hmm. these:

letter from belgium
oceanographer's choice/raid on entebbe
half dead
family happiness
in the hidden places

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My Top 10 according to last.fm, which actually kinda surprise me a little. All songs I thoroughly enjoy, but I wouldn't necessarily put some of these in my Top 10 favorites.

1. The Mountain Goats – Going to Monaco (115)
2. The Mountain Goats – Poltergeist (99)
3. The Mountain Goats – Song For the Julian Calendar (96)
4. The Mountain Goats – Minnesota (86)
5. The Mountain Goats – The Irony Engine (82)
6. The Mountain Goats – Going to Alaska (79)
7. The Mountain Goats – The Doll Song (77)
8. The Mountain Goats – Twin Human Highway Flares (75)
9. The Mountain Goats – Going to Queens (74)
10. The Mountain Goats – Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Santa Cruz (71)

I don't hit a non-JD involved song until #124, with Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex... My total tMG listens are 8,909, with Extra Glenns in second place at 486, and Magnetic Fields in third at 440.

I don't use last.fm or any such newfangled hocus pocus but I could make an educated guess that my top 5 would probably be:

Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
Waving at You
Going to Utrecht
Up The Wolves
Elijah

Also Get Lonely in it's entirety would be way up there.

According to last.fm. Most of these are because I've listened to We Shall All Be Healed as a whole a lot (or started to and then got distracted/had to stop before the end of the album). Not really indicative at all of my Actual Favorites.

1. Mosquito Repellent (88) [counting this... is nearly impossible to listen to just once]
2. Raid on Entebbe (67)
3. Palmcorder Yajna (61)
4. Dance Music (59)
5. This Year (53)
6. Your Belgian Things (47)
7. Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph Of (46)
8. Letter from Belgium (46)
9. Quito (44)
10. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent (42)

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this is on my itunes only, on my ipod it's probably much more

Alpha Rats Nest (74)

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5. Keeping House (Trumpets!)

4. Going to Georgia (of course)

3. In Corolla (something about the imagery in this song really gets me)

2. Game Shows Touch Our Lives (once again, powerful imagery, great beautiful sadness)

1. Whole Wide World (I can listen to this song anytime, any place, and just stop and breathe and reflect. Been with me at some pretty rough times)

yes! keeping house! yes! YES YES YES.

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I don't know how many plays I have of either, but my top played tMG song is either Baboon or Emerging.

Grendel's Mother might be up there too though.

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Naming Day
Commandante
You or Your Memory (CCtTST version)
Collapsing Stars
Deianara Crush

and, lately, Estate Sale Sign

Definitely not a list of all-time favorites, but these are the ones I will pretty much always listen to when they come up on the iPod on shuffle.

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yes! keeping house! yes! YES YES YES.

SO glad someone's as enthusiastic about how awesome this song is as I am! Goddamn!

^I just got my Japanese copy of Get Lonely today and Keeping House blew me away. Getting my AED tomorrow, really excited to hear Used to Haunt as well.

My list:

Going to Georgia- 122
Treetop Song- 101
This Year- 93
Weekend in Western Illinois- 91
Satanic Messiah -71
No Children- 67
Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton- 66
There Will Be No Divorce- 63
Yoga- 63
Narakaloka- 59

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yes! keeping house! yes! YES YES YES.

SO glad someone's as enthusiastic about how awesome this song is as I am! Goddamn!

this seriously is one of my favorite tMG songs ever. ...and i may be completely out on a branch here, but i LOVE get lonely in its entirety. so great.

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From my iTunes, my top five most played:

going to georgia - 301
deianara crush - 194
orange ball of love - 183
faithless bacchant song - 154
cubs in five - 127

going to georgia is kind of skewed, because a few months ago I was listening to it over and over to learn it perfectly.

301, that is a badge of honor!
wear it proudly, goathead!

old college try and alpha rats nest
in the 400s on both my computer and iphone lol

not sure what's up with the discrepancies between the following two top tens. i think its clear at any rate that i've listened to on juhu beach in its entirety more than anything else

last.fm chart:
1. No Children - 114
2. See America Right - 91
3. Dilaudid - 86
4. Elijah - 73
4. Stars Around Her - 73
6. Southwood Plantation Road - 72
7. Transjordanian Blues - 68
8. Fall of the Star High School Running Back - 67
9. Commandante - 65
10. Baboon - 63

iTunes:
1. Trans-Jordanian Blues - 74
2. Burned My Tongue - 57
2. World Cylinder - 57
2. Going to Georgia - 57
5. Hotel Road - 55
6. Bad Waves - 54
7. Commandante - 53
8. Fault Lines - 46
8. Horseradish Road - 46
8. Family Happiness - 46
since half of this is taken up by on juhu beach here's the next five for kicks:
11. Fall of the Star High School Running Back - 44
11. The Alphonse Mambo - 44
11. Weekend in Western Illinois - 44
11. See America Right - 44
11. Alpha Incipiens - 44

Alpha Rats Nest- 106
Half Dead- 90
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water...- 89
Jaipur- 66
Quito- 62
You're In Maya- 57
Ethiopians- 48
The Day The Aliens Came- 46
Palmcorder Yajna- 46
Weekend In Western Illinois- 45

Actually surprised me a little to see that according to iTunes, my most listened to tMG song is Dance Music. But that's only accurate for the past couple of years since iTunes reset itself. When I first discovered them I had this tiny little mp3 player and listened to Tallahassee on repeat pretty much every day all summer.

1. Dance Music (62)
2. This Year (59)
3. See America Right (57)
4. Southwood Plantation Road (54)
5. No Children (51)

For comparison's sake, my most listened to non-tMG is Gronlandic Edit, by of Montreal, with 101 plays. The next song is Sugar We're Going Down with 99. Oh yes.

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The next song is Sugar We're Going Down with 99. Oh yes.

Play it thrice more and it'll be No. 1 with a bullet. Oh yes.

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The next song is Sugar We're Going Down with 99. Oh yes.

You all can say what you want about Fall Out Boy, but I fucking love that song.

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that song.

That _album_ is solid gold.

According to last.fm:

1. Dance Music - 126
2. Love Love Love - 102
3. This Year - 98
4. You or Your Memory - 81
5. Going to Georgia - 74
6. Dilaudid - 67
7. Lion's Teeth - 65
8. Song for Dennis Brown - 64
9. Up the Wolves - 62
10. Broom People - 59

I didn't expect the entire list except for 1 to be from The Sunset Tree, but I guess it makes sense being that it was the first tMG album I got into...



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8. Dong for Dennis Brown - 64

Watch out for those keyboard slips!

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8. Dong for Dennis Brown - 64

Watch out for those keyboard slips!

Hahahaha didn't catch that

1) Love Love Love - 73
2) Sax Rohmer #1 - 72
3) Dance Music - 68
4) No Children - 66
5) This Year - 65

Wow, did not expect so many from The Sunset Tree.

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