#palmcorder yajna ep

[tmglineaday]

The western sky will pitch-correct its whining

[evilkitten3]

butter teeth is a hashimada song. do you understand what i mean here

[john-gosh-darnielle]

the western sky will pitch-correct it's winding

[worldcylinder]

Alright. I think it's finished so I am ready to share this mix with the world, by which I mean, the 500-odd mostly dead blogs following me on here. I present to you all...

This is a hifi mix I made to listen to while I commute to and from my TMS treatments, which seems Goats-appropriate. Tracks under the cut, or you can just check it out on YT.

Surrounded - Moon Colony Bloodbath EP (with John Vanderslice)

Training Montage - Bleed Out

The Great Gold Sheep - Getting Into Knives

Roger Patterson Van - Black Pear Tree EP (with Kaki King)

Half Dead - Get Lonely

Abandoned Flesh - Goths

The Diaz Brothers - Transcendental Youth

Getting Into Knives - The Jordan Lake Sessions, vol. 1

Michael Myers Resplendent - Heretic Pride

Butter Teeth - Palmcorder Yajna (single)

Linda Blair Was Born Innocent - We Shall All Be Healed

Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deck

Alibi - Sail Babylon Springs EP

Foreign Object - Beat the Champ

Stench of the Unburied - Goths

Waylon Jennings Live! - In League With Dragons

New Chevrolet in Flames - See America Right (single)

Murder at the 18th St. Garage - Jenny from Thebes

Possum By Night - In League With Dragons

Tyler Lambert's Grave (unreleased)

Pinklon (unreleased)

[mountaingoatsfirstlineaday]

Hey, this is a weird ask, so I apologize for that in advance.

But, what song would you recommend of the mountain goats for when you're sad? Besides This Year, which is great though

not a weird ask at all! i always listen to tmg when i'm sad. i mean, i listen to tmg for every other emotion i have too, but still. top 10 bands to listen to when you're feeling down.

when i listen to them because i'm sad, it usually depends on what kind of sad I'm feeling.

general malaise/clinical depression: transcendental youth all the way through, in order, on repeat.

physical illness/chronic pain sadness: the life of the world to come. specifically romans 10:9, hebrews 11:40, and isaiah 45:23. also we shall all be healed -- not the album, but the unreleased song. notasfarwest my beloved has a great rip on youtube

sexual assault trauma/familial trauma: tallahassee (whole album). this tends to make me cry but sometimes when I'm dealing with this i do really really need to just cry about it. i also listen to never quite free, off of all eternals deck, and we shall all be healed (album), specifically all up the seething coast, linda blair was born innocent, against pollution, and slow west vultures.

specifically my childhood trauma: the sunset tree. this year is even better in context i promiseeeee. it's so good. my favs for this are broom people, up the wolves, hast thou considered the tetrapod, and pale green things.

grief of almost every variety: i mean. get lonely is the obvious answer here. also, an unreleased song called warm lonely planet. used to haunt (from the one john green movie). occasionally all hail west texas, but only if it's summer. store, from the jam eater blues ep. clean slate.

psychosis/other severe mental health issues: if you see light (get lonely), beat the devil (unreleased), lovecraft in brooklyn and heretic pride (heretic pride). mostly though if i'm psychotic i just listen to car seat headrest lol

bonus!! tmg songs that i find motivational when i feel rock bottom shitty: ox baker triumphant!!! psalms 40:2!!! werewolf gimmick!!!! palmcorder yajna!!! jam eater blues!!!! exegetic chains :)

hope this helps! if you want me to make you a playlist of the stuff in one of these categories, plus probably some other stuff thrown in because i'm like that, just dm me or send in another ask.

[bunnywand]

so a couple of weeks ago when i was doing my big listen through of the whole mountain goats discography, i was gonna write a post about all of the mountain goats stuff that was officially released in one form or another at some point, but isn't currently available on bandcamp/other digital music services etc, and how likely i thought it'd be they'd get re-released at some point.. 🤔

and i didn't end up writing it bcos it would have taken a while and i didn't know how interested people would be in it.. but then today out of the blue, the "new asian cinema" ep suddenly got a re-release?? �� and it sounds like a couple of the other old eps could be on the way too, so maybe it is worth writing after all 😆

so, here goes..!! be warned, there's quite a lot though.. 😅

the yo-yo eps (new asian cinema / isopanisad radio hour / devil in the shortwave): a bunch of eps released between 1998-2002, i was originally gonna lump these in with the other eps, but with "new asian cinema's" re-release, it looks like all 3 of these are gonna be available again soon!!

