Monsters of Folk

Monsters of Folk is Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band), and M. Ward.

Self-titled debut out September 22!

Really looking forward to this, as at one time or another I've been a fan of all of these dudes.

There's also a tour and a song.

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary%27s/Pictures/NESGameCovers/Monster%20in%20My%20Pocket.jpg

stweet team

lol

http://blogs.pitch.com/wayward/Bonnie-Prince-Billy.jpg

monsters of sock

It's a pretty lame name for this band

should've picked ASIA

"Alt-Country Superstars"

http://monstersoffolk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/MOF-minix500.jpg

It is scheduled for release on September 22, 2009.

1. Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)
2. Say Please
3. Whole Lotta Losin'
4. Temazcal
5. The Right Place
6. Baby Boomer
7. Man Named Truth
8. Goodway
9. Ahead of the Curve
10. Slow Down Jo
11. Losin Yo Head
12. Magic Marker
13. Svetlana
14. Map of the World
15. The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me
16. His Master's Voice

leaking...

You mean it has leaked and you are waiting to dl it? Or you are the one actually leaking it as we speak?

I have a feeling this is gonna be some terrible experiment in emo folk.

just saying it is out there if interested. i just finished downloading it and will give it a run through after some football.

tell us what you think

i guess kshighway is on vacation too

hopefully this is a comedy album

they've been announced in the Bridge School Benefit lineup, so my burning question is: will they be worth seeing, or are they a 'go get a beer and hang out' act? And be honest. My instinct says 'snoozefest' but I've been wrong before.

1. Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)

'Sincerely Mother o'Fucker'

xp - you'd also have to endure No Doubt, dude from Coldplay and Jimmy Buffett ...

well that cover is really something!

I want to see No Doubt, so no problem there...dude from Coldplay is definitely beer-time...no Buffet b/c we're going on Saturday, instead I get Adam Sandler who is definitely a trade-up in proceedings. However I believe we also get Gavin Rossdale and Sheryl Crow. So mostly snoozefest overall. But we go every year, it's for a good cause

i don't see a single folk song on that track listing.

hopefully this won't suck, but it sounds like it might. even m ward's last album was pretty boring.

"He guys, we're Monsters of Folk and we're a supergroup! Everybody clap along!" (M. Ward high-knee marches forward then points to himself with his thumb) "I'm M. Ward and I'm the old fashioned one of the group!" (He marches backward and Jim James marches forward and bows and tips his hat) "Well howdy y'all I'm Jim James and I'm the bearded one!" (marches backward and Conor marches forward flipping his bangs) "I'm Conor and I'm the emotional rrrrrascal of the group!" (marches back) "...I'm Mike an-" Conor:"Shut the fuck up Mike."

Hey*

heheh

listened to the first 10 songs on the myspace. can't handle this crap anymore. was gonna try to hear the whole record.

So! the band was on MTV News and did a hilarious bit where they talked about other supergroups:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/429128/does-supergroup-monsters-of-folk-measure-up-to-other-supergroups.jhtml

Love love love the Temple of the Dog part.

I'm going to see them live in a few weeks. Apparently they'll be playing some of the material from their other projects, which should be interesting. Pretty much everything I've heard since 2005 from all of the band members isn't nearly as good as their work from that year, but if I'm lucky they'll put out some of their old tunes and it will be awesome.

Going to see these dudes at the Orpheum in Boston tonight.

Come back alive.

Take a pillow and a blanket.

Monsters of Folk work better than Ambien.

Ned: I will try.

Daniel: I think the ticket cost more than some Ambien, so I probably should've just stayed home.

Yeah, the record's not that good and these dudes peaked in 2005. But I get to hang out with some friends, and from what I've seen on the blogs they'll be playing some non-MoF stuff, so it won't be too bad.

Can't be worse than the performance Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band gave opening for Wilco this summer.

Jim James (falsetto-guy) dominates this album, and the final track is quite beautiful. Most y'all won't like it.

tell us what you think

― CaptainLorax, Monday, September 14, 2009 8:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

Jim James (falsetto-guy) dominates this album, and the final track is quite beautiful. Most y'all won't like it.

I'm crazy about Jim James' voice. I just think it's used to better effect -- and with far more interesting music and arrangements behind it -- in MMJ. This album just seemed flat and uninspired to me (admittedly, tho, I had bad feelings about it from the first time I heard about the project).

I don't disagree. But I still love that last track.

Holler.

Alright: No opening band. The band, however, played for three hours. They played in a bunch of different configurations. For some songs, it'd be the entire four of them plus the drummer. Other times it'd just be, say, Mogis and Oberst playing some old Bright Eyes. (They played four or so songs from Bright Eyes circa 2005—three from I'm Wide Awake, 1 from Digital Ash. Maybe Conor knows it's his best era.) Sometimes it'd just be James solo. Three hours is way too long for one band to play. And, I'll admit, there were many times were I thought, "Shit, Daniel's right, this music is starting to have the same effect on me as Ambien." The songs I didn't know started to blend together after awhile. But the songs I did know made up for it.

Also, just want to throw it out there that if you're at a concert and thinking, "ILX is going to give me shit for whatever I say about this concert," you should probably take a break from the computer. Hahaha.

Holler.

The voices of ILM are deep in kshighway's consciousness
http://j-walkblog.com/images2/angelanddevilshoulder.jpg

jim james is muppetish IMO

I'm on Homer's left.

Daniel's the one on the left jabbing me in the neck with a Pitchfork telling me the show I'm going to is going to be like taking Ambien.

Someone should just photoshop another devil on the other shoulder.

Everyone's the one on the left, really.

all ILX posters in a box to the left

pssst, kid, i got some balearic dubstep remixes u gotta hear

Hahahahaha!

Wouldn't the pitchfork be Pitchfork???

That's why I capitalized it!

Ah!

Here's the setlist: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/monsters-of-folk/2009/orpheum-boston-ma-7bd7c6c8.html

36 songs.

Just saw the video for "Yes Please" not realizing it was a supergroup and just figuring it was some dudes who wrote some songs. It's pleasant enough! The sound is...weird, like it's a nice melody, good song, but the vocals and guitars have this odd pinched, thin sound to them. It's kinda cool, but if the whole album sounded like that it'd get really old. Not bad.

“The name is very misleading, which I like. I think it’s good to have a little bit of misconception," Oberst said in an interview on the MOF website. "If I had heard that name, I would think, first, that it’s a terrible name, and then I’d picture guys on bar stools, unplugged style, playing songs like that."

if only

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http://pitchfork.com/news/41490-my-morning-jacket-frontman-jim-james-and-m-ward-start-a-blog-about-creme-brulee/