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i wanna read the review of the new jomf record but the mag hasnt hit the west coast yet

email me adamforkner@yahoo.com

― aldar forktin, Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

fork you

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

looks like we've reached a fork in the road

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Don't forket me when I'm gone.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh good god. There really is an Adam Forkner, you clowns, he's in bands like Yume Bitsu and is a fine feller.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

More like a fork feller, amirite?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

OUT

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

i wanna read the review of the new jomf record but the mag hasnt hit the dc yet

email me georgebush@yahoo.com

― goerg beush, Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

the plot thickens

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

what happens after you read the review?

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

the plot forkens

― latebloomer: Do I have a large frog in my hair? (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 November 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

what happens after you read the review?

then he can finally listen to it

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Jackie - Motherfucker - Flags Of the Sacred Harp.
ATP CD
By Mike Barnes.
At their best, JOMF are an advertisement for constantly evolving, ego free improv. The large pool of musicians in this floating collective mitigates against any particular stylistic signature, but their shared telepathy allows players to relate to each other without getting in the way - they interact like the spinning parts of a huge, slowly rotating mobile.
There are a number of songs on this set , and at times jackie-o get somewhere close to free folk, as on the opener, "Nice One", except the free elements and the folk elements don't really coerce. The song starts with a simple acoustic guitar chord sequence and equallys imple vocal lines from Tom Greenwood and Honey Owens, eventually ceding to freeform clank with the instruments all clustering around and enquiring of one another at the close.
"Rockaway", meanwhile is so steeped in ennui, it sounds like Jason Pierce attempting one of his bluesy pleas to a higher agencey straight after being woken from an afternoon nap. Over a couple of chords , Greenwoods vocals slound flat and throaway, while some sweet slide guitarsings in the background. "Hey Mr Sky" plods off on another set of obvious chord changes, with some distant squalling guitar doing little to break the torpor. These songs simply aren't that great and they keep the group earthbound. A relief , then, when the instrumental "Spirits" arrives, its 16 minute foray into the outer limits peaking with the sound of a thousand guitars.

Alarmingly, the following track "Good Morning Kaptain" is billed at 45'50", but thankfully its 40 minutes shorter than the erroneous timing.
Its a decent enough song, with grumbling cello and wah-guitars snarling at their fey acoustic counterparts. Currents of double bass, guitars, tuned percussion and electronics (at least thats what it sounds like) surge through "loud and mighty" , while owens vocals waft across like ectoplasm before forming into something more corporeal.
Closing proceedings , the churning "The Louder Roared The Sea" is becalmed by a snippet of song at its close. It feels like JOMF integration of song into their unpredictable , enigmatic sonics is successfully achieved right at the last. But maybe that was the point?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

jackie-o mother forker

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

forks of the sacred harp

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Meet the forkers

― van igloo (van smack), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

bohn uncorked a diss on the sun city girls in this issue. scandal!

oh wait...un-forked.

― michael crumsho (clikatowi), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

what happens after you read the review?

then he can finally listen to it

-- cutty (holle...), November 26th, 2005 9:03 PM. (mcutt) (link)

and then what

email me e@rwig.com

― amon (eman), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

adam plays on th album and is a very handsome young man.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 27 November 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

wow
what a bunch of idiots

thanks for the review

everyone else can go fork themselves

or fuck themselves

which ever they prefer.

peace

adam

― adam forkner, Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

it IS a message board, dude.

― petesmith (plsmith), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

peace bro

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

personally ,i wouldn't have been in a hurry to receive that review.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 27 November 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

wonder if adam would be interested in the review for gimme fiction.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Jackie - Motherfucker - Flags Of the Sacred Harp
On its major-label debut, Jackie O Motherfucker demonstrates an affinity for distorted swagger.
How many bands have reinvented themselves as successfully as Jackie O Motherfucker? A Bar Mitzvah-like smorgasboard of sounds is offered up here, from the hushed "Mr. Awesome" to the Springsteenian fury of "Keeper of the Gloom." The lyrics are darker and more introspective than on earlier releases. What a long, strange trip it's been for Jackie O Motherfucker.

Jackie O Motherfucker is unsafe at any speed. The masters of muscular yearning are back. Some things never change.

― Alan N (Alan N), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

"major-label debut"?

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Load's new owner: Fred Durst!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

muscular yearning?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Some things never change.
What a long, strange trip it's been for Jackie-O Motherfucker. A Bar Mitzvah-like smorgasboard of sounds is offered up here, from the hushed "Realm of Impossibility" to the horrifying angst of "(Take Me) Higher." There's no shortage of bone-crunching stomp here, especially on "Stain." The lyrics are darker and more introspective than on earlier releases. The same obsessions -- World War II and visions of World War III -- are here in spades. "Keeper of the Gloom" won't win any Grammies this year. How many bands have reinvented themselves as successfully as Jackie-O Motherfucker?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

This thread is "Bar Mitzvah-like smorgasboard of roffles."

― GARGLEBY (dr g), Sunday, 27 November 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

this thread is so steeped in ennui

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

teh ennui is getting so thick, you could pierce it with a fork

― Jena (JenaP), Sunday, 27 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/j/jackie-o-motherfucker/change.shtml

― amon (eman), Sunday, 27 November 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

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