Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

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Pitchfork says let the ILM thread, begin, and so here it begins.

I'm very excited. Apparently its more "reflective, intimate" record.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Amy Phillips, you silly willy!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Destroye's Goats

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

took long enough for this thread to get going

― brokenfuses (brokenfuses), Saturday, 27 May 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Who is this band again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

mountain goats turn 21

― only children bleed (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 May 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

"The album so reflective and intimate it's like seeing your own asshole in a mirror."

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. I like my Mountain Goats fast and angry.

― WillS (WillS), Saturday, 27 May 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

he played at least one song from it at the show last night (there were a couple other 'new songs' but I don't know if they're on the album)

it was good. I don't know about this "reflective, intimate" shit, it just sounded like Another Good Mountain Goats Song to me (I am not a very good music fan)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 27 May 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. I love The Sunset Tree. I've never been let down by Erik Friedlander or Scott Solter. I'm wondering if Vanderslice will be involved, though.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Saturday, 27 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

(great) new song for free here:

http://www.emusic.com/album/10930/10930898.html?fref=150420

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Well, the album was leaked on Oink, and maybe elsewhere. Eventually it was taken down. If you want it, email me.

But I'd like to be the first to say that it's pretty bad. I like my Mountain Goats with sadness, sure, but I also want them fun, triumphant, and slightly menacing. Get Lonely only has the first quality.

To make things worse, it feels overproduced, and on several songs Darnielle sings softly to cover up his nasal tone.

― WillS (WillS), Saturday, 15 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

well it came out today officially now, so might as well revive this to see what everyone thinks.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... "heartbreak album" scarcely begins to cover it. Unremittingly, claustrophobically bleak and lost... disconnected from the world, at least the world of people (since there is still this odd, almost comforting relationship with the natural world)... teetering at the brink of madness (and ultimately spilling over it), and yet with an eerie, dazed calm that almost feels like denial at first (the first three tracks sound almost cheerful), and yet ultimately indicates a pain which has taken the protagonist way beyond reason. (If this is an another autobiographical album, then... yikes.) Difficult to listen to in one stretch, particularly the middle section which sort of gets stuck in one place - but maybe that's the idea.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

there's a very trad x-like-y simile in like every verse. which i find peculiar, and don't know whether it's a formalist gimmick, or if darnielle is just tired.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

What happened to the sad lyric/ happy tune thing? I love the Mountain Goats, but this is terrible.

― silence dogood (catcher), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

teh guardian & the (nu)Village Voice have given this pretty decent reviews, fwiw

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

The music video, directed by Rian Johnson, who made "Brick," is pretty goddamned cool.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

it's john's "lucas with the lid off"

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

tonight's amoeba in-store was the best performance i've seen him do -- i think it was the slightly disorganized informality of the set coupled with the focused intensity of the singing (and songs too, obv).

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

:-) Nice to hear!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

i mean when you're a not-that-famous guy with an acoustic guitar performing in a large, crowded record store, you kinda have to give more than you would at a small club show where everyone's there to see you.

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

The music video, directed by Rian Johnson, who made "Brick," is pretty goddamned cool.
-- Tiki Theater Xymposium (fiestasandsiestas(nospam)@yahoo.com) (webmail), August 23rd, 2006. (Bent Over at the Arclight)

The video is fucking cool, but what's with the "acting" by the band members in it? Is it just me, or are they way over-emoting? The song is a quiet, relaxing, folksy thing, and they are rocking out like it's Black Sabbath.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

Since when is rocking out like Black Sabbath a bad thing? (Besides, Black Sabbath did 'quiet, relaxing and folksy' -- "Solitude," after all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, I'm kind of drunk and maybe not expressing myself as well as I should. Just trying to say, it looks to me like over-emoting for how relaxing the music is.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

bought the album tonight and listening now -- it fits in perfectly with the mood i'm in this season.

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

im glad john has been biggin up the Gorch on stage lately.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 24 August 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.stereolaffs.com/images/gorchtee.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 24 August 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Mountain Goats cover of "Get Low" STAT

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

'What are the years we gave each other ever gonna be worth?'

