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Best Mountain Goats Song Tournament: Round 1!

Which of these songs by The Mountain Goats do you like the best? The 4 least-voted songs will be eliminated!

Sun Song (Hot Garden Stomp)

Grendel's Mother (Zopilote Machine)

Going to Reykjavík (Nothing for Juice)

Exegetic Chains (Songs for Pierre Chuvin)

US Mill (Full Force Galesburg)

Scotch Grove (The Coroner's Gambit)

Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums (Zopilote Machine)

Onions (The Coroner's Gambit)

Voting ended onAug 16, 2025

In this round, songs with the lowest Spotify play counts are facing off in groups. The 4 songs from each poll with the most votes at the end of the round will move on to round 2, where they'll be up against more popular songs.

If you don't see your favorites in this round, fear not– round 1 only includes about 1/3 of the eligible songs! Reblog to get the word out, and feel free to add propaganda to help your favorite songs win >:)

way up north

#us mill #tmg #the mountain goats #john darnielle #first line

The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg (1997)

New Britain

Snow Owl

West Country Dream

Masher

Chinese House Flowers

Ontario

Down Here

Twin Human Highway Flares

Weekend in Western Illinois

US Mill

Song for the Julian Calendar

Maize Stalk Drinking Blood

Evening in Stalingrad

Minnesota

Original Air-Blue Gown

It's All Here in Brownsville

Round 1 eliminations: part 1

Nothing for Juice

Going to Bogotá

Going to Scotland

I Will Grab You by the Ears

Moon and Sand

Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina

Going to Reykjavík

Orange Ball of Pain

I Corinthians 13: 8-10

Full Flower

Going to Kansas

Million

Hot Garden Stomp

Pure Milk

Ice Blue

Water Song II

Sun Song

Going to Japan

Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?

The Hot Garden Stomp

Love Hymn to Aphrodite

Beach House

Sweden

Going to Queens / Vi visste inte vad som skulle hända

Some Swedish Trees / De flyende var oskyldiga

Send Me an Angel / Han är lika trött som jag (He Is As Tired As I)

Flashing Lights / Den kallaste vintern (The Coldest Winter)

Sept 19 Triple X Love! Love! / Vi gör vad vi kan (We Do What We Can)

Deianara Crush / Är du inte min vän? (Are You Not My Friend?)

Full Force Galesburg

Evening in Stalingrad

Original Air-Blue Gown

Song for the Julian Calendar

US Mill

New Britain

Zopilote Machine

Sinaloan Milk Snake Song

Going to Bristol

Song for Tura Satana

Goths

For the West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors – Bonus track

Vanishing Act – Bonus track

All Hail West Texas

Hardpan Song – Bonus track

Tape Travel is Lonely – Bonus track

Dark in Here

The New Hydra Collection

The Coroner's Gambit

Scotch Grove

The rest of the eliminations from Round 1 will be finalized tomorrow! 10 polls are still live for a little less than a day, so if you need to mobilize your followers to vote for any of the songs in those, this is your last chance!

The Mountain Goats - US Mill

Way up north. Down the road a little, back in New England. Right here in the middle.

And all the way out west, we had our ears to the ground. All of our dreams resting on the same spot. Listening for the old sound. It was ringing as clear as crystal. It was shining as bright as gold. Grain gathering on stone floor, and we were spring-heeled. And we were real cold.

All summer long, deep into autumn. In a high room, and down here in the bottom. Down here in the bottom.

#the mountain goats #full force galesburg #1997 #us mill #lyrics

US Mill

Way up north Down the road a little Back in New England Right here in the middle And all way out west

We had our ears to the ground All of our dreams resting in the same spot Listening for the old sound And it was ringing so clear as crystal And it was shining as bright as gold Grain gathering on the stone floor And we were spring-heeled and we were real cold All summer long Deep into autumn In a high room And down here in the bottom Down here in the bottom

from Full Force Galesburg (1997)

#one mountain goats song a day #the mountain goats #mountain goats #us mill #full force galesburg

461. US Mill

I don’t know what location the title refers to (is it a textile mill? A grain mill? Real? Fictional?), and the locations in this song are confusing. The album is supposed to be set in the Midwest, but this one is happening “back in New England”? Or does the first verse describe all the places the characters in the songs have been before settling in Galesburg? Time and space are fluid, or something?

#every mountain goats song #us mill #full force galesburg