And I was listening to dance music...
Sep. 12th, 2005 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapeofthingsMusic is a wonderous thing. It has the power to unify us, to unite us in joy and admiration. Music can inspire us and raise us up. And it can just plain be fun.
On Saturday night I saw the Mountain Goats play at the Zoo. Alex and I were supposed to go together, but the boy had a fever and was rather miserable. After ringing around lots of people who were out of town,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miss_verucasalt agreed to come see a band she'd never heard of. We got there early and settled down to listen to the first act...
Her name is Tylea and she has an amazing voice. She sang sweet, folky tunes while the people talked above her quiet passages. She was convinced no-one actually liked her but she was quite good.
The next act, the Zebras, were rather late getting on stage, andmiss_verucasalt had to go elsewhere to meet some friends. So it was just me on my lonesome. The Zebras finally took to the stage half and hour late, and *yawn*. They weren't bad, but they weren't very good, either. Repeditive, formulaic, lacking in dynamic range and generally rather meh. So I went for a walk down the street where these fantastic buskers were playing and having a lot of fun! They were quite good and rather playful and had attracted a small audience, well deserved.
Still, I didn't want to miss the act I'd come to see, so I darted back inside and secured myself a patch of floor close-ish to the stage and did not move. I waited patiently while gear was carted off the stage, new mikes set up, lighting tweaked and sound thoroughly tested. Only when their crew were certain everything was right did the Mountain Goats appear. The Mountain Goats is, essentially, John Darnielle, and occasionally other assorted players. On Saturday night John was accompanied by bassist Peter Huges and they absolutely raised the roof! Oh yeah, we were listening to dance music!
They sang pretty much everything off their new album, despite audiecne requests to play some of their old stuff. I'm pretty new to the Mountain Goats and don't have their album yet, but I surrounded by a sea of people who knew most every word and weren't afraid to sing out loud. I tell you, you haven't lived until you've stood amidst a heaving crowd crying "Hail Satan"!
So if you've never heard of them, click some of the mp3 links scattered throughout this post. I think they're worth it.
On Saturday night I saw the Mountain Goats play at the Zoo. Alex and I were supposed to go together, but the boy had a fever and was rather miserable. After ringing around lots of people who were out of town,
miss_verucasalt agreed to come see a band she'd never heard of. We got there early and settled down to listen to the first act...Her name is Tylea and she has an amazing voice. She sang sweet, folky tunes while the people talked above her quiet passages. She was convinced no-one actually liked her but she was quite good.
The next act, the Zebras, were rather late getting on stage, and
miss_verucasalt had to go elsewhere to meet some friends. So it was just me on my lonesome. The Zebras finally took to the stage half and hour late, and *yawn*. They weren't bad, but they weren't very good, either. Repeditive, formulaic, lacking in dynamic range and generally rather meh. So I went for a walk down the street where these fantastic buskers were playing and having a lot of fun! They were quite good and rather playful and had attracted a small audience, well deserved.Still, I didn't want to miss the act I'd come to see, so I darted back inside and secured myself a patch of floor close-ish to the stage and did not move. I waited patiently while gear was carted off the stage, new mikes set up, lighting tweaked and sound thoroughly tested. Only when their crew were certain everything was right did the Mountain Goats appear. The Mountain Goats is, essentially, John Darnielle, and occasionally other assorted players. On Saturday night John was accompanied by bassist Peter Huges and they absolutely raised the roof! Oh yeah, we were listening to dance music!
They sang pretty much everything off their new album, despite audiecne requests to play some of their old stuff. I'm pretty new to the Mountain Goats and don't have their album yet, but I surrounded by a sea of people who knew most every word and weren't afraid to sing out loud. I tell you, you haven't lived until you've stood amidst a heaving crowd crying "Hail Satan"!
So if you've never heard of them, click some of the mp3 links scattered throughout this post. I think they're worth it.
