The Mountain Goats

Oh hmm, the Oxford event includes a Thacker Mountain Radio broadcast/reading. Adjusting dinner plans...

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/17/348736199/as-a-lyricist-and-novelist-the-mountain-goats-lead-man-writes-about-pain

I intend to listen to the Fresh Air thing...

Whoa, congrats. All the fun novels I've been looking forward to are out this month (David Mitchell, Jeff Vandermeer), and aero's is up next for me.

something about that npr headline is v weird to me

mega congrats to the goat gentleman

yeah big ups, aero! like seriously. can't wait to get my hands on this thing and hope I can move some stuff around to see you at Powell's on the first.

I'm not exactly who John writes for, but he's still managed to get Denton stuck in my ear.

best ever

http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/101178844671/a-band-i-like-called-helcaraxe-sent-me-their-cover

this is fucking mighty.

Solid cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hysbWNn9WqI

Hey, that's not bad! The bloopy keys remind me of the keyboard bloops on Autoclave.

Yo

http://www.mergerecords.com/beat-the-champ

http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/108736975801/the-cream-of-the-crop

https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/the-mountain-goats-the-legend-of-chavo-guerrero/

!!!

yessss

Niiiiice

what are some other words or characters we can post multiple tiiiiiimes???

Today Al Madril denies that he was ever a wrestler.

Just listened to that like 3 times in a row. Totally psyched.

Today Al Madril denies that he was ever a wrestler.

this is true & such a sad detail, he was such an great and chill local face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfZAQZy0Eg

wwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrreeeeeeessssssttttttttllllliiiiinnnnn'''''''

Al Mandrill would be a sweet joke cover band

ok so who plays the lead guitar is what i want to know

hurrah!

descending like fire on the people who deserved it most/almost completely unknown outside texas and on the west coast

A cool piece

http://t.co/LPM61UyU5H

And even cooler? I suggest checking out this feed for the past few days:

https://twitter.com/ChavoClassic

2nd pre-order track, Heel Turn 2, is available now. I've got a really good feeling about this batch of songs.

That feeling is justified.

P4k Interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9609-the-mountain-goats/

Cool!

If it's half as good as Transcendental Youth it'll be one of the best records of the year. He is at his peak right now.

I should say "they" instead of he, because Jon Wurster's drumming is a huge part of their sound.

It really is that good.

Okay so "Chavo Guerrero" didn't really grab me, but "Heel Turn" is a whole different ballpark -- truly one for the ages.

Streaming streaming streaming.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/29/395108044/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-beat-the-champ

Also, performing and discussing one of the new songs:

http://www.avclub.com/videoplaylist/john-darnielle-discusses-and-performs-stabbed-deat-217189

Ooof @ "Hair Match", <3 <3 so good

opening moments a bit randy newman :)

"foreign object" is pretty firmly stuck in my head already

The second half doesn't stick as well as the first, but I love"The Legend of Chavo Guerrero," "Foreign Object," and "Southwestern Territory.

choked out! choked out!

I will check out the choke-out. Cool to see it's in a different setting than Wolf In White Van, which I'm currently captivated by (thinking about ordering Master of Reality).

i really like this
i definitely like MGs when there's a concept or theme to the record, or those tend to be my favs

(thinking about ordering Master of Reality)

absolutely order this immediately. can't recommend that book highly enough.

yeah i just started reading it last week and it's great --- esp poignant as i am currently working in a psychiatric hospital

so uh, NYC, does City Winery have a standby line?

https://twitter.com/speaakeasy/status/583710484165177344

I had to make myself listen to the npr stream a second time, but sure glad I did. Initially, it just seemed wayyy too refined and introspective, in a chamber-y way, for an album about wrasslers (long ago, I reviewed a collection of wrestlers' entrance themes etc., back when The Rock and Mankind were first hittin' it big, and the refinement was there, but had to go w deft, deadpan flourishes of grandiosity, re art metal and soundtracks, like John Carpenter's music). The opening track still seems a bit too much like early Randy Newman, maybe, and could also live without the coda to "Heel Turn 2," but otherwise---with the volume way up on non-audiophile headphones---really liked the rest (well the one about San Juan still seems a bit diffuse lyrically, but music no prob). That Wurster's a pretty good drummer, hey.

Some of the piano flourishes are exquisite. What's the song w/the extended piano outro?

Heel Turn 2

"Heel Turn 2," isn't it? A little too exquisite here, for me.(Overselling; I get the nuances already.)
Bout time for an MG tribute album, also occasional covers hither and yon. I like his voice, but wouldn't hurt to hear others. Red Hot Mountain Goats? Let's do it!

"Heel Turn 2" definitely the highlight for me so far, though I've lived with that song longer than most of the others on the album (it has floated around online for about a month or so). Agree that some of it sounds a bit too restrained on first pass, but its early yet. "Werewolf Gimmick," though, might be the closest that Darnielle has come so far to writing what could conceivably become an actual metal song.