#i love the mountain goats

[jennying-my-thebes]

one thing i really love about the mountain goats is that their lyrics can really be interpreted in whatever way is most relatable to your own life regardless of the original meaning of the lyrics, and that's because mr. goats himself is so gifted at writing about the human condition in such a timeless and near-universally applicable way. i know realistically this man was not writing about queer tragedy or the strife of disabled youths or even, more personally, my own parents' lack of a desperately needed divorce and my family's turmoil, but it's so easy to take these beautifully crafted lyrics and apply them to personal struggles and experiences as if they were originally written for that sole purpose. i can listen to a song written 30 years ago about some random person i will never know and immediately think of someone or something from my own life today, as can millions of other people who might listen to the same song. i love this band so, so dearly.

[hetchdrive]

oh holy shit

[brigdh]

Okay, everyone knows Tallahassee by the Mountain Goats is the ultimate Ed/Izzy album, but why is no one talking about how Transcendental Youth is Ed/Jack???

I mean: 

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make Climb limits past the limits, jump in front of trains all day

Or:

Mistreat your altar boys long enough And this is what you get Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave

Or:

Room full of ambitious young policemen Everybody trying to make his mark I was a red dot blinking on a screen up overhead. Live like an outlaw Clutching gold coins in his claw

Or:

Hear my rivals on the western wind Hard to know who might or might not be your friend Beam of the flash-light All night in the woods Hunt us like dogs And then string us up for good Lead us to the beach by our hands And bury us there in the sand Or:

So many so-called friends Working for the government (I MEAN. This song is even called ‘Counterfeit Florida Plates’!)

Or:

Something sacred, something blue Cannons in the harbor dawn I crawled down here to dig for bones One more season then I'm gone Black drapes over the crosses Call in a favor from an old friend

[garlic-sauc3]

every so often I forget how good the mountain goats are until I listen to them again and it's just so fucking good

[lovebombsafterthewar]

and i want to go home but i am home

[roolovesfrankocean]

Fish 😄

[themaybug]

Clean Slate, The Mountain Goats (x)

[ruoyeming]

Some frames I like from the tgcf book 4 animatic I'm in the process of putting together!

[ineffablehubbys]

Something about this is just so incredibly Crowley coded of him…

[isbergillustration]

Didn’t see any taxidermied or jarred mountain goats at the museum yesterday, but I did see four of them in concert. And it ruled as they always do.

[boreal-forest-goth]

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

[squash1]

the most gansey song ever.

[not2menotifitsyou]

To be loved is to be changed (!!!!!!!!)

The Mountain Goats // Wendy Cope // @8-bitfiction // Eden Robinson // Ada Limon // Bleachers // Amparo Dávila // Octavio Paz // Vladimir Nabokov // Henry James

[anemonet]

Iterator can from my wips (please read that in the tone of blorbo from my show :) (that superstructure is a girl (he/it) to me)

[itsscottiesstark]

I have absolutely no idea what that Scottish idiot said but if 53 year old David Tennant can climb a tree, snap a branch and then keep climbing, only to jump back down when it was time and compare himself to a mountain goat, I feel like I can do anything.

[fayewoodss]

Any fans of The Mountain Goats?