Defend the Indefensible: Jack Johnson

You mean girls? Your average male hippie these days has short hair and looks like a skater.

I have no idea. I went sampling at my lady's request expecting to hate and then I heard one or two that sounded almost like Sublime, but not necessarily a copycat of Sublime. The concert I heard sounded like Hurting's initial post.

-- Hurting (Hurtingchie...)

i've never heard his music but he grew up on the north shore of oahu with a friend of mine and he's a really nice guy, you'd never imagine he was in the public eye by his personality. he also is married to a completely unrelated friend of mine's sister, and she's also very cool.

what does his music sound like?

Nah that have that shaggy curly locks thing going on now.

Last Phish show last year it was a sea of short hair, clean clothes and baggy pants.

If anything, Jack Johnson fans are not hippies.

The music is certainly mellow as hell, but very 70s-ish in a very good way. One thing that is missing is unpleasant extremes the 70s artists would go to all the time-- no extreme funkiness, extreme acid guitar solo, extreme keyboard. And not extremely lame, either. As Bill Clinton once said, "Oh I see you sitting there with that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever... do your little hit job." It's just good, happy music. Very understated which is a welcome change from your average asshole expressing himself. Like me, for instance. Ha, beat you to it.

What really floors me is that someone played a Jason Mraz song on the radio in 2006.

Ditto.

I thought he was black for about a year, until I got around to watching one of his videos. I still tend to think of him as biracial.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), domingo 8 de octubre de 2006 15:28 (2 years ago)

Whoa, I've been thinking he was mulatto this whole time, sort of that extremetly attractive skin color that people like Lisa Bonet, Eagle Eye Cherry, Cree Summer and Lenny Kravitz have to name a few.
Somehow I remember watching that video of his that runs backwards and I certainly didnt think he looked white on that video. I had to google him after reading your comment and now I feel very dissapointed.

Anyways, I have some very good memories of a friend in Barcelona who loved this song of his named 'Coccoon' and I ended up liking it. Never really hated on his music, if anything it feels decaffeinated, too harmless but to be honest I'd rather have his music playing in the background than most of my friends' usual collection.

This guy should be posted on the WRONG DUDE thread.

When I first heard Jack Johnson, I thought he was old, like some middle-aged James Taylor-aspiree. And I thought, "This guy's pretty good for being so old."

When I first heard Jack Johnson, I thought he was really shitty.

I heard this song on the radio and sorta liked it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVmbGsEtmFI

my brother thought I had some mental deficiency when I said I didn't care for jack johnson.."everyone likes jack johnson!!"

(we're from the southern california town that he's sorta from.)

don't buy that curious george soundtrack for your kids. they won't like it. it's really boring and no fun at all. it's like the very opposite of curious george the monkey.

I don't have kids and I would probably teach them to soulseek it anyway

I don't know how to throw a baseball so a lot of my fatherly bonding activities are gonna have to involve the internet

I've never seen this fellow, and because they both have generic names beginning with 'J', the mental image I have of him is actually of James Morrison instead. Then I'll see some footage of James Morrison singing far too earnestly, and I'll remember that I've got 'Good People' on my iTunes and it's all sweet and summery - and I think 'Yeah! Jack Johnson's much better than James Morrison'.

my brother thought I had some mental deficiency when I said I didn't care for jack johnson.."everyone likes jack johnson!!"

lolz I got this from my coworkers. They use Pandora a lot and continually marvel at how Jack Johnson will eventually appear on any radio station/playlist.

the p4k review for the new album makes me shocked they didn’t throw a BNM on it.

Every time this thread appears I have a momentary "wtf" reaction before I remember there's some singer called Jack Johnson

I enjoyed his first album quite a bit. In all honesty, I was in a kind of Dave Matthews period back then as it was.

...his preternatural sense of sangfroid has sometimes crowded out his surprising depth as a world-weary songwriter in search of small moments of respite and delight.

Overwritten, but notable as the first time anytime has ever written "surprising depth" in relation to Jack Johnson.

Well, if it's there, it's definitely surprising.

I mean, he's stupidly good looking, he grew up and still lives in Hawaii, he's a surfer and a photographer when he's not making music. Not sure how much depth it's fair to expect of him.