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| It Still Moves | 
 enlarge | Artist: My Morning Jacket
Label: Ato Records / Red
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 149674
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 12.1 x 0.3
UPC: 880882159917
EAN: 0880882159917
ASIN: B0018OASWW
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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 This won't be helpful ... January 29, 2005
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
... to you if you're in love with these guys. (Ever noticed how the negative reviews are rarely rated "helpful"?) I wanted to like this. I bought it because I was disappointed in AT DAWN, and read here and elsewhere that this was better. It's just not. The echoes of Neil Young are unavoidable ... any idiot will notice ... and that's great company, right? Despite that, much of this stuff is baleful, turgid, melancholy and INTERMINABLE. I mean, I can spend all day in a minor key ... but My Morning Jacket's navel-gazing has me ready to blow my brains out. It's all so similar that if it's up your alley, you're gonna love it all ... but me, I enjoy Golden, and can live with Mahgeetah, I Will Sing You Songs, and Steam Engine. That's about it. Sorry.
 great vibe, but the sound...... December 30, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I continue to enjoy this album, the songs have a complexity about them that I find with each listen. Good range of vibe, from a rocking opener with decent guitar range, to a slow folksy/country feel that is perfect for a cold rainy evening. My only issue is the recording quality, almost sounds like its a live recording. I can tell they want an echo feel with the vocals, but it makes the guitar/drums fall back as well, very strange. Its raw and you get used to it after several listens, but why struggle? Can't tell if this is for an effect or the nature of the equipment, but a cleaner/tighter sound recording would make this a 4-star.
 Derivative? March 12, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am sorry but I am sick of people saying that MMJ or The Strokes or any new band that comes out is derivative of some ancient obscure band from a long time ago. You know, I bet I could find that Neil Young is "derivative" if I searched country music from the last 100 years!!! Just because James of MMJ has a voice that sounds like Neil Young doesn't automatically make his band derivative!!! And the same goes for any new band. Keep in mind that these people who say this music is "derivative" are the same ones who think that 70's rock is "like the best ever" and nothing will ever, ever surpass it. Any attempts from these young punk kid bands to show some influence from former music should be dismissed and they will never be good enough. And if I have to hear another comment about Neil Young I'm gonna go insane. You know the only similarity I see between this band and Neil is the sound of Jim James's voice and Neil's voice. These two artists write completely different styles of lyrics. Neil tells stories as any country rock artist would and Jim James can write short clever lyrics that are extrememly efficient in communicating emotion while not being too long-winded, similar to Greg Allman. And, as far as this band being derivative because they use reverb? HA! A derivative guitar effect, imagine that!!! I haven't heard reverb in such a long time and used so perfectly as this. I don't drool over this band or think they can do no wrong. There were some songs I didn't like on this record. But, overall this is a brilliant album. And, you can't deny "Golden" as a great song, you really can't. My grandmother loves that song and I'm sure she grew up listening to old country with plenty of reverb. I would even go so far as naming it a classic rock song on the same level as "midnight rider" by the Allman brothers band. There are at least three songs on this album that could be top 40 hits: golden, Mahgeetah, and One Big Holiday. But the rest of the album is really great with only a few tracks that I skip over. I don't want to hear another person say this band is derivative because there is a big difference between being derivative and having influences. Nirvana - INFLUENCED by the Pixies, NOT derivative of the Pixies. Derivative makes it sound like they steal all their riffs and their lyrics and they don't have anything original in their music. Although MMJ may be influenced by other artists they are definitely original. Anyone who says they are derivative their head's are warped and biased against all new music. So, treat yourself to some truly great, ORIGINAL music and buy this!!
seventy-one long minutes September 11, 2005
6 out of 30 found this review helpful
"Raw?" "Energetic"? "In your face"?
I honstly can't understand how anybody could think the stuff on ISM is any of those things.
Energy level is close to that of "The Trinity Sessions", but this band doesn't have the self-discipline - or the vocal & instrumental skills, for that matter - of the Cowboy Junkies, so they go on & on & on & on & on ... meandering dweebishly forever.
Capsule description - high-pitched personality-free vocals that are not IMHO improved by the very free application of reverberberberb, against a background of lethargic mush.
Coming soon to garage sales all over the country.
I NEED MORE MORE MORE SANTIAGO YOUR BREATH STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN September 29, 2005
6 out of 21 found this review helpful
Buy this album, if you don't I heard monsterous beings from the unknown will suck out your soul with a mystical black alien vacuum. Just what I heard...but you might as well not risk it, you know...
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