[livesoftheworldtocome]

Soft Targets is one of the most underrated Mountain Goats songs because. I DO cry when I'm hungry. Something IS wrong with my brain.

[a-placeholder-of-a-human]

Fuck it I'm gonna say it. "I'm gonna tell my friends to all go to hell, and wish my enemies well. Bleed out, I'm gonna bleed out" might be top 10 Mountain Goats lyrics ever. Bleed Out is a song absolutely full of brilliant lyrics for the subject matter of a guy who has just been shot and knows for sure he is going to die and has just a couple final seconds to come to terms with it. This lyric in particular though is just perfect. The song feels like attempt after attempt to get the ideal lyric in that form and it finally does it right near the end with this. Throughout the whole track he is just making sense of it, accepting it and doing whatever he can to be okay with it, but right at the end, right as he knows his death is hear for him, his final words are essentially "fuck you all. Fuck you all for everything. I'm a good person and I regret what I did" and there's something so beautifully human about that

[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

[mjshortformcjesus]

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

[whoarethemoonpeople]

it magically turns songs you don’t like into songs you like!!!

[apocketfullofhobbits]

sometimes u just have to hear the lyrics 'people say friends don't destroy one another what do they know abt friends' on a fine summer evening on a random friday and then u just have to move on with ur life like ur heart didn't just get pulled out of ur chest and dunked straight into lava

[mothersandtruckersofthejury]

I made a graphic in Word to explain my experience with the 2025 Mountain Goats concept album, Through the Fire Across From Peter Balkan

[effervescent-fool]

i've hired him to stare at you

[awkwardtuatara]

at least you can listen to Mountain Goats songs that make you want to rip something out of your chest

[wowthwtslame]

the best ever death metal band in denton

[livesoftheworldtocome]

Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds (2026)

[movietonight]

new mountain goats video

[themountaingees]

Oh my god look at them

Incredible

[livesoftheworldtocome]

And the JD (John Darnielle) song was on...

[babtest]

Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds, Charlie Sheen reaches out to the Feds, and me i don't feel so good either

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A FULL YEAR MAN

PETER BALKAN IS STILL WARM IN THE GROUND

[stevelieber]

Had to draw fan art for the new single from The Mountain Goats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWfBJWECNg

[livesoftheworldtocome]

Getting really into Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds and I know everyone is already aware that it's JD's empathy that sets him apart as a storyteller, but I still really don't think TMG songs get enough credit for how funny and self-aware they can get with it. Like he has a real talent for getting the audience so on side with the narrator that when he introduces a straight man to be like "idk what you want us to do about this scary movie Charlie" it intentionally takes you out of the protagonist's mindset in a way that's so jarring you just have to laugh. And then the song can transition back into Charlie's mindset for the final chorus and have you immediately back rooting for him. Kind of reminds me of that Werewolf Gimmick line that's about getting told to dial it back, which when you listen to it is like oh yeah, he's a wrestler and not an actual werewolf and probably shouldn't be doing All That. But you do still want to bring your heroes to the wolf den and watch them all get crushed. Idk something about the tongue in cheek acknowledgement that our narrator perhaps isn't behaving fully rationally, but it's still worth fully immersing yourself in their POV.