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4AD are going exactly the same way as original, life affirmingly INDEPENDENT allies Mute by signing pretty hopeless bands. If The Mountain Goats are the new Pixies then that pig really DID just fly past the window. More up Clint's street are these and even he thinks they're a bit pants. The band's new CD, 'Tallahassee' is out this week. Supposedly their 12th album, previous efforts have been on little US indies, this 4AD debut is average alt-country tinged lo-fi strum rock. Some might find some nuggets of gold up in them thar mountains but all I found were some old Yak droppings. Gorgeous packaging like but the words 'polish' and 'turd' spring to mind (again)....

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 2 February 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

John: Play Portland. Come play Portland. There are a bunch of us planning on driving down for the upcoming SF show but, really, it would be nice to see you without driving 9 hours... So, in summation, come play Portland.

Please.

Thank you.

Also, if you play Portland, please play "Golden Boy", as it would mean a lot to my roommate/bandmate, who sings it to her godson to get him to go to sleep, and is anyway one of your absolute best songs, even better than "Fresh Berries For You".

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 2 February 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, and for the people wondering where to start: I say just go with All Hail West Texas! You'll love the first song and want to put it on a mix tape right away. Also there's a song on it called "Riches and Wonders" which will heart fall into your toes. And when the song is over, and you are a puddle of curious and hauting emotions on the floor, John will look up from the Panasonic and say, "Oh, you liked that one? Wait, let me play you this other song I just whipped off..." and then "The Mess Inside" will start playing and you will hate him for writing such beautiful songs and rubbing them in your face.

There. I am done being such a fanboy. Oh, except to note my friend's observation about how awkward it is to scream out "ABSOLUTE LITHOPS EFFECT!" as a concert request.

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 2 February 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

MY favourite song of the ones i´ve heard yet is The Best Ever Death Metal Band from Denton and the cover of The sign have been on a lot of mixtapes.
I hope i don´t miss you when you play Sweden in like two weeks

― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't worry keith - Phil only seems to like electronica and krautrock..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

actually I love the mountain goats records I have but the one song I heard fromt he new one sounded, worryingly, a bit like Live.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 3 February 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

What?! Any idea which song it was?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 3 February 2003 08:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

sssshhhhh, I'm trying to whisper it so J0hn can't hear me...I got Tallahassee about a week ago (my first MG purchase), and I love it. I would ask for more reccommendations, but I'll just follow the advice upthread. I also started reading Last Plane To Jakarta after he linked to that great Comets On Fire piece about PAs in shopping malls. Class.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

I'm trying to whisper it so J0hn can't hear me

IS THIS SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE WHOLE CLASS, MR. NORDIC?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

I love jOhn, but is it official I'm the only Ilxor who's actively admitted they're not really a big Mountain Goats fan yet?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

I really enjoy Last Plane to Jakarta, and I really enjoy Tallahassee. I need more mtn goats. More old stuff with tape hiss. Where can I gat some?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.3bos.com is one place with the three comps of hissy compilation, cassette, etc tracks.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

I love jOhn, but is it official I'm the only Ilxor who's actively admitted they're not really a big Mountain Goats fan yet?

i was a pretty big fan in high school with a couple tapes, an lp and a cd but i haven't had much of an urge to listen to any of it in at least four or five years and haven't heard anything since sweden or nothing for juice.

i still get a little thrill when i see j*hn's name come up on a thread though. feels like hollywood.

― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

psst--don't tell anyone, but I'm going to see TMG for the first time when he opens for Lifter motherfucking Puller June 6 in Minneapolis (am attending all three LP shows thankyouverymuch). I hope he doesn't bash me over his head w/his guitar for calling him a terrorist on MTV2.

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose if I want to see that show I should go get in line right now. Advance tickets are sold out already.

― Dan I., Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

And you know people are seriously going to come from all over the country and stuff. damn lifter puller and all their post-mortem press!

― Dan I., Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

i wonder if we'll ever get to hear the "behind the music" story of rachel...

this is all i know: perfect harmony, great bassplaying, takes the lead on "going to queens".

also what reggae song is the snippet from the beginning of "sept 19 triple x love! love!" from?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 August 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

ha ha TS: TMG vs. TMBG!!!!

(ps J0hn somehow I hadn't heard this stuff for long time but am now the proud owner of All Hail West Texas which is friggin fabulous and really helped me not feel like a reanimated corpse yesterday morning)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

yes, I am an ass.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

umm, john, if you ever come to new orleans, i promise i'll get as many people as i can get to go, as it's not too hard to convert people into MG fandom. Also, if you'd like, i could get together a few friends to open for you as an MG cover band, perhaps "the hospital bombers." of course, we wouldnt just be acoustic. about 1/3 of the time i spend listening to your music is spent giddily re-arranging the song for a different genre. its very exciting. so get down here already. BTW when's the new album coming out?

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

(i'm sorry for reviving this)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

ps J0hn somehow I hadn't heard this stuff for long time but am now the proud owner of All Hail West Texas which is friggin fabulous and really helped me not feel like a reanimated corpse yesterday morning

Hurrah for Nickalicious! A fine album, is it not? It and Tallahassee are nicely complementary without being specifically paired.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

These are the only two I have and I love them; I used to have Nine Black Poppies years ago and remember not being into it, but I think my tastes may have changed. If I like the most recent two what should I buy next?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

After last night's show, this can't be revived enough. TERROR SONG!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 October 2003 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

I'll be at the SF show in but a few hours. There will be fire, and it will be honored. Oh yes.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 3 October 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks to all L.A. ilx0rfia for representin' to the fullest! Seeing ilx0rs at shows RULES! And Ned's positive energy, to put in in a real hippie way, is completely infectious!

