The Mountain Goats

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

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.

I wrote a year-end essay for Stylus in 2004 based on that album's intimations of dread.

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

i would definitely still call those records "late period"

Late period surely has to start with Tallahassee? Beyond that there's early and mid period?

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."

lol!!!

but i do prefer coroner's gambit to sweden

ok this has earned the MGs my undying love and respect:

http://pitchfork.com/news/42185-video-silkworm-frontman-joins-mountain-goats/

<3 everything about that video

hoooooooly shit, look at this kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiAYh490CVw

OH SHIT TIM MIDGETT!! FUCK YEAH AWESOME

hahahah what a badass video

V. cool:

http://www.marcbessant.com/artwork/all-eternals-deck/

a mate of mine got some nice things with his aed order

http://www.roseability.com/2011/04/16/all-survivors-deck-we-are-young-supernovas-and-the-heats-about-to-break

i will stand by this, zopilote / nine black poppies / sweden are their own thing and are as different from coroners gambit / full force janesburg as the latter are from his contempo stuff