BEST ALBUM EVER CREATED BY MANKIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, after I made that comment about the David Ford album well,.................I've felt dirty ever since. So, I put on AT DAWN tonight and I didn't even get through the intro part of at dawn before I remembered................Holy Shit!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER CREATED BY MANKIND!!!!!!!!! David Ford made me cry and forgive me but I was already really emotional that night. :-[ I still really love that guy and his songs. :)
and then..........
He says "That's When My Knife Rises Their Life Ends And Mine Begins" ............AT DAWN..........MY MORNING JACKET. Ah, Just the intro sounds to at dawn justify what the entire album sets up with a line like "forget your papers, forget your musical dreams"
"The Way That He Sings"
It's so magical to hear a soul singing about himself hearing in someone else what would eventually become something somebody else would hear in him.
I'm listening to "Honest Man" right now and remembering how ape shit I've gone to this song so many times........."Evil waves at me it's ugly hand.....Radar watches me from above, shouting down.........."I HOPE YOU MAKE IT ON THIS EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Some serious air gutar coming up.......... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
AH HELL!!!!!!!! So, anyways, this is the thread to profess your undying love for "THE BEST ALBUM EVER CREATED BY MANKIND" so,
Share your favorite moments on the record.
Your favorite sex acts you've performed while listening to it.......... "Angry Dragon"
The First Time You heard It.
The First Time You Listened To It On PCP mixed with Vikadin.
Other things that you actually remember doing while listening to it..... "Driving Through The Smokey Mountains With All The Windows Down While Getting A Blow Job and smiling and pointing at the back of her head to all the truck drivers you were passing at 102 mph" etc. etc
Your favorite lyrical moments.......
favorite production points......"I go with the vocal recording of "I Needed It Most" which by the way...is it the most sad or the most beautiful setiment you have ever heard in the world? I think Tom has some good things to say about this song. Well either way it's amazing that someone as young as Jim was could say something so profound about love in such a poignant manner. Actually it's amazing that anyone could.
You feel a total liberation in your soul at some point during Phone Went West.
Then it's time to hit you with the most emotionaly devistating conclusion to ever end a record. STRANGULATION. "I Don't Want To FEEL a THING!
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I'm not even going to bother replying to this thread, knowing Sweatboard he'll probably have another new 'fav album of all time!!!' tomorrow ;)
Just kidding! At Dawn is my fav album of all time & I can't imagine that changing anytime soon.
I came across this the other day whilst checking to see what kind of love MMJ have on amazon.co.uk:
"Let's not mess about: My Morning Jacket's At Dawn is a classic American rock record. There is nothing exactly revolutionary about the second album from the quintet from Louisville, Kentucky. Guitars strum and occasionally squall, vocals are of the high and lonesome variety, songs stretch out from poignant sketches into rambunctious shows of strength. Educated guesses suggest a few Neil Young albums might have found their way into the life of singer, guitarist and songwriter Jim James.
Elsewhere, someone could be reinventing music. It's doubtful, though, that they could make anything out of it quite as fragile, powerful and involving as At Dawn. Habitually linked with Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) and Jonathan Donahue (Flaming Lips / Mercury Rev), James's plaintive, massively-reverbed vocals actually have as much in common with Roy Orbison and Gene Pitney--noble, heartbroken balladeers on the fringes of rock. Better still, his songs are the kind of marvels that Americana's pin-ups frequently promise yet so rarely deliver.
Highlighting individual tracks seems crude in the context of so many riches. Indeed, by the time "Phone Went West" has spent seven minutes resurrecting that most benighted of genres, white reggae, you'll be convinced My Morning Jacket are not just masters of the ancient arts, but the best band to saunter onto the world stage since the White Stripes."
John Mulvey
The words to this song mean a lot to me and I am saving them for a poem to my wife when she's close to giving birth to our third child. (We just found out last week!)
I wont ask you where you're goin.
I wont ask you where you been.
I know after a million times you get sick of all my lines,
but I just wanna see you safe again.
Hopefully it occurs to me that there's one thing I cant stand.
That's the thought of a single day, without your head in my hand.
I know that just now I aint been showin,
the kind of love you know that I can.
So gimmie a little time and you'll be knowin your good lovin
baby is back on top again.
I always hoped you'd be showin,
and now you've shown as much as you can.
But after each time im still glowin
with a good lovin smile that's yours until the end.
ahhhhh oooooooooooooooo!
Amelia loves At Dawn. Enough said-she's got good taste. ;)
Hey, At Dawn?
I love you. Until I die.
Thank you 'Xmas Curtain' for being the best song ever.
