― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― _Bad_Command_or_File_Name_ (bcofn1), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― dggdhfgd, Monday, 24 April 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link
it is called "elijah"
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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 )
― StanM, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― JN$OT, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
They're like Bright Eyes, right?
― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
In a perverse alternate universe, perhaps.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
WHOAAAAAA my living room is a perverse alternate universe
― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought it might be.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ok waht
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
PhilK is a fake.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
He's brothers with JeffK
http://i3.tinypic.com/63trk0o.gif
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
J'adore Les Chamoises
― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
"Mounting Goats", tho...?
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Reserved for tribute band.
obv.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"Mounting Goats" is a retarded name.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if J0hn would be up for a beer this weekend, looks like he'll be around these parts.
― mh, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The tribute band should be The Musk Oxen.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The Denver Boots!!!!!!
There you go, that should have been it.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The clamped-down sound of the The Denver Boots. Stopping traffic in a town neat you.......
― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
near
Mountain Goats playing in Milwaukee tonight. Why not Madison? We like you here.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I do wish he would return to Knoxville.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
never once have mountain goats played here in oak bluffs. what's up with that?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― kamerad, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i like the mountain goats.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
He played here two nights in a row once. It was great.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
But...he played at the Tomato Head here (pizza restaurant)!
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess that is just because Knoxville is awesome, though.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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/
― kamerad, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Lostandfound, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― MRZBW, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
If you are a person who got to that YSI in time, would you mind re-YSIing it?
― Madchen, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
yep, here it is - m4a though, that was the format it was in originally:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8ltgvy
― StanM, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Bad news for Mr. D. : the album leaked :-(
― StanM, Saturday, 29 December 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
That is bad. Is that the fault of the label?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 29 December 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know how it happened
― StanM, Saturday, 29 December 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link