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corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:29 am

the thread formerly known as 'Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Clem Snide, The Upper Crust'

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:29 am

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003 ... orcatid=52

mowbs · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:32 am

Don't know shit about any of them. What I do know is that someone submitted Mountain Goats in their top 20 artists.

Buffalohed · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:24 am

Echoes loves the Mountain Goats. I'm not too fond of Clem Snide, Mountain Goats aren't bad.

Echoes · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:39 am

Go see the mountain goats and hate them, please

McParadigm · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:07 pm **Posts:** 12393

Mountain Goats are great. I thought they were in my top 20, too....

There's something about his poppy storytelling that reminds me of solo Pete Townshend, although the delivery is noticably different.

Buffalohed · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:42 am

Echoes wrote:

Go see the mountain goats and hate them, please

I know what you mean man, I know what you mean. :wink:

The Big So-So · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:58 am

my girlfriend looooves the mountain goats. im indifferent.

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:11 am

well i'm going anyways, dudes.

Echoes · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:11 am

tell me what you liked/didn't like about the mountain goats, and what songs they played and steal a setlist and buy John a drink, okay?

I mean I really hope he likes them because I think they are great but I'm pretty much prepared to accept the fact that he might hate them

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:46 pm

The Mountain Goats - Protein Source of the Future...Now!
The Mountain Goats - Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg
The Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine
The Mountain Goats - Ghana
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee

any of those enjoyable?

stompbox · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:52 pm

corduroy_blazer wrote:

know any of these bands?

they're playing for the 10th anniversary for jon stewart concert in nyc and i'm going.

Superchuink are great! They have been around a long time now.

Echoes · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:56 pm

Protein Source and Ghana are two collections of rarities and hard to find EP's and compilation tracks. So they are spotty, but have some BRILLIANT songs (personally, I prefer Ghana - "Anti-Music Song", "Golden Boy", "Going To Pot Washington", "Noctifer Birmingham", "Going To Kirby Sigston", and "The Anglo-Saxons" are all great songs)

Hail and FArewell, GOthenburg is a tape from 95 that was never intended to be relased and was the holy grail of tMG collecting until it leaked last year. I haven't listened to it - it is pretty much a followup to Sweden, which I also haven't heard yet.

Zopilota Machine is great. The first real Mountain Goats album. Lo-fi and a lot of really great honest songs, but took me a while to get into. Has the absolutely classic "Going To Georgia"

Tallahassee is one of my favourites. A great story about a married couple disintegrating in fantastic fashion. Has one of the best 3 songs run to end it I've ever heard, and the amazing "No Children." Gets slow in parts, but I love it to death. Listen to this first. His first album with good production

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:59 pm

thanks a lot. i'll start listening.

Echoes · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:11 pm

tell me what you think!

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:16 pm

well i'm telling you right now i downloaded protein first and while it's definitely some lo-fi stuff, i'm five songs in and i've actually liked it all so far.

Echoes · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:18 pm

Nice - my first experience was likewise through that album, but I didn't like it so much. It wasn't until I heard The Sunset Tree and tallahassee heels

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:21 pm

dude, he covers carly simon's 'you're so vain' on the gothenburg album. it's fucking great.

corduroy_blazer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:26 pm

Echoes wrote:

Nice - my first experience was likewise through that album, but I didn't like it so much. It wasn't until I heard The Sunset Tree and tallahassee heels

well those are going to be on my computer soon.

Echoes · **Posted:** Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:32 pm

also that sentence should have read "that I fell head over heels" at the end of it

He has a cover of "The Sign" on Bitter Melon Farm, which is excellent as well. Love the guy.

let's talk about the mountain goats

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