i certainly hope not.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
No, but it is, uh, around.
pet peeve is people phrasing "there's a leak online" like this as if there were some Dumb Ol' Suits who wouldn't be able to understand what "it is, uh, around" would mean
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
speak for yourself man, I still don't know what we're talking about—far as I can tell some kind of steamer called the Mountain Goat is supposed to be around, but may have sprung a leak? also something about the holocaust
― He revs the language like a hypersonic superbike. (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
It leaked online and I downloaded it illegally.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, September 12, 2012 12:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i usually just walk up to a website and be like "um...heeey man...um....are you holding?"
― listen to that wu-tang whistle blowin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
you know where i can get some, um, *420*
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
yo man you got any of that yam king of crops
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
To be fair, "know where I can get some, um, Transcendental Youth" does sorta sound like drug slang.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
hey mp3 hosting website....are you cool?
― listen to that wu-tang whistle blowin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
WHO LET THE NARC IN. i may wait to buy this one! i want the anonymous 4 memories to stay foremost with me for a while longer.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
"...John's not here!"
― nickn, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
always feel like having a weed strain named after one of your tunes would be some sort of ultimate accolade
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
if you you smoke this shit...get this...you'll have....no children
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
anyone got some swedish treeeees?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
my man
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Bong for Dennis Brown
― would smash pumpkins (Ówen P.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
The Meth Inside
― cwkiii, Thursday, 13 September 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
Going to Jamaica
― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Thursday, 13 September 2012 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
So anyway, stream up:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth-20120924
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
well shock surprise this is awesome
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
So far, this is great.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
When I was scoring "White Cedar" in January I had to take regular "me" breaks, that song has become very important to my life
― whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Monday, 24 September 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Just listened to that one -- it's really, really lovely, arrangement and song both.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I've been on the "White Cedar" bandwagon for a little while now
this whole album is a gigantic ball of YAY
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Like a village on the steppe/About to get collectivized.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
well this is great
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm totally infatuated, oh hell in luv at first listening, which doesn't always happen w MGs or much else. Seems like, if you are a The Hold Steady fan but getting a bit frustrated with creative lovehandles, rest assured this contains no fat, but plenty crucial lyric and especially sonic detail, in questing, cunning and at rate unstoppable underdog tales. Also, if you're frustrated by good horn sections wasted on, say the St/ Vincent/Byrne thing (yeah I'll listen again, or maybe not), well you've come to the right place, as Elvis would say. Kind of a King Creole pang-vibe here, the metal-compatible spirit too.
― dow, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Not to downplay the, what can I call it, clear-eyed, also blues-compatible spirit, compatible also with (and not slowed down or upstaged by) reading Tricia Romano's Twitter funeral pyre for Village Voice just now (not to sidetrack this thread, but was struck by compatility, water and everything in it rolling under the musical bridge)
― dow, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, Top Ten baby, P&J or whatEVAH
― dow, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
fantastic record. "until i am whole" really perfectly describes a set of months i had this year
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
oh and "spent gladiator 2," that really spare groove they ride on is mean as hell
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if this is gonna be on spotify and if anyone shall we say close with the band might comment on that
― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
merge has all their stuff up there iircanyway, joe perry woefully underutilized here, but otherwise great!
― tylerw, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
sounds good. not very mountain goats though. has their music ever sounded as rich and subtly arranged before?
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
has their music ever sounded as rich and subtly arranged before?
we shall all be healed imo. get lonely too, which incidentally is the other record with horns
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
He's been heading in this direction for a while. Get Lonely and The Life of The World To Come were especially lush. This one just isn't as sparse as those records (which may be why I already like it better).
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not as fond of this one as I was of last year's outstanding album.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
The last 4 or 5 records sound absolutely gorgeous. The recording, mixing and mastering are sublime.
On first listen I'm with Alfred. Some great songs, but nothing grabbed me by the lapels like so much of the last two albums.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
All of the last 4-5 records have been varying degrees of wonderful, but Life of the World to Come was the one that still hits me the hardest. Really looking forward to sitting down with this one.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't hear the last albums but this one seems pretty decent. Almost as good as Tallahassee. Which was a completely different beast of course. This one seems lighter and not as grave on first listen.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
It took me about three listens to All Eternal's Deck for like to turn to love. One listen in, I'm still at like with this one, but I take that as a positive sign.
(Get Lonely, alas, never grew on me, and TLOTWTC only ever did slightly.)
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this isn't knocking me out like All Eternals Deck--the strings on "Age of Kings," backing vocals on "High Hawk Season," etc. were like perfect backing for the lyrics, some of that record almost has a Paris 1919 vibe to me--but this definitely has a lot of great stuff on it, "White Cedar" and "Diaz Brothers" are great for sure
― fadanuf4erybody, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
It may sound banal, and I certainly don't mean it to, but I have a feeling that All Eternal's Deck may come to exemplify what we mean when we say "typically great new Mountain Goats record."
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
agreed, it was the first goats record that didn't leave much of an impression on me. i listened to it a few weeks ago and nothing jumped out at me save for "high hawk season"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
whereas every song for me was a discrete entity: my fave MG since 2005.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed w/Alfred.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
I have only had one playthrough with Transcendental Youth but I knew "White Cedar" so I was expecting awesome; I was not disappointed.
My pattern has generally been "most recent release = fave", although my favorite song is probably a tossup between "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace" and "No Children"
special place in my heart for "Damn These Vampires" and "Lovecraft In Brooklyn" and "Sax Rohmer #1" as well
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
"Beautiful Gas Mask" is my favorite from the last several years.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
pale green things and damn these vampires are the only two that spontaneously come to mind now and then, but that's just because i like them as individual phrases i think
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 24 September 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i hear that from a lot of people! it's strange how i just never got into it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 September 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link