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I checked out about 8 or so of their songs back in early 2000. I liked them, but never really explored their music. I was just messing around on the internet and found out that since I looked at them they released about 400 songs. I think it's something like 2 cd's a year. litterally. Has anyone else heard these guys? if so, what do you think?

― Nate (Nate), Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm actually surprised that there's not been very much talk about the Mountain Goats around these parts, and it looks like John is modest enough not to be blowing his own horn about the new album, which just came out on 4AD.

I actually like it quite a bit, but I have never heard any of the previous material. I was jarred a bit by what I actually heard, because my expectations were something very different after seeing the "4AD" on the cover. After I recovered, I decided I enjoy it quite a bit: John's voice takes a bit of getting used to, but I love the stories he's telling on this one, and the conflict. Even if the similes get a bit out of hand, some of them are still amazing. And I still contend that "No Children" is one of the best songs of the year. The whole album (Talahassee) is both disturbing and hilarious, all at the same time.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

One of "these guys" is probably reading your post right now.

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

album search:

Sweden
Zopolite Machine
Full Force Galesburg

song search:

"Going To Georgia"
"sept 19 triple x love! love!"
"prana ferox"

― gygax!, Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think what we should do here is guess which favorite albums of everyone else's are the ones to make John D. cringe and go, "Ugh, no, that was me at my worst!"

(Me, I love the three singles/rarities collections to bits.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

would it be inconsiderate to do a destroy?

**** MODERATOR: REMOVE BELOW WHEN PROMPTED:
(i hope i never have to hear that leonard cohen cover from the last extra glenns record ever again)
****

― gygax!, Thursday, 16 January 2003 20:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ned, isn't that exactly the idea behind everyone at Mountain Goats harrassing John into singing about the monkey in the basement?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 16 January 2003 21:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

Not only is the cover of Memories a great song, it is also a cover of the greatest Leonard Cohen song ever. Doesn't quite do the orginal justice though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 16 January 2003 21:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

Also search: Zopolite Machine, Nine Black Poppies, All Hail West Texas.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 16 January 2003 21:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

so the john darn13113 or whatever that i've seen posting here is the john darnielle of mountain goats??

― jack, Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

One and the same

― James Blount, Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

And without getting all mushy, I'll add that Tallahassee is great

― James Blount, Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

See Vanessa Carlton VS Michelle Branch VS Chantal Kreviazuk VS Norah Jones VS Alicia Keys ad infinitum for how fast we can put our feet in our mouthes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

I love the monkey in the basement song

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

i wasn't so keen on the first verse for a while, but that verse #2 of "the monkey song" is great!

― gygax!, Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

search: EVERYTHING!

john i love you and your crazy ass stories.

two releases last year that did it for me are Ghana and All Hail West Texas.

John, I hear you are playing Macrock this year in Virginia? Is that true?

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Thursday, 16 January 2003 22:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

I try to avoid talking about my own stuff on ilX0r (unless I'm haranguing local ilX0r people to come to my shows so I can meet them) because it doesn't seem right to do so. While we're on the subject though ;-) I will be playing at MacRock and doing some more touring around that time. And there's an L.A. show (finally!) on February 28th.

As far as S/D, search the new one & the one before it, All Hail West Texas, & also the cassette "Yam, the King of Crops." Destroy with extreme prejudice the song where I say I never liked Morrissey, maliciously mispronouncing his name, because I have since come to my senses and am a Mozz booster of the first order

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

thanks by the way for everybody saying such nice things!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

To add to the nice things. I know that one mag. critic, gave Tallahassee his pick for #1 album of the year on the Pazz and Jop. Warm feelings of the world unite!

― Carey, Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

Hey John, will there ever be a repressing of Hot Garden Stomp? That remains one of my favorite Mountain Goats works, and I noticed it didn't appear on any of the 3BOS comps.

S: pretty much everything, but especially Hot Garden Stomp, Beautiful Rat Sunset, Taking The Dative and All Hail West TX (haven't heard Tallahassee yet)

D: nothing comes to mind

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 16 January 2003 23:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

