off the top of my head. valid for the next ten seconds:
1. you're in maya
2. colour in your cheeks
3. the day the aliens came
4. new cehvrolet in flames
5. going to port washington
6. going to scotland
7. oceanographer's choice
8. alpha rats nest
9. rockin rockin pet store
10. evening in stalingrad


(not including what was assumed to be popular favourites: commandante, cubs in five, no children, going to georgia, best ever death metal band out of denton, baboon...)

edit: shower bumped to 11, there it was valid for longer than ten seconds this time..just about :/



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2008 07:48AM by pers0na.

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BobDylan47
its pretty hard to do this. i would have a better list, but i don't have enough money to buy some of the albums.

Is that because you have to buy every damn Bob Dylan album? You can leave a couple out if you ask me, and go for the Goats' gold.

You can never have enough Dylan OR tMG albums...

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You can never have enough Dylan OR tMG albums...

Agreed.

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my love of bob dylan is what made the mountain goats hit me so hard. after dylan, there was a void to be filled. and the mountain goats made that cup overfloweth with just a few lines...

"the best ever death metal band outta denton....

.....'s a coupla guys....'d been friends since grade school......."

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~i'm gonna kill all the judges~



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/22/2008 11:51AM by mike.

Shouldn't this have been the "Top 20 Favorite Songs by The Mountain Goats?"

then, that list of 20 could've at least more easily have been turned into like, heaven's setlist or something.

for some lucky winner.

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my love of bob dylan is what made the mountain goats hit me so hard. after dylan, there was a void to be filled.

This is probably what unconsciously happened to me too.

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mike
my love of bob dylan is what made the mountain goats hit me so hard. after dylan, there was a void to be filled. and the mountain goats made that cup overfloweth with just a few lines...

"the best ever death metal band outta denton....

.....'s a coupla guys....'d been friends since grade school......."

fuckin' aye man. fuckin aye.

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

Might as well respond to the thread topic too

In no particular order...

The Young Thousands
Heretic Pride
Palmcorder Yajna
Beat the Devil
Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store
This Year
Broom People
Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton
Fault Lines
Home Again Garden Grove
Going to Georgia
San Bernadino
The Anglo-Saxons
Ox Baker Triumphant
No Children
Standard Bitter Love Song #8
02-75
If You See Light
Oceanographer's Choice
Internation Small Arms Traffic Blues

I don't even know if that's an accurate list, but it's probably close. I went ahead and did top 20 like mike suggested. I hope that's not cheating.

As for Heaven's setlist, I think for me it would be a tMG concert every night (for however longs this takes) with an entire album each night. (chronologically)

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As for Heaven's setlist, I think for me it would be a tMG concert every night (for however longs this takes) with an entire album each night. (chronologically)

Dude, that's high-maintenance!
(I would love it)

I'm gonna cheat for this and take it straight off my ipods play counts.

1.Commandante
2.Yoga
3.Island Garden Song
4.If You See Light
5.California Song
6.Attention All Pickpockets
7.Wild Sage
8.Against Pollution
9.Black Molly
10.Horseradish Road, Genesis 19 1-2, Family Happiness (tied)

huh, that's not the list i would've come up with otherwise. pretty accurate anyways though.

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I'm gonna cheat for this and take it straight off my ipods play counts.

1.Commandante
2.Yoga
3.Island Garden Song
4.If You See Light
5.California Song
6.Attention All Pickpockets
7.Wild Sage
8.Against Pollution
9.Black Molly
10.Horseradish Road, Genesis 19 1-2, Family Happiness (tied)

Umm, sir that belongs here: different thread

I actually thought about doing that too. Mine has changed since the thread started though. Now it's

1. Fault Lines
2. This Year
3. Sax Rohmer #1
4. Home Again Garden Grove
5. Autoclave
6. Thought About You a Little (Birthday Cake Song)
7. San Bernadino
8. If You See Light
9. Broom People tied with Up the Wolves
10. Alpha Rats Nest

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1. Maybe Sprout Wings
2. Pinklon
3. Yoga
4. Elija
5. Raid on Entebbe
6. Minnesota
7. Sax Rohmer #1
8. Chanson Du Bon Chose
9. Twin Human Highway Flares
10. Song for an old friend

*11. Mutiny in heaven would have made the list if it was more than a verse. John and Peter should crack out the Birthday Party more often.

No particular order, excluding the given.

