Top 5 unreleased songs, go! Because lists makes life worth living. 1. Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store 2. Standard Bitter Love Song #1 3. Thought About You A Little 4. Nikki Oh Nikki 5. Edward Munch Unreleased of course meaning a song which hasn't appeared on a proper realease, but which has been played live, on a radio session, or been otherwise distributed freely or sanctioned by JD. http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119355#msg-119355 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:05:39 -0700 Phorum 5.2.18 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132340#msg-132340 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132340#msg-132340 Warm Lonely Planet
You Were Cool
From TG & Y
Going to Bridlington

Tulsa Imperative is also an amazing song.]]> Blood & Foam Mountain Goats Tue, 01 May 2012 18:29:40 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132099#msg-132099 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132099#msg-132099
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Inside Outside
Thank you so very much! I think I actually like the live version more, but this is still pretty neat to have.

Edit: Nope, I was wrong. This rules.

I felt the same way. Didn't get excited at first by the studio version because it didn't seem as good as the live versions I'd heard. It definitely grows on you though.]]> simonfox Mountain Goats Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:22:19 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132084#msg-132084 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132084#msg-132084 fever Mountain Goats Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:43:05 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132038#msg-132038 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,132038#msg-132038 2. counting song for bitter children
3. birthday song/this time has gone/thought about you a little/birthday cake song (what the fuck is really the name, so much conflicting info)
4. sign of the crow
5. cut off their thumbs #1

as far as i know only the spastic version of alpha omega has been released so i'm going to offer up the slow plucked version of of it as one of my absoute favorites

other honorable mentions, possibly since i've heard too much of or not enough of some of them:
deserters
warm lonely planet
i've got the sex
song for god]]> ocean Mountain Goats Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:35:54 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131964#msg-131964 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131964#msg-131964 2) My Favorite Things
3) Pinklon
4) You Were Cool
5) Ethiopians]]> thealphonsemambo Mountain Goats Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:27:11 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131945#msg-131945 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131945#msg-131945
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Released.
Thanks. I had been suspicious that it might have been.]]> What Rough Beasts Mountain Goats Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:57:45 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131944#msg-131944 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131944#msg-131944
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This would make the list, but I don't know if it's unreleased or what. Does anybody know the song 'Soft Targets'?

Released.]]> Remy Mountain Goats Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:54:41 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131943#msg-131943 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131943#msg-131943 My Favorite Things
You Were Cool
From TG & Y
Going to Bridlington

This would make the list, but I don't know if it's unreleased or what. Does anybody know the song 'Soft Targets'?

As far as covers go, one cover that I particularly love the Mountain Goats version of is 'When I Get Home'

Edit for: Also, has no one else mentioned My Favorite Things? God damn it, I love that song!]]> What Rough Beasts Mountain Goats Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:46:46 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131937#msg-131937 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131937#msg-131937
Edit: Nope, I was wrong. This rules.]]> Inside Outside Mountain Goats Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:47:38 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131921#msg-131921 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131921#msg-131921 here.]]> martins Mountain Goats Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:35:48 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131916#msg-131916 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131916#msg-131916 Here's the info (& binding disclaimer) on From TG & Y from at the time: [www.mountain-goats.com] ...if there's not a working link on that thread/around, I'll dig it out my EHD when I come home next weekend. Next weekend when my cousin leaves for New York. *GoogleMaps* ~3000 miles away.]]> StatusFrustratio Mountain Goats Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:20:01 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131912#msg-131912 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131912#msg-131912 4. Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store
3. Ethiopians
2. From TG&Y*
1. Carmen Cicero

*So apparently there's a studio version of this one? I've only heard live renditions of it Youtube before, but I saw a tab for it that made reference to a studio version. I'm just curious is all, I'm not asking for someone to point me in the right direction if that's not kosher.

But if it is then that's totally what I'm doing.]]> Inside Outside Mountain Goats Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:18:19 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131679#msg-131679 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131679#msg-131679
"From TG&Y" and "You're in Maya" are probably in my top five tMG songs period though, so...]]> simonfox Mountain Goats Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:14:48 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131665#msg-131665 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131665#msg-131665 4. Tulsa Imperative
3. You're in Maya
2. Going to Bridlington
1. From TG&Y]]> coinaphrase Mountain Goats Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:04:31 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131662#msg-131662 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131662#msg-131662
Pinklon. Which is one of my favorite songs
And
02-75
Also
His red river valley cover
Oh oh and
Babylon burning]]> ColinFeely Mountain Goats Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:48:29 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131381#msg-131381 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,131381#msg-131381 Waco
From TG&Y
Going to Bridlington
Tulsa Imperative

If covers were eligible, i'd insert Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)
If we were doing top 5 favorite unreleased songs to actually see live, i'd fit in Terror Song

You were Cool is a great song and is the type of song (due to its simplicity) that would probably sound better live anyways, with all of JD's personality touches added (plus, we have a great recording of it on youtube from lolla.. what more could we ask for than that?). That song and Sign of the Crow are too new to me (less than 2 years old) for me to give them consideration (too fresh). Doll Song would be in my top 10; that is probably the #1 most unlikely -- other than the destroyed tracks -- goats song to ever be performed live by John again, considering he already hated it over 15 years ago haha

