Mountain Goats - Game Shows Touch Our Lives

This is another song recorded at the Earl in east Atlanta when the Mountain Goats played in November. It's one of the standout songs among many on their 2002 album Tallahassee. It's preceded by some of John Darnielle's fabulous onstage banter.

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[uzername91PUNx]

(i know what ya mean. he always struck me as british but he's from arizona) John is the hands-down KING of onstage banter. hears to you, TMG!

[fernloft]

@uzername91PUNx I concur. Although, Ted Leo can be kinda fun.

[melyell69]

is John British?

[fernloft]

@melyell69 nope

[PatchworkGirlofOZ]

Oooh! This is a fantastic performance. I adore the way the mood changes and is sung with more urgency and venom from "Carried you up the stairs that night" to "Ah, but look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes".

It's a crazy good example of the album as a whole, capturing the sad desperate want to fix what's broken, as well as the frustration and anger at the strong possiblity that it probably can't be.

It's fantastic.

[fernloft]

I'm really glad you like it. I'll have to use better sound equipment in the future.

[NaGopaleen23]

People say friends don't destroy each other, what do they know about friends! My favorite line.

[teaandcakeordeath]

1 - if you dont like lo fi, diy stuff youre gonna hate this

2 - the best stuff around nowadays is diy

3 - listen to the lyrics. hes hands down the best lyricist ive ever heard

4 - listen to going to georgia and fall in love with it, stat. and if you dont like it...then look for something else. dont be hatin.

[thefionapersona]

People say friends don't destroy one another, what do they know about friends?

[pickles4wizards]

Thank you john green <3

[screamingturnip]

@fernloft He is of the Hoosier persuasion by birth but these things fade. It is doubtful he remembers the secret handshake.

[surfer8alien]

DFTBA, everyone.

[Crypt1cmyst1c]

3 beers deep, and two white russians. best line in this video, even with the song

[brianb47]

@teaandcakeordeath yes, yes, yes, and yes. well said. :)

[IAmKMan83]

Shadows crawled across the living rooms length, I held onto you with a desperate strength, with everything, with everything in me. I fuckin love you John. All time fav, singer/song writer. "Maybe everything that falls down, eventually rises."

[Osomatic]

@melyell69 No. He's an American. He's from near to the Inland Empire in Southern California.