I searched for this thread so I hope there wasnt one already.
Anyway going to do it.
My friend and I always get into arguments about our top 10 favorite MMJ songs. (fun arguments) so as a rule make sure to name YOUR top 10 favorites. Not just their ten "best" or most popular songs.
Mine are the ones that I have listened to most.
Also maybe give a reason for your number one or some details about how you decided.
Just for fun.
Anyways here is my current list. Wasnt easy to decide.
1. Dondante (Okonokos version in particular) [Number 1 bc NEVER have I felt an energy like I feel when they play this. Truly soul summoners.]
2. The Bear
3. Steam Engine
4. I Think I'm Going to Hell
5. Bermuda Highway
6. The Day is Coming
7. Highly Suspicious
8. Touch Me Pt. 2
9. Strangulation
10. Golden
Very close eliminations: At Dawn, Mahgeetah, Victory Dance, Cobra, Gideon, Tyrone, One Big Holiday, Sooner, Phone, Weeks Go By Like Days, Run Thru, One In The Same, Death (favorite lyric "youre poor the day you die"), OXEN (if you know what im talkin about ;)
As I said very hard, and would added even more to eliminations, but was getting out of hand.
I have seen them 3 times total so some of these songs may be higher if I would have seen them live. Just got addicted this last year, after Bonnaroo. Wish I had known them before but better late than never! I fucking love you Jim James.
Glad to know all of you do too! Great music lasts forever.
[cant wait for jazzfest and forecastle (also possibly beale street on the way to NO)] ;D
Thoughts and lists?!
1-5 look amazing. I like what you said about Don Dante from Okonokos, so true. I'm going to have to think about this, but my 6-10 though would be much different.
I think I would switch Bermuda Highway with Strangulation and you would have my top five
Second Five...
6. Phone Went West (Should really be in the top five)
7. I Needed It Most
8. If It Smashes Down
9. I Will Sing You Songs
10. War Begun
By My Car, Just One Thing....At Dawn (listening to the demo version right now and it' just a Great Song no matter how lo fi you take it)
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thanks, and for sure the fun part is no lists will be the same!! its hard though sheezzz sooooo many great ones....
ha also pretty awesome that your top 5 is so similar. i think we would get along quite well.
also this is where OXEN is from for those of you who may wonder http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16 (http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16)
No question, I also belive that we would get along, I've never met an mmj fan I didn't like. Oxen is a great song, I believe it used to be called "How Do You Know". I could be wrong. :bath:
My Morning Jacket - I Think I'm Going to Hell (live 2000) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UygAqFt2zFE#)
Huh. That's a really hard question. For me, it's about appreciation. Some days I will appreciate some songs more than others, and for different reasons. I always get excited when I hear Heartbreakin' Man. It's not their best song, but it means I'm in for The Tennessee Fire which is a real treat.
If there is a song I've hit repeat on more than any other, it's War Begun. It grabs me by the heart every time, and remains this unattainable thing to me because I can't play it on guitar and my hands will never be big enough to make those crazy chords. Songs I can play on guitar have a special spot with me, I've asterisked those (there are a bunch more I love to play that didn't make the list).
Ugh, enough nattering. Here's my attempt at a top 10 list:
War Begun
Steam Engine*
Hopefully*
Bermuda Highway*
Old September Blues* (Christmas version)
By My Car*
The Way That He Sings*
Dondante*
Knot Come Loose
Smokin' from Shootin'
Cobra and Tyrone get honorable mention.
That was hard. Choosing favorite MMJ songs is always a Sophie's choice. :'( Ask me on another day and the list might be different.
1. I Think I'm Going to Hell
2. Dondante
3. I Will Be There When You Die
4. One Big Holiday
5. Bermuda Highway
6. The Dark
7. Steam Engine
8. Gideon
9. Magheetah
10. The Bear
Honorable Mentions: War Begun, Golden, Old September Blues, Strangulation, Slow Slow Tune, etc.
*This list changes daily.
Its almost impossible to choose a top 5 for me but here goes...
1. Cobra
2. War Begun
3. Lil Billy (might have a heart attack if i saw it live)
4. Strangulation
5. Dondante
6. Tonight I wanna celebrate (nashvegas version)
7.Run thru
8. Steam engine
9. Picture of you
10. The dark
If you ask me this again next week it would be completely different probably! Part of the reason why i love this dynamic band so much!
