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artbyblastweave · 20 hours
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Recently crossed over a threshold I refer to as the John Darnielle Event Horizon, where it’s like. Objectively there are a lot of mountain goats tracks that would be just totally forgettable to me if I heard them in a vacuum. But once you’ve been exposed to enough of the big ticket tracks you hit a point where, okay, now you’re basically ready to listen to this guy half-sing any set of words in any particular order and see how things shake out
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ohporcupine · 11 hours
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the best piece of advice i can give to any new mountain goats fan is that sometimes john will just get you. sometimes you will hear a lyric and the only appropriate response will be "come on now john. don't do that to me." and then you'll need a couple minutes to sit and think about it. this is a normal reaction and we all go through it many times i promise
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sorry jenny but my favorite character from a mountain goats album is the sun in full force galesburg
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mobydyke · 7 months
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the mountain goats make music for people who spent their entire lives convinced they would die before they were 17 except now they're 26 and they have a job and friends and hobbies and they're not sure what they're meant to do now that they've survived
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wormonastringtheory · 3 months
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its less than a week til you've made it through this year if it kills you, so turn on the song and prepare to leave some snacks for the mountain goats on new years eve
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myceliumgirl · 8 months
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the difference between the mountain goats and they might be giants is that you'll hear a tmg song that sounds like absolute nonsense and look up the lyrics and the annotations are like "oh actually this is a reference to the canterbury tales and also a metal band that existed for one month in 1996 and played three shows ever and all existing tapes of their debut album were melted down into glue 20 years ago" vs you'll hear a tmbg song that sounds like absolute nonsense and look up the lyrics and the annotations quote an interview with the johns where they're like "if you even think about interpreting this song we'll come to your house and kill you"
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freijan · 1 year
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mustardgreen · 3 months
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goingtothebes · 1 year
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fuck yes dragon tuesday
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che-bur-ashka · 4 months
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the mountain goats are great because everyone you talk to will say shit like "you really have to understand that their subtle lyricism & deep poetry spoke to me at a time when nothing else could, saving my life and ushering me into a new era of artistic creation" and then the best song on every album is always called "the opossum song" and it goes "opossum opossum opossum in the front yard / opossum opossum opossum in the back yard / opossum! in! my! house! drinking blood!"
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Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora
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who else up losing control of the language again
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carrionkid · 4 months
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Thank you Jon Wurster for posting this gem on your Instagram page
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