The Mountain Goats

I'm not as fond of this one as I was of last year's outstanding album.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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

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."

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"

whereas every song for me was a discrete entity: my fave MG since 2005.

Agreed w/Alfred.

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

"Beautiful Gas Mask" is my favorite from the last several years.

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

whereas every song for me was a discrete entity: my fave MG since 2005.

ha, i hear that from a lot of people! it's strange how i just never got into it

Diaz Brothers is very very paris 1919/john cale.

In Memory of Satan keeps reminding me of summerteeth: "ashtray says..."

people might laugh at your tattoos/ when they do get new ones in completely garish hues

Really really enjoying this one after not making a huge amount of headway with All Eternals Deck. 'In Memory of Satan' being a particular highlight. Could do without those weird backing vocals on 'Until I Am Whole Again; but that's just nitpicking really.

This post on the AV club discussion of the new album made me lol http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth,85936/ especially as there's a good chance he'd agree on some of them.

More than one hundred bands with "goat" in their name better than this one

1. Necrosadistic Goat Torture (a.k.a. N.G.T.) Death/Black Metal United Kingdom

2. Progetto:ChaosGoat.666 (a.k.a. PCG666) Black Metal/Noise Italy

3. Satan's Goat Black/Thrash/Doom Metal United
States

4. Satanik Goat Ritual (a.k.a. Satanic Goat
Ritual) Black/Death Metal United States

5. Sign of the Goat (a.k.a. SOTG) Black Metal United
States

6. Super Heavy Goat Ass (a.k.a.
SuperHeavyGoatAss) Stoner/Southern Metal United States

7. The Austrasian Goat (a.k.a. TAG) Funeral Doom/Black Metal France

8. The Black Goat Order (a.k.a. BGO) Black Metal Canada

9. The Goat Radio Thrash Metal Finland

10. Throwing the Goat Thrash Metal Australia

11. Ye Goat-Herd Gods Black Metal Canada

12. Black Goat of the Woods Black Metal/Grindcore United States

13. Goathanger (a.k.a. Goat Hanger) Groove Metal Australia

14. Goatholocaust (a.k.a. Goat Holocaust) Black Metal Belgium

15. Goatpuncher (a.k.a. Goat Puncher) Melodic Death Metal United Kingdom

16. Goatsoldiers (a.k.a. Goat Soldiers) Black/Thrash Metal United States

17. Goatvomit (a.k.a. Goat Vomit) Black Metal United
States

18. Goatwar (a.k.a. Goat War) Black Metal Canada

19. Lady Reaper (a.k.a. Goat Arse) Black Metal Slovakia

20. Moorgate (a.k.a. More Goat) Death/Black Metal Sweden

21. Nauseating Tepid Whiff (a.k.a. Black Goat) Black Metal France

22. Nazgoat (a.k.a. Nazarene Goat) Black Metal Italy

23. Nocturnal Graves (a.k.a. Nocturnal Goat) Blackened Thrash Metal Australia

24. Wolfen Reich (a.k.a. Goat Ritual) Black Metal United
States

25. GoateatGod (a.k.a. Goat Eat God) Black Metal Greece

26. Milking the Goatmachine (a.k.a. Milking the
Goat Machine) Brutal Death
Metal/Grindcore Germany

27. Goat Vulva (a.k.a. Goatvulva) Black Metal Finland

28. Goat Warlord Death/Black Metal United
States

29. Goat Worship (a.k.a. Jatunheimen) Black Metal Denmark

30. Goat Wrath Black
Metal Germany

31. Goat-Tech Black
Metal Brazil

32. GoatPenis Black/Death
Metal Brazil

33. Hell Goat (a.k.a. Hellgoat) Southern Metal United States

34. Infernal Goat Black Metal Italy

35. LavaGoat Doom/Death
Metal Canada

36. Malignus Goat Raw Black Metal Brazil

37. Maniac Goat Black Metal Brazil

38. Mountain Goat Stoner/Sludge Metal United
States

39. Nuklear Goat Black Metal Portugal

40. Old Goat Black
Metal United States

41. Putrid Goat Death/Doom Metal United
States

42. Sabbatic Goat Black/Death Metal New
Zealand

43. Sabbatical Goat Black/Thrash Metal (early), Death Metal (later) Netherlands

44. Sacro Goat Black
Metal Brazil

45. Scape.Goat Thrash/Death
Metal France

46. Shit Goat Progressive
Thrash Metal United States

47. Von Goat Black
Metal United States

48. Arch Goat of Sodomy Death/Black Metal/Grindcore United
States

49. Black Goat Attack Black Metal Denmark

50. Goat of Mendes Heavy/Folk/Pagan Metal Germany

51. Goat the Head Death Metal Norway

52. Goat's Ass Trumpet Doom/Death Metal Finland

53. Hallowed Be Thy Goat Black Metal France

54. King Fire Goat Sludge Metal United
States

55. Mighty Goat Obscenity Black Metal Brazil

56. Morbid Goat Fornicator Black/Death Metal Chile

57. Goat Emperor Black Metal Brazil

58. Goat Evil Raw
Black Metal Bosnia and Herzegovina

59. Goat Funeral (a.k.a. GoatFuneral) Black Metal Germany

60. Goat Horn Heavy/Doom
Metal Canada

61. Goat Horns Black
Metal United Kingdom

62. Goat Inferno Raw Black Metal Germany

63. Goat Invocation Black Metal Brazil

