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I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE

@jennyfromthebes / jennyfromthebes.tumblr.com

lyric/firefly - they/it/any pronouns - adult - tMG & musicposting sideblog [icon description: the "ghost ship" jenny from thebes promo art, showing an old fashioned sailing ship with the sun setting behind it / header description: the JWST NIRCam photo of NGC 346, showing a star cluster in a nebula with dusty pink and gold clouds of gas]
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Hi, I'm Lyric! they/it/any pronouns, adult; music enthusiast and self-described "weirdo multimedia artist". This is my tMG sideblog!

Please feel free to add on to posts in body text rather than just in the tags - part of what's so great about tumblr is that it's an interactive communal microblogging site. Asks and reblog conversations are something that have largely fallen out of modern tumblr culture, but the conversationality is one of the best things about this platform and I promise I'll always be delighted to talk back and forth if you send me asks or add on to my posts.

I'm also part of a tMG discord server that's largely folks from here and the subreddit! It's a really fun chill environment to chat and nerd out about the music with some really great people in the community.

Some of my tags that you can check out: #resources (about the live music archive, keeping a local music library, and more similar posts to come), #live tapes tuesday (weekly posts spotlighting tapes from the live music archive collection), and #the patch zone (linocut patches that I make and give out at concerts)!

I generally tag by post/media type and relevant album, as well as whether any images are described. Queue runs twice daily and I try to keep it running constantly. All original posts are described both in alt text and post body text, and if I describe your post please feel free to edit the ID into the original post to make it more accessible! thanks <3

[image description: a youtube comment reading "i love peter huuuughes". end ID]

DNIs are useless, but I'm (obviously) trans and support trans rights. I'm also pro-Palestine. If you're against either of those, you're welcome to block me.

#txt#pinned#transmissions from lyric#tags for navigating:#resources#live tapes tuesday#the patch zone
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woah wait whats up w/ deserters comp? im not too active in the community

The person who made it acquired at least one of the tracks on it by making a fake rare song, infiltrating a private tape trading scene, and trading the fake for the real stuff. This isn't super well known, but it's public knowledge if you go back on old reddit posts and such, kind of an open secret I guess. Just super shitty behavior if you ask me. Obviously, once something is out there it's out there and we can't put those songs back into the private trading scene, but it's a fucked up thing to have done and I'm not really willing to rec the comp anymore because of that, though I usually try not to go around talking shit about it in public-facing spaces lol.

#txt#transmissions from lyric#ask#this is publicly available info that i later confirmed w someone who was directly involved that i trust#but i dont want this to be seen as a callout post or anything so im going to turn off rbs#and again like. i dont think listening to the comp makes you a bad person or whatever. this is not common knowledge#like its not even as bad as the hafg thing and im never gonna be an ass about people enjoying that#do whatever you want forever just also dont be too grateful towards the comp maker bc not everything was rightfully acquired!
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I wish Spotify had a “least popular songs” feature. I’ve heard all of sunset tree 1000 times already, I wanna hear a cassette tape recording that has only ever been heard by John Darnielle. Let me listen to the shit that everyone hates!!

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If you want to get into more of the obscure shit, you'll have to wander away from spotify, but may I recommend:

  • @unloneliest's "rare goats" and "medium rare goats" youtube playlists - respectively, songs that have never been released and songs that saw an official release in some format but aren't on streaming.
  • The collection of tMG live recordings on the Live Music Archive - if you sort by year ascending and look for any recordings from radio sessions, you'll get some really great old and obscure stuff! Another great way to browse this is to look for specific obscure songs on the tMG wiki and see if there are recordings of any of the shows they were played at.
  • Bonus mention: the most complete tMG discography youtube playlist that I've ever found, including both official releases and all the unreleased stuff.
#theres also the deserters comp but im loathe to rec that because the person who made it suuuuucks#but yeah theres SO much good shit out there & i LOOOOVE talking about it feel free to ask anytime :)#txt#resources#unreleased
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the Mountain Goats + Inhumanity

[Spilling Toward Alpha / Standard Bitter Love Song #4 / Masher / Grendel’s Mother / Family Happiness / Snow Owl / Last Man on Earth / How to Embrace a Swamp Creature / Answering the Phone / Letter from Belgium]
#meeeeee as fuck#img#queue
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gay people will be like "yeah i'm totally fine and over it" and then relisten to the 2024-08-04 tape and get one and a half songs in before having a breakdown in the discord server about it

#this is about me.#'whats the significance of that show' it was peter's last show. and i am fine and normal about it.#its also the ONLY 5pc band tape from the summer 2024 tour#which is devastating because god the 5pc core setlist was insane. we dont even have a tape of 5pc against pollution.....#txt#transmissions from lyric
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also by the way I'm not kidding about having a spreadsheet. there's almost 200 verifiably documented unreleased songs, more depending on if/how you count demos and covers and where you draw the line of something actually existing! we have publicly available recordings of somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 180 (had to double check my spreadsheet) of them thanks largely to the community's ardent archival efforts! quite a few more verifiably have extant recordings but don't publicly circulate! it's super fucking cool!!

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if anyone wants to send me a number 1-200 I'll answer with the corresponding song on my spreadsheet, excluding the ones that no recordings of are available and rounding to the nearest available one instead. it's alphabetized, if that helps!

