My Morning Jacket - take my breath away cover, 2004

"Take My Breath Away" is a song written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the 1986 film Top Gun's soundtrack, performed by American new wave band Berlin and included on their album Count Three & Pray."

My Morning Jacket - just one thing demo, 2004

“Just One Thing (Demo)” is an early, stripped‑down version of the My Morning Jacket song, released on November 23, 2004 as part of the compilation Chapter 2: Learning: Early Recordings, B‑Sides, Covers, Y Mas. It was written and produced by Jim James, featuring his signature lo‑fi, intimate home‑recording style."

My Morning Jacket - i can’t wait, 2015

"I Can't Wait" is a standout track from My Morning Jacket's seventh studio album, The Waterfall, recorded at a cliffside house in Stinson Beach, California. The song captures the band’s signature blend of psychedelic rock, soulful melodies, and Jim James’ soaring falsetto. It’s a dreamy, mid-tempo love song with lush reverb, shimmering guitars, and a heartbeat-like rhythm section."

My Morning Jacket - in its infancy the waterfall, 2015

"And there's a scenic drive out there where you pass lots of waterfalls. Whenever I stand in front of a waterfall, I try to pause it in my mind, then rewind it and make it go backwards. Obviously you can't do that."

My Morning Jacket - into the woods, 2005

"The album was the second highest rated album of 2005 according to Metacritic, behind Sufjan Stevens' Illinois; the album has a total score of 90 out of 100. Technically, both Z and Illinois were tied for the highest Metacritic rating in 2005, with a score of 90 each. However, the score for Illinois was based on a larger overall number of reviews: 40, compared to 31 for Z."

My Morning Jacket - like a river, 2015

“Like a River”, which is probably the album’s most breathtaking treasure. My Morning Jacket harken back to their alt country roots on The Waterfall and create a remarkable vision of the American countryside in the process, one as filled with solitude as it is with wonder."

My Morning Jacket - thin line, 2015

"Literally being surrounded by trees and creatures every time we walked out of the studio doors. Every evening around sunset we would stop what we were doing and walk outside to watch the sun descend, like an enormous egg yolk slowly smashing down in a psychedelic wash of color, much like the colors of the waterfall on the album cover. Those images, the smell of ocean air and the openness of it all, seeped into every aspect of this record."

My Morning Jacket - it beats for you, 2005

"In 2004, a dreamy cover of "Rocket Man" concluded My Morning Jacket's first volume of rarities. Which was prescient, because it's Elton John that Jim James' songs for 2005's Z first bring to mind."

My Morning Jacket - bermuda hwy live, 2004

"Early Recordings is a compilation album series by Louisville, Kentucky rock band My Morning Jacket. It was released in 2004 on Darla Records. The two constituent albums, called chapters, are called The Sandworm Cometh and Learning respectively. Danny Cash created the graphic design to both albums and played bass and keyboard on the second. J. Glenn performed drums for the series and Johnny Quaid played guitar. "Two-Tone" Tommy played bass for the first album, but Quaid took over for the second."

My Morning Jacket - x-mas curtain, 2001

"That song was about a time when we were very poor and our old drummer and myself would go into various departments stores and steal things [laughs] and give 'em to people, kind of in a Robin Hood way. Give 'em to people including ourselves, 'cause we didn't have any money and we thought it was okay to steal [laughs] like VCRs and stuff from [more laughs] departments stores. We thought we were being like vigilantes for justice. Uhm, we'd take like a VCR and a couple of Walkmens and some batteries and stuff and put them on the bottom of the cart and then put a big bag on dog food on top of 'em all and then have the cashier woman scan the dog food and usually they wouldn't see all the [laughs] hundreds of dollars of electronics underneath. That's why the song kind of references being a criminal that doesn't break the law at Christmas time."

My Morning Jacket - golden, 2003

"Golden" has all the touchstones of the Jim James school of songwriting. There is a pure love song tucked between the cracks, but "Golden" is also a sort of Yim Yamesian universal love song – a song about the meaning and mysteries of life."

My Morning Jacket - the day is coming, 2011

"The album cover is a close-up shot of a Magic eye tube fitted onto vintage radio receivers from the 1930s. The purpose of tuning eyes in these radio sets was to help tune a station in at its strongest point on the dial. So when the perfect frequency was found, the Magic Tuning Eye would be lit up all the way (like the album cover's). The percentage of light shown signified the strength of the signal."

My Morning Jacket - death is my sleezy pay, 2001

"The rawness of the song emphasising Jim's voice along with some fantastic drumming. Lovely harmonica to bookend the song too."

My Morning Jacket - librarian, 2008

"this song is basically pure poetry. He describes an entire love scene, yet never truly describes the librarian. The listener can practically walk with the singer and see and feel what he does. The scene is painted perfectly for you in your mind's eye. Yet the librarian is left up to the listener."

My Morning Jacket - bermuda highway, 2001

"This song gives me chills. Just came here wondering if it hit other MMJ listeners the way it hit me (...). This special song brings me to tears every time."

My Morning Jacket - lowdown, 2001

"There's something so cathartic and catchy about this one. It's played in my head in various intervals for years."

My Morning Jacket - the way that he sings, 2001

"I love the song and the sentiment. And as great as Jim's voice is, the last minute of the song when they're all just jamming is just incredible.... chills inducing.....I always hope they extend that outro when I heard it live. It's just too short."

My Morning Jacket - time waited, 2025

"I made a loop of that piano intro and listened as I went for a walk, and all these melodies started coming to me. For a long time, I didn’t have lyrics, but then I had a dream where I was in a café and a song was playing, and the lyrics to that song became the lyrics to “Time Waited” — the melodies just fit perfectly. And the lyrics are about how flexible time is, how we can bend and warp time, especially if we are following our hearts, the universe and time itself can flow to work with us."

My Morning Jacket - two halves, 2008

"Even more ironically, Two Halves, the most "pop" sounding, also manages to be the centerpiece of all the themes. Two Halves is also a metaphor for the fans' reaction to Evil Urges: People wanting them to grow up into a great band, but also keeping their roots. "You want this now, you want that now, can't have it all, you should enjoy what you have" is the typical reaction to the haters, but Jim knows that they are all missing the point, that both halves are meant to work together. There's so much hidden here that you could spend hundreds of times listening to this album and finding something different. Brilliant."

My Morning Jacket - hopefully, 2001

"This beautiful, reverb-soaked acoustic ballad is, to me, one of their best love songs. Like much of At Dawn, "Hopefully" is empty yet full of much emotion. I love this song for its simplicity and its ability to evoke strong feelings."