#the Mountain Goats

[jjjunebuggg]

this is a certified mountain goats moment

john darnielle how could you do this to me, what the fuck john darnielle

something i keep experiencing

[2birds1pencil]

🔥

[jennyfromthebes]

survey for tmg fans: what's your favorite "(thing) song"? like torch song, water song, new star song, etc. you know the ones. mine is probably sun song

[hell-brainworm]

[cowboy--radio]

Everyone keeps reblogging this to remind me about “what’s with all the Portuguese water dogs”. He has already repeated the question, how many times do you wanna fuckin hear it?

My favourite genre of Mountain Goats lyric is the kind where the animal metaphor snuck in when he wasn’t looking and he’s a little mad about it

[mobydyke]

the mountain goats make music for people who spent their entire lives convinced they would die before they were 17 except now they're 26 and they have a job and friends and hobbies and they're not sure what they're meant to do now that they've survived

[mustardgreen]

[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

[secondimpact]

[give-liife]

"i'm gay" "i'm straight" ok? well i am drowning, there is no sign of land. you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand and i hope you die, i hope we both die

[cryptic-symbols]

mountain goats litany for survival: I am gonna make it through this year it it kills me

mountain goats litany for divorce: hand in unlovable hand

mountain goats litany for justice: I’m gonna bribe the officials, I’m gonna kill all the judges

mountain goats litany for revenge: I will personally stab you in the eye with a foreign object

mountain goats litany for weird kid pride: wearing my lizard suit to the party

mountain goats litany for meeting word count: the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you and you are standing in the doorway

mountain goats litany against nonsense and also handball: I did not come to play handball

mountain goats litany against anti-intellectualism: I use the term advisedly according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b

amen

[cosmicsupersass]

nothing can come between a girl and her emotional support misinterpretation of a mountain goats song

[lezarus]

the legend of chavo guerrero

[destroyingangelneveragod]

its less than a week til you've made it through this year if it kills you, so turn on the song and prepare to leave some snacks for the mountain goats on new years eve