So I was thinking about what I would consider my favorite song from each Mountain Goats album, and I'm interested to see what others have to say on the matter. I only did full length albums, but feel free to include EPs as well!

Taboo VI - Going to Alaska
Hound Chronicles - Standard Bitter Love Song #4
Hot Garden Stomp - Pure Milk or Sun Song
Zopilote Machine - Going to Georgia
Sweden - Cold Milk Bottle
Nothing For Juice - Going to Bogata
Full Force Galesburg - Minnesota
Protein Source Of The Future Now - Love Cuts The Strings
Bitter Melon Farm - Alpha Desperation March
Ghana - Flight 717: Going to Denmark
The Coroner's Gambit - The Alphonse Mambo or Onions
AHWTX - The Mess Inside
Tallahassee - See America Right
We Shall All Be Healed - Palmcorder Yajna
The Sunset Tree - Dance Music
Get Lonely - Half Dead
Heretic Pride - Lovecraft in Brooklyn
All Eternals Deck - Damn These Vampires

I didn't pick anything from TLOTWTC because I haven't listened to that album as much as others and still don't know the songs by their titles yet, the bible verses kind of confuse me haha.



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Taboo VI - Going to Alaska
Hound Chronicles - Going to Kansas
Hot Garden Stomp - The Hot Garden Stomp
Zopilote Machine - Alpha Incipiens
Sweden - [This one was actually nigh-impossible to do] Some Swedish Trees
Nothing For Juice - It Froze Me
Full Force Galesburg - Twin Human Highway Flares
The Coroner's Gambit - There Will Be No Divorce
AHWTX - Jeff Davis County Blues
Tallahassee - Old College Try
We Shall All Be Healed - Against Pollution
The Sunset Tree - The Day the Aliens Came [If this isn't valid, even though it should be, I'll go with Broom People]
Get Lonely - New Monster Avenue
Heretic Pride - Michael Meyers Resplendent
LOTWTC - Isaiah 45:23
All Eternals Deck - Prowl Great Cain

Bonus: Favorite 7': Philyra [Closely followed by Chile de Arbol]

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Sweden - [This one was actually nigh-impossible to do] Some Swedish Trees

I feel ya! Sweden and Zopilote Machine were both really tough calls.

Might as well be my first post (hi everyone, I posted on the LPTJ forums with this username like a thousand years ago but I'd be shocked if you remembered me).


Going to go alphabetical because I'm terrible with chronology, skipping some I haven't listened to enough. I wanted to do all the EPs instead of the collection albums but that seemed like it was going too easy on myself.

All Eternals Deck: High Hawk Season
All Hail West Texas: Absolute Lithops Effect
Beautiful Rat Sunset: Resonant Bell World
Bitter Melon Farm: Going to Santiago
Chile De Arbol: Going to Malibu
The Coroner's Gambit: Onions
Devil in the Shortwave: Commandante
Full Force Galesburg: Twin Human Highway Flares
Get Lonely: Woke Up New
Ghana: Flight 717: Going to Denmark
Hot Garden Stomp: Going to Japan
The Hound Chronicles : Standard Bitter Love Song #4
Isopanisad Radio Hour: The Last Limit of Bhakti
On Juhu Beach: Transjordanian Blues
Protein Source of the Future: Seed Song
The Sunset Tree: Love Love Love
Sweden: Flashing Lights
Taboo VI: Ice Cream, Cobra Man
Tallahassee: Old College Try
We Shall All Be Healed: Home Again Garden Grove
Zopilote Machine: Orange Ball of Love


Woooooowowowowowowow that was difficult. Lots and lots of close runners up. I will say I think Seed Song is suuuuper underrated but I don't know what the consensus on it is among internet fans.

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To include my favorite non-album song, it's a tie between You're in Maya and My Favorite Things.