Tough question. I guess here is my top 10, even though they are interchangable-
1. Hell (Live)
2. Magheeta
3. Evil Urges
4. It beats 4 u
5. The way that he sings
6. The day is coming
7. Smokin
8. Sooner
9. Circuital
10. Where to begin
I've been pondering this one for awhile.
1. Strangulation
2. Steam Engine
3. I Think I'm Going To Hell
3. I Will Be There When You Die
4. Golden
5. Dondante
6. War Begun
7. Phone Went West (preferably the live version from bonnaroo '08
8. Tonight I Want To Celebrate With You - the original version before he started using that omnichord on it. In my opinion, that ruined the song when he rearranged it. Sorry JohnnYYac - I know what an omnichord freak you are. It just doesn't do it for me on this song.
9. Bermuda Highway
10. Victory Dance
so difficult:
1. Nashville to Kentucky (Candles & Panties version)
2. Dondante
3. Phone Went West
4. Strangulation
5. I Will Sing Your Songs
6. If it Smashes Down
7. War Begun (Live)
8. The Bear
9. I Think I'm Going to Hell (live0
10. Steam Engine
This was fun but difficult. After much thought, and in no particular order:
1. Masterplan
2. O Is the One
3. Steam Engine
4. Dondante
5. Lay Low
6. Mahgeeta
7. Touch Me Part 2
8. The Bear
9. Victory Dance
10. I will Sing You Songs
Honorable mention: Black Metal, Lowdown, The Way That He Sings, Just One Thing, War Begun, Strangulation, One Big Holiday, Anytime, Bermuda Highway.
I know that's a lot of honorable mentions, but those are some incredible songs.
Steam Engine- any version, best song ever
X-MAS Curtain-Oko
O is the One-Oko
Phone Went West-Live at 9:30
The Bear
Lay Low
Lowdown
Dondonte
Masterplan
Run Thru-any full version
Off the top of my head. Could disagree tomorrow.
So hard to choose, but would probably go with this lineup:
Cobra
The Bear
Anytime
X-mas Curtain
Phone Went West
War Begun
At Dawn
Run Thru Full
Black Metal
OBH
Gideon is the 1st out, so hard to keep this to 10.
Ask me next week and it may change, lol.
1. Strangulation
2. War Begun
3. I Needed It Most
4. Closer
5. Nashville to Kentucky
6. I Will Be There When You Die
7. Honest Man
8. Knot Comes Loose
9. Lay Low
10. The Bear
CHIMMJFAN
1. Where to Begin
2. At Dawn
3. Steam Engine
4. O is the One
5. The Way That He Sings
6. Lowdown
7. Xmas Curtain
8. Phone Went West
9. Strangulation
10. Mahgeetah
I love this thread
War Begun
Old Sept Blues
Lay Low
Cobra
Master Plan
The Bear
At Dawn
Remnants
I Will Sing You Songs
Steam Engine
Evil Urges
And not necessarily in that order. Mine goes to 11. Shoot me..I like Evil Urges. A whole hell of a lot.
1. Steam Engine
2. Dondante
3. At Dawn
4. Dancefloors
5. I will be there when you die
6. O is the one
7. One Big Holiday
8. Strangulation
9. By my car
10. The Bear
Okay, my turn (in no particular order)
Steam Engine
Bermuda Highway
Mahgeetah
War Begun
The Bear
Dondante
Lay Low
Touch Me 2
The Way That He Sings
One Big Holiday
honorable mention: Slow Slow Tune, Wonderful Man, Master Plan, Dancefloors, Just One Thing, Strangulation, TIWTCWY, Wonderful (TWIF), Cobra, etc.
saw this thread and decided to figure it out last night... for the record, I did mine without seeing Ruckus's, but we are awfully close!!
1. Where to Begin
2. Steam Engine
3. At Dawn
4. Phone Went West
5. Mahgeetah
6. Gideon
7. Smokin From Shootin
8. Dancefloors
9. Way that He Sings
10. Bermuda Highway
on another day, might make the list: Wonderful Man, Sooner, O is the One, Rollin Back
So...It was impossible to do ten...and this is just the way I feel right now...tomorrow may be, and likely will be a different story...can we start doing "top 3" of the day...that would be easier...
