Hey, guy who requested this on Patreon here. Great job dude, you didn't disappoint.
@Scifiguy11th
6 жыл бұрын
Graham Kristensen thank you for requesting it
@girlspooptoo8567
4 жыл бұрын
You did good Thanks guy
@timsheneman1826
4 жыл бұрын
Thank You Moral Orel of Adult Swim for putting 'No Children' in the episode, 'Numb". Both are excellent
@riversworld96
Жыл бұрын
they also had old college try in the episode help!
@noahgibson-baker3200
Жыл бұрын
And Love Love Love in 'Passing'
@HUNTER-pq7uh
6 жыл бұрын
Gonna pop in here to advocate for rough recording and grating voices, I get so much out of unpolished passionate performances and they can be used to such a powerful effect.
@deianeiracrush
6 жыл бұрын
god the story of the alpha couple is so absolutely fantastic, with the ironic juxtaposition of their love of their hatred of each other. as someone who has loved the mountain goats since forever, this video is perfectly accurate and beautiful, good job!
@GeffenTzabanHydraPod
6 жыл бұрын
mountain goats + polyphonic= i have never clicked on a video faster
@koopacabras4545
8 ай бұрын
You had me at the first line, when you mentioned "they arent many bands that feel as human as the mountain goats"... thats exactly what hooked me up to their music.
@dapa4
6 жыл бұрын
Darnielle is pronounced Darn-eel.
@YarrBr0
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you
@moneytimesfifteen
6 жыл бұрын
When people ask what kind of music you're into and you have to say "This guy called The Mountain Goats, but only really the boombox years"
@danholmes5416
6 жыл бұрын
I’ve loved this band for many years and I’m ecstatic to see them get some attention on here. Love it!
@Scifiguy11th
6 жыл бұрын
This video is phenomenal but the alpha couple is much older than 1994. the Mountain Goats started after John was writing a series of poems with alpha in the title and when he released his first cassette tape in 1991 it featured an alpha song called One Winter at Point Alpha Privative.
@medes5597
6 жыл бұрын
*privative. Privative is the "a" you put before words like "amoral", and so the idea is its a beginning of something very bad.
@JDoyle
6 жыл бұрын
Idk if I'm out of the loop but I've never heard of this band I regard your channel highly though so I think I'm about to stumble onto a new favourite Edit: I'm a few songs into tallahasse and it's brilliant.. Very AJJ
@danholmes5416
6 жыл бұрын
They are severely underrated. Check out the Tallahassee and Heretic Pride albums.
@JDoyle
6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, thanks for the recommendation!
@gregw4817
6 жыл бұрын
Jack Doyle After "Tallahassee", listen to "The Sunset Tree".
@grahamkristensen9301
6 жыл бұрын
Check out the albums Tallahassee and All Hail West Texas. If you like Tallahassee more, go forward and check out their studio albums. If you like AHWT more, go back and check out their lo-fi recordings.
@LuxuryPossum
6 жыл бұрын
AJJ actually covered Alpha Rats Nest on a cover album of the album (Tallahassee turns ten). They have also covered a couple of their other songs too.
@LuxuryPossum
6 жыл бұрын
I was so excited when I saw this video! The Alpha couple mythology is so interesting to me. I only wish this video could have been longer!
6 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I love the Mountain Goats! And I like all the live versions of No Children.
@FieldTestedSemenKun
6 жыл бұрын
Anyone ever watched Moral Orel?
@cameronkoontz6393
6 жыл бұрын
Klas Kitsune someday it'll get the respect it deserves
@FieldTestedSemenKun
6 жыл бұрын
Cameron Koontz It's way too underrated and overlooked. It's amazing
@juicyplums4832
6 жыл бұрын
I await for the day it gets popular
@luisfarias8566
6 жыл бұрын
It's got a cult following for sure.
