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		The Mountain Goats are, for all practical purposes, the endlessly clever and prolific John Darnielle and whatever musicians he surrounds himself with, which means that while the soundscape may change from project to project,
 ...  The Mountain Goats are, for all practical purposes, the endlessly clever and prolific John Darnielle and whatever musicians he surrounds himself with, which means that while the soundscape may change from project to project, the overall tone and feel of Darnielle's work remains remarkably consistent. At his best, he writes finely observed, slightly surreal, impressionistic vignettes that manage to mix life as we live it with life as we wish we could live it, and as such he has more in common with a short-story writer than he does with the typical singer/songwriter. 
 
Taking the name from the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song "Big Yellow Coat," Darnielle first donned the Mountain Goats moniker in 1991 while working as a nurse in a California state hospital, and began releasing cassette-only albums for the Shrimper label. Despite attracting a devoted underground following (or, possibly, because of it), The Mountain Goats continued to release songs in cassette form only for many years, using tape hiss virtually as an additional instrument. Besides innumerable compilation tracks, The Mountain Goats have also released many 7" singles for over a dozen labels. Their full-length albums include Nine Black Poppies and Zopilote Machine (both released in 1995), Sweden (1996), Full Force Galesburg (1997), and Nothing for Juice (1997). Protein Source of the Future...NOW! and Bitter Melon Farm (both 1999 releases) collected many early tape tracks and singles. 
 
Darnielle began the new millennium with The Coroner's Gambit for Absolutely Kosher before signing to 4AD for the release of the surprisingly polished Tallahassee in 2002. We Shall All Be Healed followed in 2004, and one year later Darnielle was back with The Sunset Tree. Remaining prolific as ever, Darnielle turned away from the intensity of The Sunset Tree for a calmer, more reflective set of songs on 2006's Get Lonely. The accessible and assured Heretic Pride appeared in 2008. Next up was the Bible verse-inspired The Life of the World to Come, the group's sixth album for 4AD, in 2010. Switching to Merge Records in 2011, Darnielle released All Eternals Deck, which was recorded in four different studios in Brooklyn, Boston, North Carolina, and Florida with four different producers -- John Congleton, Scott Solter, Brandon Eggleston, and Morbid Angel guitarist and Hate Eternal frontman Erik Rutan -- helming various tracks. That year the band was also hand-picked by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he was curating in Minehead, England but were ultimately unable to appear due to scheduling issues. In 2012 a reissue collecting long out-of-print Mountain Goats cassettes surfaced on Shrimper. The collection gathered together 1992's The Hound Chronicles and 1993's Hot Garden Stomp. 
	 
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			(Intro) (Untitled) 02-75 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 1 John 4:16 1 Samuel 15:23 15-1 15-2 25 Abandoned Flesh Abide with Me Absolute Lithops Effect Absolutely Cuckoo Acceptable Damges Sutra Adair Adultery Against Agamemnon Against Cotton Against Pollution Age of Kings Agemo's Hoops Alabama Nova Alagemo Alibi All Devils Here Now All Up the Seething Coast Almost Every Door Alpha Aquae Alpha Chum Gatherer Alpha Compunction Alpha Desperation March Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina Alpha Gelida Alpha Incipiens Alpha Negative Alpha Omega Alpha Rats Nest Alpha Sun Hat Alpha in Tauris Alphabetizing Ambivalent Seascape Y Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 An Antidote for Strychnine An Inscription at Salonae Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds Animal Mask Answering the Phone Anti-Music Song Any Available Surface Are You Cleaning Off the Stone? As Many Candles as Possible Attention All Pickpockets Aulon Raid Autoclave Azo Tle Nelli in Tlalticpac? Baboon Babylon Burning (Peter Tosh cover) Bad Priestess Bad Waves Badger Song Balance