1)I Will Be There When You Die
2)Strangulation
3)Hopefully
4)Honest Man
5)Cobra
6)Phone Went West
7)Magheetah
8)Golden
9)Master Plan
10)Steam Engine
11)Just One Thing
12)Knot Comes Loose
13)Dondante
14)Touch Me I'm Going To Scream pt.2
15)Thank You Too
16)Librarian
17)Smokin' from Shooting
18)Circuital
19)Wonderful
20)Holding on to Black Metal
P.S. Johnny Yac, we've got the same ear, buddy...well played sir :thumbsup:
It's hard to pick 10 and then to rank them. Anyway, my top 10 but not in any particular order:
- Gideon
- Magheetah
- Smokin' from Shootin'
- Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2
- The Bear
- Steam Engine
- O is the One
- Anytime
- One Big Holiday
- Phone Went West
certainly in no particular order, and with apologies for all the great tunes I am leaving out ...
1. Steam Engine
2. Dondante
3. At Dawn
4. Phone Went West
5. I will be there when you die
6. xmas Curtain
7. One Big Holiday
8. Strangulation
9. Hopefully or Bermuda Highway
10. The Way That He Sings
ok and there are also 10 other mmj songs that make my top 10. this is too hard.
Quote from: Northern Neighbour on Mar 29, 2012, 03:09 PM
It's hard to pick 10 and then to rank them. Anyway, my top 10 but not in any particular order:
- Gideon
- Magheetah
- Smokin' from Shootin'
- Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2
- The Bear
- Steam Engine
- O is the One
- Anytime
- One Big Holiday
- Phone Went West
Ooh. I forgot about Smokin' and... hey, shouldn't you be down under, NN? Or have you not left yet?
We leave Friday evening!
surprised how few people list Golden. 3 out of 21 by my quick count.
It's the most or 2nd most played MMJ song live (BH? where are you?) People just tired of it or is the band wasting their time?
Quote from: mahg33ta on Mar 30, 2012, 12:27 PM
surprised how few people list Golden. 3 out of 21 by my quick count.
It's the most or 2nd most played MMJ song live (BH? where are you?) People just tired of it or is the band wasting their time?
Its a great song, but when Jim comes out with his acoustic, I'd prefer something rare. I've always liked Bermuda Highway more, and I think the fact that Golden is probably second only to OBH in frequency is a likely reason it didn't make these lists.
Quote from: mahg33ta on Mar 30, 2012, 12:27 PM
surprised how few people list Golden. 3 out of 21 by my quick count.
It's the most or 2nd most played MMJ song live (BH? where are you?) People just tired of it or is the band wasting their time?
I kinda agree with Johnny but I never get tired of hearing Golden. There are at least 20 songs that make my top 10 for mmj. Golden deserves to be in there and it pained me not to include Anytime. I love that tune and it's effect on my calf muscles during a show.
Phone Went West
Steam Engine
Dondante
Victory Dance
Touch Me Pt. 2
I Will Sing You Songs
Rollin' Back
Off the Record
Slow Slow Tune
One in the Same
Quote from: sweatboard on Mar 26, 2012, 01:28 AM
No question, I also belive that we would get along, I've never met an mmj fan I didn't like. Oxen is a great song, I believe it used to be called "How Do You Know". I could be wrong. :bath:
Oxen was released on the Off The Record single as "How Could I Know" and sounds great being recorded all nice and fancy. "How Do You Know" is off the Split EP.
In the link below, there's a great little chat by JJ before they launch into Oxen where he specifically talks about how confusing it can be to have two songs with similar titles.
Not sure if it's the same show you linked to...my browser said there was an error or the link was faulty.
Link here.
http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16 (http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16)
EDIT - Link doesn't work well with archive.org. It's the 05/28/04 show at The Opera House if you're interested. Great show, great recording. Highly recommended.
Quote from: SplatSplatSplat on Apr 12, 2012, 03:03 PM
Quote from: sweatboard on Mar 26, 2012, 01:28 AM
No question, I also belive that we would get along, I've never met an mmj fan I didn't like. Oxen is a great song, I believe it used to be called "How Do You Know". I could be wrong. :bath:
Oxen was released on the Off The Record single as "How Could I Know" and sounds great being recorded all nice and fancy. "How Do You Know" is off the Split EP.
