How?

[ManNamedTruth]

When someone asks you what MMJ sound like, how do you explain? I have trouble with this. I usually mention all their albums sound different but thats not really helping...One time I was drunk, I think I said they were southern rock. I know damn well thats not true but I didn't feel like getting more specific on account of the drunk thing.

[.Walt]

great question, cause their both soft and hard (not a penis joke) when it comes to rocking. i really have a tough time with this as well.  :-/

[ManNamedTruth]

I get this question a lot cause I'm always talking about them and wearing their merchandise and whatnot.

[vespachick]

I would explain that it is sort of like the first time you kissed someone you thought you might like, and how your head would reel and then you would keep trying even though you didn't understand it so much, and then you got it, and then you find you can't get enough of it, and then you obsess about what you should have done better the first time, what you wouldn't have done, or what you should be doing.  And then you post.

[.Walt]

When someone asks you what MMJ sound like, how do you explain? I have trouble with this. I usually mention all their albums sound different but thats not really helping...One time I was drunk, I think I said they were southern rock. I know damn well thats not true but I didn't feel like getting more specific on account of the drunk thing.

are you the same way i am, when you're at the bars and you gotta little sauce in yah,  you try to tell everyone you meet about the jacket? cause i do that shit all the time.

[ManNamedTruth]

When someone asks you what MMJ sound like, how do you explain? I have trouble with this. I usually mention all their albums sound different but thats not really helping...One time I was drunk, I think I said they were southern rock. I know damn well thats not true but I didn't feel like getting more specific on account of the drunk thing.

are you the same way i am, when you're at the bars and you gotta little sauce in yah,  you try to tell everyone you meet about the jacket? cause i do that shit all the time.

Maybe not everyone...but close. At the bar I go to they have one of those digital jukebox's that you can download songs. I rock out MMJ every night I'm there. Most people comment on my shirt and hoodie though and don't realize how much I play em there. The jukebox is the best way I can get people to hear what they sound like. Force them on it. The only thing is it doesn't have At Dawn or TTF along with a lot of other indie label stuff.

[.Walt]

i've never heard of that kind of jukebox, thats a great idea. my co workers are starting to get pissed are me, because i play at least one or two discs a night. i told them i would stop for two weeks, if they could sing a whole song.

[The DARK]

Describe them as One Big Holiday.

[BH]

I always say it's like that moment during Wish You Were Here when the lyrics kick in with "We're just two lost souls swimmin' in fishbowl." and you get that chill that crawls up from your gut and swims right up your neck.  

It's like that.

For the whole CD.  

All of 'em.

[sweatboard]

I always say it's like that moment during Wish You Were Here when the lyrics kick in with "We're just two lost souls swimmin' in fishbowl." and you get that chill that crawls up from your gut and swims right up your neck.  

It's like that.

For the whole CD.  

All of 'em.

Perfecto.

[ratsprayer]

you just say this:

"really good music can't be explained, it has to be heard."

and there you go.

[.Walt]

you just say this:

"really good music can't be explained, it has to be heard."

and there you go.

so true!

[ManNamedTruth]

you just say this:

"really good music can't be explained, it has to be heard."

and there you go.

best answer so far, i'll keep this one in mind.

[ratsprayer]

i think it is a good answer albeit an easy one.  music on its purest level is something we hear, not something we talk or write about, that comes later.  i have a hard time talking about a lot of my favourite bands, partially because they're a bit fucking weird, but mostly because they usually have a unique sound, and even though i do it a lot, i think it's lazy to compare one band to another.  my unwritten rule for describing a band to someone is to use at least 5 adjectives.

[Capt Tink TANK]

cop out

:-/

[ycartrob]

i think it is a good answer albeit an easy one.  music on its purest level is something we hear, not something we talk or write about, that comes later.  i have a hard time talking about a lot of my favourite bands, partially because they're a bit fucking weird, but mostly because they usually have a unique sound, and even though i do it a lot, i think it's lazy to compare one band to another.  my unwritten rule for describing a band to someone is to use at least 5 adjectives.

and to drive home Rats' point a bit, watch the scene from the movie Children of A Lesser God when William Hurt is trying to make Marlee Matlin (who is deaf) understand why he likes Bach so much. Pretty moving scene.

[MMJ_fanatic]

Like everything you could ever want from a musical group

[rugbird]

Power and Beauty.

Or

Propulsive and Pastoral.

[kyjed48]

Just simply tell them, "they're the only band that matters."  My brother tells everyone that, and it seems to get the point across.

[ManNamedTruth]

Just simply tell them, "they're the only band that matters."  My brother tells everyone that, and it seems to get the point across.

No one had been given that status since The Clash, until now.