My Morning Jacket In Europe

Tommy.Young · Jul 13, 2011, 01:42 PM

Fellow friends, I'm a fan of My Morning Jacket since "At Dawn", and I'm Portuguese.

Here, in bloody Europe, My Morning Jacket are seen as a decidedly smaller band, are given a lot of bad reviews by the press (for example the portuguese press, and the british also), who considerate Beady Eye and Arctic Monkeys as the best of the best, even if their albums are a lot worst.

What is your opinion? Are My Morning Jacket a band who contribute to music all over the world, with their unique vision of beauty, or are they really a smaller band, in the shadow of bands such as Fleet Foxes?

If so, how can My Morning Jacket change this?
:dankk2:

e_wind · Jul 13, 2011, 03:04 PM

In the shadow of Fleet Foxes?

Fleet Foxes just released their first EP 9 Years after The Tennessee Fire came out. I mean I know they're getting big but are they really getting that big?

Crispy · Jul 13, 2011, 03:10 PM

Quote from: e_wind on Jul 13, 2011, 03:04 PM
In the shadow of Fleet Foxes?

Fleet Foxes just released their first EP 9 Years after The Tennessee Fire came out. I mean I know they're getting big but are they really getting that big?

I was about to say something like this, but along the lines of Fleet Foxes releasing their record about when MMJ was playing Radio City and MSG. (FF did have a EP in 2006, not widely released tho, I think)

If MMJ finds themselves in the shadow of Fleet Foxes in Europe these days, SBB should worry.

Tommy.Young · Jul 13, 2011, 03:20 PM

Here in Europe they are well known and appreciated.
I saw them at Optimus Alive (Fleet Foxes), and I really like them, and their philosophy of the modern world.
But My Morning Jacket are icons to me, and all over the world I see people saying that they are copying and taking advantage of this "new folk" thing, and it just makes me mad to see them diminishing the potential of such a great band

e_wind · Jul 13, 2011, 03:26 PM

I'm pretty sure that MMJ are standardly credited with reviving this "new folk" thing. I've read multiple articles that call Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Avi Buffalo, etc Jim James' followers

Tommy.Young · Jul 13, 2011, 03:32 PM

I've read the contrary. For example, I think it was NME, regarding Circuital, they say that MMJ take advantage of the gate open by Fleet Foxes. I think it was NME

e_wind · Jul 13, 2011, 03:36 PM

well apparently NME isn't aware of The Tennessee Fire.......

.... which was released in 1999.

Tracy 2112 · Jul 13, 2011, 03:38 PM

Here in my living room My Morning Jacket rules the universe. That's all I really care about

e_wind · Jul 13, 2011, 03:38 PM

har

Tommy.Young · Jul 13, 2011, 03:42 PM

Honestly I don't care about the music critics. I just want to have a beard like Jim James, and that MMJ came to Portugal (and supporting Pearl Jam doesn't count)

Jon T. · Jul 13, 2011, 03:44 PM

Well, you can tell NME, and the whole country o' Europe, they can kiss my ass. MMJ rulz, baby! MMJ RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULZ!

jk Tommy - welcome!

SaraBananaBear · Jul 13, 2011, 04:40 PM

Nononono, back this up! Red alert! The Swedish press LOVE MMJ, okay? There was this really nice feature in a music magazine just recently, I'll scan it next week so you can see! Even though it will only read bork, bork, bork...

Though there's a problem with people not knowing about MMJ at all, but I'm trying to turn as many new fans as I possibly can... one music vampire bite at the time! Mwahaha! :D

BH · Jul 13, 2011, 05:05 PM

The important thing Tommy Young, is "How does My Morning Jacket make YOU feel?"

Tommy.Young · Jul 13, 2011, 06:00 PM

They give me the best feeling that humans can feel. And that's what bugs me here in Europe. People don't appreciate a band with so much potential to create feelings in a way that you cannot possible even start to describe.
Doesn't that make you angry?

peafunk31 · Jul 13, 2011, 07:43 PM

Quote from: Tommy.Young on Jul 13, 2011, 06:00 PM
They give me the best feeling that humans can feel. And that's what bugs me here in Europe. People don't appreciate a band with so much potential to create feelings in a way that you cannot possible even start to describe.
Doesn't that make you angry?

Not angry but enlightened ;) We're better off not having the mindless masses shower the band with praises because the critics/press deem them the "in" thing. It should make you feel good that you get it. I think it means that you actually have a soul

SaraBananaBear · Jul 14, 2011, 10:18 AM

Quote from: Tommy.Young on Jul 13, 2011, 06:00 PM
They give me the best feeling that humans can feel. And that's what bugs me here in Europe. People don't appreciate a band with so much potential to create feelings in a way that you cannot possible even start to describe.
Doesn't that make you angry?

I don't think it's that people don't appreciate it, but rather that they haven't even heard it yet.

Ruckus · Jul 14, 2011, 10:37 AM

Just be glad that besides festivals, they only play small venues across the pond. :)