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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.

Jason Nickey
AllMusic.com
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The Mountain Goats – Lion's Teeth
A comment was added to Lion's Teeth by DollyHaze.
Am I the only who thought the lion was the narrators older brother? I always pictured it that there was a girl that the younger brother cared for and the older brother did something fucked...
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songs
Song Name		Comments
(Intro)		3
(Untitled)		0
02-75		4
1 Corinthians 13:8-10		8
1 John 4:16		17
1 Samuel 15:23		8
15-1		0
15-2		0
25		0
Abandoned Flesh		1
Abide with Me		1
Absolute Lithops Effect		5
Absolutely Cuckoo		1
Acceptable Damges Sutra		0
Adair		7
Adultery		0
Against Agamemnon		3
Against Cotton		5
Against Pollution		15
Age of Kings		2
Agemo's Hoops		0
Alabama Nova		2
Alagemo		1
Alibi		5
All Devils Here Now		1
All Up the Seething Coast		7
Almost Every Door		0
Alpha Aquae		1
Alpha Chum Gatherer		0
Alpha Compunction		0
Alpha Desperation March		3
Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina		3
Alpha Gelida		1
Alpha in Tauris		3
Alpha Incipiens		5
Alpha Negative		2
Alpha Omega		11
Alpha Rats Nest		8
Alpha Sun Hat		2
Alphabetizing		2
Ambivalent Seascape Y		0
Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1		4
An Antidote for Strychnine		0
An Inscription at Salonae		1
Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds		1
Animal Mask		3
Answering the Phone		0
Anti-Music Song		12
Any Available Surface		0
Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?		4
As Many Candles as Possible		0
Attention All Pickpockets		5
Aulon Raid		0
Autoclave		28
Azo Tle Nelli in Tlalticpac?		3
Baboon		11
Babylon Burning (Peter Tosh cover)		0
Bad Priestess		0
Bad Waves		0
Badger Song		1
Balance		6
Baltimore		1
Beach House		2
Beat the Devil		1
Beautiful Gas Mask		3
Bell Swamp Connection		0
Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes		3
Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen cover)		0
Birth of Serpents		6
Birthday Cake Song		2
Black Molly		1
Black Pear Tree		2
Bleed Out		0
Blood Bank (Bon Iver cover)		0
Blood Capsules		0
Blood Royal		0
Blueberry Frost		2
Bluejays and Cardinals		7
Blues in Dallas		4
Bones Don't Rust		0
Born Ready		1
Boxcar (Jawbreaker cover)		1
Brandy Let's Go		1
Brave (Chris Knox cover)		0
Bride		1
Bridge of Sighs (Robin Trower cover)		0
Bring Our Curses Home		1
Brisbane Hotel Sutra		0
Broom People		25
Burned My Tongue		0
Butter Teeth		1
Cadaver Sniffing Dog		0
Calcutta		0
California Jam		0
California Song		4
Cao Dai Blowout		4
Carmen Cicero		1
Casetino's Nursery		1
Catherine Antrim's Kid		5
Chanson Du Bon Chose		3
Cheshire County		0
Chilean Fire Barrel		0
Chinese House Flowers		0
Chinese Rifle Song		0
Chino Love Song 1979		1
Choked Out		0
Clemency for the Wizard King		0
Cobra Tattoo		3
Cobscook Bay		1
Coco-Yam Song		1
Cold Milk Bottle		8
Collapsing Stars		6
Color in Your Cheeks		26
Columns Pillars Steps		0
Commandante		9
Corsican Mastiff Stride		0
Cotton		18
Counterfeit Florida Plates		2
Counting Songs for Bitter Children		0
Crane		1
Creature Song		1
Crows		1
Cry for Judas		5
Cubs in Five		16
Cut Off Their Thumbs		5
Cutter		0
Damn These Vampires		19