I have since come to my senses and am a Mozz booster of the first order

I heart John.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

For those who need convincing and prefer file-sharing to going out and buying albums, download these (delib. limiting myself to 2/CD):
"Ontario" and "Going to Stalingrad" from FULL FORCE GALESBURG (probably still my favorite album)
"Cubs in Five" and "Stars Fall on Alabama" from NINE BLACK POPPIES
"Source Decay" and "Fall of the Star High School Running Back" from ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS
"The Alphonse Mambo" and "There Will Be No Divorce" from THE CORONER'S GAMBIT
"1 Corinthians 13: 8-10" and "Going to Scotland" from NOTHING FOR JUICE
"Going to Georgia" and "Alpha Incipiens" from ZOPILOTE MACHINE
"Prana Ferox" and "Going to Queens" from SWEDEN
(it seems like JD has a trend of putting the best song on the album as the next to last one)
"Song For Cleomenes" and "Resonant Bell World" from BEAUTIFUL RAT SUNSET
"Going To Port Washington" and "The Anglo-Saxons" from GHANA
"Going to Cleveland" and "Black Molly" from BITTER MELON FARM
"Love Cuts The Strings" and "Seed Song" from PROTEIN SOURCE OF THE FUTURE ... NOW!
"You're In Maya" and "Shower" from unreleased stuff that file-trading scum have gotten their hands on.

If you don't like any of that, it's pretty safe to say that they ain't your bag, etc., as that represents a wide array of styles.

And "Going to Marrakesh" and "Someone Else's Parking Lot in Sebastapol" from The Extra Glenns' MARTIAL ARTS WEEKEND.

Still digesting TALLAHASSEE. That Scrawl CD just finished playing, so I think I'll throw it in now.

John, come play in Portland sometime.

― doug (doug), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

The only thing I can say that hasn't been said is "The Anglo-Saxons" is the funniest song I've evah heard. John, play Indiana sometime.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was introduced to The Mountain Goats by a hipster kid in Tennessee who told me, "He's better than Bob Dylan!" Well, maybe not... but some really good stuff anyway. I saw him play at a small club in Knoxville and enjoyed the show, but I was really sold when I happened across "Color in Your Cheeks" on a college station and couldn't get it out of my head for days.

― Jesse Fox, Friday, 17 January 2003 00:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

Also, his periodical Last Plane to Jakarta (lastplanetojakarta.com) is a blast. It's one of the rare 'zines that's actually convinced me to buy CDs I've never heard of, just because his reviews are so impassioned.

― Jesse Fox, Friday, 17 January 2003 00:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

I Like "Cubs In Five","Orange Ball of Peace", the cover of "The Sign" and that 7" with Alstair Galbraith.

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

There must be a misprint, John, cause it doesn't say that you're coming back to Dublin, and YOU MUST COME BACK TO DUBLIN.

Search: yes

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

there's an L.A. show (finally!) on February 28th

yay! where? also do a reminder HYPE thread the week before if possible...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

John is nice guy and I only heard Talahasse once...but...ugh...ummm...

there's a whole lot of similes that connect romance to terrorism-kinda stuff but I don't recall any account of actual incidents that would explain why the relationship is LIKE terrorism. I'd kinda like to hear "you shot my cat, you bastard" next to "oh, you are like someone making a bomb" cuz it can kinda sound like zeitgeist exploitation. but the uptempo drummer on that one track was great idea! And I really usually listen to an album at least twice before talkin' about it, but it seems an opportune to bring it up (and it would look weird if everybody was ravin' wildly).

jesus, I gotta go die now. sorry. this wasn't easy for me, folks, so go easy on the flamebacks.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

Anybody flames you Anthony I got yer back :-)

(i.e. don't be sorry for heaven's sake we're all friends here)

In re: "a lot of terrorism similes" I must defend myself howevah: that's just one song as far as I know. And now I should stop reading this thread as it is in poor form indeed to participate in a discussion of one's own writing/music/whatevah

(quickly answering questions before scramming: I really want to go back to Dublin but there just won't be time which makes me really sad because I love Dublin a whole lot, no plans for any pre-Zopilote Machine reissues, hoping to come to Portland sometime this year, and the L.A. show is opening for Tortoise which is funny for a whole lotta reasons)

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

oh, and that's actually all I've heard. and that extra glenns leonard cohen cover. so don't take this as a "I've heard your work and I say nay! review." I'm damn ign'nt re: body of work but the zeitgeist thing was buggin' me.

I will give another listen and see if I have the same reaction.

