#song is amy aka spent gladiator 1

[teenbeachmovie3]

new little tattoo on me by me 💜

[userkirian]

tattoo this song on my thigh and let it be part of me forever.

[pythiaswine]

my last post featured my own art i bought on redbubble so here's an appreciation post for the stickers i got by other artists! if these artists have tumblr please tag them!

Kassandra mosaic from AC Odyssey by arlieopal

"I am made of memories," quote from TSOA by skei

Ellie from TLOU2 by LunaAndRosa

REVENGE MOMMY!! from Do Revenge by StephanieHa5

"Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive," quote from The Mountain Goats by scrambledpegs

[mtsainthelens]

mountain goats songs are sooo good up until they give you a trite little mantra

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 • Lakeside View Apartments Suite • Cry for Judas • Harlem Roulette • White Cedar • Until I Am Whole • Night Light • The Diaz Brothers • Counterfeit Florida Plates • In Memory of Satan • Spent Gladiator 2 • Transcendental Youth

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[jennyfromthebes]

no okay so in Jenny From Thebes, the song Only One Way references Distant Stations off All Hail West Texas, which is a song about a person missing someone who was in a way a mentor figure to them and someone they loved in some way who symbolised safety, and we know that people who have needed help are the most likely to then later offer help to others; thus I believe that rather than Distant Stations being someone else talking about Jenny, it's Jenny talking about someone who was that for her, before she was the person we know and love in JfT. and in Cleaning Crew, Jenny references Portland as a place that's significant to her/that she has some tie to, maybe as a place that she used to live and/or where someone who's important to her lives? the album Transcendental Youth is also directly tied both to Portland and to Jenny, an album about people who "madly, stupidly, blessedly, won't stop surviving", an album that's very dark and depressing but bookended by songs about how you have to stay alive. the album opener, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1, has the line "people might laugh at your tattoos/when they do, get new ones in completely garish hues" which can be seen as a parallel to Fresh Tattoo, and "make up magic spells/we wear them like protective shells" which can be seen as a parallel to Murder at the 18th Street Garage. I don't actually think that either of those (or really any of this) means anything but they're a fun connection. circling back to Portland, Jenny knows someone there, yeah? I think that the person she knows in Portland is the person who helped her when she needed it and that person is Amy. no wait why are you walking away I have more to say about this

[yourbelgianthings]

aforementioned giant list of mountain goats songs for taz

sadly some characters i couldn’t find a song i thought fit for (i.e. angus) that doesn’t mean i don’t like them!!

Magnus- Against Pollution, Spent Gladiator 2, Training Montage, Billy the Kid’s Dream of Magic Shoes

Merle- Hebrews 11:40, Harlem Roulette, January 31 438, Noche Del Guajalote

Taako- Up the Wolves, Get Lonely, Get Famous

Barry- Blues in Dallas, Love Love Love

Johann- Your Belgian Things, Harlem Roulette

Lucretia- Old College Try, Heel Turn 2, Game Shows Touch Our Lives

Davenport- Idylls of the King, Maybe Sprout Wings

Hurley- Magpie, Love Love Love

Sloane- Dilaudid

Lucas- In Memory of Satan

Lup- Going Invisible 2

Taakitz- The Age of Kings, The Coroner’s Gambit

Blupjeans- Bluejays and Cardinals

Carey and Killian- Animal Mask, 1 Corinthians 13: 8-10

IPRE- High Hawk Season, Corsican Mastiff Stride, When A Powerful Animal Comes

Aubrey- There Will Be No Divorce, Dinu Lipatti’s Bones, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1, Shadow Song, Song For An Old Friend

Duck- Midland, New Monster Avenue, In the Hidden Places, As Many Candles As Possible

Ned- Cotton, Wild Sage, Estate Sale Sign, Prowl Great Cain, The Mess Inside, Bleed Out, Going to Hungary

