Gothamist: Opinionist: The Mountain Goats @ The Knitting Factory

mk

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:47:55 -0500

were you guys all at the same concert i was??? the mountain goats were aMAZing i have never seen anythign so amazing and there is no way i'm missing it when JD comes back to the knitting factory next year. the crowd was so hyped on them too. when JD came on you would have thought the audience had been asleep before and just woke up. the prayers and tears were okay, better than i thought they would be, but when grizzly bear finally said they only had two songs left i was like TWO? how about ONE! completely incoherent droning into echoing mics.

d

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:15:33 -0500

uhm what exactly did i miss? i saw the whole show and grizzly bear was fucking awful. i would pay to not see that band. i dont get it. i listen to tons of music and dudes who just sort of moan while their drunk drummer pounds away incoherently and every once in a while some guy hits a xylophone doesnt sound good. sorry. i dont care what hipster says they are amazin, i saw them live and they were trash.

reading

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:29:37 -0500

the prayers and tears were really tepid. i'm surprised you found the predictable to be so charming. i sat out the second half of the MG 's overblown set in the bar room and from what I heard general consensus was otherwise brian. maybe you were just hanging with the wrong crowd. whereas prayers and tears I agree had some nice melodies, most of the time it seemed they were stuck in neutral..\

Brian

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:08:30 -0500

I wish you'd been there too. Because the crowd was far more into Prayers and Tears and especially the Mountain Goats than they were the Griz -- these comments are making it look otherwise. I'm not sure what an upcoming potential Pitchfork review about Grizzly Bear has to do with anything. Who cares if they get critical acclaim? Maybe their next album will be great, maybe it won't. But I thought they kind of sucked last night, and, based on what I saw, it seemed like most of the crowd felt the same.

fat asian baby

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:08:46 -0500

whatever the verdict, i wish i'd been there.

MaxPower

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:58:22 -0500

What happened to the royal we? You know, the editorial... I don't know if you managed to talk them into letting you speak singularly, but if you did, we want to say that we deeply appreciate it.

r.

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:00:59 -0500

good to see jeff! i was wondering if you were at the same show I was. however, "dreamy and downtempo" is a much nicer way to put it than "sleep inducing" anyone going to see the shout out louds this week at bowery? i am thinking i might

Jeff

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:07:32 -0500

Yikes! I updated to clarify. I thought Grizzly Bear was very good. It was just dreamy and downtempo. I hardly meant that as an insult.

greg

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:55:12 -0500

jeff's gonna feel like an ass next time grizzly bear cuts a full-length and pitchfork gives it a 9.6 and everyone on gothamist simultaneously starts creaming themselves and you can't buy a fucking ticket to the show because of it.

Cameron

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:25:48 -0500

I agree with R., Grizzly's psych-rock pretty much killed the Mountain Goats. You just can't hate on a band with that kind of rapport after like, a year and a half or writing music. I just wish Darnielle would write a really, really long novel and kind of get it all out.

r.

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:17:07 -0500

so weird. i don't get it, I thought the opening band was ok, pretty generic, but mountain goats were just tedious. at least grizzly played a variety of songs that didn't all sound the same

Brian

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:16:02 -0500

I'm with Jeff. Prayers and Tears and Darnielle were fantastic, but the Griz were pretty boring.

r.

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:00:36 -0500

you crazy, i thought grizzly bear owned the evening. mountain goats sound like singer songwriter oberlin freshmen. so so boring.