Thanks for being a good sport. Whew!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Like Lou Reed's New York done right but that doesn't mean I find time to listen that often. "Going to Georgia" is heartrending spectacular for sure though.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

Nadgers. Road Trip it is, then.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

The best-of-Mountain-Goats CD-R I made for a friend a few months ago goes:

1. Cubs in Five
2. Family Happiness
3. The Fall of the Star High School Running Back
4. Going to Port Washington
5. Going to Alaska
6. Going to Marrakesh
7. Golden Boy
8. No Children
9. Billy the Kid’s Dream of the Magic Slippers
10. Itzcuintli-Totzli Days
11. Neon Orange Glimmer Song
12. Anti-Music Song
13. Sept. 19 Triple X Love! Love!
14. No, I Can’t
15. Orange Ball of Hate
16. Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?
17. Standard Bitter Love Song #4
18. Standard Bitter Love Song #8
19. Love Cuts the Strings
20. Seed Song
21. Water Song
22. The Window Song
23. Jam Eater Blues
24. Two Thousand Seasons
25. The Best Ever Death Metal Band from Denton
26. The Sign

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

I really love All Hail West Texas!, The Coroner's Gambit and Zopilote Machine and like most of the others. I get really into them (him, whatever) and listen to nothing else for weeks, then not listen for quite a while.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

"He's better than Bob Dylan!" Well, maybe not...

...and maybe yes. Though keep in mind my extremely non-canonical vision of Mr. Dylan. ;-)

the L.A. show is opening for Tortoise which is funny for a whole lotta reasons

Yes it is. The funniest of which will be me spraying the crowd with whipped cream and silly string before Tor-Twah take the stage to forcibly loosen them up and make them laugh. Then I'll do the same to the band.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

You can hear an interview (including, I think, his cover of "The Sign") here:

http://www.bravenewwaves.ca/bnmedia/archive_i_mgoats.shtml

― just this guy you know, Friday, 17 January 2003 02:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

I like the songs on All Hail West Texas a lot, but the sound quality is so shitty (I know, there's an aesthetic at work there) that I can't play any of it on the radio (there's an aesthetic there TOO), and that makes me mad.
How's the sound on the other stuff?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Dude, Tortoise doesn't need Darnielle to laugh, that's the reason they had Kevin Drumm open for them on their last tour!

I have no further contribution to make to this thread.

― hstencil, Friday, 17 January 2003 04:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

Tortoise fans can laugh? They must have learned from all the derisive snickering I direct towards 'em.

― JS Williams (js williams), Friday, 17 January 2003 04:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

Naw they hired him so they could laugh. They could care less whether their fans do or not.

Okay, I'm swearing off this thread before I "bring the negativity" to Darnielle LoveFest '03.

― hstencil, Friday, 17 January 2003 04:26 (10 years ago) Permalink

At the risk of embarrassing myself in front of the man himself, pretty much every release has great moments, & there's a lot of them. Guess I tend to lean towards the early (_Hot Garden Stomp_, _Hound Dog Chronicles_) & late (_Full Force..._, _Coroners..._) periods.

Live it's a lot of fun (even when kicked off stage & forced to play on the pavement outside the venue). Can't wait till the forthcoming UK gigs & SxSW show, 'cos it's been a long time.

Enough already.

― Wondering Boy Poet, Friday, 17 January 2003 13:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Wow, Mountain Goats John here, never knew.

Loved your cover of "I saw the Sign"

― David Allen, Friday, 17 January 2003 14:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ned should spray the Tortoise fans with Faygo and scream "CLOWN LUV!!!!" over and over.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

i feel dumb trying to post to this thread when mr d himself is around, but here goes all the same...

horace, mostly similar, but the newest album "tallahassee" has a much more polished full band and studio production, and there are surely songs on there that you could play on the radio. john peel gets away with it, anyway, but that may not seem any guarantee of radio-friendly production. (i wasn't sure i liked it as much as the other albums i have at first but it's really grown on me.)

i say YES to "cubs in five" and "best ever death metal band out of denton" and i note that "anti-music song" is on that best-of cdr and that i kind of like it myself and never thought it implied any real dislike of morrissey, whom i quite like, on john's part. i only have a few of the albums and i can't really pick a favourite out of them, they're all good.

― , Friday, 17 January 2003 15:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ned should spray the Tortoise fans with Faygo and scream "CLOWN LUV!!!!" over and over.

That really would be the best thing that could ever happen to a Tortoise fan.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

I only have one Moutain Goats song but I like it a lot. "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix' Life" on a 'zine 7-inch. You keep waiting for some revelation but it turns out on that day all Jimi did was drink some water & hang around. I love that. I need to get some Mountain Goats, anyway.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ned should spray the Tortoise fans with Faygo and scream "CLOWN LUV!!!!" over and over.

I HAVE A VISION. I thank the Holy Prophet Dan for showing the way and Nicole for the encouragement.

