The Mountain Goats

Get Lonely is notorious difficult to get into though, and is really best approached from the vantage point of having broke up with someone and it hurts so bad that you want to die. Just saying - it's like when you're crying so long and hard and it's like these big heaving sobs and after a while you get a sore throat and swallowing your own spit becomes sort of a challenge. Have you cried like that recently? Because that's where you should be coming from for that record. Imo.

Or like, she enticed you to follow her to a new land, then left you as soon as you got there, and you're friendless and penniless in a strange place among people whose customs who don't know and you're searching wildly for someone or anything you can relate to. But you can't.

BOO: the videogame music gig I did yesterday ran super late by about an hour and I missed almost the entire show

YAY: I arrived in time for "No Children"

oooooh, what videogame?

Stuff from Final Fantasy VII, Civilization IV, Myst and Metal Gear Solid 3. It was pretty bad-ass! (The orchestra also did stuff from Super Mario Brothers and Chrono Chross)

wow, are you part of videogames live then?

Or like, she enticed you to follow her to a new land, then left you as soon as you got there, and you're friendless and penniless in a strange place among people whose customs who don't know and you're searching wildly for someone or anything you can relate to. But you can't.

Hands up, everyone who thought of LJ after reading this post. :-)

xp: it was with these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Game_Orchestra

cool; i am v impressed

This album is pretty ace. Wasn't a huge fan of their last album.

nyc show got rave review from my good pal jacquelyn.

[q=musicfanatic]This album is pretty ace. Wasn't a huge fan of their last album.[/q]

I second this.
apparently you will like it more if you give the life of the world in flux. i haven't tried.

well that didn't work.
i'm so embarrased.

Life of the World In Flux has Proverbs 6:27, which I like better than everything else on the actual album. He played it live at the Sixth & I Synogogue gig in DC (available on archive.org).

Also, the last one kinda made me want to write an album full of songs titled after SEC Forms that have special meaning to me:

1. "Form 4" - 4:07
2. "Form DEF 14A" - 3:13
3. "Form 10-K ex.21" - 3:10
4. "Form N-17f-2" - 3:03

etc. : )

am still picking through this new album, sounds really lovely but i feel a little distant from the lyrics. otoh i loved the last album immediately and emotionally; genesis 30:3 has this delicate touch of the sacred in it that messes me up every time i hear it, and i was really happy when it got some votes as a single in 2009's pazz and jop.

i'm looking forward to hearing the new stuff live; "liza forever minnelli" was devastating live on the last tour.

Yeah, he played Charles Bronson for us last year and it was great.

Went into HMV to see if they had it this week and no. Will see if I can be bothered to go on amazon later. Fuck record shops not having new records, bastids deserve to go out of business.

TS: some guy in a marcus allen jersey vs. some guy in an impala

I have an Impala. I think he was talking about me

ahaha

four song set + interview @ spin website

http://www.spin.com/articles/mountain-goats-unplug-spin

"unplug"

Several dates with Bright Eyes announced.

huh, cool

i haven't necessarily been in to much of the 2000s goats stuff but on first listen this is fatastic

it's also fantastic, but yes it's very fat

high hawk, sourdoire, scorpion squandron are reeeedic

fat with PORTENT

more like PORKTENT

actually that's probably in bad taste, given food preferences

i think it might be one of my favs.
a healthy refresher course for me.
john can still rock; it's official.

oficial

^ that shit is spanish, motherfuckers

"I have started a blog where I record one ukulele cover (+ guitar, production, drums, if i have time) (+ the help of the four music majors I live with when they want to) of a Mountain Goats song a day! The idea is that it will help me have some fun learning ukulele but also be a cool project with a long duration."

http://www.ukegoats.com/

^^ lawsuit imo

^^jerk imo

fee nah nay

man taking a random break from wedding playlist making and just wanna say that "We Shall All Be Healed" is pretty close to a perfect album and freaks me out every time i stumble across it because it is just so on and kinda speaks to an old fucked up me in a way i cant really describe. also "Mole" in specific is a song that got me through some terrible shit w/a not around anymore friend at just the right time (and still does in a kinda memorial way i guess) so i cant really be impartial. TMI or whatever.

ok then

the one big misstep for me on this album is all up the seething coast which i have never really liked tho

I reviewed the new one for The Quietus - http://thequietus.com/articles/06054-the-mountain-goats-all-eternals-deck-review

John Justen, I'm glad you feel that way. I think a lot of people place We Shall All Be Healed somewhere like 4 or 5 down on their lists of best 4AD MtnGts album, but it's been unshakably my favorite ever since hearing it. Mole is also my favorite jam from that record, although not for any personal reasons.

I've warmed a lot to All Up The Seething Coast as well. It reminds me of how I quit smoking by replacing it with binge drinking and quit binge drinking by replacing it with sugar and cheese. "A couple of Milky Ways for breakfast"? I have lived that. Dude is so gritty and real.

tmg suffer from having too many awesome records imo. i've not even got around to the new one or we shall all be healed yet.

not having any personal knowledge of who is involved with tmg or anything like that has made me want to wait to buy them all legally too. dagnammit.

Slow down, Sam. Get to know the albums and cherish 'em a while.

or spotify them, y'know.

a randomly picked up promo copy of wsabh provided my moment of conversion and as such it holds a particular place in my affections. palmcorder yajna and your belgian things especially are such a joy to go back to.

oooh, last time i looked half of them weren't there.

WSABH=greatest
All Up The Seething Coast = really good imo. It was my jam for awhile.
And AED=supa good as well

yeah WSABH is excellent. "against pollution" + "story of the pigs" = strongest ending of any goats album? maybe 2 of the best songs, ever, period??

"all up the seething coast" was one of the last songs I warmed up to, but I love it now. 'the best you've got is powerless against me...'

ooh and I forgot "cotton" comes before those 2 — another song that I wholeheartedly love, and feel my love returned by