Tag: mountain-goats

This Year, by The Mountain Goats.

A favorite, an anthem, an elegy, a requiem, a memoir (not mine), absolute poetry, “twin high maintenance machines.” This song has it all, in all its low fidelity glory.

If it wasn’t the song for our 2020, it was the song for so many years before that, and for this one, too, because 2021 has taken things from us that we held dear, but we’ll make it.

The kids both went back to school today, and, uh, we’re in our feelings, as they say.

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Put just enough effort into this, but I could’ve stopped with the vocals and piano.

No Children, by Mountain Goats.

Well, this went pretty terribly. Wasn’t really feeling a love song, so I played a breakup song, and it’s just too dang bitter for me. This one almost deserves the Johnny Cash (Rick Rubin years) cover treatment. Imagine him pronouncing “hand in unlovable hand!” Hey that’s a decent idea, I had, just now, after recording this song and having a hard time with it.

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The dumb guitar riff from Margaritaville was way easier than the opening piano thing to this, which I tried on guitar and could not work out.

(Uh, the, um, lyrics of this one are not an accurate reflection of the management’s opinion, and uh, etc.)