Artist · chart history
Monsters Of Folk
Band United States Formed 2004 Jim James, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis
Monsters Of Folk formed in 2004 in the United States. Monsters Of Folk has 18 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Say Please”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Monsters Of Folk most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Monsters of Folk were an American supergroup that sounded like a late-night jam among touring buddies, because that is essentially how it started. Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes and M. Ward, a solo artist and half of She & Him, first fell in together in 2004 while their own bands and solo projects shared the road, playing together onstage and backstage until songs started to pile up.
Day jobs kept getting in the way, so the self-titled album didn't arrive until 2009, recorded in Omaha, Nebraska, and Malibu, California, and released on Rough Trade that September. It's a warm, rambling record, full of close harmonies and dusty acoustic guitars, with its members trading turns at the wheel, and "The Right Place" and "Dear God" are the songs that found their way onto rock radio countdowns. Will Johnson of Centro-matic played drums on the tour, and James dubbed him the fifth Monster.
The band played Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit that October, and their songs later turned up in Gossip Girl and on the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri soundtrack. A reissue on ATO Records in 2024 added bonus material.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Monsters Of Folk on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say Please | 12 | #4 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) | 2 | #9 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | The Right Place | 2 | #41 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Whole Lotta Losin' | 1 | #51 | – | 2009 | |
| 5 | Dear God | 1 | #499 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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