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taboo: solomon revisited
hound: SBLS #4 / going to wisconsin
hot garden: ice blue / feed this end
transmissions: going to monaco
dative: chino love song 1979
yam: yam, the king of crops
zopilote: quetzalcoatl is born
brs: sendero cuminoso verdado
sweden: snow crush killing song
nfg: orange ball of pain
ffg: maize stalk drinking blood
coroner's: bluejays and cardinals
new asian cinema: treetop song
on juhu beach: transjordanian blues
isopanisad radio hour: cobscook bay
devil in the shortwave: crows
ahwt: pink and blue
tallahassee: see america right
wsabh: the young thousands
tst: you or your memory
get lonely: woke up new
heretic pride: san bernardino
tlotwtc: matthew 25:21
all eternals deck: liza forever minnelli


do i want to do the 7"s? maybe later.



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Taboo VI - Going To Alaska
Hound Chronicles - Going To Wisconsin
Hot Garden Stomp - Feed This End
Zopilote Machine - Going To Georgia
Sweden - Cold Milk Bottle
Nothing For Juice - Going to Scotland
Full Force Galesburg - Weekend In Western Illinois
The Coroner's Gambit - Bluejays And Cardinals
AHWTX - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Tallahassee - Oceanographer's Choice
We Shall All Be Healed - Slow West Vultures
The Sunset Tree - Love Love Love
Get Lonely - Moon Over Goldsboro
Heretic Pride - Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident
LOTWTC - Ezekiel 7 And The Permanent Efficacy Of Grace
All Eternals Deck - Liza Forever Minnelli

Bonus:
Non-album track - Going To Bridlington
Martial Arts Weekend - Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Sebastopol
Undercard - Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods

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BONUS ROUNDS:
non-album: tie bt Birthday Cake Song and You're in Maya
Martial Arts Weekend: Ultraviolet
Undercard: Adultery

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taboo: this magic moment
hound: going to spain
hot garden: pure milk/ are you cleaning off the stone
transmissions: going to santiago
dative: orange ball of peace
yam: alagemo
zopilote: going to lebanon
brs: sendero cuminoso verdado
sweden: snow crush killing song
nfg: then the letting go/ waving at you/ it froze me (i just couldn't do it)
ffg: it's all here in brownsville/ snow owl
coroner's: alphonse mambo
new asian cinema: cao dai blowout
on juhu beach: bad waves
isopanisad radio hour: last limit of bhakti
devil in the shortwave: commandante
ahwt: riches and wonders
tallahassee: old college try
wsabh: the young thousands
tst: dinu lippatis bones
get lonely: maybe sprout wings
heretic pride: in the craters of the moon
tlotwtc: hebrews 11:40
all eternals deck: estate sale sign

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Haha boom! Roasted.

Tapes:
Taboo IV: Going to Alaska
Hound Chronicles: SBLS #4
Transmissions to Horace: No, I Can't
Hot Garden Stomp: BEACH HOUSE \m/
Taking the Dative: Alpha Gelida
Yam King: Seed Song

LPs:
Zopilote Machine: Going to Georgia/Alpha Sun Hat
Sweden: Deianara Crush
Nothing for Juice: Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
Full Force Galesburg: Ontario on the album, West Country Dream live
The Coroner's Gambit: Family Happiness
All Hail West Texas: High School Running Back and Source Decay are tied for a very close second, but it's gotta be Best Ever Death Metal Band
Tallahassee: Southwood Plantation Road
WSABH: It's a realistic tie between The Young Thousands and Home Again Garden Grove, but I quoted HAGG for my Senior year school speech, so it has to win in my heart of hearts
The Sunset Tree: Dilaudid
Get Lonely: Moon Over Goldsboro
Heretic Pride: Lovecraft in Brooklyn (even though I also quoted the song Heretic Pride in the same speech)
TLOTWTC: EZEKIEL 7 MOTHERFUCKERS
All Eternals Deck: Beautiful Gas Mask

BONUS LEVEL:

Non-album: SBLS #1
Martial Arts Weekend: Going to Morocco
Undercard: Adultery
Black Pear Tree: Mosquito Repellent



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Only including albums I own. Though should compilations count as albums? Not sure, but they're included anyway.

