the Mountain Goats - Clean Slate (Official Lyric Video) 

This comment makes me endlessly glad that I've never heard the bluey theme.

So will I!

Which TMG song is that line from?

this is the way

That’s the new wave, leave comments that sound like bots

@@BurloBrandoVonBando lol

Truth!

Preach!

Seriously. Kinda creepy how accurate things are, and how much you needed to hear it.

AINT THE UNIVERSE BE THE MOST WILD OF THINGS!

100%

exactly. Moving into my first apartment and starting my first real job. Clean Slate indeed.

Gods (Johns) blessings usually are right on time

Man I think All Hail is like the best album. I’m so glad people agree with me, it seems like so many prefer his more recent stuff

@@jeffperson3765Same, All Hail is my favourite.

@jeffperson3765 damn really? I see everyone saying AHWT is their best. Sunset tree is definitely my favourite of theirs though

I object to all of you on the grounds of Full Force Galesburg

add me to the All Hail #1 list. but then there's Beautiful rat Sunset and Sweden and Tallahassee and The Sunset Tree and The Coroner's Gambit and the Life of the world to come and etc and it goes on like this for days... i confess i don't like these arrangements from the last handful of rekkids with the brass sections and etc. not the Goats i knew, but John's lyrics are still as genius as they've always been.

Indefatigable is a damn fine word. Untired after a long walk and able to walk on some more.

Bless you for this! It looked familiar but I had no idea how to translate. By "familiar" I mean I went to Reed College when Humanities 101 (a required class for freshmen) covered work from the time, starting with the Iliad as required reading over the summer. We then continued to study that area and all the important dead white dudes who wrote plays, philosophy, etc. for the rest of the year. We studied some pottery/urns/physical art from the same period... so yeah, familiar. If I sound less than enthusiastic about the class: overall, it wasn't bad. Some of what we read was fantastic, but the 9AM lectures and 2 hour classes to discuss whatever we studied ended up being the first time I realized I was different... if I got bored (and didn't fall asleep) I'd start feeling antsy. Eventually I'd get to a point where I wanted to scream because boredom would shift into physical distress and discomfort. I'd have to walk out mid-lecture in full view of the entire class. I genuinely thought everyone felt that way! I just assumed they were better at handling it... when I asked friends and classmates how they managed to stay and listen while feeling so terrible: they didn't know what I was talking about. (⁠・⁠-⁠・⁠;⁠)⁠ゞYears later after graduating I was finally diagnosed with ADHD. *Anyway* Thanks for the translation! Humanities must still have some influence on me because I LOVE the cover art and pre-ordered a shirt as soon as I saw it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ (BTW: I've heard a lot of recent Reed students have pushed to expand Humanities into MORE than just dead white dudes from that region. I've also heard they've been successful. I'm proud of them)

How clever! The larger section of the play being “Mighty Polynices shouts such threats and [640] invokes his native gods, the gods of his fatherland, to watch over his prayers in every way. He holds a shield, a perfect circle, newly-made, with a double symbol cleverly fastened on it: [645] a woman modestly walking in the fore leads a man in arms made, it appears, of hammered gold. She claims to be Justice, as the lettering indicates, “I will bring this man back and he will have his city and move freely in his father's halls.” Such are the inventions fixed to their shields” And isn’t that the album cover?

Very few writers in any medium can do it, let alone do it well. John is one of the few.

Band is legit

I hadn't notuced that, thanks! Also, when i checked that out i also noticed that the same is true for "one from East St. Louis" in the first sentence of the song at 0:24?

Every location he mentions gets a blip on the map as well!

At 0:38 it points to Saint Petersburg

@@Thylaacine That's not St. Petersburg, looks more like Lithuania. Which, considering he says "Breakaway Republic Dude" would make more sense, he's from a republic that broke away from the Soviet Union. Taipei is also highlighted when he changes planes there.

@@latersatyr it’s hard to say when the dots are big

THATS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND!! I’m so glad others are also thinking the same way

It's literally the Bluey intro lmao

hope you can catch em soon. they're so amazing live. listen to the shows on the archive as a holdover until you can make it!

@@kyle2 man they came by somewhat close but a 2 hour drive is too far. I fucking love the mountain goats and I really hope I get to see them in person someday.

Someone came in from Taipei in that song, didn't they?

Yeah, it felt like it deepened the story.

I saw that too! And then the next week new album I was like I bet the person that tweeted that is so pumped

Whoo hoo indeed