@brandonburch3633
5 жыл бұрын
thats how i found the goats from that outro was exactly what i needed
@girlspooptoo8567
5 жыл бұрын
Truly my favorite band for years All hale west Texas Tallahassee Sunset tree
@nervilis
3 ай бұрын
When I was considering pivoting from instrumental music to vocal music and wondering what to write about as a leader of a relatively boring life, this was the video that finally made me realize that not every song has to be autobiographical. This video has helped me jumpstart my lyric writing. Eventually my writing did end up having my life and thoughts bleed through into the lyrics, but it still allows me the freedom of polishing some untruths in there knowing that officially the song is from a fictional person's perspective. Thank you Noah. Big fan of Ghost Notes as well, an avid listener.
@larrydong5746
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for exposing the Mountain Goats to more people. One of my all time favorite bands.
@curt7174
4 жыл бұрын
'Old college try' has always been the standout track off of Tallahassee for me.
@williampucci1332
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! It's Darn-Eel tho ;)
@nikitamesmaeker4577
6 жыл бұрын
I didn't know the band until now... I'll be sure to check them out! This channel is pure gold... The quality of the video is outstanding !
@girlspooptoo8567
5 жыл бұрын
What did u think of them?
@TheFalungi
6 жыл бұрын
I found your channel through searching for a mountain goats video from the past month. After I finished watching this vid I went on to watch a bunch of your stuff, and I really like your content! Glad to have stumbled upon you, subbed :)
@charliehayes5537
6 жыл бұрын
I have a suggestion, the influence of The Strokes during the early 2000s and how it caused great influence on bands later to come such as The killers, Interpol and Franz Ferdinand ? Another amazing video, keep up the amazing work x
@powerstation0872
3 жыл бұрын
Finally, someone besides me who likes The Mountain Goats.
@girlspooptoo8567
4 жыл бұрын
John is the greatest lyricist ever. Thanks for the videos polyphonic
@wogdog985
3 жыл бұрын
i’ve known about the existence of the alpha couple, and i knew that tallahassee and other songs were about them, but i never really knew about their story. thank you so much for making this video, it was really helpful!
@thomaskovilakath715
6 жыл бұрын
Just subbed to you a few days ago and then you release a vid on one of my top bands. I feel so lucky. Now do one on Modest Mouse ( The album Good News for People Who Love Bad News would be killer) and I might start believing in fate. Fantastic analysis as usual. Thanks.
@guilhermebaldin
6 жыл бұрын
scrolling thru channel: "this sure seems nice might consider subscribing" sees MG-related video: instant subscribe b4 even watching it keep spreading the good word, brother!
@whatsupmyboi8069
6 жыл бұрын
I think you should do something about tame impala
@joedavies2695
6 жыл бұрын
Got so excited when I saw the title of this video
@lucacoccioli9244
6 жыл бұрын
Man polyphonic I didn't know u liked the mountain goats?
@AnamFiain
3 жыл бұрын
I like to think that the unreleased "Ethiopians" was like an epilogue for the alpha couple going into their old age. Great video
@ByteMe619
6 жыл бұрын
It took me over a year of being a fan to listen to Tallahassee, such an amazing album
@LieLikesMusic
6 жыл бұрын
Biberibip bap boo bap 💥
@danisawsomeperiod
6 жыл бұрын
Another great video, keep it up!
@raebeiss
25 күн бұрын
I love this video so much. I've rewatched it so many times lol
@pdfbanana
6 жыл бұрын
I honestly don't know how you consistently seem to make videos about all of my favorite artists
@benjaminjenkins4556
6 жыл бұрын
ALL I LISTEN TO IS THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, fuck yes thank you for making this video, John Darnielle is a genius
@docgima
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this band, it was interesting. Reminds me of The Rugburns or Reckless Kelly’s “Ballad of Tommy and Marla”.
@stopys
6 жыл бұрын
Whoa, I am very presently surprised to see you do a video essay on the mountain goats
@lbboardingb3356
6 жыл бұрын
Well done vid. Gord Downie please, that man was a poet and legendary Canadian
@Polyphonic
6 жыл бұрын
Already did that! kzitem.info/news/bejne/s6KZ24KrqYZ6Zm0
@lbboardingb3356
6 жыл бұрын
Oooohhhh shit, how have I never seen this!? Bless up man
@versebuchanan512
4 ай бұрын
I remember drunkenly slow dancing to 'No Children' with my ex fiance the night we realized it wasn't gonna work.