[Likely enough I will simply do the honorable thing and leave after the Goats take their bow, thus beating the traffic -- assuming whoever I'm with wants to leave as well.]

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

Aww, I would be happy to ship you the Faygo -- I think it is a worthy project.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

raggy 2 dope

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

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he should be our secret

― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

I did an opera chorus with a dude who was a huge Mountain Goats fan who also made himself into the lead tenor's boy toy for the duration of our run; apparently the lead tenor told all the other leads about how much he liked to cum on this dude's face

and that is my story about my relationship with a hardcore MG fan

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

lock thread

― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

omg

dying irl right now

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

"the crowd is entirely ignorable because since you aren't JD, they will not give two fucks about you and you are therefore free to put as much of your attention on the music as you want"

bruh this is not true, the one tMG show I was at there was a guy loudly jumping around and he kept screaming shit in my direction like "DO YOU LIKE SATANIC BLACK METAL LIKE JOHN DOES"

he was the coolest guy

― don't trust the lil b in apartment 23 (fadanuf4erybody), Saturday, 27 October 2012 03:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

well, if I ever get the opportunity to ejaculate on someone's face, I can only hope it's to the pleasing sounds of The Mountain Goats

― d-_-b (mh), Saturday, 27 October 2012 05:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

I have no horse in the race but that is my favorite post ever

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 27 October 2012 05:58 (7 months ago) Permalink

I hope to see that used in press releases and adverts for many years to come.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, 27 October 2012 07:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

I would like to continue to endorse this show, but at no point during the show did I ejaculate into someone's face. I would like to know if this is still ok, please advise.

― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Saturday, 27 October 2012 07:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

Guys, I think I did it wrong ;_;

― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Saturday, 27 October 2012 07:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

well, if I ever get the opportunity to ejaculate on someone's face, I can only hope it's to the pleasing sounds of The Mountain Goats

― d-_-b (mh), Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should be on the promo sticker slapped on his next album

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 07:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://www.npr.org/event/music/148782993/the-mountain-goats-and-anonymous-4

There's that Anonymous 4 show if anyone's still interested, my friend went to that as well and said it was very impressive.

― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 27 October 2012 13:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

Their album the Origin of Fire is probably my favorite vocal based album of all time, except for maybe the Berliner Messe album of Arvo Part's music.

I was sitting listening to it at work and a guy came in off the floor listens to it a second and says "you getting so high to this at home, right?"

― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 27 October 2012 13:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

my mom borrowed my car today and i forgot that the new MG cd was still in the player. when she came back she said "i don't know what cd that is, but it's the most depressing thing i've ever heard. the music sounds so nice and normal, and then he starts talking about throwing up in the sink!"

― sad faces at Terror Castle (reddening), Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

when i was like twenty and had tallahassee playing in the car when my dad was driving me back from college his reaction to 'no children' was "god, this is a cheerful record, isn't it?"

― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

I will never understand the logic by which Christgau decides which Mountain Goats albums he likes and which he thinks are meh.

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/expert-witness-blogpost.aspx?post=ba99127c-adef-493f-b83c-35ba2ff18c68

― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Sunday, 11 November 2012 03:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

Thorny to begin with, John Darnielle reached some near-perfect threshold of liminal comprehensibility with Tallahassee 10 years ago, then got thornier again, albeit in liminally comprehensible mode.

One of the must aggravating writers that ever lived

― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

ahaha i kind of love that sentence

also

But the dealmaker is Jon Wurster's spare, inescapable drumming.

otm

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

I will never understand the logic by which Christgau decides which Mountain Goats albums he likes and which he thinks are meh.

otm. I loved the last one, this one okay.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

xgau and underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned are in, like, near-complete accord as to which mountain goats albums are the best ones. (he didn't think the sunset tree succeeded, I don't know what to say about that.) but he was the only guy repping for "we shall all be healed," which, like, there are people in mountain goats camp who'll go to their graves still pissed that only xgau, at the time, seemed to get it. and his line on "autoclave" was so dead-on it was like, lol, ok, pwn3d, advantage xgau

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

I gate the MG's a try on the strength of his WSABH review, and it's still my favorite.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

We Shall All Be Healed is my go-to MGs album fwiw.

― crüt, Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

we shall all be healed is absolutely my favorite tmg record, followed by get lonely

very singular moods nailed on both of those

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 11 November 2012 21:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

At least his longer stuff he can have some point, I bet the consumer guide woulda been something like:

The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth

The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle writes mini rock operas like a guy that went to Sunday school in between shifts at Dairy Queen. Too bad I never much liked onion rings. B+

― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

ok lol

― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

m@tt if i ever get another editing gig my first priority is to give you a whole page to do that

― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

haha. my christgau instincts are insisting that i try to unpack that.

