“Hello, Old Rabbit” by The Mountain Goats
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“Alphabetizing” by The Mountain Goats
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“Ghosts” by The Mountain Goats
Ryan & I have been in a long-term disagreement regarding the Mountain Goats albums as of “Get Lonely” and beyond. I find them disappointing and I, personally, am blaming Scott Solter. He (meaning Ryan) thinks they’re good, and improved by changes in recording/production/vocal talent. I feel like all you have to do to realize they’re a disappointment is listen to “Devil in the Shortwave” or “Sweden” or whatever. I don’t understand why someone wants to hide good storytelling under that much instrumentation.
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“Commandante” by The Mountain Goats
Devil in the Shortwave is, hands down, my favorite Mountain Goats EP.
the day of reckoning is coming / faster than anyone here realizes. / and our love is like jesus, but worse. / though you seal the cave up where you’ve lain its body, / it rises. / it rises.
— “Going to Marrakesh” by The Extra Glenns
LPTJ jumped off the commenting-on-mainstream-popular-culture train shortly after our “Ignition (Remix)” piece, since “Ignition (Remix)” seemed such a clear & genuine high-water mark, after which all American popular culture would surely decline gradually into ruin. And indeed, there hasn’t been much since to suggest we were wrong. Most counterexamples you can cite are also going to be R. Kelly songs anyway.
Among the many pointless questions for the asking of which we will someday be called to account before God, “should reissues be included in your year-end list” ranks high.
he announced, “We are a generation that has romanticized self-loathing in the hopes that it will” lead to sex.
— John Darnielle, quoted in “With Beat, Introvert Clears Path to Hope”
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Archive Audio Images RSS FeedThis is just a collection of things I think are neat.
A general overview of 'things I think are neat':abandonment/the post-industrial midwest, anarchism (syndicalism, insurrectionalism, etc), race/ethnicity (esp. defining/constructing the boundaries of whiteness), gender, class (talking/thinking about class generally seems to be an underrated activity), health care (access to, the experience of obtaining, etc), art, science fiction, punk music, conservative talk radio and anthropology (which probably incorporates almost everything else about people).
