February 2010
28 posts
January 2010
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“One day I had a poem and I thought it was good. I had a guitar, and I knew about...”
– John Darnielle in an interview with JamBase
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“My walk’s real steady and my eyes are real cold, but I feel like I’m...”
– The Mountain Goats, “Jeff Davis County Blues”
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“this is a love song, and if you know the words, you may not need to sing them...”
– john darnielle re: no children (via annietron)
Finding the Found
thebigopus:
Since I left my “hippie-kid” persona behind for the more rewarding “indie-snob” moniker my focus as a music fan has tended to be on discovering the next big thing. This is both a defense mechanism in case something I like becomes wildly popular and mainstream and a way for me to feel like I’ve got some special insight that separates me from the average music consumer. This is a...
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the mountain goats, "ending the alphabet"
We’ve got the brightest skylight like a vision of heaven on the evening sky and a clock tower two blocks from the spot where I’m standing tonight. The avenues are throbbing with people and the late sunlight makes them all look like angels and the transformation is seamless. They are unbearably bright. I can almost hear their voices as I walk past them all toward the water. What is...
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“For several hours we lay there last ones of our kind / Harder days coming maybe...”
– John Darnielle (via blueruin)
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“you start thinking, everything should be like this all the time, anything that’s...”
– John Darnielle (via liars)
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WatchThe Mountain Goats, Genesis 3:23 (live on Jimmy Fallon)
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The Mountain Goats shows →
The Mountain Goats will be playing two shows in Florida in March and will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night!
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WatchThe Mountain Goats, Love Love Love (live at the Cemetery Gates)
Romans 10:9 and Deuteronomy 2:10 are also at the source.
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And what will I do with you? Pink and blue. True...
(via whaleswillswim)
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WatchThe Mountain Goats, Psalms 40:2 (live at Cemetery Gates)
Mountain Goats rockin’ in a church pt 1! - Jon Wurster
(submitted by strawbrryf)
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The Mountain Goats - Two-Headed Boy
I was...
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“When you punish a person for dreaming his dreams, don’t expect him to thank or...”
– The Mountain Goats, “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” (via stacymichelle)
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The Mountain Goats, Golden Boy
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“The thing is, about this song - when, I mean, I’m still a young man and...”
– John Darnielle introducing Going to Georgia at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
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NPR's Tiny Desk Concert: The Mountain Goats →
“In person, Darnielle’s twitchy, nervous energy serves his fearless songwriting well: He exudes gentility and good humor in conversation, but his performances are utterly committed, with intensity that infuses his screams and whispers alike. In this solo Tiny Desk Concert, his four songs fit nearly into distinct categories: new and quiet (“Hebrews 11:40”), new and loud...
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Top 5 Mountain Goats Love Songs by Peter and Rob
5. “Going to Queens” (from the album Sweden)
John Darnielle is just plain, damn-good at writing all the possible kinds of love songs. One of his real strengths is the “new love” love song, and for me, this song is the perfect example of that. This song captures that moment when everything speeds up and you realize, goddamn, I really do love this person. And it’s...