@uruguayo2002
6 жыл бұрын
I really like your videos and I really think you deserve more subscribes! I would love to see you make a video about: The Beatles, Nirvana, Foo fighters. Or more videos about drummers like you did with john bonham, maybe Jojo Mayer, Taylor Hawkins, or Dave grohl and how he went from drumming to playing guitar and how he intergrades drumming into his guitar riffs.
@ohshiit9112
Жыл бұрын
I think the story of the alpha couple is my favorite story ever told maybe
@andrewventura8654
6 жыл бұрын
do a video on the strokes (: !
@hightiki5210
6 жыл бұрын
The Mountain Wokes
@lewistierney8780
6 жыл бұрын
High Tiki W O K E
@ggabe2865
6 жыл бұрын
I love your videos about music. You All Along the Watchtower video in particular was amazing!
@CriticalEatsJapan
6 жыл бұрын
Never heard pf them. But I'll check them out. Thanks for the video...
@StrifeSoul990
4 ай бұрын
Life is made of small insignificant moments. We remember the large grandiose moments but the small moments matter more. The couples small intimate moments were destructive and horrible. It's tragic because as much as they shouldn't be together they love each other. Love isn't always healthy.
@danisawsomeperiod
6 жыл бұрын
I would be interested to hear your take on MEWITHOUTYOU
@riffedwood5597
6 жыл бұрын
Harambe Diedforoursins taaaaake ooooon meeeeeee
@Fishtacofriday
2 ай бұрын
Saw them live in 2023 will always remember
@Gracias.193
2 жыл бұрын
Surprised this wasn’t trending like a month or two ago
@coleschubert8184
6 жыл бұрын
Oddly reminds me of the early My Chemical Romance albums. Their first album (I brought you my bullets you brought me your love) tells this weird story about this couple similar to bonnie and clyde fighting off vampires or something before they die. Their second album (Three cheers for sweet revenge) continues the story as the husband makes a deal with the devil to kill 1000 evil men in exchange for his wife back. Would suggest a listen.
@ryannottingham4700
6 жыл бұрын
Love polyphonic
@HAZARDOUS88
6 жыл бұрын
Quality work as always!
@FelipeMatti
6 жыл бұрын
-King Crimson -Tool -How Brain Mantia and Tim Alexander gave Primus a different approach and style -Buckethead
@kristisx
6 жыл бұрын
It's Darn-eel reee. Dude this is amazing tho.
@Nic33rd
6 жыл бұрын
Nice! I love tMG!
@joshuacrewes8314
6 жыл бұрын
Love your videos man
@joelperez5891
6 жыл бұрын
Dude you make such great videos!!!!!!
@MARAUD3RZ
3 жыл бұрын
fantastic analysis
@Exarian
4 жыл бұрын
The mountain goats are a band I don't really listen to unless I am in a very specific sorta rough state. Usually drunk. They're not my favorite band but it's a band that's always been there exactly when I needed them.
@OneAfter-wb9gq
6 жыл бұрын
Another great video, the mountain goats are legends of their trade.
@BazookaToe
6 жыл бұрын
But what if you're happily married and 3 years sober?
@sam_uelson
11 ай бұрын
The alpha couple remind me of the plot of nick caves 'where the wild roses grow', in which the protagonist sings about being so unbelievably in love with this woman, he wants to take her down to the river Bank, cover her in roses and bash her skull in with a rock. Love makes you do these things.
@rodrikiller
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for make this video in my birthday
@eriklora469
6 жыл бұрын
I know im not a patreon and you did a vid that featured David Bowie but can you do one about his life and him pushing boundaries? He was such a big figurehead in so many aspects of life when he was in his prime, and all the way up to his death.
@beastyzee6506
6 жыл бұрын
Alpha rats nest is about how the house burns down with them in it and how their ashes are blown to the nearby junk yard
@spencermckay5662
6 жыл бұрын
Awesome job man, these are some of the best videos on KZitem. Any chance on doing one on Hssing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer/The Past is a Grotesque Animal by of Montreal (about Kevin Barnes' mental struggle through those times)?