Dance Music		49
Daniel 12:8 (Third)		0
Deianara Crush		3
Deserters		2
Design Your Own Container Garden		0
Deuteronomy 2:10		11
Dilaudid		36
Dinu Lipatti's Bones		17
Dirty Old Town (Pogues cover)		2
Distant Stations		6
Divided Sky Lane		0
Doc Gooden		0
Don't Take the Dogs Away		2
Done Bleeding		0
Down Here		0
Down to the Ark		1
Downtown Seoul		1
Drug Life (East River Pipe cover)		0
Dub Capsules		0
Duke Ellington		0
Dutch Orchestra Blues		0
Early Spring		0
Earth Air Water and Trees		3
Edvard Munch		2
Eleven Bands (Congress cover)		0
Elijah		8
Elizabeth Barrett Browning		0
Emerging		2
Ending the Alphabet		2
Enoch 18:14		1
Escape to Wild Palm City		0
Estate Sale Sign		4
Ethiopians		7
Etiquette Song		0
Eugene Sue		0
Evening in Stalingrad		3
Exegetic Chains		0
Extraction Point		0
Extreme South #1		0
Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace		13
Faithless Bacchant Song		3
Fall of the Star High School Running Back		15
Family Happiness		26
Fault Lines		12
Feed This End		1
Fire Editorial		1
First Blood		0
First Few Desperate Hours		7
Fit Alpha Vi		0
Flashing Lights		1
Flight 717: Going to Denmark		2
Flower Song		0
FM (Steely Dan cover)		1
For Charles Bronson		4
For the Krishnacore Bands		0
For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands		1
For the Snakes		0
For the West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors		0
Foreign Object		1
Four New Trees		1
Fresh Berries for You		0
Fresh Cherries in Trinidad		0
From TG&Y		0
Full Flower		0
Furniture Store		0
Game Shows Touch Our Lives		13
Genesis 19:1-2		2
Genesis 30:3		9
Genesis 3:23		8
Get Famous		0
Get High and Listen to The Cure		0
Get Lonely		9
Getting Into Knives		0
Ghosts		2
Going Back to California		0
Going Invisible		0
Going Invisible 2		0
Going Through Pomona		1
Going to Alaska		8
Going to Bangor		0
Going to Bogata		2
Going to Bolivia		4
Going to Brazil		1
Going to Bridlington		7
Going to Bristol		3
Going to Buffalo		1
Going to Chino		2
Going to Cleveland		4
Going to Dade County		0
Going to Detroit		0
Going to France		2
Going to Georgia		30
Going to Hungary		1
Going to Jamaica		0
Going to Japan		1
Going to Kansas		3
Going to Kirby Sigston		2
Going to Lebanon		2
Going to Lebanon 2		0
Going to Lubbock		2
Going to Maine		1
Going to Malibu		4
Going to Marrakesh		5
Going to Maryland		4
Going to Mexico		0
Going to Michigan		1
Going to Monaco		1
Going to Morocco		1
Going to Norwalk		0
Going to Palestine		0
Going to Port Washington		1
Going to Queens		6
Going to Reykjavik		0
Going to San Diego		3
Going to Santiago		2
Going to Scotland		6
Going to Some Damned English City		0
Going to Spain		3
Going to Spirit Lake		0
Going to Tennessee		1
Going to Utrecht		5
Going to Wisconsin		1
Gojam Province 1968		2
Golden Boy		13
Golden Jackal Song		3
Grave Dust		0
Gravedigger		0
Grendel's Mother		9
Guys on Every Corner		0
Hail St. Sebastian		0
Hair Match		1
Half Dead		5
Hand Ball		3
Harbor Me		0
Hardpan Song		0
Harlem Roulette		3
Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod		18
Hatha Hill		0
Have to Explode		9
Hebrews 11:40		6
Heel Turn 2		2
Heights		2
Hellhound on My Trail (Robert Johnson cover)		2
Hello Sarah		0
Hello There Howard		0
Hello, Old Rabbit		0
Heretic Pride		19
High Doses #2		2
High Hawk Season		7
High School Confidential		1
