#john darnielle

[astrangetorpedo]

Julien Baker covers No Children by the Mountain Goats + an introduction from John Darnielle

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Excerpt from “I Hope We Both Die: How The Mountain Goats Wrote The Ultimate Anthem To Dysfunction” an interview with John Darnielle

[goingtothebes]

fuck yes dragon tuesday

[keyboard-worrier]

[hiwerethemountaingoats]

So this is a song about a couple of people in a car, and uh, it's kind of hot in the car, though it's cold outside, and the reason it's hot in the car is the seething temperature of their hatred. And they're sort of like, you know, it's one of those situations where you really-- [pause] Let's say you're in this car. You have probably at some point, the odds are pretty good you've been in this car. And, uh, at one point or another you look over at the speedometer and it says 75, you're riding shotgun, and you think, you do this sort of quick calculation. You don't really know, you know, you're not a physicist, much less a criminal investigator, anything like that, you're just a person in a car that you wish you weren't in, but you think, "If I pop the door and drop and roll and I tuck my elbows in, between here and the bushes at the shoulder, what's the damage I sustain," and you picture your lifeless, unconscious body rolling down the beautiful hill, and you see yourself as though in a Japanese film and think, "You know, I might make it; maybe I will look up and I will see the last bit of the car speeding away from me and I will count that as a victory." This song, this song is about people who have chosen whatever the opposite of victory is.

John Darnielle, introducing Family Happiness (Wexner Centre | Columbus, OH | April 11th, 2011)

[victusinveritas]

[mountainhaunt]

feels like time for my favorite of john darnielle's new year's benedictions. he peaked at this one

[vampirerex]

Me whenever I’m going to somewhere: this is just like the mountain goats

[gnawgag]

game shows touch our lives - the mountain goats // the taking of christ - caravaggio

[geekysteven]

You'll never convince me that The Mountain Goats didn't pick their song names from a stack of rejected Star Trek scripts

[tangerine22]

bad thing happens:

con - bad thing happened

pro - I now relate to more mountain goats songs

[thedoctorworm]

feast when you can, and dream when theres nothing to feast on

[goingtothebes]

JD's new years benediction, 2023

[redeyye]

if you don't mind, put in the tags which one and when you started listening to the goats :)

[victusinveritas]

[artbyblastweave]

Recently crossed over a threshold I refer to as the John Darnielle Event Horizon, where it’s like. Objectively there are a lot of mountain goats tracks that would be just totally forgettable to me if I heard them in a vacuum. But once you’ve been exposed to enough of the big ticket tracks you hit a point where, okay, now you’re basically ready to listen to this guy half-sing any set of words in any particular order and see how things shake out

[ihavealavalamp]

Tidal Wave, The Mountain Goats [x]