| The Mountain Goats – The Alphonse Mambo Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| makes sense. until very recently tampa florida was the epicenter of easy scripts for oxy | |
| The Mountain Goats – Game Shows Touch Our Lives Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| thank you so much for posting this | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Queens Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| im so glad you posted this comment he made | |
| The Mountain Goats – Jaipur Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"my brothers picked me up out of the rushes handed me into the company of evil men" yeah definately an allusion to Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers |
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| The Mountain Goats – Jeff Davis County Blues Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| this song reminds me of the calm, sad regret you feel after doing or saying something to someone in an argument or fight. i assume he hit her and thats why he spent time in jail. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Oceanographer's Choice Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree there is the theme of water but I don't think he does it. Just the fantasy. I really like Flatworms idea. Sounds like some allusion John would sneak in there. I think the song The House that Dripped Blood is him possibly considering how to clean up the evidence? However he doesnt "cold water grows stagnant, bodies bloat" meaning it'll be found eventually. |
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| The Mountain Goats – See America Right Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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RedLeaf just now Rated 0 "drunk-ass white, middle-class male punk of North Central Florida" Having lived in Tallahassee my entire life (22 years) I can honestly say I've not noticed any particular amount of these types being more prevelant here than in any other places. I think Tallahassee was written with the area in mind from when John lived in town (mid to late 90s i think) Living on Southwood plantation Road...Inglis and Cedar key: all places off HWY 27. Also in 'Alpha Rats' the allusion to the refinery at St. Marks (which had an old fire engine parked at its decrepit front gate for years back in the 90s) makes me think they know something about the area or have kinfolk connections cause only locals or people with a connection to the area would take HWY 27 (or the female half "coming down here, and you-") HWY 27 however IS seeing America Right. (also pretty right wing) Shitty po-dunk meth/alcohol ridden towns. Turpentiners back in the early 20s century destroyed the natural landscape. Just ugly ugly nothingness out there. All of these places mentioned are junked-out, forgotten places. Youll notice 27 has lots of abandoned motels from before I-10 was built in the 70s-70s. Modernity destroyed these towns. No one wants to live there. Youd have to be an alcoholic to consider spending any time in them (probably because you are stuck) I think the Alpha couple moved to Tallahassee because the female half needed to escape whatever bad shit was going on back in Cali. To cool down, to revert to a place of childhood. But I think she came back to it being awful. Assuming this is the 90s it definately went downhill from when she was a kid in th 70s. |
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| The Mountain Goats – See America Right Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"drunk-ass white, middle-class male punk of North Central Florida" Having lived in Tallahassee my entire life (22 years) I can honestly say I've not noticed any particular amount of these types being more prevelant here than in any other places. I think Tallahassee was written with the area in mind from when John lived in town (mid to late 90s i think) Living on Southwood plantation Road...Inglis and Cedar key: all places off HWY 27. Also in 'Alpha Rats' the allusion to the refinery at St. Marks (which had an old fire engine parked at its decrepit front gate for years back in the 90s) makes me think they know something about the area or have kinfolk connections cause only locals or people with a connection to the area would take HWY 27 (or the female half "coming down here, and you-") HWY 27 however IS seeing America Right. (also pretty right wing) Shitty po-dunk meth/alcohol ridden towns. Turpentiners back in the early 20s century destroyed the natural landscape. Just ugly ugly nothingness out there. All of these places mentioned are junked-out, forgotten places. Youll notice 27 has lots of abandoned motels from before I-10 was built in the 70s-70s. Modernity destroyed these towns. No one wants to live there. Youd have to be an alcoholic to consider spending any time in them (probably because you are stuck) I think the Alpha couple moved to Tallahassee because the female half needed to escape whatever bad shit was going on back in Cali. To cool down, to revert to a place of childhood. But I think she came back to it being awful. Assuming this is the 90s it definately went downhill from when she was a kid in th 70s. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Yoga Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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They're doing something illegal. Fixing up passports? Are the smuggling something? Fugitives? Why conceal their identities? The whole "Box with one another like Punch and Judy" seems so important to me in that it suggests something about the alpha couple. The mention of the British puppets in what was the epicenter of the British eastern empire... ideas anyone? |
