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[mjshortformcjesus]

holy shit have you evver tried this new substance called album in order

[bookdragon1202]

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[themountaingoatsatthelouvre]

probably die on their knees

Nymphe à la coquille (125-150 AD)/Tidal Wave (2020)

[jennyfromthebes]

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[iwrotemrtambourineman]

“This is a song about how for so long you were fleeing from them. You know, and you, you saw their numbers dwindle, and you say, 'oh, I'm wearing 'em out, I've run long enough that there were [inaudible] number, there was half that, and a quarter that, and there was only a couple of them left, so I was done. I have evaded the young hundreds.' But no. They were only gathering their reinforcements. It's called 'The Young Thousands” - 2015-04-23 - Mr. Small's - Millvale, PA

[upyes-deactivated20190701]

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She had that look on her face that reminded me of you

The reports were coming hourly and the sky was blue

They were shifting the power again

They always do this when I come home

[solomon-revisited]

"In my nursing days I worked with people who got lost. Lost to their families, lost to themselves, lost to the world. At a forty-hour job you get to know these people well, and to see fhrough their eyes a little, if you're paying attention. We err when we consider life as a continuum headed one way or the other—every life has seasons, or stations; the narrator here isn't doomed. He needs help. Everybody on Get Lonely is in need of help. The nylon-string acoustic is played on the track by Franklin Bruno, who also, I think, fleshed out the song's chords to have the sevenths that give it the character it needs—I think I sang live as he played; the original version was an up-tempo shuffle. We tried it some in studio. Thank God for producers like Scott Solter who'll tell you to your face when you're not doing justice to the song."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

[clrnyrchks]

IF IT KILLS ME (AND IT ALMOST KILLED ME)

[solomon-revisited]

No one wasbed behind my ears—high in the trees, alone for years. Practicing my solitary scales 'til they rise like balloons, and watching them go where they will go.

Face in the leaves, song in my throat. Fall through the air hoping to float. Practicing my solitary scales until they grow heavy, too heavy to carry. Watching them go where they will go.

"Even the least astute reader will note that I'm rendering this as a sort of prose poem, instead of with line breaks. Most of the songs in the Coroner's Gambit notebook also appear there in this format—as paragraphs rather than verse—but of them only "Family Happiness" gave me pause. Here, there are breath breaks in the delivery that might suggest an on-page presentation like something by A. R. Ammons, but if I do it in sentences, it reads like a page from somebody's diary that they absolutely never intended for another living soul to see. That's the mood I was trying to strike on this album, and these technical questions are the kinds of things I think about to flesh out that mood."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

(someone in the YT comments also linked to a poem that apparently served as some inspiration for john: 'being a giant' by robert mezey. worth a read if you see it. made me sad)

[butchboromir]

there should be a database where you can sort mountain goats songs by theme. i should be able to filter mountain goats songs by whether or not they are about affairs

[butchboromir]

definitive ranking of all mountain goats songs

every song about an affair

all of the other songs

[365-days-of-the-mountain-goats]

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Mountain Goats Live at City Winery on 2016-04-17

DAY 186 - PAGE 260

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Mountain Goats Live at Bottom of the Hill on 2014-06-15

DAY 123 - PAGE 172

[angsty-worm]

always always always thinking about this

[solomon-revisited]

"Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, once gave a reading at the library where my mother worked; when it came time for questions, the children all asked variants of the same question. Is Pippi real? Is Tommy real? Is Annika real? Is Villa Villekulla real? "Oh, yes," Lindgren replied to each question with grandmotherly patience. "Pippi is real, Tommy and Annika are real." In the spirit of that legendary villa, so are the black pumps, and the long-sleeved Oxford, and above all the need for some money to keep the information emgine humming on its way to where it's headed."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

[thetrial]

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couldn’t stop thinking about this post

[ramblingsarah]

gotta lie down every time I remember this recording and the post about it

[anarcho-weirdism]

babe are you okay i saw you were reblogging “No Children (live at the bottom of the hill)” again?

[rednines]

All shall be well someday

[sadyoungcardinal]

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Just shuffle on through the golden mist Take a number because you’re on the list And later off Second Avenue If it comes down to the drugs or you Baby, we’re through ‘Cause you’re messing with my drug life You’re messing with my drug life Quit messing with my drug life

[babtest]

Charlie Sheen Reaches Out To The Servers At Red Lobster About A Side Dish: " I want Rice...with this crustacean"