In the link below, there's a great little chat by JJ before they launch into Oxen where he specifically talks about how confusing it can be to have two songs with similar titles.
Not sure if it's the same show you linked to...my browser said there was an error or the link was faulty.
Link here.
http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16 (http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16)
Teaching America... one person at a time!
You have to put Archive links in quotes, or else it (for some unknown, f-ed up reason) adds shit to the URL, which brings up the error.
So...
"http://archive.org/details/mmj2004-05-28.flac16"
Pass it on. Oh, and thanks for the link! LMA is now blocked at work, a recent phenomenon possibly brought on by me! :thumbsup:
i seriously dont even know where to start on this...i do know that my favorite three songs for whatever reasons are mahgeetah, dancefloors, and where to begin...followed closely by "holy", guilty pleasure i guess...and about golden, i think everyone here enjoys the song...just not a favorite. we do get to hear it an awful lot and i am like john, the first time he grabs the acoustic at shows we always know what he is gonna do so that may take a little off of the grandeur that is the song golden...i must say that it was one of the first three songs i did hear by them though and it is part of what got me into the band in the first place so that has to say something about how good of a song it is
My top 10 would probably have to be 1, 2, & 3 with the rest in no particular order. Steam Engine, Dondante, & Phone Went West (live and the longer the better) will always be my favorites! Every time I download a new show from Internet Archives or from The Steam Engine, I always test it for its audio quality by playing one of those 3 songs first (usually Steam Engine). The drawn out jams are where I make my deepest connections.
1. Steam Engine
2. Dondante
3. Phone Went West
Master Plan
Magheetah
Smokin' From Shootin'
Death Is The Easy Way
I Will Be There When You Die
The Way That He Sings
Wordless Chorus
Quote from: mahg33ta on Mar 29, 2012, 10:38 AM
saw this thread and decided to figure it out last night... for the record, I did mine without seeing Ruckus's, but we are awfully close!!
1. Where to Begin
2. Steam Engine
3. At Dawn
4. Phone Went West
5. Mahgeetah
6. Gideon
7. Smokin From Shootin
8. Dancefloors
9. Way that He Sings
10. Bermuda Highway
on another day, might make the list: Wonderful Man, Sooner, O is the One, Rollin Back
Just like the Tick eh? :thumbsup:
More Reverb!
In no particular order:
-The Bear
-It's About Twilight Now
-War Begun
-Death Is The Easy Way
-Phone Went West
-Dondante
-Master Plan
-Steam Engine
-Just One Thing
-Lay Low
Just missed the cut: Where To Begin, IWSYS, If All Else Fails, I Needed It Most, Remnants, Touch Me Pt. 1, Off The Record
1.) Dondante
2.) Steam Engine
3.) Circuital
4.) Victory Dance
5.) One In The Same
6.) Run Thru
7.) Smokin' From Shootin'
8.) By My Car
9.) Hopefully
10.) Dancefloors/Phone Went West/Wonderful/Golden/Gideon/Butch Cassidy/Easy Morning Rebel/Mahgeetah/Bermuda Highway/Death Is My Sleezy Pay
Very new to the band but so far:
1. Phone Went West
2. Mahgeetah
3. One Big Holiday
4. Anytime
5. Lay Low
6. I Will Sing You Songs
7. Run Thru
8. Golden
9. Off The Record
10. It Beats For You
Quote from: youreveningcoat19 on Jul 24, 2013, 10:11 PM
Very new to the band but so far:
1. Phone Went West
2. Mahgeetah
3. One Big Holiday
4. Anytime
5. Lay Low
6. I Will Sing You Songs
7. Run Thru
8. Golden
9. Off The Record
10. It Beats For You
You're off to a good start!
in no particular order
wordless
OBH
where to begin
sooner
mahgeetah
steam engine
the bear
i will be there when you die
lay low
bermuda highway
x-mas
I SWEAR, IT'S TEN... YOURE COUNTING WRONG... please don't make me choose one.
Steam Engine
Phone Went West
Strangulation
Anytime
Dondante
IWBTWYD
O is the One
Lowdown
I Think I'm Going To Hell
I Will Sing You Songs
No order, mines probably close to this. Steam is my all time favorite though.
