At Dawn is the best MMJ album

[Dorothy_Mantooth]

i like that one album they did called Suspicious Minds

[fitzcarraldo]

i think he's sayin'

 it's far more interesting to overlay your own words as they are being sung in that way.  kinda like the "eeeeeeedahdoo....eeeeedahdooo" at the end of "steam engine"...what's that shiznit, anyways?

Word!
& Good Question.

[fitzcarraldo]

i like that one album they did called Suspicious Minds

Awesome!

[Jellyfish]

wrong.

Tennessee Fire is the best MMJ album.

End of Story.

The reason why At Dawn comes up a close second?

Honest Man.  It's a bit sub-par.

End of Story.  

My least fav song on the album too.....kinda messes up the mellow feel of the album as well.

There is not  bad track on Tennessee Fire.God,what a great album.....a masterpiece.

[fitzcarraldo]

Good question on TWTHS.  I always thought of it as somewhat of a "wordless chorus" so to speak but now that you mention it, it does kind of sound like he don't roam or know maybe

The 'Wordless Chorus' theory here. I like Dave.  :)

[Chico]

The reason why At Dawn comes up a close second?

Honest Man.  It's a bit sub-par.

*gasp* For real?  Honest man is damn close to my favorite!  It screams "Exile on Main Street"!

[BH]

I like Dave.  :)

I like you too. ;) :-*

[EC]

i love everybody.
why do we gotta choose?
how come we can't just love?
xxoooxooxo

[LittleJim]

There is no favorite to be had. Each album kicks serious ass. I really wish I could have them perform for me everyday in my house. That'd be awesome. And it wouldn't matter what they played really at all.

[ManNamedTruth]

*gasp* For real?  Honest man is damn close to my favorite!  It screams "Exile on Main Street"!

yeah i love that song. its all psychadelicy and rockin and howlin.

[meetinthehollows]

I think Okonokos I'd consider their best album because it's the closest thing to hearing all of the albums at once, you know?  There's a great bunch of songs on there.

But if it had to be studio albums, I'd say either Tennessee Fire or Z.  I wish they played more TF songs live.  'They Ran' in philly was amazing.

[tbone]

I have listened to At Dawn a lot recently and have concluded that this is their best release. It's curious...

ding ding...

we have a winner!

tis' true... AT DAWN is their bestestestest record.

1.  At Dawn
2.  It Still Moves
3.  Z
4.  Tennessee Fire

At Dawn is a really, really, really special record.

 8)

[sweatboard]

Each record is to special to be last.  They don't deserve that burden.  Therefore.

1. TN Fire
1. At Dawn
1. It Still Moves
1. SHIT it's still at the bottom "Z" (NOT FAIR!!)

Somebody lock this thread,  I have at one time felt that each album was the greatest thing ever unleashed upon human creatures besides LOVE.  

[suebeeboo]

i think he's sayin'

 it's far more interesting to overlay your own words as they are being sung in that way.  kinda like the "eeeeeeedahdoo....eeeeedahdooo" at the end of "steam engine"...what's that shiznit, anyways?

Word!
& Good Question.

So maybe he's not singing actual words at all but something more like:
na-eee-don-roam-roam
na-eee-don-roam
na-eee-don-roam-roam
na-eee-don-roam

Why am I obsessing about this??  It's my OC nature again!   :-X :-/ :-X :-/

[tomEisenbraun]

[size=12]I've always heard it slightly like words, but I think Jim understands some of the most important parts of music to be that which isn't actually words. It's funny that the song we're currently wonderingabout the words to has the phrase "It's just the way that he sings, not the words that he says, or the band." as the most important line of it all. It's even the title. So we have to take that into account, that it would just so happen to be the song where that is the most important actual phrase, with the

he don't know no
no he don't know
no he don't know no
no he don't know

being the most integral wordless phrasing. that's what i've always heard, but i've never taken it to actually mean much of anything beyond the principle of the sound of that phrase, which I think is one of the most beautiful things about the way Jim hears the English language.

I could wind-bag another paragraph or two (I am in college, after all), however it's Christmas break and I figure I owe it to you and to me to not even bother to do that.

p.s. i like the ability to change fonts so easily...

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[BH]

nice font work tom.  however, that post would have looked good in any font.

[evilPaauwe]

nice font work tom.  however, that post would have looked good in any font.

was that a pickup line?



i was introduced to MMJ by their Austin City Limits performance ,    i watched golden, then gideon. Was blown away yet was too tired to watch the rest.     the next day i bought hopefully on itunes store.         worked out nice, one song representing each of the latest 3 albums.   First impressions are lasting impressions.     when i buy a new album i sit in the dark and just listen, preferably with either drink or smoke in hand.             i bought it still moves first, because golden was my favorite of the three.        ISM was awesome.     Then At Dawn...    that was AWESOME.       then......      there was Z.        If the first time i ever listened to Dark Side of The Moon was a 10. and the first time i listened to OK Computer was a 9. Then Z was an 8.8.      My mind was blown. blown to bits as it were.  got TNF bout' 3 weeks ago. Thats awesome also, but for me...
1. Z
2. At Dawn
3. It Still Moves.
4. Tennessee Fire

[BH]

nice font work tom.  however, that post would have looked good in any font.

was that a pickup line?



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Your font might be run of the mill pauwee, but I like it too.  I'm not just a one font kind of guy.

[billybluebeard]

The reason why At Dawn comes up a close second?

Honest Man.  It's a bit sub-par.

End of Story.  

 You've got me curious, bo dereks tits, just what is it that you dislike about Honest Man?  I kept this thread in mind during my Xmas day At Dawn-athon, and just couldn't find anything bad about that song.

 Actually, out of the whole album the only thing that ever struck me wrong was the "stomping" intro to Strangulation, and that's just because I'm usually floatin' off in some astral plane by that point when all of a sudden it comes blaring in and scares the shit out of me.  I've grown to love it though... once I realized that if it weren't for that I might never make it back to my body.


At Dawn is their Master of Puppets...  their Appetite for Destruction...  their South of Heaven!  It's their Moon and Antarctica, for cryin' out loud!!!  It's their Love Will Keep us Together (that one's for you, Tenn![smiley=tongue.gif]).  However, I'm not yet willing to say that it's their Dark Side of the Moon... since there's no tellin' what lays ahead.

[inthehollowww]

I have listened to At Dawn a lot recently and have concluded that this is their best release. It's curious...

ding ding...

we have a winner!

tis' true... AT DAWN is their bestestestest record.

1.  At Dawn
2.  It Still Moves
3.  Z
4.  Tennessee Fire

At Dawn is a really, really, really special record.

8)

I think you can make a case for either At Dawn, TF, or It Still Moves as the best overall album.  A list of my individual favorite songs would be a compilitation from all three.  If I had to decide I may just go with It Still Moves, although TF was my first love.  Seems like I may be in the minority with It Still Moves, but from start to finish it never seems to lose any of its driving force.  It surprises me there is not more of a "It Still Moves" backlash

To me what's really interesting are the opinions of Z as the best or better than any of the others.   I cant figure that out as a MMJ fan but we all see things in different lights.  Z was such a departure in many ways, but undoubtedly a great album in its own way.