{"id":1127,"date":"2012-01-15T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2012-01-15T18:52:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:52:06","slug":"band-i-really-like-the-mountain-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/01\/15\/band-i-really-like-the-mountain-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Band I Really Like: The Mountain Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountain-goats.com\/\">The Mountain Goats<\/a> started making music in 1991. I learned about them considerably later, and they quickly became one of my favorite sources of what I can only call &#8220;dark dry bitter hilarious self-laceration you can sing along to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today I bring you four videos &#8211; an introduction, of you haven&#8217;t met them before, a celebration if you have.<\/p>\n<p><em>Woke Up New<\/em> from <em>Get Lonely<\/em>, directed by Rian Johnson, who also directed the truly excellent <em>Brick<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_1bSdRizGYb0\"><div id=\"lyte_1bSdRizGYb0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/1bSdRizGYb0\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1bSdRizGYb0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/1bSdRizGYb0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"The Mountain Goats - Woke Up New\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>No Children<\/em>, from <em>Tallahassee<\/em>; please note how the audience here is, in fact, singing along with great verve. Also, I really, really love this song, because it is kind of mean and awful and yet so perfectly describes a particular post-break-up feeling that there have been times I wanted to call someone and just play it down the phone at them at top volume. (I didn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/JPy_fiv3sAw<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Autoclave<\/em>, from <em>Heretic Pride<\/em>; if I was going to make myself a warning label, it would include, among other things, the lyrics to this song:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/RZ-2kbculaI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sax Rohmer #1<\/em>, also from <em>Heretic Pride<\/em>, because &#8220;I am coming home\/to you\/with my own blood in my mouth&#8221; gets me every time:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"&amp;quot;Sax Rohmer #1&amp;quot; by The Mountain Goats\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_B-UCdXeMUaM\"><div id=\"lyte_B-UCdXeMUaM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/B-UCdXeMUaM\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">&quot;Sax Rohmer #1&quot; by The Mountain Goats<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/B-UCdXeMUaM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/B-UCdXeMUaM\/0.jpg\" alt=\"&amp;quot;Sax Rohmer #1&amp;quot; by The Mountain Goats\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain Goats started making music in 1991. 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