Dondante
Off the record
Oxen
By my car
The bear
Dancefloors
Lowdown
Phone went west
I needed it most
Cobra
No specific order... Damn that was hard
Not saying anything most here don't already know, but this is hard. Can't believe I left off Steam Engine, Honest Man, and Smokin. And Mahgeetah.
Where To Begin
IWSYS
Rollin Back
Gideon
At Dawn
Xmas Curtain
TWTHS
Welcome Home
Dancefloors
Master Plan
IWSYS
Touch Me pt. 2
The Way That He Sings
Twilight
Just Because I Do
War Begun
Bermuda Highway
The Bear
I Think I'm Going To Hell
Lay Low
Phone
Lay Low
Steam
Twilight
Dondante
Masterplan
IWSYS
O
At Dawn
Where To Begin, Dancefloors,Anytime, Cobra, and War Begun are all tied for 10th. With Bermuda Highway,Xmas Curtain, Honest Man, OBH, and Gideon right on their heels. :wink:
:: hates lists, and sucks at making them:: :grin:
the great thing about this thread is thinking about seeing shows with you all and knowing which songs will cause you to lose your minds. :kiss:
if i weren't listening to the late night doo-wop show (john's attic on kcsn, northridge, ca) i would try to contribute. i'm deep into live Tennessee Fire of any color.
Can't believe I'm about to attempt this...
1.Songs
2. Mahgeetah
3. Steam
4. Nashville to Kentucky
5. Lowdown
6. War Begun
7. Phone
8. Evelyn
9. At Dawn
10. Dancefloors (Anytime, Gideon, Dondante, OBH)
This is impossible, i'm dizzy
I know as soon as I list my 10, I'll think of another song to add :cheesy:
Golden
I will sing you songs
Steam Engine
Gideon - for which I received a ticket last year while listenting to this song driving in the California desert. I was driving 95mph, and luckily the Cali Highway partol man cut me a break and wrote it for 85 - other wise it would be considered wreckless driving. But hell, how can you not put the pedal to the metal on that song...
Know comes loose
The way that he sings
The Bear
Dondante
Touch me pt 2
One big holiday
too hard, i'll just pick a few off each album i like:
- Phone Went West
- Honest Man
- Victory Dance
- Holdin' On To Black Metal
- I'm Amazed
- Touch Me I'm Gonna Scream Pt. 2
- Evil Urges
- Mahgeetah
- One Big Holiday
- Run Thru
- Nashville To Kentucky
- It's About Twilight Now
- Off The Record
- Gideon
- It Beats For You
ok that's 15
This list would have been VERY different before the Cap shows:
Dondante
Steam Engine
Phone Went West
Strangulation
Anytime
TWTHS
Heart Breakin Man
Sooner
Xmas Curtain
Nashville to Kentucky
Cover: Tyrone
(edit: I like the idea of non original addition - it gives me one more on my current list - -there fore moving Tyrone)
For right now it will be:
1. Librarian
2. Run Thru
3. Bermuda Highway
4. Phone Went West
5. Masterplan
6. Thank You Too
7. I Will Be There When You Die
8. Off The Record
9. Where To Begin
10. Movin' Away
This is a very challenging exercise. I've been thinking hard about this thread for more than 3 weeks. So these are my faves as of August 17, 2013 7:40 PM EDT:
The Bear
If All Else Fails
War Begun
Strangulation
Hopefully
Masterplan
It Beats for you
Dondante
Lay Low
Gideon
Honorable mentions for Heartbreakin Man', Nashville to Kentucky, The Dark, Easy Morning Rebel, Victory Dance, and TMIGTS Pt. 2 :thumbsup:
i'll give this one a shot again today.
Nashville To Kentucky
Dondante
Strangulation
The Bear
Steam Engine
War Begun
I Will Sing You Songs
Phone Went West
Thank you too
They Ran (palms version)
non original - tyrone
needed it most
picture o You
steam
strangulatiion
phonewent
soooooner
dancefloorz
one in the same
masterplan
laylow
where to begin
sing you songs
come closer
HELLLLLLLLL
Just Because I Do
The Bear
I Think I'm Going To Hell
Steam Engine
The Way That He Sings
Strangulation
Lay Low
Honest Man
Master Plan
Phone Went West
War Begun
INPO:
Spring (Among the Living)
In It's Infancy
Hillside Song
Wonderful
IWSYS
Master Plan
Slow Slow Tune
Sooner
Circuital
Steam Engine
It'd be different tomorrow, though.
