At Dawn Is the best album ever concieved bymankind

[sweatboard]

And I know this for a FACT!!!!! Because I just listened to it. ;D

[wordawg]

Sorry, but your facts are wrong.
Honestly.
Don't let me stop you enjoying it though. ;)

[sweatboard]

Sorry, but your facts are wrong.
Honestly.
Don't let me stop you enjoying it though. ;)

No sir, I just listened to it again to make sure and it is in fact a musical masterpiece.  I think the art of producing an album as opposed to a group of songs has been lost in recent times, but MMJ has composed three fantastic ALBUMS, Including the best album ever concieved by mankind At Dawn.

[Oz]

It's almost a pity that this one is out there as well:


But I don't wanna spoil your fun either. :)

[Tameegee]

Hey, it's allll good.  The TN Fire, AT Dawn, It Still Moves, the EPs, the new acoustic.... It only gets better, but it was never not good ;)

[thebear0284]

I agree, At Dawn is the best album ever. The first song rivals The Joshua Tree for most breathtaking opening to a CD. The utter desolation and hope of the album is something rarely seen in music, it is an experience unlike any other. When Jim says "its just the way that he sings" he provides insights into the very nature of music that no one else out there is saying. Not since Dylan has a lyricist provided so much depth of meaning with such little effort, check "you only have to dance with me" in Lowdown, that phrase describes love in its many forms better than anything else ive heard in a song. And the guitar has a distinct sound, very much like U2's highly acclaimed album, that seems to envelope the beauty and dearth of American life. Simply put it is a masterpiece.

[MMJ_fanatic]

I agree, At Dawn is the best album ever. The first song rivals The Joshua Tree for most breathtaking opening to a CD. The utter desolation and hope of the album is something rarely seen in music, it is an experience unlike any other. When Jim says "its just the way that he sings" he provides insights into the very nature of music that no one else out there is saying. Not since Dylan has a lyricist provided so much depth of meaning with such little effort, check "you only have to dance with me" in Lowdown, that phrase describes love in its many forms better than anything else ive heard in a song. And the guitar has a distinct sound, very much like U2's highly acclaimed album, that seems to envelope the beauty and dearth of American life. Simply put it is a masterpiece.

I heard dat bro'!

[sweatboard]

I heard dat bro'!

Simply put!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

[Oz]

I agree, At Dawn is the best album ever. The first song rivals The Joshua Tree for most breathtaking opening to a CD. The utter desolation and hope of the album is something rarely seen in music, it is an experience unlike any other. When Jim says "its just the way that he sings" he provides insights into the very nature of music that no one else out there is saying. Not since Dylan has a lyricist provided so much depth of meaning with such little effort, check "you only have to dance with me" in Lowdown, that phrase describes love in its many forms better than anything else ive heard in a song. And the guitar has a distinct sound, very much like U2's highly acclaimed album, that seems to envelope the beauty and dearth of American life. Simply put it is a masterpiece.

Hmm, I never heard anyone compare At Dawn with The Joshua Tree. Interesting! I'll see if I can agree. :)

[Oz]

And now I wanna hear an intelligent, subtle and damn good review like that about It still moves from you. :)

[sweatboard]

Believe it or not the second MMJ record, At Dawn, is as good as their first, the critically acclaimed The Tennessee Fire. Jim's soulful voice and lonely country-rock songs are more intoxicating than ever here. My Morning Jacket songwriter Jim James, has a voice that's both honey and charcoal, like Neil Young at his most vulnerable. The songs are great Deep South gothic canvases filled in with gracious acoustic and electric guitars, painterly strokes of harpsichord, harmonica and lap steel, drums swimming in the deepest, darkest, widest pools of reverb, dirigible harmonies that will have you weeping, with incensed atmosphere so thick, it's absolutely biblical. At times melancholy to the point of desperation, there's still a fiery joy to the proceedings, the same sense of euphoria meets-tragedy that Outrageous Cherry can muster, with a more serious sense of traditional folk, the collective conscious of American Blues, Country and Rock 'n' Roll. The Country influence isn't artifice, no indeedy, it's obviously coming straight from Jim James' soul, check out the Allman Brothers' styled exorcism that goes by the name "Honest Man" if you need some heavy with your duty. This is what those Palace-whozits and indie-Americana popniks all wish their albums sounded like. James is indeed a young man with a great gift. One that we consider the best God ever bestowed on little Darla. Jim James mixed At Dawn with David Trumfio at Kingsize Sound Labs. Listen and get hooked.

Got this off the darla site. Honey and Charcoal  ;D What an amazing metaphore!

[Marcus]

I just heard "Just Because I Do" for the first time and I have been listening to MMJ for a while and didn't think it could get any better, but it did.  I have yet to acquire At Dawn because I have just about every song from that album on bootleg, except for JBID.  This is one of the best songs they have written, IMO.  They need to put this one back in the rotation ASAP :o

[PrazAngel]

I finally got a copy myself, this is not an easy record to find. I subscribe to a music service and have been listening to it for a while though. I really can't say enough about the excellence of this album.

What amazes me about this record is that each time I hear/play it I become intrigued even further, it's like I want to delve into the songs beyond normal listening. I know I might sound insane but it's a bizarre addiction.

[Rabid_Washcloth]

I still stand by my opinion that At Dawn is one of my top 5 albums of all time.
  
You can have every bootleg version out there, but the "atmospheric enhancements" added into the studio album are unreal.  From the crickets chirping, the whispering in "Death Is The Easy Way" and the times when JJ sounds like he's singing in an empty grain silo or enormous wine cellar, the moods of At Dawn are unbeatable.    

It almost acts like a concept album.  Hell, maybe it is.

[sweatboard]

I still stand by my opinion that At Dawn is one of my top 5 albums of all time.
 
You can have every bootleg version out there, but the "atmospheric enhancements" added into the studio album are unreal.  From the crickets chirping, the whispering in "Death Is The Easy Way" and the times when JJ sounds like he's singing in an empty grain silo or enormous wine cellar, the moods of At Dawn are unbeatable.    

Beautifuly said, I agree 100% with the "Atmospheric Enhancements".  I think it is an amazingly cohesive work of art.  Very subtle but extreamely Powerful.
It almost acts like a concept album.  Hell, maybe it is.

[Xmas_Curtain]

Yes -- it most certainly is.

[wordawg]

I still stand by my opinion that At Dawn is one of my top 5 albums of all time.
 

And that's fine by me.

[wordawg]

..........however, the answer to the thread title is No.

But it's a nice thought.

[sweatboard]

Yes -- it most certainly is.

Sorry Greggy the motion has already been seconded. :)

[wordawg]

Sorry Greggy the motion has already been seconded. :)

Point of order, Mr Chairperson.