Several dates with Bright Eyes announced.
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
huh, cool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
fat with PORTENT
― burn me at the stake if you must (reddening), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
more like PORKTENT
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
actually that's probably in bad taste, given food preferences
― ★ The Pistns ★ Miss You Sheed ★ (dayo), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
oficial
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 April 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
^ 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 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ lawsuit imo
― The Dunkster (absolutely clean glasses), Friday, 8 April 2011 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^^jerk imo
― jacobfiala, Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
fee nah nay
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Saturday, 9 April 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Slow down, Sam. Get to know the albums and cherish 'em a while.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
oooh, last time i looked half of them weren't there.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
i would definitely still call those records "late period"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!!!
but i do prefer coroner's gambit to sweden
― jacobfiala, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this has earned the MGs my undying love and respect:
http://pitchfork.com/news/42185-video-silkworm-frontman-joins-mountain-goats/
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 everything about that video
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hoooooooly shit, look at this kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiAYh490CVw
― kkvgz, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
OH SHIT TIM MIDGETT!! FUCK YEAH AWESOME
― the zing cheese incident (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 April 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahah what a badass video
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 April 2011 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
V. cool:
http://www.marcbessant.com/artwork/all-eternals-deck/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― cuddles (the kid), Thursday, 21 April 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 21 April 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
^agreed.
Also, yeah, the first 500 preorders through merge's website of the cd or the lp came with All Survivor's Pack. But if you missed it, you still have a chance, they go for like 50 on eBay.
― jacobfiala, Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
new album is good. would rank it 2nd out of the last 5. Never Quite Free is heartbreaking beautiful again. (though it could do with a better session drummer...) (who cares, it's about the voice and twangy guitars and piano anyway)
― Ludo, Saturday, 23 April 2011 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:09 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:09 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 23 April 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"lol old posts", basically
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 23 April 2011 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this one:
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, January 17, 2003 4:28 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 23 April 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
This made me lol http://www.avclub.com/philadelphia/articles/mountain-goats-lyrics-reimagined-as-travel-advice,54507/
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Saturday, 23 April 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone at Something Awful is a Mountain Goats fan: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/albums-books-photoshop.php?page=2
― Paul McCartney and Whigs (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
(though it could do with a better session drummer...)
lol poor Jon Wurster
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link