The Mountain Goats - Blog Posts

mountain goats collage with one of my fav songs, When a Powerful Animal Comes

goache, pen, acrylic paint markers, paper and magazines

“I found the mountain goats through tiktok” “I knew the mountain goats before they were popular” I found the mountain goats through a jake English animatic on Instagram

I AM GONNA MAKE IT THROUGH THIS YEAR

IF. IT. KILLS. ME

ID: A warm yellow-orange userbox. On the left is the cover for The Mountain Goats' album The Sunset Tree. The text on the right reads "This user is gonna make it through this year if it kills them." End ID

HAPPY MOUNTAIN GOATS DAY

goats fans. if you don't use instagram i still need you to see this

THIS

THIS THIS HURT ME. PLEASE WATCH IT

if you don't mind, put in the tags which one and when you started listening to the goats :)

happy “i am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” day everyone, congratulations everyone on making it through the year, here is a visual representation fourteenth-century style

i hope that our few remaining readers give up on that unfinished wip from seven years ago

and i hope we come up with a failsafe plot that piss off the dumb few that keep commenting all the ways they'd write it differently

in my life i hope i lie and tell everyone the next chapter will be out on time

and i hope i write (i hope we all write)

i hope you write (i hope we both write)

🌀ABOUT ME🌀

Im putting all of my favorite things here to pin so I can introduce myself to people and maybe make some online friends!

Name: Haley

Age: 17

Pronouns: She/Her

🌾Things I like🌾

John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts (main interest)

DC Comics

WATCHMEN!!! 

The Question and Mister Miracle

Gravity Falls

Kurt Vonnegut

Nerdfighteria

The Mountain Goats, The Talking Heads, The Beatles, Elvis Costello

To Kill a Mockingbird

Owls

M*A*S*H

literally all of my favorite things have been connected to mash im oh so happy. Vonnegut? The Mountain Goats? You name it, someone in the mash fandom has made it!

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

The mountain goats tag us SO REAL 😭😭😭

Girls when the dull pain that they live with isn't getting any duller

A corner of heaven

Hey mutuals friendly reminder that

• I am drowning

• there is no sign of land

• you are coming down with me

• hand in unlovable hand

new year new mountain goats

couldn’t stop thinking about this post

On hoping for the worst Everything Falling Apart, John Tottenham // Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink // No Children, The Mountain Goats // Grow Up With Me, Keaton Henson // 100 Bad Days, AJR // Bohemian Rapsody, Queen // The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure, Brian Larkin // Mad World, Tears for Fears // Donna, The Lumineers

On leaving or dying 

sleep on the floor - the lumineers / fast car - trace chapman /  this year - the mountain goats /  ghosts - the head and the heart / roll away your stone - momford & sons / keys in the car - jukebox the ghost / i am disappeared - frank turner / twin size mattress - the front bottoms / maps for the getaway - andrew mcmahon / this town ain’t big enough for the one of me - frank turner /  land locked blues - bright eyes /  go farther in lightness - gang of youths /  everything i own - the front bottoms 

The Mountain Goats - No Children, from Hell.

A drawing of that one guy who sung No children by the Mountain Goats

Whoever made that Kipperlily Copperkettle playlist that is exclusively The Mountain Goats music understands me.

Hey mutuals friendly reminder that

• I am drowning

• there is no sign of land

• you are coming down with me

• hand in unlovable hand

"i can fix him!" "i can make him worse!"

i am drowning, there is no sign of land, he is coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand

These suck so bad Holy shit

Tracklist:

Training Montage • Mark on You • Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome • Extraction Point • Bones Don't Rust • First Blood • Make You Suffer • Guys on Every Corner • Hostages • Need More Bandages • Incandescent Ruins • Bleed Out

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

Sean Bonnette performing Alpha Rats Nest (originally by The Mountain Goats) at The Deaf Institute in Manchester, England. 10/2/2014

Video credits to Luke Bather on YouTube

- ily Pat saying, "Okay,, it's been a long, hard day." at the beginning of First Song on Ramshackle Glory's Live the Dream album

- ily when they finish playing Personal Space Invader on PWCEP and Ben says, "Sounds like shit,,"

- ily Pat giggling and then going, "Alright motherfucker!" before singing This City Is Killing Me from his split album with Ceschi

- Ily Ben and Sean discussing cd prices and Sean saying, "We usually do about $5-$7" and Ben says, "You should've said $7-$10, dude-" and Sean says, "$7-$10!" before playing Going to Georgia from the Live At Trunk Space album

- ily when Jello Biafra says, "Here's another one for the police!" before playing Goons of Hazard on Dead Kennedys' Mutiny on the Bay album

- ily when Sean says, "We have two more and one of them is not ours. One of them belongs to The Mountain Goats, from North Carolina." before singing Going to Georgia on the Live At Trunk Space album. Because,, it was 2005. Prefacing who the Mountain Goats were dates that album in a really beautiful way because like. Look at them now. Both bands. It's silly but it's a very sweet like ,,look how far both bands have come,, kinda thing. Idk.

- ily when Sean Bonnette says, "Rigby? I'm gonna fucking stab you. Don't look at me with your shitty eyes :/ oh are we recording? Okay :3" in the beginning of Uno Mas Cerveza Por Favor from their split album with Flaspar/Golden Boots

- ily Pat saying, "This one is for all the ladies, it's about how you should all start a kickass rock and roll band." before playing For A Girl In Rhinelander on the WDU Live in Plattsburgh album

- ily Sean saying, "If you guys feel compelled to clap after we play,, please don't. Because that would be loud." before playing Jesus Saves during a show that wasn't even legal to host in a hotel room in Florida from their Holiday Inn Gainesville album

I know I'm missing so many, and i know some of these examples don't count as much because they're from live albums, but those shows were so important to the people there and I'm happy that the audio was preserved in a way where they're still being talked about so many years later.

one thing i never get tired of in songs is when they include some sounds from the recording booth like a laugh at the end, a ‘was that good?’ or like, the sounds of the guitar being put down, a chair creaking. it’s nice how music can be used as an escape but also something that ties you right back down to earth. it will affect you so deeply & then ur like wow… you just played that. it’s grounding & magical & just one of my fave things ever!

The Mountain Goats perform Holidays In The Sun (originally by the Sex Pistols) at The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas. 10/28/23

— Video credits to ezralite23 on YouTube —