I love The Mountain Goats. Over the years I’ve collected a ton of recording and I’ve got a lot of favorites that don’t get a lot of play. I wanted to highlight a few of them here. Songs with a (***) are personal favs among my favs
***“Elijah” - The Coroners Gambit - every song off of this album is good and it is certainly my favorite disc from John’s lo-fi days.
***“There Will Be No Divorce” - The Coroners Gambit - my favorite song of The Mountain Goats, bar none. It was the first Goats song I heard, driving across the country, when I was 17.
“Commandante” - Devil In The Shortwave - David, did you just list 4 of the 5 songs on Devil In The Shortwave. Yes I did. “Dirty Old Town” doesn’t do it for me.
***“In Corolla” - Get Lonely - okay, not the deepest of cuts but this song doesn’t get the love it should. When you’re sad, and I mean leaning into the sad, really just seeing how sad you can get, In Corolla is there for you.
I left off albums like Sunset Tree, Tallahassee, and All Hail West Texas because I think they are pretty accessible. I didn’t include things like Protein Source of The Future…Now! or Bitter Melon Farm or a bunch of others because they are pretty unaccessible.
I just saw the new Bud Light ad with Seth Rogan and Amy Schumer and it made me think of this sketch I wrote for my rejected SNL packet. If any of you wants so make this sketch you have my blessing.
In this episode! - The Broadway stars come out tonight as we traverse the Great White Way! - Andy and Ramsey discuss their ill-fated webseries. - For those updating the Snap Impression Wiki, we have a new item to add to the page “List of Andy’s Weird Kinks.”
I did an interview with ANIMAL New York about the worst one of my jokes ever bombed. I think bombing is important. I think it’s more important than not bombing. Bomb away friends.
I got super raw on a podcast recently talking about my fucked up family. When I was a kid I was abused. I don’t talk about it often, but I did here. I probably know a lot of other victims of abuse but it’s not the sort of thing that comes up right away.