Which song got you hooked?

[e_wind]

I knew none of their music the first time I saw them, late night at High Sierra, showed started a little after midnight.  I was hooked by the first 2 songs.

2006-06-30 High Sierra Festival - Quincy, CA    

1. Steam Engine
2. Gideon
3. The Dark
4. Lowdown
5. One Big Holiday
6. Off The Record
7. Evelyn Is Not Real
8. What A Wonderful Man
9. Heartbreakin? Man
10. Golden
11. Dondante
12. Lay Low
13. Phone Went West
14. Mahgeetah
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15. Bermuda Highway
16. The Bear
17. O Is The One That Is Real
18. Anytime

That setlist is AMAZING!

Seriously a damn near perfect set list right there, and late night at a festival. jeez. mind = blown.

[Jackets N Pones]

Run Thru - Patrick's drum stick light show thing he does - November 16, 2006 - Gypsy Tea Room - Dallas, TX

Ordered Okonokos DVD first thing the next morning.

[TEO]

Sing You Songs and Lowdown in no particular order...

[Honest Man]

They closed with Phone Went West - 2003 @ Hammerstein NYC. Blown Away.

[spartanjames]

Evelyn is not real got me hooked - I heard it on a complelation CD for Atlanta magazine back in 2004.  I then bought It Still Moves and have been a fan ever since.

However -  what realy got me hooked was hearing Run Thru live - I don't smoke, but I feel like I need a cigarette every time I hear that song live.  It's more then music it's an experience.

[spartanjames]

I sing that song to my new born twin boys to put them to sleep.  Actually, just repeat those two lines over and over.  Kind of weird thing to sing I know, but the melody of that line seems to make them very calm.

Great song

I will be there when you die.

[gardenparty]

Bermuda Highway was my first love when i was a casual fan.

Phone Went West while on a red eye flight led to me becoming much more than a casual fan

[Ghosts_on_TV]

It's been a great 3 or 4 years at first, but Good Intentions really sealed the deal.

[slappymoe]

It's been a great 3 or 4 years.

ha!  mine was the year in review.

no, really, like many others i first saw them on you-tube, OBH on the conan show.  i thought, damn, these guys rock.

but the "hooker" was seeing the rolling stone sessions, jim doing steam engine and masterplan solo. soooo freakin' good.

[rincon]

A little over a year ago I bought a used Okonosis DVD. I always saw MMJ lumped with alternative country, of which I am a fan, but not familiar with them. The first time I watched it I was almost thinking something was wrong. EVERY song was really good, and Golden was the only Alt. Country sounding song. Why aren't they really famous? I watched it about 5 times in the next 2 weeks. OBH was the one that I really noticed. Now Steam Engine on that album is probably going to be played at my funeral.

[CHIMMJFAN]

For me it was "Just one Thing" and "LayLow"

It's funny my friends who played MMJ all the time can remember specifically where we were driving when it finally hit me! lol

CHIMMJFAN

[youreveningcoat]

First it was One Big Holiday on Guitar Hero then I bought ISM and it was great but what really turned me into the die hard fan that I am is Off The Record.

Off The Record could easily be my Favourite song of MMJ's if not my favourite of all time. :)

[buymycar]

Dondante from their first appearance on Austin City Limits.

[scosby2]

not sure if it was one song specifically but i got hooked at the bonnaroo set in 06'...i still specifically remember dancefloors blowing me away

[jahabe08]

I owe it all to my best friend.... Right after it still moves was released..... We listened to it and I bought it the next day.... Every since then i have been a fan.....My favorite songs at first were I will sing you songs and one big holiday.... The girl i was seeing at the time hated them... We are no longer together...  :) In no particular order now lay low, off the record, steam engine, magheeta (im listening to right now),  lowdown, sooner, i will be there when you die, hopefully, just one thing, actually i love every damn song of theirs... My current favorites are probably where to begin and same in any language (which is a cover).... Cant wait to see them this summer

[DejaView2011]

Really looking back it was Gideon that hooked me, but the way that he sings from Okonokos that reeled me in. I listen to it every morning to start my day. It makes my whole house wake up dancing.

[Bigsky]

I was at a Christmas party back in January of 2008 at my brother-in-law's place and he was like "you have to see this." In the middle of the party he puts on the Okonokos DVD for me...I was hooked by the first note of JJ's voice on "Wordless Chorus." Being a big Grateful Dead & Phish fan I loved live music, but when I saw these boys and what they could do on stage...my face melted for the first time. I was hooked by "Wordless Chorus" because it was the first song, but I fell completely in love with this band when I heard "Dondante" & "Steam Engine." It was the biggest musical revelation that I had ever experienced...it was like my ears had heard music for the very first time.

[DewieCox]

The Bear, Steam Engine, and OBH from the Bonnaroo dvd kept me goin for awhile, before I really started diggin them. The Evil Urges album with considerable help from Z really sealed the deal

[littleacorn]

First heard off the record on sirius at work and was interested. That weekend I picked up  Celebración de la Ciudad Natal at my local record store and it sucked me in just like any good album should do and that was that.

[sweatboard]

The Bear, laying in bed with headphones on in complete darkness.