Serial Slingshot

The Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine

This is a delayed response to a request a while ago, and I'm sorry it's so late but I just got hold of this album.

For some reason, thise album won't work in Windows Media Player except for the first song, but all of the songs play in Itunes, but I'm not sure about other audio programs. It's pretty weird but whatever.

This album contains maybe the best Mountain Goats song ever made "Going to Georgia", the last song on the album, and other wonders such as "Alpha Icipiens" and "Going to Lebanon" which I had heard an awesome Beulah cover of, but it doesn't match the original. I haven't listened to it all that many times yet because I wanted to get it up since it was a request and all, but honestly, anything John Darnielle releases is pretty much gold. There's just so many more highlights on this album like seriously, "Standard Bitter Love Song # 7" is a classic angry love song by the Goats among other gems.

I think it's missing the last song and I'm really sorry about that, I'll try to get hold of it and post it later.

In conclusion, this is some good early Mountain Goats (not John Darnielle's best, but not far from it) and if you're a fan, you should check this out if you haven't already. And it'd probably be a good introduction too if you're not familiar with the band, 18 songs, 38 minutes:

The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you and you're standing in the doorway.

Buy it here.

Just got home from Church, be back later, but my brother's having a bithday party so I might not be able to do another update today.
-Sean