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that's rad that you're working with anonymous 4; i dig them

one month passes...

just noticed this, which was announced back in April but looks like it wasn't mentioned here--a "metal covers" set at Hopscotch next month:

The second set, however, will be unlike any in the 20-year history of the Mountain Goats—all covers, possibly all on Fletcher’s beautiful grand piano, all by himself. A lifelong metal fan and longtime columnist for the extreme music magazine Decibel, Darnielle says he plans to spend a portion of the summer arranging and learning covers of heavy metal songs. “The tentative title for this set,” Darnielle says, “is ‘Nearer My Hateful Mankind Plague to Thee,’ but titles are subject to change.
http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/news/post/the-mountain-goats-to-perform-rarities-and-first-ever-covers-sets-at-hopsco/

Aglet, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

so the Hopscotch gig was super fun

DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Saturday, 8 September 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link

I certainly hope that the title of the set was changed to These Purges of God

catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 8 September 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link

still waiting for a buddy holocaust tribute album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_FsLbCd9FY&feature=context-cha

scott seward, Sunday, 9 September 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link

new album is fabulous as usual, lots of piano and what sounds like a small horn/brass section. strong song cycle & a few flat out stunners. love it

ilxor, Sunday, 9 September 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link

Need to fully absorb it still, but yeah, I can already see myself liking this as much as Heretic Pride and All Eternals Deck, which means this will probably finish somewhere in the second half of my year end top ten.

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link

John needs to become a permanent co-host on Judge John Hodgman.

NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link

Is it streaming somewhere at this point?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/judge-john-hodgman

The metal episode is the best.

NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link

Ah, sorry, I meant the album! (Based on previous comments.) But I'm glad for that too!

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link

Duh doy, I should have picked up on that.

NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link

xpost

No, but it is, uh, around.

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

has anyone ever pitched Deadmau5, Skrillex and SBTRKT remixing Mountain Goats songs?

DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link

i certainly hope not.

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

No, but it is, uh, around.

pet peeve is people phrasing "there's a leak online" like this as if there were some Dumb Ol' Suits who wouldn't be able to understand what "it is, uh, around" would mean

we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

speak for yourself man, I still don't know what we're talking about—far as I can tell some kind of steamer called the Mountain Goat is supposed to be around, but may have sprung a leak? also something about the holocaust

He revs the language like a hypersonic superbike. (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link

It leaked online and I downloaded it illegally.

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link

No, but it is, uh, around.

pet peeve is people phrasing "there's a leak online" like this as if there were some Dumb Ol' Suits who wouldn't be able to understand what "it is, uh, around" would mean

― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i usually just walk up to a website and be like "um...heeey man...um....are you holding?"

listen to that wu-tang whistle blowin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link

you know where i can get some, um, *420*

how's life, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link

yo man you got any of that yam king of crops

cwkiii, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link

To be fair, "know where I can get some, um, Transcendental Youth" does sorta sound like drug slang.

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link

hey mp3 hosting website....are you cool?

listen to that wu-tang whistle blowin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link

WHO LET THE NARC IN. i may wait to buy this one! i want the anonymous 4 memories to stay foremost with me for a while longer.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

"...John's not here!"

nickn, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

To be fair, "know where I can get some, um, Transcendental Youth" does sorta sound like drug slang.

always feel like having a weed strain named after one of your tunes would be some sort of ultimate accolade

we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

if you you smoke this shit...get this...you'll have....no children

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

anyone got some swedish treeeees?

tylerw, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

my man

we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

Bong for Dennis Brown

would smash pumpkins (Ówen P.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link

The Meth Inside

cwkiii, Thursday, 13 September 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link

Going to Jamaica

Odyssey Dong (how's life), Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:56 (twelve years ago) link

So anyway, stream up:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth-20120924

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

well shock surprise this is awesome

cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link

So far, this is great.

Regional Tug (irrational), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link

When I was scoring "White Cedar" in January I had to take regular "me" breaks, that song has become very important to my life

whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

Just listened to that one -- it's really, really lovely, arrangement and song both.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

yeah I've been on the "White Cedar" bandwagon for a little while now

this whole album is a gigantic ball of YAY

cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link

Like a village on the steppe/
About to get collectivized.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

well this is great

well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I'm totally infatuated, oh hell in luv at first listening, which doesn't always happen w MGs or much else. Seems like, if you are a The Hold Steady fan but getting a bit frustrated with creative lovehandles, rest assured this contains no fat, but plenty crucial lyric and especially sonic detail, in questing, cunning and at rate unstoppable underdog tales. Also, if you're frustrated by good horn sections wasted on, say the St/ Vincent/Byrne thing (yeah I'll listen again, or maybe not), well you've come to the right place, as Elvis would say. Kind of a King Creole pang-vibe here, the metal-compatible spirit too.

dow, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link

Not to downplay the, what can I call it, clear-eyed, also blues-compatible spirit, compatible also with (and not slowed down or upstaged by) reading Tricia Romano's Twitter funeral pyre for Village Voice just now (not to sidetrack this thread, but was struck by compatility, water and everything in it rolling under the musical bridge)

dow, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link

Anyway, Top Ten baby, P&J or whatEVAH

dow, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link

fantastic record. "until i am whole" really perfectly describes a set of months i had this year

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

oh and "spent gladiator 2," that really spare groove they ride on is mean as hell

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

i wonder if this is gonna be on spotify and if anyone shall we say close with the band might comment on that

EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

merge has all their stuff up there iirc
anyway, joe perry woefully underutilized here, but otherwise great!

tylerw, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

sounds good. not very mountain goats though. has their music ever sounded as rich and subtly arranged before?

alex in mainhattan, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link

has their music ever sounded as rich and subtly arranged before?

we shall all be healed imo. get lonely too, which incidentally is the other record with horns

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link

He's been heading in this direction for a while. Get Lonely and The Life of The World To Come were especially lush. This one just isn't as sparse as those records (which may be why I already like it better).

this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link


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