The Pine Guard- Fire Editorial

Pigeon- Jeff Davis County Blues

Mama- Midland, Bones Don’t Rust

Barclay- Color in Your Cheeks, If You See Light, Harbor Me

Minerva- The Young Thousands, Luna, Mobile, Clean Slate

Dani- Blueberry Frost

Keith- Alpha Rats Nest

Hollis- Alpha Rats Nest, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1, Guys on Every Corner

Boyd- The House that Dripped Blood

Indrid- Alabama Nova

Thacker- Elijah, How to Embrace A Swamp Creature

Amber- The Recognition Scene, International Small Arms Traffic Blues, Oceanographer’s Choice, 1 John 4:16, Bones Don’t Rust, The Young Thousands, Family Happiness, Game Shows Touch Our Lives, Genesis 3:23

Devo- Cotton, Up the Wolves, Get Lonely, New Zion, Outer Scorpion Squadron, Hopeful Assassins of Zeno, Never Quite Free, Cry for Judas, Mark on You, Autoclave, Genesis 3:23

Zoox- Song for Lonely Giants, Incandescent Ruins, Autoclave

Oksana/Kodira- The Recognition Scene, Oceanographer’s Choice, Luna, Genesis 3:23

Orlean- Trick Mirror, New Zion, In Memory of Satan

The Curator- Deuteronomy 2:10

The Shoreside Community- Letter from Belgium, Going to Lebanon 2

The Coriolis Crew- Steal Smoked Fish

[elijah-terry]

mountain goats songs that keep me from giving up.

up the wolves // heel turn 2 // the young thousands // cotton // amy aka spent gladiator 1 // training montage // heel turn 2 // deuteronomy 2:10 // heretic pride

[gayeddieagenda]

hiii @whatisthiswitchcraft i see u have identified the two mountain goats-lyrics-inspired fics on the wip list :3

heat wave fic is going to be so, SO short. i swear it's going to be. it's about a hot day in summer when eddie's air conditioning breaks, so, of course, eddie and chris come over to crash at buck's for some cool air. chris gets buck's bed; buck and eddie share the air mattress on the floor of the living room. they don't want to wake chris up, but they can't sleep, so they lie side by side and text each other. heat of summer, phones in a dark room, quiet love confessions - u get the idea!

it is only technically inspired by a mountain goats song, bc it really couldn't have less to do w/ the song (have to explode), but sometimes i get the lyrics tile floor of the bathroom/scrubbed clean and bright, and you and me lying on the tile floor/trying to keep cool/restless all night stuck in my head and im swept away to the feeling of a cool tile floor on a hot day. so that's the inspo!!

stand there and get hit i have definitely told u about, though it probably has changed a little since then. title is from spent gladiator 2 (which is an eddie song, or at the very least a song w/ eddie lyrics) (amy aka spent gladiator 1 is a buck song: 'do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive'). this fic is very shortly after buck comes out to eddie - they go out for drinks and eddie tries to be supportive and talk to buck about being bi dating a man et al. inevitably, he kinda fucks it up and buck gets mad at him. buck tells eddie that maybe this is just a thing eddie isn't going to understand about him; eddie has a spiral of unprecedented proportions about that.

snippet:

He was nineteen with a pregnant girlfriend. Eddie didn’t have the luxury of choices. He’d penned himself in, sealed himself off, and resolved it keep moving. He told himself he would do everything right, and if it all blew up in his face—wounded, wife gone, the only thing in his life that wasn’t ruined a kid who barely knew him—at least he’d only failed in the ways they all expected him to. He wasn’t remarkable. Eddie knew what his life was. It was a box. Four walls, a lid, tight and contained. The last couple years, he’d been making space in his box, letting the light in a little, unbending the corners. But he hadn’t stepped outside of it. Hadn’t even gotten close.

[oatshow]

#43 for jynmelshian, pleeeassseeee.

Number 43: Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 by The Mountain Goats

(Send me a character and a number 1-100 for a drawing based on the corresponding song in my spotify wrapped!)

