The World Forgot

My relationship with The Mountain Goats is in direct parallel to the type of images I upload onto my blog here.  You see my procedure for processing these images which accompany every post seems to go in streaks.  For a month or so at a time I’ll run the same set of tweaking the levels, increasing contrast, and essentially over saturating the colors.  Then I’ll look at a new picture and realize I hate that process and instead I switch to desaturating and washing out all the colors for the following month or so before I completely reverse my position and go back to my old method.  And that’s how I feel about The Mountain Goats.  For awhile they’re great, then I hate them, then I love them again.

Recently I’ve been in love with one song of theirs in particular.  This Year is the perfect anthem for, well, this year which we are all currently toiling through.  With the repeated line “I am gonna make it / through this year / if it kills me” it just seems to fit this melancholic mood the world has settled into.

mp3 : The Mountain Goats - This Year
mp3 : The Mountain Goats - This Year (Live)

For those that care about the integrity of full albums, the intent of the artist to create a moving piece of art that drifts from track to track, or whatever other excuse you use when your friends urge you to only play the best singles on an album {a request I’m sure you vehemently deny} the original track appears on the album The Sunset Tree (amazon) (itunes).  We will make it through this year; even if it kills us.

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