Album Rating: 5.0

Just listened to the deluxe edition of the record for the first time couple weeks ago, hearing the demo of Old Black Hen and Peoria with Molina's vocals was a trip. That's the other thing about, ceding so much space to his collaborators, this feels like music without ego

One of those albums that it's nigh-on impossible to pick a highlight. Hell, even the bonus content is outstanding. The Big Game... rips me apart. I don't even know what it is about half the tracks on it that's so moving. Perfect.

Album Rating: 5.0

Just bumped this to a 5, album is too good

Album Rating: 5.0

Wonderful ratings/comments, gentlemen.

Four comments in a row with 5/5 ratings, nice! Been meaning to listen to this for like a decade lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Definitely worth a listen! Probably not an album you'll fully "get" on first listen, but it gets better with every spin. A classic, and also a great gateway into Jason Molina's discography, if you haven't heard any of his other works.

I've only heard The Lioness once and that wasn't enough to fully take everything in, but I loved it. I've been meaning to listen to his stuff, especially this, but I know once I do I'll be fully invested and listen to everything for a month straight hah

Album Rating: 5.0

Please do, honestly a perfect record. And it’ll grow on you forever, but it’s still a pretty safe bet to love from the get go, it’s a lot more lively and musically diverse than his other Songs: Ohia work (haven’t heard any of the other Magnolia Electric material)

Album Rating: 4.0

Incredible stuff. Rating is likely to go up.

Classic. Probably my favorite country album. Either this or Townes Van Zandt self-titled.

'If really I am the snake they're all saying / If they look up here do they see just my black tail swaying? / If I'm all fangs and all lies and all poison / If I'm really what they're saying / I don't want to disappoint them.'

might be my single favourite verse in music. The delivery of his lines and the way the music goes a bit more sinister through the languid drawl is perfection

Album Rating: 4.0

“Either this or Townes Van Zandt self-titled.”

I gave this a spin and totally love it. Thanks!

Album Rating: 5.0

I can’t get through this record without shedding a tear since he passed... one of the hardest musician deaths to deal with for me

Album Rating: 5.0

You’ll never hear me talk about

One day getting out.

Why put a new address

On the same old loneliness?



Line hits upside the head without warning every single time

Album Rating: 5.0

Album of the all time ever?

It's definitely one of the albums ever made

Album Rating: 5.0

Woah zel haven't seen you around in a minute good to see you again, and even better to see you chatting up an album that certainly done been made!

haven't jammed this in a long time but this is decidedly such an album with songs

I find it interesting that they re-recorded Hold On Magnolia a few years later for Sojourner. That one is essentially just a live performance but I think the moods are pretty different. In the original, there's solace in his voice. He's rebuilding himself after reaching his darkest point. In the Sojourner one, he sounds broken and falling back into the dark. The comfort and resolve he shows in the original is reversed to where it sounds like he's singing to try and grasp that feeling again.

Which... is definitely accurate considering where he was at emotionally during that album, at least by looking at the lyrics

Album Rating: 5.0

Holy shit, never really jumped too far into the Magnolia Electric Co stuff after this one, gotta fix