Evil Urges
by My Morning Jacket
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My Morning Jacket bestography
Evil Urges is ranked 3rd best out of 17 albums by My Morning Jacket on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by My Morning Jacket is Z which is ranked number 792 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,172.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Evil Urges track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Evil Urges rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 32 Music Albums of 2008 | 5/32 | 4 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2008 | 48/90 | 2 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 68 Music Albums of 2008 | 4/68 | 5 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 60/100 | 8 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 54 Music Albums of 2008 | 7/54 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | The Hype Machine Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008 | 26/50 | - |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 82/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | JoshN125 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 31/100 | 14 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 129 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 509 | |||
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Evil Urges ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/05/2026 12:49 | cicadelic | 14,085 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2026 21:18 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,939 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 21:37 | bjorndedrij | 176 | 57/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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Evil Urges forum mentions
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By far the most underrated album I have seen on this site to date. My Morning Jacket can be appreciated by people who are fans of multiple genres.
I'm not a big fan of American Dad, but when I found out they dedicated an entire episode to MMJ I had to find it. If you like the show find that episode and see what you think of their music. If you like their music you will love this episode. S5 Ep 7.
Favorite tracks from this album are Evil Urges, I'm Amazed, Thank You Too, and Touch me I'm going to Scream pt2. I don't know why Good Intentions can be considered a track. It is 5 seconds long. (Edited)
Freddie55 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/23/2009 17:40 | #7836 | TOP COMMENT
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I don't ever want to hear Highly Suspicious again!
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I'll be the first to concede that Evil Urges is something of a mishmash of ideas, definitely not the unified rock and roll masterpiece one might have expected after Z and the wonderful live album Okonokos. Jim James experiments here with grating falsetto, rootsy New Age romanticism, and jammy funk, and critics and hardcore fans were nonplussed. As far as I'm concerned, though, a lot of the ideas here, disparate though they may be, are good ones. And even if they weren't, "I'm Amazed" is so tightly written, deeply moving, and complicatedly ambiguous that it alone could carry an album full of tracks much weaker than these. In fact, I think it's a contender for best song of the 2000s--along with Sufjan Stevens' "Casimir Pulaski Day" and Neko Case's "Deep Red Bells"--a song that rewards with its incredulity at our capacity for carelessness, ambivalence, and apathy.
Super diverse album. I think it's their best. (Edited)
Melancholy bliss but with some oomph. One of the better albums from them. Kicks off well, couple of tracks in the middle dip a bit but it finishes with one of the best songs they've written (Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2). I've got American Dad to thank for introducing me to them. (Edited)
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