"letters from belgium" single (with "nova scotia" + "attention all pickpockets" b-sides): i separated this one from the other singles because it was released on the 4AD label, and the other singles from that era (see america right, palmcorder yajna, dilaudid) are available so.. i'm honestly not sure why this one is missing?? 😵‍💫 but hopefully it'll get re-released and join the others some time!!

other singles/eps (on juhu beach / jam eater blues / satanic messiah): there's nothing to really separate how likely/unlikely i think these getting a re-release would be, but they were all p limited releases, so it'd be great to finally see them widely available, and i could definitely see it happening sometime!!

split singles/eps (beside recordings vol. 1.2 / black pear tree / moon colony bloodbath): nothing to really separate these ones from the aboves ones either, although idk if these being split releases with other artists could complicate things at all?? 🤔 but it'd be a shame if they never got re-released someday, especially with how good "black pear tree" is 😧

bonus tracks (naming day, they are stone swallowers, keeping house from "get lonely" / toolshed, last man on earth from "heretic pride"): getting into the realm of things i don't think are too likely now, the "get lonely" bonus tracks were available on the japanese cd iirc, and the "heretic pride" ones were itunes/amazon bonus tracks respectively.. toolshed is actually still available on itunes/apple music, but i don't think last man on earth is available anymore, and the kind of.. obscureness of these tracks probably damages their chances of getting a re-release, unless the albums themselves ever get reissued?? 😕 but it's not impossible, maybe it could happen for their 20th anniversaries in a few years!!

demo albums (come, come to the sunset tree / the life of the world in flux / all survivors pack): the bonus demos for "the sunset tree," "the life of the world to come" and "all eternals deck," it'd really surprise me if these ever got a wide release cos i think part of the appeal of them is that they're supposed to be like.. limited edition releases, especially in the case of "come, come the sunset tree" which has almost a kind of legendary status 😳

online releases (hospicio de huerfanos / songs for vamsidasa babaji / three for mike g / seven for australia / other random songs etc): at various points john's released songs or bundles of songs online for various reasons, more than i could list here.. i honestly can't see these ever getting an Official release though, it was kind of the point of them to be like, ephemeral and not ~proper releases~ 🤔

compilation appearances: so there's a tonne of compilations tmg have done songs for.. everything on this list before 2001 (except for "the pieman" 😦) was released on the protein source of the future/bitter melon farm/ghana compilations but everything since has never like.. reappeared outside of their compilations?? i think it'd be really cool to do like, a 4th installment in the protein source/bitter melon/ghana series gathering them all up in one place.. but i think the chances of that happening are honestly p slim 😅

taboo vi: the homecoming: the very first mountain goats release, john's been p outspoken about disowning this one, which is why it almost makes bottom of the list.. but who knows, in 8 years it'll be the 40th anniversary of it's release, maybe time will change his mind and it could get a special anniversary re-release?? 😆

hail and farewell, gothenburg: the never officially released follow-up to "sweden," john was p upset abt it getting leaked, which is why it makes bottom of the list, even below taboo vi 🙁 there's no way i could ever see this getting an official release, according to john it was never even intended to see the light of day in the first place 😔

and as far as i know, that p much wraps up about everything?? 😅 so here's hoping w/ the re-releases of the yo-yo eps that some of this other stuff starts cropping up again too!! 🥳

[mountaingoatsmiddlemostlineaday]

trying to find the ground

[tmglineaday]

Everyone will eat when we've arrived

[tmglineaday]

Our load is heavy, you can hear it shifting

[mountaingoatsfirstlineaday]

happy 18th anniversary of the palmcorder yajna ep!! Palmcorder Yajna is a tremendously important song to me, for a reason too private to put here, and I remember when I first heard it it was a clear but soggy spring day and I spent most of the rest of it star-struck that a song like this could and does exist. I'm hoping to post some art for in the next couple of days, so keep an eye out! :)

[evilkitten3]

I WAS PERMANENTLY AT THE POINT OF EXHAUSTION

YOU WERE GORGEOUS

butter teeth is a hashimada song. do you understand what i mean here