The Mountain Goats

wow!

so wait

preston bernstein notwithstanding, this is p.obviously not gonna be 'a death metal album', right?

Describing the album, Darnielle writes, "If you have ever watched say a 70s occult-scare movie where one of the scenes involves a few people visiting a storefront fortune teller, getting their cards read, and then trying to feel super-hopeful about their predicted outcome when what they're visibly actually feeling is dread, then you have a pretty decent idea of what the album is all about." He elaborates, "Other possible points of reference include 'Burnt Offerings,' 'Go Ask Alice,' and that one scene in 'The Warriors' where they're on the train and the sun's coming up and they're safe but you know the scars are permanent now."

that's not how death metal 'feels' to me but admittedly I'm not an aficionado

i got all geeked out thx to the burnt offerings ref because im a loser like that

ha me too and I'm wondering if he means alice sweet alice instead of go ask alice

Yea, John Darnielle twittered it wasn't going to have any death metal on it.

underrated tweets I have read

underrated morbid angel guitarists i have collaborated with

You all have a goal.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cast-The-Mountain-Goats-on-Law-and-Order-SVU/179404355425761

misread as "what can i say, i am high"

i support this.

Matt so did I the other day haha.

I listened to Zopilote Machine today at work.

so, on Letterman tonight

oh cool!

hope it is a black metal jam with paul shaffer

or batting practice w/ Hank Aaron

I love that I can record this from my phone

Well this is exciting!

hoping that franklin bruno will yell "SWAG" into the camera

Coming up shortly on the East Coast broadcast, yes?

yes, imminently after Hank Aaron.

Man, Dave has Rand Paul on tomorrow, imagine if the MGs had been on that one instead... fun green room.

For a second I'd forgotten that Congress was on break and was wondering what the hell Rand Paul was doing on Letterman instead of eating dead babies to bring down the budget or whatever the guy does.

Obv ned has not seen the smoking gun Rand Paul rider expose

coming on in 1 min......!

hoping he'll bust out "song for tura satana" or a darkthrone cover or something

Spent whole song thinking that song was awesome and coveting electric guitar dudes amazing rising sun strat!

Also uh bel biv devoe is on Jimmy Fallon wtf

^ haa, the rest of New Edition were touring here last month but cancelled. bbd must have seen a gap in the market!

I never expected to type these words but this bel biv devoe live performance is fucking great

never expected to read those words on a mountain goats thread

really enjoyed the new song! altho i was also pretty overwhelmed by the meta- ness of the moment ("let the camera / pull back" as I'm staring into the screen with laser focus; from california to iowa to letterman...)

yeah this new song was v nice

new song on letterman was really really great, jd spit some lyrical darts as per usual.

hooking up with wurster was one of the best things to happen to the goats musically.

my primary assoc w/ Wurster these days is 'a Tom Scharpling comedy partner'

for those who missed:

http://pitchfork.com/news/41677-watch-the-mountain-goats-hit-letterman

awesome!

these guys are playing this i think?, btw

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Forgot to DVR, thx for the link, Morbs! New song is aces. I've turned one of the dudes in my office onto MGs lately, he'll be glad to hear this.

There are 2 different commercials running on TV that I swear steal the chord progression from Sax Rohmer #2

these guys are playing this i think?, btw

Breaking news! The lineup for Saturday's Rally for Women's Health has been announced, and you won't want to miss this fantastic program full of women's health advocates!

i love the mountain goats a lot

i hope Kathleen Turner & Gloria Steinem sing a duet

acc to MoveOn there is also an NYC "solidarity with Wisconsin" rally on Saturday, I wonder who's playing that?

"really enjoyed the new song! altho i was also pretty overwhelmed by the meta- ness of the moment ("let the camera / pull back" as I'm staring into the screen with laser focus; from california to iowa to letterman...)"

this is genius. what a great song choice.

i love the mountain goats a lot

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http://www.npr.org/2011/02/27/134056034/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-all-eternals-deck#playlist

All Eternals Deck streaming on NPR

my workday just got 1000x more bearable.

i really need to start bringing headphones to work

atm I really adore "Estate Sale Sign"

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!!"

((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!))