John Darnielle would prefer to see the music of his band, the Mountain Goats, classified as bi-fi, as opposed to lo-fi. He cites the fact that without modern technology, recording an album from one's bedroom would never be so easy. Sounds like a bit of overanalysis, but that's pretty much the ideology behind Darnielle and whomever of his friends the group consists of at this moment. Lyrics brim with explanations, literary references, philosophical allusions, and an all-around endearing nerdiness. The music of the Mountain Goats tends to be filled with the rapid strums of an acoustic guitar ... and little else. Full Force Galesburg is nothing short of brilliant. Darnielle is backed by Kiwi soundscapist Alastair Galbraith and Nothing Painted Blue's Peter Hughes on memorable songs of codependence and breakup. --Jason Verlinde
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Full Force Galesburg
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ASIN: B000004B9C Release Date: 1997-06-10 |
Tracks:
- New Britain
- Snow Owl
- West Country Dream
- Masher
- Chinese House Flowers
- Ontario
- Down Here
- Twin Human Highway Flares
- Weekend In Western Illinois
- US Mill
- Song For The Julian Calendar
- Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
- Evening In Stalingrad
- Minnesota
- Original Air-Blue-Gown
- It's All Here In Brownsville
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John Darnielle would prefer to see the music of his band, the Mountain Goats, classified as bi-fi, as opposed to lo-fi. He cites the fact that without modern technology, recording an album from one's bedroom would never be so easy. Sounds like a bit of overanalysis, but that's pretty much the ideology behind Darnielle and whomever of his friends the group consists of at this moment. Lyrics brim with explanations, literary references, philosophical allusions, and an all-around endearing nerdiness. The music of the Mountain Goats tends to be filled with the rapid strums of an acoustic guitar ... and little else. Full Force Galesburg is nothing short of brilliant. Darnielle is backed by Kiwi soundscapist Alastair Galbraith and Nothing Painted Blue's Peter Hughes on memorable songs of codependence and breakup. --Jason VerlindeCustomer Reviews:
One of the Goats' finest.......2006-06-19
this cd is awesome.......2002-05-27
Darnielle is a genius..........2002-04-18
Even with such a basic combination (man and a guitar), Darnielle's voice and style of music is instantly recognizable. With his nasal voice and stark observations on life, he manages to show the beauty in every day things and an apperciation of nature.
To talk about this CD as a whole, it's one that you wouldn't normally pick up but when and if you did, it would be an instant classic to your collection. Full Force Galesburg is a CD that will constantly impress and demand repeated listenings.
If the world were a better place.......2002-04-18
(IS there anything like this) would be the soundtrack of life, would trickle from the speakers of restaurants and dribble over the cracks of car windows. And everytime someone discussed John Darnielle's music, or the music of Vic Chesnutt, or Camper Van Beethoven, or for that matter David Byrne, they wouldn't spend so much verbiage on how "weird" or "otherworldly" or "bizarre" the music is, as though it came to us via flying saucer. Intelligence and true artism would be and should be not treated as an oddity.
This record is as good as any of the Goats'--true, actual emotion, with legitimite conveyance of emotion. Darnielle knows how to use the quiet enunciation, the shout, all of his intonations matter, emotionally.
In "Weekend in Southern Illinois"
he sings "The dandelions spread themselves neatly/
upon the fields/which are evendently endless"
The song refers to dogs which "seem to know something nobody else knows," which is apparently that "We are burning up/
all of our choices/out here where the tall grass grows." It's a great moment, a great meditation, easy to understand or not. Emotions are FELT not UNDERSTOOD. Forgive John Darnielle his nasal voice: he's a good guitar player and composes very well for the instrument, but it's the lyrics that win the day here. I can't say enough about this important, exquisite work.
top 5.......2001-07-15
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