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I’m taking this blog in a new direction, first it was intended to plan a cross-America journey that didn’t happen/might not ever happen, then it became a medium for me to post food I made and other un-interesting shit in my life, then at the end it just sort of turned into a LiveJournal. Pretty embarassing, but whatever. This blog is now mostly going to focus on the Mountain Goats. If you’re reading this and are a friend of mine, you probably know that they’re my favourite band. Unless you like this band you’ll probably find it pretty boring. I’ll mostly be talking about records, shows and live archived sets that I have. I’m sure I’ll talk about other things too, but the main focus will be the Mountain Goats. I’m biting someone’s style here, I think.
I might as well start with something relating to the name of my blog, the song/single See America Right. I chose to name this blog Jason See’s America Right because I intended on taking a cross-country trip with my friend Andrew (read back to the first couple pages for more of that).
This is a song from Tallahassee and in my opinion it’s not really a stand-out track on the album. The only way it stands out amongst the other tracks on the album is that it’s one of two tracks that has any sort of heavy drum presence or distorted guitar. It also has with the very slight lo-fi effect on the vocals, which actually works well and blends the progessing style of John with the old Panasonic boombox John.
For some reason, 4AD decided to release a single of this record, the Mountain Goats’ second release on the label –
- the b-side of which is one of my favourite tMG jams, New Chevrolet in Flames. Okay so my list of favourite TMG songs is not short by any means but it’s an awesome song. See America Right stands out in an odd way on Tallahassee but it’s coupled nicely with New Chevrolet in Flames. I picked up this single a couple months ago while in Toronto with my friend Mike, killing time at Sonic Boom before we saw Annie Hall. I’m sure it’s not that rare of a record by any means but it is out of print and finding a single that’s more than a couple years old in a record store was exciting. This record contains nothing on the matrix, except Jomont bummer. Dear John Darnielle, please start putting inscriptions on record matrixes.
Some more exciting tMG news coming up soon, The Life of the World To Come is out on Tuesday, they’re playing the Colbert Report the same night and hopefully sometime in the near future my copy of Devil in the Shortwave will come in the mail.