Historiography		3
History of the Church (Part 1)		0
Home Again Garden Grove		11
Hopeful Assassins of Zeno		0
Horseradish Road		3
Hospital Reaction Shot		0
Hostages		0
Hotel Road		1
House Guest		0
How to Embrace a Swamp Creature		7
Hye Kye		0
I Hear the Planets		0
I Know You've Come to Take My Toys Away		1
I Love You. Let's Light Ourselves on Fire		0
I Meant Every Word I Said in New Delhi		1
I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink		1
I Will Grab You by the Ears		0
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (Buddy Johnson cover)		3
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams cover)		1
I've Got the Sex		3
Ice Blue		1
Ice Cream, Cobra Man		1
Idylls of the King		5
If England Were What England Seems, Then We Would Only Have Our Dreams		0
If You See Light		8
In Corolla		11
In League with Dragons		0
In Memory of Satan		7
In the Cane Fields		0
In the Craters of the Moon		7
In the Craters on the Moon		0
In the Hidden Places		4
In the Shadow of the Western Hills		2
Incandescent Ruins		0
Indonesia		0
Infidelity		0
Insurance Fraud #2		4
International Small Arms Traffic Blues		8
Invisible		2
Isaiah 45:23		6
Island Garden Song		1
It Froze Me		0
It's All Here in Brownsville		1
Itzcuintli-Totzli Days		7
Jaipur		9
Jam Eater Blues		4
January 31, 438		0
Jeff Davis County Blues		7
Jenny		14
John 4:35		2
Keep It on Your Mind (Hank Williams cover)		0
Keeping House		1
Kittens in Mittens		1
Korean Bird Paintings		3
Lab Rat Blues		1
Lakeside View Apartments Suite		5
Last Gasp at Calama		0
Last Man on Earth		2
Leaving Home		0
Lemon		0
Let the Dogs Come Out		0
Letter from a Motel		1
Letter from Belgium		10
Like a Bullet		0
Linda Blair Was Born Innocent		9
Lion's Teeth		26
Liza Forever Minnelli		4
Loch Lomond		1
Lonesome Surprise (Refrigerator cover)		1
Love Cuts the Strings		2
Love Hymn to Aphrodite		0
Love Love Love		34
Lovecraft in Brooklyn		13
Lucifer Rising		0
Luna		1
Magpie		10
Maize Stalk Drinking Blood		5
Make You Suffer		0
Malevolent Cityscape X		0
Malted Milk		0
Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident		19
Mark on You		0
Marsh Witch Vision		0
Masher		4
Matthew 11:14-19		1
Matthew 25:21		11
Maybe Sprout Wings		9
Michael Myers Resplendent		7
Midland		1
Milk Song		1
Million		0
Minnesota		5
Minor Joan Crawford Vehicle		0
Mole		8
Moon and Sand (Chet Baker cover)		0
Moon Over Goldsboro		19
Mosquito Repellent		3
Mountain Goats Shirt Song		3
Move (Chicago 196?)		1
My Favorite Things		3
My Little Panda		0
Naming Day		1
Narakaloka		4
Need More Bandages		0
Neon Orange Glimmer Song		2
Never Quite Free		12
New Britain		1
New Chevrolet in Flames		3
New Math		0
New Monster Avenue		6
New Star Song		1
New World Emerging Blues		0
New Zion		2
Night Light		2
Night Light (Demo)		0
Night of the Mules		0
Nine Black Poppies		3
No Children		123
No I Can't		9
No More Tears		0
Noche del Gaujolote		1
Noctifer Birmingham		1
Nothing Song #2		0
Nova Scotia		1
November Love Song		1
Oceanographer's Choice		15
Old College Try		19
Omega Blaster		1
One Frozen River		0
One Winter at Point Alpha Privative		1
Onions		4
Ontario		4
Orange Ball of Hate		5
Orange Ball of Love		4
Orange Ball of Pain		2
Orange Ball of Peace		3
Original Air-Blue Gown		4
Oslo 1888		1
Outer Scorpion Squadron		5
Ox Baker Triumphant		3
