The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle Performs “Stabbed To Death Outside San Juan”
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- It’s been three years since the release of The Mountain Goats’ last full-length album, Transcendental Youth. In that time, Mountain Goats’ mastermind John Darnielle became a father, published his first novel, and stockpiled songs inspired by a youthful fascination with professional wrestling. The squared circle is a fresh setting for Darnielle, but Beat The Champ-which arrives in North America via Merge Records on April 7-still bears the hallmarks of his main musical outlet: impeccable storytelling, deep thoughts about mortality and other human concerns. And, most importantly, Darnielle’s voice and guitar, the two instruments he brought along to perform Beat The Champ’s “Stabbed To Death Outside San Juan” for One Track Mind. Among the humming refrigerator’s of Sam’s Quik Stop (in Darnielle’s adopted hometown of Durham, North Carolina), the singer-songwriter recounted the tragedy of Frank Goodish (a.k.a. Bruiser Brody, a.k.a. King Kong Brody), whose unsolved murder before a match in Puerto Rico forms the basis of “Stabbed To Death Outside San Juan.” It’s a quintessential Mountain Goats composition, in which Darnielle steps into the shoes of yet another ill-fated soul, his doomy strumming setting the scene for Goodish’s final moments-and his encounter with a graph of heavenly bodies.
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I love this man
i hit this video by accident but stayed and loved it almost shed a tear rip bruiser brody
That Hertzsprung-Russell diagram though.
Great stories in song.
The winter's wet, and the summer's hot
Take a match in Puerto Rico, why not
Power and adrenaline flowing like amber
From the recesses of the earth, put on your waders
And twitch when the water runs high sometimes
Twitch when the tide ebbs low
See the sights, maybe go downtown
Sometimes you get some heat, sometimes it follows you around
When the blade hits the bone, everybody hears it sing
Shower room full of people, no one hears a goddamned thing
A twitch when the current runs wild sometimes
Twitch when the contact howls
All that racket out there in the arena
I’m on a stretcher, here come the cleaners
And the sky goes dark and there I am
Climbing down the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
I drop from the top of my tall steel cage
Drop to the concrete floor
“this is stabbed to death outside san juan. it’s about the time that bruiser brody got stabbed to death outside of san juan.”
why am i laughing so hard at this
John is playing with a pick in this video. Not entirely sure why, because he's generally not fond of doing so. But that would explain why the guitar playing is a little bit uncharacteristic here.
you need a pick to get this kind of sound. it wouldn’t have that intense oomph. fits well with the dark theme
1:32 blew my mind
Talent yeah!! Caught Poker Face S1E4 followed up and .. fantastic.
This look super different in every performance I watch lol
I love how Spencer Nolan Rice did evolve outside KVS
Nice. :D
Bruiser Brody RIP
try 2:50
Before the remodel. Sigh.
Test
Why wasn't "Goths" as good as this album...I hope it isn't over.
I liked Goths more!
the guitar playing was a little suspect and the vocals were super suspect.
bob hamburg Your taste is very suspect.
bob hamburg "suspect"
+bob hamburg your mom was a suspect in the crime of being stupid!
@@yoshidaharu3292 I mean, it's a song about a murder...
this is terrible
I will and also Nick Drake, Neutral Milk Hotel, David Sylvian, Wu Tang Clan, Elliot Smith, Lightnin Hopkins, Misfits, Deadbolt, Chopin, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Phillip Glass, Bauhaus, Brian Eno and countless others excluding of course this horrible musical effort.
fyi using the word faggot indicates your own latent suppressed homosexual urges.
zorbatheok You should listen to the album version of this, it's much better. Also before you attempt to impress everyone in this comment section with how wide your music taste is, Chopin included haha, think about who you're referencing. Take Jeff Magnum and how vocal he is about his love for the mountain goats, a lot of others you mention are like John who do stripped down acoustic indie rock/folk. I mean I can assure you you'll find at least five Nick Drake songs which have identical chord progressions to mountain goats' songs. It seems ridiculous that you'd dispel an incredibly prolific songwriter from one acoustic performance,
Finally if you're going to rightly call some one out for using the word faggot don't then ruin it by saying he's only doing it because he's secretly gay that makes you just as much of an arse.
Excuse me sir you better listen to me this singing and this guitaring is stink like poop like some raccoon poop got in my nose that strong stink this song to me and my life. You know I never wanted to hear it but I try I give it a shot and look what happened I have animal poop smell experience from a song man sing on the youtubes so you better not tell me I don't have an opinion that's good one cause its my opinion that's all I need.
zorbatheok You didn't have to fragment your grammar, after that first comment you made everyone was fully aware how thick you are.
"you made everyone was fully aware"
thanks Slingblade you proved my point perfectly.