Video: My Morning Jacket: "Evil Urges" (Live on "Saturday Night Live")
Describing this song when it was posted to the MMJ homepage in April, Marc Hogan said that the band was "pressing on with the r&b falsetto, non-guitar instrumentation, and
lightly reggae-tinged rhythms of the last album. Before you get all
worried, though: The dueling guitars are back, with a definite Allman
Brothers-ish feel. But there's also grand orchestration and sinister,
gurgling electronics, while James' vocal is more Prince than Palace. 'I'm ready for it now,' he repeats in an arms-swaying, revival-meeting
midsection, and just when you think the song is about to end at three
minutes, the guitars fire up again." Here they are doing it live on SNL this past weekend.
[original version from Evil Urges; due 06/10/08 on ATO]