My Morning Jacket - "Off The Record"

[crash46]

Just when I thought this was lost in the shuffle with the Alternative "Going For Adds" list at the beginning of the month looking comparable to that of any given Triple A chart, now the song is the greatest gainer outside the top 50. It's finally pickin' up.

I've seen this band listed all over the place, mainly opening for bigger bands, and I know they've had handfuls of albums and have been around forever, yet I've never actually heard what they do until this song. I was hooked almost immediately, and this was in November. This to me is the modern spin on a 70's influenced rock band that finally gets it right. I don't expect it to do much on the charts, which is a shame because these riffs are hook-city. But maybe they can prove me wrong.

The outtro to this song is a sweet 2½ minute instrumental, making the whole song about 5½ minutes overall. A big thumbs-up to any radio stations that let it all play out. I know 89x does, as does a satellite station that played the song (while I was inside a children's resale clothing store... .)

[a Nick O!]

Yeah, not so much any of their older stuff, but I'd kinda like to hear this song. Critics have had nothing but A-range praise for this album, likening it to if southern rockers made OK Computer or something.

And having just written that, I'll kinda take it with a grain of salt, remembering 4 years ago when Wilco made, what I guess would be the indie-rock OK Computer, and I remember how P.O.'d I was when I didn't take to it and still like Being There, which I'd already had for 5 years, quite a bit more.

[halo19]

I enjoy this quite a bit as well as what I heard from them a few years ago. I remember seeing a performance they did on TV a couple months or so ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. And I'm rarely that impressed by TV performances.

[mtm4319]

Does this sound anything like "One Big Holiday"? I wound up giving that what's turned out to be one of the all-time screw jobs on my personal chart back in 2004 (2 weeks on, #93 peak).

[friday]

I managed to hear this a few times on Sirius' Alt Nation this weekend. I'm totally in love with the song now. The whole song is just one big hook (well the first part anyway) and the lead singer's voice interacts really nicely with the melody. For some reason, whenever it comes on, I'm compelled to say "My Morning Jacket!" like some 5-year-old kid seeing Barney the Dinosaur on the TV. Their name combined with the righteousness of the song just naturally elicits that reaction.

Oh, and I love how "Layla"-esque the outro of the song is. You have to think that's what they were channelling when recording it.

Somehow, this wound up at #93 on The End's top 107 of 2005, which in retrospect seems kinda odd because I really only heard it three or four times on the station. They're not playing it now, but hopefully they'll pick it back up if it does finally take off.