Paid in Cocaine		1
Pale Green Things		21
Palmcorder Yajna		23
Papagallo		5
Passaic 1975		0
Peacocks		12
Pennsylvania Dutch Treat		0
Pet Politics (Silver Jews cover)		1
Pez Dorado		1
Philippians 3:20-21		8
Picture of My Dress		0
Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of		18
Pink and Blue		19
Pinklon		2
Plead Me to a Lesser Charge		0
Please Come Home to Hamngatan		3
Poltergeist		1
Possum by Night		0
Prana Ferox		5
Process of Elimination		1
Proverbs 6:27		3
Prowl Great Cain		7
Psalms 40:2		16
Pseudothyrum Song		1
Pure Crystal		0
Pure Gold		1
Pure Heat		1
Pure Honey		3
Pure Intentions		1
Pure Love		2
Pure Milk		1
Pure Money		3
Pure Sound		0
Pure Sun		0
Quetzalcoatl Comes Through		0
Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums		4
Quetzalcoatl Is Born		2
Quito		11
Radical Evil Song		0
Rage of Travers		1
Raid on Entebbe		5
Rain in Soho		3
Rain Song		0
Raja Vocative		1
Rat Queen		0
Real Good Girlfriend		2
Red Choral Diamond Spray		0
Red River Valley		3
Resonant Bell World		3
Riches and Wonders		8
Rivers of Babylon		0
Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store		1
Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods		0
Roger Patterson Van		2
Romans 10:9		6
Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece		1
Running Away with What Freud Said		2
Saigon Shrunken Panorama		0
Sail Babylon Springs		0
Sail On (Commodores cover)		1
San Bernardino		3
Sarcofago Live		2
Satanic Messiah		5
Satori in Denver		0
Save the People (Stephen Schwartz cover)		0
Sax Rohmer #1		14
Scaling the Well		0
Scavenger Babies		1
Scorpio Rising		0
Scotch Grove		4
See America Right		12
Seed Song		2
Seeing Daylight		2
Send Me an Angel		1
Sendero Cuminoso Verdado		3
Sentries in the Ambush		0
Sept. 15, 1983		3
Sept. 19 Triple X! Love! Love!		1
Shadow Song		5
Sheket		0
Shelved		1
Shirtless in Hamburg		0
Short Song about the 10 Freeway		1
Short Song for Justin Bieber and his Paparazzi		0
Shower		1
Sicilian Crest		0
Sign of the Crow (Part 2)		4
Sinaloan Milk Snake Song		4
Slimy Rich White Bastards		0
Slow West Vultures		5
Snakeheads		0
Snow Crush Killing Song		3
Snow Owl		2
Snow Song		0
So Desperate		4
Soft Targets		3
Solomon Revisited		1
Some Swedish Trees		5
Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Santa Cruz		1
Something Blue		0
Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise (Trembling Blue Stars cover)		1
Song for an Old Friend		2
Song for Black Sabbath's Second North American Tour		0
Song for Cleomenes		3
Song for Dana Plato		0
Song for Dennis Brown		9
Song for God		1
Song for Greg Valentine		0
Song for John Davis		1
Song for Lonely Giants		3
Song for Mark and Joel		3
Song for My Stepfather		3
Song for Roger Maris		0
Song for Sasha Banks		1
Song for Ted Sallis		1
Song for the Julian Calendar		1
Song for Tura Santana		3
Song from the Shoreline		0
Source Decay		10
Sourdoire Valley Song		3
Southwestern Territories		2
Southwood Plantation Road		7
Spent Gladiator 2		2
Spilling Toward Alpha		1
Stabbed To Death Outside San Juan		1
Stable Boy Song		2
Standard Bitter Love Song #1		1
Standard Bitter Love Song #4		1
Standard Bitter Love Song #5		0
Standard Bitter Love Song #6		1
Standard Bitter Love Song #7		3
Standard Bitter Love Song #8		8
Star Dusting		2
Stars Around Her		1
Stars Fell on Alabama		7