Thank you 'Phone Went West' for bringing me down from a bad trip.
Love,
Gregg
hopefully is the shit...i wonder how many girls Jim has slayed singing that song to 'em?
Congrats welcome to the greatest moment in your life, my kids love the jacket especially Lowdown. At Dawn is the greatest album ever. my fav memory is being pilled out of my mind with my wife 3 yrs ago on halloween listening to it and hitting all the haunted houses, trail etc. that we could find. Thank You At Dawn. Thank You My Morning Jacket.
QuoteThe words to this song mean a lot to me and I am saving them for a poem to my wife when she's close to giving birth to our third child. (We just found out last week!)
I wont ask you where you're goin.
I wont ask you where you been.
I know after a million times you get sick of all my lines,
but I just wanna see you safe again.
Hopefully it occurs to me that there's one thing I cant stand.
That's the thought of a single day, without your head in my hand.
I know that just now I aint been showin,
the kind of love you know that I can.
So gimmie a little time and you'll be knowin your good lovin
baby is back on top again.
I always hoped you'd be showin,
and now you've shown as much as you can.
But after each time im still glowin
with a good lovin smile that's yours until the end.
ahhhhh oooooooooooooooo!
dear at dawn (the record and the song),
you make me believe in myself.
love,
ec xo
At Dawn inspires me to write some really good love letters.
<3 Brad
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So, after I made that comment about the David Ford album well
those myspace songs sure are sounding good though. i am probably going to have to buy this one.
yeah, I love him, if you think Keane is wussy David Ford takes it to a whole new level but I still love him though. The video for "State Of The Union" on the myspace page is a MUST SEE!!!!!!!!
At Dawn is really really damn good on the headphones, tried that for the first time a few weeks ago. I really love the different sounds they use to give the music texture, like the bugs chirping. The live version of Hopefully made me truly appreciate that song. Honest Man, X-mas Curtain, and just because I do are a great stretch of songs. They kinda hold some of the slower songs together and it gets rockin at the right times. Honest Man is one of my favorites by MMJ and I rarely read any posts about that one. The very beginning of X-mas Curtain is really cool they kinda tricked me at first. It starts out sounding like it gonna be a reggae inspired song but then they change it up. Phone Went West is a beautiful song with a slow reggae beat. I felt rewarded after I thought I was cheated out of a reggae song with X-Mas Curtain(not that I don't like that song I appreciate they way they did that). Great album maybe not THE greatest there's always Sgt Peppers. ::)
Love the whole thing. Amazing album, At Dawn. Truly epic. Just wanna give a shout out to If It Smashes Down/I Needed It Most which both blow me away bigtime......especially that instrumental middle in I Needed It Most.......that's what heaven will sound like......I could listen to a half hour loop of that middle section alone.
I swear he's playing "If It Smashes Down" while sitting in a rocking chair......that's pretty awesome. I always invision Jim sitting in a rocking chair alone at the bottom of a grain silo with a Banjo.
i was going to put down some stuff... but reading all of the above has made me need to listen to the album. so.... thoughts & favs a little later!
Well, what can I say? This albumis perfect.
I think this is the perfect time to petition Jim to do a chunk of acoustic songs in the middle of their se during the nextmajor tour, like he was doing 2 years ago. An while we areat it, we ned to beg im to start playing I Needed It Most. THis is my all time favorite song by MMJ. I'd go as far as saying it is my favorite song of all time. The picture that Jim paints with his lyrics is so vivid. And the " I will not CRUMBLE!!!! " part; jesus man. I just really love this song. Myfriends and I have been calling for this song at every Seattle show since the fall of 03. Last tour, we even brought a sign asking for it, to no avail. I must hear that song live. SO lets hope Jimbreaks it out soon.
PapaJoeBear
Yep, I think the consensus amongst the fans on this forum is........................[size=20]START PLAYING "I NEEDED IT MOST" IN THE LIVE SETS, YALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/size]
At Dawn - how can I praise thee? You are a classic for all time!
hmmm, there is no record in the last 15 years that has moved me so much as you have! I listen at night, I listen during the day, in the evening and of course, At Dawn! I can't ever stop and I don't really want to....
I have had various *love* affairs with certain songs....at first it was The Way that He Sings, then it was, Death is the Easy Way then Xmas Curtain, then Hopefully, I needed it Most, and now it's actually...At Dawn. It's odd with this band even when I have heard a song many times - suddenly one day the song hits me like a ton of feathers...and it's a great sensation! It gets into my blood and soul and it resonates with my whole being.
