Arguing with the Twitter avatar of Paste's Matt Mitchell about his 'Full Force Galesburg' review. This episode runs from Antigone to Otis the Aardvark, by way of Roman re-enactors and the Romantic sublime, as I try to make sense of the snapshots of a 90s childhood.

Show notes

Matt Mitchell’s thoughtful and not actually objectionable ranking of the studio albums for Paste: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mountain-goats/the-mountain-goats-albums-ranked/

Liner notes to Full Force Galesburg: http://web.archive.org/web/20200930190323/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/galesburg.html

1997 Duke Coffeehouse live show in Durham: https://archive.org/details/tmg1997-04-04.aud.128mp3/

Interview with the Des Moines Register: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/

‘Rocky Mountain Guy’ – 2001 profile by Iowa State Daily: https://www.iowastatedaily.com/article_4b1cb817-2033-5e2f-b9a6-a1cca11d691 8.html

John’s ‘Five Favorite Mountain Goats Characters’ for eMusic, featuring ‘Twin Human Highway Flares’: http://web.archive.org/web/20101223190232/http:/www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2008_02-mountain-goats.html

Driving directions from Davenport, Iowa, to the Regency Inn, Geneseo: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Davenport,+IA,+USA/Regency+Inn+Geneseo,+765+W+Main+St,+Geneseo,+IL+61254,+United+States/@41.5183787,-90.5272117,11z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e234c5e012a2f1:0xe8ea1f6356581fb0!2m2!1d-90.5776367!2d41.5236437!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e2100c5f82d557:0xa1fdd3c8fbe3bca3!2m2!1d-90.1671276!2d41.4480527!3e0

Burying the real songs: a live comment on ‘It Froze Me’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200907012721/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/nfj.html#fnref:itfrozeme

‘Love Love Love’ fandom page, mentioning ancient Greek conceptions of love: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Love_Love

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45099/sonnet-73-that-time-of-year-thou-mayst-in-me-behold

Joel Heng Hartse’s review of Dark in Here: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/july-web-only/mountain-goats-latest-pandemic-release-looks-into-darkness.html

2014 interview with Electric Lit: https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

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