Baltimore Beach House Beat the Devil Beautiful Gas Mask Bell Swamp Connection Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen cover) Birth of Serpents Birthday Cake Song Black Molly Black Pear Tree Bleed Out Blood Bank (Bon Iver cover) Blood Capsules Blood Royal Blueberry Frost Bluejays and Cardinals Blues in Dallas Bones Don't Rust Born Ready Boxcar (Jawbreaker cover) Brandy Let's Go Brave (Chris Knox cover) Bride Bridge of Sighs (Robin Trower cover)  Bring Our Curses Home Brisbane Hotel Sutra Broom People Burned My Tongue Butter Teeth Cadaver Sniffing Dog Calcutta California Jam California Song Cao Dai Blowout Carmen Cicero Casetino's Nursery Catherine Antrim's Kid Chanson Du Bon Chose Cheshire County Chilean Fire Barrel Chinese House Flowers Chinese Rifle Song Chino Love Song 1979 Choked Out Clean Slate Cleaning Crew Clemency for the Wizard King Cobra Tattoo Cobscook Bay Coco-Yam Song Cold Milk Bottle Cold at Night (featuring Mountain Goats, The) Cold at Night (featuring Mountain Goats, The) Collapsing Stars Color in Your Cheeks Columns Pillars Steps Commandante Corsican Mastiff Stride Cotton Counterfeit Florida Plates Counting Songs for Bitter Children Crane Creature Song Crows Cry for Judas Cubs in Five Cut Off Their Thumbs Cutter Damn These Vampires Dance Music Daniel 12:8 (Third) Deianara Crush Deserters Design Your Own Container Garden Deuteronomy 2:10 Dilaudid Dinu Lipatti's Bones Dirty Old Town (Pogues cover) Distant Stations Divided Sky Lane Doc Gooden Don't Take the Dogs Away Done Bleeding Down Here Down to the Ark Downtown Seoul Drug Life (East River Pipe cover) Dub Capsules Duke Ellington Dutch Orchestra Blues Early Spring Earth Air Water and Trees Edvard Munch Eleven Bands (Congress cover) Elijah Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emerging Ending the Alphabet Enoch 18:14 Escape to Wild Palm City Estate Sale Sign Ethiopians Etiquette Song Eugene Sue Evening in Stalingrad Exegetic Chains Extraction Point Extreme South #1 Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace FM (Steely Dan cover) Faithless Bacchant Song Fall of the Star High School Running Back Family Happiness Fault Lines Feed This End Fire Editorial First Blood First Few Desperate Hours Fit Alpha Vi Flashing Lights Flight 717: Going to Denmark Flower Song For Charles Bronson For the Krishnacore Bands For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands For the Snakes For the West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors Foreign Object Four New Trees Fresh Berries for You Fresh Cherries in Trinidad Fresh Tattoo From TG&Y From the Nebraska Plant Full Flower Furniture Store Game Shows Touch Our Lives Garbage Eaters Genesis 19:1-2 Genesis 30:3 Genesis 3:23 Get Famous Get High and Listen to The Cure Get Lonely Getting Into Knives Ghosts Going Back to California Going Invisible Going Invisible 2 Going Through Pomona Going to Alaska Going to Bangor Going to Bogata Going to Bolivia Going to Brazil Going to Bridlington Going to Bristol Going to Buffalo Going to California Going to Chino Going to Cleveland Going to Dade County Going to Dallas Going to Detroit Going to France Going to Georgia Going to Hungary Going to Jamaica Going to Japan Going to Kansas Going to Kirby Sigston Going to Lebanon Going to Lebanon 2 Going to Lubbock Going to Maine Going to Malibu Going to Marrakesh Going to Maryland Going to Mexico Going to Michigan Going to Monaco Going to Morocco Going to Norwalk Going to Palestine Going to Port Washington Going to Queens Going to Reykjavik Going to San Diego Going to Santiago Going to Scotland Going to Some Damned English City Going to Spain Going to Spirit Lake Going to Tennessee Going to Utrecht Going to Wisconsin Gojam Province 1968 Golden Boy Golden Jackal Song Grave Dust Gravedigger Great Pirates Grendel's Mother Ground Level Guys on Every Corner Hail St. Sebastian Hair Match Half Dead Hand Ball Harbor Me Hardpan Song Harlem Roulette Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod Hatha Hill Have to Explode Hebrews 11:40 Heel Turn 2 Heights Hellhound on My Trail (Robert Johnson cover) Hello Sarah Hello There Howard Hello, Old Rabbit Heretic Pride High Doses #2 High Hawk Season High School Confidential Historiography History of the Church (Part 1) Home Again