The Mountain Goats

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

^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.

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)

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

"lol old posts", basically

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

This made me lol http://www.avclub.com/philadelphia/articles/mountain-goats-lyrics-reimagined-as-travel-advice,54507/

Someone at Something Awful is a Mountain Goats fan: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/albums-books-photoshop.php?page=2

(though it could do with a better session drummer...)

lol poor Jon Wurster

new tour dates announced, including west coast.

gonna be interesting to see the vibe @ the aladdin theater in portland...that place's got SEATS!

bah, precedes my West Coasting by 2-3 weeks

also gonna be interesting to see the vibe at the budweiser amphitheater at paper mill island in baldwinsville, ny, which is less than a mile from my parents' house (and normally hosts things like "Parrots of the Carribean-Jimmy Buffet Tribute Band")

You know they could all jam down together.

i don't get why everyone complains about john wurster. he's fantastic! Psalms 40:2? [shudder] soooo good.

okay this is awesome

http://womensmedicalfund.org/index.php/donate-Raffle

people complain about wurster? the hell is wrong with them

JD on Kurt Andersen's radio show this week

Wurster is a god among drummers, fuiud

"estate sale sign" is fantaaaaaaaaaastic

^^

This is by far the MG album I've played the most since '05. "Age of Kings," "Liza Forever Minnelli," "Beautiful Gas Mask" -- awesome.

It really is wonderful. My girlfriend became an instant fan after one listen.

yeah i only just really sat down with it but it sounds to me like the best since healed.

Agree that it's the best since Healed as well.. Liked "Estate Sale Sign" and "Birth of Serpents" best initially, but the celebrity trio of "For Charles Bronson", "Liza Forever Minnelli" and "The Autopsy Garland" (about Judy) have come to feel like the heart of the album to me.

my wife likes this dude too, incl. the new album, she says he's gotten better as he sounds "less like an actual mountain goat" (i guess as his singing gets less intense/bleaty as on the pre-4AD stuff)

the vocals on "liza" and "age of kings" seem like a step forward.. quite nuanced

I never really loved what I heard from the Mountain Goats but my wife and I just finished watching season 3 of Moral Oral and MG songs are used perfectly to soundtrack that last season. Really brilliant in that context and gave me some appreciation for the music that I didn't have beforehand. I think the songs from that season are "No Children," "Old College Try," and "Love Love Love."

oh GOD the episode that uses "No Children" is one of the most devastating things I've ever seen on television

That show was really cut down unfairly in its prime. Apparently the 3rd season was supposed to be a full order but bc of some of the episodes (partic the one with the three women, the nurse talking to the bears, the teacher with the abortion and miss censordoll) were too "raw" (i guess?) it was cancelled. it doesn't look like Dino was ready to stop at all.

nice cover of "Boxcar" by Jawbreaker is now on the Onion AV Club

oh rad!

i miss moral orel too. how did you watch season 2 and 3 mordy? i bought season 1, but 2 and 3 aren't available.