something about that npr headline is v weird to me
mega congrats to the goat gentleman
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah big ups, aero! like seriously. can't wait to get my hands on this thing and hope I can move some stuff around to see you at Powell's on the first.
― my friend, Gater (Clay), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
I'm not exactly who John writes for, but he's still managed to get Denton stuck in my ear.
― benbbag, Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
best ever
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/101178844671/a-band-i-like-called-helcaraxe-sent-me-their-cover
this is fucking mighty.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
Solid cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hysbWNn9WqI
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 15 November 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
Hey, that's not bad! The bloopy keys remind me of the keyboard bloops on Autoclave.
― holla back for a dope nakh (how's life), Saturday, 15 November 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Yo
http://www.mergerecords.com/beat-the-champ
http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/108736975801/the-cream-of-the-crop
https://soundcloud.com/mergerecords/the-mountain-goats-the-legend-of-chavo-guerrero/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
!!!
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
yessss
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Niiiiice
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
what are some other words or characters we can post multiple tiiiiiimes???
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Today Al Madril denies that he was ever a wrestler.
― GM, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Just listened to that like 3 times in a row. Totally psyched.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
this is true & such a sad detail, he was such an great and chill local face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfZAQZy0Eg
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
wwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrreeeeeeessssssttttttttllllliiiiinnnnn'''''''
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Al Mandrill would be a sweet joke cover band
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
ok so who plays the lead guitar is what i want to know
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
hurrah!
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
descending like fire on the people who deserved it most/almost completely unknown outside texas and on the west coast
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
A cool piece
http://t.co/LPM61UyU5H
And even cooler? I suggest checking out this feed for the past few days:
https://twitter.com/ChavoClassic
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
2nd pre-order track, Heel Turn 2, is available now. I've got a really good feeling about this batch of songs.
― i'm just a nose hair (how's life), Monday, 2 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
That feeling is justified.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 March 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
P4k Interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9609-the-mountain-goats/
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Cool!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
If it's half as good as Transcendental Youth it'll be one of the best records of the year. He is at his peak right now.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 March 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
I should say "they" instead of he, because Jon Wurster's drumming is a huge part of their sound.
It really is that good.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Okay so "Chavo Guerrero" didn't really grab me, but "Heel Turn" is a whole different ballpark -- truly one for the ages.
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:49 (nine years ago) link
Streaming streaming streaming.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/29/395108044/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-beat-the-champ
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 March 2015 04:06 (nine years ago) link
Also, performing and discussing one of the new songs:
http://www.avclub.com/videoplaylist/john-darnielle-discusses-and-performs-stabbed-deat-217189
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 30 March 2015 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Ooof @ "Hair Match", <3 <3 so good
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Monday, 30 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
opening moments a bit randy newman :)
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 March 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
"foreign object" is pretty firmly stuck in my head already
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Monday, 30 March 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
The second half doesn't stick as well as the first, but I love"The Legend of Chavo Guerrero," "Foreign Object," and "Southwestern Territory.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
choked out! choked out!
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
I will check out the choke-out. Cool to see it's in a different setting than Wolf In White Van, which I'm currently captivated by (thinking about ordering Master of Reality).
― dow, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
i really like thisi definitely like MGs when there's a concept or theme to the record, or those tend to be my favs
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
(thinking about ordering Master of Reality)
absolutely order this immediately. can't recommend that book highly enough.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah i just started reading it last week and it's great --- esp poignant as i am currently working in a psychiatric hospital
― gbx, Thursday, 2 April 2015 11:33 (nine years ago) link
so uh, NYC, does City Winery have a standby line?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/speaakeasy/status/583710484165177344
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
I had to make myself listen to the npr stream a second time, but sure glad I did. Initially, it just seemed wayyy too refined and introspective, in a chamber-y way, for an album about wrasslers (long ago, I reviewed a collection of wrestlers' entrance themes etc., back when The Rock and Mankind were first hittin' it big, and the refinement was there, but had to go w deft, deadpan flourishes of grandiosity, re art metal and soundtracks, like John Carpenter's music). The opening track still seems a bit too much like early Randy Newman, maybe, and could also live without the coda to "Heel Turn 2," but otherwise---with the volume way up on non-audiophile headphones---really liked the rest (well the one about San Juan still seems a bit diffuse lyrically, but music no prob). That Wurster's a pretty good drummer, hey.
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Some of the piano flourishes are exquisite. What's the song w/the extended piano outro?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Heel Turn 2
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
"Heel Turn 2," isn't it? A little too exquisite here, for me.(Overselling; I get the nuances already.) Bout time for an MG tribute album, also occasional covers hither and yon. I like his voice, but wouldn't hurt to hear others. Red Hot Mountain Goats? Let's do it!
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
"Heel Turn 2" definitely the highlight for me so far, though I've lived with that song longer than most of the others on the album (it has floated around online for about a month or so). Agree that some of it sounds a bit too restrained on first pass, but its early yet. "Werewolf Gimmick," though, might be the closest that Darnielle has come so far to writing what could conceivably become an actual metal song.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
what a great album!
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 3 April 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
hit me hard on the first few passes; the big moments (chavo guerrero, heel turn, werewolf gimmick) had me giddy like college+healed but the opener+closer both rly got me too. (have been into mtn goats/randy newman correspondence since the "in germany before the war" cover on the extra lens album.) "exquisite but restrained" is what i thought of the last two albums, tho it may have been bad timing or inattention; anyway they really have been a gorgeous-sounding band on these last few and this one to me sounds exquisite+unrestrained.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 3 April 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
(not that like "estate sale sign" is restrained.)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 3 April 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link