Album Lounge: The Sunset Tree
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The Sunset Tree
Released: 2005 13 tracks-
- 2. Broom People
- 3. This Year
- 4. Dilaudid
- 5. Dance Music
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- 8. Lion's Teeth
- 10. Magpie
- 12. Love Love Love
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He's devastating, John Darnielle is, and cathartic. There's plenty of darkness and light on all of his many albums and tapes, but there's something about this song. It's the precision of the lyrics, the description of a house (a life) in utter disrepair, and the churning, excited strumming that nails the will to survive right there onto the bottom rung.
And the line, "I write down good reasons to freeze to death."
God. Long live the Mountain Goats.
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365 days ago exactly everything changed. I was in the midst of a pretty prolonged depression, although I am not sure if I realized it at the time...i hated my job and was just generally stuck in a rut. I wasn't being overly social back then either, but for whatever reason I decided to got out on that Monday night, July 10th. And for whatever reason I drank a little too much and decided to crash at a friend's house. I got up early that Tuesday morning and drove home to th... MORE
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With the new Mountain Goats tracks being announced on Pitchfork, I revisited my love for my favorite record of theirs, The Sunset Tree. This is my favorite track off the record, "Love Love Love." The lyrics, the melody, Darnielle's voice: everything is incredible.
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Once again January enters my life with a bang and a flurry of optimism and resolutions. As is my way, I'll be using "technology" and the "internets" to track my progress - by way of Joe's Goals. Here is my nifty graph:
Right now I'm baking bread (yup, it's a goal) and it smells pretty amazing.
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...and everything is fine. My hard drive bit the dust last week, rendering any MOG-o-Magicism pretty much useless. To be fair, the little drive was much-abused. I've been running the thing on max capacity for months. All of my music is alive and well and backup-ed and still hasn't been played since the crash, 'cause I have decided to take an _old-familiar-music_ hiatus. I got a few new albums and have decided to listen to all of them the whole way through more than on... MORE
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I think this song is the perfect ending to a cd. It's nice and light and flowing and pretty. It's got that recurring underlying melody (maybe harmony? I'm kind of musically challenged) and tells a story very nicely, that way that you do when you're recalling old memories. And then the violin just reinforces it all even more.The whole cd is about the singer's abusive stepfather and then I think this is the song about when he died. "Pale green things, pale green things..." ... MORE
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Taste is a funny thing, to me. Music is funny. I never know how someone will react to a certain piece of music. Do they listen because they like the band? Because it's hip to like this particular band at this particular time? Does the music soothe them? Do they never think about the words? I don't know. Sometimes I think I'm too old. Kids in their 20's run around following their favorite bands from concert to concert, they LIVE the music, but do they really? Do t... MORE
