The Mountain Goats

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.

xgau and underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned are in, like, near-complete accord as to which mountain goats albums are the best ones. (he didn't think the sunset tree succeeded, I don't know what to say about that.) but he was the only guy repping for "we shall all be healed," which, like, there are people in mountain goats camp who'll go to their graves still pissed that only xgau, at the time, seemed to get it. and his line on "autoclave" was so dead-on it was like, lol, ok, pwn3d, advantage xgau

I gate the MG's a try on the strength of his WSABH review, and it's still my favorite.

We Shall All Be Healed is my go-to MGs album fwiw.

we shall all be healed is absolutely my favorite tmg record, followed by get lonely

very singular moods nailed on both of those

At least his longer stuff he can have some point, I bet the consumer guide woulda been something like:

The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth

The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle writes mini rock operas like a guy that went to Sunday school in between shifts at Dairy Queen. Too bad I never much liked onion rings. B+

ok lol

m@tt if i ever get another editing gig my first priority is to give you a whole page to do that

haha. my christgau instincts are insisting that i try to unpack that.

(he didn't think the sunset tree succeeded, I don't know what to say about that.)

I was surprised he only gave it an honorable mention originally, but he slapped into the dean's list at the end of the year so his opinion must have improved over the year.

DQ onion rings were never too popular at my location. Most customers preferred to offset the heaviness of their chicken strip basket with a delicate combo of an extra gravy tub, mayo for the fries, and an oreo blizzard.

my tastes are not unlike xgau in re all this stuff (shocking), though my two Pick Hits are Sunset and Healed rather than Healed and Tallahassee

I checked into a bargain priced room on La Cienega,
gazed out through the curtains of the parking lot.
walked down to the Dairy Queen just before nightfall in my bare feet.
black tarry asphalt, soft and hot.
and when I came back I spread out my supplies.
on the counter by the sink,
I looked myself right in the eyes

an extra tub of gravy,
mayo and fries,
and you or your memory (stares at empty blizzard cup)

Tallahassee / We Shall All Be Healed / The Sunset Tree is as brilliant a run of albums as any in the previous decade.

Saw my first Mountain Goats show tonight. It was very good, and sweet baby Jesus does "This Year" rule with the added horns. When I told John that at the merch table he said it was new to this leg of the tour, so I'm glad to be on this second go round.

The Diaz Brothers has been lodged in my head for the better part of a month and shows no signs of leaving any time soon. That is one catchy chorus.

Awww:

http://twitpic.com/bm9mv8

The Diaz Brothers is still stuck in my head. It is the catchiest song in years. Holy moley. How come more people aren't singing its praises?