The Mountain Goats

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.

Yahweh was his c0-writer.

yet another mountain goats album that i can't find anything bad to say about

matthew 25:21 is really powerful

the genesis one with just piano is killer

This is his best album since The Sunset Tree.

Actually, that one was called Get Lonely. It came out in 2006 and it is his best album.

Haven't heard the new one yet (lol @ waiting for release day), but really looking forward to it and will def. be at the ATX show in November.

OMG, j0hn you asshole. Thanks for nearly reducing me to tears twice on my drive home last night. Its been a long, long time since I've had such a raw response to recorded music. "Matthew 25:21
" hit me pretty hard, which makes sense given then subject matter, but I was not at all prepared for "Genesis 3:23" which hit me like a punch in the gut and I'm still not quite sure why.

Actually, that one was called Get Lonely. It came out in 2006 and it is his best album.

No.

bought the new one for my gf the other day, she's a big MGs fan.

you're always good value on indie rock threads, jordan

lol

Has anybody heard the "Life of the World in Flux?" I.E. should I pay tons extra and wait for this album to come in the mail w/ extra demo CD, or just go to the record store and buy the regular version now?

I don't know, I didn't even know that version existed until after I'd already bought the regular album.

Actually, that one was called Get Lonely. It came out in 2006 and it is his best album.

No.

― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Listen again -- with ears this time, perhaps.

Flux is good but inessential and not worth the difference in money to the US IMHO. You should run out and get the album now because it is fantastic, right up there with anything else by TMG for me at the moment.

Was cool seeing TMGs on Colbert a couple days ago.

Get Lonely is a personal favorite, but it doesn't have the variety or the brazen power of Sunset or Tallahassee or the new one imo.

tMG are pretty close to edging out Wilco as my favorite band.

I mean, fuck: "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace"? "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace"!

I can still vaguely remember buying Get Lonely at a local Newbury Comics, either the day it came out or really soon after that. Summer 2006. Summer 2007 I bought The Sunset Tree, thought it was one of the most amazing records I had ever heard with one of the best closing songs I had ever heard. Heretic Pride I got soon after it came out. Then this one, day of.

I seriously just heard the album version of "The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton" a few days ago, and I can't stop playing it. Holy shit, what a song.

I mean, dudes, I don't think I've ever heard a band that better captures lived human experience than tMG. It's not just the uncannily accurate, affecting, and unsurpassed lyrics but also the preciseness of the music itself. I'm not being articulate here, but I know what I mean.

"Denton" is a prime example of the MG using hieratic language to turn the mundane into the epic. It's a device they use to terrific effect.

Lol at ppl referring John as "they" as though he were some high deity. The Great One Who Is Also The Infinite Many.

I mean I realize TMG is plural etc., it's cute is all.