Garden Grove Hopeful Assassins of Zeno Horseradish Road Hospital Reaction Shot Hostages Hotel Road House Guest How to Embrace a Swamp Creature Hye Kye I Hear the Planets I Know You've Come to Take My Toys Away I Love You. Let's Light Ourselves on Fire I Meant Every Word I Said in New Delhi I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink I Will Grab You by the Ears I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (Buddy Johnson cover) I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams cover) I've Got the Sex Ice Blue Ice Cream, Cobra Man Idylls of the King If England Were What England Seems, Then We Would Only Have Our Dreams If You See Light In Corolla In League with Dragons In Memory of Satan In the Cane Fields In the Craters of the Moon In the Craters on the Moon In the Hidden Places In the Shadow of the Western Hills Incandescent Ruins Indonesia Infidelity Insurance Fraud #2 International Small Arms Traffic Blues Invisible Isaiah 45:23 Island Garden Song It Froze Me It's All Here in Brownsville Itzcuintli-Totzli Days Jaipur Jam Eater Blues January 31, 438 Jeff Davis County Blues Jenny Jenny III John 4:35 Keep It on Your Mind (Hank Williams cover) Keeping House Kittens in Mittens Korean Bird Paintings Lab Rat Blues Lakeside View Apartments Suite Last Gasp at Calama Last Man on Earth Leaving Home Lemon Let the Dogs Come Out Letter from Belgium Letter from a Motel Like a Bullet Linda Blair Was Born Innocent Lion's Teeth Liza Forever Minnelli Loch Lomond Lonesome Surprise (Refrigerator cover) Love Cuts the Strings Love Hymn to Aphrodite Love Love Love Lovecraft in Brooklyn Lucifer Rising Luna Magpie Maize Stalk Drinking Blood Make You Suffer Malevolent Cityscape X Malted Milk Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident Mark on You Marsh Witch Vision Masher Matthew 11:14-19 Matthew 25:21 Maybe Sprout Wings Michael Myers Resplendent Midland Milk Song Million Minnesota Minor Joan Crawford Vehicle Mole Moon Over Goldsboro Moon and Sand (Chet Baker cover) Mosquito Repellent Mountain Goats Shirt Song Move (Chicago 196?) Murder at the 18th St. Garage My Favorite Things My Little Panda Naming Day Narakaloka Need More Bandages Neon Orange Glimmer Song Never Quite Free New Britain New Chevrolet in Flames New Math New Monster Avenue New Star Song New World Emerging Blues New Zion Night Light Night Light (Demo) Night of the Mules Nine Black Poppies No Children No I Can't No More Tears Noche del Gaujolote Noctifer Birmingham Nothing Song #2 Nova Scotia November Love Song Oceanographer's Choice Old College Try Omega Blaster One Frozen River One Winter at Point Alpha Privative Onions Only One Way Ontario Onward to Tasmania (Hommel West) Orange Ball of Hate Orange Ball of Love Orange Ball of Pain Orange Ball of Peace Original Air-Blue Gown Oslo 1888 Outer Scorpion Squadron Ox Baker Triumphant Paid in Cocaine Pale Green Things Palmcorder Yajna Papagallo Passaic 1975 Peacocks Pennsylvania Dutch Treat Pet Politics (Silver Jews cover) Pez Dorado Philippians 3:20-21 Picture of My Dress Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of Pink and Blue Pinklon Plead Me to a Lesser Charge Please Come Home to Hamngatan Poltergeist Possum by Night Prana Ferox Process of Elimination Prominent Metaphysicians of South Pomona Proverbs 6:27 Prowl Great Cain Psalms 40:2 Pseudothyrum Song Pure Crystal Pure Gold Pure Heat Pure Honey Pure Intentions Pure Love Pure Milk Pure Money Pure Sound Pure Sun Quetzalcoatl Comes Through Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums Quetzalcoatl Is Born Quito Radical Evil Song Rage of Travers Raid on Entebbe Rain Song Rain in Soho Raja Vocative Rat Queen Real Good Girlfriend Red Choral Diamond Spray Red River Valley Resonant Bell World Riches and Wonders Rivers of Babylon Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods Roger Patterson Van Romans 10:9 Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece Running Away with What Freud Said Saigon Shrunken Panorama Sail Babylon Springs Sail On (Commodores cover) Same as Cash San Bernardino Sarcofago Live Satanic Messiah Satori in Denver Save the People (Stephen Schwartz cover) Sax Rohmer #1 Scaling the Well Scavenger Babies Scorpio Rising Scotch Grove See America Right Seed Song Seeing Daylight