Steam Engine
I Will Sing You Songs
The Way That He Sings
Xmas Curtain
Lowdown
Phone Went West
Bermuda Highway
Come Closer
Heartbreakin Man
Lay Low
I feel this changes daily buuuuuuut.....here goes
1)Strangulation!
2)Lay Low
3)Where To Begin
4)Steam Engine
5)Dondante
6)War Begun
7)Rolling Back
8)Victory Dance
9)Thank You Too! (yeah I did it...so shoot me)
10)They Ran
- And the way I dig "In Its Infancy".....that may crack the top 10 soon.
I'll give this a shot
In NO particular order
Thin Line
One Big Holiday
Master Plan
Sec Walkin'
O Is The One That Is Real
Bermuda Highway
Run Thru
Lay Low
At Dawn
War Begun
Long time lurker jumping in here. Hard to separate the quality of the songs from the memories that come with them! My list with no ranking.
The Bear
War Begun
Golden
Run Thru
Steam Engine
Gideon
Lay Low
Look at You
Wonderful
Welcome Home
cover - Christmas Must Be Tonight
Dondante
One Big Holiday
Gideon
Run Thru
Circuital
Tyrone
Librarian
It Beats 4 U
Wordless Chorus
War Begun
In no particular order and it changes throughout the year, but any of these 10 are my go tos
1. Steam Engine
2. It beats
3. Master Plan
4. War Begun
5. They Ran
6. Cobra
7. Phone Went West
8. Slow Slow Tune
9. Off the Record
10. The Dark
Close behind
1. What a wonderful man
2. Dondante
3. Honest Man
Top in any order:
IWSYS
Dondante
Steam Engine
Golden
At Dawn
Lay Low
Run Thru
IWBTWYD
Where To Begin
Butch Cassidy
Man, this is hard. After the first four there is a 52-way tie for 5th.
Hi all - long time lurker from Atlanta chiming in -
In no order
Run Thru (live)
Golden
The Bear
Phone Went West
In it's Infancy
Wonderful
Smokin from Shootin
Bermuda Highway
I will be there when you die
and I'll throw in Evelyn because it was how I discovered MMJ
So hard to say confidently which ten to choose but I will give it a shot.
Dondante
Strangulation
Run Thru
I Will Be There When You Die
Tropics
Like A River
Master Plan
Lay Low
One Big Holiday
Touch Me Pt 2
Haven't heard Tropics and Like A River live yet but it already is a classic in my mind.
Quote from: dondante24 on May 02, 2015, 08:59 AM
Dondante
One Big Holiday
Gideon
Run Thru
Circuital
Tyrone
Librarian
It Beats 4 U
Wordless Chorus
War Begun
Two months later, some definite changes:
Steam Engine
One Big Holiday
Touch Me Pt. 2
Run Thru
Dondante
Wordless Chorus
The Bear
Circuital
I Will Sing You Songs
Gideon
Man that is a tough task. I had a list of 25 of my personal cream of the crop and chopped from there.
The Bear
Lowdown
The Way That He Sings
Cobra
O Is the One That Is Real
Steam Engine
Master Plan
I Will Sing You Songs
It Beats 4 U
Touch Me Pt. 2
*special mention- In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)
Here's my list, although I feel I left another top 10 list on the cutting room floor.
Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt.2
War Begun
Mahgeetah
I Will Sing You Songs
Steam Engine
Into the Woods
Anytime
Big D
The Way That He Sings
Bermuda Highway
this is SOOO hard...ughhhh its like picking your favorite child or favorite San Francisco Giant ....oh god...well here it goes, im gonna go with the songs that cemented my relationship with the band and are songs i immediately turn to:
(NO ORDER)
I WILL SING YOU SONGS (Okonokos version; absolutely sealed my love for this band)
STEAM ENGINE (ANY version, from simple 2003, to the sax freak out of 2015)
DONDANTE (Lollapalooza 2011 sticks out, also Wiltern 9/13/2012)
MASTERPLAN (Studio recording is perfect, but the live versions are growlin)
MAHGEETAH (the song that begun it all; this was the first one that slayed me by MMJ)
ROLLIN BACK (Studio is immaculate, but RR2012, Wiltern 9/12/2012 are perfection)
HOW DO YOU KNOW (the Okonokos version is one of absolute mind melting fucking heaviness)
COBRA (a studio colossus and a live interlude that should be stretched longer)
THEY RAN (RR2012,40 watt & Depot 2007, ALL are magical, this song is so sad and perf.)
