i made it through town somehow
ayrdaomei was like, you and your referencing of that crazy folk-rock band all the time! (except nicer.) and she said, mountain goats sampler for the unconverted! and i said, um, does forty songs count as a sampler?
because! there are roughly fifteen hundred to choose from and that is very much not an exaggeration. but anyways, couple of zippy files for you to download if you are in such a mood.
mountain goats part 1
tracklisting:
Abide With Me
Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Crows
Cobscook Bay
Color In Your Cheeks
Autoclave
Jenny
Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise
Commandante
No Children
Family Happiness
The Mess Inside
Weekend In Western Illinois
How To Embrace A Swamp Creature
Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
There Will Be No Divorce
Black Molly
Alphonse Mambo
Going To Georgia
Faithless Bacchant Song
mountain goats part 2
tracklisting:
See America Right
Surrounded
New Chevrolet In Flames
Palmcorder Yanja
Attention All Pickpockets
Half Dead
Heretic Pride
This Year
Collapsing Stars
Dance Music
It Froze Me
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of
Old College Try
California Song
Oceanographer's Choice
Source Decay
Alpha Rat's Nest
Waving At You
We Were Patriots
Cubs in Five
(all songs written by john darnielle except 'abide with me,' an old hymn, and 'sometimes i still feel the bruise,' a trembling blue stars cover.)
not in the preferred order, incidentally, but gives you a pretty good idea of what the man can do. spans fifteen years and twenty-one albums.
and you know, this is from the goats' wik article discussing his alpha song series, and if it doesn't get you bought in, i can do no more:
Songs in this category concern the same fictional couple, described as a lower-middle-class man and woman who originally loved each other genuinely, and held generally ordinary concerns for one another's well-being, but whose relationship has degraded for a variety of reasons, most often a series of fights or drug and/or alcohol abuse, possibly both. Whatever the causes for their current situation, their love has not so much died as warped into the sincere, all-consuming desire of each of them to see the other drink themselves to death; thus, to facilitate this "walk down to the bottom", as described in the liner notes, the couple keep whatever liquor they can afford on hand for each other and stay together.
The album Tallahassee, being entirely about the Alpha couple, begins with the pair buying a run-down house in the eponymous capital of Florida, follows their degradation, and ends with a vision of the house and both of them being consumed in flames.
so, like. my alpha couple is upper-class ballplayers, but EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE SAME.
because! there are roughly fifteen hundred to choose from and that is very much not an exaggeration. but anyways, couple of zippy files for you to download if you are in such a mood.
mountain goats part 1
tracklisting:
Abide With Me
Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Crows
Cobscook Bay
Color In Your Cheeks
Autoclave
Jenny
Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise
Commandante
No Children
Family Happiness
The Mess Inside
Weekend In Western Illinois
How To Embrace A Swamp Creature
Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
There Will Be No Divorce
Black Molly
Alphonse Mambo
Going To Georgia
Faithless Bacchant Song
mountain goats part 2
tracklisting:
See America Right
Surrounded
New Chevrolet In Flames
Palmcorder Yanja
Attention All Pickpockets
Half Dead
Heretic Pride
This Year
Collapsing Stars
Dance Music
It Froze Me
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of
Old College Try
California Song
Oceanographer's Choice
Source Decay
Alpha Rat's Nest
Waving At You
We Were Patriots
Cubs in Five
(all songs written by john darnielle except 'abide with me,' an old hymn, and 'sometimes i still feel the bruise,' a trembling blue stars cover.)
not in the preferred order, incidentally, but gives you a pretty good idea of what the man can do. spans fifteen years and twenty-one albums.
and you know, this is from the goats' wik article discussing his alpha song series, and if it doesn't get you bought in, i can do no more:
Songs in this category concern the same fictional couple, described as a lower-middle-class man and woman who originally loved each other genuinely, and held generally ordinary concerns for one another's well-being, but whose relationship has degraded for a variety of reasons, most often a series of fights or drug and/or alcohol abuse, possibly both. Whatever the causes for their current situation, their love has not so much died as warped into the sincere, all-consuming desire of each of them to see the other drink themselves to death; thus, to facilitate this "walk down to the bottom", as described in the liner notes, the couple keep whatever liquor they can afford on hand for each other and stay together.
The album Tallahassee, being entirely about the Alpha couple, begins with the pair buying a run-down house in the eponymous capital of Florida, follows their degradation, and ends with a vision of the house and both of them being consumed in flames.
so, like. my alpha couple is upper-class ballplayers, but EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE SAME.