Archive for the 'live' Category

Not sure if this was the 7:00pm show, or the 9:00pm, which I attended.

Mutek podcast recording of a Polmo Polpo live appearance in 2003.

Full set from the current tour (6 days ago). Looks to be largely the same as the set they played last night here in New York.

"Not lost, but gone before."

"O in life / Through many dark rooms / We must go" (this version has no drumline but does feature the light-up jean jacket, charmingly in and out of focus).

found at http://www.thingschrisrecorded.com/

"take my coins and place them there / make that sound i love to hear"

"I wished on them but they were only satellites"

"I will leave an extra pint"

Got it! Wilco (and Billy Bragg?) did it for the second Mermaid Avenue volume.

"And we'll all go together / To pull wild mountain thyme / From around the blooming heather " Live performance in Austin from aught-3.

"The National is not cowardly. They won’t cave to thuggery and brutish demands to do this and do that, or else."

I can remember the moment I started to love the Mountain Goats. It was driving through from New York to Austin with Angel. Forces converged during this song coming out poor old Adlai Stevenson's Volvo Brand Speakers.