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nightshadetq

mountain goats advice

eat jam out of the jar

make it through this year

eat jam out of the jar

leave tampa

hetchdrive

Constantly thinking about this thing John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats said about the song “Love, Love, Love”.

The point of the song is, you know, that we are fairly well damaged by the legacy of the Romantic poets–that we think of love as this, you know, thing that is accompanied by strings and it’s a force for good, and if something bad happens then that’s not love. And the therapeutic tradition that I come from–I used to work in therapy–you know, also says that it’s not love if it feels bad. I don’t know so much about that. I don’t know that the Greeks weren’t right. I think they were–that love can eat a path through everything–that it will destroy a lot of things on the way to its own objective, which is just its expression of itself, you know. I mean, my stepfather loved his family, right? Now he mistreated us terribly quite often, but he loved us. And, you know, well, that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing a lot of what I perceive as terrible damage in the way people talk about this–love is this benign, comfortable force. It’s not that. It’s wild, you know?

twogoatspastnormal

"Hello, it's God. You may have heard of me from acclaimed works such as "The Bible" and The Mountain Goats 2009 album "The Life of the World to Come",

cotton-and-calico

people who think taylor swift is groundbreaking for doing surprise songs at her shows wouldn’t survive a john darnielle solo set

branchedman

mzhyst

the mountain goats will record a miserable, devastating, beautiful song and call it Outer Scorpion Squadron

adamshallperish

TOOLSHED BY THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

adamshallperish

just found out the last time john darnielle played song for my stepfather live was on my birthday last year

william bowers (author of the pitchfork review for we shall all be healed) my enemy forever and ever amen

#pretentious fuck #i just listened to we shall all be healed and cried again so this is me saying confidently that william bowers should eat shit #we shall all be healed

adamshallperish

i'm sorry i just saw a mountain goats take so bad it made me want to log off the internet forever

adamshallperish

you don't even need to review the extent to which john darnielle has spoken about the sunset tree being a semi-autobiographical album about his years of abuse from his stepfather that would lead to darnielle's substance abuse as an adolescent to understand that is very much what this album's about. this year is a song of determination and indignation that darnielle is in straits so bad he has to vow to himself he'll make it through the end of the year as a child. as a seventeen year old child. the emphasis on this is in fact on his youth. even then, i would argue "seventeen years young" is a very teenager thing to write. if the main thing you're taking away from this year is that it's a kind of cringe lyric, you just don't get it. i'm sorry.

goingtothebes

🎶“I wanna go to vacation bible school! I wanna go to vacat(glance out window)ion bible school. I’m 56 years old and i’m enrolling in vacation bible school! I WANNA GO TO VACA—.”🎶

adamshallperish

god the gays you put on this earth to be in a shitty band that practices twice a week in someone's garage together are mutuals on tumblr living undrivable distances away from each other instead