The Mountain Goats - Devil in the Shortwave EP

[@12abirato]

All manner of curses upon whoever disliked this.

[@spacecowboy3526]

Haven't heard it in the correct pitch before, thanks.

[@iuseitToo]

Yeah that threw me off. If listened to the bootleg for so long...

[@dominic9983]

Christ it's cool to hear TMG do Dirty Old Town.

[@myfbusters]

When he rhymes crows with rose... 😭😤 😭😤✊

[@blind1337nedm]

LMAO

[@matts2806]

When he rhymes "Behan" with "Tripoli / And..."

[@Foster_B]

Crows: Well I went way out North Carolina Way To that old graveyard where my great grandmother lay And the day was bright and I hadn't slept all night And they'd sold the place to some guys who were building graduate student housing No one had raised any objections They were knocking the headstones down And the sun was high when I rolled into town Stood by a nameless hole in the ground The air was sweet and hot Maybe it was the right grave Maybe not But the crows, crows, crows Rose, rose, rose from the grave Yeah the crows crows crows Rose, rose, rose from the grave Genesis 19: 1-2: The girl who'd been haunting your dreams all your life The butcher from Brooklyn, the butcher's wife The girl who kissed you in the seventh grade Her and all the others lined up behind the gate The two angels came to Sodom in the evening When the sun up in the sky was bleeding all over you And you had your camera And you had your felt tip And you had some money And you had everything you needed The two angels came to Sodom in the evening They saw you coming up the boulevard The two angels came to Sodom in the evening When the sun up in the sky was bleeding all over you Yoga: We had our passports out and the kits to fix 'em up with And the hurricane lamp threw our shadows on the ceiling I watched them box with one another up there, Punch and Judy It was lovely, it was awful, it was that kind of feeling When you said it was real sure That there was nothing standing in our way And the lie ran off and hid itself in the alleys All across Bombay I saw you knock the lamp over while reaching for the scissors And I wondered how we'd ever get by without it And you fell into my arms then, sweet and gentle Poison in the water, little doubt about it And you said that one of us Would be all alone someday And the truth of it echoed inexhaustibly Up and down the thoroughfares all across Bombay Dirty Old Town: I found my love by the Gasworks croft Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town The moon is shifting behind the cloud Cats are crawling all along the beat And spring's a girl in the street at night Dirty old town, dirty old town Heard a siren calling from the docks Saw a train set the night on fire I smelled the spring on the smoky wind Dirty old town, dirty old town I'm going to make a good sharp axe Shining steel tempered in the fire Will chop you down like an old dead tree Dirty old town, dirty old town Commandante: I'm gonna drink more whiskey than Brendan Behan And I'm gonna send my belongings all to Tripoli And I'm gonna ride home to California With a banjo on my knee I'm never gonna turn off the television I'm just gonna let it run all night I'm gonna plant root vegetables out in the backyard And come summer I am going to treat you right So put on your Chairman Mao coat And let me clear my throat Let's turn this whole town upside-down And shake it 'til the coins come falling out of its pocket Yeah put on your Che Guevara pin Call the troops on in We're gonna sail through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets I got a great big secret written down somewhere I got a rosary to protect us both from harm I got a storage locker full of cow figurines And a laundry list of grievances longer than my arm And I am never going back to Cincinnati All those bridges have burned down to the ground I got the jet pack strapped to my back And I'm waiting for you to come around Yeah, put on your Chairman Mao coat And let me clear my throat Let's turn this whole place upside-down, yes And shake it 'til the coins come falling out of its pockets Yeah put on your Che Guevara pin Call the troops on in We're gonna sail through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets

[@dbs5532]

6 years late but this is clearest version of commandate I've ever heard

[@drugbuddy665]

let's turn this whole place upside down, and shake it 'till the coins come falling out of its pockets yyeeeaaahhhh

[@taylineliason899]

This is that one where John wants to be like Billy Bragg. I'm cool with that.

[@MarkBarger]

Thanks for doing this!

[@nicf1555]

I kinda like Commandante better faster and in the higher pitch. I mean that would turn the key to G sharp, a perfect key to close an album on.

[@ryanphillips5393]

Listen, graduate students gotta live somewhere.

[@pochovilla_]

anyone know the chord progression for Genesis 19 1-2 ?? I’m tryna yell this this bad boy 😭 🙏

[@livinginstupidtimes]

it's pretty tricky for someone with smaller hands like me... just figured it out myself. goes something like 13321X -> 13301X -> 11321X -> 11301X for the intro 13321X -> 11321X for the verse 13321X -> 33201X -> 13321X -> 11321X for the chorus/refrain. You can replace all the muted notes with a barred 1st fret note (open for the C/G in the chorus), but barring makes it very hard to play the intro... so I opt for the thumb on E string index/middle/ring on A string method. Hope that helps.

[@pochovilla_]

@@livinginstupidtimes tysm kind stranger!

[@busterwhaley1560]

I think it's pretty similar to Ontario and there's a tab for that somewhere online

[@joshuaroberts3722]

Does anyone have a download for this ep? The version i have is not pitch-corrected and now that I know the truth I can't listen to the original.

[@4rtie]

It's on the MtG bandcamp now, and they pretty regularly do pay what you want sales

[@joshuaroberts3722]

@@4rtie Fantastic! Thank you

[@kgpspyguy]

Hi Joel.

[@Pantouflard]

I have listened to copies that sound sped up or with the wrong pitch too. I thought it was like that? I wonder if someone has a rip off the original recording, is it vinyl?

[@icomefromb5403]

555 likes, gotta leave it where it is for now.

[@gryein7223]

Why is the category Comedy?

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

Because life is a joke and emotions are silly

[@SpencerArinhaveamom]

Because it hurts so bad it comes all the way back around to being funny

[@Cree8Ball]

Have you not been periodically laughing about this album over the past three years?

[@VirtualInsanity91]

This is so weird..... I think I liked it better in the high pitch.

[@rpgman6979]

+Andrew Ballard I know right? The different pitch made Crows sound like it was a song being played on an old radio. I loved it.

[@QuayDawgg]

I think I agree lol