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The Mountain Goats - Soft Targets
“This is on a 7”, a split 7” with John Vanderslice, which is already sold out and I don’t have any copies to sell to you, so I’m sorry about that, alright… Anyway, it’s a love song, after a manner of speaking, it’s called… well, here’s the thing… in, you know, the US military has this way of coming up with nice ways of describing bad things, so, you have “hard targets,” that’s buildings, and military installations, and streets, right? And then you have “soft targets”…and that’s PEOPLE, right? This song is called soft targets…” —John Darnielle, 2003
The Mountain Goats (par clarissimee)
“ This song, like many good songs, takes place in Cambodia in 1979.
— JD, Fitzgeralds Houston, January 20, 2012, introducing “Prowl Great Cain”
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“This is what’s terrible, is like, I forget the first line of a song, and then I’ll do it, like, twice, and somebody’ll go, ‘Oh yeah, he did the thing where he forgets the first line.’ No, my friends. Would that I were doing the thing where I forget the first line. No, I’m doing the thing where he shot too much speed when he was a teenager. I’m doing the thing where he used to drink whole fifths of vodka as an impressive party trick. I’m doing the thing where I stay awake for three days at a time because it feels kind of awesome. Front row: can anybody up here give me the first line of Up The Wolves?”
- John Darnielle at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, May 16, 2008
“Eugene Sue” tMG song that was auctioned earlier this year to raise money for tsunami relief
well, this made my day better.
AV Club Holiday Undercover 2011- The Mountain Goats cover “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” [#]
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John Darnielle - Get Your Mom Some Pie for Hanukkah
I don’t know what this song is (the album field is tagged “Goblins: Ha Ha Hanukkah” and I don’t think it’s technically a Mountain Goats song), but it exists. And it’s Hanukkah. And even though neither I nor John Darnielle is Jewish, I guess if there was ever going to be a remotely appropriate time to post this, it’s probably now?
Powerful spiritual vibrations…with my Justin Bieber pillow at Macy’s Rancho Cucamonga
#endtimes#wrathofgod