Send Me an Angel Sendero Cuminoso Verdado Sentries in the Ambush Sept. 15, 1983 Sept. 19 Triple X! Love! Love! Shadow Song Sheket Shelved Shirtless in Hamburg Short Song about the 10 Freeway Short Song for Justin Bieber and his Paparazzi  Shower Sicilian Crest Sign of the Crow (Part 2) Sinaloan Milk Snake Song Slimy Rich White Bastards Slow West Vultures Snakeheads Snow Crush Killing Song Snow Owl Snow Song So Desperate Soft Targets Solomon Revisited Some Swedish Trees Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Santa Cruz Something Blue Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise (Trembling Blue Stars cover) Song for Black Sabbath's Second North American Tour Song for Cleomenes Song for Dana Plato Song for Dennis Brown Song for God Song for Greg Valentine Song for John Davis Song for Lonely Giants Song for Mark and Joel Song for My Stepfather Song for Roger Maris Song for Sasha Banks Song for Ted Sallis Song for Tura Santana Song for an Old Friend Song for the Julian Calendar Song from the Shoreline Source Decay Sourdoire Valley Song Southwestern Territories Southwood Plantation Road Spent Gladiator 2 Spilling Toward Alpha Stabbed To Death Outside San Juan Stable Boy Song Standard Bitter Love Song #1 Standard Bitter Love Song #4 Standard Bitter Love Song #5 Standard Bitter Love Song #6 Standard Bitter Love Song #7 Standard Bitter Love Song #8 Star Dusting Stars Around Her Stars Fell on Alabama Steal Smoked Fish Stench of the Unburied Store Straight Six Sudden Oak Death Sun Song Supergenesis Sure Sure Do Love You Baby, But I Can't Do 60 No More Surrounded TahitianAmbrosia Maker Tallahassee Tampa Tape Travel Is Lonely Teenage World Tell Me on a Sunday (Andrew Lloyd Webber cover) Thank You Mario but Our Princess Is in Another Castle Thanks for the Dress That That Hippolytine Feeling The Admonishing Song The Alphonse Mambo The Anglo-Saxons The Autopsy Garland The Bad Doctor The Ballad of Bull Ramos The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton The Big Unit The Black Ice Cream Song The Car Song The Coroner's Gambit The Cow Song The Day the Aliens Came (Hawaiian Feeling) The Diaz Brothers The Doll Song The Garden Song The Great Gold Sheep The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement The Hot Garden Stomp The House That Dripped Blood The Lady from Shanghai The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life The Last Limit of Bhakti The Last Place I Saw You Alive The Legend of Chavo Guerrero The Mad Clarinet The Mess Inside The Monkey Song The Moon The Moon Song The Mummy's Hand The New Potatoes The Only Thing I Know The Pieman The Plague The Recognition Scene The Sign The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones The Water Song The Water Song 2 The Window Song The Wooded Hills Along the Black Sea The Young Thousands Their Gods Do Not Have Surgeons Then the Letting Go There Will Always Be an Ireland There Will Be No Divorce They Are Stone Swallowers Third Snow Song This Magic Moment (Drifters cover) This Year Thought About You a Little Thucydides II-58 Tianchi Lake Tidal Wave Tollund Man Toolshed Torch Song Training Montage Transcendental Youth Transjordanian Blues Trash Treetop Song Tribe of the Horned Heart Trick Mirror Tucson Fog Tulsa Imperative Twin Human Highway Flares Two Thousand Seasons Tyler Lambert's Grave US Mill Un Reve Plus Long Que la Nuit Unicorn Tolerance Unmasked! Until I Am Whole Until Olympius Returns Up the Wolves Used to Haunt Vanishing Act Waco Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome Wait for You Warm Lonely Planet Water Tower Waving at You Waylon Jennings Live! We Do It Different on the West Coast We Have Seen the Enemy We Were Patriots Wear Black Weekend in Western Illinois Werewolf Gimmick West Country Dream What Have You Done to the Magician When I Get Home (Baby Dee cover) White Box (Jandek cover) White Cedar Who You Are Whole Wide World Whon Wild Palm City Wild Sage Wild World (The Birthday Party cover) Wishing the House Would Crash Wizard Buys a Hat Woke Up New Wolf Count World Cylinder Wrong! Yam, the King of the Crops Yoga You & Me & a High Balcony You Were Cool You or Your Memory You're So Vain (Carly Simon cover) You're in Maya Young Caesar 2000 Younger Your Belgian Things שקט (Be Quiet)