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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-21-butter-teeth-vaqry0t · 21 May 2026
Still in the We Shall All Be Healed headspace, this is a b-side from a Mountain Goats single and also a quiet and assured banger. The rhyme scheme and melody are the sketch of an idea that will one day become Lovecraft In Brooklyn (more on that later), and...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-20-linda-blair-was-born-innocent-16mh8wv · 20 May 2026
We've hit another pre-existing favourite. The opening line of this has been following me around online for like fifteen years now. And when the strings come in at the line hungry for love, ready to drown this song flies. There's something about a sing abou...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-19-all-up-the-seething-coast-54tfv73 · 19 May 2026
This is the sound of the high, the sound of contented paranoia. This whole album is about the things people go through during addiction, and this is about the worst part: the pleasure. From the droning guitar to the half spoken lyrics, this is the sound of...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-18-slow-west-vultures-bn4ncy2 · 18 May 2026
My god, this song is huge. The soundscape is vast, the lyrics cryptic and visionary, everything about it is the overture for a statement of strangeness and desperation and hope. This is a sing by a slightly older man from the perspective of his younger sel...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-16-beat-the-devil-8kmvnwy · 16 May 2026
So we're in the heyday of songs about smuggling, then. This is tense and lyrical, an ode to the emotions of doing something unwise and uncertain because you have to and you want to and it's the only way to get money. This is a dark song about hope, or mayb...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-15-duane-allman-slept-here-164p8wv · 15 May 2026
This song is smoky and slow and tired. The lyrics in this, the live version, possibly the only version, are tired and strange and doubt themselves. And it's amazing It is what it sounds like. A song about burning yourself out of your own mind. I got five m...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-14-snakeheads-zcuhdj6 · 14 May 2026
If you've never heard a picaresque song about people smugglers heading across country in a u-haul... well, now you have. Like the best Mountain Goats songs, this one is a cheerful knife to the heart, with a combination of tenderness and cruelty. The result...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-13-deserters-tzw6qge · 13 May 2026
It's amazing how dark and directionless this song sounds. The vocal is purposefully listless, the guitar work dissonant and uneven, and all of it adds to the effect of someone who is unconnected from reality and deeply exhausted about it. I worry about par...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-12-cut-off-their-thumbs-d1gc23r · 12 May 2026
So, no song yesterday, or rather no song with a recording yesterday. This is a small delight and a curiosity, a song recorded just after Tallahassee but not released until it was posted on the Mountain Goats website a few years later. It's a rolling ballad...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-10-no-children-f919hyp · 10 May 2026
It's tough now to think of how this song made me feel the first time I heard it. it's become an old friend who has been there for me in all sorts of times, good and bad. The way the backing vocals burst in on in my life. The way I hope I never get sober is...