i love the mountain goats a lot
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:09 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/27/134056034/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-all-eternals-deck#playlist
All Eternals Deck streaming on NPR
― DJP, Monday, 28 February 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
my workday just got 1000x more bearable.
― sofatruck, Monday, 28 February 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i really need to start bringing headphones to work
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 February 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
atm I really adore "Estate Sale Sign"
― DJP, Monday, 28 February 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
so excited y'all
btw, i don't think i said this yet in this thread, but another thing i enjoyed about the letterman appearance is that it gave me a chance to stretch music-fan muscles which have long been atrophying — internet/mp3/album leak era etc etc — it was super-fun to tune in and be like "oh boy, something from the new album!!"
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
((I guess this is something ppl have flapped their gums abt quite a bit already w/r/t the last 2 radiohead albums — the return of the 'event': album-event, fandom-event, etc. Letterman seems as good a place as any for such events!))
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna listen to this today! & also want to say i am NOT anticipating the first negative review of the album that decides to make the obvious but super zzzzz-worthy pun: "All Eternals Dreck"
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
it sounds like you sorta are anticipating it tho
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
actually it no longer needs to be anticipated b/c i just preempted it outside the context of a negative review
do you see what i did there
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
((was gonna make another joke about the title but then I realized I had mixed up "decking" and "docking"))
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the olympics-do-hildegard-von-bingen number
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"sapphire trans amhigh beams in vaindrive wild broncosdown the plain"
^damn
― he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"high beams in rain" innit?
and yeah DJP, "estate sale sign" is the fuckin' jam (that part of me secretly hoped the whole album would sound like). the lyrics! the delivery! the drums! the strums! "EVERY MARTYR IN THIS JUNGLE / IS GONNA GET HIS WISH!!!"
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"Age of Kings" is fucking incredible, I am dying over the strings
― DJP, Monday, 28 February 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
whole record
so great
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 28 February 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
so there's pretty much no graceful way of revealing this, but I did the vocal arrangement on "High Hawk Season" and am singing the middle part along with two of my college buddies (which is why I have refrained from commenting on that particular song, which on its surface should be total "DJP comments on this immediately" catnip)
― DJP, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
!
― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Monday, 28 February 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
woah! rad!
― just sayin, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
If you play the part backwards you hear Dan invoking Satan by saying "HI DERE WAHT IS IT MAED"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
― DJP, Monday, February 28, 2011 5:12 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
:D
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 February 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yay DJP, and yay ILM :)
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
PS it is still early but I think I am going to enjoy this album a lot.
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
hey dan congrats! that is awesome! i was thinking it was kinda goth barbershop quartet in a way. great song.
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
omg you have no idea how happy I am right now
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats, dan! The anticipation is too much.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
would rescind this if it was not mad complimentary
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I was sleeping hardcore and missed that the first time around, ha
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
album cover is great
― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
his black album?
yeah <3 the typography.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i know jd doesn't like to answer work related ?s but i have always been curious as to what 4AD's policies are w/r/t album art, because every time a band that didn't start on 4AD -- like for example the goats, blonde redhead, or TV on the Radio -- sign to 4AD all of a sudden their album covers totally start to look like 4AD albums
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
wau @ dan
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- this one's on Merge, Matt!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 February 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's what i mean, this one looks sorta not-4AD in a way i can't quite describe...
maybe i'm nuts tho, but i feel like i can eyeball a 4AD record at 50 paces
― gr8080 sings the blues (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
DJP awesome workBright Mountain Choir Men's Division
― Odult Ariented Rock (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
high five DJP
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the raddest of collabs
― fuck wit my dinner with andre day (m bison), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"outer scorpion squadron" is really really beautiful
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it sounds like nothing else in the back catalog
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
this is awesome so far (4 tracks in)
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i was gonna wait to listen to the full album on release (still am, probably, because i like to hear things in hi-fi, not NPR webstream quality) but there's no way i couldn't listen to "high hawk season" and holy shit this is incredible
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is really nice on first listen. the production is bugging me a bit, i feel like it's a bit underarranged and empty on some tracks, but that's probably because i'm mentally comparing it to Heretic Pride which to me is definitely the best-sounding mountain goats album in terms of production and use of space.
but yeah the songs are good as always!
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like "spare" mountain goats—not so much the early lo-fi stuff, but like, get lonely + the life of blah blah... both totally great. excellent restrained arrangements, flat-out gorgeous production. i haven't listened to heretic pride too much (compared to the other 4ad albums) for some reason, need to pull it out again.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
omg 'for charles bronson' FEATURING BOARDS OF CANADA :D
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
haha 'this song is called 'for charles bronson'' made me lol at my desk today
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i am super excited about this (omg dan!) but i'm gonna wait until release day and buy it i think.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Loving this on first listen, kudos JD (and DP!)
― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
prowl great cain is pretty oustanding; i especially love the ending
― kaygee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't listen to the mountain goats but it was hilarious when john self-banned cause he had to finish writing this album. kind of makes me want to hear it. tho i guess an album written in between intermittent bursts of ilx would be even better
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link