The Mountain Goats

Is "All Eternals Deck" anyone else's favorite MG record?

― Treeship

The best of the recent lot

If "the recent lot" is, say, Heretic Pride onward, it's my second fave. "Harlem Roulette" and "Cry for Judas" nudge Transcendental Youth just a tad ahead of it, for me.

As for the novel, of course I'm pumped (very little recent literary fiction I've encountered matches his Master of Reality volume), but a fall release all but guarantees that I probably won't get around to reading it til around Summer 2015, at the earliest.

I'm one.of the.old.like their old stuff.better people so it would be Full Force Galesborg or Sweden easy. I know that J.Darinelle would vehemently disagree but I just don't get that same sense of bleeding brilliance from.any of the modern productions. Despite there.being a tonne of.great songs scattered about the more pristine recent lot.

I think both production approaches have their drawbacks and virtues but I don't think his songwriting's ever declined.

first track on sweden is breathtaking.

I was happy to hear Mountain Goats on the Walking Dead, it took a second to click. But I'm sort of with hinkle, Zopilote Machine, The Hound Chronicles, Sweden, Hot Garden Stomp, those tapes and cds were the soundtrack to my high school days. I've only heard a few scattered songs after Nothing For Juice, I should check out his newer hi-fi records?

Yes, absolutely, but don't miss the later lo-fi ones while you're at it (All Hail West Texas especially).

The life of the world to come resonates most strongly with me. Had a long drive up the California coast with that one.

Am a little surprised, given the novel's description, that it's apparently only 200 pages. Looking forward to reading it, in any case.

I like All Eternals Deck a lot, but then I would

"all hail west texas" is probably my favorite of the lofi albums. i really don't prefer the very earliest material but i barely ever do with any artist.

jacobsanders, listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVws52PPvEA&feature=kp

I was happy to hear Mountain Goats on the Walking Dead, it took a second to click.

I can't really deal with this show, but my wife and son watch it every week. I was downstairs folding laundry and they were upstairs jamming (albeit unknowingly) to the Mountain Goats?

what happened to your wife that caused her to be unable to recognize mountain goats songs?

We don't share musical tastes.

What MG song was on The Walking Dead?

i think the sunset tree will always be my favorite, and that's no disrespect to any of the records that came before or after

but it feels intensely felt in a way, obviously because of the subject matter, cannot be repeated

I have written an "every Mountain Goats song, ranked" listicle, John'd better behave or I will submit that listicle

the threat of imminent mountain goats character compendium

Dear Mr. Tyler,
How did you end up with a track on the CD accompanying this? http://southerncultures.org/2013/02/15/spring-2013-issue-global-southern-music/
I couldn't figure out at all which article it tied into,

Regards,
James Redd

Howl In My Passway?
Elvis Down Under?
Aloha Blues?

Rubber Ring Shout?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_gGUT8f9i4

Mountain Goat Dew?

this really isn't the place for this but when there're anthology CDs the process usually involves magazines writing to managers/publicists and artists signing off for zero dollars on the idea that being on something that might reach new ears is a good idea as long as the venue seems kinda cool and not something weird like a McDonalds giveaway or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFeforW2ycI

so I always found the title of "Up the Wolves" off The Sunset Tree to be kinda mystifying much moreso than the actual lyrical content), and then just now I made the connection with this
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/3/1/9/1319.jpg
... which seems like a plausible source, but idk

it is possible that in this one instance I have overestimated the influence of Mr. Ronnie James Dio

So I just discovered that les Goats are going to be part of this summer's free concert series at the Rock and ROll Hall of Fame, which is right by my office. Woo!

The Goats on the Ramones

#77

http://jezebel.com/jezebels-hot-100-the-men-we-love-ranked-1578735833

rowr and also lol injokes

you can leave your hat glasses on...

Whatever, I'm at #42.

lol

Imagine being at a party with George Takei. Imagine how much fun you'd have.

he'd be all, "check this shit out i just posted on facebook."

"whoa cool george" *scans around room for anyone without a phone in their face*

JD fall book tour schedule is up btw

i've got my ticket

free show at poisson rouge iirc

The first 10 minutes of the audiobook is available here: https://soundcloud.com/macaudio-2/wolf-in-white-van-by-john-darnielle-audiobook-excerpt

And review/interview here!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/the-sound-of-the-words.html

I ordered a copy, because Mr. Goat is awesome and the book seems cool.

Mr. Goat is doing a signing near here (Oxford, MS) so I will go buy my copy there and say hi dere.

I fear I'll need to miss the LA signing, so I've preordered and wait with bated breath.

09-15 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge ^
09-18 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall
09-22 Raleigh, NC - Quail Ridge Books
09-24 Nashville, TN - Parnassus Books
09-25 Oxford, MS - Off Square Books
09-29 San Francisco, CA - Green Apple Books *
09-30 Los Angeles, CA - Skylight Books
10-01 Portland, OR - Powell's Books
10-02 Denver, CO - The Tattered Cover
10-05 Dallas, TX - The Wild Detectives
10-06 Austin, TX - Book People
10-07 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall #
10-08 Brookline, MA - Coolidge Theater

^ with John Hodgman
* with Robin Sloan
# with Mairead Case

being on the NBA list of ten fiction nominees the week your book comes out is pretty good

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014.html#.VBrGd_ldUuc

woah!

Awesome! Congrats John!