Okonokos Reviews

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Angry Ewok

#80
Oct 10, 2006, 02:08 PM
Was anyone else disapointed that RollingStone didn't mention Okonokos? I wonder if they'll at least mention the DVD next time around?

Honestly, I'm so annoyed at RS Mag and how it's so fucking focused on circle jerking half-assed artists (Justin Timberlake in a wet t-shirt? What the fuck!?) and half assed journalism based on (retardedly biased) political articles, that I'm almost HAPPY that they haven't made more than a brief mention of My Morning Jacket... cause they'd probably say MMJ was weak.
--- and that's 2 real 4 u.

mcarroll

#81
Oct 10, 2006, 02:21 PM
I'm sure they'll make a mention of it at some point.  Rolling Stone is a pretty big fan of My Morning Jacket, I think.  I believe they had Z as the #6 album of 2005.  As far as Justin Timberlake goes, he is about the closest thing you can get these days to what Michael Jackson was back in his prime.  I'm not saying he is as good as MJ was back then, but if you like that kind of pop music, he is the best thing going right now.

Angry Ewok

#82
Oct 10, 2006, 02:27 PM
They ranked Z in a RS Magazine? Woah. Excuse me while I shut up and dig around for that back issue. Any idea which issue it was?

 8)

As far as Justin Timberlake goes... if he's the posterboy for pop these days, that's just a shame... cause you know he ain't coming out with a Thriller anytime soon.
--- and that's 2 real 4 u.

mcarroll

#83
Oct 10, 2006, 02:38 PM
I remember when Z came out, they gave it a fairly long review, and had a full page write up on them in the issue before that one.  It was probably the year end issue, when they rank the 50 best albums of the year, that they ranked Z #6.  I imagine they'll at least review the DVD of Okonokos.  If they don't, they need to pull their heads out of their asses.

Ain't nobody making another Thriller...Unless Jim James goes pop, that is.

Jaimoe

#84
Oct 10, 2006, 02:39 PM
I think it's Rolling Stone's attitude about reviewing live albums as a whole rather than systematically ignoring Okonokos.

Diehards and casual fans are the only people that would find a review of Okonokos relevant or interesting.

tomEisenbraun

#85
Oct 10, 2006, 02:41 PM
i'm sorry if this horribly out of place and egotistical, but i saw you had mention of "Jacketeer" in your signature Angry, and I was wondering if anyone knows where that phrase originated. I think i may have coined it, I can actually remember the first time i used it, but I just realized I may have started that, and was wondering if perhaps I was wrong.

good lord, that's selfish of me.
The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

ycartrob

#86
Oct 10, 2006, 03:00 PM
QuoteWas anyone else disapointed that RollingStone didn't mention Okonokos? I wonder if they'll at least mention the DVD next time around?

Honestly, I'm so annoyed at RS Mag and how it's so fucking focused on circle jerking half-assed artists (Justin Timberlake in a wet t-shirt? What the fuck!?) and half assed journalism based on (retardedly biased) political articles, that I'm almost HAPPY that they haven't made more than a brief mention of My Morning Jacket... cause they'd probably say MMJ was weak.

like 5 or 6 years ago RS stated they were selling out to become more of a teeny bopper zine.

megisnotreal

#87
Oct 10, 2006, 03:36 PM
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like 5 or 6 years ago RS stated they were selling out to become more of a teeny bopper zine.

Uh, yeah.

Something's wrong with all the issues of RS I receive... They're all sticky and smelly... maybe because they're all permeated with pretentious bullshit?

Jaimoe

#88
Oct 10, 2006, 03:47 PM
Rolling Stone still has decent film and DVD reviewers, but they are no longer leaders for music - and haven't been for over 15 years.  

Angry Ewok

#89
Oct 10, 2006, 06:04 PM
Quotei'm sorry if this horribly out of place and egotistical, but i saw you had mention of "Jacketeer" in your signature Angry, and I was wondering if anyone knows where that phrase originated. I think i may have coined it, I can actually remember the first time i used it, but I just realized I may have started that, and was wondering if perhaps I was wrong.

good lord, that's selfish of me.

You're probably not the first person to use the word... I mean, without having noticed the word used before, I just sort of said it whilst talking smack one day.

I totally coined the phrase "innard city owls" for the Lolley art on the Z album, though. That is MY phrase, but I give ya'll permission to use it.
--- and that's 2 real 4 u.