[unloneliest]

hello besties. album order is very intentional when it comes to the mountain goats, so the question is not what your favorite album opener is, but rather: which of these songs is the best at being an album opener?

i'd love to hear your reasoning in the tags, and if your favorite isn't the same as what you voted for, i'd love to hear what that is too!

i will be tagging all my polls 'tmg polls' and the rest in this series of polls can be found here. let me know in the replies or tags if you'd like to be tagged in future polls/posts!

[alexis-royce]

Youuuuuu got it @windienine ! Updating an old post since the formatting broke on it:

Like any good OC gremlin, I have playlists for all my favs. The one I’ll put before the cut, though, is Kinesis’ theme song, written by Andrew Huang. He legit wrote it for Evil Plan. It’s both about my OC and it has a slick guitar theme that is just….EVERYTHING. It is the best character theme I have and I adore it.

Here’s a pile (though not even close to all) of character songs under the cut:

Evil Plan

Kinesis: Upside down - Barenaked Ladies, Defeat You- Smash Mouth, half the Dr. Horrible Soundtrack because of course, Evil Genius - Pat Benatar, Bank Job- BNL. A reader also once sent me “Sexy Supervillain” by Fanatical, and I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.

Alice: Science Vs Romance, Rilo Kiley , Do It - Spice Girls.

William: Vanishing, BNL.

Lemon and Lime - Sunday Morning - Maroon 5

Sire

Anna & Susan - Odds Are - BNL

(Cannot for the life of me find the rest of those playlists. I’m sure there were a ton. Anyway I know a fuckton of weird old musicals, it’s mostly them.)

morphE - Mage: The Awakening Campaign

Campaign Theme: Dark Blue - Jack’s Mannequin

Ammi: Esperandote - Rika Muranaka & Vanesa Quiroz

Sanguine (The First One) - Mister Blue Sky in G Major

Amical: Golden and Green - The Builders and the Butchers, Hurricane - Panic!, Killer Queen - Queen

Billy Thatcher: Every fucking song from Chess, The Musical, by Tim Rice and the boys from Abba

Hendrik Rakove: Hurt So Good - John Mellencamp, Lovefool - Spencer Day’s Cover, Love Me Dead - Ludo, Grace Kelly - BYU A cappella cover, Talk about You - MIKA, It’s All Been Done - BNL, Boomerang - BNL, The Show Must Not Go On - Harvey Danger, Circus- Drew Gasparini and Lindsay Mandez.

Talaiporia- Choke - I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Andrew Cross: Camisado- Panic!

Closing Shop - (The weird experimental meta campaign that literally ate itself)

Steam Rising - Murder By Death, Devil’s Calling - Florence and the Machine, Talkin at the Texaco - James McMurtry, Keepin’ It Real - Barenak BLOW BY KESHA BLOW BY KESHA GET MY SONG RIGHT GET IT RIGHT, Sometimes the Line Walks You - Murder By Death

Exit Signs- Slashers/mixed nWoD Campaign

Season One theme: What if I’m Wrong - Damien Rice

Season Two Theme: I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

Cyril: Disaster - Drew Weston, A Little Irony - Tom Milsom.

Dea ‘Exit’ DeLus: When I Grow Up - Tim Minchin, Break Your Heart - BNL, If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray, Crystalline - Bjork, Still - Ben Folds, Come Into My Head - Kimbra, Dinner at Eight - Rufus Wainwright, What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club, Big Dark Love - Murder By Death, Bitter and Sick - One Two,

DRT: Bitter Rivals - Sleigh Bells, Passcode - BNL.

Swing: Boogie Feet - Kesha.

Deirdre Whitman: Welcome to the Ball - Rufus Wainwright.