#happy to continue doing this! nobody's even managed to pick one with no available recording yet!#reruns
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2024-10-15 - The Bluebird, Bloomington IN

I know I've posted stuff from the trio tour before, but this show and specifically this Up The Wolves is fucking incredible. It's nothing like any other performance of the song - it's big, it's slow, it's expansive; it's in the middle of the set, which is insane! It's doing things that the Mountain Goats have never done like this before. It's so wildly different from what we're used to with this song, but it also feels so damn cool. Trio tour was so bittersweet in so many ways, but the things that happened because of it were and are so so cool to hear, and this show is a prime example of that.

The Mountain Goats collection on the Live Music Archive has hundreds of live recordings and spans more than thirty years! Live Tapes Tuesday is a weekly post aiming to make the extensive archive a little more accessible by spotlighting a different tape every week. // See past Live Tapes Tuesday posts here! // What’s the Live Music Archive?

#aud#transmissions from lyric#the mountain goats#tmg#tapes#live tapes tuesday#the sunset tree#sorry for missing so many weeks! ive been so busy and havent been listening to a lot of tapes!#internet archive#live music archive
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So if I want to try listening to The Mountain Goats but I looked at their discography and got completely overwhelmed, where is a good place to start?

#whats already been said in the replies is pretty great! if you want kind of just an overall feel you can also check out#the live studio albums - the jordan lake sessions volumes 1-5 - just pick one and give it a go#and then if there are any particular songs you like you can go listen to the albums theyre from!#the only hard and fast advice i give for listening to tmg is listen to their albums as albums in track order if you can#sequencing is super intentional for them and it absolutely makes the experience different#i think i also have a recent post about this under my 'resources' tag!#in any case happy listening <3 us tmg fans are always eager to talk and offer thoughts and pointers so feel free to ask about it anytime!#txt
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In honor of Trans Day of Visibility today, I'd like to recommend Episode 25 of Tired: The Car Podcast for People Who Understand that Cars are Bad, which is exactly what it says on the tin. It's a really fun guest episode featuring transfem autojournalist/photographer Victoria Scott, and I think it's as good a starting point for the pod as any; they talk about how she got into cars, what it's like being trans in the automotive industry, and a whole host of other various fun topics! Again, even if you're not really into cars, it's a cool peek into what that scene is like, and maybe like me you'll find that you actually are into cars when the right people are talking about them!

#why arent u guys reblogging this. u would LOVE the pod i promise#reruns
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In honor of Trans Day of Visibility today, I'd like to recommend Episode 25 of Tired: The Car Podcast for People Who Understand that Cars are Bad, which is exactly what it says on the tin. It's a really fun guest episode featuring transfem autojournalist/photographer Victoria Scott, and I think it's as good a starting point for the pod as any; they talk about how she got into cars, what it's like being trans in the automotive industry, and a whole host of other various fun topics! Again, even if you're not really into cars, it's a cool peek into what that scene is like, and maybe like me you'll find that you actually are into cars when the right people are talking about them!

#txt#transmissions from lyric#god damn it i will get SOME of you to listen to the pod. please its so good it is worth it i promise#genuinely cannot emphasize enough how quickly i really got into cars once it was in a queer friendly space! the pod is so great all around#i dont remember if/how i tag this. will come back to it later#go support the pod its real good and they deserve it!!#AND i hear tomorrows episode is gonna be really fun. you should get in now and look forward to that!#trans day of visibility#tdov#tdov 2025
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genuinely cannot tell you guys enough how much that "yeah it's called the mountain goats but it's really just one guy" tweet pisses me off. tmg is not and has never been "just one guy". if you've listened to any of the albums from the last twenty years you can hear how much more expansive the style is than just "four chords and whiny singing about breakups and drugs" or whatever the fuck. their latest album is a god damn rock opera!!!! the permanent band configuration has been four people (John, Peter, Jon, and Matt) for literally a decade, up until Peter's retirement last August - who, by the way, had been a contributor to the band for some thirty years, and a full member of the band since the late 90s! tmg is made up of some of the most insanely skilled musicians I've ever had the honor of seeing play a show and the drums and saxophone and keys and violin are INSANELY good and absolutely vital!! if you think that tmg is just one guy with an acoustic guitar and a whiny voice, we clearly aren't listening to the same band.

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also i will NOT stand for any Isa Burke disrespect!! she's been a fixture of the touring band for a year and a half by now and you better god damn believe that she's a member of the Mountain Goats to any fan worth their salt. she's bringing the gnarly violin breakdowns. she's bringing the electric guitar realness. she's bringing the style. she's a member of the band and I won't stand for y'all forgetting to include her when you talk about tmg!!!!

#txt#transmissions from lyric#go listen to one of the performances of luna from december tour. shes INSANEEEEE. shes BRINGING IT. put some respect on her name!!!!
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genuinely cannot tell you guys enough how much that "yeah it's called the mountain goats but it's really just one guy" tweet pisses me off. tmg is not and has never been "just one guy". if you've listened to any of the albums from the last twenty years you can hear how much more expansive the style is than just "four chords and whiny singing about breakups and drugs" or whatever the fuck. their latest album is a god damn rock opera!!!! the permanent band configuration has been four people (John, Peter, Jon, and Matt) for literally a decade, up until Peter's retirement last August - who, by the way, had been a contributor to the band for some thirty years, and a full member of the band since the late 90s! tmg is made up of some of the most insanely skilled musicians I've ever had the honor of seeing play a show and the drums and saxophone and keys and violin are INSANELY good and absolutely vital!! if you think that tmg is just one guy with an acoustic guitar and a whiny voice, we clearly aren't listening to the same band.

#txt#transmissions from lyric#the mountain goats#seriously i am going to fucking lose it what is wrong with the person who wrote that tweet
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