What Artists/Albums do the Band Like?

[dragonboy]

We know a little bit about some of the music Jim likes...does anyone know anything about the other guys music tastes?

We know that Jim likes Bob Dylan, M Ward, Elvis Perkins...

There was a great article in UNCUT magazine a few months back, where Jim talked about different songs/albums:
http://www.mymorningjacket.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1213231681/4#4

The First Song I Remember: Dan Fogelberg - Leader Of The Band
The Record That Decided My Destiny: Dinosaur Jr - Fossils
My Comfort Album: John Prine - ST
My Unlikely Influence: James - Laid
The Song I Want Played @ My Funeral: Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers - The Last Miles Of The Way (overdubbed 1970)
My Favourite Concept Album: Eels - Electro Shock Blues
Record With The Best Reverb Ever: Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real
Record That Reminds Me Of Home: Grandpa Jones - 8 More Miles To Louisville
Record That Got Me Into Funk Synths: Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
My Latest Discovery: John Callahan - Purple Winos In Rain

I remember reading that Jim loves Allen Toussaint's Southern Nights & Parliament's First Thangs.

Please post anything you've read/can remember about the music that the guys in the band listen to.

Thanks!  :)

[rob]

I remember one interview.....or maybe it was a fan run-in at a record store......where Jim was buying an older Common CD.

[tomEisenbraun]

Pat and Bo are BIG fans of The Band, for sure. Pat can dig some Drozd-era Flaming Lips if my memory serves me accurately, too.

I spoke with Tommy about music a few years back and he told me he was really digging Isis a lot. Picked up "Oceanic" after that and was pretty blown away by its heaviness.

[dragonboy]

Thanks Rob, Tom.

Tom, I remember you saying that Tommy is a fan of Isis, here's a very old thread:
http://www.mymorningjacket.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1128364528/0#0

"The guys from the Southern twang-rocking phenomenon reveal the songs that inspired them."


Freaks Of The Industry
Digital Underground  

Baby Got Back
Sir Mix-A-Lot  

Crime Scene Part One
Afghan Whigs  

So Did We
Isis  

Highway Patrolman
Bruce Springsteen  

Whispering Pines
The Band  

Ascension Day
Talk Talk  

Mr. Bojangles
Nina Simone  

Late For The Sky
Jackson Browne  

The Ballad Of El Goodo
Big Star  

Quick One, While He's Away
The Who  

Toy Soldiers
Martika  

Respect Yourself
Bruce Willis  

Sailing
Christopher Cross  

One On One
Hall & Oates

[weeniebeenie]

And they're all Neil Young fans, I think Carl especially cause of that interview where he said he wanted to be in Crazy Horse or something like that.
Oh and I think in another interview he said his favourite album was After The Gold Rush.

[tjd]

MMJ talks a bit about their very early influences in the Austin City Limits interview - online version.   To summarize...leader of the band, thriller, the muppet show, simon and grafunkel, disney soundtracks.

http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/flash/video/player2/index.php?xml=/klru/austin/images/stories/ACL/Episodes/2000s/2008/mymorningjacket/video/3405_interview.xml (it's right around the middle)

[aMillionDreams]

I hate to begin to answer this question because I know I'll miss something big.

[dragonboy]

I hate to begin to answer this question because I know I'll miss something big.

Not going to play? I was hoping you'd bring heaps of info to this thread...

[dragonboy]

Jim likes The King!!!



& I'm pretty sure it was Elvis who inspired Jim to grow his beard too  ;)

[mjkoehler]

I read somewhere that he got into James (at least Laid) while working on EU.

[DaFunkyPrecedent]

Isis was TOOLS opening band for a while...that says something

Pat and Bo are BIG fans of The Band, for sure. Pat can dig some Drozd-era Flaming Lips if my memory serves me accurately, too.

I spoke with Tommy about music a few years back and he told me he was really digging Isis a lot. Picked up "Oceanic" after that and was pretty blown away by its heaviness.

[lasvegas]

i know jim is a big fan of the eels and their older stuff.

he said somewhere they made maybe his favorite album ever.