Which TMG Song is the Most Transgender?

A bracket battle for the ages! Semi-finals releasing tomorrow!

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Hello friends of John Darnielle

have you ever listened to a song by hit band The Mountain Goats and thought "wow this song is kind of transgender"? Have you ever wanted to pit these songs against one another and make them fight? Then you've come to the right place!

A spreadsheet of all the songs in the bracket can be found here - Even though submissions are closed, please feel free to send in additional lyrics and propaganda for songs on this list!

The following are your picks for the most transgender Goats songs!

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#active poll, #closed poll, #round 1, #round 2, #round 3, #round 4 #submission, #announcement

A list of all matchups below the cut!

Round 1

Hebrews 11:40 vs. Attention All Pickpockets Cotton vs. Unicorn Tolerance Palmcorder Yanja vs. You Were Cool White Cedar vs. Island Garden Song The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton vs. Absolute Lithops Effect Birth of Serpents vs. The Mummy's Hand Picture of my Dress vs. Dilaudid The Young Thousands vs. Heel Turn 2 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod? vs. Heretic Pride Quetzalcoatl is Born vs. Never Quite Free The Ballad of Bull Ramos vs. Jenny III Hail St. Sebastian vs. Keeping House Song for my Stepfather vs. Going Invisible 1 Lakeside View Apartment Suite vs. Isaiah 45:23 This Year vs. Possum by Night Steal Smoked Fish vs. Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes

Round 2

Hebrews 11:40 vs. Cotton You Were Cool vs. White Cedar Absolute Lithops Effect vs. Birth of Serpents Picture of my Dress vs. Heel Turn 2 Heretic Pride vs. Never Quite Free Jenny III vs. Keeping House Going Invisible 1 vs. Isaiah 45:23 This Year vs. Steal Smoked Fish

Round 3

Hebrews 11:40 vs. White Cedar Birth of Serpents vs. Picture of my Dress Heretic Pride vs. Keeping House Isaiah 45:23 vs. Steal Smoked Fish

Round 3 (Semi finals!)

White Cedar vs. Birth of Serpents Heretic Pride vs. Isaiah 45:23

Round 4 (Grand Finale!)

White Cedar vs. Heretic Pride

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Very important, I went to a Mountain Goats concert last night and they played White Cedar and to show my sister why I know it so fast I pulled up the final pill of this bracket. It was hilarious

WAHHH! That's so sweet!!! I was at their show a few weeks ago (also with my sister) and they played a different song that's on the bracket, that I'd only heard for the first time a couple of weeks before it was submitted. So it was like a back to back to back introduction to this song that's now a new favourite!

I hope you and your sister had an amazing time <3

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Transgender TMG Song Bracket Winner!

Congratulations to Heretic Pride for sweeping the competition, and officially being crowned as the most transgender song by hit band The Mountain Goats!

I loved, loved, loved reading everything everyone had to say in the notes of that final round (and all the polls in all the rounds!). I have had a tremendous amount of fun running this bracket, the biggest thank you in the world to everyone who has participated.

May we all feel proud to be alive, each and every day.

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Grand Finale!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Heretic Pride

Voting ended onMay 29

It's so funny that our two finale songs never had any propaganda submitted! We all just looked at those songs and went "yeah"

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oopsies...

Someone got really distracted with real life and forgot about the FINAL ROUND!!! of their poll!!!!

I'm scheduling the post now! It will be up in a few hours! I'll try to spam everyones dashes with it as an apology <3

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oopsies...

Someone got really distracted with real life and forgot about the FINAL ROUND!!! of their poll!!!!

I'm scheduling the post now! It will be up in a few hours! I'll try to spam everyones dashes with it as an apology <3

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Trans TMG Bracket: Round 4 - Match 2

Welcome to the semi finals!!

Heretic Pride "And I start laughing like a child / And I mark their faces one by one / Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun / I waited so long / And now I taste jasmine on my tongue / And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when reckoning arrives"

Isaiah 45:23 "And I won't get better but someday I'll be free, 'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

Heretic Pride

Isaiah 45:23

Voting ended onMay 17

Links to each song and propaganda under the cut!

"This song is the feeling of lying in your childhood bedroom, feeling utterly powerless over your transition, and praying you’ll wake up different because you’ve run out of other things you can do. And it doesn’t seem to work, but it gives you the strength to keep going. Then years later, after you’ve grown up and transitioned, you wake up and realize you *are* different So in a way it did work. You 1 | Body that Imprisons You 0"

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Trans TMG Bracket: Round 4 - Match 1

Welcome to the semi finals!!

White Cedar "I will be made a new creature" "And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you"

Birth of Serpents "See that young man who dwells inside his body like an uninvited guest"

Which Song is More TRANSGENDER?

White Cedar

Birth of Serpents

Voting ended onMay 17

Links to each song and propaganda under the cut!

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Welcome to the Semi-Finals!

Hello friends, and thank you for your patience as we head into the semi finals! Both polls of round 4 will be released in roughly 12 hours from now (for real this time lol).

In the left corner we have White Cedar vs. Birth of Serpents - With White Cedar just barely eking out victory against Hebrews 11:40 in the previous round!

In the right corner we have Heretic Pride vs. Isaiah 45:23 - A song with no propaganda going up against another with one of the most thoughtful submissions of the bracket!

I hope to have the finale posted right after this round of voting is finished (hence changing the times the polls release to be friendlier to my time zone).

Happy voting everyone!

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Trans TMG Bracket: Round 3 - Match 4

Isaiah 45:23 "And I won't get better but someday I'll be free, 'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me"

Steal Smoked Fish "God bless us, all of us / We who learn to shun the light / God bless all vampires every night / Feast when you can"

Which song is more TRANSGENDER?

Isaiah 45:23

Steal Smoked Fish

Voting ended onMay 5

Links to each song and propaganda under the cut!

"This song is the feeling of lying in your childhood bedroom, feeling utterly powerless over your transition, and praying you’ll wake up different because you’ve run out of other things you can do. And it doesn’t seem to work, but it gives you the strength to keep going. Then years later, after you’ve grown up and transitioned, you wake up and realize you *are* different So in a way it did work. You 1 | Body that Imprisons You 0"

"It's a love letter to everyone who lives in the margins of society. Especially since reading about how some of the people this song is about died from AIDS this song has read as very queer to me."