Jun 20
do you ever sit and think about how In Corolla (Get Lonely) and Great Pirates (Jenny from Thebes) are both the last songs on their respective albums and they're mirrors of each other?
no? well you should.
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do you ever sit and think about how In Corolla (Get Lonely) and Great Pirates (Jenny from Thebes) are both the last songs on their respective albums and they're mirrors of each other?
no? well you should.
An astronaut could have seen the hunger in my eyes from space
i know we talk about crowdsing no children all the time and it is fantastic and I do love it but ever since I heard the woke up new 06-15-2014 bottom of the hill crowdsing I've wanted nothing so bad as that. it's a song about being profoundly lost and lonely in such a specific way that you can't imagine what tomorrow looks like and you feel like nobody else could ever understand it. and the crowd sang it together. so many people all together alone but mostly just together no one voice distinct in collective anon, this piercing individual loneliness cried out by so many; and I sang, oh, what do I do, what do I do, what do I do? what do I do without you?
Round 2: which Mountain Goats song is better?
There Will Be No Divorce (The Coroner's Gambit)
Wild Sage (Get Lonely)
If you don't know these songs, consider giving them a listen before you vote– maybe you'll discover a new favorite!
daily mountain goats one page comic sketch #28
moon over goldsboro
Biting gnashing after my rewatch of Gravity Falls. God bless whoever it was that compared Bill and Ford to No Children by The Mountain Goats.
Might have to fuck around and write a fic based on Woke Up New, each chapter being about the first day Ford woke up without someone for the first time (Shermie, Stan, Fiddleford, Bill??)
Anyway
We’ll see
"I always picture, in my mind, the front door of the house in which I wrote this song, and myself dead bolting it, even though I was never lonely in that house once—it was a house of love and shared growth and shared struggle and change, all the things that loneliness is not. And so I think, when I sing it: This is the mark loneliness leaves on you, to warn you against finding anything romantic in it. Once known, forever remembered."
-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.