yay! where? also do a reminder HYPE thread the week before if possible...
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
there's a whole lot of similes that connect romance to terrorism-kinda stuff but I don't recall any account of actual incidents that would explain why the relationship is LIKE terrorism. I'd kinda like to hear "you shot my cat, you bastard" next to "oh, you are like someone making a bomb" cuz it can kinda sound like zeitgeist exploitation. but the uptempo drummer on that one track was great idea! And I really usually listen to an album at least twice before talkin' about it, but it seems an opportune to bring it up (and it would look weird if everybody was ravin' wildly).
jesus, I gotta go die now. sorry. this wasn't easy for me, folks, so go easy on the flamebacks.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
(i.e. don't be sorry for heaven's sake we're all friends here)
In re: "a lot of terrorism similes" I must defend myself howevah: that's just one song as far as I know. And now I should stop reading this thread as it is in poor form indeed to participate in a discussion of one's own writing/music/whatevah
(quickly answering questions before scramming: I really want to go back to Dublin but there just won't be time which makes me really sad because I love Dublin a whole lot, no plans for any pre-Zopilote Machine reissues, hoping to come to Portland sometime this year, and the L.A. show is opening for Tortoise which is funny for a whole lotta reasons)
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
I will give another listen and see if I have the same reaction.
Thanks for being a good sport. Whew!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. Cubs in Five2. Family Happiness3. The Fall of the Star High School Running Back4. Going to Port Washington5. Going to Alaska6. Going to Marrakesh7. Golden Boy8. No Children9. Billy the Kid’s Dream of the Magic Slippers10. Itzcuintli-Totzli Days11. Neon Orange Glimmer Song12. Anti-Music Song13. Sept. 19 Triple X Love! Love!14. No, I Can’t15. Orange Ball of Hate16. Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?17. Standard Bitter Love Song #418. Standard Bitter Love Song #819. Love Cuts the Strings20. Seed Song21. Water Song22. The Window Song23. Jam Eater Blues24. Two Thousand Seasons25. The Best Ever Death Metal Band from Denton26. The Sign
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 17 January 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
...and maybe yes. Though keep in mind my extremely non-canonical vision of Mr. Dylan. ;-)
the L.A. show is opening for Tortoise which is funny for a whole lotta reasons
Yes it is. The funniest of which will be me spraying the crowd with whipped cream and silly string before Tor-Twah take the stage to forcibly loosen them up and make them laugh. Then I'll do the same to the band.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.bravenewwaves.ca/bnmedia/archive_i_mgoats.shtml
― just this guy you know, Friday, 17 January 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have no further contribution to make to this thread.
― hstencil, Friday, 17 January 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JS Williams (js williams), Friday, 17 January 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Okay, I'm swearing off this thread before I "bring the negativity" to Darnielle LoveFest '03.
― hstencil, Friday, 17 January 2003 04:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Live it's a lot of fun (even when kicked off stage & forced to play on the pavement outside the venue). Can't wait till the forthcoming UK gigs & SxSW show, 'cos it's been a long time.
Enough already.
― Wondering Boy Poet, Friday, 17 January 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Loved your cover of "I saw the Sign"
― David Allen, Friday, 17 January 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
horace, mostly similar, but the newest album "tallahassee" has a much more polished full band and studio production, and there are surely songs on there that you could play on the radio. john peel gets away with it, anyway, but that may not seem any guarantee of radio-friendly production. (i wasn't sure i liked it as much as the other albums i have at first but it's really grown on me.)
i say YES to "cubs in five" and "best ever death metal band out of denton" and i note that "anti-music song" is on that best-of cdr and that i kind of like it myself and never thought it implied any real dislike of morrissey, whom i quite like, on john's part. i only have a few of the albums and i can't really pick a favourite out of them, they're all good.
― , Friday, 17 January 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
That really would be the best thing that could ever happen to a Tortoise fan.
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
I HAVE A VISION. I thank the Holy Prophet Dan for showing the way and Nicole for the encouragement.
[Likely enough I will simply do the honorable thing and leave after the Goats take their bow, thus beating the traffic -- assuming whoever I'm with wants to leave as well.]
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 January 2003 04:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 18 January 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Saturday, 18 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 January 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 20 January 2003 08:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― liz p. (lizjoydiv), Monday, 20 January 2003 08:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
God, I hope not.
― mike a (mike a), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
3) Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (4AD)
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
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
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
― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 2 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 3 February 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 3 February 2003 08:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
IS THIS SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE WHOLE CLASS, MR. NORDIC?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 May 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 10 May 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
(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
Hi folks I interviewed @mountain_goats for @NewYorker https://t.co/p57BcrlZ3x— Helen Rosner (@hels) April 24, 2022
― dow, Sunday, 24 April 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
Keep pondering JD's comments in that interview on being in one's fifties. Also, my partner took that portrait!
― bendy, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Excellent interview.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
I’m over fifty. Being over fifty is miraculous. You get just a broader view on your previous iterations of yourself, and they all look like miserable failures. But I’m told that the next errand is to have pity on them. I don’t know about that. People think you should forgive them. I don’t expect to get there, but you at least get some perspective on your motivations. I think young people do practically everything out of fear, whether it’s fear of missing out, or fear of not becoming what you want to become, or fear of not getting away from what you want to get away from. If you keep working spiritually, you think, “Oh, wait, if I work and I’m able to provide for myself, what do I truly have to be afraid of?” Not so much. And, well, then you can approach something like freedom, I guess.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
(I'm not 50 just yet but this sounds like hope.)
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
It's accurate.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
New song!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lttMHEdpZM
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 2 June 2022 06:45 (two years ago) link
That packs a wallop! Crossposted to the thread of cheesy eighties training montages.
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:51 (two years ago) link
New song, hell, new album:https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/bleed-out
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:40 (two years ago) link
Extremely hype for this, what a fantastic cover as well
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 2 June 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Super excited for this, and I have to say I love this little mysterious breadcrumb in the bandcamp credits:
Final punchline for “Bleed Out” graciously supplied by Peter Hughes in late-night writing session
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 June 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
Clearly this T-shirt is a necessity
This @mountain_goats t-shirt in Italian? Instant pre-order. https://t.co/1e5CkaptLj pic.twitter.com/aQvxrcAzmL— Fondano 🤌 (@twinfountain) June 2, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 June 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
It's gonna get so dark for you, I'm gonna leave a mark on you.
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
This new one is so so so good.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
Loud too!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
Good and loud indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
keep misreading this every single time
Hurricane #Danielle Advisory 25: Resilient Danielle Strengthens a Little While Accelerating Toward the Northeast. Massive High Seas Area Extends Nearly 350 Miles From Danielle'S Eye. https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 7, 2022
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 08:59 (one year ago) link
Sonically at least, the new album could have been called Hurricane Darnielle.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link
New album soon!
https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-from-thebes
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:46 (eleven months ago) link
rocked out to west texas tonight for the first time in years
"and the deathless love we swore to protect with our bodies is stumbling across it's bleak ending"
darnielle is probably the greatest ever at cramming syllables into a line without ever making them sound crammed in
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 13 October 2023 04:08 (eight months ago) link
Omg @ Fresh Tattoo
― imago, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:23 (seven months ago) link
Bless you Hard Times https://www.instagram.com/p/CzTcZ05sioL/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― lethbridge-pfunkboy (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 November 2023 05:04 (six months ago) link
Mountain Goats, New P's , and Margaret Glaspy in August at big venue Wolf Trap , near DC. Wow .
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link