This is in honor of the couchsurfers I'm hosting this Thursday. It's a cover of a song by Nothing Painted Blue, and it's about love, unrequited love. Money line: "The heat in here's infernal. But so's that ENTRY IN YOUR JOURRR-NAL!!"
The Mountain Goats were one of my favorites for a long time. I still love them, but I don't listen so obsessively as I used to. And going to their shows is a bit of a trial anymore, since they've achieved a certain popularity with the annoying singalong sector of the population. But some of those shows back in Ames...good times. Once, there was some technical malfunction that caused John to play the whole show sitting on the side of the stage "unplugged". Which I guess is a style well suited to a guy who just strums a guitar anyway.
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An instructive aside: I was actually at this show, in SF back in March. If you let the track play on past the end of the song, you hear some douche yelling something nonsensical at the top of his lungs. Over. And over. This happened all night long. He was standing right behind me. He also liked to sing. Loudly.
I didn't buy a ticket the next time the Mountain Goats were in town. I ALWAYS end up in front of that guy.
I think Gomes has it right, just go to droney post-rock and shoegaze shows and nobody will sing along or make requests. They'll just stand there and be inundated by the noise.
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