Song for my Stepfather is such a brutal song i can't believe it was written, but i'm thankful it was. John is at his best on that topic in my opinion, and that's as candid as he's ever gotten on it (that've i've heard)]]> ihasler Mountain Goats Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:29:15 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120405#msg-120405 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120405#msg-120405
1 Song for my Stepfather
2 Ethiopians
3 You were cool
4 Sign of the Crow

I completely understand why he doesn't play Song for my Stepfather more. The first time I heard it was in Nashville and I was just dumbstruck at how beautiful yet soul crushing it was.]]> Ovcharka Mountain Goats Tue, 24 May 2011 02:57:40 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120404#msg-120404 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120404#msg-120404
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I wonder if Steel Smoked Fish and Any Available Surface were West Texas Orphans (WTO was new material, right?). Steel Smoked Fish is less likely, given the regional thing, but they were from the same time period. And I remember John grinning before he played it and saying "You have no IDEA how long I've been waiting to share this song with you." So...

no, West Texas Orphans were outtakes from All Hail West Texas, hence the title. apparently there were 15 or so that didn't make the album.]]> Zopilote Steel Mountain Goats Tue, 24 May 2011 02:25:22 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120400#msg-120400 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120400#msg-120400
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going to detroit (or what we have of it)

While I know the fragment you're talking about I'm guessing you know we do actually have the whole song.

What song did this turn into?
City > its State (If I'm not being too presumptuous.)]]> StatusFrustratio Mountain Goats Tue, 24 May 2011 00:01:03 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120397#msg-120397 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120397#msg-120397
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protopostmodern
going to detroit (or what we have of it)

While I know the fragment you're talking about I'm guessing you know we do actually have the whole song.

What song did this turn into?]]> lincolnic Mountain Goats Mon, 23 May 2011 22:48:14 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120393#msg-120393 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120393#msg-120393
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I'll come up with a list later, but what's the story behind Steel Smoked Fish? Never heard of it.

Steel Smoked Fish is a song that got played at one Portland show, on the Life of the World to Come tour. The opening couplet was (I'm paraphrasing) "Steel smoked fish, (something something) air / underneath the Burnside Bridge, before they shot movies there." The chorus declared "God bless allllll petty thieves!" There were also lines about going to Plaid Pantry and hiring prostitutes. It was a Portland song.

I wonder if Steel Smoked Fish and Any Available Surface were West Texas Orphans (WTO was new material, right?). Steel Smoked Fish is less likely, given the regional thing, but they were from the same time period. And I remember John grinning before he played it and saying "You have no IDEA how long I've been waiting to share this song with you." So...]]> mkslider Mountain Goats Mon, 23 May 2011 19:50:45 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120389#msg-120389 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120389#msg-120389
1.You Were Cool
2.You’re in Maya
3.From TG&Y
4.Bride

I'm sure this has already been said before and I know that JD hates when people say this but it is an absolute crime that You Were Cool didn't make it onto AED.]]> Eidyia Mountain Goats Mon, 23 May 2011 17:19:36 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120358#msg-120358 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,120358#msg-120358 revolutionaut Mountain Goats Sun, 22 May 2011 20:45:39 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119976#msg-119976 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119976#msg-119976
and yea, caliclimber, i know. prefer the tmg version though.]]> protopostmodern Mountain Goats Tue, 17 May 2011 08:37:35 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119972#msg-119972 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119972#msg-119972
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protopostmodern
going to detroit (or what we have of it)

While I know the fragment you're talking about I'm guessing you know we do actually have the whole song.]]> Caliclimber Mountain Goats Tue, 17 May 2011 07:42:33 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119971#msg-119971 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119971#msg-119971
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november love song

= Un Rêve Plus Long Que La Nuit = released on Gold Kiss Gala.]]> Johnp Mountain Goats Tue, 17 May 2011 07:29:58 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119965#msg-119965 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119965#msg-119965
going to buffalo
etiquette song
going to detroit (or what we have of it)
brandy lets go
like a bullet!

changed last one because i forgot it was released.]]> protopostmodern Mountain Goats Tue, 17 May 2011 07:04:22 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119948#msg-119948 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119948#msg-119948 Car Song
Shower
SBLS 5

I would like there to be more car song love, please.]]> little insect Mountain Goats Mon, 16 May 2011 21:25:39 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119947#msg-119947 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119947#msg-119947 From TG&Y
You're in Maya
I've Got the Sex
Sign of the Crow

thnx to betamax for doing most of the work for me]]> nutopia1213 Mountain Goats Mon, 16 May 2011 21:06:21 -0700 http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119591#msg-119591 Re: Top 5 unreleased songs, go! http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,119355,119591#msg-119591
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Was Steel Smoked Fish really that awesome? Or are you guys just making a WTO-like joke?

it was pretty awesome. Of course it would seem less awesome if I could listen to it every day. But it was awesome.]]> mkslider Mountain Goats Wed, 11 May 2011 13:22:14 -0700