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Title: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: maddon on Jan 19, 2006, 01:48 AM
What MMJ tune gives you goosebumps, sends the tingle up the spine and makes you nearly weep, scream & shout or gets you to close your eyes & sing your heart out?

I think the guys have a quite a few tracks that do all the above, but for me personally....

1) Steam Engine.
2) Burmuda Highway (Preferably the KVRX version)
3) I Will sing you songs.

Get's me every time!!!

I'm sure this has been done before, I just couldn't find it.  So please lock this down if need be.  Dont wanna be a nuisance. ;)
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Jan 19, 2006, 01:59 AM
I'll agree with Steam Engine there.

Gotta say Golden does it too. And strangely enough (this osng has it's ahters out there) One In The Same.

And Dondante. Holy shit Dondante.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: maddon on Jan 19, 2006, 02:43 AM
QuoteI'll agree with Steam Engine there.

Gotta say Golden does it too. And strangely enough (this osng has it's ahters out there) One In The Same.

And Dondante. Holy shit Dondante.

I forgot about Golden!  Add that to me list now!  Cheers Tom.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Sleazy Rider on Jan 19, 2006, 08:23 AM
Run Thru
Come Closer
Steam Engine
Alot of their music is straight baby makin' music. I love it.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: JacketGal on Jan 19, 2006, 09:37 AM
Steam Engine (yes, lots of mindshare here)
Bermuda Highway
Rollin Back
I Will Sing You Songs
Xmas Curtain
Golden
Dondonte
It Beats4U

I don't think One in the Same is an odd choice, it's goddamn freakin beautiful!

ummm, ,getting the feeling here that most Jacket songs 'do it' for me but some a bit more than others! ;D
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: wellfleet on Jan 19, 2006, 11:02 AM
Run Thru
Golden
XMas Curtain
Off the Record

they make me go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH  :o :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: ben grimm on Jan 19, 2006, 11:05 AM
I will be there when you die.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: peanut butter puddin surprise on Jan 19, 2006, 11:06 AM
I guess it depends on when you ask me  :)

right now

Gideon
It Beats 4 U
Mahgeetah
The Way that He Sings

ask me in an hour, I may have a completely different list!
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Jan 19, 2006, 11:17 AM
Oh yeah, I forgot Where to Begin. I think my iTunes playcount on that song is in the 50s or so. There was a few days right after i got it where i'd just put it on repeat and melt into it.

That said, I Will Sing You Songs is just damned amazing. And live...whoo boy.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: saki on Jan 19, 2006, 11:33 AM
this list would change for me depending on which day you're asking...but I'd say these are three that I always want to hear over and over again:

1.  I will sing you songs
2.  lowdown
3.  If all else fails

I know that the last one doesn't seem to be on most people's list and I wonder why sometimes.  Anyone else love "If all else fails."  That song gives me chills.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: BH on Jan 19, 2006, 12:44 PM
How about all of them.

Actually it changes daily but here's a few for ya that havn't been listed yet.

1)Wordless Chourus - Tell me when your in your car and you got it cranked up you don't start yelling "HOOOOOO" at the top of your lungs.  I can't even wait until Jim starts howling, I start doing it early and I get that tingle in my neck.

2)I will be there when you die - (2 meter sessions) with the Sunrides and the Girls Scream opening.  Wow.

3)Tyrone cover - This one is really great R&B style that is a good departure and shows MMJ's range.

4)Mother - I know I keep mentioning this on the forum but good gawd, if you havn't heard it, you must download it.  It's not available on anything but an old Darla sampler.

Oh, and put "Why Don't You Love Me?" on some night when your hammered and turn the volume up to 11 and hold on.

and, Steam Engine makes me cry so there ya go.....
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: tdan on Jan 19, 2006, 12:56 PM
QuoteOh yeah, I forgot Where to Begin. I think my iTunes playcount on that song is in the 50s or so. There was a few days right after i got it where i'd just put it on repeat and melt into it.

That said, I Will Sing You Songs is just damned amazing. And live...whoo boy.


Couldn't have said it better myself.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Easy Morning Rebel on Jan 19, 2006, 01:17 PM
I agree with tomEisenbraun about "One in the Same". That song freaking gives me chills.