LaurieBlue

#90
Oct 11, 2006, 09:06 AM
http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A84931

Rock & roll's staple, celebrated:

My Morning Jacket has had an online buzz going for some time that its new live double album, Okonokos (RCA), will finally cement the hirsute "American Radiohead's" rep beyond a doubt and put their thang across to the uninitiated. Well, even if Okonokos doesn't ultimately rival such career changing concert documents as the Allman Brothers Band's At Fillmore East, it's a dazzling recording of a band in peak form (and recorded at the erstwhile Fillmore West). Side 2 surpasses the first, with a breathtaking, epic version of "Dondante," pure sheets of psychedelicized roots sound and a miracle of ringing riffs freefalling into the "Cortez the Killer" zone -- as well as such MMJ standards as "Dancefloors" and set closer "Mahgeeta." Alas, Jim James and his Kaintuck brers are still one breakout single away from the arena stratosphere. For now, they remain a compelling link between Jam Nation and classic rock confessional. Stay tuned for the related concert DVD and 4-LP box set with extras.

sweatboard

#92
Oct 11, 2006, 02:14 PM
4lp box set with EXTRAS!!!!!!

man........I hope the milking song is on it.
There's Still Time.........

dragonboy

#93
Oct 14, 2006, 11:03 PM
3/5 in Q
3/5 in Mojo
4/5 in Uncut
God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven.....I can't live with that.

Angry Ewok

#95
Oct 16, 2006, 11:21 AM
Relix Magazine gave a positive review of Okonokos!
--- and that's 2 real 4 u.

Jaimoe

#96
Oct 16, 2006, 12:29 PM
I won't post the link, but for what it's worth, I submitted my review of Okonokos to the site I write for and gave it positive marks. Not a masterpiece by any means, but as live albums go, this is one of the better ones released this decade.

LaurieBlue

#97
Oct 17, 2006, 04:51 PM
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738701/review/12047082/okonokos?source=album_reviews_rssfeed

My Morning Jacket became one of last year's biggest indie-rock success stories with Z, on which the Louisville quintet ditched its meandering, reverb-gobbed backwoods sound in favor of something both more epic and more focused that wedded classic rock to Radiohead sonics. Recorded live at the Fillmore in San Francisco last year, Okonokos swaggers along with lean guitars and big keyboards, cherry-picking tunes from MMJ's early records. Staples like the roadhouse boogie "Dancefloors" take on new exuberance now that their tunes are not drowning in murk, and cuts such as "One Big Holiday" just sound like prime Crazy Horse. Onward, gentle warriors.


CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Oct 16, 2006)

LaurieBlue

#99
Oct 19, 2006, 12:48 PM
http://www.kykernel.com/media/storage/paper305/news/2006/10/19/Features/English.Group.Brings.Vintage.Samples.To.Life.In.New.Album-2376979.shtml?norewrite200610191229&sourcedomain=www.kykernel.com

My Morning Jacket
Okonokos

I remember interviewing My Morning Jacket's Jim James shortly after It Still Moves came out in late 2003, during which he said "mowing the grass" is influential to his songwriting. Though curious at first, an intense listening experience with previous MMJ records reveals the pastoral tones of rural landscapes with cosmic barnyard psychedelia. The live shots inside the new live 2-disc Okonokos even features dangling stage flora.

Okonokos is another testament of shows you wish you were at, as the two hour, no nonsense tour-de-force successfully documents the Kentucky-boys-do-right at an apex of creativity and popularity. Okonokos affirms why MMJ gradually built a massive fan base, the show, like the records, offer an appeal wide enough to drive a truck through. Filled to the brim with psych rock, stripped down garage sensibilities, touches of Indie rock experimentation, and the all-good vibin' that jamheads can get down with, the Jacket achieves the oft impossible feat of creating substantial music that is also commercially viable.

Recorded at the San Francisco's famed Fillmore West (funny to think that they played Lynagh's in 2002), a venue made notorious by the music of Haight-Ashbury, Okonokos adopts the auditorium's sacred psychedelic milieu. Turning the reverb all the way up, James' grain silo vocals and Carl Broemel's almost angular riffs reveal a newfound enormity to MMJ's already grandiose anthems.

Listening to the show in its entirety, MMJ spends the first 45 minutes of the show playing the songs straight, hitting highlights from Z. Later in the show, the band feeds off the room's exuberance, freewheeling a celestial 11-minute rendition of "Steam Engine" and an orchestrated and bombastic version of "Anytime." Here, the band really showcases their disparate influences, channeling shades of Love, Neil Young, and Galaxie 500.

Okonokos is not just for completists, but rather a great starting point for new MMJ listeners as well as a compelling glimpse into a fine live performance.

Recommended if you dig: Neil Young, Cream, The Flaming Lips

Rating: ***.5
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