Song that 'De-Flowered' You

[jrat]

my intro was hte 9:30 club recording, streaming from this site. the laylow, dondonte run thru stretch floored me. only with 'at dawn' though were my eyes truly opened. strangulation, honest man, if it smashes down......unique and so goddamn beautiful. listening to Z on my headphones as loud as they go, walking the streets at 2 am with a joint freshly burned, several beers injested. i had the biggest smile.

[inkling79]

"One Big Holiday" on Conan. I bought ISM the next day.

[Jon T.]

Golden from Acoustic Citsuoco.  I got that and It Still Moves around the same time.  I wasn't real familiar with it from ISM but AC and me got real close, real fast and the rest just fell into place.

[tomEisenbraun]

One Big Holiday.

Of course.

It didn't even take a second. I was flipping channels and went straight by what looked to be a lion shaking his mane to the rebirth of Led Zeppelin, and immediately switched back and watched the second verse to the end of that song in sheer amazement and glee. That pretty much sold me.

[dragonboy]

a lion shaking his mane to the rebirth of Led Zeppelin

Very nice Tom, I like that a lot !  :)

[sweatboard]

Very nice Tom, I like that a lot !  :)

The best analogy of all time.  Good one Tom.

[tomEisenbraun]

Thankye, I sure do try. :)

[LaurieBlue]

the way he sings...at first i couldnt understand a fucking thing jim was saying, but i was mesmerized by the song nonetheless

Ditto...Morning Becomes Eclectic...2003(?) I think it was.  I hunted down the song and found the Sweatbees EP online..got it....emailed Jim James...he kindly responded...saw them that summer at Charlotte's CityFest..got to meet Jim there..and...the rest..as they say...is history...still in the making :-)

[Carter41]

I was in the hospital the night when MMJ was on Conan for the first time. I was rockin' out so hard to One Big Holiday. The next day, my buddy called me and telling me about this awesome band he saw on Conan the previous night. The very next day, we drove around for an hour trying to find somplace that had It Still Moves.

[begoodtanya]

Mine was 'Mahgeetah' that was on an American Eagle cd after buying som clothes.  From the moment I heard the background vocals and chorus I knew I was being introduced to something very special.

hey i have that cd too. except i never listened to it fully.

so anyways i got Z first and because Into the Woods comes before Dondante I was in awe of Into the Woods first- because of the lyrics and everything but also because of the singing-saw sounds. I've tried to play a saw but it hasnt worked out yet.

Someone on the boards here used the phrase going into a coma when they heard something. That's just about what happened when I heard Dondante- even though i didn't know what Jim was singing about. I also listen to this song sitting in hallways at university waiting for class. I usually have a huge smile on my face and sometimes get asked if I`m okay/high.  ;)

[saki]

Mahgeetah - absolutely blew me away the first time I heard it ...from then on I was hooked

[JacketGal]

I was getting ready for work one morning in early 2004. I think I was  actually ironing something. Anyhow, I always listen to this one radio station as I'm running around tryint to get out the door...so I'm not really paying attention and this song starts...and I actually stopped ironing and just kind of stared at the radio for I don't know how long. It was Golden. I heard that voice and I was seriously thinking HOLY SHIT!

It was one of those rare moments when something brand new literally picks you up and moves you to a new dimension of beauty in music. I was hooked from the second I heard that lonesome picking....as everyone else has said....the rest is history! GAWD, I LOVE THIS BAND!!!  ;D

[TheRoof]

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It was one of those rare moments when something brand new literally picks you up and moves you to a new dimension of beauty in music. ;D

Couldn't  have put it better JacketGirl!

[efroten]

Well, One Big Holiday.  Long story though.  I went to seee Beth Orton a few years back in Chicago, and missed the opening band except for the last song.  It was MMJ and they were doing One Big Holiday.  Only I didnt know who they were or what the song was until much later.  I just remember thing "holy fuck!", how did these guys end up opening for Beth Orton (if you know her music, i guess MMJ fits with her on thier albums, but not live).  I remember a massive amount of hair swirling, and just serious rockin.  fast forward to the release of It Still Moves...

I started seeing MMJ in mags when it still moves was about to come out, and they seemed familiar.  I must have remembered their name from seeing it at the beth orton show.  I checked into it and saw they were for sure that i saw open for her.  I work at a music store, and bought It Still Moves shortly after it was released.  Took me some time to get into them, at first I only liked the harder tracks and didnt care for the production much.  I ended up getting At Dawn later, and it took me FOREVER to get into that one.  But once i got into it, i started getting into the mellower tracks on It Still Moves.  Its sort of a toss up over which album i like better now.  Z is my least favorite, but tracks like Lowdown are just KILLER.

On a side note, we played Z overhead in our store for quite some time.  A woman who works thier got really into it.  She thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread.  She started playing it for her grandson (yes GRANDSON who is about 3), and now he doesnt like to go in the car unless they play Z!  Frikin crazy.

[sweatboard]

Now, that's good GRANDparenting.  Great Story.  We love you. Welcome HOME!!!!!

[Foxtrot76]

I remember driving to work one morning a few years back and my fave radio station (XRT Chicago) played Golden. I was so moved by this song that by the point the lyric 'and on heaven's golden shore, we'd lay our head' i was openly weeping in my car. probably sounds weak but it just touched me on such an emtional level that i couldn't control it. really the only band since radiohead to hit me that hard (in a GOOD way!) needless to say i went out and bought TF, AD and ISM that evening...god i love these guys...

[TEO]

Same as Tom, One Big Holiday on Conan. I saw all this hair and really heavy guitar stuff, and then when JJ stepped up to the microphone I was hooked immediately! Tom-were you at Bonnaroo last year in front row writing setlist on front of your T-shirt as they performed the songs?

[TomBarton]

I was record shopping, and picked up ISM on a whim after a friend of mine said their live performance was stellar. As soon as the stylus hit the vinyl, and i heard the first bits of mahgeetah it was like someone had pulled the earth from beneath me.

[tomEisenbraun]

Same as Tom, One Big Holiday on Conan. I saw all this hair and really heavy guitar stuff, and then when JJ stepped up to the microphone I was hooked immediately! Tom-were you at Bonnaroo last year in front row writing setlist on front of your T-shirt as they performed the songs?

That's awesome! That was me! Were you the guy right next to me?

[TEO]

OMFG! I was to your immediate left! Small world. And you did a great job for writing upside down and backward. Let's go for a little bit more toward the middle this year!