Hurrah!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 3 October 2003 01:37 (twenty years ago) link

Aw, thanks! Hey, yer not so bad yerself on that front. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 October 2003 02:05 (twenty years ago) link

to which i will also attest (for both of you)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 3 October 2003 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

I said something similar on ILE, but I'm a total convert to The Mountain Goats!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 October 2003 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

Aw, I saw the Mountain Goats Monday night in Phoenix. It was a wonderful show. I thank my friend who is a M.G. fan of the first order, for harassing me into leaving the apartment. I love encores at shows, they make me feel all warm and fuzzy... all the lurve in the room.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 3 October 2003 03:24 (twenty years ago) link

i just made this mix for a newbie. needless to say, i'm a huge fan:

01. Some Swedish Trees
02. Raja Vocative
03. Color In Your Cheeks
04. Going To Port Washington
05. Korean Bird Paintings
06. Alpha Incipiens
07. New Star Song
08. Baboon
09. Alpha Rat's Nest
10. Pure Heat
11. Going To Queens
12. Jenny
13. Cheshire County
14. It Froze Me
15. Raid on Entebbe
16. No Children
17. Neon Orange Glimmer Song
18. There Will Be No Divorce
19. Distant Stations
20. Nine Black Poppies
21. Alpha Omega
22. Going To Georgia
23. The Alphonse Mambo
24. Soft Targets
25. Commandante
26. Going To Chino

and John, for the love of god, give Iowa one more dose of the rock before you jump ship. don't make me go to Omaha, man!

― colin mcelligatt, Friday, 3 October 2003 04:33 (twenty years ago) link

Having just returned from the SF show, I will henceforth concur with Mr. Raggett: TERROR SONG!

― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 3 October 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I have a question. What is the name of the song about the Easter Bunny (maybe I'm recalling it incorrectly?). Or some kind of bunny or rabbit, going somewhere for Easter. The cool DJ on KDHX St Louis used to play that song alll the damn time, back in 1993 or whenever, but I never managed to catch it on one of my high school-era radio-copied cassettes. My learned Mountain Goats fan friend could not answer this for me. Maybe I should have asked John himself after the show, but I'm not very good at talking to people, and it's kind of a dumb question.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 3 October 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

"it's going to be so nice when the easter bunny comes" is the refrain of "fresh berries for you" off of chile de arbol (it's on one of the ajax/3BOS comps).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

I hate doing this kind of thing because I'm a shallow arsehole and like to pretend I've got a thickskin, but I've just broken up with my girlfriend of the last two+ years for reasons I wont go into, and the two records that have got me through this emotionally (and spiritually - uergh) are The Violet Hour and Tallahasse, both of which I've only got downloaded copies of, and both of which I intend to buy real copies of very very fucking soon indeed. John, I'm in the middle of a whole heap of complicated emotional crapulence, and you've helped me cry about it and sort things out a touch in my own mind/heart/whatever (as have The Clientele if they're reading this by any chance). Thank you, thank you, and thank you again.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

That's a complete arsehole post above, but it's true. It really is.

Alexander Kowalski's on now, so I'm gonna have a dance.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

oh, why not--something I wrote this week: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0340/music-goats.php

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 3 October 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

Nice, M Matos. I'm so glad more people are appreciating the Mountain Goats and I can't wait to see him/them again in a week or so.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Friday, 3 October 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you gygax. All these years of mystery are over!

(I almost cried when he played "it froze")

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:31 (twenty years ago) link

It crosses over from John the musical figure to John the ILX poster and good egg here, to be sure, but it is VERY comforting to see someone demonstrate that one can be a truly distinct performer and musician as well as being an extremely fine feller. If anything, it makes the relative rarity of that combination in general all the more clear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:40 (twenty years ago) link

i'll hide in the back when he plays denver. last time i saw him was in zoots in detroit with alastair galbraith.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

Alexander Kowalski's on now, so I'm gonna have a dance.

Yay, does this mean I'm not the only one on ILM that loves that album???

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 4 October 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

'Fall of the Star High School Running Back' and 'Raid on Entebbe' are really good. I'm getting that sinking feeling again.

― youn, Saturday, 4 October 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

I was at that Zoot's show!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 4 October 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

So then, Cubs in Five?

― Tom E., Sunday, 5 October 2003 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

Indeed it does Siegbran - although it was your mention of it somewhere that inspired me to download it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 5 October 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

i miss zoots. i remember seeing this godawful band Comet there and they had enough gear to play the silverdome. ugh. i forget where the mountain goats show is here, he should play at lost lake too sort of a zoots in the making here in denver.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 5 October 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

You mean Comet from Denton, TX? They had one amazing album, at least!

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 5 October 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

They did indeed! Produced by David Baker o' Mercury Rev no less, who for a second there looked like he would do a lot more than he did.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 October 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

standing four feet away from 6 foot amplifiers in the room the size of my living room might have colored my opinion.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 5 October 2003 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

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