Damn you, John. Damn you. 'Harrowing' doesn't even begin to describe it.
Really, really terriffic record.

― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I've been listening to this for a couple days now and letting it sink in. I don't have anything insightful to add that hasn't already been said. The Mountain Goats will never release an album I won't like, but I am somewhat disappointed with this one. I loved the general tone of past albums, my favorite being We Shall All Be Healed. The depression is still there, but in the past it seemed like John was furious about it and many songs were almost like he was singing through gritted teeth. I loved the sinister, dark atmosphere of the past songs. The new one is so much more relaxed and folksy. It's like John woke up from a good nap and has become content with the depression. I miss lines like "I want to kill everyone in this room." Anyways, the album is still good.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

And that's not trying to psychoanalyze John the real live person, or anything, just the narrator/persona he adopts in his songs.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get this "relaxed" thing! It sounds to me like the protagonist of Get Lonely is stumbling round in a numbed-out, post-traumatic daze, and that the seeming gentleness of the music deliberately lays a false trail. This reaches its tragic apotheosis in the final song, where he feels the comfort of the water which is drowning him, almost as if it were a baptism/re-birth rather than a suicide. There's not one shred of hope, or one possibility of redemption, anywhere on the album - I don't think I've ever heard anything so bleak. (Which does beg the question: why would anyone ever choose to play this for pleasure? It's not even as if there any cute, hummable tunes...)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

OH NOES THERE IS NO AGGRO IN MY EMO

― you want pastrami? (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like googling the lyrics to Cyndi Lauper's "Hole In My Heart" now.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

What really disappoints me about Get Lonely is the lack of a large menacing random Donald Duck/Bugs Bunny/Nosferatu cameo.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Get Lonely vs Get Nervous

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

hasn't darnielle said it's not the same guy in all the songs?

i've been assuming that, that all these "i get up and i go for a walk and i feel a bit paranoid" songs are different people. if it is actually eleven songs about a guy who alternates being claustrophobic and agoraphobic plus one about suicide, that's a bit more doom-filled than i'd taken it to be.

john's performance in the video is very enjoyable; it seems to escape the list of Ways In Which Rock Musicians Are Allowed To Convey The Fact That They Are Emoting. which is good! also he looks like he's having fun. also i like how the cello player shows up halfway through and you think "huh, i wondered what that noise was". i dislike the last shot, though.

my actual copy arrived a couple days ago. darnielle touches an ELECTRIC GUITAR on this record. the trailblazing innovator that he is.

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

(i have to say i hardly find it 'harrowing'.)

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 24 August 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Get Lonely vs Get Nervous vs Get Ready

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

all of the titles remind me of Kingston Trio album titles. I can see the large italized exclamation point at the end of each title, even.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Get Lonely vs Get Nervous vs Get Ready

vs. Get Happy!!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

"harrowing" is the word.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

"cringeworthy" is another.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't listen to more than 30 seconds of this.

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mountain-goats.com/images/pic_9.jpg
http://graphics.worldweb.com/PhotoImages/TrevorMillions/Mountain%20Goats.jpg

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

the second one please.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

shit shit shit. i feel awful but "Woke Up New" is the only MG's song i've ever heard and, frankly, i'm kinda interested to hear if it's all this bad.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://sherpaguides.com/bios/graphics/loverboy2.jpg

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

heard the screams from the high school - it's football season

― how's life, Sunday, 22 September 2013 20:35 (twelve years ago)

and as i was crossing our doorstep, i hesitated just a moment there. remember the day we moved into our small house? television got too vivid to bear

― markers, Monday, 23 September 2013 01:43 (twelve years ago)

(apparently i fucked that up. oops.)

― markers, Monday, 23 September 2013 01:44 (twelve years ago)

best deliver of any ling in any song ever though tbf to the lad

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 23 September 2013 08:49 (twelve years ago)

me carnt typ lol

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 23 September 2013 08:49 (twelve years ago)

this is one of my favourite albums to wallow in misery to. this or 'rollercoaster'.

― will.i.an (cajunsunday), Monday, 23 September 2013 12:00 (twelve years ago)

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