― fun facts about human waste (Merdeyeux), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

(he didn't think the sunset tree succeeded, I don't know what to say about that.)

I was surprised he only gave it an honorable mention originally, but he slapped into the dean's list at the end of the year so his opinion must have improved over the year.

― da croupier, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

DQ onion rings were never too popular at my location. Most customers preferred to offset the heaviness of their chicken strip basket with a delicate combo of an extra gravy tub, mayo for the fries, and an oreo blizzard.

― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

my tastes are not unlike xgau in re all this stuff (shocking), though my two Pick Hits are Sunset and Healed rather than Healed and Tallahassee

― da croupier, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:16 (7 months ago) Permalink

I checked into a bargain priced room on La Cienega,
gazed out through the curtains of the parking lot.
walked down to the Dairy Queen just before nightfall in my bare feet.
black tarry asphalt, soft and hot.
and when I came back I spread out my supplies.
on the counter by the sink,
I looked myself right in the eyes

an extra tub of gravy,
mayo and fries,
and you or your memory (stares at empty blizzard cup)

― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tallahassee / We Shall All Be Healed / The Sunset Tree is as brilliant a run of albums as any in the previous decade.

― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:56 (7 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Saw my first Mountain Goats show tonight. It was very good, and sweet baby Jesus does "This Year" rule with the added horns. When I told John that at the merch table he said it was new to this leg of the tour, so I'm glad to be on this second go round.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 05:15 (6 months ago) Permalink

The Diaz Brothers has been lodged in my head for the better part of a month and shows no signs of leaving any time soon. That is one catchy chorus.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 7 December 2012 05:49 (6 months ago) Permalink

Awww:

http://twitpic.com/bm9mv8

― etc, Saturday, 15 December 2012 22:55 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

The Diaz Brothers is still stuck in my head. It is the catchiest song in years. Holy moley. How come more people aren't singing its praises?

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 December 2012 05:01 (5 months ago) Permalink

I dunno, I still haven't heard the new album, but did you catch that there is a whitehouse.gov position to make JD our next poet laureate?

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recognize-mountain-goats-and-name-john-darnielle-us-poet-laureate/4X2y05sH

I've been thinking about starting a counter-petition to nominate David Berman.

― how's life, Sunday, 30 December 2012 13:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

Do you have to be an American citizen to sign a White House petition?

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 03:05 (5 months ago) Permalink

A good interview.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:02 (5 months ago) Permalink

t's easy to get lots in the shoots and ladders game of his many characters

o rly

― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Thursday, 10 January 2013 01:18 (5 months ago) Permalink

gf was watching New Girl and I was convinced Zooey's boyfriend was being played by Jon Wurster

― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 10 January 2013 03:53 (5 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

This is neat. 1 minutes worth of a video for 'Wild Sage' made by Rian Johnson. Its really good but a shame it wasnt finished.

http://rcjohnso.tumblr.com/post/43268810808/back-in-2006-when-we-shot-the-woke-up-new-music

― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Sunday, 17 February 2013 19:26 (4 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

For those of y'all who don't also have the Bieber thread bookmarked

http://pitchfork.com/news/49873-watch-john-darnielle-defends-justin-bieber-lectures-paparazzi-in-song/

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 03:48 (3 months ago) Permalink

the amazing thing about this guy is how prolific of a musical career he's already had by the tender age of 31.

― how's life, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 08:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

i like that mode for john d

― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

There's a nice clean non-live version of You Were Cool at the end of his WTF btw

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:26 (3 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

930 Club show sold out before I bought a ticket. Oh well, have seen 'em/him before.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:14 (1 month ago) Permalink

Transcendental Youth is so good. Love the horns and also the cover art is my favorite yet for a mountain goats record.

― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:19 (1 month ago) Permalink

dunno if this has been mentioned upthread but "Steal Smoked Fish" and "Western Hills", from the bonus 7"/subsequent digital release, are both outstanding, especially if you feel like crying and/or resent the variety of instrumental textures on recent tMG albums

― Excelsior twilight. Harpsichord wind through the trees. (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 14:23 (1 month ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Boy do I feel stupid. TMG are playing literally a mile from my house and I missed being able to get tickets. Its in a pretty cool venue too. Dammit.

― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 25 May 2013 00:48 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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