MONSTERS OF FOLK!!

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Also...if I may...Conor Oberst gets nowhere near the respect that he deserves around here. Yeah I said it.

word up!  I don't mind his music at all- think he's got a certain style that I fully enjoy.

Whatever I have of Conor I've been listening to a lot lately. It's just bootlegs (MOF 2004) and stuff on compilations that I have floating around.
I really like Lua, At The Bottom Of Everything and Laura Laurent. What should I buy????

Yeah, I'd go with I'm Wide Awake, and Lifted. Fevers and Mirrors might be my favorite album of his, it's kind of a downer though.

[CC]

MONSTERS OF FOLK: Q&A
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa/

[weeniebeenie]

There's so much Bright Eyes to choose from!!! :)
I think I'll start with I'm Wide Awake.

Thanks for everyones help, and thanks CC for the MOF link.

[BH]

MONSTERS OF FOLK: Q&A
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa/

Anyone else pumped to hear Magic Marker!

-America's Favorite Balding Slightly Overweight Sales Engineer.

[AMightyCaporal]

I can't wait for map of the world!

"And then Jim put like this insane, super-high falsetto chant at the end"

ohhhhhh baby!

[The DARK]

I need to hear this record very, very soon. Seems like we haven't even touched the best stuff yet.  ;)

[Love Dogg]

MONSTERS OF FOLK: Q&A
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa/

Fun interview!

I couldn't agree more with Conor on this:

CO: I personally have a great love for the song "The Sandman, The Brakeman, and Me." I really enjoy that one. Matt's music has always had a special quality for me. It's kind of like an audio Xanax. If I ever feel anxiety or something, and I'm like in an airport, or some place I don't want to be...

JJ: Mmm hmm...

CO: ... I can put on, like, an M. record and I'm instantly calmer. And that song has that, that's like a really beautiful tranquilizer shot. It makes me feel instantly as I'm in like, a wonderful dream.

[BH]

MONSTERS OF FOLK: Q&A
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa/

Fun interview!

I couldn't agree more with Conor on this:

CO: I personally have a great love for the song "The Sandman, The Brakeman, and Me." I really enjoy that one. Matt's music has always had a special quality for me. It's kind of like an audio Xanax. If I ever feel anxiety or something, and I'm like in an airport, or some place I don't want to be...

JJ: Mmm hmm...

CO: ... I can put on, like, an M. record and I'm instantly calmer. And that song has that, that's like a really beautiful tranquilizer shot. It makes me feel instantly as I'm in like, a wonderful dream.

Heck yeah, what a great description and soooo true.


PART II of interview.....
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa-part-two/

[AMightyCaporal]

MONSTERS OF FOLK: Q&A
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa/

Fun interview!

I couldn't agree more with Conor on this:

CO: I personally have a great love for the song "The Sandman, The Brakeman, and Me." I really enjoy that one. Matt's music has always had a special quality for me. It's kind of like an audio Xanax. If I ever feel anxiety or something, and I'm like in an airport, or some place I don't want to be...

JJ: Mmm hmm...

CO: ... I can put on, like, an M. record and I'm instantly calmer. And that song has that, that's like a really beautiful tranquilizer shot. It makes me feel instantly as I'm in like, a wonderful dream.

Heck yeah, what a great description and soooo true.


PART II of interview.....
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/09/monsters-of-folk-qa-part-two/

this album can't come out soon enough.  I really am digging how light hearted these guys are towards one another.  They've got really good chemistry

[BH]

Favorite Travelling Songs....

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/tracklist-monsters-of-folk-map-out-their-favorite-traveling-tunes/10124

[Love Dogg]

Favorite Travelling Songs....

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/tracklist-monsters-of-folk-map-out-their-favorite-traveling-tunes/10124

Nice!

[ALady]

JIM JAMES:

"Be Thankful For What You Got," by William DeVaughn.
This song is the ultimate statement: "Be thankful for what you got." It is perhaps the most peaceful and gentle—yet oh so stirring and stimulating—groove mankind hath ever birthed. When I listen to it, I listen on repeat.

"Be Thankful For What You Got," by William DeVaughn.
This would be our second listen of the song, at which point, myself and anyone else in the car would continue to feel more and more happiness from its gently mind-melting waves of joy and pure bliss.

"Be Thankful For What You Got," by William DeVaughn.
This would indeed be the third of hundreds of repeat listens, stopping the audio only for pee or food breaks.
This, my friends, is the ultimate song to listen to on repeat. It is over seven minutes long to begin with, and when you listen, you just get lost in it. Repeated listens turn it into the greatest 2,380,970,900-minute song you've ever heard.

;D ;D ;D  I do this too.

[el_chode]

You know you've picked the right person to spend the rest of your life with when you come home from work and find a non-descript envelope on your desk with a hand-made card containing two tickets to MOF in NYC for no reason other than "this if for dragging me out to all your concerts of bands I never heard and wound up liking"

[xmascriminal]

JIM JAMES:

"Be Thankful For What You Got," by William DeVaughn.
This song is the ultimate statement: "Be thankful for what you got." It is perhaps the most peaceful and gentle—yet oh so stirring and stimulating—groove mankind hath ever birthed. When I listen to it, I listen on repeat.

"Be Thankful For What You Got," by William DeVaughn.
This would be our second listen of the song, at which point, myself and anyone else in the car would continue to feel more and more happiness from its gently mind-melting waves of joy and pure bliss.

"Be Thankful For What You Got," by William DeVaughn.
This would indeed be the third of hundreds of repeat listens, stopping the audio only for pee or food breaks.
This, my friends, is the ultimate song to listen to on repeat. It is over seven minutes long to begin with, and when you listen, you just get lost in it. Repeated listens turn it into the greatest 2,380,970,900-minute song you've ever heard.

;D ;D ;D  I do this too.

I was at a Yo La Tengo show where they played that song. It was awesome.

[Love Dogg]

You know you've picked the right person to spend the rest of your life with when you come home from work and find a non-descript envelope on your desk with a hand-made card containing two tickets to MOF in NYC for no reason other than "this if for dragging me out to all your concerts of bands I never heard and wound up liking"

:)

[weeniebeenie]

You know you've picked the right person to spend the rest of your life with when you come home from work and find a non-descript envelope on your desk with a hand-made card containing two tickets to MOF in NYC for no reason other than "this if for dragging me out to all your concerts of bands I never heard and wound up liking"

:)

Awesome.

[AlwxanderD10]

You know you've picked the right person to spend the rest of your life with when you come home from work and find a non-descript envelope on your desk with a hand-made card containing two tickets to MOF in NYC for no reason
other than "this if for dragging me out to all your concerts of bands I never heard and wound up liking"

:)

Awesome.

Score.

[BH]

Less than 2 WEEKS!!!!!!

[Penny Lane]

Favorite Travelling Songs....

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/tracklist-monsters-of-folk-map-out-their-favorite-traveling-tunes/10124

i love that song. i had only heard the massive attack cover! Suhweeeeet.

[el_chode]

This would indeed be the third of hundreds of repeat listens, stopping the audio only for pee or food breaks. This, my friends, is the ultimate song to listen to on repeat. It is over seven minutes long to begin with, and when you listen, you just get lost in it. Repeated listens turn it into the greatest 2,380,970,900-minute song you've ever heard.

Hmmm...sounds like Steam Engine