The Mountain Goats

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/03/the_mountain_go.php

How funny, I happen to be an 30yr old obsessed Mountain Goats fan and former Juggalo, the two are not that far apart

Posted by: hanuman at March 3, 2009 2:41 PM

I think what's odd to me about it in these cases is that I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who could write excellent general-audience profiles of Bird, from a perspective that's maybe more in the music field, most of them probably cheaper than regular NYT Mag contributors -- but that gap doesn't get filled often, does it? Beyond like SFJ and Kelefa and a few newspaper people. It's not that I think music can only be written about my music writers, but it always feels like there's an unnecessary disconnect on this front, a weird lack of bridging between the music realm and the general-audience stuff.

can we all at least agree that without getting into the validity of not of the gawker article that it reads like it was written by a child?

it = the gawker article

How funny, I happen to be an 30yr old obsessed Mountain Goats fan and former Juggalo, the two are not that far apart

dan's lying about his age, now?

the only similarity i see between mtn goats and insane clown posses is that they are both jesus lovers.

also both claim to have eaten dead bodies

TS: The Sunset Tree Vs. The Riddle Box

by virtue of being churchgoers, or something more sinister? xp

What is a mountain goat?
Lemme think for a second. (well? )
Oh, he gets butt naked.
And then he walks through the street winkin at freaks,
Wit a two-liter stuck in his butt-cheeks!
What is a mountain goat?
He just dont care.
He might try to put a weave in his nut hair.
Cuz he could give a fuck less what a bitch thinks,
He tell her that her butt stinks, and all that,
What is a mountain goat?
He drinks like a fish,
And then he starts huggin people like a drunk bitch,
Next thing hes pickin fights with his best friends,
Then he starts with the huggin again, fuck,
What is a mountain goat?
A fuckin lunatic.
Somebody with a rope tied to his dick,
Then he jumps out a ten-story windowéééoh!
(chorus:)
What is a mountain goat?
A mountain goat? if thats what it is, well fuck if I know.
What is a mountain goat?
I dont know, but Im down with the clown, and Im down for life, yo.
(end chorus)
(chorus)
(vocal breakdown)
What is a mountain goat?
A dead body.
Well he aint really dead, but he aint like anybody
That youve ever met before.
Hell eat monopoly and shit out connect four.
What is a moun-
What the fuck? connec-man, that shits wack.
Dont worry bout my shit, just rap, mutha fucker.
What is a mountain goat?
He aint a bitch boy.
Hell walk through to the hills and beat down a rich boy.
Walks right in the house where ya havin supper,
And dip his nuts in ya soupéébloop!
What is a mountain goat?
Well he aint a phoney.
Hell walk up and bust a nut in your macaroni.
And watch you sit there and finish up the last bit,
Cuz youre a stupid-ass dumb fuckin idiot.
What is a mountain goat?
Hes a graduate.
He graduated from......well,
At least hes got a job, hes not a dumb putz,
He works for himself scratchin his nuts, ha!
What is a mountain goat?
A hulkamaniac.
He powerbombs mutha fuckas into thumbtacks. (bwa!)
People like him till they find out hes unstable.
He sabued ya mama through a coffee table. (oh my god!)
(chorus)
(vocal breakdown)
(chorus)
(chorus)
(vocal breakdown)
What is a mountain goat?

both stab people

pretty certain i just ensured that i will never be on the J0hn D christmas card list

what are you even talking about, you just bought yourself lifetime guest list

What is a mountain goat?
He just dont care.

HELLO FALL 2009 TOUR SHIRT

J0hn, I posted a birthday song/lyric on your Facebook, do I get lifetime +1 guest list also?

referring to the Mountain Goats on my facebook gets you barred from the door forever, actually

it's been a ban-ner week for our man ilxor

Dang it.

How funny, I happen to be an 30yr old obsessed Mountain Goats fan and former Juggalo, the two are not that far apart

Posted by: hanuman at March 3, 2009 2:41 PM

After reading this article, I had a brief, worrying flash of "Oh god, do I just enjoy the Mountain Goats because they're some weird cult that has sprung up to replace Phish?"

It also didn't help that I downloaded a live show from archive.org and there was some background audience chatter. You can hear a guy saying "Oh yeah, they played that last night in Philly" or something

I 've never been to one of their concerts, but if it turns out that j)hn has a bitchin' light show, I'm really going to have to stop listening to his music.

None of them feel compelled to do the things that actually famous musicians did in order to get famous, like create an appealing persona and deliver it to a fascinated reporter.

Like, oh, Amy Winehouse?

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laura says the NYC show this past Friday night was amazingly acoustic and intimate.

No one commented on the use of "stannery" in that Voice response article?

Hey J0hn you should book a show in MN on this tour.

stannery o'connor

holy shit how did I miss that epic MG/ICP interpolation

Hey J0hn you should book a show in MN on this tour.

Hay no worries, jjjusten, I fixed that typo for you.

Actually...

Hey J0hn you should book a show in MN TX on this tour.

Better.

*ducks*

This new one really is amazing. Right up there with the best of them for me.

Having trouble remembering the song titles, of course, but the Ezekiel one is particularly remarkable.

will be interesting to see how they translate to a live beatdown experience

^^

i love "genesis 3:23"

v. excited for first Mountain Goats show in Madison since I don't know when

v excited for the Boston show as I've never been in the Wilbur Theatre before

excited to be beaten within an inch of my life at the cedar cultural center

FINALLY

yeah, i've missed the MGs in madison like three times before. but now my gf is a huge fan, so i've got tickets.

xp: your beatings bingo card will at last be full

I am annoyed that I am missing a Boston show for the second time this year (I get back from a week away about an hour after the show will end, and I missed Somerville for similar reasons).

And I missed Zoop in exactly the same fashion. A year of failing to see the Mountain Goats, basically.

perhaps you can arrange for a mail order beatdown

Looking forward to the ATX show. Is this already out??

early October I think?

10.06.09.

Pitchfork: How's it going?

John Darnielle: I'm doing pretty good. Actually, I don't know if you're aware of this-- the album leaked today.

Pitchfork: I was not aware of that.

JD: Yeah. A few years ago that would have been, (gruff voice) "Oh no." But I live in the real world. It kind of takes a little pressure off when the album leaks.

Pitchfork: So are they going to start selling it online early or anything?

JD: No, no. Any thoughts I have about that stuff are just clod-talk. My stance on that stuff is that I have all sorts of weird ideas, and if I say something and somebody wants to run with it, that's cool. But I pretty much just focus on making the records-- unless I'm self-releasing them, then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution or it takes out of your time to write.

Pitchfork: Have you been getting a lot of texts about the album today?

JD: Yeah. (laughs) There's a person in my chat list-- I don't know who they are, they only appear by screen name, but the chorus to the second song of the album suddenly popped up as their status. (laughs) "Oh, well, I'll be damned. It must be out there."

Pitchfork: That's one way to find out.

Ha

This is awesome, btw. I had "1 Samuel 15:23" on repeat for like an hour last night

Looking forward to this. It's going to get me to read as least 12 passages from the Bible.

This is his best album since The Sunset Tree.