My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket => The Band => Topic started by: DavidCrosby on Mar 24, 2008, 05:00 PM

Title: How to describe MMJ to someone who has never heard
Post by: DavidCrosby on Mar 24, 2008, 05:00 PM
.....today at work someone had a copy of Okonokos in their hand and wanted to know if it was worth it to buy it......I simply said "just get it now" but he wasnt too thrilled with that answer......so he asked me to describe it and the first thing that came to mind was, "If Gram Parsons was in The Band and they all has space suits on"......it worked and he bought it..........

Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: heartbreakinwoman on Mar 25, 2008, 09:59 AM
i always struggle with that question...and i usually have the same answer...just listen to it and get back to me
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: folieadeux322 on Mar 25, 2008, 02:40 PM
sexy hillbilly rock

see cobra
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: Bigsky on Mar 25, 2008, 09:18 PM
What about giving them the definition of the word:

"O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul trancends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.  "
-Miss Evil Urges 1992
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: BadfooT on Mar 25, 2008, 10:40 PM
i usually say Neil Young + Crazy Horse crossed with Flaming Lips
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: ms. yvon on Mar 27, 2008, 12:00 AM
Quotesomeone had a copy of Okonokos in their hand and wanted to know if it was worth it to buy it......I simply said "just get it now"
;D ;D ;D

one of the fab things about this band is one can't pin 'em down style wise.  i've used these adjectives...

sonorous
gorgeous
big
lovely
fucking fantastic
off the charts

from here it just degenerates into my shaking my head a lot and trying to convey something by talking with my hands.
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: mjkoehler on Mar 27, 2008, 12:42 PM
Quotefucking fantastic
off the charts

from here it just degenerates into my shaking my head a lot and trying to convey something by talking with my hands.

Thats actually the ONLY way people should describe them (or a combo of the 2)!

FUCKING OFF THE CHARTS FANTASTIC. [size=8]wish we had a smiley that had wild hand jestures and head shaking[/size]
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: MickeyReds on Mar 27, 2008, 11:12 PM
Listen........
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: ms. yvon on Mar 28, 2008, 01:51 AM
Quote

Thats actually the ONLY way people should describe them (or a combo of the 2)!

FUCKING OFF THE CHARTS FANTASTIC. [size=11]wish we had a smiley that had wild hand gestures and head shaking[/size]
;D

use of the word, "dude" is helpful in this situation.  while the word is simply an address, one's chosen inflection speaks emotional volumes!
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: DaFunkyPrecedent on Mar 30, 2008, 03:12 PM
there was a thread about this a while back and someone responded

the feeling you get when your listening "wish you were here" by pink floyed and when he waters sings "we're two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" - that feeling through every second of every song.  

Thats what i use when i tell people.  
Title: Re: How to describe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: The DARK on Mar 30, 2008, 11:34 PM
I heard someone say once (here maybe?) that their genre was "Epic Rock". I can't find any better way to put it.
Title: Re: How to describe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: Ghosts_on_TV on Apr 02, 2008, 04:51 PM
Thrusting in Your face.
Title: Re: How to describe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: Taterbug on Apr 02, 2008, 05:00 PM
Southern Fried Rockabilly Folk Funk  :)
Title: Re: How to describe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: whothrewthecake on Apr 02, 2008, 05:39 PM
QuoteThrusting in Your face.


nailed it
Title: Re: How to descirbe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: BH on Apr 02, 2008, 05:50 PM
Quotethere was a thread about this a while back and someone responded

the feeling you get when your listening "wish you were here" by pink floyed and when he waters sings "we're two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" - that feeling through every second of every song.  

Thats what i use when i tell people.  


Well I don't want to toot my own horn but....







honk, honk




I read "otherworldly" once somewhere.  I think I would go with that.
Title: Re: How to describe MMJ to someone who has never h
Post by: DaFunkyPrecedent on Apr 02, 2008, 06:45 PM
i usually just say now..."kick ass rock and roll" and then i inform them "They're one of those bands that the more you put into them, they more they give back."