1. The Mountain Goats Tallahassee Lyrics
2. Mountain Goats 1995

For a while now I've wanted to do a post about. I've managed to find some time so here it is. The Mountain Goats is a band lead by John Darnielle.

The Mountain Goats Tallahassee Lyrics

For all practical purposes John is the Mountain Goats. For the first few years he was very prolific song writer. I went through my playlist and counted 463 unique song titles, and I am sure there's at least 100 that I don't have. I feel his career can be broken into three eras.Around 1992 he released his first cassette 'Taboo VI: The Homecoming'. In the first few years he released at least 10 distinct tapes.

These all have a distinct lo-fi feel to them. The quality though, is decent. Aoac method for ph. Many songs feature no guitar and instead have a keyboard beat which he sings over.The next era I would say starts with the 4 song never released EP Jack & Faye in 1995.

This is the time I notice his first band member, Rachel Ware, singing backgrounds. I must note I do believe she played bass in earlier recordings, but this is where I notice her singing.

This is probably my favorite era.In 2002 with the release of Tallahassee the Mountain Goats moved into the modern era. Major changes include end of recording on his Panasonic RX-FT500 boombox, the addition of two actual band members, and an obvious improvement in sound quality.

Mountain Goats 1995

This would be the point where you could say he 'sold out' if you were the kind of person that likes to do that.