The Mountain Goats

I thought it might be.

What a crap name, though. "Mounting Goats" would have been slightly better in a sub-Throwing Muses sort of way.

Honestly can't be bothered to check out a band with such a lame aesthetic as regards naming themselves. I suspect they only chose "Mountain Goats" because they didn't think of "Toilet Seats" or "Supermarket Trolleys" until it was far too late.

Only possible up-side is that in France they may be known as "Les Chamoises" which is waaaaaay better. If such monickered records exist, I suggest they begin importing them into the anglophone world asap.

ok waht

PhilK is a fake.

He's brothers with JeffK

http://i3.tinypic.com/63trk0o.gif

J'adore Les Chamoises

"Mounting Goats", tho...?

Reserved for tribute band.

obv.

"Mounting Goats" is a retarded name.

they were originally named The Goats but then they had to change it. They were located in Denver at the time so the Mountain thing is a reference to the time zone, sort of a joke on The London Suede.

I wonder if J0hn would be up for a beer this weekend, looks like he'll be around these parts.

That yell of "It's 2:20, smoke up!" at the end of the first album is a cryptic ref to the roots of the name change.

The tribute band should be The Musk Oxen.

The Denver Boots!!!!!!

There you go, that should have been it.

The clamped-down sound of the The Denver Boots. Stopping traffic in a town neat you.......

near

Mountain Goats playing in Milwaukee tonight. Why not Madison? We like you here.

I do wish he would return to Knoxville.

never once have mountain goats played here in oak bluffs. what's up with that?

people would turn out for a madison show. in the past two weeks we've hosted

-mono
-high on fire
-dianogah
-drive-by truckers
-architecture in helsinki
-melt banana
-devin the dude
and
-del tha funkee homosapien

why no badger show for you, j0hn D?

i like the mountain goats.

He played here two nights in a row once. It was great.

If you got the loot and a place with a dressing room, I'm sure he will rock you eventually. But the dressing room is key. Why he wasn't in Philly for like three years.

But...he played at the Tomato Head here (pizza restaurant)!

I guess that is just because Knoxville is awesome, though.

dear j0hn d, the high noon saloon has a dressing room and sells pizza. greater metro madison has the #1 rated brewery in america, too
http://www.capital-brewery.com/

CD-R I made for my young son a couple years ago:

1. Going To Georgia
2. The Mess Inside
3. Palmcorder Yajna
4. See America Right
5. Grendel's Mother
6. Going To Scotland
7. Sinaloon Milk Snake Song
8. No Children
9. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
10. Love Love Love
11. Your Belgian Things
12. Pale Green Things
13. Peacocks
14. Orange Ball Of Love
15. Orange Ball Of Hate
16. Alpha In Tauris
17. Song For Tura Satana
18. Heights
19. Color in Your Cheeks
20. Source Decay
21. Moon And Sand
22. Mole
23. Tallahassee
24. Million
25. Dilaudid
26. Cotton

He loves this mix, plays it a lot, ad even played some of it to his guitar teacher who had never heard of the MGs, so we be spreading the word, etc.

Seriously, though, bless Darnielle for both his music and his passionate musings on music.

"Hold on. Did this actually happen? Did someone just mention one of their favourite band's songs that they liked but couldn't find, and the artist actually remembered ALL the lyrics and chords and recorded a new version for everyone to hear? "

Something like that. Song from 94.

If you are a person who got to that YSI in time, would you mind re-YSIing it?

yep, here it is - m4a though, that was the format it was in originally:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8ltgvy

Bad news for Mr. D. : the album leaked :-(

That is bad. Is that the fault of the label?

I don't know how it happened

Great, great album - a little more produced than I expected, but typically great songwriting (probably even better than Get Lonely)

haha way to help j0hn out by keeping the leak a secret.

i am already selling chopped and screwed versions on the corner along with I Am Legend DVDs.

people are talking on the official site's forum too, but ok

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stan why do you want to bankrupt j0hn

Looking forward to (legally!) downloading Heretic Pride. I loved The Sunset Tree, especially Lion's Teeth. Such a powerful, sad song (e.g., "There's no good way to end this/Anyone can see/There's this great big you/And little old me."). eMusic just got a truckload of older MG discs, so I nabbed All Hail West Texas, which is v. good, too.

(I totally missed Get Lonely, tho.)

I don't know! Maybe I'm just evil :-(

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Agreed with Daniel about The Sunset Tree--one of my favorite albums of 2005! Get Lonely seemed a bit too stark (depressive?) for me at the time, though--so much so that I couldn't actually listen to it all that much. Can't wait to buy a copy of the new one! Go Johnny Go!!

It sounds really awesome, nice to hear some prominent drumming in the mix.

I will totally pimp this on my radio show.

as I said upthread, four or five years ago:

I try to avoid talking about my own stuff on ilX0r

but regarding the leak 'n' all: I don't think talking about a leak really does me or anybody any harm. Leaks are part of the life of a release now; they're expected and anticipated. (A lot of people like to tell each other that "the labels" [always plural, very mysterious conglomerate known as The Labels] leak whole albums on purpose for buzz, but none of the indie labels I know do that; could be true in other genres/strata, I don't know.)

however yes people who download & enjoy it but don't then follow through with a purchase = not "evil" (that's self-congratulatory), just kinda bein' dicks imo

j0hn you have pretty far ranging tastes, e.g. metal + most everything else; have you, or have you considered, making music in a different idiom? (not that there's anything wrong with your current one--just wondering.)

if you say no due to instrumental dexterity i will not believe you.

yeah it's crossed my mind, world enough and time you know. just doing what I'm already doing takes up most of my time. I don't have any desire to make metal though - people ask me that a lot, but I prefer to be a fan. once you leave the fan role and become a participant it changes your relationship to the genre you're working in, and forever as far as I know. I would rather remain a metalhead in the pit or at least at the bar and leave the shredding to the people who are really good at it.

I still have a load of stuff to catch up with from 2007 so I can wait (probably) til February to pick this up with real life £££ (or possibly $$$).

We Shall All Be Healed I have probably listened to more than anything else I have ever owned and Linda Blair Was Born Innocent is quite possibly my favouritest song ever; The Sunset Tree I also gave a good outing to but not perhaps as much as I should have; I left my copy of Get Lonely in the US and haven't gotten round to buying another (gave it an aewsoem review tho) but fully intend to along with all the other bits that are missing.

I'm incredibly annoyed at myself for missing the show in London earlier this month - any possibility of another one this year or maybe a festival appearance or two?

'Surrounded' is great btw.

A friend just asked which MG album to start with; I recommend ...Healed. It's my favorite, the first one I bought, thus very speical. Reminds me a bit of Joan Didion: an attempt to pin down a nameless dread that the narrator's seen but is still too spooked to delineate.

"an attempt to pin down a nameless dread that the narrator's seen but is still too spooked to delineate."

wow, john has seen my dad naked? i should get that one.