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Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats

Franny
January 10, 2011 06:12PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
1. Palmcorda Yajna
2. This Year
3. Michael Myers Resplendent
4. Up The Wolves
5. Oceanographer's Choice
6. The Alphonse Mambo
7. If You See Light
8. 1 John 4:16
9. Elijah
10. Tallahassee

But there are soooo many more brilliant songs and that was very difficult to choose
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alannasaurus
January 11, 2011 11:28AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
OKAY I CANNOT REALLY DO THIS IN ORDER SO LOL


Weekend in Western Illinois
Evening in Stalingrad
Cao Dai Blowout
Old College Try
Southwood Plantation Road
Source Decay
Going to Georgia
Masher
Dance Music
There will be no divorce



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ImpelDown
January 12, 2011 08:38PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
I'm so shitty at making lists, but here goes

1. Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace
2. Golden Boy
3. Mosquito Repellent, only the live version from 4/30/10 at Cat's Cradle. It...it was really good.
4. Going to Georgia
5. No Children
6. You Were Cool
7. The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton
8. Ethiopians
9. The Fall of the Star High School Running Back
10. Fault Lines



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ImpelDown
January 12, 2011 08:45PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
I only feel good about the first three. Looking at the rest of my list, I feel like I just burned down an orphanage.
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betamax
January 13, 2011 06:49AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
In order? Not a chance in hell. But, off the top of my head, this is not a bad effort. I could, if i were that way inclined, sit down and rank them and then order them, and probably even graphically represent them. I may even weight each song according to certain criteria and, when it's all done, i wouldn't be surprised if my love for each of the songs i've heard was spread exactly evenly across all of the songs.

Although i like the loud ones best, mainly. smiling smiley

1. Fault Lines
1. Family Happiness (especially the live version from Cow Haus!)
1. Orange Ball of Love
1. The Best Ever Death...
1. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
1. Moon over Goldsboro
1. Going to Georgia
1. Source Decay
1. Pale Green Things
1. Prana Ferox
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Gaius Verres
January 14, 2011 11:38AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Off the top of my head:

You're In Maya
No, I Can't (Transmissions To Horace/BMF version)
Song For Cleomenes
Third Snow Song
Baboon
Tollund Man
Soft Targets
Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
Spilling Toward Alpha
Black Molly


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tma2290
January 20, 2011 11:15PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Here's my best shot--

1. Minnesota
2. Going to Georgia
3. Color in Your Cheeks
4. Twin Human Highway Flares
5. Heretic Pride
6. Ontario
7. Onions
8. Autoclave
9. Elijah
10. This Year
11. Romans 10:9



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fever
January 21, 2011 02:35AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
1 if i was your girlfriend
2 erotic city
3 raspberry beret
4 paisley park
5 alphabet street
6 we can funk
7 sex me? sex me not
8 black sweat
9 when u were mine
10 hey mr. tambourine man


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SaveMeASeat
January 21, 2011 12:37PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
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fever
1 if i was your girlfriend
2 erotic city
3 raspberry beret
4 paisley park
5 alphabet street
6 we can funk
7 sex me? sex me not
8 black sweat
9 when u were mine
10 hey mr. tambourine man

No "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man?" Whatever you're smoking I don't want any. JD's sick theremin solo on that one deserves at least a top 10 slot.


We are the ones who don't slow down at all...
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fever
January 21, 2011 04:42PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
You're right. I missed the ballad of dorothy parker, as well. Nothing better than JD rappin' about Joni.


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Kathaariancode
January 21, 2011 08:57PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Dude. Derailing here, but Paste's Ballad Of Dorothy Parker is greatmazing.
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coinaphrase
January 22, 2011 12:24PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Dear me, dear me, where to begin (okay, well, #1 is clear-cut, but where to go from there is awfully tough)

10. Seed Song/Tollund Man/Maize Stalk Drinking Blood/Chanson Du Bon Chance/Going to Maine/No Children/Flight 717: Going to Denmark
9. Cubs in Five
8. I Corinthians 13: 8-10
7. You're In Maya
6. Going to Alaska
5. Black Molly
4. The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
3. Going to Georgia
2. Attention All Pickpockets
1. Source Decay
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BroomPerson
January 22, 2011 03:29PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Ugh, way too tough. I'd say the first 5 are pretty cemented in their spots. Others are totally up in the air though.

1. Up The Wolves
2. Autoclave
3. Fault Lines
4. Idylls Of The King
5. Palmcorder Yajna
6. The Last Day Of Jimi Hendrix's Life
7. The Day The Aliens Came
8. Alpha Desperation March
9. Jenny
10. No Surprises (Radiohead cover)


like a vision straight outta Holly Hobbie
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Achillius
January 22, 2011 06:43PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
OK, so here goes:

1. Minnesota
2. Slow West Vultures
3. Ezekiel 7 &c.
4. Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?
6. Going to Bristol
7. Home Again Garden Grove
8. Best Ever Death Metal Band
9. Yoga
10. 1 Samuel

And, you know, the rest of them.
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PoorImpulseControl
March 02, 2011 11:45PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Oh my.