1. From TG&Y (Pitzer show)
2. If You See Light
3. Down to the Ark
4. Counting Song for Bitter Children
5. Sign of the Crow 2
6. Ultraviolet (dunno if you count that)
7. Houseguest (dunno if you count that)
8. There Will Be No Divorce (this was my first tMG song, and John has been quoted saying his favorite, so that's cool)
9. Going to Queens
10. Alpha Omega
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11. New Chevrolet in Flames
12. Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store
13. Hawaiian Feeling (The Day The Aliens Came)
14. Genesis 19:1-2
15. Two-Headed Boy (dunno if you count that)
16. We Were Patriots
17. Idylls of the Kind
18. Twin Human Highway Flares
19. Cao Dai Blowout
20. Game Shows Touch Our Lives

That took upwards of 30 minutes. Now I'm going to make a playlist of these songs.

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1. Snow Crush Killing Song
2. Minnesota
3. Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store
4. Whole Wide World
5. Going to Queens
6. Neon Orange Glimmer Song
7. One Fine Day
8. Elijah
9. Bluejays and Cardinals
10. Original Air-Blue Gown

I think that's it.

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dp
*11. Mutiny in heaven would have made the list if it was more than a verse. John and Peter should crack out the Birthday Party more often.

I need to hear this! I've only heard Johns cover of Wildworld and it is awesome.

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i need to make a new list because mine is SO different now... im proud to say mine is pretty obscure except for a few...

1. poltergeist
2. the bad doctor
3. star dusting
4. pure heat
5. the monkey song
6. the best ever death metal band out of Denton (2003-06-06 Triple Rock Social. In my opinion the best ever played version... so much raw intensity and emotion)
7. Deianeira crush
8. nine black poppies(live only, i'm not so fond of the album version i hate to say)
9. old college try
10.alpha incipiens

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"Someone was losing, someone was losing something very very dear to him"

a challenge if ever i have seen one

1. Orange Ball of Hate
2. The Recognition Scene
3. Commandante
4. Twin Human Highway Flares
5. Ethiopians
6. Cubs In Five
7. Alpha Rats Nest
8. Alpha Incipiens
9. Going to Malibu
10. Flight 717 Going to Denmark

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*11. Mutiny in heaven would have made the list if it was more than a verse. John and Peter should crack out the Birthday Party more often.

I need to hear this! I've only heard Johns cover of Wildworld and it is awesome.

Sorry, didn't see this before. Here's the link [www.sendspace.com]

this is from the top of the dome and is probably only limited to this week

1. Night of the Mules
2. Flight 717: Going to Denmark
3. Snow Owl
3. There Will Be No Divorce
4. Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
5. Transjordinian Blues
6. Deianara Crush
7. Peacocks
8. Quetzalcoatl is Born
9. Cai Dao Blowout
10. Treetop Song

i try so hard not to be an obscurist

edit: then again, what is obscure to a mountain goats fan



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2008 08:01PM by Captain Insano.

I'm a newbie to The Mountain Goats as well as this forum. I'm just working my way back through the catalog. I've only just made it to The Coroner's Gambit. There is so much to absorb in what I've picked up so far, it may be a long time until I get much further back into the catalog. That said, here's what I love so far (in no particular order):

1. Pale Green Things
2. Your Belgian Things
3. Cotton
4. Mole
5. Magpie
6. California Song
7. Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod
8. Onions
9. Love, Love, Love
10 Baboon

Welcome Mirror!

I can't possibly imagine I will actually be able to do this, but I'm going to give it a try. (I hope the Extra Glenn's stuff counts!)

1) All Rooms A/C Free Coffee
2) River Song
3) Old College Try
4) Game Shows Rule Our Lives
5) Going to Marakesh
6) Moon Over Goldsboro
7) Balance
8) Thid Snow Song
9) Somebody Else's Parking Lot in Sebastopol
10)Palmcorder Yajna

(Going for Heaven's Set List)

11) Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes
12) Autoclave
13) Fresh Berries for You
14) Pale Green Things
15) Have to Explode
16) Oceanographer's Choice
17) Your Belgian Things
18) Dilaudid
19) Love Love Love
20) In the Hidden Places

OK. That was impossible to do in any kind of order, so those are listed in no particular order other than my top 10 are my top 10 and the remaining 20 are my other top choices.

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Not in any order, because I don't want to overthink it... but...

-Going To Spain
-Nine Black Poppies
-The Water Song
-Black Molly
-No, I Can't
-Broom People (mainly for the production on it)
-Then The Letting Go
-Star Dusting
-Shower
-Crows

I do not want to live in a universe in which these songs do not exist.
In order:

1. There Will Be No Divorce
2. Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store
3. Ethiopians
4. Heretic Pride
5. Weekend in Western Illinois
6. Cao Dai Blowout
7. San Bernardino
8. Dance Music
9. The Monkey Song
10. Handball



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/27/2008 02:04PM by bez.

i don't want to play this game.

it's too difficult....