#TMG songs

[kaboomthepossum]

Suddenly you are transported to a mystical realm and told you are the hero, destined to save it

You can choose one animal sidekick (or group of sidekicks if they are a group) from a TMG song

You must decide

The world depends on it

[mobydyke]

even if you try try your whole life to be righteous and be good, you'll wind up on your own floor choking on blood. btw. if you even care

[invisiblemonstrosity]

game shows touch our lives - the mountain goats // the taking of christ - caravaggio

[jennyfromthebes]

life advice from the mountain goats:

- lie to the cops

- watch for the signs and learn how to read

- let all the lights blaze, keep your heart light, play really loud music all hours of the night

- do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive, do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away

- life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar

- steal what you need

- bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by

- read all about it on the wikipedia page

- don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light, and stay alive, just stay alive

- make it through this year

[boreal-forest-goth]

Everyone posting about the new Taylor Swift album when they could be experiencing True Lyricism by John Darnielle 😤

[moontaingoat]

people love posting about the most absurd mountain goats lyrics so here's my favorite. Beach House off Hot Garden Stomp (1993). he rails against seals for 3/4 stanzas. he has played it live several times.

[boy-saint]

BRAVE YOUNG COWBOYS!

[merry-fagoland]

oh unreleased heel turn 1 song, we're really in it now

[heliological]

live on 4/10/24 (transcript under the cut)

This is a very old song that I seldom play anymore. (excited crowd sounds)

I can't play old songs with a pick. I didn't use a pick for a long time, I was very, very macho about this sort of thing. If you're not bleeding for it, it doesn't count. That is the dumbest way of thinking (laughs), absolutely—absolutely the dumbest.

The old songs don't work as good unless I'm fully doing the thing.

That woman set herself on fire

They said it on the radio

They said she lit up the skies of Palestine

(guy in crowd: Free Palestine!)

(crowd cheers)

I could not stand to hear them say so

I saw the stars come out

Smelled the oranges on the breeze

Later on they played some Caribbean song

Man, they sure know how to pick 'em

The rich voice burning like a fuse

The syncopated rhythm

I saw the stars come out

Saw the oranges cracking open

I saw you standing there

Orange blossom in your hair

Going to Palestine (crowd cheers louder)

Going to Palestine

(crowd cheers)

Thank you!

[sundownvalentine]

Yknow what maybe I am young and I am good. And alone in my room I am the last of a lost civilization. Maybe.

[shkspr]

every single mountain goats song has at least one line that makes me feel like im going to puke up my literal heart and hold it, still beating in my fragile shaking hands, until my mind and body catch up to the fact that i should no longer physically be alive, at which point i will be left to reckon with that realization while inexplicably continuing to live

[adfamiliares]

black pear tree, 2008

going to maine, 1993

the day the aliens came, 2005

i only listen to the mountain goats: episode 114, 2018

waylon jennings live!, 2019

heel turn 2, 2015

[invisiblemonstrosity]

let it all go.

cotton - the mountain goats // smith college girls - i-d magazine 2004

[solomon-revisited]

don't we all have our silly little mountain goats song that means more to us than it probably should and when we try to explain it to other people we seem entirely unhinged

[irrealisms]

tagged by @arisingonmorningsinnocent

Rules: shuffle your On Repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people

It's All Futile! It's All Pointless! by Lovejoy

In the Shadow of the Western Hills by the Mountain Goats

Nobody by the Crane Wives

Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths

Never Quite Free by the Mountain Goats

A Burning Hill by Mitski

Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod by the Mountain Goats

Be Calm by Fun.

Autoclave by the Mountain Goats

His Theme by Toby Fox

tagging @spiritunwilling @circuit77 @risingape @existentialterror @scientificalstories @erstwhilesparrow @adhdo5 @roundearthsociety @lepertamar @wolffyluna and anyone who sees this and wants to-- feel free to say i tagged you ^_^ and on the flip side if you were tagged and don't want to do it feel free to not!

[linguistics-and-lesbianism]

does anyone else have seemingly innocuous tmg lyrics that always hit super hard for you specifically?