All Eternals Deck: "Prowl Great Cain"
All Hail West Texas: "The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton"
Bitter Melon Farm: "Pure Love"
The Coroner's Gambit: "Elijah"
Full Force Galesburg: "Weekend In Western Illinois"
Get Lonely: "Woke Up New"
Ghana: "Golden Boy"
Heretic Pride: "The Last Man On Earth"
The Life Of The World To Come: "Psalms 40:2"
( Martial Arts Weekend: "Going To Marrakesh" )
Nothing For Juice: "Going To Scotland"
Protein Source Of The Future... Now!: "Pure Heat"
The Sunset Tree: "Up The Wolves"
Sweden: "Cold Milk Bottle"
Tallahassee: "Idylls Of The Kings"
( Undercard: "Dogs Of Clinic 17" )
We Shall All Be Healed: "Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of"
Zopilote Machine: "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song"

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Hot Garden Stomp: Water Song II
Zopilote Machine: Going to Lebanon
Sweden: Whole Wide World
Full Force Galesburg: Minnesota
The Coroner's Gambit: The Alphonse Mambo
All Hail West Texas: Jeff Davis County Blues
Tallahassee: Game Shows Touch Our Lives
We Shall All Be Healed: Your Belgian Things
The Sunset Tree: Up the Wolves
Get Lonely: Woke Up New
Heretic Pride: How to Embrace a Swamp Monster
The Life of the World to Come: Deuteronomy 2:10
All Eternals Deck: Never Quite Free

EPs:
Isopanisad Radio Hour: Born Ready
On Juhu Beach: Trans-Jordanian Blues
Devil in the Shortwave: Commandante
Jam Eater Blues: Store
Satanic Messiah: Wizard Buys a Hat

Other:
Martial Arts Weekend: Malevolent Seascape Y
Moon Colony Bloodbath: Surrounded

Hound Chronicles - Standard Bitter Love Song #4
Hot Garden Stomp -the Hot Garden Stomp
Beautiful Rat Sunset-Song for Mark and Joel
Zopilote Machine - Alpha in Tauris
Nine Black Poppies-I Know You've Come to Take My Toys Away (used to be Going to Ulrect before *Cough* Mayonnaise *Cough*)
Sweden -Neon Orange Glimmer Song (used to be Snow Crush Killing Song but it's just too sad to listen to mostly)
Nothing For Juice-Alpha Double Negative:Going to Catalina
Full Force Galesburg- It's All Here in Brownsville
Tallahassee -Stuck between Tallahassee and Old College Try
The Sunset Tree-Up the Wolves
Heretic Pride-Heretic Pride
TLOTWTC-Deuteronomy 2:10
All Eternals Deck-Prowl Great Cain

These are all the albums I've heard or own.

Extras:
Undercard-Adultery
Edit: Oops, forgot Moon Colony Bloodbath-Surrounded

Kath-Interesting choice for Hot Garden Stomp. I've always been fascinated by the strange way the tape warbles in this song. Can't say I like it that much but between the guitar being in weird tuning (or out of tune as the case may be) and the tape distortion, it makes for some interesting sound



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TLOTWTC: EZEKIEL 7 MOTHERFUCKERS

I'm not sure if I remember that one.

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TLOTWTC: EZEKIEL 7 MOTHERFUCKERS

I'm not sure if I remember that one.

It's actually the rap-remix of the Ezekiel 7 you know.

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Oh hey are you every guy who ever made me a mix CD? sup, missed u

BONUS ROUNDS:
non-album: tie bt Birthday Cake Song and You're in Maya
Martial Arts Weekend: Ultraviolet
Undercard: Adultery

lawl! heck yeah! i was hoping somebody knew what the hell i was talking about!

