Man. Just saw them open for Incubus in Nashville and watching them in an arena after the early years seeing them in like 200-500 cap venues around Atlanta almost 20 years ago now is fucking WILD. PERFECT setlist for this situation. All killer no filler lol
If you get the chance to see MM live, do it. AGO opened up for him and it was a great show all around.
I realised this morning that we are approaching the 20th anniversary of I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child later this year. Spent some time listening to it on the way to work. What a great album - I still find some of the more intimate moments to be moving as though I'm listening for the first time. I Can Feel Your Pain, Sleeper 1972, Colly Strings... obviously Where Have You Been? Such a competent offering at that stage of their career. I know most people go for Mean Everything To Nothing from their pre-Black Mile albums, but I think this one is possibly my favourite. Final memory attached to this album is seeing them (and Anathallo supporting) in a tiny venue in Nottingham in 2007. It was my first ever 18+ gig and it was absolutely captivating.
Would love for them to play the album in full again like they did at the Stuffing 10 years ago. Unlikely but a dude can dream
Very much figured this would be a big year for them releasing an album and going on tour. Andy solo dates in the middle of summer suggest we probably aren’t getting any band stuff til fall at the earliest.
This is a 20 year album that didn't even cross my mind, it does not register being that old. I have a lot of specific memories tied to this album in college, my favorite one being listening to this album while our band drove to a studio to record an EP over a weekend. The saddest memory was driving home from the funeral for my roommate's mom and listening to Sleeper 1972, oof that hit hard
This album absolutely redefined my taste in music when it came out, and I fondly remember scouring the internet for any other MO music at the time. That first EP, the (unreleased?) Nobody Sings Anymore album, Virgin, and RAGC were absolutely the soundtrack to my freshman year of college and it's wild to see them being so far in the past. It's totally on me, but I never connected with any of the albums afterward in the way that I did those early works. It's incredible how far they've come and the discography they've built, but I'm not sure anything will ever hit me the way seeing them in a tiny room in 2007 did.