0:54:45 when John handed 17-year-old me the setlist - still one of the best moments of my life, and I still have the setlist

"Oh I'll play that shit fuck yeah." I love you John

this remains the horniest tmg concert in recorded history

Here's a more accurate list of timings for the setlist: Setlist: 0:01:47 - Michael Myers Resplendent 0:04:19 - Heretic Pride 0:08:42 - You Or Your Memory 0:11:41 - Quito 0:14:26 - Sax Rohmer #1 0:19:21 - Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident 0:22:38 - So Desperate 0:26:33 - Raja Vocative 0:28:52 - I've Got The Sex 0:31:41 - Downtown Seoul 0:36:30 - In The Craters On The Moon 0:40:16 - Dilaudid 0:43:03 - Sept 15 1983 0:47:57 - Lovecraft In Brooklyn 0:52:05 - See America Right 0:54:37 - House Guest 0:59:18 - This Year 1:03:45 - California Song 1:08:39 - The Sign 1:12:56 - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton (I don't know why the original setlist had 'Talking In Your Sleep' on it, as it's definitely not in the video.)

Commenting again after 3 years, this is still my favorite way to listen to the mountain goats, this specific recording.

I came here because I love these guys, but also as an audio engineer, I've got to say, the drum tone on this video is incredible.

Wow, starting the set with Michael Myers Resplendent is def a power move I love it

one other note to youtube, if you think putting an advert in the middle of a song is going to make me want to buy the product you are SORELY mistaken.

This is, I think, the best live recording I've ever seen of them playing, even including when John is playing solo. If anyone has others that are this high-quality and where he plays a big range of songs, I'd love to see them.

The band is having fun, the people are having a great time! This is so awesome

I love the rhythm of his voice when he says "thank you John for that good information"

I wish they could record all their hits in a indie/grungy sounding album like they did in this show

the aggressively thankful heckler is a lot of fun.

i must have watched this video at least 20 times by now

I'm here 7 years too late, fucked up as shit, I just want everyone to know that I love them

This concert is life. Amazing. "So Desperate" isn't even one of my top ten favorite TMG songs, but this recording of it means everything to me. Thank you for sharing, and I promise to see a concert the next time you're in St. Louis (or Memphis), John! It is a lifelong dream of mine to see you in concert. Okay, enough fangirling. XD

I could listen to this all day!

i watch this whenever i'm feeling in a tmg mood and it cheers me up so much every time

I actually thought 'What's happening Patrero?' was part of the sing just because I've listened to this specific recording so many times.

I think this is the best Quito I've seen here. Thank you.

This concert is one of my favorites of his done live. And my all time favorite version of California Song.

Amazing. Best band ever.

Love his commentary on Quito

I got my tickets to see them in April here in Orange county California. Been on my bucket list for a while to see the mountain goats live and I'm getting psyched up by watching this video.

...and you, or your memory. I still think about you every fucking minute of the day.

i love the fact that he has an eyehategod shirt

You've heard of Stage Presence. This is the definition! He/ they just OWN the stage!

I REALLY want an audio cut of that version of The Sign. That was amazing.

Lovecraft in Brooklyn never fails to send shivers down my spine. tmg are fucking awesome.

"I'm willing to take bids for a fourth as long as it's not..." didn't even have to say Going to Georgia, audience knew well lol

Brilliant!

"Downtown Seoul" is one of the finest songs ever written.

This is what real music is!

John was DEFINITELY watching a lot of Mitch Hedburg during this time period.

the full concert g o d b l e s s john darnielle is a damn genius

If I somehow could never listen to this show again that would make me very sad. I would buy an audio version of this if it was available, but for now I revisit on YT and listen to an mp3 file version on my phone/mp3 player.

Stellar!!

"Downtown Seoul," fuck yes!

Got to be my favourite version of dilaudid

I love this concert so much. This ones my favorite and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5iln8KLlryxfJ8.html is probably my second favorite. The mountain goats is one of those bands that I prefer listening to live concerts of. There are songs that I love the album versions of like Lion's teeth, broom people and never quite free but I'm extremely grateful for these uploads to youtube. I enjoy listening to them while at work.

Apparently, JD called this part of the tour the worst days of his life. Absolute rock bottom. He talks about it in his conversation with Walter Chaw

The setlist in the description is really inaccurate.

What a fucking rock star

when ya coming back to scotland john?!?!?!? :c

So damn raw

Technical thing: When I am looking through the timings I see "Most replayed" - on this video there are two places... And, yes, one of those is "I've got the sex". The other is "The sign".

I saw ‘I Saw The Sign’

that EYEHATEGOD shirt rules...

Is john darnielle a fan of mitch hedberg?

Wow.

what is that clip in the beginning from? "oh man i despise that dude"

california song was beautiful

Brian Eno and Harold Budd at the beginning

such impressive fuckin performers

oh fuck I was in this crowd. why does it feel so long ago.

“Man, that sounds wild.”

Anyone know what kind of guitar he's playing? Really like that sound.

PPH bass solo @1:05:50

EYEHATEGOD shirt. :)

When the band actually sounds like the same band that recorded the studio version.

34:33

fuck john is my history teacher. chill. lovely being though

I wonder what the hardest song for him to sing is, not vocally but with the content of its lyrics.

check the funnyness of that drummer

That bass recording is so bad.. but i love it...

Just came to listen to the *Strawberry* song... [ #downtownseoul ?]

Odd... Why did the mountain goats come up when I searched for Primus? Oh well still cool

John you got groupies

Listening to the music loosely while I heard House Guest something seemed strange about it, so I listened again. The first thing is the narrator is the woman's husband. Once you realize it, it hits like a ton of ***ing bricks. She's cheating on him, and he goes from being the best husband in the world... to a house guest. "Place my palms against your throat" at first gave me an impression he was choking her over the cheating - but as this event seems to pass with her still alive later. One can put their PALMS, keyword, PALMS, not HANDS, in a position where they'd be at someone's throat - it's a kissing embrace. In-between there's "her waning graciousness" which is... a metaphor for the cheating? She wants him out of her life? The way "Ease your thumb off the remote" is placed is strange. Is it a command? (she) eases (her) thumb off the remote makes language sense? She just generally looses her grip on the remote as nothing is on, and things are actually becoming "romantic" with nothing else to do? If he's asking her to do these things in his imagination, maybe he's asking her to help her commit his violence. It depends on where you think the palms are placed and where the thumb might be - palms against the sides, with thumbs on the same side, or palms in the middle, with thumbs crossing over to grip. In this video John puts his hand on the guests side - the kissing embrace, and he uses softer tones. The rest of it... turns into a blur. I don't get what he does in her room she'd be ashamed to accuse him of? Finding the journal makes sense. "you were looking for proof about me cheating!" is self-incriminating... and one thing, unless we count all the places he looked... but these lyrics seem too intense and direct for that. Sex between them? I don't really get how she'd be ashamed to accuse him of it - especially with the following 'because she refused to love him'... He utterly destroyed things? The lyrics I feel don't imply that level of aggression, ironic compared to the "gentleness" of just finding the journal. "Reject my love" and "You refuse, I accuse" feels obvious, though "you refuse" could be she rejected the cheating, or more poetically, and more likely I feel in Mountain Goats style, she refused his exclamations that she didn't love him - so he accuses her of cheating. "Yes I'll leave everything the way I found it"... Much of the lyrics were about him not making a mess - which can be seen as there not being evidence he lived there. I'd be interested in any theories behind the song. A search shows this absolute beast of a song never got the attention it deserves.