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1. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
[This is it! Thanks so much to everyone who has been reading this, I’m incredibly grateful to you.] You sometimes want the things that come last to bear…
Mar 11, 2022
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2. This Year
The session drummer, Alex Decarville, gives us eight flat beats per line on a snare and sixteen beats per line on a hi-hat. Darnielle chops his guitar…
Mar 8, 2022
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3. No Children
In August 2001, Darnielle was driving from Ames, Iowa, to the airport in Des Moines and Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance” came on the radio. “I was…
Mar 4, 2022
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4. Going to Georgia
The acoustic guitar stumbles a little on the way to the song’s three-note riff: A (open), B (hammer on), D (open). Back when Darnielle still played the…
Mar 2, 2022
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Geoff Sanborn
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4. Going to Georgia
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5. Matthew 25:21
In September 2007, the Mountain Goats cancelled a tour date in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Darnielle flew immediately to Ventura, California, where…
Feb 26, 2022
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Geoff Sanborn
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6. Oceanographer's Choice
“What Mountain Goats Song Should You Be Listening To?” the writer Emma Stanford asks in the title to a really funny list of life situations and the…
Feb 24, 2022
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6. Oceanographer's Choice
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7. Minnesota
Heat and humidity somewhere near a lake in Minnesota and a house where some packets of seeds have just come in the mail. A sweet, melancholy sequence of…
Feb 22, 2022
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Geoff Sanborn
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8. Palmcorder Yajna
“When I was a heroin addict,” Darnielle said in an interview with the writer Tobias Woolf in 2009, my dealer told me one time while he was selling us…
Feb 18, 2022
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9. From TG&Y
In December 2006, Darnielle played a solo show at the new Pitzer College student center, a few hundred feet from the old one, where he had gotten his…
Feb 16, 2022
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Geoff Sanborn
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9. From TG&Y
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10. Harlem Roulette
“It’s about the last night of Frankie Lymon’s life, Frankie Lymon who sang ‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love’ and had one of the most beautiful voices ever…
Feb 14, 2022
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10. Harlem Roulette
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11. You Were Cool
This is the kind of thing that you’ll find if you browse the YouTube comments sections under videos of “You Were Cool,” the Mountain Goats’ most famous…
Feb 12, 2022
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Geoff Sanborn
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12. See America Right
“I do not like year-end lists,” Darnielle wrote in an article entitled “Some Albums John Darnielle’s Dug in 2004.” It’s hard enough to say what I mean…
Feb 10, 2022
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