Transcendental Youth - The Mountain Goats

Title track and closer of one of my all-time favorite albums. The horns are just perfect and the lyrics are beautiful. Makes me think of those little moments of getting lost in something good during bad times, a short escape you know won’t last.

Yeah but you’d have to write it across like, 10 post-it notes along the top of your monitor. That’d get expensive!

Idk someone could probably brute force it in only a few trillion years, I’d make it longer if you plan to be using Twitch long-term.

Oh they’re really impressive, Overtime is another great one.

Awesome! The AI summarizer is very useful, and it gives quality search results from my experience with the free trial. $10 a month still seems a little high for a search engine, though I’m definitely eyeing it more now…

Hopefully we see more competition in the future with paid search engines, this seems to be new territory where everyone is still pretty unsure of the right pricing. I think $5 a month is going to be the sweet spot for me.

Their range is so impressive. I especially have been enjoying Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava! One of my favorite albums of the last year, and has some elements of jazz fusion/funk (though I guess you wouldn’t exactly call it a jazz album lol).

For folk I’ve gotta recommend The Mountain Goats! Specifically their earlier stuff, the newer is maybe a little less folk and more just indie rock (but also very good). The Sunset Tree and Tallahassee are what people usually recommend for the first album, but We Shall All Be Healed is my absolute favorite, and what I’m recommending.

This album specifically deals with themes of struggle and addiction. They have this very “everything is fucked but we push through” way about a lot of their songs that I just love. My favorite song off this album is Letter From Belgium. This band is an amazing source of emotional support through hard times and the community is fantastic!

“All of the songs on We Shall All Be Healed are based on people John used to know. Most of them are probably dead or in jail by now.”