The Mountain Goats

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Why oh why is this tour coming to Milwaukee and Minneapolis but not Madison?

I honestly cannot type anything correctly today, I could have sworn I wrote "plant"

Seeing JD do Ezekiel 7 at the Royal Festival Hall show - his first with solo piano? - is something I'll hopefully never forget.

Was that the show with Anonymous 4? It was amazing, and to an extent the reason I've been having trouble getting into this album is that it's not that show (which I was warned of directly from the stage!)

Nope, this was back in...2009? The Life of the World to Come had just been released and then entire crowd knew every word from it. Such a special special gig.

Annonymous 4 w/Owen Pallet at the Barbican was also amazing - upthread I praised/thanked Owen for making the first gig my younger brother ever went to one to remember...at the time I did not know who [redacted] was, and as such did not extend my thank yous to him, an act of which I am now regretful for. So, [redacted], thank you for everything.

Wish I could go to show on Monday but Grand Rapids is a loooong drive.

I'd posit that one's memory of the A4 show is strengthened by the temporality of that programme's existence. Not that it was bad (or even merely good, I was thrilled tbh) but these songs are strong in any context and the album versions do them all great justice.

oh what I mean is that the fleeting nature of the A4 thing was a good aesthetic move, "One night only!" etc.

Oh for sure - I'm just mentioning the unexpected effect it had on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GbLFApNK0

boom

[mod edit] I just wanted to mention your new record slays, and moved me deeply. keep on etc

show tonight was the shit, horn section add-on is badass, people in future spots on the tour should just go buy those tickets right now.

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Thanks for the autograph!

My buddy just mailed this to me from the New York show. Listening to it in traditional Wisconsin fashion, with local microbrews.

i've never seen john live. what i've read about some of his diehard fans makes me think i would feel kind of uncomfortable (i am easily made uncomfortable). maybe if i just stay in the back by the bar with my SO and don't make eye contact with anyone.

Mountain Goats are definitely the band I'm most irritated about still never having seen live.

GO SEE THEM THEY ARE AWESOME AND AMAZING

also, due to the nature of the fans, you don't actually have to engage them at the show and you can be in your own bubble buffeted by awesome music

I'm excited to finally see them in December.

what was that early-00s band that would appear on MTV with an adoring teenage crowd sitting around them as if they were a campfire and earnestly sing along with every emo word?

like dashboard police or something.

Dashboard Confessional?

yeah. i was kind of picturing that type of scenario, with me awkwardly handing a beer standing against the back wall wishing i were somewhere else.

handling

the crowd is entirely ignorable because since you aren't JD, they will not give two fucks about you and you are therefore free to put as much of your attention on the music as you want

I have heard a rumor that the tMG singer once back in the small-small club days had a fan/heckler try to get his attention all night by requesting "screaming infidelities" all night. RIP fan/heckler guy may someone someday find the body

lol

Not only did Dashboard Confessional appear on tv like that, they also released a live album (2 records into their career, natch) complete with overbearing crowd singalong intact.

the crowd is entirely ignorable because since you aren't JD, they will not give two fucks about you and you are therefore free to put as much of your attention on the music as you want

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, October 26, 2012 9:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sold.

i just have to make sure not to go to the show with the one or two work colleagues who appear to be part of john's diehard emo fanbase. one of them routinely pops into the offices of anyone he suspects might have mountain-goat sympathies and almost-whispers "do you like the mountain goats?!"

oh course, although i do, the answer has to be "not really."

surprise surprise dude is also bit of an oversharer

he should be our secret

I did an opera chorus with a dude who was a huge Mountain Goats fan who also made himself into the lead tenor's boy toy for the duration of our run; apparently the lead tenor told all the other leads about how much he liked to cum on this dude's face

and that is my story about my relationship with a hardcore MG fan

lock thread

omg

dying irl right now

"the crowd is entirely ignorable because since you aren't JD, they will not give two fucks about you and you are therefore free to put as much of your attention on the music as you want"

bruh this is not true, the one tMG show I was at there was a guy loudly jumping around and he kept screaming shit in my direction like "DO YOU LIKE SATANIC BLACK METAL LIKE JOHN DOES"

he was the coolest guy

well, if I ever get the opportunity to ejaculate on someone's face, I can only hope it's to the pleasing sounds of The Mountain Goats

I have no horse in the race but that is my favorite post ever

I hope to see that used in press releases and adverts for many years to come.

I would like to continue to endorse this show, but at no point during the show did I ejaculate into someone's face. I would like to know if this is still ok, please advise.

Guys, I think I did it wrong ;_;

well, if I ever get the opportunity to ejaculate on someone's face, I can only hope it's to the pleasing sounds of The Mountain Goats

― d-_-b (mh), Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should be on the promo sticker slapped on his next album

http://www.npr.org/event/music/148782993/the-mountain-goats-and-anonymous-4

There's that Anonymous 4 show if anyone's still interested, my friend went to that as well and said it was very impressive.

Their album the Origin of Fire is probably my favorite vocal based album of all time, except for maybe the Berliner Messe album of Arvo Part's music.

I was sitting listening to it at work and a guy came in off the floor listens to it a second and says "you getting so high to this at home, right?"

my mom borrowed my car today and i forgot that the new MG cd was still in the player. when she came back she said "i don't know what cd that is, but it's the most depressing thing i've ever heard. the music sounds so nice and normal, and then he starts talking about throwing up in the sink!"

when i was like twenty and had tallahassee playing in the car when my dad was driving me back from college his reaction to 'no children' was "god, this is a cheerful record, isn't it?"

I will never understand the logic by which Christgau decides which Mountain Goats albums he likes and which he thinks are meh.

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/expert-witness-blogpost.aspx?post=ba99127c-adef-493f-b83c-35ba2ff18c68

Thorny to begin with, John Darnielle reached some near-perfect threshold of liminal comprehensibility with Tallahassee 10 years ago, then got thornier again, albeit in liminally comprehensible mode.

One of the must aggravating writers that ever lived

ahaha i kind of love that sentence

also

But the dealmaker is Jon Wurster's spare, inescapable drumming.

otm

I will never understand the logic by which Christgau decides which Mountain Goats albums he likes and which he thinks are meh.

otm. I loved the last one, this one okay.