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just a concept I wanted to get down. always remember there are treatments for this stuff and you can change

#mental health

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TMG song asks: up the wolves, steal smoked fish, ultimate jedi who wastes all the other jedi and eats their bones, and heretic pride <3

Up The Wolves – this was one of the songs i listened to a lot when i first got into TMG during (guess what) a time when i was Going Through It. Different parts of the song have all slammed me with the steel chair depending on the context, but the lines that hit these days are

There's gonna come a day when you feel better You'll rise up free and easy on that day And float from branch to branch Lighter than the air

it feels adjacent to "this too shall pass" in a holding out for ease kind of way

Steal Smoked Fish - i see you friendo with this specific song ask because we've talked about it with respect to grief and working in health professions. the lyric that's just seared into my brain is

I see your destinies above you Like angels who don't love you

The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones – i've only heard this one a handful of times because it's not on the platform i use to make playlists but the absurdism gets me every time. In particular, this line –

Specifically just their bones, all the soft parts you can keep It’s the bones that have the calcium, so he says

Heretic Pride – this one gives me great big trans feelings and while it'd be easy to pick "i feel so proud to be alive," this line packs so much into it

Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last And I will burn hotter than the sun

send me a Mountain Goats song title and I'll tell you my favorite line(s)

#thanks for the ask <3 #the mountain goats #answered

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Eclipse, ink and gelly rolls on 27x36cm paper.

#waow space

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I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."

It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"

It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.

#thoughts

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Medieval Dance by Andrey Vinogradov

#music

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#voice acting problems #voice

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having Thoughts. instead of brain there is jenny from thebes

#brb chewing glass abt this #the mountain goats #tagged for me

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our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome, but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

#this hits every time #oughhhh #the mountain goats #boy (2010) #tagged for me

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mountain goats ask game 🐐🗻

you send me a song and I listen to it and tell you my fav line(s)

#ooh please send me songs! #the mountain goats #ask

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Video Angel

painted mixed media sculpture - 7½"x 6¼"x 2½" - 1978

#angels

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he is so divorced-dad-core

#i dont go here but this is incredible #fish

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tell me that i'm wrong

#taika waititi #love a good data visualization

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#fish

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04-10-2024 at Turner Hall, Milwaukee WI, taped by roffels

With this latest tour having just wrapped up, and this song both a) having its live debut and then being played every single night and b) absolutely rocking beyond belief every single time, Only Takes A Few was the only song I could possibly choose for this week's Live Tapes Tuesday! I had never heard this one before this tour-- it was written by Jonathan Larson and tMG were invited to record it for the show Tick Tick Boom-- and I have to say the studio version pales in comparison to any live version of it for me. This recording is my favorite, and this whole show is killer, especially the encore of Blood Capsules/See America Right/Up the Wolves/Heretic Pride.

What's the Live Music Archive?

#:eyesshaking: #the mountain goats #music

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Hey! I wanna talk for a sec about the Live Music Archive. If you're a tMG fan who's on here you probably already at least know about it, but for anyone unfamiliar I want to do a quick post talking about what it is and how you can listen!

The Live Music Archive is a collection hosted by the Internet Archive for audio recordings of concerts. Specifically, the LMA hosts, with permission from the band, user-contributed recordings of concerts. Some fans will go to concerts with recording gear to take a full audio recording of the show and then upload it to the archive under the band's collection. As of writing this post there are almost 450 live tapes uploaded to the tMG LMA collection!

There's a few ways that you can listen to recordings on the Live Music Archive. The webpage works pretty well both on desktop and mobile browsers, and that's what I typically use. You can also listen on web without having to make an account on the Internet Archive, which is convenient for browsing. I also use the webpage to download mp3s of favorite tapes to my phone, so that I can listen to them in my local music player.

However, if you don't mind making a free account and prefer the convenience of something more like Spotify, you can also listen to anything on the LMA via the Taper's Section app for Android or the Live Music Archive app for iOS! (Obligatory disclaimer that I use an Android and can't personally vouch for the iOS app, but afaik they have similar features.) The apps have the same functionality as the webpage in a more streamlined mobile-friendly interface, plus things like notifications when there's a new tape added to a collection you follow and downloading in-app for offline listening. The Android app also has a tab for tapes from today's date, there's often at least one (there are FOUR for today!) and that's a really fun way to find tapes to listen to.

If you're looking at this going, wow, that sounds really cool but there's so many tapes that it's a little overwhelming to get into this, don't worry! I'll leave you with a couple recommendations. As mentioned above, I like to listen to shows from the current date. Another fun way to find shows is looking for a specific song - you can go on the wiki and it'll list every show at which the song has been played live, and then just search until you find one of them that has a tape on the archive. Lastly, a few specific favorite tapes of mine:

- 2014-06-15 has the entirety of Taboo VI: The Homecoming played live + one of my absolute favorite performances of both Woke Up New and The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton.

- 2015-06-01 is the only time Straight Six has ever been played live and it's interestingly pretty different from the EP version, plus a phenomenal back to back Spent Gladiator 1 & 2.

- 2021-08-06 was the first show after the band started playing concerts again post 2020, and it has a really incredible energy and a phenomenal setlist.

- 2024-03-01 is from the recent run of solo shows, this one was at Grace Cathedral and the ambience is truly truly incredible, it feels so ethereal.

Please feel free to add any additional notes or some of your own favorite tapes to the post as well! Happy listening!!

#music #the mountain goats

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Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you

#the flesh

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Taika Waititi as Edward Teach | Blackbeard in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

#ofmd