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Post by Tweet on Apr 3, 2020 20:55:46 GMT -6
A thread to discuss the mountain goats and maybe some other goats because that's more or less the ethos here is it not
Here are some mountain goats songs I like
John made me sign up for a text message alert for when the new cassette drops. Anyone else waiting patiently for this cassette to drop?
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Post by Tweet on Apr 3, 2020 21:01:06 GMT -6
 I wanna salute other goats here while I'm at it |
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Post by Tweet on Apr 3, 2020 21:36:52 GMT -6
In my playlist it went from "No Children" to "Never Quite Free" and that's ending a concert and therefore I will listen to more mountain goats songs tomorrow or somewhere else in the future
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Post by Xamnam on Apr 3, 2020 21:43:00 GMT -6
In my playlist it went from "No Children" to "Never Quite Free" and that's ending a concert and therefore I will listen to more mountain goats songs tomorrow or somewhere else in the future Hear me out, he should try ending shows with Liza Forever Minnelli . |
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Post by Tweet on Apr 3, 2020 21:50:30 GMT -6
I feel like I've definitely see him end at least a set if not the whole show with it
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Post by nanatod on Apr 4, 2020 7:07:39 GMT -6
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Apr 4, 2020 8:49:27 GMT -6
I've seen exactly one Mountain Goats show every year since 2015, and I'll be damned if this pandemic ends my streak. Also v. interested in this tape release.
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Post by zircona1 on Apr 4, 2020 12:14:26 GMT -6
I don't follow Darnielle with everything he releases, except for the full-lengths. I find the stories and the characters he sings about interesting. The first time I saw them (2010), I only knew 1 or 2 albums, but I remember liking just about every song they performed, and not wanting the show to end. (We also got 'Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton' in the 2nd encore.)
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Post by jazzpolice on Apr 6, 2020 14:41:27 GMT -6
I've listened to some random Mountain Goats songs and would like to dive in more but it seems overwhelming. Where's a good place to start?
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Post by Tweet on Apr 6, 2020 15:06:23 GMT -6
I've listened to some random Mountain Goats songs and would like to dive in more but it seems overwhelming. Where's a good place to start? For the lo-fi/original area All Hail West Texas is probably the best one on the spotify. For the hi-fi/modern era The Sunset Tree |
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Post by jazzpolice on Apr 6, 2020 15:07:23 GMT -6
I've listened to some random Mountain Goats songs and would like to dive in more but it seems overwhelming. Where's a good place to start? For the lo-fi/original area All Hail West Texas is probably the best one on the spotify. For the hi-fi/modern era The Sunset Tree Thanks, I'll try them both out. |
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Post by Tweet on Apr 6, 2020 15:37:24 GMT -6
Please report back
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Post by thebosma on Apr 6, 2020 15:38:45 GMT -6
I’m in the same boat as jazzpolice and am also trying this out. Will report back
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Post by airportman on Apr 7, 2020 10:11:10 GMT -6
A few years ago I got to make a vegetarian tasting menu for/record an Instagram Live video with John Darnielle and it was probably the highlight of my last job.
He's super nice and fuckin' loves watermelon.
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Post by Timbo on Apr 7, 2020 20:19:00 GMT -6
I love All Hail West Texas a lot largelybc of its rawness and minimalism. But nothing else I've listened to has grabbed my, especially the latest stuff.
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Post by Tweet on Apr 8, 2020 21:09:12 GMT -6
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Post by sleeping on Apr 9, 2020 6:48:28 GMT -6
Reminder that it's 2020 and my absolute all-time favorite Mountain Goats song has still never been on an album.
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Post by Tweet on Apr 10, 2020 9:14:23 GMT -6
He recorded it on the Panasonic and I got the physical cassette he sold it online via Bandcamp in 2 minutes
All hail. All hail. All hail.
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Post by Xamnam on Apr 10, 2020 9:20:24 GMT -6
Part of me wants to own it, but I know that I have zero actual use for a cassette, considering I don't have a cassette player, and other people would actually play it that way. Gonna toss him+the band a bunch of money on bandcamp though
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Post by Tweet on Apr 10, 2020 9:23:46 GMT -6
Part of me wants to own it, but I know that I have zero actual use for a cassette, considering I don't have a cassette player, and other people would actually play it that way. Gonna toss him+the band a bunch of money on bandcamp though Well it sold out in 2 minutes so you can't own it anyway! |
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Post by Tweet on Apr 10, 2020 9:24:42 GMT -6
The boombox and I knew we had to do something. Back in the early nineties, when I’d first met Peter Hughes, I wanted to make a tape to be on his label, Sonic Enemy. It was Christmas break and I was on a hot streak, so I decided to try to make a full tape over the course of the break. That tape became Transmissions to Horace, which consisted entirely of work done on a daily basis during that span. I haven’t tried anything like that in a while.
I WROTE A SONG EVERY DAY for the next ten days while reading A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, starting with “Aulon Raid” and working in exactly the style I used to work in: read until something jumps out at me; play guitar and ad-lib out loud until I get a phrase I like; write the lyrics, get the song together, record immediately. Those original lyrics, exactly as written on the cardstock I save from comic books I buy, with corrections and everything, will be randomly inserted into orders; each is one of a kind, an original first draft of the lyrics to the first all-boombox Mountain Goats album since All Hail West Texas. It seems unlikely that I will ever again offer original drafts of lyrics for sale or otherwise, but pandemics call for wild measures.
I dedicate this tape to everybody who’s waited a long time for the wheels to sound their joyous grind: may they grind us into a safe future where we gather once again in rooms to sing songs about pagan priests & hidden shelters, and where we see each other face to face.
Hail the Panasonic! Hail the inscrutable engines of chance! Hail Cybele!
—John Darnielle, Durham, NC, March 2020
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Post by Tweet on Apr 10, 2020 9:25:18 GMT -6
There's a "Going to" song on here too! What a time to be alive
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Post by Xamnam on Apr 10, 2020 9:25:55 GMT -6
Part of me wants to own it, but I know that I have zero actual use for a cassette, considering I don't have a cassette player, and other people would actually play it that way. Gonna toss him+the band a bunch of money on bandcamp though Well it sold out in 2 minutes so you can't own it anyway! I had the screen up the moment it was ready, but yeah. |
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Post by Tweet on Apr 10, 2020 9:43:12 GMT -6
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Post by Timbo on Apr 10, 2020 17:29:41 GMT -6
What's the consensus on this? Is it like All Hail West Texas like I've heard or is it more dragons and shit?
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Post by Xamnam on Apr 10, 2020 18:04:47 GMT -6
What's the consensus on this? Is it like All Hail West Texas like I've heard or is it more dragons and shit? I mean, it's more pagan than dragons, which really makes it more Zopilote Machine than anything else. Quite possibly the nerdiest sentence I have ever typed. (But yes more AHWT and earlier than Tallahassee and later) |
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Post by Xamnam on Apr 10, 2020 18:06:06 GMT -6
Also, it fucking rips. Even if it does have the goddamn AHWT casio.
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Post by Timbo on Apr 17, 2020 0:51:39 GMT -6
On spotify today!
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Post by Tweet on May 7, 2020 22:16:55 GMT -6
For the lo-fi/original area All Hail West Texas is probably the best one on the spotify. For the hi-fi/modern era The Sunset Tree Thanks, I'll try them both out. This mans not reported back yet |
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Post by jazzpolice on May 8, 2020 7:06:43 GMT -6
Oops, I was going to report back and then.....didn't. I liked both but preferred The Sunset Tree.
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