@Polyphonic
6 жыл бұрын
I actually have a script written on Hissing Fauna already! I just need to figure out how to do it properly haha
@spencermckay5662
6 жыл бұрын
Polyphonic Oh awesome man, can't wait for it!
@horaciogonzalez260
9 ай бұрын
@Polyphonic, will you be concidering making another video now that The Mountain Goats have released a second Character album?
@joanvega2177
6 жыл бұрын
That kind of lyrics reminds me of Mishka Shubaly. I like it.
@lily-padsaslaunchpadshoney980
5 жыл бұрын
thank you for this
@maxkuzela9745
6 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual! Please do a video on the Green Day album American Idiot. It's really the last great rock album to go high on the charts. I'd leave for you to go in depth on it.
@YDGSmokahontas
6 жыл бұрын
@Polyphonic Will you please do a video on La Dispute and their poetic story telling across albums?
@alejom1851
6 жыл бұрын
Do a video on rush's drums or bass! Pleaase!
@AstronomyDomine
6 жыл бұрын
In the Court of the Crimson King album
@girlspooptoo8567
5 жыл бұрын
I've been to 2 of their shows. In Chapel Hill and in Tampa
@Ceviche4K
6 жыл бұрын
cover Goths!
@conorm.5331
6 жыл бұрын
A Frank Turner video would be awesome
@MrShahid0072
6 жыл бұрын
Hey that was great.. can you do the strokes, neutral milk hotel or radiohead?
@raptors13jays
6 жыл бұрын
Phil collins/ genesis next??
@JanuaryCorso
6 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a video about Loveless!
@traviscarroll5762
4 жыл бұрын
Really liked this video, but I wish you had gotten into the AHWT alpha couple tracks. "The Mess Inside" takes a more sympathetic tone than any of the other AC songs, which I think is a lot more compelling and makes Tallahassee work better imo- you care about these people and are rooting for them to leave each other and become happy. In a half-verse: "We tried to fight the creeping sense of dread with temporal things/ most of the time I guess I felt alright/ but I wanted you to love me like you used to do."
@elRiku00
6 жыл бұрын
John Darniell is bit like Gösta Sundqvist :)
@ivansonic08
6 жыл бұрын
This is a great video! But i think i feel you need to put the last instrument legend: John Bohnam' Drumming Flea's Bass Freddie mercury's Vocals I think its only missing Jimi Hendrix's guitar
@patcummins1405
6 жыл бұрын
I love the mountain goats but I find the lo fi stuff really challenging to listen to
@lillyrey5727
6 жыл бұрын
Not my cup of tea musicwise but a great essay! Happy New Year!
@ianoller2833
6 ай бұрын
I was the man in the alpha couple gor almost 10 years........i got out of my toxic merry-go-round. It almost killed me, but by gods, i did it.
@sophieclapacs2046
6 жыл бұрын
When polyphonic makes a video on a durham-based band😩😩
@ash_e2553
6 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on Electric Light Orchestra
@semi-relatablerants3964
6 жыл бұрын
Do Pavlov’s Dog, I believe it’s a underrated band with a lot of great history behind it!
@alexandreselin1714
6 жыл бұрын
Mike Patton would be interesting too!
@harshjoshi6986
3 жыл бұрын
Hey man, please do a video on oasis
@naomiherrera6702
6 жыл бұрын
May we get a video on Martin Hannett, please??
@blastoff2moon429
6 жыл бұрын
Congratulations to 1M views on your flea video .
@IHeartAtx
2 жыл бұрын
Can you do one about the Lorrie songs by Turnpike Troubadours?
@thisiscaseysaccount3242
6 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on the doors the soft parade
@princess_kenny7086
Жыл бұрын
I know I am years late to this but what if in Oceanographers Choice, they where having some sort of hate sex.
@calebzia
6 жыл бұрын
it's dar-neel
@MaxStephens77
6 жыл бұрын
Im like 95% sure his last name is pronounced dar-nell
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