#the mountain goats band

[shinyside]

up the wolves // the mountain goats

[men-who-meow]

not to be an angsty teenager but when john darnielle said "and alone in my room, i am the last of a lost civilization" he understood! he knew, he knew

[mobydyke]

the mountain goats make music for people who spent their entire lives convinced they would die before they were 17 except now they're 26 and they have a job and friends and hobbies and they're not sure what they're meant to do now that they've survived

[kindapunkyrocky]

[sylviii]

mountain goats fans are so fucking funny theyll be like "my favorite goats song is Going to Yugoslavia" and on the wiki page for that song John Darnielle is quoted as saying "I wrote this as a joke for my friend Evan back in 1996". and the song in question is like four lines total with no discernible plot or characters anmd a chorus of "the air was filled with cormorants, la la la"

and they're so right for this and i desire them all carnally

[hadespaint]

The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

This comic was done for a school assignment. It’s a couple years old now, but it’s still one of my favorite things I’ve made, and I have the lyrics of this song permanently burned into my brain because of it.

[squash1]

the most gansey song ever.

[fructidors]

i've thought about this a lot and if i had to explain recorded sound to a ghost or a time traveler or an alien i would play them the recording of california song from this tmg show. the quiet simplicity. the person in the audience who shouts "i love you". the way after two lines, john leaves his mic and all you hear is the crowd, but it's small enough that you can pick out individual voices. the person with high voice who hits every note and you can hear their smile. the way the quiet of the first verse turns into a emphatic chant of "i've got joy, joy, joy in my soul tonight". the guy who sings the song the regular way while the rest of the crowd holds a note, and ends up being the only person singing in the audience for a moment. the way the john and the crowd keep singing "you really got a hold on me" until it's just peter's bass and everyone snapping along. the little improvised lines john sings before he says "thank you very much" and the crowd erupts. humanity at its absolute finest for real

[crancisfrozier]

Annual John Darnielle New Years thread once again shaking me to my core

[extremefrogrefrigerator]

the mountain goats are for the middle aged people searching for some deeper purpose to guide them through that dark well of quiet lingering inner turmoil. the mountain goats are for the teenagers told by their parents that they're disgraces to the name of god. the mountain goats are for long afternoons behind motels looking at dirty pools and orange skies and hoping for hope. the mountain goats are for seeing the dead mouse you've been left by some loving creature. the mountain goats are for sitting in the old chairs that have been in the attic for years. the mountain goats are for sharing a late-night campfire with someone that you've grown to love after a very long time. the mountain goats are for the people who have lost, lost, and lost again, but who keep somehow finding things along the way. the mountain goats are for dusty radios and crisply clean cd players. the mountain goats are for hope and sorrow and all of the quiet moments in between.

[men-who-meow]

I have a sharp thing hidden in my hand shaped like an astrolabe by the way. if you even care.

[yonpote]

Cry for Judas - The Mountain Goats // DanAndPhilCRAFTS - Slime

[best-fictional-band-poll]

Two fan-favourites go head to head in this match up! Tumblr loves Marceline, one of the world's favourite goth lesbians, and her band the Scream Queens.

But can they defeat The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton, who never settled on a name (the top three contenders being Satan's Fingers, The Killers and The Hospital Bombers). HAIL SATAN!

[laserlope]

[damagedghoulette]

When Mountain was a kiddo he would climb on top of the kitchen cabinets to watch everyone and the ghouls would jokingly call him their little Mountain Goat

Now when he’s overly stressed and can’t sleep you’ll find him perched on top of a cabinet deep in thought

It rarely happens but when it does it scares the absolute fuck out of the Siblings who want a midnight snack and look up to see the giant ghoul looking down at them

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]