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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-18-trans-jordanian-blues-9d90s7z · 18 Apr 2026
There's something about a rowdy, revolutionary church song that reaches even to those who were never part of the congregation. I never had a faith to lose, I hnever had a church to find to be rotten, I never had this as a structure to be moved on from. And...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-17-riches-and-wonders-yayhe17 · 17 Apr 2026
You're taking a nap in the middle of the day with the person you love. The two of you snuggled. Maybe cats but not necessarily cats. And you're warm and you're content and you've perhaps been apart but are now together. And for a fleeting moment, almost to...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-16-fault-lines-qztf9a9 · 16 Apr 2026
This is one of the purest folk songs from this period of the Mountain Goats. It's an ode to useless material worth and poisoned love: two people who depend on each other to the point where it's making both of them sick and preventing either of them from le...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-15-straight-six-4xe5a1t · 16 Apr 2026
The blurred space between song and poem and fiction sketch is the place where the Mountain Goats live best, and this song is a wonderful example of this, acting as a crack we can look through to see the two occupants of this car in the dark as it rides thr...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-14-balance-4xyga1t · 14 Apr 2026
Simple but very strong chord progression on this one, which puts me in mind (in feel and lyrical content) of Dilaudid from The Sunset Tree, which feels like a song that will come from this at some point. Mountain Goats songs about relationships crumbling a...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-13-fall-of-the-star-high-school-running-back-wr8u64p · 13 Apr 2026
This is an interesting song because it sneaks up on you in a way. The story of a high school sport's star's fall from grace is fertile and oft visited territory, and I felt like I could hear the line about blowing out his knee before I heard the line about...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-12-the-best-ever-death-metal-band-in-denton-6u8qkgj · 12 Apr 2026
OK, so we've started to hit the songs that I can hear without listening to them. There's something simple and wonderful about this song, which is a simple yarn about rebellion and friendship and passion and repression and Satan, and that would be enough fo...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-11-the-coroners-gambit-tsjfqge · 11 Apr 2026
And our trilogy of death continues from a different point of view. This is a tremendously lively song for what it represents, with a beat that put me in mind of the best of early Billy Bragg, and the same combination of strumming energy and considered thou...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-9-bluejays-and-cardinals-pt7sfky · 9 Apr 2026
This is a song aimed at the heavens, under the joyfully lamenting hope that that's where its intended audience is. There's something hard to process about songs for people who aren't necessarily in a position to hear them. Words that you want to elevate be...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-8-there-will-be-no-divorce-qz079a9 · 8 Apr 2026
Well, the world continued. And so did we. And this is a simple song about small moments of love. If you've ever been awake late at night past the time when the person you love is awake, and you've looked over and listened to the sound of their breathing, a...