This is, I think, my favorite live recording of “Old College Try”, an excellent Mountain Goats song from their excellent album Tallahassee. Listen to the bass. Especially at the very end. It’s superb.
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- Craig Finn is adorable.
- This song has never sounded better or been more rocking.
- I just realized that nyctaper made a recording of this whole show.
If We Never Get There At All
http://uglythingsinthedarkness.com
A bunch of my friends at the Mountain Goats forums made a compilation album of covers of tMG songs. I designed the cover and made the mini-site. They did a fantastic job and I’m really proud of the end product. Check it out!
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The Mountain Goats live at the Bowery Ballroom, 2007-10-01
http://www.archive.org/details/tmg2007-10-01.tmg2007-10-01.aud.flac16
This was the first Mountain Goats bootleg I ever downloaded. I vividly remember listening to it and thinking, “hey, this band’s live stuff is mind-blowingly good; I think I will become obsessed.” This bootleg has got some really good renditions, viz. Tulsa Imperative, a rarity; pre-Heretic Pride versions of How to Embrace a Swamp Creature and In the Craters on the Moon; PPH-harmony-filled versions of Pure Milk and Tetrapod; and a Coroner’s Gambit where death’s “fingernails were glistening”. All in all, one of my favorite Mountain Goats bootlegs.