64. Goat Messiah Black Metal Switzerland

65. Goat Molestation Black Metal United
States

66. Goat Molestör Black/Death Metal United
Kingdom

67. Goat Perversion Black Metal Brazil

68. Goat Perversion Black/Death Metal Bulgaria

69. Goat Perversion Black Metal Mexico

70. Goat Perversör Black/Thrash Metal Belgium

71. Goat Phallus Black/Death/Thrash Metal Greece

72. Goat Prayers Atmospheric Black Metal Brazil

73. Goat Ritual Black Metal Bosnia
and Herzegovina

74. Goat River Stoner/Doom
Metal France

75. Goat Semen (a.k.a. Goatsemen) Death/Black Metal Peru

76. Goat Serpent Death Metal Finland

77. Goat Skull Black
Metal Mexico

78. Goat Slime Black
Metal United States

79. Goat Synagogue Black Metal Greece

80. Goat Terrorism Black Metal Netherlands

81. Goat Thron (a.k.a. Throne of Goat) Raw Black Metal (early), Dark
Industrial Noise/ Dark Ambient (later) Poland

82. Goat Throttler Death Metal United
Kingdom

83. Goat Torment Black Metal Belgium

84. Goat Tunnel Doom Metal Finland

85. Goat Tyrant Blackened Thrash/Death Metal Poland

86. Goat Vengeance Black Metal Brazil

87. Goat Vomit Death
Metal/Grindcore/Crust Belgium

88. Goat Stoner/Sludge
Metal Australia

89. Goat Death/Black
Metal Denmark

90. Billy Goat Heavy/Power
Metal Spain

91. Black Goat Black
Metal Russia

92. Black Goat Black
Metal (early), Blackened Thrash Metal (later) Spain

93. Black Goat Black
Metal United States

94. Blood Goat Black
Metal United States

95. Dead Goat Black
Metal Norway

96. Dehydrated Goat Death Metal/Grindcore Latvia

97. Eternal Goat Black Metal Thailand

98. Floating Goat Stoner Metal United
States

99. Funeral Goat Black Metal Netherlands

100.Goat Altar Black/Death
Metal Netherlands

101.Goat Anus Black
Metal Netherlands

102.Goat Bleeder Death Metal with Grindcore influences United States

103.Goat Command Black/Thrash Metal Chile

104.Goat Eater Grindcore Serbia

poll

I think Lady Reaper aka Goat Arse probably walks that poll

strong challenge from Shit Goat IMO

Goat Tunnel has me scratching my head.

the sequence from 13 to 19 is kind of amazing tbh

if I can just be a bestial black metal* pedant for a minute here there's a band called Sadomator aka Sadogoat who're kind of elite & their absence on this list speaks poorly of its compiler

*actual subgenre that's mainly in play here

I thought all black metal was bestial to a greater or lesser degree.

Goat Molestör FTW, for the general ewwness of the name and the umlaut.

goat vengeance tho

Goat Thron (a.k.a. Throne of Goat)

there are so many great names here

Super Heavy Goat Ass (a.k.a. SuperHeavyGoatAss)

why are itunes uk being dicks and not releasing this till friday ;_;

yeah this is a good one, i will definitely Purchase it

diaz brothers <-> paris 1919 comparison is pretty apt, and awesome

77. Goat Skull Black
Metal Mexico

78. Goat Slime Black
Metal United States

writing my phd thesis on lexical choices in black metal group names & their indications of national identity, this is a fascinating contrast

Goat Semen (a.k.a. Goatsemen)

goatse men

this is really great!
white cedars is gorgeous

the diaz brothers is power pop!

also conspicuously absent from that list: chapel hill's own GOAT THROWER!!!

wher is lubricated goat

re: this album: didn't like it at first but now I love it. might help that I somehow ended up making lovefucking to it the other day? pretty sure I came during "The Diaz Brothers"

also: sitting at a red light just now on my way home from work, with windows down and screaming along (as is my wont), the line "Mistreat your altarboys long enough and this is what you get" earned a "woo!" from one of the cars next to me

A review from a most unlikely source!

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-mountain-goats-disco-purgatorio/

Larison: Mountain Goats Album a "Stunning" Repudiation of Romney Campaign

Hahaha

Eve Tushnet is a great cyberpunk trait-name.

Video for "Cry for Judas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptnhUOG2GU

friend of mine said they killed it last night

I am dead excited to see them this weekend. I do a lot of tMG listening but every time I see them there'll be multiple requests for songs I've never heard of, or the name has escaped me, and I'll get the sensation that people are just making up song titles on the spot. "Play 'Queen of Cups'! 'The paw of Romulus'! 'Alpha Fright Night'! 'Orange ball of empathy'!"

theme song from armageddon

Okay everyone go see this tour, it's fucking incredible

this was one of my favorite mountain goats shows i've seen. the horns are a really great addition.

i was wildly impressed with matthew e white, also.

paw of romulus is a jam

well what the shit, i had no idea this tour was happening and they are here next wednesday, and i dont have anything to do that night so well holy shit awesome