mountaingoats

[Freakboy]

I heard this song by mountaingoats called Going to Goergia and I was like holy crap this is the shitz!

..."The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway
is that it's you
and you're standing..
in the doorway!"..
and you smile as you ease
the gun from my hand
and im frozen with joy
right where i stand
the world throws its light
underneath your hair
40 miles from atlanta
this is nowhere
going to goergia-a-a.

yayness.:D

[perfectbrokenmirror]

hehehe mountain goats are really good.

i remember someone had a post on the last board about listening to that song as the crossed over the state line. Something like that. my mind may be failing me but i know it had to do with georgia and the mountaingoats

do you like the microphones?

c.s.

[Ouch!MyPhantomLimb!]

That was me, I have a inkling it's responsible for a good portion of my fond feelings for that state. That is certainly one of the best songs ever written.
Travelling through it, if you ignore all the "South rising again" stuff the lower half of the country is amazingly pleasant. However, there seems to be an inordinate number of strip club advertisements (or a noticeably higher concentration of them) on road signs passing through the Bible Belt.
I would say just bring the Mountain Goats and it's a party.
I listened to the Microphones a day or two before that driving through a somewhat mountainous region, it provided an excellent context for "The Glow pt. 2".
Come to think of it, being a trucker would be kind of nice that way. Who's with me?

[Freakboy]

i have heard of the microphones but i havent actually heard their music.
what are they like?
(and yes being a trucker would rule!)

[finch]

The Microphones are sort of hard to describe. Acoustic guitar based stuff generally. Phil Elvrum is to the Microphones what Jeff Mangum is to NMH. Phil has a distinct voice (which sounds nothing like Jeff's) Lots of the tracks use a variety of instruments and neat recording techniques. Lyrics are generally pretty cool too. Some of the stuff is more accessible than others. The Glow Pt. 2 is the album to get in my opinion. Songs on it range from really awesome acoustic folky songs (Headless Horseman, I Felt My Size) to grandiose bombardments of noise (there always seems to be at least two points on any Microphones CD where it's just really loud distorted drum cacophony).

Being a trucker would be cool except for maneuvering those big ass things. Also, my neighbor was a trucker and he didn't seem very happy.

What's a good Mountain Goats CD to start with? Aren't they all recorded on a boombox? Oris Tallahasee a studio album?

[Ouch!MyPhantomLimb!]

Tallahassee is the first studio album, not really the one to start with (it has some classics but a couple duds). The Coronors Gambit is excellent...

[perfectbrokenmirror]

i second the glow pt. 2

microphones remind me off add music. i received this sampler from bands on Sharing Music ( www.sharingmusic.com) and was taken aback by how great add music was. he has some mp3's on the site. i highly recommend checking them out, even though my favorite song is not one of them.

c.s.

[Edited on 1-5-03 by perfectbrokenmirror]

[friend]

freakboy, i "third" the microphones. i also reccomend bobby birdman-born free forever.

[Freakboy]

mountaingoats rule i just got this burned cd with a song about digging graves and how he'll love someone when bill gates goes to heaven or something like that :P
ill see if i can get microphones

[Plastic_hero]

I'll forth the Microphones then :D
Try to get the album "The Glow pt. 2" (I bet others have recommended it already).

And yes, Mountain Goats kicks ass, and they might be even better live, so if you have the chance, you must go and see them :)

[hastycolours]

hehe cubs in five. yeah see the mountaingoats. I only posted response to say LISTEN to the microphones. all the music ive ever heard by the microphones is all very different from the rest. i would say there is some acoustic guitar based stuff, but theres also just plain lots of noise depending on what [album] youre hearing i think maybe. just lots of different stuff. loud drums too. theres a thing where theyre/hes into drums or something. i found a 'drums' tape or recording or whatever and i dont know. lots of drums. lyrically, i think you can tell phil writes a lot of the words and then applies it to music. you can tell with lots of songs he does that. his voice is pretty in such a sullen way as he cannot yelp. albumbs 'window" and "song islands" are good. obviously, the glow part2, yes and it was hot so we stayed under the water. song lslands is actually a very good one.

[friend]

mt. eerie is an amazing album by the microphones. i just saw him play this weekend and it was beautiful.

[William]

I like The Mountain Goats alot. The Microphones, I have The Glow Pt. 2. I like the first 4 songs but after those...it starts getting long...

[Edited on 11-11-2004 by William]

[hastycolours]

i normally dont reply to say things like this but YOU RE INSANE!! AHHHH!!! no, im not serious, william; realisitically 'the glow pt 2' is a like it or not like it album for the microphones, considering phil's different song creation; the mellow sullen pretty acoustic guitar songs...and then the creative sometimes almost experimental, often noisy but definately creative. the glow pt 2 is to a band's album like ambrosia to food in my opinion, so to see someone use the words long and boring threw me off. like i said though, if youre more into his pretty playing stuff, then there'll be parts of the glow album you wouldnt get into too strongly. i find that all the albums are like that though. song islands is good however in that sense. i have a phil live thing thats fantastic. . friend you saw him recently?? oh how i would love that....i hope hes running round the country.

[Edited on 6-2-2003 by hastycolours]

[JuneSalutesYou]

and then God said "Let there be opinions"

[friend]

dude, he is totally running round the country(s). i think he's in canada. i think oblio just saw him and crew (karl blau, d+-check them out if you haven't already!). i think he may be headed west towards washington. look it up under tour dates at k records. every show is unique and more than a show. go. :)

[William]

I tried to listen to ''The Glow Pt. 2'' again last night. That Tugboat Horn is now the most annoyingly creepy sound I've ever heard. I'll get a headache whenever I hear it.
I don't see whats artisticly inclined about making it go on for 10 minutes at the end of you're album - How is that not boring, and long?. When I listen to it it just feels bleak, and lifeless.

[friend]

hey william. the glow pt. 2 is a breakup album in which the idea of death is a major theme. he's searching for hope and freedom but feels tiny and sometimes powerless to the massiveness and awesomeness of the universe/planet. it creeps me out sometimes, too, but there's a feeling like this feels permanent, but there's a way out and into impermanence. his next album, mt. eerie continues from where the glow left off, conceptually and in sound. yes, it begins with the very sound that gives you chills. mt. eerie takes phil way past the mood of the glow and he finds what he was looking for, only it's something more massive and beautiful than he could have expected.