#absolute lithops effect

[hyperiionvii]

the mountain goats | absolute lithops effect

edit: prints here!

[bestgoats]

Round 2: which Mountain Goats song is better?

1 Samuel 15:23 (The Life of the World to Come)

Absolute Lithops Effect (All Hail West Texas)

Voting ended onSep 1, 2025

If you don't know these songs, consider giving them a listen before you vote– maybe you'll discover a new favorite!

[ophiedokes]

a video about This Year by the Mountain Goats, their other assorted survival anthems, and what this band has meant to me throughout my life so far.

[tmg-lyrics-daily]

The big trucks come up the highway, and the big trucks rattle my windows, and night, night comes to Texas.

[solomon-revisited]

"I am at this point almost ten years removed from Taboo VI: The Homecoming, and my range has increased: Some of the songs I write are just songs, and some are songs that might have been poems, and some are still poems disguised as songs. Although the tune of "Absolute Lithops Effect" is more complex than anything I might have attempted on the early tapes, I'd put its lyric in that third category, with an added chance element, which pleases me—I don't think "waiting" and "wanting" were both in the original draft. I think I wrote down one, and saw on the page that it might also be the other, and said to myself: "Let's keep them both." Accidents are my favourite strategy. You can always rely on an accident."

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

[not-a-choice]

Listening to absolute lithops effect the way it was intended (with the silence filled by the clicks and whirrs of my aging CD player)

[absolute-lithops-effecting]

This fucking song

[ixpuztec]

with a little water, and a little bit of sunlight, and a little bit of tender mercy