Every 5 albums is a good time to unleash a GH. a 5 minute, 'Cobra' should b on it but it's non on any of their LPs. I feel we need this GH album then they should break up. Let the FLOGGING OF FB Begin! ;)
MMJ's catalogue doesn't lend itself well to a greatest hits. Okonokos works well enough.
Dude. Man. ....duuuuude....
No thanks.
Do you work for ATO or something?
I don't like the idea of a greatest hits CD. Something would be left out if wasn't at least a 6 CD set.
QuoteI don't like the idea of a greatest hits CD. Something would be left out if wasn't at least a 6 CD set.
I second this notion. ;)
I'd rather they wait until 2015 or so... And yes, it would be a 4-6 disc package or so...
I've never had the feeling i had when that 4 disc Zeppelin set came out when i was in like 8th grade or something. Of course pre-web that was way cooler.
QuoteI'd rather they wait until 2015 or so... And yes, it would be a 4-6 disc package or so...
I've never had the feeling i had when that 4 disc Zeppelin set came out when i was in like 8th grade or something. Of course pre-web that was way cooler.
Ahhh...yes. That Zeppelin box set was killer. I too was in middle school when that came out and I too remember that 'feeling'. Good stuff man. Warm and fuzzy.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think they have enough "hits" for a compilation. As for a "best of", that's a tricky subject. If the sole purpose of the compilation was to bring MMJ new fans, you'd want to put on all their most commercial, easy to like songs. For example:
1. The Bear
2. Evelyn is Not Real
3. Lowdown
4. The Way That He Sings
5. Mahgeetah
6. Golden
7. One Big Holiday
8. Wordless Chorus
9. Gideon
10. Off the Record
11. Anytime
12. Lay Low
13. I'm Amazed
14. Thank You Too!
15. Aluminum Park
16. Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2
If I saw an MMJ compilation which was completely created by the record companies, that's what I'd expect. But I'd be really disappointed by the tracklisting: what about They Ran, By My Car, At Dawn, Bermuda Highway, Sooner, Cobra, Steam Engine, It Beats 4 U and Smokin' From Shootin' just to name a few of the many great songs that would be left behind as not commercially viable. What would the point be anyway? MMJ would lose money because some of their less obsessed fans would buy the best of and think that nothing else in the catalogue was necessary. And for the more experienced fans, we already have all the songs, so what's the point? New artwork? Radio edits? This idea would do no one any good except for the unfortunates who would rather hear the tracks the record company picks for them than dive into an artist's body of work.
So, no. Maybe when MMJ are doing stadium tours they'll be able to afford to save idiots some money. Not now. Hopefully not ever.
What hits? A compilation, maybe, but a greatest hits album by name alone is a bad idea.
ok here's what I'd choose,
I'm Amazed
Off The Record
Gideon
It Beats 4 You
Cobra
Run Through
One Big Holiday
Golden
Bremuda Highway
Death Is The Easy Way
Touch Me I'm Going 2 Scream Prt. 2
Quoteok here's what I'd choose,
I'm Amazed
Off The Record
Gideon
It Beats 4 You
Cobra
Run Through
One Big Holiday
Golden
Bremuda Highway
Death Is The Easy Way
Touch Me I'm Going 2 Scream Prt. 2
How are Cobra and Death is the Easy Way hits?
Quoteok here's what I'd choose,
I'm Amazed
Off The Record
Gideon
It Beats 4 You
Cobra
Run Through
One Big Holiday
Golden
Bremuda Highway
Death Is The Easy Way
Touch Me I'm Going 2 Scream Prt. 2
Go buy the Tennesse Fire.
I own Tenn Fire. I don't care for it
Uh-oh.... :-/
QuoteQuoteok here's what I'd choose,
I'm Amazed
Off The Record
Gideon
It Beats 4 You
Cobra
Run Through
One Big Holiday
Golden
Bremuda Highway
Death Is The Easy Way
Touch Me I'm Going 2 Scream Prt. 2
Go buy the Tennesse Fire.
I don't know why I thought that was so funny aMD, but there's coffee on my keyboard now. ;D
QuoteI own Tenn Fire. I don't care for it
You may not like it, but you can't ignore an album when putting together a greatest hits. Especially when the band has only released 5 albums and assorted EPs.
QuoteQuoteI own Tenn Fire. I don't care for it
You may not like it, but you can't ignore an album when putting together a greatest hits. Especially when the band has only released 5 albums and assorted EPs.
And 5 of those 11 songs listed are off their last 2 albums
As most have said, they dont need a GH album. Technically, they dont even have *a* hit
And if they would have a GH album, why limit it to 11 songs?!?! (and those 11 looked like Arista picked them or something)...
The only GH theyll ever have, is a 79min, 37 sec mix I made of my favorite/their best songs. Thats the only GH MMJ fans need, their own personal one.
QuoteQuoteQuoteI own Tenn Fire. I don't care for it
You may not like it, but you can't ignore an album when putting together a greatest hits. Especially when the band has only released 5 albums and assorted EPs.
And 5 of those 11 songs listed are off their last 2 albums
As most have said, they dont need a GH album. Technically, they dont even have *a* hit
And if they would have a GH album, why limit it to 11 songs?!?! (and those 11 looked like Arista picked them or something)...
The only GH theyll ever have, is a 79min, 37 sec mix I made of my favorite/their best songs. Thats the only GH MMJ fans need, their own personal one.
Amen!! [smiley=beer.gif]
You should get one of these CD burner things. Have you heard of them? Man, it's just like back in the day when you would make cassette tapes for a friend, remember that? But, it's better b/c it's CD and it will last longer, plus, no one really listens to cassettes anymore, right? Well, what you do is get all your MMJ CD's (minus Tennessee Fire, of course) and depending on the software, you can pick and choose which songs you want on your CD from which CD's. Then, burn it (and by "burn" that means to copy, but don't give it to someone else b/c I am pretty sure that is illegal and you could go to jail. In fact, my cousin Ernie burned a Huey Lewis and The News CD for a friend (I think it was Sports) and he somehow got pulled over by the cops and he had that "burned" (copied) CD in his possession, plus he already had one in the deck, so, like, he couldn't really explain that away, and he got arrested and is now in the penetentiary for like 7 years. Oh, and he had 6 kilos of cocaine in his trunk) and in like 5 minutes you have a My Morning Jacket Greatest Hits CD! And you can get other software for your computer and do the art for the cover and stuff. I made a CD and made my own Led Zeppelin Greatest Hits and I put a picture of a guy with one of those hats that holds 2 beer cans on the side of his head and has straws that come down to his mouth and I put that on the cover and I call it "Hits" ;D
But that reminds me of this hamster I had when I was 7, his name was Joe and we used to put him on top of the hamster wheel and his sister Flo would run in the wheel and Joe would hang on and go round and round and round and it was like endless fun. Whatever happened to endless fun? remeber? You could just sit there for hours and entertain yourself with a fork and electrical tape? And time would like stand still and before you knew it it was supper time and you mom would call you in and you would be bummed at first but then it's like STEAK! and then it's all good and pretty soon you forgot about the fork and tape and then back to life centering off into a spiral protection of edge filled platypus fortitude stuffing diner cat dog moose subject predicate adverb sentese effot eding lfdjno[ vcnbbnp
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So Sleestak, what all was in that line you snorted, say, 45 minutes ago?n ;D