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The Mountain Goats - Commandante

i'm gonna drink more whiskey than brendan behan.
and i'm gonna send my belongings all to tripoli.
and i'm gonna ride home to california
with a banjo on my knee.

i'm never gonna turn off the television.
i'm just gonna let it run all night.
i'm gonna plant root vegetables out in the backyard
and come summer i am going to treat you right.

so put on your chairman mao coat
and let me clear my throat.
let's turn this whole town upside-down
and shake it 'til the coins come falling out of its pockets,
yeah put on your che guevara pin
call the troops on in
we're gonna sail through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets.

i got a great big secret written down somewhere.
i got a rosary to protect us both from harm.
i got a storage locker full of cow figurines
and a laundry list of grievances longer than my arm.
and i am never going back to cincinatti.
all those bridges have burned down to the ground.
i got the jet pack strapped to my back
and i am waiting for you to come around.
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The Mountain Goats - Alpha Rats Nets

Ah the lengthening hours in the refinery
Belching fire into the sky
We do our best vampire routines
As we suck the dying hours dry
The night is lovely as a rose
If I see sunlight hit you
I am sure that we’ll both decompose

Ah the fitful sleep and the fire engines
That I dream of when I dream
Some day we’ll both wake up for good
I will try hard not to scream
The evening wind will shake the blinds
You’re stirring from your slumber
We’ve got something hateful on our minds

Oh sing sing sing
For the dying of the day
Sing for the flames that will rip through here
And the smoke that will carry us away
Yeah sing for the damage we’ve done
And the worse things that we’ll do
Open your mouth up and sing for me now
And I will sing for you 

Something in the air.

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I literally wikipedia-d Denton to see if there was something I was missing. Naahhh, nothin’.

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Well they do have the best ever death metal band.

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The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers - Against Pollution (The Mountain Goats Cover)

Decorative grating on my window
Gets a little rustier every year
I don’t know how the metal gets rusty
When it never rains here

A year or so ago I worked at a liquor store
And a guy came in
Tried to kill me so I shot him in the face
I would do it again, I would do it again
When the last days come, We shall see visions
More vivid than sunsets, Brighter than stars
We will recognize each other
And see ourselves for the first time
The way we really are 

The lead singer of The Prayers and Tears… is on tour with the Mountain Goats right now doing some great backing guitar work. It’s the first time I’ve seen them play with more than 3 members and I have to say it was a nice change of pace and sounded incredible.

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Free, AMAZING, Live Mountain Goats Set From 2007 Zoop Show

You can listen to and download it here. Definitely the best live set I’ve ever heard from Darnielle.

Songs Include (Some of Which Being Played Live For the First Time):

Saturday
01 One Fine Day
02 Old College Try
03 The Hot Garden Stomp
04 Alpha Gelida
05 Song For An Old Friend
06 You Or Your Memory
07 Get Lonely
08 Keeping House
09 Going To Georgia
10 Yellow Coat (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover)

?? Baboon
?? No Children
?? Shadow Song
?? Love Cuts The Strings
?? The Mess Inside
?? Houseguest
?? Terror Song
?? Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of



Sunday

01 Jenny
02 Alpha Rats Nest
03 Minnesota
04 Weekend In Western Illinois
05 Alibi
06 Cobscook Bay
07 Leaving Home
08 Attention All Pickpockets
09 Distant Stations
10 Store
11 Chanson du Bon Chose
12 Insurance Fraud #2
13 The Alphonse Mambo
14 Going To Scotland
15 Cao Dai Blowout
16 If You See The Light
17 The Monkey Song
18 The Sign (Ace of Bass cover)
19 Standard Bitter Love Song #1
20 Solomon Revisited
21 Red River Valley (old cowboy standard)
22 California Song
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The Mountain Goats - Going to Bristol

“I watched you pack your bags
saw you head up to the door
but when the key broke off in the deadbolt lock
said that you couldn’t take it anymore
that was the second time you said that in one day
why don’t you just sit still
it’s going to be okay”

This was a highlight of the Mountain Goats/Final Fantasy show last night at the Metro. John Darnielle singing and Owen Pallett taking over the guitar part on violin. Looking forward/hoping to find a live recording.

Not sure if anyone cares but heres the setlist from last night, a really great mix of old and new:

full set-list: 

01. 1 Samuel 15:23 
02. Letter From Belgium 
03. Cotton 
04. How to Embrace a Swamp Creature 
05. Romans 10:9 
06. Cobscook Bay 
07. Evening in Stalingrad 
08. Enoch 18:14 
09. Deuteronomy 2:10 
10. Genesis 30:3 (feat. Owen Pallett) 
11. Going to Bristol (feat. Owen Pallett) 
12. Hebrews 11:40 (feat. Owen Pallett) 
13. Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace 
14. Against Pollution 
15. Psalms 40:2 
16. Lovecraft in Brooklyn 
17. Quito 

first encore 
18. No Children 
19. This Year 

second encore 
20. Handball 
21. Going to Georgia

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Last night I went to one of the three screenings (NY, Chicago, Seattle) for “The Life of the World to Come” directed by Rian Johnson. Official description follows: “The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at Pomona College. In this film by Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers Bloom), John Darnielle performs The Life of the World to Come on piano and guitar. Shot in the same building where, as an eight-year-old piano student and new transplant to Claremont, he performed Bach minuets for the state examiner, The Life of the World to Come takes the songs from the album and restores them to their raw original states: skin, blood, and bone. John is joined on vocals by Rachel from the Bright Mountain Choir, his original bassist, with whom he first performed as the Mountain Goats about four blocks from the building in which the film was shot. ” Darnielle performs the album in its entirety switching from piano to guitar then back to piano to close the film and does so all in one take. Lit mostly by desk lamps and occasionally an overhead spot light, there was something really beautiful about the lighting and single camera flow as Darnielle sings out to an empty auditorium. I thought a nice touch that Johnson added on the directorial end was that he made no attempts to hide the process of shooting this (again, in one take). Ex: seeing the camera stutter as he hooks in and out of a tripod mounted on a dolly or occasionally seeing a grip running in bare feet to flip on and off some lights. It was like you were being let in on a secret. The actual screening, held at the Chopin theatre, was a lot like the actual film; intimate and bare bones. I’m really happy I attended and could be a part of it. Watch a clip here.

Last night I went to one of the three screenings (NY, Chicago, Seattle) for “The Life of the World to Come” directed by Rian Johnson. Official description follows:

“The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at Pomona College. In this film by Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers Bloom), John Darnielle performs The Life of the World to Come on piano and guitar. Shot in the same building where, as an eight-year-old piano student and new transplant to Claremont, he performed Bach minuets for the state examiner, The Life of the World to Come takes the songs from the album and restores them to their raw original states: skin, blood, and bone. John is joined on vocals by Rachel from the Bright Mountain Choir, his original bassist, with whom he first performed as the Mountain Goats about four blocks from the building in which the film was shot. ”

Darnielle performs the album in its entirety switching from piano to guitar then back to piano to close the film and does so all in one take. Lit mostly by desk lamps and occasionally an overhead spot light, there was something really beautiful about the lighting and single camera flow as Darnielle sings out to an empty auditorium. I thought a nice touch that Johnson added on the directorial end was that he made no attempts to hide the process of shooting this (again, in one take). Ex: seeing the camera stutter as he hooks in and out of a tripod mounted on a dolly or occasionally seeing a grip running in bare feet to flip on and off some lights. It was like you were being let in on a secret.

The actual screening, held at the Chopin theatre, was a lot like the actual film; intimate and bare bones. I’m really happy I attended and could be a part of it.

Watch a clip here.

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