I'll take it one step further, best and worst, no ties or bonus tracksss and supplementary albums.
best/worst

TabooVI – Ice Cream, Cobra Man/One Winter At Point Alpha Privative
tHC – Alpha Negative/Going To Chino
SfP – The Bad Doctor/Alpha Double Negative
CdA – Alphabetizing/Billy The Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes
HGS – Water Song 2/Fresh Cherries In Trinidad
TtH – Historiography/No, I Can't
BRS – GtMaryland/Seeing Daylight
ZM – Alpha In Tauris/Georgia
Philyra – Love Cuts the Strings/Pure Honey
TtD – Orange Ball of Peace/Wrong!
Y,tKoC – Omega Blaster/Yam, the King of Crops
OR,BR – Blood Royal/The Only Thing I Know
SfPH – SfDana Plato/No, I Can't
NBP – GtUtrecht/Pure Money
SaF – Stars Around Here/SfJohn Davis
Sweden – Downtown Seoul/Cold Milk Bottle
J&F – An Inscription at Salonae/There Will Always Be an Ireland
NFJ – Waving at You/Hellhound on My Trail
FFG – Evening In Stalingrad/Ontario
NAC – Treetop Song/Narakaloka
IRH – Pseudothyrum Song/Abide With Me
tCG – There Will Be No Divorce/The Coroner's Gambit
OJB – World Cylinder/Bad Waves
DitS - Yoga/Crows
AHWT – Fault Lines/tBEDMBiD
Tallahassee – First Few Desperate Hours/Game Shows Touch Our Lives
WSABH – Quito/The Young Thousands
tST – Magpie/SfDennis Brown
BS – Sail Babylon Springs/Wait For You
GL – Wild Sage/Half Dead
HP – Heretic Pride/San Bernadino
BPT – Roger Patterson Van/Supergenesis
SM – Sarcofago Live/Satanic Messiah
MCB – Emerging/Sudden Oak Death
tLotWTC – Hebrews 11:40/Genesis 3:23
AED – Prowl Great Cain/Age of Kings

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at this rate, by next week we'll all just be posting the tracklistings!

I'd like to contribute to this thread but my neck hurts and my brain is tired.

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Zopilote Machine - Going to Georgia
Sweden - The Recognition Scene
Nothing For Juice - Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
Full Force Galesburg - Weekend in Western Illinois
Protein Source Of The Future Now - Love Cuts The Strings
Bitter Melon Farm - No, I Can't
Ghana - Golden Boy
The Coroner's Gambit - Jaipur
All Hail West Texas- Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
Tallahassee - International Small Arms Traffic Blues
We Shall All Be Healed - Cotton
The Sunset Tree - This Year
Get Lonely - Woke Up New
Heretic Pride - Autoclave
Life of the World to Come - Matthew 25:21
All Eternals Deck - Never Quite Free

Don't really know the cassettes well enough to pick a favorite, honestly I could redo this list tomorrow and have it be totally different

Hound Chronicles - Going To Chino
Zopilote Machine - Alpha Incipiens
Sweden - California Song
Nothing For Juice - Alabama Nova
Full Force Galesburg - Weekend In Western Illinois
The Coroner's Gambit - We Were Patriots
AHWTX - Fall of the Star High School Running Back
Tallahassee - Alpha Rats Nest
We Shall All Be Healed - Palmcorder Yajna
The Sunset Tree - This Year
Get Lonely - Half Dead
Heretic Pride - Michael Myers Resplendent
LOTWTC - Matthew 25:21
All Eternals Deck- Estate Sale Sign

Favorite non-album song is a close one, with You Were Cool pulling out a win over You're In Maya and Poltergeist

Mean average of Track # of my favourite: 7.6^recurring
Mode - 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12
Median - 8

Try and work that one out.
_{(Don't. It'll be different in a minute.)}

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taboo- going to alaska
hound chron.- water song
beaut. rat- new star song
zopilote- quetzalcoatl is born
nine black poppies- stars fell on alabama
sweden- prana ferox
nothing for juice- waving at you
galesburg- original air-blue gown (i personally thought that this was by far the hardest choice to make)
protein source- billy the kid's dream of the magic shoes
bitter melon farm- bad doctor
coroner's- jaipur
west texas- source decay
ghana- going to port washington
jam eater- store
tallahassee- alpha rat's nest
we shall all be healed- home again garden grove
sunset tree- magpie
come, come- the day the aliens came
get lonely- woke up new
heretic pride- sax rohmer
life of the world- romans 10:9
all eternals- estate sale sign