The Mountain Goats

I actually like it quite a bit, but I have never heard any of the previous material. I was jarred a bit by what I actually heard, because my expectations were something very different after seeing the "4AD" on the cover. After I recovered, I decided I enjoy it quite a bit: John's voice takes a bit of getting used to, but I love the stories he's telling on this one, and the conflict. Even if the similes get a bit out of hand, some of them are still amazing. And I still contend that "No Children" is one of the best songs of the year. The whole album (Talahassee) is both disturbing and hilarious, all at the same time.

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song search:

"Going To Georgia"
"sept 19 triple x love! love!"
"prana ferox"

(Me, I love the three singles/rarities collections to bits.)

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(i hope i never have to hear that leonard cohen cover from the last extra glenns record ever again)
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john i love you and your crazy ass stories.

two releases last year that did it for me are Ghana and All Hail West Texas.

John, I hear you are playing Macrock this year in Virginia? Is that true?

As far as S/D, search the new one & the one before it, All Hail West Texas, & also the cassette "Yam, the King of Crops." Destroy with extreme prejudice the song where I say I never liked Morrissey, maliciously mispronouncing his name, because I have since come to my senses and am a Mozz booster of the first order

S: pretty much everything, but especially Hot Garden Stomp, Beautiful Rat Sunset, Taking The Dative and All Hail West TX (haven't heard Tallahassee yet)

D: nothing comes to mind

I heart John.

If you don't like any of that, it's pretty safe to say that they ain't your bag, etc., as that represents a wide array of styles.

And "Going to Marrakesh" and "Someone Else's Parking Lot in Sebastapol" from The Extra Glenns' MARTIAL ARTS WEEKEND.

Still digesting TALLAHASSEE. That Scrawl CD just finished playing, so I think I'll throw it in now.

John, come play in Portland sometime.

Search: yes

yay! where? also do a reminder HYPE thread the week before if possible...

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.

(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)

I will give another listen and see if I have the same reaction.

Thanks for being a good sport. Whew!

1. Cubs in Five
2. Family Happiness
3. The Fall of the Star High School Running Back
4. Going to Port Washington
5. Going to Alaska
6. Going to Marrakesh
7. Golden Boy
8. No Children
9. Billy the Kid’s Dream of the Magic Slippers
10. Itzcuintli-Totzli Days
11. Neon Orange Glimmer Song
12. Anti-Music Song
13. Sept. 19 Triple X Love! Love!
14. No, I Can’t
15. Orange Ball of Hate
16. Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?
17. Standard Bitter Love Song #4
18. Standard Bitter Love Song #8
19. Love Cuts the Strings
20. Seed Song
21. Water Song
22. The Window Song
23. Jam Eater Blues
24. Two Thousand Seasons
25. The Best Ever Death Metal Band from Denton
26. The Sign

...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.

http://www.bravenewwaves.ca/bnmedia/archive_i_mgoats.shtml

I have no further contribution to make to this thread.

Okay, I'm swearing off this thread before I "bring the negativity" to Darnielle LoveFest '03.

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.

Loved your cover of "I saw the Sign"

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.

That really would be the best thing that could ever happen to a Tortoise fan.

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.]

So there’s this new EP...

it's pretty good. also I'm finally getting time to dig into Goths which for some reason I just hadn't gotten around to spending lots of time with.

The stalker's transparent toxification of musician's relationship with fans, musician's relationship with wife, and further bids for attention from musician, make it unbearably clear to me what is actually going on.

Could I ask you to expand on this, fgti? I don’t see, for example, anything to do with his wife in the initial tumblr post.

I don’t think that topic was a good one for this website.

I like a lot of mountain goats songs btw.

Maybe not “a lot” compared to true fans. A bunch.

I found the way discussion got shut down in multiple threads pretty creepy, but I also recognize that nothing that happens on ILX actually matters

Agreed. In unrelated news, please visit my 'discussion of Simon H.'s off-board personal business' thread, where anything goes and we talk past the subject like he's not even here! Please don't censor me, bro.

I might be annoyed about it, but if I were a person of semi-prominence (I'm not) I'd like to think I'd accept that this sort of comes with the territory.

