Episode 143 - Showrunners Panel, Our Major Event

[robotam 4493]

Our boy did good. Who knew Sean was so funny?

[SteveH 11126]

Hayes and Sean should do a podcast akin to Analyze Phish but for the Mountain Goats and call it Up the Earwolves.

 

Let's Make a Darnielle?

[elizamuffins 4228]

Are there really people who don't like The Mountain Goats? Serious question.

 

This is how I imagine it would go:

 

Hayes: Have you ever heard of The Mountain Goats?

Guest: No

Hayes: Listen to this --(plays literally any song from them)

Guest: Oh wow they are great, how have I never heard of them? My life used to suck and now it is great. Thank you so much!

Hayes: No Problemo, dude!

[AndrewGoll 1211]

Found a Wartortle!!!

 

May have lost a finger. But I think he will do well in a Gym.

[Andrew 4646]

I've heard No Children and liked it but no others, where do I start?

[piemanpie24 1119]

I've heard No Children and liked it but no others, where do I start?

It depends. If you want more stuff like that, Tallahassee would be a good place to start. All Hail West Texas is the album that a lot of people say is the best, though.

[Jack Johnson P.I. 3649]

I've heard No Children and liked it but no others, where do I start?

http://dontgetmestar...-mountain-goats

they cover a lot of songs in this ep (obviously) and it's really funny. If you want to go straight into albums Sean suggests starting with The Sunset Tree, if I recall correctly.

[souprman 10477]

I've heard No Children and liked it but no others, where do I start?

Hi Andrew. I'm a big Mountain Goats fan. The records Tallahassee & We Shall All Be Healed are a good place to start. It's the point between the lo-fi/boombox era and the studio/full-band era. going forward or backward from that point will give you a good rounded taste of what MG's do.

 

Lo-fi records I like: Coroner's Gambit, All Hail West Texas, Zopilote Machine, Nothing For Juice.

Hi-fi records I like: (beside the aforementioned Tallahassee & WSABH) Sunset Tree, All Eternals Deck, Heretic Pride.

 

There's a pretty uniform approach to structure in the MG's catalog, the one outlier being Get Lonely, where instead of his usual nasal whine and heavy attack on acoustic guitar he sings in mostly a falsetto and piano is the lead instrument. It's very good and I highly recommend it. Here's the first track.

 

 

cheers.

[mwn 5470]

I will go to bat for

as the best of the lo-fi era but all the suggestions in here are good.

also I was going to say that the utu2tm tmg podcast should be "hast thou considered the tetrapodcast" but I googled and someone on reddit already thought of it, so nevermind don't consider it

[SteveH 11126]

Hey guys - hot enough for ya?

[beeface 1804]

i gotta tell ya, i got my fingers crossed for Hayes' patented "high knee" in the photos for the next episode

[Shrek & Donkey Kong 4336]

after today's CBB i'm straight thirsty for Hayes and Sean to do other podcasts -- getting to hear even one of them twice in a week is so great