Ben Gibbard - Palmcorder Yajna (Mountain Goats cover)

[xfactor5492]

i like this version better than the original : O

[VESSEL1991]

can someone plzzzzz tell me the chordsto this song plzzz

[walruswaspaul123]

@VESSEL1991 It's pretty easy. A-D for the intro then A-E-B-D after that A-E-D-E when it goes to "If anybody comes to see me.." it goes to C#m-D-A. Back to A-E-D-E then A-D for the rest of the song.

[goingtoscotland]

good cover, surprisingly. but, ben, please concentrate more on a NEW POSTAL SERVICE ALBUM!

[ScottfromBKLYN]

This is very good...but he should have tried to maintain what JD did with his vocals...the way the song is originally sung conjures the feelings of being a meth head...

I would love to see Gibbard do some of the more less "frantic" songs, like Game Shows That Touch Our Lives, Old College Try, or something from The Sunset Tree

[urethaneunicorn]

@ScottfromBKLYN The Irony of Gibbard's soothin' voice is the best part about this though, I think.

[Evbmaster101]

I love John Darnielle and Ben Gibbard . . . I think if we merged both of them with Sufjan Stevens we would have the perfect musician.

[RaybanLovers]

LOL I bet he doesnt know where that is ;]

[orca222]

omg he messed up! like, 2:58, you see his hands kinda frantically move around and he looks at his hand like "omgwtf?" but hes awesome. i love ben.

[GlorialProductions]

..wait..ben gibbard playing mountain goats.. oh my head

[google1d]

wish he picked a better song tho, its not bad at all but there are betters out there

[prozacjunkie112]

I'm guessing this is one of those "I'm more indie rock than you and here's why" moments

[google1d]

that was a "Mountain Goats have much better songs than this" moments

[Markzuckerberg]

I'm guessing this is one of those "I'm too cool to be preoccupied with what's considered cool and I need everyone to know that" comments

[redhot438]

haha, every quote in this thread is stereotypically indie. i love it. now everyone listen to see if zuckerberg, google, or prozac exhales more condescendingly upon reading this.

[Abbylg]

pales in comparison to john, but still entertaining. i think ben is very talented, but nothing compared to john darnielle.

[avocadopye]

The +9 on this comment makes my heart warm.

[ohbusiness]

WHAT!!!!!! Amazing.

[NaeFace0]

this song is fucking fantasic even better by the mountain goats

[mikela7]

omg if john darnielle colin meloy and ben gibbard got together my life would be complete. amazing.

[TruKevz]

I like your reasoning.

[Eliyetterbowman]

@mikela7 Death Cab for Mountain Decemberist Goats.

[TrustNo121000]

I like his cover, but it has a very different feeling with Ben Gibbard's voice and lighter guitar playing style than it does with John Darnielle.

[mrmopwater]

love this song. cool vid.

[barryscott12]

I like this. Agreed, John does it better, but hey, he wrote it, so why wouldn't he? I think Ben does some awesome covers. Anyone else think a collaboration between John Darnielle, Colin Meloy and Ben Gibbard would be a good idea?

[milaplausos]

I have to agree with those with the sentiment that he doesn't do this song any justice. His rendition is bland and boring.

[jerk54]

amazing, to be honest i haven't heard the non-live(non-youtube) mountain goats version. But this is spectacular.

[TrustNo121000]

I LOVE IT! It's really cool to hear this song with Ben Gibbard's voice. Very odd too though, because his voice is very calming and John Darnielle's seems to be a bit more grating which I really like. It's a great cover all the same. I'm happy that he did it.

[sarabroc]

i dont even know why he's trying to cover this song. he doesnt have what makes the song great, a voice with character/emotion.

[SoulTassadar]

*SIGH* Ben Gibbard is fine in his own right but he cannot even compare to the greatness of John Darnielle.

[radioactivramona]

it's sacreligious for someone of ben gibbard's caliber to attempt to cover John Darnielle.

[deadwolfbones]

he somehow makes it just as bland and inoffensive as his own songs. blargh.

[fieldsofelysium]

thanks for posting this. two of my favorite artists ever.

[Cloudy3teen]

Wow, great job. Darnielle's songs can be hard to make your own sometimes. Also, way to pull out of messing up after the bridge thing

[sierra121492]

nice. thanks for postin.

[Dcaridi]

Phenomenal Cover. Thanks for posting.

[chinolofus]

any bootleg audio recordings of this? i could extract the audio but im lazy.

[MajestySnowbird]

Yes, I have a pretty good one. Message me, we'll see what we can do.

[skittixch]

if this makes just one person say "who the hell are the mountain goats?" it will have done it's job

[aaronabubo]

who the hell are the mountain goats?

[BeefSniper]

A band that did this song a lot better.

[aaronabubo]

yeah... it was a joke.

[BeefSniper]

and a poor one, too.

[aaronabubo]

perhaps... but also a fairly obvious one.

[BeefSniper]

not really. you could have just been a death cab fan being passive-aggressive.

[efieg]

fucking awesome

[sfrussell999]

You're joking right?

[efieg]

why would i?

[Rhym35w1th0range]

Fucking amazing.