The Mountain Goats

Mr. Mat0s did in fact post briefly on the Stranger/Seattle Weekly thread over the weekend.

j0hn has set a board at LPTJ, and some ilxers are posting there. I'm sure he's lurking tho'. Ditto everybody who has 'left'.

i wonder if we'll ever get to hear the "behind the music" story of rachel...

ITEM! Rachel was at the show last night and sang backup on "Going to Georgia!"

1995 all over again, visions of young people in the pomona arts colony, a blissful state, fair youth. Sweden is the greatest record.

it's almost hard to listen to for me, i wonder what would happen to me if i got divorced or my wife died. i wouldn't know what to do.

it is called "elijah"

Yeah, same here. I went back to it because any record with No Children on it can't be all bad, but I can't believe I didn't pay more attention the first time - the run from Game Shows Touch Our Lives (! ! Jesus, what a song! Fuck! Christ!) down to See America Right is fantastic, and Oceanographer's Choice is an amazing closer to the album.

Classic new old song: Counting Song for Bitter Children.

YSI & explanation in the tMG forum (scroll down, 4th last message on this page: http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,10338,page=4 )

I've been in a really big Mountain Goats phase lately. this week I resolved to stop smoking, drinking caffeine, and buying Mountain Goats albums. guess which one I relapsed on first?

but on the plus side, I've converted several people in the past week, including my mom, who "Could see how (she) would've been a huge fan of these guys when (she) was (my) age".

I find it nearly impossible to read Mt. Johnny's Marooned piece without imagining King Goat himself singing it; like something off of We Shall All be Healed, say.

They're like Bright Eyes, right?

In a perverse alternate universe, perhaps.

WHOAAAAAA my living room is a perverse alternate universe

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

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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.