The Mountain Goats

Agree that it's the best since Healed as well.. Liked "Estate Sale Sign" and "Birth of Serpents" best initially, but the celebrity trio of "For Charles Bronson", "Liza Forever Minnelli" and "The Autopsy Garland" (about Judy) have come to feel like the heart of the album to me.

my wife likes this dude too, incl. the new album, she says he's gotten better as he sounds "less like an actual mountain goat" (i guess as his singing gets less intense/bleaty as on the pre-4AD stuff)

the vocals on "liza" and "age of kings" seem like a step forward.. quite nuanced

I never really loved what I heard from the Mountain Goats but my wife and I just finished watching season 3 of Moral Oral and MG songs are used perfectly to soundtrack that last season. Really brilliant in that context and gave me some appreciation for the music that I didn't have beforehand. I think the songs from that season are "No Children," "Old College Try," and "Love Love Love."

oh GOD the episode that uses "No Children" is one of the most devastating things I've ever seen on television

That show was really cut down unfairly in its prime. Apparently the 3rd season was supposed to be a full order but bc of some of the episodes (partic the one with the three women, the nurse talking to the bears, the teacher with the abortion and miss censordoll) were too "raw" (i guess?) it was cancelled. it doesn't look like Dino was ready to stop at all.

nice cover of "Boxcar" by Jawbreaker is now on the Onion AV Club

oh rad!

i miss moral orel too. how did you watch season 2 and 3 mordy? i bought season 1, but 2 and 3 aren't available.

JD answers your questions

I hope this works. I've never done this before.

^ reddit thing is really cool

someone there linked this MTV interview and holy shit, worst ive ever read? a contender, for sure

http://read.mtvhive.com/2011/05/25/interview-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle

obviously that's on the interviewer—not JD

Eric Spitznagl

lol

yeesh

That interviewer is awful, but JD certainy handled it well with his signature class and dignity.

*sings beyonce*

"Oh you don't like pop music? How about if I sing it at you???"

wow shit got really weird after that

super weird!

spitzNAGL if i may

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oh! misread that. XD

*sings beyonce*

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, June 9, 2011 6:46 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i love the idea of the writer grinning to himself as he's transcribing this portion of the interview

holy hell this interview

oh my god this interview

WTF THIS INTERVIEW

everytime I thought "oh this is the part where it gets weird" it got WEIRDER

Jesus, I assumed this guy was an MTV intern or something, not a contributing editor at The Believer.

that interview erased my brain and i can't think of what a good one is like

he has to be trollin', theres no way

In his defense: more reporters should quote Beyonce in interviews.

Actually, some of these Vanity Fair interviews he's done are pretty entertaining.

ok lol singing at interviewees is actually a thing he does

seeing his interviewing style play out there helps frame the JD one a bit better...but still

lol lol

What do you say when you’re roughing up a perp? “On the floor, dirtbag!” “Book 'em, Danno!” That kind of thing.

Shaq: Well, uh. [Long pause.] My job is to be a little girl.

Come again?

Shaq: I play a little girl on the Internet. So whatever name I’m going by, that will probably be my catchphrase. If I’m Tanya, then it’ll be something like, “Tanya says hello.” And they’ll be like, “Tanya who?” And I’ll say, “You don’t know no Tanya, huh? I’m Tanya. Let’s go.” And that’s when the cuffs get slapped on you.

SHAQ I LOVE YOU

generally not a fan when the interviewers think we give a shit about them

seeing his interviewing style play out there helps frame the JD one a bit better...but still

Yeah, the fact that he doesn't seem to care about coming across as a dick is what makes some of his interviews funny, but with the JD interview that kind of jokes-bruv cheekiness is weirdly and uncomfortably mingled with the ingratiating tone of an awkward teenager meeting his idol.

I think this guy should be hunted down and attacked by a pack of rabid woodchucks.

Or forced to live with Kid Rock, which is probably worse.

or mauled by a murder of rabid eddychucks.

seeing his interviewing style play out there helps frame the JD one a bit better...but still

Yeah, the fact that he doesn't seem to care about coming across as a dick is what makes some of his interviews funny, but with the JD interview that kind of jokes-bruv cheekiness is weirdly and uncomfortably mingled with the ingratiating tone of an awkward teenager meeting his idol.

― jaymc, Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:51 (11 minutes ago)

main prob isn't even the jokes, it's that his myopia is pushed to the forefront in this interview

"i bootlegg your music all the time, i even grabbed that leak of all eternals deck! is that alright with you?"

Just read some of his Vanity Fair stuff, and the Darnielle interview didn't get any better as a result.

Interview read OK to me. Good responses from J0hn. i.e.

The thing is, I have empathy for every character I sing through. But that song, “No Children,” is kind of funny and I’m not laughing with those people, I’m laughing at them. It’s funny to watch people who are that messed up. It’s maybe not the most admirable trait in a human being to be amused by that, and I think that’s why I try to have some empathy for them. But the funny parts of that song? That’s not me saying, “Hey, isn’t it hilarious how people treat each other bad?” It’s me saying, “You guys are wasting your single opportunity to occupy this human body."

hysterical interview; was kinda hoping it was incognito whiney

lol

i mean...

On a scale of one to ten, ten being you want to punch me hard in the throat right now …

On a scale of one to 51, 51 being you want to sb me right now ...