And then also:

Bermuda Highway
Steam Engine
Golden
The Way That He Sings
I Needed It Most
Death Is the Easy Way
They Ran
Evelyn is Not Real

Yeah, that's them I guess,  but then it depends on what mood I'm into. It may be change then. I guess my list would look completely different in a few hours.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: ycartrob on Jan 19, 2006, 02:08 PM
Strangulation

The LIVE version of War Begun, the one they were doing on the Winter 2004 tour (Check out the Cats Cradle version fron Jan 2004)

Steam Engine

I Needed It Most

Lowdown/Way He Sings (the first 2 that hooked me)

Hopefully/Bermuda Hwy (the second 2 that hooked me)

Mahgeetah (LIVE)

O Is the One (again, LIVE)

I Think I Am Going to Hell

I Will Be There When You Die

Lay Low

for now, that's it. Subject to change
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Clarkwork on Jan 19, 2006, 02:09 PM
For me It is the At Dawn trilogy of:

Death Is The Easy Way
Hopefully
Bermuda Highway

Hearing those songs back to back to back is a beautiful thing.  
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Chills on Jan 19, 2006, 02:14 PM
Quote


1)Wordless Chourus - Tell me when your in your car and you got it cranked up you don't start yelling "HOOOOOO" at the top of your lungs.  .


Yep, me too, can't help it
 :)
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: EC on Jan 20, 2006, 12:15 AM
Quote

Yep, me too, can't help it
:)

Car shmar.  I did it on the street the other day.  ;)  No jokes.  The hooooos happen about 4 times a day in my house, and it's not just me doin' em.  :)
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: wellfleet on Jan 20, 2006, 12:31 AM
i used to suffer from "listening-to-music-in-my-own-private-universe disease" where i would sing along to whatever was playing on my walkman/discman/ipod. lucky for me i have a good singing voice... but invariably, one of two things would happen. i would either get the "is she deranged?" glare or the "wow, she's so happy and carefree" smile. i say if you want to do the viking yawp along with "into the woods", more freakin' power to you. down with gloomy people. hoorah for happy people.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: sweatboard on Jan 20, 2006, 02:02 AM
These Days............

Phone Went West
By My Car
Don Dante
Smashes Down
I Will Sing You Songs
I Needed It Most
Anytime
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: beammeup on Jan 20, 2006, 05:32 PM
golden
knot comes loose
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: LET_THE_FETUS_ROCK on Jan 23, 2006, 12:31 PM
  Steam engine (Bonnaroo '04)
  Way that he sings (Bonnaroo '04)
   If it smashes down   (the banjo and creaking chair-                                            HE is a ghost)
   Lay low
   Strangulation
   Run Thru
   Tyrone
    I think I'm going to hell
    I will sing songs


God! I love these guys.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: cmccubbin25 on Jan 23, 2006, 01:45 PM
Steam Engine (Acoustic) - absolutely amazing and beautiful
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Easy Morning Rebel on Jan 23, 2006, 01:47 PM
When Jim did Master Plan acoustic on that Rolling Stone thingy I really got chills..
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: MMJ_fanatic on Jan 23, 2006, 06:43 PM
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ask me in an hour, I may have a completely different list!


'Nuff said, good God amen y'all!
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: falconfox on Jan 24, 2006, 12:28 AM
i just bought chapter 2: learning: early recording, my new favorite song is tonight i wanna celebrate with you. why don't i ever hear this at their concerts? ???
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: falconfox on Jan 24, 2006, 12:29 AM
QuoteWhen Jim did Master Plan acoustic on that Rolling Stone thingy I really got chills..


what rolling stone thingy?
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: jrat on Jan 24, 2006, 12:53 AM
being completely new as of 11 hours ago, im blown away by every song. but the ones that made me go buy the cds right before the store closed were:

"dondante", from the washington show in"streaming" section of the site. i live for long jams and sweet sweet raoring guitar. this had me hooked right away

also,"wordless chorus" and "it beats 4U", back to back. wish id been so high when i first heard them.

and "i will sing you songs".

im a huge neil young, pink floyd, pearl jam and radiohead fan, and this will fit nicely in to my collection. in fact, it will be first in my CD case for along time.i hope they come anywhere near ottawa ASAP.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Easy Morning Rebel on Jan 24, 2006, 06:34 AM
Quote


what rolling stone thingy?
i don't exactly know what it was, but i think it was during the release of ISM when jim was playing a couple of songs at some thing that rolling stone held in. fill me in where i'm wrong anyone?!
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: BH on Jan 24, 2006, 01:03 PM
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i don't exactly know what it was, but i think it was during the release of ISM when jim was playing a couple of songs at some thing that rolling stone held in. fill me in where i'm wrong anyone?!