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| The Mountain Goats – Southwood Plantation Road Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| 'Tallahassee' was written before Southwood was in existence. Where one turns st the end of SPR into 'Southwood' there used to be a couple of trailers. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Elijah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think this song is necessarily about any specific ritual, it apparently has a intense Hindu/Indian theme to it like a lot of other songs (Prana Ferox, Palmcorder Yajna, Raja Vocative). Coconut oils, cast iron kettle (A Kalasha vessel), incense, and the fire. In plenty of Hindu rituals and festivals, coconuts and their oils are used in connection with Kalashas; of course incense plays a role (c'mon, they sell it in every freakin' Indian gas station); and idols are everywhere too... The thing I find interesting is the line "let the fire take it's toll/I'm coming home"- I kinda feel that it goes along with the "set the table/those three extra places, One for me, one for your doubts, and one for God" because with fire "taking it's toll" It sort-of goes along with the theme of sacrifice...incidentally sacrifice is essential during a Yajna. Now looking into that, it could open up a ton of possibilities in relating to the Alpha Couple. |
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| The Mountain Goats – The Anglo-Saxons Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| In Columbus 1994, he says live: "large amounts of historical historical data provided in this song are uh...very inaccurate, so, if you get quized on pre-norman conquests of england please do not take your answers from this song". | |
| The Mountain Goats – Going to Queens Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Totally surreal realization. The "children skipping rope / tripled thier speed" makes me think of the moment when your heart rate jumps upon a realization or an epiphany. This song isn't so much a message, but rather a painting. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Alpha Rats Nest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Take Southwood Plantation Road to Old St. Augustine Road; turn onto Capital Circle South and then turn onto Woodville highway which you follow to the coast. Before you come into the bustling metropolis of St. Marks Florida (pop. 272), there sits an old oil refinery alongside the river surrounded by a fense. Guarding the gate sits an old rusted fire engine. Bitter unending love. -Marc Tallahassee, FL. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Old College Try Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Beautiful song, very very... It rather amused me when I was playing the old Sam Cooke Song "Wonderfull World" and I found that its chord progression is Identical to this song as well...hmm. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Stars Fell on Alabama Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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When ever I buy a new TMG ablum, I try to listen attentively, but with the "but if you think i'll take a bullet for you - you're dreaming" I bursted out laughing and almost drove off the road. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Love Love Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song blew my mind until I was listened to Weekend Edition on National Public Radio and heard John interviewed after The Sunset Tree's release. When asked about this song he said: "the point of the song is we are very well damaged by the legacy of the romantic poet, that we think of love as a thing that is with strings and is this force for good and then if something bad happens thats not love...I don't know so much about that I don't know that the Greeks weren't right, I think that they were, that love can beat a path through everytihng, that it will destroy alot of things on the way to its objective which is just its expression of itself. You know my stepfather mistreated us terribly quite often, but he loved us and well, that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing aot of what I percieve is terrible damage, yet we talk about love as this benign comfortable force: it is wild." |
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| The Mountain Goats – Magpie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This makes me think about when my mom, sister and I tried to make everything seem O.K. when the social woker came to check up on the family. Being the subject of the ablum...its just a thought. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Quito Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is about things the narrator should do, and wants to do, but keeps putting off. | |
| Rasputina – Howard Hughes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Pretty kick ass song. Poor Howie. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To be perfectly honest, I think he was picked up on possesion and he made bail and skipped out. The whole: "You're gonna send me back to where I came from Please don't send me back to where I came from" Indicates he might have been in prison before. The: "Please don't fit me for that orange jumpsuit" Is so obvious, prisoners wear orange jumpsuits. What makes me believe he skipped out on bail was the "Big bus headed southeast from the courthouse but I'm not headed southeast from the courthouse" and "Let me lie low". |
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| The Mountain Goats – Southwood Plantation Road Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I live in Tallahassee Florida, and Southwood Plantation Road is a tucked away little community full of old trailers from the 70s and very old shotgun houses owned by old black families from the 50s. The area is pretty much a district for the impoverished and/or obscure. The perfect place for the Alpha couple. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I absolutly love this song and appriciate it more than most I being that I live in Tallahassee. When after describing "Half the whole town gone for the summer" and then adding "There is no deadline/ There is no schedule" the pictues he paints musically along with such simple words of Tallahassee's mood when empty during the slack months is so perfectly accurate...I love it. |
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