#the Mountain Goats

[goldenjuniper]

@its-jason @deadbaguette hello fellow This Year by The Mountain Goats enjoyers

i am going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health and relationships* make it through this year if it kills me

[thym3y]

Up the Wolves - The Mountain Goats

[doyouknowthemossinman]

listening to MYTH for the first time and it's invoking such strong feelings of when i listened to All Hail West Texas for the first time. and it's more than the recording on cassette. obviously the subject matter feels different but i could totally see something like jeff davis county blues fitting right in with the sound of side 1. the mess inside would fit in on either one. balance. color in your cheeks and welcoming those from far away and speaking about the society of a treeless island between songs. i waited for you, but i never told you where i was; maybe when you see me next, i'll be a different person. sink; the mess inside. absolute lithops effect. religion and fairytales are told so similarly. waco.

i lost my train of thought.

lol anyway if i had a nickel for every time i loved an album recorded over cassette tape inspired by a really specific place and the people in that place and the main instrument was an acoustic guitar i would have 2(3?) nickels

[fallout-lou-begas]

(girl who just listened to Deuteronomy 2:10) can i please have a hhug

[wearingpants]

I love this

im having way too much fun

credit: blinkies.cafe blinkie maker

[eviltmbg]

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros // You Were Cool - The Mountain Goats

[hell-brainworm]

[cowboy--radio]

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

[gravytra1n]

PETER HUGHUESSS

when i say goths is a perfect album people go well of course you, a goth, would say that. but to be honest that doesn't even come into it. the fact that originally the mountain goats was just john darnielle and a guitar and then he was like hm what if we as a band made an album without a single guitar on it is just so interesting and insane you have to respect it. and also peter hugues

[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]

[secondimpact]

[andie-platonically]

gotta rep “we’re all in crash position when we hit” because the life of the world to come is my favorite album come onnnnn

[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

[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