Does anyone have the acoustic "Smoking From Shooting" that was available as part of a pre-order? That's my favorite song from the album and a acoustic version would be right up my alley.

Rhinocerous Surprise · July 2008

the wolf wrote:

i just got this album last night. spun it 3 times in a row because i just couldnt really decide what i thought.

now im giving it another go, and i have decided that half the album is brilliant, and the 25% is so so, and the other 25% is just plain not so great.

but the half that is birlliant, is...........well, BRILLIANT !!

highly suspicious almost wrecked the whole thing for me though lol.

I'm with you on that. I can barely listen to Look At You. Thank You Too, Sec Walkin and Librarian aren't all that good. But the rest of the album is up there with the best stuff they've ever done, and that includes Highly Suspicious.

Remnants is the most balls-out rocking song I've heard in a long time.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun · July 2008

i take what i like and leave the rest.

pjtaper · July 2008

I bet I'm not the only one who thought this thread was goign to be about My Morning Jacket being an awesome band except for Evil Urges(SUCKS)

UpSideDown · July 2008

pjtaper wrote:

I bet I'm not the only one who thought this thread was goign to be about My Morning Jacket being an awesome band except for Evil Urges(SUCKS)

Bought the cd a few weeks ago.........some songs are really solid, some other are standard MMJ tunes........two songs actually sound exactly like other songs that have already been put out

Overall, not bad..........pretty much what I expected from them. They have a couple of songs in their catalogue that I love, but most of everything else is just okay.

deadmosquito · July 2008

their best record since it still moves. actually maybe even better than that. but at dawn is still their masterpiece.

Obi Once · July 2008

(ignore the title above)

Will see them live next tuesday, can't wait!

Evil Urges sounds great, but haven't found the time to really listen to the rest of the new album...

My Morning Jacket - EVIL URGES = amazing

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