Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enormous as it is, be learned, bit by bit, as one would study the Sistine Chapel or decipher James Joyce's Ulysses. Details once committed to memory--the name of a mountain pass, the curve of an exit ramp--will gain significance the more knowledge one acquires. Approaching the same point from a different direction will cause one part of the city to click into place in one's internal map as much as walking in Boston on Comm. Ave. cements the relationship between Back Bay and Fenway. And suddenly, a city that once seemed centerless will appear connected...
...incongruous assemblages of guests on a recent evening, Bill Maher got on the subject of failed second-term presidencies. On the panel that night was Charlton Heston, who casually inserted that Ronald Reagan "won the cold war" during his last years in office. Maher's blood pressure started to mountain-climb. "He won the cold war? Please! This was strictly a Reagan project?...I would say Vietnam was the biggest thing that won the cold war..." The conversation shifted but Maher's mind didn't. Later he cut off one of his other guests, turned back to Heston and intoned...
...recorded Mountain Goats sound like the boyfriend that pushed you to screen your phone calls. The lyrics ooze of home-taped messages to be delivered to your door in the hopes that you would ask him back. With his child-like voice delivering strains in a slightly whiny tenor, Darnielle strums a pulsing guitar from what sounds like a few feet from the recorder. Almost shamefully catchy simple chord progressions and reptition form the structure of the Mountain Goats' music as the textured vocals offer meat and body to the songs. Beneath their basic melodic appeal, songs carry meaning...
...most of those bands lost themselves in wearing novelty on their sleeve and valuing style over content, the man behind the Mountain Goats has continued to produce innovative music. He has developed and focused his song writing and instrumentation (two albums ago he added a backup singer and abass to the Mountain Goats) and created a sound all of his own. Producing music a world apart from that which is commonly heard on the radio today, Darnielle has admitted that his band sounds unlike any other because no one lese cares...
...parting shot, the Mountain Goats played a tribute (The Sign) to European dance music, and long term music contracts. Darnielle explained before ending the concert that the Ace of Base saga is one of the truly tragic stories of our time. Two minutes later, he had a crowd of bespectacled college students waving their arms back and forth tot he melody. After the concert, while fans circled the now embarassed looking Darnielle, someone commented that the show had been just like a Ray Bradbury short story: "Moving but wonderful." Slowly, the crowd dispersed towards home, back to their bedrooms...