I keep expecting some word in this song to be drawn out in traditional mountain goat fashion like Andrew Eldritch is moving baAack to leeds but it's just calm simple and steady. It's nice. It's so mountain goats but also so refreshing
I first heard this song in vrchat. Some guy with a slenderman skin was covering it on the map with a campfire, never saw him again, but if you're reading this, hey what's up
I can't explain to people how much I love the mountain goats and why. It's something that you cannot explain they either get it or they don't. It's just one of those things, it's just one of those things, it's just one of those...things. things...
i love the little audio glitch in this track. this whole song is so incredibly endearing and somewhat nostalgic for me, even though ive only listened to it for a couple of years now. holds a lot of memories for me
I heard a live version just the other day, from a radio broadcast or something. I can't believe there's gonna be a new album, it seems like yesterday since Beat the Champ came out.
He's got an incredibly fast output when you look over his career. 16 studio albums, 23 EPs, 6 Cassettes, 5 split albums over about 26 years. Not including the unreleased numbers, lost tracks and other bands hes fronted/collaborated with. Seriously the mans output is insane! The three years between Transcendental Youth and Beat the champ was one of the longer gaps of his career XD.
I accidentally played two of this track on top of each other with about a 30 second delay in between and the beats synched up perfectly and the layering was absolutely lovely. It was so mesmerizing and I actually prefer it that way!
There's indifference on the wind But a faint gust of hope At a club nobody goes to With a musty velvet rope Guys in Motörhead jackets Who knew him way back when Haven't raised a drink in years But now meet up again To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day Nobody ever gets away Even the best of us come back some day To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds There's a rusted fog machine In a concrete storage space Letter-number combinations With no meaning on it's face They won't make these anymore It's a wooden coach-n-four No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for it's grave There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave No-one anticipates the rush The breezy feeling of the faceless crush At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds They don't throw him a parade He just comes in on a train One suitcase in his hand And an old army backpack From the second world war From a Leipzig secondhand store Pick the keys up from the agent Everything's been taken care of No big changes in the roadways Since you've left that I'm aware of A few old buildings gone to dust And some new ones in the way They'll look just like the old ones When the winds have had their say See the children bound for London, you'll all be back too Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through Come on boys that'll be enough You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
Bryce Rosenwald this kind of feels to me like an anti "going to" song, or the coda after a whole album of them. At the book tour stop in Seattle, John said that the "going to" series is about planning to go somewhere, anywhere new and exciting where you just know your life will be better, or at least different. in this one it feels like Andrew is returning home because he realizes he can't escape where he came from or who he is. that's how I interpreted it anyways, like a foil to them or the inevitable conclusion
In other news, is anyone having difficulty buying tickets for his upcoming tour? Trying to buy a ticket or two for a show in June but the ticket page is just a dead link. Sadbois 2017 :'(
Bought the album. Every track is good, most are great. Shelved, Wear Black, and The GreyKing and the Silver Flame Attunement are probably my favorite tracks. Buy it now and do yourself a favor.
I understand that it's about more than that, but I'm from near Leeds, and have moved away for university, and it kind of just reminds me of how grim the North of England can be but also how much more familiar and friendly. I don't know if I'll get away. I don't know if I want to.
Still can't tell but i think this is may be my favorite off Goths. Idk, it might be Unicorn Tolerance. Whatever. Its jubilant when it should be grave, grave when it should be jubilant, so it's well done. This album grew on me in a big way.
@@2confrontational I keep wondering what he's up to and how he pays his bills. I've seen how little money the guys from Ministry and other equally popular bands of the time have and I can't help but wonder what he does with himself these days.
@@biggaywizard He has been going on tour every year with the band, and they ordinarily debut new tracks live. They have a huge back catalogue. I am sure Andrew is doing just fine.
@@2confrontational I literally own his entire back catalogue, I've been listening to him since they first came out. I know he plays new stuff live but it's not like I can listen to it after the show is over. The Sisters and Gary Numan are my two all time favorite bands. I wish Andrew were a tad more like Gary. I can pay extra to meet Gary before a show and I can join his Patrion page to watch him write an album. Andrew is brilliant at what he does and I wish I could support his art the same way financially. Hence my frustration.
@@biggaywizard Otherside of the coin is that if you stick around before and after Andrews gig you might be able to just go meet him. In Australia we often look down on meet and greet tickets because we'd rather go get a drink with the musos when they're done. To be honest though I think Andrew likes a few more degrees of freedom than most musicians because people are so obsessed with where he lives.
Actually, he's from Ely in Cambridgeshire... having to move back to Leeds from Munich or wherever he is now would be sad, but having to go back to his mum's in Ely would be another level of tragic... ;)
I initially thought this song was a sad rumination on the impossibility, no matter how hard one tries, of breaking one's own innate characteristics. But I also think it could be an oddly comforting thing, the fact that home always stays the same in certain macro ways and that you will always end up back home, no matter what you do when you break free and escape and travel the world and do whatever it is you do. You always end up moving back to Leeds. And I guess it depends on how you look at it- depressing, or strangely comforting.
yeah for real, its like the saddest shit in most verses,, but makes me so happy and content, just to be reminded that we all feel this way sometimes,, if you cat admit that, your a liar..
@@keithatwork2493 It's been fixed... I love this album, but couldn't listen to this song on RU-vid for a long time. I'd already bought the album, but could only use Google's music player to listen, which sucked.
Who is that guitar player? I got to find out who that is his playing is next level stuff I thought it was Steve Vai for a second there.. or maybe that guy from The Cure
He really did move back to Leeds though. I don't know if TMG knew this - I'd like to think they did. Or at least he always kept a place there... between Hamburg and somewhere in Spain.
This song is about him moving back to Leeds after college, seeing Leeds (and its music scene) both decaying and bland without any change in sight, and then forming the Sisters of Mercy. I'm pretty sure John knew.
@@broceollomon That's nonsense. AE is not from Leeds, he moved there to go to college in the late 70s. Dropped out and formed TSOM and then went on to goth stardom, such as it is. Reasonably sure JD is using AE as a metaphor for all aging scenesters who move to the big city, and then move back to their home towns later in life, stink of failure clinging to them. It's just not particularly true in Andy Taylors actual life.
dewhi100 In time, it might sink in. I loved this when it first came out, but I disliked Rain in Soho. My fanaticism led me to buy the whole album, and personally I feel like the album's full course is a good trip, and while not every song is a hit - standalone or as the album, depending on your opinion - it's a super solid addition to the Mountain Goats canon.
I saw John Darnielle at the zoo. I tried to tell everybody but they thought I meant the animals at the zoo has the world gone mad? I screamed in the middle of the grocery store "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!". I meant THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE BAND 🫤😲😊. HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD????? 😮😮😢
FruckFilms as someone whose moved away from Leeds and is soon returning back, this song just captures the mood surrounding it all. Leeds is a great place, but you can never really escape it as it is a place that never leaves you (both because of the pride from being from Leeds and the fact that most people don’t move away from there so there are big family units all in the same area so it’s inconvenient to move away). In the case of Andrew Eldritch, he is a musician who was apart of the Leeds Underground scene.
Gorgeous lyricism. Not sure how I feel about the dance groove... not the mt goats usual fare so it'll take some getting used to. Can't wait for the full release. Already have my tickets for the Seattle show :D
