The Mountain Goats

I will be along this evening too, though I'll be waiting for my girlfriend to get off a train from Glasgow - anyone interested in a pint before heading in?

Update: the whole 'train from Glasgow' didn't go so well, would anyone have use of two gratis tickets?

I'm hearing worrying reports that this was fucking awesome :)

It was! Me and the girlfriend had a really long two days before for work though so i had to deal with her being moany and tired for a band she doesn't really know, so that put a bit of a downer on the night. I was really happy to hear a cracking version of Get Lonely

Aw! My girl had been up to Glasgow for a job interview and then back down, and the trains were playing silly buggers, so she'd been 12 hours on the track by the time she got back in at 8:30 - we just had a curry and went home, we figured it was what Andrew Eldritch would have done.

These last two albums have not really worked for me, I gotta say. A couple good tracks on both, but Goths particularly is some strange ass elevator music

luv2ride the ass elevator

There's a new round of dates including TO in April - I'm curious but tix are a little steep for me. It'll come down to who's opening, I think.

Newest episode of the podcast has Craig Finn on it.

This seems to be finished up:

https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/i-only-listen-to-the-mountain-goats-all-hail-west-texas

Also, sounding Brad klaxons for these two tweets:

other bands: hey let's go see the sights in this cool city! me, in the bus, alone: pic.twitter.com/taYDi8nQNh

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) April 15, 2018

backstage corrupting the youth pic.twitter.com/JVNNLtHTyk

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) April 15, 2018

A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s67nIqv0XE

:D

v pumped to see them live for the first time in santa fe this sept

Haven't listened yet (at work).

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-the-mountain-goats-tribute-to-wrestler-sasha-banks-w521694

hah

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/08/29/the-lagniappe-sessions-mountain-goats/

oh man, "blood bank"!

i love that "blood bank" is a song that two of my favorite lyricists love (the other being stephan jenkins)

So I was thrilled when @mountain_goats mentioned a membership card but this??? This fucking masterpiece??? pic.twitter.com/8EQOuV6fYW

— mary (@marfybarpes) August 31, 2018

ok that's pretty good lol

How did I miss this cover from 2016?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVTp0A1pqE

Do we talk about the call-out post floating around?

*searches twitter* This does not, to me, rise to the level of a thing that bears talking about as like a news item.

That is because it is not a news item, but that does not necessarily mean it is not worth talking about (though obviously this thread may not be the most receptive).

My reaction is that I would have to hear from j0hn about it, which is a response that tends to raise my own eyebrows in most circumstances, but I am hopelessly compromised here, as I am both a fan and someone who sees him being a good friend to many of my friends.

That's fair. I struggled to parse the exact reason for the claimant having posted it at all but I could be missing something.

i think this explains it well enough

I read that dumb thing three times and can't figure out what the hell OP thinks tMG did that was worth posting about.

Me neither

His obsessive fans are really weird ime

it's stupid and not worth taking seriously

Solid thoughts. Might be worth reading Eric’s link, all the same.

tl;dr plz anyone

Like, being a Mountain Goats fan would not, to me, suggest that ‘really weird’ means ‘take less care’.

Tumblr user/tMG fan reports feeling manipulated/emotionally taken advantage of by j0hn D over twitter DM over a period of months, after having met and hung after a concert. Produces screenshots of conversations. xp

I was hoping that this thread was revived because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5-lBv_X_yA

But instead there's skulduggery. Boo.

That Sex Pistols cover fucking rules and so does Erik Rutan!

I am probably not going to give the most "woke" take on the JD deal but reading it made me pine for the times when the most interaction a musician and fan expected from one another was a blow job.

i gotta say you could've not posted that

If me being glib causes people to miss the point, I guess that's on me. The point I am making shouldn't be too controversial: The dynamics of celebrity and fans are a lot different than they were not very long ago. This shit didn't happen to Pamela Des Barres or Cynthia Plaster Caster.

Xp The Rod Stewart thing was a myth, dude

it was nice to hear tMG at the end of that skater documentary on Hulu. The name of which escapes me right now.

tumbler people are weirdos

I wish Tumblr call-outs were available to fixated fans in the 80s and 90s, maybe John Lennon and Selena would still be alive

my takeaway is NEVER BE NICE OR MEET ANYONE EVER

sorry if this is not supportive but finding that tumblr 'call out' post (which was easy) jsut makes me think the writer is crazy and frankly a bit scary. the worship shit is ... jesus dude, calm the fuck down.

just because someone is nice to you doesn't mean they are going to save you. WTF did you want?

I'd like to point out that several takes here (and elsewhere) are a lot more dismissive of the power dynamic involved than I ever was and I firmly expect everyone who decided that me saying "blow job" was insensitive to be even more outraged.

oh boy i thought you were so insensitive when you said "blow job"

fuck off

i've got thoughts about this that are more complicated than "wow that tumblr person sure is [x]" that i haven't entirely disentangled yet but if you're pining for even more boundariless years of fan/artist relationships then idk what to tell you, read the fucking weinstein thread

what a gross and stupid and unnecessary thing to say and then get fucking defensive about