1. Up The Wolves
2. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
3. Magpie
4. Naming Day
5. Riches and Wonders
6. 1 John 4:16
7. Surrounded
8. Palmcorder Yajna
9. International Small Arms Traffic Blues
10. You’re In Maya
Bonus Extra Glenns pick: Adultery


I've been lurking on these boards for a long time but finally decided to register an account. So...hi smiling smiley
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finnstinky
May 19, 2011 12:12AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Black Molly
Store
Home Again Garden Grove
Cubs In Five
Going To Georgia
Chino Love Song 1979
The Water Song
Golden Boy
The Day The Aliens Came
Bluejays And Cardinals

Wow, that is hard haha.
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mike5998
May 19, 2011 10:08AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
welcome Franny and finnstinky!

great handles!

and great song choices!


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plattdaddyrock
March 23, 2012 10:52PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
This list is not hard to post, I have it down to a revolving 25 but I'll stick with the format. Here's the current All Time Top 10:

1 This Year
2 Color In Your Cheeks
3 See America Right
4 Jenny
5 Oceanographer's Choice
6 Estate Sale Sign
7 The Mess Inside
8 Going to Georgia
9 Commandante
10 Alpha Rats Nest

Amazed at the variety of songs that people choose as their favorites, but then again always amazed at the variety of songs and what's out there to be found. Like unlocked treasure chests.
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leez34
March 25, 2012 01:00AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
No order. Ever changing, just like everyone else's.

Source Decay
Up the Wolves
Horseradish Road
There Will Be No Divorce
The Alphonse Mambo
Deuteronomy 2:10
1 John 4:16
The Recognition Scene
This Year
Game Shows Touch Our Lives
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Jr
April 14, 2012 05:10PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
Really like the lists. Here are mine.

1. Seed Song
2. See America Right
3. Scotch Grove
4. The Monkey Song
5. Cubs In Five
6. Blues In Dallas
7. Anti Music Song

There's a 19-way tie for 8th, so here, in alphabetical order, are as many as I can fit (sorry, Window Song):

8. Alpha Desperation March
8. The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton
8. Broom People
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Jr
April 14, 2012 07:44PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
I'm kind of a geek. While I should have been planting my garden, I just looked through here and counted the mentions for the songs, and here's the top 10 of the forum's top 10 lists (so far). If a song was tied (4-7 were tied, 8-9 were tied, 10-11 were tied), I gave the nod to the ones that appeared on the most lists that had no more than 10 songs on them.

1. Going to Georgia (16)
2. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton (14)
3. Palmcorder Yajna (10)
4. Up the Wolves (9)
5. This Year (9)
6. Oceanographer's Choice (9)
7. No Children (9)
8. Minnesota (8)
9. Broom People (8)
10. You're in Maya (7)
11. Autoclave (7)

So there you go. The people have spoken.
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coinaphrase
April 15, 2012 12:42AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
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Jr
I'm kind of a geek. While I should have been planting my garden, I just looked through here and counted the mentions for the songs, and here's the top 10 of the forum's top 10 lists (so far). If a song was tied (4-7 were tied, 8-9 were tied, 10-11 were tied), I gave the nod to the ones that appeared on the most lists that had no more than 10 songs on them.

1. Going to Georgia (16)
2. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton (14)
3. Palmcorder Yajna (10)
4. Up the Wolves (9)
5. This Year (9)
6. Oceanographer's Choice (9)
7. No Children (9)
8. Minnesota (8)
9. Broom People (8)
10. You're in Maya (7)
11. Autoclave (7)

So there you go. The people have spoken.

Autoclave only one that surprises me. I mean, I love the song, but it never struck me as a song that that many people would find that memorable. Either way, not a bad start to any greatest "hits" album!
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Jonty
April 15, 2012 04:26AM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
The very definition of tentative, but voila:

1 - Moon Over Goldsboro
2 - You're In Maya
3 - Twin Human Highway Flares
4 - No Children
5 - Woke Up New
6 - See America Right
7 - The Recognition Scene
8 - Tollund Man
9 - The Mess Inside
10 - Lovecraft In Brooklyn
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betamax
April 15, 2012 02:34PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
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betamax
In order? Not a chance in hell. But, off the top of my head, this is not a bad effort. I could, if i were that way inclined, sit down and rank them and then order them, and probably even graphically represent them. I may even weight each song according to certain criteria and, when it's all done, i wouldn't be surprised if my love for each of the songs i've heard was spread exactly evenly across all of the songs.

Although i like the loud ones best, mainly. smiling smiley

1. Fault Lines
1. Family Happiness (especially the live version from Cow Haus!)
1. Orange Ball of Love
1. The Best Ever Death...
1. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
1. Moon over Goldsboro
1. Going to Georgia
1. Source Decay
1. Pale Green Things
1. Prana Ferox
it's nice to review a list.

i'd put a couple from TLOTWTC on there, now. I can never remember their names, though. (The one about cancer. And the one with the line "...keep driving".) And probably something from Chile de Arbol, now i've heard it.

And also a handful from AED because i think that's a good record.


let's get dressed up in costumes and dance by the bar.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/2012 02:35PM by betamax.
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Wild Creature
April 15, 2012 03:46PM | Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats
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Wild Creature
I guess this is my current list, and it changes pretty regularly.

1. Cubs in Five. You're in Maya/Tetrapod

2. Broom People. Night Light

3. Transjordanian Blues. If You See Light (demo)

4. Wizard Buys a Hat. Broom People

5. Dino Lupatti's Bones. The one about the brothers escaping the curse

6. You're in Maya. The one about no one left after me

7. Gin and Juice. The Autopsy Garland

8. Raid on Entebbe. Wild Sage

9. Autoclave. Babylon Burning

10. The Doll Song.


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