Go to the following link and enjoy.  The day I discovered this, I got nothing done.  The AOL sessions and the Rolling Stone stuff is downright ridiculous.  For me, JJ's steam engine on RS is the greatest acoustic performance I have ever seen.  The "way he sings" the subtle parts and the different changes, I uh I ,  oh hell just go watch and enjoy.

http://www.savefile.com/projects.php?pid=646887
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Easy Morning Rebel on Jan 24, 2006, 01:42 PM
Quote

Go to the following link and enjoy.  The day I discovered this, I got nothing done.  The AOL sessions and the Rolling Stone stuff is downright ridiculous.  For me, JJ's steam engine on RS is the greatest acoustic performance I have ever seen.  The "way he sings" the subtle parts and the different changes, I uh I ,  oh hell just go watch and enjoy.

http://www.savefile.com/projects.php?pid=646887
Yeah, I agree. i don't know how many times i've watched them. i never get tired of them. :)
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Jan 24, 2006, 03:56 PM
Quotei just bought chapter 2: learning: early recording, my new favorite song is tonight i wanna celebrate with you. why don't i ever hear this at their concerts? ???

ah, you're outta luck dude, it's cover of a dylan song that they only did this summer.

that said...




Ohhhhhh shit ruuuuuuuuuunnnn!!!!!!


holy crap, this song is frickin amazing...i'm just now downloading the official bonnaroo set and enjoying/listening for myself screaming like a dumbass. It was a great set, though Jim's voice sounded really raw :) frickin awesome for a first show though.
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: ali on Jan 24, 2006, 04:43 PM
it changes on a daily basis.... current favs are

golden - this is such a warm summery song, it always makes me feel good

knot comes loose - ahhh

wordless chorus - jim's vocals at the end of the song ran a chill down my spine the first time i heard it. still does. there are only a few songs that have done that - jeff buckley's corpus christi carol, the first time i heard sigur ros... & now mmj!
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: tomEisenbraun on Jan 24, 2006, 06:09 PM
ha, that's right. it's summer for you guys down there, isn't it?
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: ali on Jan 24, 2006, 06:13 PM
summer in a BIG way. last week the temp was over 35 most days, saturday & sunday were both about 43 degrees. i think that's about 110F? stinking hot
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Dee. on Jan 24, 2006, 07:38 PM
That always blows my mind.  You are on a whole other wavelength of summer vibin'.  Today's forecast for me, a crisp 37F - 3C!  

As for my favorite songs, I don't even know where to begin.  Oh, look at that - Where to Begin.  No, really, I find myself agreeing with everything you guys are saying.  
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Uncle_Jerry on Jan 30, 2006, 01:25 PM
This changes weekly

1--Lay Low
2--Golden
3--Steam Engine
4--What a wonderful man
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: Amunet on Jan 31, 2006, 03:26 PM
For special reasons, Tonight I Want To Celebrate with You is the song that brings the best memory.

But, my favorite take-me-to-another-universe song, live only, is One Big Holiday! As strange as it sounds, it makes me feel like i just jumped off the top of a 1000-story building to commit suicide but I'm not gonna die.  (how do you think Jim would take it if I told him that?  ;) )

And then my new fav is Knot Comes Loose.... wheew!! Gives me chills. Actually, think I'll turn that on right now. :)
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: icemanhh on Feb 01, 2006, 06:28 AM
1.Golden.
2.At Dawn. When jim just singing it takes me somewhere  
   else, to a world of wonder.
3.Old september Blues.
4.Bermuda Highway.
5.Nashville to kentucky.
6.Anytime (WHAT A SONG!)
Title: Re: What MMJ song does it for you?
Post by: thebigbang on Feb 03, 2006, 04:05 PM
So many MMJ songs do it, but
for best sheer spine tingling MMJ moment I proffer . . .

Trapped in gasoline . . .

A lizard on a string . . .

Nobody ever screams .AANNNYYMOOOOOOORE . . .

it's called the Dark.

And if you ever got to hear the band launch into that tune live, well, you what I'm talkin' about.

Man, just stokes me thinking about that intro.