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Artist: The Mountain Goats
Website: http://www.themountaingoats.net/
Track Name: There Will Always Be An Ireland
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes

“There Will Always Be An Ireland” is a charming little song that will stay in your head and drive you crazy. You know the kind of thing I am talking about you hear a song once and then for the next three weeks it stalks you and pops up when you least expect it.

This is from the beginning of the bands 10 CD career and the rest of their stuff is equally insidous. You can find some more songs at www.mountain-goats.com/discog.html and there is a great interview at Dark But Shining.

Here is some hype from their site…

Most bios attempt to describe the music made by the band they’re profiling, and to compare it favorably to the work of giants in the field. This isn’t that kind of bio. The general musical framework within which the Mountain Goats have worked for ten-plus years has been acoustic guitar, bass, and voice. The lyrics are central to the whole enterprise. Many of the songs involve desperate characters who’ve found themselves in some trouble and want to moan about it a little before taking their lumps. The sexual tension between characters in your average Mountain Goats song could split the atom if the power could be harnessed, but it can’t, so forget it. Now you know what we know. Go forth and sin no more.

I am having a lot of fun working through their catalogue, I suspect you will as well. They do seem to go through a lot of drummers though.