can we all at least agree that without getting into the validity of not of the gawker article that it reads like it was written by a child?
― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Monday, 16 March 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
it = the gawker article
How funny, I happen to be an 30yr old obsessed Mountain Goats fan and former Juggalo, the two are not that far apart
dan's lying about his age, now?
― da croupier, Monday, 16 March 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
the only similarity i see between mtn goats and insane clown posses is that they are both jesus lovers.
― ian, Monday, 16 March 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
also both claim to have eaten dead bodies
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Monday, 16 March 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
TS: The Sunset Tree Vs. The Riddle Box
― da croupier, Monday, 16 March 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
by virtue of being churchgoers, or something more sinister? xp
― ian, Monday, 16 March 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
What is a mountain goat?Lemme think for a second. (well? )Oh, he gets butt naked.And then he walks through the street winkin at freaks,Wit a two-liter stuck in his butt-cheeks!What is a mountain goat?He just dont care.He might try to put a weave in his nut hair.Cuz he could give a fuck less what a bitch thinks,He tell her that her butt stinks, and all that,What is a mountain goat?He drinks like a fish,And then he starts huggin people like a drunk bitch,Next thing hes pickin fights with his best friends,Then he starts with the huggin again, fuck,What is a mountain goat?A fuckin lunatic.Somebody with a rope tied to his dick,Then he jumps out a ten-story windowéééoh!(chorus:)What is a mountain goat?A mountain goat? if thats what it is, well fuck if I know.What is a mountain goat?I dont know, but Im down with the clown, and Im down for life, yo.(end chorus)(chorus)(vocal breakdown)What is a mountain goat?A dead body.Well he aint really dead, but he aint like anybodyThat youve ever met before.Hell eat monopoly and shit out connect four.What is a moun-What the fuck? connec-man, that shits wack.Dont worry bout my shit, just rap, mutha fucker.What is a mountain goat?He aint a bitch boy.Hell walk through to the hills and beat down a rich boy.Walks right in the house where ya havin supper,And dip his nuts in ya soupéébloop!What is a mountain goat?Well he aint a phoney.Hell walk up and bust a nut in your macaroni.And watch you sit there and finish up the last bit,Cuz youre a stupid-ass dumb fuckin idiot.What is a mountain goat?Hes a graduate.He graduated from......well,At least hes got a job, hes not a dumb putz,He works for himself scratchin his nuts, ha!What is a mountain goat?A hulkamaniac.He powerbombs mutha fuckas into thumbtacks. (bwa!)People like him till they find out hes unstable.He sabued ya mama through a coffee table. (oh my god!)(chorus)(vocal breakdown)(chorus)(chorus)(vocal breakdown)What is a mountain goat?
― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Monday, 16 March 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
both stab people
― She Is Beyond Food In Weevil (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 16 March 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty certain i just ensured that i will never be on the J0hn D christmas card list
― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Monday, 16 March 2009 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
what are you even talking about, you just bought yourself lifetime guest list
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
What is a mountain goat?He just dont care.
HELLO FALL 2009 TOUR SHIRT
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
J0hn, I posted a birthday song/lyric on your Facebook, do I get lifetime +1 guest list also?
― ilxor, Monday, 16 March 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
referring to the Mountain Goats on my facebook gets you barred from the door forever, actually
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
it's been a ban-ner week for our man ilxor
― moonship journey to 51 (k3vin k.), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Dang it.
― ilxor, Monday, 16 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Posted by: hanuman at March 3, 2009 2:41 PM
After reading this article, I had a brief, worrying flash of "Oh god, do I just enjoy the Mountain Goats because they're some weird cult that has sprung up to replace Phish?"
It also didn't help that I downloaded a live show from archive.org and there was some background audience chatter. You can hear a guy saying "Oh yeah, they played that last night in Philly" or something
I 've never been to one of their concerts, but if it turns out that j)hn has a bitchin' light show, I'm really going to have to stop listening to his music.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link
None of them feel compelled to do the things that actually famous musicians did in order to get famous, like create an appealing persona and deliver it to a fascinated reporter.
Like, oh, Amy Winehouse?
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4774/amyw.png
― meta pro lols (libcrypt), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
laura says the NYC show this past Friday night was amazingly acoustic and intimate.
― Surmounter, Monday, 30 March 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
No one commented on the use of "stannery" in that Voice response article?
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey J0hn you should book a show in MN on this tour.
― no one is ever ready for the STAKK ATTAKK (jjjusten), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
stannery o'connor
― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit how did I miss that epic MG/ICP interpolation
― BADGES DON'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO WALTZ OFF WITH A BABY (HI DERE), Monday, 30 March 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Hay no worries, jjjusten, I fixed that typo for you.
― ilxor, Monday, 30 March 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― toby, Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Having trouble remembering the song titles, of course, but the Ezekiel one is particularly remarkable.
― toby, Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
will be interesting to see how they translate to a live beatdown experience
― kevision questler (country matters), Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^^
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i love "genesis 3:23"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
v. excited for first Mountain Goats show in Madison since I don't know when
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
v excited for the Boston show as I've never been in the Wilbur Theatre before
― "So messy!" (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
excited to be beaten within an inch of my life at the cedar cultural center
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: your beatings bingo card will at last be full
― "So messy!" (HI DERE), Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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).
― toby, Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to the ATX show. Is this already out??
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
early October I think?
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
10.06.09.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― thomp, Thursday, 10 September 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 10 September 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This is awesome, btw. I had "1 Samuel 15:23" on repeat for like an hour last night
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 September 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to this. It's going to get me to read as least 12 passages from the Bible.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 September 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
This is his best album since The Sunset Tree.
― vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 September 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yahweh was his c0-writer.
― M.V., Friday, 18 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yet another mountain goats album that i can't find anything bad to say about
matthew 25:21 is really powerful
― extremely demanding on the hardware (ciderpress), Sunday, 27 September 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
the genesis one with just piano is killer
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link