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The Mountain Goats/Will Oldham: where do I even start??
loyalpeon:
The Goats are glorious live. Just saw them a few hours ago and it was one of the best gigs I've been to, John's simply amazing. (On an unrelated note, the show had drama too - co-headliner Micah P. Hinson proposed to his girlfriend - she said yes - the crowd went wild - but i digress...)
Picking a Goats album to start on is tricky in my opinion - they all have their strengths and weaknesses. I would probably suggest you go for a different route, head to etree and download one of the live sets to start of with (try the Oct 2004 village tavern one or Feb 2004 earl one), taking it from there. If you have your heart set on an album, the Sunset Tree is probably the one to get, with Tallahassee and All Hail West Texas in tied close second (they probably have more outstanding individual tracks than the Sunset Tree, but less consistancy overall).
As to Will Oldham, I'm much less familiar with but Then the Letting Go (Prince Billy) is a great album (strange form of life being one of the best tracks I've heard in... ever).
Anyways, hope that helps.
Valrus:
I started with The Sunset Tree and it certainly made me want to devour the man's entire back catalogue, so I'd endorse it as a next step. I have it and Get Lonely and I'm probably going for Tallahassee next.
Jooooosh:
I found out about the mountain goats through Aesop Rock's new cd, and checked up on them....
is it just me or does the singer sound like Weird Al?
McTaggart:
It's just you.
yossarian07:
--- Quote from: Jooooosh on 08 Dec 2007, 22:19 ---I found out about the mountain goats through Aesop Rock's new cd, and checked up on them....
is it just me or does the singer sound like Weird Al?
--- End quote ---
I don't see how he sounds like Wierd Al at all, but when he talks at a live show he sounds just Mitch Hedberg.
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