Yes, I gushed. I realize that. Can't help it. ;D
I cannot wait for the Demos and to hear the original Chills and Lead Me Father.
My Dearest At Dawn,
When I think of your sexy sounds...
'scuse me while I go clean out the mess I just made in my shorts... :-[
You still give me chills. I will always remember my 1st time with you. Love, MMJ_f
QuoteYep, I think the consensus amongst the fans on this forum is........................[size=20]START PLAYING "I NEEDED IT MOST" IN THE LIVE SETS, YALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/size]
I'd LOVE that, but it's a bit too involved/intimate I think, to include in the type of shows they're doing right now....now it would fit nicely in a Jim solo show, tho......they're clearly in their rockin' phase now with Z and the tour........I predict the next album will be back to some variation of 'mellow'........then they can include it in their live sets......we'll see.
When I got at Dawn (at the same time as the first album) I was totally immersed still in It Still Moves. It took a while to fully absorb this one (which is a good sign usually)
It was definitely a change from that and it slowly creeped up on me to become my favorite Jacket album. I have so many great memories of listening repeatedly with my sweetie and many times before i slept to accompany the drift into dreamland.
I still never tire of hearing the songs live or in studio and the way that he sings always will hold a special place in my heart.
That reminds me...I can't wait to listen on headphones again!!
Sometimes i can swear i hear the beginnings of at dawn at random places, maybe its just got that far into my head !!
I Don't think i will ever tire of singing At Dawn!!!!
At Dawn is one of my favorite albums EVAH!!!!!!!!!!
p.s. i love it when people gush about favorite things!!! :D
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I'd LOVE that, but it's a bit too involved/intimate I think, to include in the type of shows they're doing right now....now it would fit nicely in a Jim solo show, tho......they're clearly in their rockin' phase now with Z and the tour........I predict the next album will be back to some variation of 'mellow'........then they can include it in their live sets......we'll see.
Great Point about it not fitting into the set's they are playing these days. But..........You probably could have said the same thing about "I Think I'm Going To Hell" when the Z tour first started. If they rock the ever living shit out of the first encore and then close that first set with Don Donte.......Well, I think "I Needed It Most" would be breathtaking the same way it is on the album as an early encore song. Plus, Jim really needs to "Layer (different than reverb)" his vocals in a live setting and this would be the ultimate first song to do it on.
[size=21]PLAY "I NEEDED IT MOST"............PLEASE!!!!!!!![/size]
All this at dawn reading, it made me put it, on. its been my fav of theirs forever. Also, i odnt know if this is good to admit on here or not, but i already have the demos, nd have had them for months. my buddy gave them to me, and its got those two afformentioned songs also. i honestly havent even listened to them, but i will when this CD's done. ill prolly still buy the demos cause they will prolly be remastered properly.
Im at Xmas Curtain right now, one of my new faves for sure, since the Roo show made it sound so unreal. im so happy i have people to chat it up with who enjoy this nband as much as i do, cause im seriously obsessed. i werk 10 hours in the sun, and come home, put this on, and check this site. sometimes im too tired to write back, but its friday and the beers are flowing down my throat like the sustainence of the God's.
Again, i love this album and this whole band and community. Have a good weekend, this beer is for y'all!!!!!!
P E R F E C T I O N
What a great thread, I love hearing everyone's take on this album. At Dawn was my first MMJ album and is the most incredible album I have heard to date. When I heard all the strange noises at the beginning of the title song I knew I was in for something special, then when I heard Jim's voice sang out "At Dawn they ride again..." I was completely hooked. I thought each song was the best song I had ever heard. I like a lot of different kinds of music, but I have never found any other music that I am drawn to like the music this band makes. My wife likes the Jacket also, but she thinks I am borderline obsessive (and she is probably right :P)
When It Still Moves came out I thought I had a new favorite album for about 3 months, but over time At Dawn has regained its rightful place at #1 (that is not a knock on It Still Moves as it is a close second).
I have a copy of the CD in my house, my car, my wife's car, and my office just so I can listen to it anytime the need arises.
At Dawn is a great song and a great opener. It really sets up the rest of the album in my mind. Really puts you in the mood to be blown away. The Way That He Sings, Honest Man, XMas Curtain, and Just Because I Do are great songs to rock out to. Hopefully is very special for the wife and I. I Needed It Most and Strangulation send chills up my spine everytime I hear them. Actually get a little knot in my throat sometimes when listening to Strangulation (usually with a little help from my friends at Coors Brewing Company). I would love to see that song performed live.
I guess I am gonna have to listen to the album now......