![]() ![]() The Sunset Tree is a record that he wrote that was the second in a series of albums that were autobiographical in a way. This is one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard. HAST THOU CONSIDERED THE TETRAPOD ( The Sunset Tree, 2005) The way he told the story was really funny and self-deprecating, but it had a lot of truth and pain to it as well, and at the end of the story he said, ‘For whoever feels this way in the crowd, I wrote this song for you.’ I thought that was a really cool way to introduce a song, and again really engaging and really human. Woke Up New was another song that I saw him play at that first show, and before he played it he told this story about how you wake up in the morning and everything is fine for that one split second and then you remember, ‘Oh fuck, I broke up with the person that I love yesterday.’ And then the darkness rushes in from all sides and you just start crying right away. There’s a line that says, ‘Like you’re free, like you can breath now / Like they’ve sawn off your cast / Just one more sleeper to see through,’ and it’s about retiring from wrestling. ![]() It’s a luchador thing that your mask is your honour, and this is a song about taking your mask off. I like professional wrestling more than I like almost anything and Beat the Champ is a whole record about Professional Wrestling, so it’s a match made in heaven for me. Unmasked off the new record Beat the Champ is another great song. West Texas is a really sociologically interesting place. I think he was living in Indiana or something at the time, and there’s this line where says, ‘Lost in the Travelodge with the television on and the sound down / I don’t feel so tough / Old issues of Sunset magazine to read / Sleep for twelve hours and dream about home.’ I remember the description in his lyrics really spoke to me, and the whole album _ is this really cool concept record about these different characters in this one particular area of the country that I find to be really fascinating. ![]() It’s a really lo-fi album with just him and a guitar and it was recorded using a tape recorder in his house. Skipping around a little bit on this list, another one of my favourite Mountain Goats songs is Jeff Davis County Blues, which is on All Hail West Texas. JEFF DAVIS COUNTY BLUES ( All Hail West Texas, 2002) Everyone was so involved and the song was immediately stuck in my head, and I needed to hear it again. So here goes…ĭuring that first show he played No Children, the chorus to which is, ‘And I hope you die / I hope we both die.’ The rest of the audience was familiar with him and so I guessed this was this thing that he does, but he said the first line and then he yelled, ‘All of us,’ and the whole crowd went, ‘I hope we all die.’ I thought that was really cool. I’m just gonna talk about their top 10 songs in no particular order. ![]()
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