HA! I caught that too and started singing along! Great tune from a classic album! “My Aim is True” ❤️

don't like them either!

Oliver Cant agree there. Not a bad band but not great.

Yeah not for me that band

Difference being the kinks are actually good

Don't compare foo fighters to the kinks

Matt Roberts No it’s not

Wong Elfski yes it is

@@mattrobert5 i will be listening to this album to be the deciding vote on if it’s good or not, i’ll be back

it's great but he's a yank

Me too. Moral Orel introduced me to The Mountain Goats years ago. I finally got to see them last year. I met John after the show too. Awesome show, awesome guy!

I really like them, but they are a bit weird. This guy seems to know his music and The Kinks use odd song structures that can be almost off-putting to some people. Very good imo though.

At the end of the day, all taste is given to be subjective and reactionary and peculiar. I've encounter plenty of people who Know Their Music yet unaccountably "hate" The Beatles, or The Pixies, mainly to knock them down several pegs over perceived Overratedness. It's a pose, in most cases. I'm not going to insult Johnny D's reasoning for disliking The Kinks -- a band that had more than its fair share of genius songs, and way more than The Beatles, I'd subjectively add -- although the series does bare the curious quality of an off-the-cuff neophyte. That's part of its appeal - zero pretension, pity, straight from the gut opinions.

He didn't say he hates them.....

I get it. If you like structure or lyrical coherence I can see how they might grind your gears. As for me I don’t care about structure if they can do that thing where it reaches into your flow state, which the kinks always does for me.

Nancy Spungen the kinks are absolute legends and changed music as we know it. I’d say it’s a far more egregious offense to dislike them when Florence and the machine is as commercialized and radio friendly as you can be

I think that there's a big difference between not liking a band and not respecting their contribution to music. You can't do anything about your taste, and if you don't like something you can't force yourself to like it. My problem wasn't with the fact that he didn't like Florence's song (and you're completely entitled to your opinion about her music, even if I don't entirely agree lol), it was that he said it sounded disingenuous (more or less). Besides that whole mess and this novel I just wrote, I didn't mean my initial comment to be serious in any way. I was just taking the piss over my favorite musician criticizing my second favorite musician. bc I'm petty af

She sounds disingenuous to me, theres not much soul in her music, shes sort of an indie Celine Dion. But yeah, its still fine to like her music its just music after all.

Messer Moreaux How are The Kinks not commercialized?! Even moreso than Florence, honestly.

I doubt you’d judge JD by the ideas his characters express in his songs, so why assume that the narrator of Black Messiah is RD or expressing RD own views? The entirety of Arthur is from a character’s perspective, based on RD’s Brother in Law. It’s a fools game trying tie these kinds of writers to their lyrics given they deliberately write from multiple perspectives.

Galt's Gooch he's not a good critic and a big edge lord.

Because he's bad at criticism. When he likes an album he can find really solid reason as to why he likes it. But when. He dislikes this he has to grasp at straws to articulate what he doesn't like and says things that are flat out wrong. Anyway I was originally just making a joke. Why are you so ready to call a stranger an idiot to defend a bald internet celebrity?

nope, i've watched a lot of his videos. at one point i considered myself a fan of his. at some point i decided he was a snob and i don't care about what he thinks very much

FACTS 🗣️

please come to peace with feet. You (probably) have then. He has them. No reason to get weirded by them.

mumblerocks77 the headphones touched his feet. He touched his feet and then touched the headphones. Someone else has to use those headphones after him. It's gross.

Haha what makes his feet so much dirtier than any other part of his body? Do you think his ears are sterilized are something?

probably not….however i doubt he walks on his ears...

mumblerocks77 he walks with his feet, they're all sweaty and have touched the ground, which is dirty. How is this even a question? Did you never learn hygiene as a child? Do you eat with your feet?

Too bad their two recent albums suck

Dan Gorry you know what mate...... you’re absolutely RIGHT they havn’t released any good songs since Plastic Beach. Demon Dayz and the self titled will forever be the BEST.

You're an unoriginal man. You say a phrase that has been said millions of times before, you need to stop.

scottdpt12 Too bad your opinion is invalid to me :(

All Kongs Meme Are Belong To Us.

i've found that musicians tend to have questionable taste in music (at best). DJs/producers are the people to ask about this type of stuff imo.

Any specifics? Nothing particularly out there that I heard from hik

I'm a big fan of The Mountain Goats, and something I love about John Darnielle is how incredibly, unabashedly dorky he can be. Occasionally onstage but especially in his personal life re: his interests- Magic the Gathering, D&D, reading dense academic books about history for fun are a few. I'm good with anyone who's a dork or nerd and doesn't give a damn what anyone else thinks (my partner of 13 years definitely fits the description perfectly).

TheAlfieobanz he does almost every gig barefoot. :) it's quite free in my opinion!

people have feet btw

He's probably just trying to be "lol quirky".

@@ShinyZETER Eh, not really. He's quirky, dorky, and nerdy but it's all pretty obviously genuine (and I'm not saying quirky/dorky/nerdy is a bad thing). I've been a fan of The Mountain Goats for a while, and John's just... like that 🤷🏻‍♀️.

False. Darnielle is good. Davies is good and great. We'll see in 50 years whether Darnielle's stuff hold up half as well. I have my doubts.

FungusMossGnosis nah

Taste is fickle. Yours might change too.

Agreed, taste is fickle. But it is an objective fact that Darnielle is a better songwriter than Davies. So that's not going to change.

As long as we're pulling Facts out of our fundament, let me submit: it's objectively true that Franklin Bruno is not only a better songwriter and musician than Darnielle by a factor of exactly 301424%, Bruno is also literally a better songwriter than Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Woody Guthrie, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Randy Newman, Townes Van Zandt, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern and Stephen Fucking Foster.

See: This Year, Best Ever Death Metal Band, or No Children.

Look up The Mountain Goats. Despite being some of the most lyrically genius music ever written, it's not for everyone.

He looks like Fred the Elephant Boy of Howard Stern show fame.

He is actually a 50 something dad but probably isnt having a midlife crisis because he is currently a rock star.

Anthony Ryan ...Nobody asked. Also pretty sure John Darnielle studied Latin classics as part of his degree, so I doubt he would ever need to "seek guidance" from you, mate.

@@gerrymcq1555 I just find this comment funny (the original, not yours!), considering *so many* people screw up pronouncing John's last name (as "Darn-Yell" instead of "Darn-Neel"). Also considering what you pointed out: John's an incredibly intelligent and educated person, and if he mispronounced one person's name, even a popular person, my feeling is... Meh? He's human.

I mean... that's just not true. Half of these comments are here just to say that he's a god. So, you know, do with that what you will.

You're half right. I don't like The Mountain Goats. I love The Mountain Goats.