xp: it was with these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Game_Orchestra
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Sunday, 3 April 2011 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
cool; i am v impressed
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
This album is pretty ace. Wasn't a huge fan of their last album.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
nyc show got rave review from my good pal jacquelyn.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 3 April 2011 02:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
[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.
― jacobfiala, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
well that didn't work.i'm so embarrased.
― jacobfiala, Sunday, 3 April 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
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).
― kkvgz, Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
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. : )
― kkvgz, Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― major fashion inspiration (reddening), Sunday, 3 April 2011 10:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, he played Charles Bronson for us last year and it was great.
― jacobfiala, Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Monday, 4 April 2011 17:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
TS: some guy in a marcus allen jersey vs. some guy in an impala
― kkvgz, Monday, 4 April 2011 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have an Impala. I think he was talking about me
― jacobfiala, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 01:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
ahaha
― Godspeed HOOS! Black Steendriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 01:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
four song set + interview @ spin website
http://www.spin.com/articles/mountain-goats-unplug-spin
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
"unplug"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Several dates with Bright Eyes announced.
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
huh, cool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
i haven't necessarily been in to much of the 2000s goats stuff but on first listen this is fatastic
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's also fantastic, but yes it's very fat
high hawk, sourdoire, scorpion squandron are reeeedic
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
fat with PORTENT
― burn me at the stake if you must (reddening), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
more like PORKTENT
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
actually that's probably in bad taste, given food preferences
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think it might be one of my favs. a healthy refresher course for me.john can still rock; it's official.
― jacobfiala, Friday, 8 April 2011 02:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
oficial
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 03:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ 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/
― Cunga, Friday, 8 April 2011 08:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ lawsuit imo
― The Dunkster (absolutely clean glasses), Friday, 8 April 2011 08:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^jerk imo
― jacobfiala, Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
fee nah nay
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Saturday, 9 April 2011 20:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 07:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
the one big misstep for me on this album is all up the seething coast which i have never really liked tho
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 07:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I reviewed the new one for The Quietus - http://thequietus.com/articles/06054-the-mountain-goats-all-eternals-deck-review
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 07:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 08:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Slow down, Sam. Get to know the albums and cherish 'em a while.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
oooh, last time i looked half of them weren't there.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
WSABH=greatestAll Up The Seething Coast = really good imo. It was my jam for awhile.And AED=supa good as well
― jacobfiala, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 00:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
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...'
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
ooh and I forgot "cotton" comes before those 2 — another song that I wholeheartedly love, and feel my love returned by
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
Nope, you're not alone -- it remains my favorite.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wrote a year-end essay for Stylus in 2004 based on that album's intimations of dread.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
skimming through some of the old posts upthread, and can I just say: lol @ the reference (c.2003) to the "late period" of Full Force Galesburg and The Coroner's Gambit
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
i would definitely still call those records "late period"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Late period surely has to start with Tallahassee? Beyond that there's early and mid period?
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 08:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, I'm sure it wasn't an inherently lolzy sentiment in 2003 when those were 2 of his 4 most recent releases; but now it seems like hair-splitting fanboy silliness. "oh yeah, I prefer The Coroner's Gambit to Sweden, you can really hear that his guitar has gotten even more out-of-tune by that point."
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol!!!
but i do prefer coroner's gambit to sweden
― jacobfiala, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:09 (2 years ago) Permalink