Nothing says Valentine’s Day quite like JOMF. Had I remembered today was a “holiday” on Sunday I might have compiled a mix tape for the occasion, but instead I chose to go out to eat at the Olive Garden to celebrate Drew’s last night in town. Worst meal I’ve ever had in my entire life. I used to think it was fun to put on a suit and eat at crappy restaurants, but now I’m beginning to see that it’s just a waste of money.
Anyway…these two titles were released — I believe both in limited runs of 500 — by Fisheye and Ecstatic Peace! They were later combined to form a 2CD set by a third label. Was it ATP? I don’t really remember. These were actually the first two JOMF releases I heard, and I heard them courtesy of said two-disc compilation. This was a few months after I saw the band open for Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2003. I still think that these two works stand as some of the best material JOMF ever put to tape. For those of you who like your experimental music less meandering a slightly more focused, this achieves a middle ground between that and the non-music experimental stuff I sometimes post. It’s way more lush, the sound quality is high, and it’s about as straightforward as the band got. A few years later when I saw JOMF at the sadly defunct NYC venue Tonic (at an infamous show my friend walked out on because he couldn’t handle it) they had devolved into a more haphazard, noisy band. Although, to be fair, it might have had something to do with the copious amounts of weed they were sharing with the crowd.
Jackie-O Motherfucker
WOW! / The Magick Fire Music
(Fisheye, 1999 / Ecstatic Peace, 2000)
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01. Extension
02. Bonesaw
03. The Cage
04. 2nd Ave. 2AM – For David Wojnarowicz
05. Jugband 2000
06. Quaker
07. Lost Stone
08. Black Squirrels
09. Wow
10. Love Horn
