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we have seen the enemy live at the woodward theater on 12/04/2018

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I had to make a version for meeeee :3

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Girls when the dull pain that they live with isn't getting any duller

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Demo for Night Light, found here on Soundcloud - this reminds me a lot of a favorite live version of the song, solo on guitar, except this one also has some really lovely piano!

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got to do a poster for the mountain goats' initial bleed out tour in the US - i believe you can still get leftover copies on their merch store. was very excited to channel my love of gangster films into this

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“the mountain goats didn’t write no children specifically for bloberta and clay!!!!!!!!the song came out three years before the show even aired!!!!!!!!!!”

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john darnielle will say “no you don’t understand guys, this line was SO bad, it’s literally the worst thing ever i couldn’t even release the song because it was so awful and i couldn’t fix it,” and then the line will be “I've got a Kenmore single-room window unit air conditioner.”

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why is he like this

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renowned goats aficionado and good opinion enthusiast sarah eternalgirlscout i come seeking your wisdom. what are some boppy or danceable tmg tunes

I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED. your mileage may vary on danceability, but i do think all of these are certified bops. there are many more goats songs that could be classified as such, but i tried to make this quick + short so i limited this list to ones i had something to say about off the top of my head.

spotify link, if you're so inclined

Dance Music

this one was my first thought and it's not exactly a happy song to start with, but the upbeat tempo in contrast to the subject matter is intentional and one of my favorite things about the song

Southwood Plantation Road

allow me to share one of my favorite tmg banters from 2003:

"This, my friends, is a dance number. Somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty audiences so far this year have declined my kind offer that they get they freak on to this song. But you may freak away. I won’t tell nobody. [Audience member: Southwood Plantation Road!] That’s the fucking song, my friend!"

Alpha Rats Nest

another anti-love song in the vein of "No Children." a lot of songs off of Tallahassee could be categorized as bops, but this is the other one i think of when i think of tunes that make me want to get up and move

Corsican Mastiff Stride

when the album Getting Into Knives came out and i heard this song for the first time, i literally dropped what i was holding when the drums started

Parisian Enclave

the sheer rhythm of this one is irresistible. it really gives the sense of collective, swift movement, like the rats this song is about

Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of

another song about movement, about freedom

Choked Out

when I was in undergrad, there was more than one incident of me headbanging so hard to this song while driving that i didn't realize i was going like 15 over the speed limit

Foreign Object

an old friend and i used to joke about getting tax benefits married if we were both single in our mid-30s, and a vital part of the scenario we imagined was that this song would be our first dance at our wedding

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a song about dancing! like "Dance Music," the subject matter is enhanced by the irony of being paired with this tune

Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome

another song i should not be allowed to listen to while driving

First Blood

like a lot of high-tempo mountain goats songs, the boppiness and danceability is at odds with the topic in order to make a point. it's a fast-paced, entertaining jam tearing down the mythology of the action movie, an often fast-paced genre that puts entertainment above the implications of its philosophy. and you can shake your ASS to this song

This Year

what else is there to say about this song? the first time i saw the mountain goats live, in a tiny theater on a college campus in northern wisconsin, almost the entire crowd stood up from their seats and danced in the aisles. i spun under my now-husband's arm and i swear i got a smile from john darnielle. there WILL be feasting, and dancing. this year, next year, every year

any other Goats Enjoyers are welcome to add to this post! i admit this skews fairly recent. let's get some crunch on it

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me at 6:40: Oh boy i wonder what time it is

the helpful clock:

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Can I use Rosh Hashanah as an excuse to listen to This Year by The Mountain Goats as a New Years song?

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The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven.

Apocryphal verse that is the namesake of Enoch 18:14 (bonus track from The Life of the World to Come).

Send Me an Angel (no mention in lyrics just title)

Philippians 3:20-21 / But the voices of the angels that he heard on his last days with us, Smoke alarms

Heel Turn 1 / I watch my guardian angel leave the building, I am my only friend

Steal Smoked Fish / I see your destinies above you, Like angels who don't love you

Wild Sage / And then I think I hear angels in my ears, Like marbles being thrown against a mirror

Lakeside View Apartments Suite / Watching for the guy who’s got the angel dust, crystal clear connection

Blues in Dallas / Will you walk on in when the angel summons you?

Werewolf Gimmick / Full werewolf off the buckle like an angel straight from hell

Song for Roger Maris / I got an angel watching over me

Tallahassee / Plums on the tree heavy with nectar, prayers to summon the destroying angel

the mountain goats + angels

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CRUDE LITTLE WOODEN IDOLS

*throws up the horns*

AND AVIATOR SHADES

*bounces around the room hitting every wall*

THE TRINKETS AND THE TREASURES WE BROUGHT BACK FROM THE CRUSADES

*pitches self out of a third story window onto the concrete below*

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cancelling john darnielle for being pro ship for inventing the alpha couple

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me and bro coming up with a failsafe plan to piss off the dumb few who forgave us