The Mountain Goats

record's great, the Capitol Hill Sonic Boom here in Seattle had like ten copies of the bonus cassette when I went by a little while ago.

picked this up, given it about three spins.

gotta say, i think it's solid, but not likely to be among my favorite TMG albums of the past decade or so. a few songs have really hit me hard ("estate sale sign," "beautiful gas mask," "high hawk season") then there are a few that are pleasantly straightforward in a good way ("damn these vampires") and a couple that for some reason, maybe the way the melodies are phrased, who knows?, that kinda grate on me in a bad way ("birth of serpents," "never quite free")

anyway -- those three songs mentioned above that are really hitting home i'd place on a TMG best-of -- i guess that's what counts at the end of the day, is that i've got at least three indispensable, A+++ tunes from this album

who knows... the rest may grow on me more, probably will in fact...

btw, even tho i'm not his favorite ilxor, would like to extend a big congrats to DJP for not only being ON this album (really cool in itself), but spearheading the arrangement behind one of its standout tracks. soooo great, good job dude

btw noticed when i referenced the track-listing on Amazon that it's on sale for $5, if any of you are inclined to purchase mp3s from Amz...

http://www.amazon.com/All-Eternals-Deck/dp/B004S85HRQ/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_a_1

dude, thanks

btw "Age of Kings" and "For Charles Bronson" will start to rule your world pretty soon

ive heard that this album is great other than some terrible arrangement some jerk did on it - can anyone verify this is true

yeah didn't dig the blenders' guest appearance but other than that it's solid

the only way to really get to the bottom of that is for you to buy 15 copies and listen to them simultaneously

oh snaaaaaaaaaap xpost

but seriously folx this is on vinyl right?

Yes, good job DJP, that song is great.

got yer vinyl right here

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8450030

gonna bow out of this thread now, that's enough tacky shilling for one day

thanks everybody!

new one sounds killer. i do a bad job at keeping up with the Goats (last one I heard was Get Lonely) but I am digging this!

I only really got into the Goats with Heretic Pride (I know, I know). I've followed closely ever since and gone back and fallen for The Sunset Tree and All Hail West Texas. Get Lonely, We Shall All Be Healed, and Tallahassee are all on my list to get soon.

Good idea!

I only really got into the Goats with Heretic Pride (I know, I know). I've followed closely ever since and gone back and fallen for The Sunset Tree and All Hail West Texas. Get Lonely, We Shall All Be Healed, and Tallahassee are all on my list to get soon.

yes, pls get all of the above. favorites are Tallahassee and Get Lonely

yeah before anything else, even the tape shit i had a while back, get lonely really grabbed my heart first

man I wanna get this but I want a physical copy, that I can hold, in my hands

Get Lonely is notorious difficult to get into though, and is really best approached from the vantage point of having broke up with someone and it hurts so bad that you want to die. Just saying - it's like when you're crying so long and hard and it's like these big heaving sobs and after a while you get a sore throat and swallowing your own spit becomes sort of a challenge. Have you cried like that recently? Because that's where you should be coming from for that record. Imo.

Or like, she enticed you to follow her to a new land, then left you as soon as you got there, and you're friendless and penniless in a strange place among people whose customs who don't know and you're searching wildly for someone or anything you can relate to. But you can't.

BOO: the videogame music gig I did yesterday ran super late by about an hour and I missed almost the entire show

YAY: I arrived in time for "No Children"

oooooh, what videogame?

Stuff from Final Fantasy VII, Civilization IV, Myst and Metal Gear Solid 3. It was pretty bad-ass! (The orchestra also did stuff from Super Mario Brothers and Chrono Chross)

wow, are you part of videogames live then?

Or like, she enticed you to follow her to a new land, then left you as soon as you got there, and you're friendless and penniless in a strange place among people whose customs who don't know and you're searching wildly for someone or anything you can relate to. But you can't.

Hands up, everyone who thought of LJ after reading this post. :-)

xp: it was with these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Game_Orchestra

cool; i am v impressed

This album is pretty ace. Wasn't a huge fan of their last album.

nyc show got rave review from my good pal jacquelyn.

[q=musicfanatic]This album is pretty ace. Wasn't a huge fan of their last album.[/q]

I second this.
apparently you will like it more if you give the life of the world in flux. i haven't tried.

well that didn't work.
i'm so embarrased.

Life of the World In Flux has Proverbs 6:27, which I like better than everything else on the actual album. He played it live at the Sixth & I Synogogue gig in DC (available on archive.org).

Also, the last one kinda made me want to write an album full of songs titled after SEC Forms that have special meaning to me:

1. "Form 4" - 4:07
2. "Form DEF 14A" - 3:13
3. "Form 10-K ex.21" - 3:10
4. "Form N-17f-2" - 3:03

etc. : )

am still picking through this new album, sounds really lovely but i feel a little distant from the lyrics. otoh i loved the last album immediately and emotionally; genesis 30:3 has this delicate touch of the sacred in it that messes me up every time i hear it, and i was really happy when it got some votes as a single in 2009's pazz and jop.

i'm looking forward to hearing the new stuff live; "liza forever minnelli" was devastating live on the last tour.

Yeah, he played Charles Bronson for us last year and it was great.

Went into HMV to see if they had it this week and no. Will see if I can be bothered to go on amazon later. Fuck record shops not having new records, bastids deserve to go out of business.

TS: some guy in a marcus allen jersey vs. some guy in an impala

I have an Impala. I think he was talking about me

ahaha

four song set + interview @ spin website

http://www.spin.com/articles/mountain-goats-unplug-spin

"unplug"

Several dates with Bright Eyes announced.

huh, cool

i haven't necessarily been in to much of the 2000s goats stuff but on first listen this is fatastic

it's also fantastic, but yes it's very fat

high hawk, sourdoire, scorpion squandron are reeeedic

fat with PORTENT

more like PORKTENT

actually that's probably in bad taste, given food preferences

i think it might be one of my favs.
a healthy refresher course for me.
john can still rock; it's official.

oficial