THE MOUNTAIN GOATS USERBOXES

i've thought about this a lot and if i had to explain recorded sound to a ghost or a time traveler or an alien i would play them the recording of california song from this tmg show. the quiet simplicity. the person in the audience who shouts "i love you". the way after two lines, john leaves his mic and all you hear is the crowd, but it's small enough that you can pick out individual voices. the person with high voice who hits every note and you can hear their smile. the way the quiet of the first verse turns into a emphatic chant of "i've got joy, joy, joy in my soul tonight". the guy who sings the song the regular way while the rest of the crowd holds a note, and ends up being the only person singing in the audience for a moment. the way the john and the crowd keep singing "you really got a hold on me" until it's just peter's bass and everyone snapping along. the little improvised lines john sings before he says "thank you very much" and the crowd erupts. humanity at its absolute finest for real

get lonely by the mountain goats is an insane album they really made an album that could make the happiest person on earth want to kill themselves. cool!

category 5 deuteronomy 2:10 by the mountain goats moment

I’m gonna sparkle on this wednesday if it fucking kills me

the mountain goats “divorce” songs aren’t even about divorce they’re about people wanting so desperately to return to how things used to be that they torture each other forever hope this helps

does anyone else have something wrong with them or is it just me and the guy from the mountain goats

babe are you okay i saw you were reblogging “No Children (live at the bottom of the hill)” again?

All shall be well someday

this is making the rounds this fine tuesday and i need to emphasize that dragon tuesday is SPECIFICALLY the tuesday after cyber monday. it’s a good friday type situation. many tuesdays will be dragon and many fridays will be good but they are SPECIFICALLY in relation to another calendar event.