{"id":1990,"date":"2013-02-14T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2013-02-13T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:43:48","slug":"video-john-darnielle-the-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/02\/14\/video-john-darnielle-the-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: John Darnielle, The Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is John Darnielle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountain-goats.com\/\">Mountain Goats<\/a> doing an acoustic cover of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceofbase-music.de\/\">Ace of Base<\/a> song <i>The Sign<\/i>. It is absolutely glorious and having watched this I now love him three times as much as I did before, for both his ongoing personal awesomeness and for his abiding love for Ace of Base.<\/p>\n<p>I also learned that the lyric is &#8220;love is demanding \/ without understanding&#8221; and not &#8220;love is demanding \/ rhythm to understanding&#8221; which means I have been singing the wrong thing all of these years. Whoops!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"(21\/22) the Mountain Goats - The Sign (Live at Bottom of the Hill 3\/2\/2008)\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ZhNmwIH057g\"><div id=\"lyte_ZhNmwIH057g\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZhNmwIH057g\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">(21\/22) the Mountain Goats - The Sign (Live at Bottom of the Hill 3\/2\/2008)<\/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\/ZhNmwIH057g\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZhNmwIH057g\/0.jpg\" alt=\"(21\/22) the Mountain Goats - The Sign (Live at Bottom of the Hill 3\/2\/2008)\" 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>This is John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats doing an acoustic cover of the Ace of Base song The Sign. 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