NonPlatonic Forms

I’m Gonna Win- Rob Cantor Boomerang - Lucy Schwartz, Hate that you know me so well- Bleachers, Jericho - Rufus Wainwright, Guster - Center of Attention, Toe to Toe - BNL, Give It Back to You - BNL, Limits -BNL (I apologize for nothing I love Silverball), Blood - ANIMA!, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 - Mountain Goats, and of COURSE- Dead Inside by Patricia Taxxon!

- Other characters -

Channery Keene

Artificial Heart - JoCo, Erase Me - Ben Folds Five, Desperate Measures - Marianas Trench, Haunted - Maya Kern, Cake - Melanie Martinez, Bulletproof- La Roux, Cassandra - Area 11, Stolen - Greentree, Guster - Simple Machine, Make Me Feel - Janelle Monae, Could I Leave You - (specifically Donna Murphy at the Sondheim’s 80th concert).

Chrome and Prism

Kiss with a Fist - Florence and the Machine, Langhorns - Spybeat, Dancing’s Not a Crime - Panic!, Thanks I Hate It - Simple Creatures, Sweet Talk - Saint Motel, This Is Love - Air Traffic Controller, Nothing Without You- Vienna Teng

Harold Ludicael

Consequence Free - Great Big Sea, Sea of No Cares- Great Big Sea, Don’t Threaten me with a Good Time - Panic!, Dust and Ashes from Great Comet, I Need to Know from Jekyll and Hyde; Boy Decide - Murder by Death, Spring Break 1899 - Murder By Death, My Type - Saint Motel.

[onetruelurker]

Stay Forever Alive // A Mountain Goats Playlist

I've wanted a Goats playlist that captures the throughline of survival that cuts through their work for a long time. I'm still tinkering with the order, but trying to capture the push/pull of tension in in these different paced songs has been interesting.

Exegetic Chains

Done Bleeding

Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1

The Legend of Chavo Guerrero

Possum by Night

Jenny

Cotton

Up the Wolves

Going to Georgia

Woke Up New

Clean Slate

The Ballad of Bull Ramos

Great Pirates

Heel Turn 2

Spent Gladiator 2 (Jordan Lakes)

This Year

[queereldritchgalaxyprincess]

10 for the music ask!

10. 3 songs that make you happy

[the-elusive-soleil]

Feanor and Sons as The Mountain Goats songs

(Disclaimer: I haven't researched the actual intended song meanings. This is just based on straight-up lyrics.)

Feanor: "Up the Wolves" It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage / Our mother has been absent / Ever since we founded Rome / But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

Maedhros: "Autoclave" And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn / And there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn / And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam / And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home / My heart's an autoclave

Maglor: "Your Belgian Things" Only I was here to see them do it / I wish I had a number where you are / It's hard with no one here to help me through it / I can see you in my sleep / Playing the points for all you're worth / Walking gingerly across the bruised earth

Celegorm: "Heretic Pride" And I feel so proud to be alive / And I feel so proud when the reckoning arrives . . . Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / And I will burn hotter than the sun

Caranthir: "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" Stay independent / Make adjustments as needed / It's losers all the way down / You stay undefeated / Stay undefeated / Wage wars, get rich, die handsome

Curufin: "Mark On You" Can't trust anybody / Even the tough ones crack / Train up a swordsman / To stab you in the back . . . Make peace with your family / You walk softly on this earth / I'm gonna leave a mark on you

Ambarussa: "Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1" 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 . . . And stay alive / Just stay alive

[boycritter]

29, 42,43?

29. favourite film(s)

MEAN GIRLS and LEGALLY BLONDE !!!!!!!!!

42. favourite book(s)

already answered!!!

43. favourite song ever

amy aka spent gladiator 1 by the mountain goats or music for teenagers by harley poe or dissonance by ajj or lipstick covered magnet by the front bottoms or up the wolves by the mountain goats or oceanographers choice by the mountain goats or depression by homeless gospel choir or kokopelli face tattoo by ajj or like real people do by hozier or werewolf gimmick by the mountain goats or