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
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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
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the difference between the mountain goats and they might be giants is that you'll hear a tmg song that sounds like absolute nonsense and look up the lyrics and the annotations are like "oh actually this is a reference to the canterbury tales and also a metal band that existed for one month in 1996 and played three shows ever and all existing tapes of their debut album were melted down into glue 20 years ago" vs you'll hear a tmbg song that sounds like absolute nonsense and look up the lyrics and the annotations quote an interview with the johns where they're like "if you even think about interpreting this song we'll come to your house and kill you"
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Thank you Jon Wurster for posting this gem on your Instagram page
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the mountain goats are great because everyone you talk to will say shit like "you really have to understand that their subtle lyricism & deep poetry spoke to me at a time when nothing else could, saving my life and ushering me into a new era of artistic creation" and then the best song on every album is always called "the opossum song" and it goes "opossum opossum opossum in the front yard / opossum opossum opossum in the back yard / opossum! in! my! house! drinking blood!"
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banger tweet from mr. goats this afternoon
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Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora
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[white-knuckling my bathroom sink] there will be feasting and dancing in jerusalem next year
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even if you try try your whole life to be righteous and be good, you'll wind up on your own floor choking on blood. btw. if you even care
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You'll never convince me that The Mountain Goats didn't pick their song names from a stack of rejected Star Trek scripts
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