The Mountain Goats : Heretic Pride
 

Somehow I don't mind how with each album they seem to get more polished. These are nice songs.

I don't like this as much as the Sunset Tree but its still good. All the albums I've heard by them (like 5 or 6) have been good, they're probably one of the most consistently solid bands out there. Favorite songs: Lovecraft In Brooklyn, How To Embrace A Swamp Creature, Marduk T-Shirt Men’s Room Incident and Sept 15th 1983.

After listening to this I feel stupid for not getting any albums when I discovered them a year ago.

Pretty much gave up after the second track. Somewhere between Eliott Smith and The Decemberists...terrible vocals...

I didn't think it was anything special at all
Granted, I've only heard one other of their albums, so I can't really compare,
But this one seemed to be nothing too great
Very average

John Darnielle?

Who's that?

Their vocalist. I think he's amazing. He's got a great guest spot on Coffee, by Aesop Rock.

Amazing how? He doesn't have a particularly distinct voice, no range, and interprets the songs like any other regular Joe would. What exactly makes him better than 100 million other people that think they can sing? Are we talking about the same guy? What?

I think he comes in at the 3 minute mark.

Em, hate to break this to you, but being a guest on Aesop rock's album doesn't make you amazing, no matter how much you love the former...:\

You don't like the vocal? Well, whatever.

I think Darnille's charm is just that. That he's nothing special. He is just an average joe. This album is still lo-fi folk despite the production. Not for everyone I realize but I find these songs to be charming.

Bingo.

i guess songs in the key of kermit the frog arent for everyone.

:laughing:

hey, kermit is the man. err..the frog, whatever.

He's one hell of a banjo player.

i am a fan of both the muppets and the mt. goats... but john darnielle sounds suspiciously like kermit the frog... him and the guy from the weakerthans... (another band i love)..

I thought he was kind of pretentious and then i heard him interviewed on NPR after they played "down to the arc" which portrayed all politicians as Satan worshipers. (Which of course pissed me off).

He was saying how it helps him to take everything to the extreme and use hyperbole and somehow, listening to him say thats how stories are made I tended to like a lot more of his work. Prior to that I'd only heard "Monkey in the basement" and "Anti-music song" which were both great, but what Adidasss said is accurate, and that bothered me then.

Folk isn't about being Jeff Buckley.

What?

Well I could've sworn adidasss said the vocals were terrible and thats what you were agreeing with but maybe I missed something?

Oh well you're not wrong there, what threw me there is the Buckley comment.

For one thing I can't stand Jeff Buckley and for another thing, I listen to Tom Waits, what I consider good most other people do not. And with Anti-music song its hard to say he's even singing. But I think his voice was the straw that broke the camels back. I used to think he was pretentious as hell. These days though I enjoy them quite a bit.

No, but it helps if you at least have a special voice or a pleasurable tone...this one just grates on my ears...

its all about "golden boy peanuts"

Could I get this in my PM box? The record store across the street is refusing to meet my demands of more Mountain Goat albums, so I've yet to hear this.