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Anti-Music Song Lyrics

i saw you on tv
doing a bad imitation of van morrison
and i saw you on tv
doing a bad imitation of a second rate songwriter from the eighties named morissey
i never liked morrisey
and i don't like you.

i saw you tv,
doing an imitation of an imitation of jimi hendrix
that's really pathetic
and i saw you on tv
trying to figure out what brian jones would be like if he'd have lived 'til today
i can tell you myself
he'd be like brian wilson
i don't like brian wilson
and i don't like you
i don't like you.
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I was at a concert once and yelled this out as a request. This was John's response more or less:

"I won't play anti-music song because the song was written about some people I didn't like at the time but am now on good terms with/friends with."

So.. thought that was interesting..

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This, as all of this songs, are sung by characters in the song, not by himself. It's not a first person about his feelings towards mucis.

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No, I'm pretty sure this is a good conveyance of John Darnielle's feelings towards music.

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I'd enjoy this song way more if it didn't irk me so much the way he mispronounces morrissey.

That's my favourite part. It's so sneering because he knows it's wrong.

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SasquatchAttack was right. Anti-Music is another character song, wherein the first person compares his dislike of someone to his least favourite musicians.

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leave it there then

John Darnielle didn't like Morrissey though, so I think we can assume that this character shares some of his viewpoints. He likes Morrissey now.

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That Brian Jones-Brian Wilson connection is perfect.

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From what I know all of his songs were character songs until "We shall all be healed" and "the sunset tree"...and even we shall all be healed isn't entirely autobiographical.

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WHO is the "you" he's talking about?? I love this song, but I've never been able to figure out who it was on tv, who he's talking to, that he doesn't like.

Cover art for Anti-Music Song lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

I was at a concert once and yelled this out as a request. This was John's response more or less:

"I won't play anti-music song because the song was written about some people I didn't like at the time but am now on good terms with/friends with."

So.. thought that was interesting..