Steal Smoked Fish		4
Stench of the Unburied		1
Store		5
Straight Six		1
Sudden Oak Death		0
Sun Song		5
Supergenesis		2
Sure		0
Sure Do Love You Baby, But I Can't Do 60 No More		0
Surrounded		2
TahitianAmbrosia Maker		0
Tallahassee		9
Tampa		0
Tape Travel Is Lonely		0
Teenage World		3
Tell Me on a Sunday (Andrew Lloyd Webber cover)		0
Thank You Mario but Our Princess Is in Another Castle		9
Thanks for the Dress		0
That		1
That Hippolytine Feeling		0
The Admonishing Song		2
The Alphonse Mambo		3
The Anglo-Saxons		5
The Autopsy Garland		5
The Bad Doctor		5
The Ballad of Bull Ramos		0
The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton		31
The Big Unit		0
The Black Ice Cream Song		7
The Car Song		2
The Coroner's Gambit		5
The Cow Song		1
The Day the Aliens Came (Hawaiian Feeling)		11
The Diaz Brothers		2
The Doll Song		4
The Garden Song		1
The Great Gold Sheep		0
The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement		1
The Hot Garden Stomp		1
The House That Dripped Blood		7
The Lady from Shanghai		0
The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life		4
The Last Limit of Bhakti		2
The Last Place I Saw You Alive		0
The Legend of Chavo Guerrero		1
The Mad Clarinet		2
The Mess Inside		13
The Monkey Song		2
The Moon		1
The Moon Song		2
The Mummy's Hand		0
The New Potatoes		0
The Only Thing I Know		1
The Pieman		0
The Plague		0
The Recognition Scene		3
The Sign		4
The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones		0
The Water Song		3
The Water Song 2		4
The Window Song		2
The Wooded Hills Along the Black Sea		0
The Young Thousands		9
Their Gods Do Not Have Surgeons		0
Then the Letting Go		1
There Will Always Be an Ireland		4
There Will Be No Divorce		5
They Are Stone Swallowers		0
Third Snow Song		1
This Magic Moment (Drifters cover)		0
This Year		56
Thought About You a Little		0
Thucydides II-58		1
Tianchi Lake		9
Tidal Wave		0
Tollund Man		4
Toolshed		1
Torch Song		1
Training Montage		0
Transcendental Youth		3
Transjordanian Blues		3
Trash		0
Treetop Song		4
Tribe of the Horned Heart		0
Trick Mirror		1
Tucson Fog		0
Tulsa Imperative		0
Twin Human Highway Flares		8
Two Thousand Seasons		1
Tyler Lambert's Grave		2
Un Reve Plus Long Que la Nuit		0
Unicorn Tolerance		1
Unmasked!		1
Until I Am Whole		3
Until Olympius Returns		0
Up the Wolves		26
US Mill		2
Used to Haunt		0
Vanishing Act		0
Waco		3
Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome		0
Wait for You		0
Warm Lonely Planet		1
Waving at You		3
Waylon Jennings Live!		0
We Do It Different on the West Coast		0
We Have Seen the Enemy		1
We Were Patriots		2
Wear Black		1
Weekend in Western Illinois		3
Werewolf Gimmick		2
West Country Dream		2
When I Get Home (Baby Dee cover)		0
White Box (Jandek cover)		0
White Cedar		1
Who You Are		0
Whole Wide World		4
Whon		0
Wild Palm City		0
Wild Sage		8
Wild World (The Birthday Party cover)		0
Wishing the House Would Crash		0
Wizard Buys a Hat		1
Woke Up New		30
Wolf Count		0
World Cylinder		0
Wrong!		1
Yam, the King of the Crops		6
Yoga		4
You & Me & a High Balcony		1
You or Your Memory		31
You Were Cool		6
You're in Maya		3
You're So Vain (Carly Simon cover)		1
Young Caesar 2000		1
Younger		0
Your Belgian Things		14
שקט (Be Quiet)		0

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