Evil Urges
by My Morning Jacket

Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-06-10
Overall rank: 3,299th   
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 156 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (44th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (566th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,299th)

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My Morning Jacket bestography

Evil Urges is ranked 3rd best out of 16 albums by My Morning Jacket on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by My Morning Jacket is Z which is ranked number 817 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,106.

My Morning Jacket album bestography « Higher ranked (2,124th)
It Still Moves
This album (3,299th)
Evil Urges
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Evil Urges

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Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel (of My Morning Jacket) - Celestun Tour w/ Moose Loon
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Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel (of My Morning Jacket) - Celestun Tour w. Moose Loon
SPACE, Evanston, United States. United States
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Evil Urges track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Evil Urges rankings

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Overall rank: 3,299th | 2000s rank: 566th | 2008 rank: 44th

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Evil Urges ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 156 votes)
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From 06/26/2025 22:38 | #309733
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.
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From 11/20/2016 20:12 | #178782
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.
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Super diverse album. I think it's their best.
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From 12/09/2012 21:22 | #57213
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.
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From 12/23/2009 17:40 | #7836
I don't ever want to hear Highly Suspicious again!
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