The Mountain Goats

group · in 18 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 2 · 2010: 1 · 2011: 6 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 3

What the videos say

2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — For a trip to the Evil Baby Orphanage John would take A Love Supreme by John Coltrane and something by the Mountain Goats, though evil baby Stalin would steal them. (00:01:14)
2008-03-05 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — John names favourites: 'Left on the Right Side of the Road' by Songs from a Hat, Juno as last year's best movie, Rushmore as his one movie, and the Mountain Goats' 'Up the Wolves'. (00:00:28)
2008-05-21 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — Asked for favourites, John names The Mountain Goats as his band, Mother Night as his favourite Vonnegut novel and Song of Solomon as his favourite Toni Morrison book. (00:00:00)

2009-04-25 · Saturday Video?!?!?! — John's favourite Mountain Goats song is 'Up the Wolves'. (00:01:04)
2009-08-31 · 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! — John names The Mountain Goats his favorite, second and fourth favorite band, with Hank third, and Hank's anglerfish song as his favorite Hank song. (00:00:50)

2010-05-10 · Advice on Dumb Boyfriends, Going to College, and More — For a private person songs stuck in your head ('Bieber fever'), John prescribes a heavy dose of the Mountain Goats and the website themountaingoatswillcureyourbieberfever.com. (00:02:54)

2011-07-06 · John Green is an IDIOT! And so are you. — Hank's example: John would reject an otherwise wonderful girl who hated the Mountain Goats, and thinks he is right to discount people who don't enjoy their music. (00:01:41)
2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — Answering Hank, John says dismissing people who don't like the Mountain Goats is not anchoring bias but a correct aesthetic judgment: the Mountain Goats are a great band. (00:00:00)
2011-09-21 · NERD FACTOR — John praises winner six, the Permafrost music video: he can't stop listening, her other songs are as good, and she is now his fourth favourite band. (00:03:26)

2012-09-18 · Existential Airport Anxiety — John says this is not a call to prefer Beethoven to the Mountain Goats, noting Bradbury wrote in science fiction, a genre not traditionally associated with high-culture ideas. (00:02:00)
2012-11-20 · Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story — The Mountain Goats, whom John jokingly ranks as three of his four favorite bands (Hank is the fourth), will play Carnegie Hall with them; John says he won't sing. (00:01:42)
2012-11-20 · Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story — John closes by singing a Mountain Goats lyric: the things you do for love, unlike those done for money or fun, come back to you. (00:03:01)

2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John introduces The Mountain Goats as his favorite band, and also his second favorite; his brother is in his top three. (01:17:23)
2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John Darnielle says many people would never have heard The Mountain Goats if John weren't relentlessly telling them to listen, and plays 'Love Love Love', a song John digs. (01:32:38)
2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank says his favorite thing is his wife; after seeing the Mountain Goats alone in Missoula while Katherine was away, he wrote one of his two love songs. (02:03:09)
2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — Hank thanks Neil Gaiman, Kimya Dawson, The Mountain Goats, Ashley and Daniel, Hannah and Grace, Elyse, their parents, their wives and all of Nerdfighteria for making the show possible. (00:01:44)
2013-11-19 · On Middle School Misery — At the Carnegie Hall soundcheck John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats told his sixteen-year-old self over the mic that he had survived and was playing piano at Carnegie Hall. (00:02:41)