The Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
This song kicks off the 2002 album All Hail West Texas, which was a return to John Darnielle’s habit [okay, “affectation,” perhaps] of recording albums using only a Panasonic RX-FT500 boombox.
This lowest of low-fi production techniques means that it’s just Darnielle and a guitar for most of the album, and also that nothing got a track added to sweeten it, or a little help in the mix…it’s the songs and nothing else: ”fourteen songs about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys.”
Incredibly, this works.
While it does take a little effort to get past the clunk and hiss, once you start listening to the stories this album will pull you in, and this song is a perfect starting point.
