This blog was started in 2014. I loved the Mountain Goats, as I still do, and I wanted to write 300 words about each song as a sort of “starter” for writing every day. I would write one post and then jumpstart into writing other things. I figured I’d do a dozen or so and move on.
As of August 20, 2024, I have “completed” this project. This contains 300 words (or slightly fewer, each post is maxed at 300) words and a <140 character title about 644 songs by the Mountain Goats. At the time, that was a valuable count of characters. Nowadays, who knows?
I hope you enjoy this series. I wanted to write at least a little bit about every single Goats song. There are some deliberately excluded (songs for a child, covers, songs the band requested no one talk about) but, otherwise, this is every song the band ever wrote. There are some missing, for sure, but I think this list is as complete as it is possible to be with a band like the Mountain Goats.
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A Few Things, Maybe Several Things 
Congrats on finishing! You definitely deserve some sort of prize for that.
I don’t remember what song first led me to this site, but I’ve been following every since then.
I can’t say why exactly, but one of my favorite posts of yours is the one about “Catherine Antrim’s Kid”.
Hope you remember to keep up the domain name and hosting, I think this site has become a valuable part of the online Mountain Goats space.
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Thanks, Will! The re-up is automated, so this will be here forever, in so much as “forever” exists online these days. Hope you’re well!
I’m glad to know some folks read all this. It felt very self-indulgent (or at least indulgent) at times, but I just so often would listen to a song, look it up, and find absolutely nothing about it. Now, at least, there’s something. John Darnielle’s whole catalog deserves at least that.
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Thanks so much for this, came crashing back into the mountain goats with Jenny from Thebes. I hope you, too, are well. Looking forward to looking through your thoughts, and ruminating on my own!
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