Honestly, if an unfamous poster was publicly called out, ilx would probably be way more willing to get the knives out (fairly or unfairly) than they were here. However, that is not a reason to have this discussions, which I don’t think was leading us to wisdom and was against the Socratic ideals of the board

there was the gawker drama a few years back, speaking of unfamous posters, but this is a bit different, in that this situation is not as cut-and-dried.

maybe poll the demand for an I Love Gossip board

we used to have that board but then it got turned into The Church? iirc?

Will incl. new song, sez here:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/john-darnielle-curates-molly-ringwald-michael-shannon-more-for-halloween-stories-event/ Will this be like The Moth? Mothing Goats? And/or horror lit?

New Album! In League With Dragons arrives Friday, April 26th on Merge Records.

(Album art by Elton D’Souza)

1. Done Bleeding
2. Younger
3. Passaic 1975
4. Clemency for the Wizard King
5. Possum by Night
6. In League with Dragons
7. Doc Gooden
8. Going Invisible 2
9. Waylon Jennings Live!
10. Cadaver Sniffing Dog
11. An Antidote for Strychnine
12. Sicilian Crest

http://www.mountain-goats.com/

strong move

The dungeon synth Mountain Goats album we've all been waiting for

I like the new song more than most of the last album. Kinda a synthesis, stylistically, of the last few albums.

whoa Gooden

also i lived in Passaic in 1990

Got my tickets already for September!

They're live on the DnD twitch channel now. https://www.twitch.tv/dnd

You know, I thought I needed a break after the last few records not really clicking with me but how am I not going to listen to a Ross Macdonald-influenced Mountain Goats record

This new track isn't quite grabbing me, though there's plenty to like about it--I figure it's a grower. I am already 100% on board for Dragon Noir, however.

just noticed who it's produced by

really like the new song & the callback

Oh wow. It's like some kind of ilx fantasy.

would you say it’s an early one?

Quite the contrary...

"this year" at the end of "minding the gap" couldn't have been a better choice; perfect capstone to a painfully beautiful movie

free NYC show at East River Park in August

https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/mountain-goats/?date=20190810

and also

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/714408952/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-in-league-with-dragons

is it just me or is there a weird edit at the very start of the first chord on sicilian crest?

Good catch, getting that correct rn

I guess it's not a big deal, I mean, Grouper had the same thing happen with "Clearing"

saw them live on Friday, tour opener in DC. it was great fun, though DC crowds never dance around quite as much as I would like.

matt douglas was simply incredible. what a wonderful musician!

i'm loving this...such an amazingly produced/recorded album...Passaic 1975 is going to be one of my fav MG tunes ever I think

<3 the engineer Matt Ross-Spang is just a genius dude. It has been interesting to read how people are talking about it being a "new direction" production-wise but in my mind I was just taking what I love about "Against Pollution" and trying to use it as a template for every song across the album-- this kind of tensile quality and space.

Wizard King feels so special to me and I can’t place why. I love it.

Hey they have a new backing singer.

10 years ago we did this song with Stephen on Comedy Central but it never aired. Tonight we did it again https://t.co/m8DwwRj6LH

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) July 17, 2019

Good catch, getting that correct rn

I guess it's not a big deal, I mean, Grouper had the same thing happen with "Clearing"

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, April 28, 2019 3:19 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh man i never saw this!

Listened to John on Song Exploder from a few weeks ago and I solidly would like to hear him discuss every song. Absolutely loved Colbert singing This Year also.

I solidly would like to hear him discuss every song.

There's a podcast where he does this with Joseph Fink.

Get High And Listen To The Cure

As a parent, been thinking about Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton this week and had to decide that the lessons of the lyrics no longer apply if Death Metal Band were switched out with Instagram Jackass Knockoff.

great song selections in "get high and listen to the cure," think i'm gonna get high and listen to the cure tonight

much love for the Dynamite Magazine font

think i'm gonna get high and listen to the cure tonight

you won't be sorry

New song:

https://www.stereogum.com/2077321/watch-john-darnielle-debut-new-mountain-goats-song-for-the-snakes/video/

is that available anywhere public?

sic: https://youtube-dl.org

No less than five(!) separate, individual ads for "Donald Glover Presents" popped up when I followed that link. Stereogum getting that Childish Gambino $$$.

But I do really dig this TMG tune.

afaik youtube-dl.org will not make a facebook video visible

Sorry I should’ve provided more steps

But I won’t

I tested them tho and they work

For The Snakes still not public, but two other new home songs are:

Exegetic Chains

Until Olympius Returns