The Mountain Goats | The Mess Inside
Ever just sit on the floor with your iPod while waiting for someone to call you and listen to the same Mountain Goats song* 16 times in a row and let it fuck your feel space right up and like it?
Yeah, me either.
(Source: Spotify)
The Mountain Goats | Going to Port Washington
Our internet is down, but I’m halfway hanging out the window to steal wifi from the McDonald’s across the street just to post this song.
You’re welcome.
(Source: Spotify)
oh and john darnielle introduced “up the wolves” by saying “this is a song about verb tenses” and talking about how when people say “you will live to fight another day” they mean “fight” in the intransitive sense, you will live to fight (something) another day, but the song is about using “fight” transitively instead, so “what will you fight? another day”
it was really lovely
I have wet dreams about the things that John Darnielle does with words.
(via tallahasseeturnsten)
phoebe reviews the mountain goats (via dickpicoftheartist)
Sometimes, when you’re yelling “I am a wild creature” at the top of your lungs, you need to hold someone’s hand and that’s ok.
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Pshhh, like I would forget. It’s my main reason for not succumbing to the sweet embrace of death this week.
No Children - Laura Stevenson
So I was a little skeptical about what level this Mountain Goats cover album was going to be at, and a little worried since Tallahassee is one of the few albums I love start to finish, but holy shit it blew my tits right off. Don’t tell John Darnielle, but I might even like a couple of them more than the originals.
I’m kind of miffed that Kimya Dawson covered Game Shows Touch Our Lives since that song is objectively the best and she is (subjectively) not, but you win some you lose some. A+ job otherwise.
The Mountain Goats | Going to Georgia
I keep my iPod on shuffle always, and the battery is gone about every other day from me constantly hitting next. But I have never once skipped this song, and I’ve noticed recently that I always feel this rush of quiet relief when it plays. Yes, yes this is what I was waiting for. Apparently, there isn’t a second of my life that I’m not waiting to hear this song.
The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
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I can’t get over how much I can’t get over mountain goats singing the mountain goats.
Nope, never going to be over it. Never.
:3
Can’t wait for the magnetic poetry kit of Game Shows Touch Our Lives OR Southwood Plantations Roads.
OR Idylls of the Kings.
