#moon over goldsboro

[jennying-my-thebes]

" walking home,

i was talking to you under my breath

saying things i would never say directly

i heard a siren on the highway up ahead

kinda wished they'd come and get me "

[themountaingoatstruisms]

I HEARD A SIREN ON THE HIGHWAY UP AHEAD KINDA WISHED THEY'D COME AND GET ME

[malaisequotes]

“I laid down in the weeds. It was a real cold night. I was happy ‘til the overnight attendant switched on the floodlight.”

Moon Over Goldsboro by The Mountain Goats

[horseradish-road]

spend all night in the company of ghosts

always wake up alone

[teddykaczynski]

i really enjoy how many of the lyrics on get lonely (album) arent mentioning another person like the aforementioned lost lover. many of the lyrics are other shit. its nice its a good choice i think

[epersonae]

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I went to see TMG - and they still sing this song, and people sing along, and --

For a long time, this was a song (and album) that I was specifically warned against listening to. And when I watched one of the Jordan Lake sessions with Ryn, they played it, and it happened to have perfectly resonant timing with stuff I was working thru in EMDR, and I wept, and Ryn held me.

And then, by the time I saw it live, I had gone through Fresh Horrors, and No Children held for me not poison but a sort of unbridled joy of having survived that, at least, and I remember singing along with a crowded room full of people and feeling uplifted. A strange and beautiful experience.

couldn’t stop thinking about this post

[irrealisms]

you wear the moon like a halo - a web weave for princezam after subz's death

The Final Chapters - PrinceZam VOD // cannivalisms codependency poll // Grief and Bereavement: What Psychiatrists Need to Know (Zisook, Shear) // Hamlet and Ghost by John Gilbert and the Dalziel Brothers // Sensing a Presence After a Loss: Hallucination or Vision of Grief? // Ghosted by Angelica Alzona // He's Not Here from Next to Normal // The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan // Primavera - NBC Hannibal // Moon Over Goldsboro - the Mountain Goats

a(nother) present for @arceoptryx for @mcytblrholidayexchange !

[myrmica]

hi!! i am curious.. do you have any songs that remind you of subzam ?

YES!! I DO

FORTRESS BY QOTSA and cold reactor by everything everything are the numero uno subzam songs to me. shield by girls rituals and four leaf clover by mellowdrone which is also just a subz song in general. moon over goldsboro... love the house you're in.... teletype...

[epersonae]

@brigdh your tags!

1. Get Lonely and depression robe Ed are the only two things that have really felt true to my experience losing Ryn

2. Corolla, NC is not far from where Blackbeard supposedly died, iirc, which makes this song feel extra *something*

that dude from the mountain goats was right. life *IS* too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Wild Sage

New Monster Avenue

Half Dead

Get Lonely

Maybe Sprout Wings

Moon Over Goldsboro

In the Hidden Places

Song For Lonely Giants

Woke Up New

If You See Light

Cobra Tattoo

In Corolla

Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube

[jennying-my-thebes]

" and a guy with any kind of courage

would maybe stop to think the matter through

maybe hold you still and raise the question

instead of blindly holding onto you "

[goingtolesbos]

Moon Over Goldsboro / The Alphonse Mambo / Going to Tennessee

[malaisequotes]

“Empty lot the station faces will probably be there forever. I climbed over the four-foot fence. I was trying to sever the tether.”

Moon Over Goldsboro by The Mountain Goats

[microcosmtoxin]

2, 8, 20 for the ask game?

tmg asks

2: top TWENTY FAVORITE SONGS

holy shit twenty is a big number in no particular order heel turn 2, heretic pride, autoclave, get lonely, dilaudid, broom people, this year (jordan lake sessions vol 3 specifically), cotton, sicilian crest, going invisible two, slow west vultures, game shows touch our lives, riches and wonders, no children, love love love, elijah, wear black, deuteronomy 2:10, never quite free, dance music, rat queen. i think thats twenty.

8: favorite song with a location in the title

ok the obvious answer is a going to. the obvious answer is one of my favorite going tos like palestine, maryland, or georgia. the real fuckin answer is moon over goldsboro. get lonely MY BELOVED

20: personal story

oh man oh man. what the hell is there to even say. i think my earliest memory of tmg is from when i was in middle school, like i very specifically remember this one specific lyric video that probably was circulating in one of my fandom discords that i listened to and i just loved it (it actually might have been one of you were cool but i dont remember). like i was entranced. but i remained a very casual fan for a long while until at some point in like high school. and i think i read some fanfic of probably cr with a heel turn 2 reference and i listened to it and just again was entranced and it happened again and again until i got to where i am today. i have a massive fucking reverence for jd and i could list in an innumerable amount of ways in which his music has pushed me through and brought me joy but honestly i just admire how strongly he lets himself be expressive and keep up this incredibly prolific music career despite the fact that most people look at this massive catalogue and confusing lyrics and go what the hell. i also know the feeling which i think he has of just stories and words falling out of you and i just!!! the goats. the greatest of all times.

[holdoncallfailed]

i hate to be the basic bitch i am, but emilia holdoncallfailed, can i request a playlist based around the kind of distorted hauntedness of battery in your leg?

dear anon, i don't think you're a basic bitch but i do suspect you're some kind of emotional masochist based on this request.

spotify + youtube

how do you sleep? — lcd soundsystem [i think this is the closest analog to BIYL due to the distorted hauntedness you described and also being about james murphy's estranged ex-collaborator who was a childhood friend of his.]

jane cum — japanese breakfast

hazel st — deerhunter [h/t gen of course]

i don't smoke — mitski

wish you were dead — scheer

nobody else will be there — the national

don't holdyrbreath (girly-sound version) — liz phair

fillmore jive — pavement

beside myself — fanny

winter song — yoko ono

which will — nick drake

says elliott — sibylle baier

moon over goldsboro — the mountain goats

razor love — neil young [not on spotify unfortch]

railroad boy — the magnetic fields

margaret vs. pauline — neko case

cold apartment — vagabon

1995 — the radio dept.

a worrying thing — yo la tengo

by some miracle — philip selway

comin' back to me — jefferson airplane

BONUS: how do you sleep? — john lennon [far, far more bitter than BIYL but nevertheless probably THE ultimate band breakup song and the obvious inspiration for the lcd soundsystem track. it also features a climactic guitar solo like in BIYL—this one is played by george harrison so it's similar to the blur song in that there is a ghost of the old band within it via guitar solo...something to think about...]

[scorndotexe]

i do think moon over goldsboro works well for the secondary protagonist of my hacked android story