yeah this is a good one, i will definitely Purchase it
diaz brothers <-> paris 1919 comparison is pretty apt, and awesome
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
77. Goat Skull BlackMetal Mexico
78. Goat Slime BlackMetal United States
writing my phd thesis on lexical choices in black metal group names & their indications of national identity, this is a fascinating contrast
― unprotectable tweetz (schlump), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Goat Semen (a.k.a. Goatsemen)
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
goatse men
this is really great!white cedars is gorgeous
the diaz brothers is power pop!
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
also conspicuously absent from that list: chapel hill's own GOAT THROWER!!!
― beta male misogyny is here to stay (bernard snowy), Thursday, 4 October 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
wher is lubricated goat
― linalooool (electricsound), Thursday, 4 October 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
re: this album: didn't like it at first but now I love it. might help that I somehow ended up making lovefucking to it the other day? pretty sure I came during "The Diaz Brothers"
also: sitting at a red light just now on my way home from work, with windows down and screaming along (as is my wont), the line "Mistreat your altarboys long enough and this is what you get" earned a "woo!" from one of the cars next to me
― beta male misogyny is here to stay (bernard snowy), Thursday, 4 October 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
A review from a most unlikely source!
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-mountain-goats-disco-purgatorio/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Larison: Mountain Goats Album a "Stunning" Repudiation of Romney Campaign
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Eve Tushnet is a great cyberpunk trait-name.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Video for "Cry for Judas"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptnhUOG2GU
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
friend of mine said they killed it last night
― carne asada, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
I am dead excited to see them this weekend. I do a lot of tMG listening but every time I see them there'll be multiple requests for songs I've never heard of, or the name has escaped me, and I'll get the sensation that people are just making up song titles on the spot. "Play 'Queen of Cups'! 'The paw of Romulus'! 'Alpha Fright Night'! 'Orange ball of empathy'!"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
theme song from armageddon
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Okay everyone go see this tour, it's fucking incredible
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
this was one of my favorite mountain goats shows i've seen. the horns are a really great addition.
i was wildly impressed with matthew e white, also.
― kaygee, Friday, 19 October 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
paw of romulus is a jam
― zvookster, Friday, 19 October 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
well what the shit, i had no idea this tour was happening and they are here next wednesday, and i dont have anything to do that night so well holy shit awesome
― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Friday, 19 October 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/the-mountain-goats/20055796-3737475
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Friday, 19 October 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
show highlights for me:
1. Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace - this song flat-out slays me and the version they did was just beautiful; absolutely haunting, turning fragility into the most powerful musical weapon imaginable2. Space Gladiator 1 aka Amy - all of the new uptempo songs were unbelievably tight but this one in particular hummed top to bottom, from the initial stick beats that counted the band in, over the "tattoos/garish hues" bridge to the perfect abrupt ending3. the horns - OH MY GOD THE HORNS you just can't even imagine the shivers caused by "White Cedar" and "Cry For Judas"4. Due to confusion about when Matthew E. White was going on, we missed about half of that set, which sucks because what we heard was WAU AWESOME
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Space Gladiator"!!
― have you ever even *seen* a cliche?? (bernard snowy), Friday, 19 October 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol I have just now realized that is not actually the title of that song
I'm calling it that anyway
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
you'll hear no objection from me... mountain goats space gladiator concept album sounds amazeballs!
(speaking of which: should I bite the bullet and give Moon Colony Bloodbath a listen? for whatever reason, I've always avoided it, expecting it to be disappointing... but I have no idea what gave me that impression)
― have you ever even *seen* a cliche?? (bernard snowy), Friday, 19 October 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'd say definitely yes, that entire cluster of vinyl releases (w/ black pear tree and satanic messiah) was very strong imo.
― i've hidden a white teen on Crimedoer Mountain (reddening), Friday, 19 October 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
seriously though, Ezekial 7 may be my overall favorite MG song
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
my only prob w/that great record is that i have no idea what the titles of the songs are unless i have my ipod handy
― i dox in yellow gox dox socks (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
E7 = the last song, dreamy piano ballad "drive 'til the rain stops/keep driving"
"1 Samuel 15:23", the moody first track with the "peel grapes" line and the rumbling toms, is also bad ass
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
ah gotcha...haha i call that other song "peel grapes" in my head actually
― i dox in yellow gox dox socks (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 October 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
mountain goats space gladiator concept album sounds amazeballs!
― have you ever even *seen* a cliche?? (bernard snowy), Saturday, 20 October 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
also: "PLANT grapes" ffs you charlatans!
― have you ever even *seen* a cliche?? (bernard snowy), Saturday, 20 October 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.moldychum.com/storage/rpb.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1299550631318
― nice suit (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 20 October 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
Why oh why is this tour coming to Milwaukee and Minneapolis but not Madison?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
I honestly cannot type anything correctly today, I could have sworn I wrote "plant"
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
Seeing JD do Ezekiel 7 at the Royal Festival Hall show - his first with solo piano? - is something I'll hopefully never forget.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 20 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Was that the show with Anonymous 4? It was amazing, and to an extent the reason I've been having trouble getting into this album is that it's not that show (which I was warned of directly from the stage!)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Nope, this was back in...2009? The Life of the World to Come had just been released and then entire crowd knew every word from it. Such a special special gig.
Annonymous 4 w/Owen Pallet at the Barbican was also amazing - upthread I praised/thanked Owen for making the first gig my younger brother ever went to one to remember...at the time I did not know who [redacted] was, and as such did not extend my thank yous to him, an act of which I am now regretful for. So, [redacted], thank you for everything.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Wish I could go to show on Monday but Grand Rapids is a loooong drive.
― Sug ban (Nicole), Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
I'd posit that one's memory of the A4 show is strengthened by the temporality of that programme's existence. Not that it was bad (or even merely good, I was thrilled tbh) but these songs are strong in any context and the album versions do them all great justice.
― sharp-looking tux for rent (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
oh what I mean is that the fleeting nature of the A4 thing was a good aesthetic move, "One night only!" etc.
― sharp-looking tux for rent (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh for sure - I'm just mentioning the unexpected effect it had on me.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GbLFApNK0
boom
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
[mod edit] I just wanted to mention your new record slays, and moved me deeply. keep on etc
― Simon H., Thursday, 25 October 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
show tonight was the shit, horn section add-on is badass, people in future spots on the tour should just go buy those tickets right now.
― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Thursday, 25 October 2012 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8474/8126137405_50a1e9d131.jpg
Thanks for the autograph!
My buddy just mailed this to me from the New York show. Listening to it in traditional Wisconsin fashion, with local microbrews.
― Josiah Alan, Friday, 26 October 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
i've never seen john live. what i've read about some of his diehard fans makes me think i would feel kind of uncomfortable (i am easily made uncomfortable). maybe if i just stay in the back by the bar with my SO and don't make eye contact with anyone.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 27 October 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Mountain Goats are definitely the band I'm most irritated about still never having seen live.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
GO SEE THEM THEY ARE AWESOME AND AMAZING
also, due to the nature of the fans, you don't actually have to engage them at the show and you can be in your own bubble buffeted by awesome music
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'm excited to finally see them in December.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link