PHONE WENT WEST (the definitive version is RR2012 and SLC 8/2/2012, both were magic that luckily i was able to be a part of, witnessing the 8/2/2012 show and watching RR2012 as it went down on AXSTV as I'm sure most of you all were.
runner-ups: (NO ORDER)
STRANGULATION!
SWEETHEART
SOONER
AT DAWN
ITS ABOUT TWILIGHT NOW
WAR BEGUN
THE DARK
COME CLOSER
O IS THE ONE THAT IS REAL
ANYTIME
WORDLESS CHORUS
IT BEATS 4 U
HOW COULD I KNOW
TOUCH ME (PT. II)
WHERE TO BEGIN
BERMUDA HIGHWAY
JUST ONE THING
DANCEFLOORS (my favorite show ender though)
plus...well everything
Quote from: HardNightConformist on Jul 23, 2013, 04:28 AM
1.) Dondante
2.) Steam Engine
3.) Circuital
4.) Victory Dance
5.) One In The Same
6.) Run Thru
7.) Smokin' From Shootin'
8.) By My Car
9.) Hopefully
10.) Dancefloors/Phone Went West/Wonderful/Golden/Gideon/Butch Cassidy/Easy Morning Rebel/Mahgeetah/Bermuda Highway/Death Is My Sleezy Pay
Wow, I knew so little 0.o
Now,
1.) Steam Engine
2.) Touch Me Pt.2
3.) Dondante
4.) Xmas Curtain
5.) Strangulation
6.) Lowdown
7.) I Needed It Most
8.) One In The Same
9.) I Will Sing You Songs
10.) Lay Low
11. (Just on the outside)) I Think I'm Going To Hell, Smokin From Shootin, Evil Urges, Circuital, Like A River, Knot Comes Loose, How Could I Know
1. Steam Engine
2. Knot Comes Loose
3. War Begun
4. Strangulation
5. The Dark
6. Lay Low
7. The Bear
8. Circuital
9. Gideon
10. Master Plan
Spring or Tropics will probably edge its way in there eventually.
This is like picking a favorite kid, but here goes-
Magheeta
Evil urges
Circuital
Hell
Compound fracture
Sooner
The bear
Death is my sleazy pay
How could I know
I will sing you songs
Cover- Tyrone, it makes no difference
Lay Low
Lowdown
Sooner
Easy Morning Rebel
Xmas Curtain
Strangulation
Knot Comes Loose
Old Sept Blues
Heartbreakin Man
Bear
i see lots of how could i know's on the list, this is gotta be the most underrated track in the known universe
MMJ newbie here and forum lurker for the last few months. Here is my 10 in no particular order:
Master Plan
Dondante
Wordless Chorus
In It's Infancy
The Bear
Golden
Into the Woods
Hopefully
One Big Holiday
Steam Engine
Ok im doing this again, my top 10 all time and im gonna try to do it in order (this is grueling...removing one of them from the top 10 is like killing one of your children or something)
10.ROLLIN BACK
9. COBRA
8. VICTORY DANCE
7. MASTERPLAN
6. HOW COULD I KNOW
5. DONDANTE
4. PHONE WENT WEST
3. STEAM ENGINE
2. MAHGEETAH
1. I WILL SING YOU SONGS
verrrrrry close to Top 10: SOONER, SWEETHEART, COME CLOSER, THEY RAN, HOW DO YOU KNOW, TROPICS, ONLY MEMORIES REMAIN, WORDLESS CHORUS, LAY LOW, TONIGHT I WANNA CELEBRATE WITH YOU, HEARTBREAKIN MAN, HONEST MAN, STRANGULATION!
and everything they've ever done is pretty fucking ridiculously amazing too :) i cant hate one of their songs..i cant.
even things that never get a shoutout like HOLY and CHILLS are breathtaking musics!!! :drum: