- by Janne Oinonen
- Wednesday, September 20, 2006
- filed in: Rock
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Barring the odd honourable exception (Wilco's stunning 'Kicking Television', for example), live albums have become a bit of a scam - time-killers for bands with alarmingly low credit in the ideas bank, contract-fillers for those wishing to escape the clutches of their current paymasters. My Morning Jacket remember a time when it didn’t use to be like this. Rather than helplessly hugging a pile of vinyl from the golden era of capturing the beer-stained whiff of concert halls on records that blew minds and stereo speakers alike by displaying the full arsenal of the talent involved sans studio sanitation, they’ve produced a shit-hot document that deserves to be ranked alongside the art-form’s key texts - ‘Live Rust’, ‘Live At Leeds’, ‘Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out’ - the band obviously esteem highly.
Barring the odd honourable exception (Wilco's stunning 'Kicking Television', for example), live albums have become a bit of a scam - time-killers for bands with alarmingly low credit in the ideas bank, contract-fillers for those wishing to escape the clutches of their current paymasters. My Morning Jacket remember a time when it didn’t use to be like this. Rather than helplessly hugging a pile of vinyl from the golden era of capturing the beer-stained whiff of concert halls on records that blew minds and stereo speakers alike by displaying the full arsenal of the talent involved sans studio sanitation, they’ve produced a shit-hot document that deserves to be ranked alongside the art-form’s key texts - ‘Live Rust’, ‘Live At Leeds’, ‘Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out’ - the band obviously esteem highly.
For 'Okonokos' is the kind of a resistance-battering record that turns skeptics into believers, believers into foaming-at-the-mouth fanatics and....well, it's probably best not to know what it does to the most fervently dedicated section of their audience, beyond proving every superlative-exhausting claim of superiority ever made on their favourite band's behalf.
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