105: Fault Lines
I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
Night Vale Presents
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Craig Finn, lead singer of The Hold Steady and solo artist, joins to talk Catholicism, music stands, and KISS.
Buy Craig Finn’s cover of “Fault Lines” on iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever you buy digital music. It supports both the artist and the show!
Buy the full cover album digitally or on vinyl today.
Learn more about John Darnielle’s two novels here. Listen to more music by the Mountain Goats, including their latest album Goths, here.
Check out Joseph Fink’s other shows, Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead. His second novel with Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!, is out now.
Credits: Joseph Fink (host), John Darnielle (host), Christy Gressman (producer), Grant Stewart (editor), Vincent Cacchione (mixer). Rob Wilson (logo). Produced by Night Vale Presents in collaboration with Merge Records and the Mountain Goats.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, you ready to record? |
| 0:01.4 | Yeah, what do you want to talk about? |
| 0:02.7 | I think we should talk about the band, The Mountain Goat. |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah, I know that band, man. |
| 0:07.6 | Good group. |
| 0:08.9 | I think specifically we should talk about the song Fault Lines from an album called All Hail West Texas. |
| 0:14.4 | Yes. |
| 0:14.8 | It's that time again. I only listen to the mountain goats. I'm Joseph Fink. I make Welcome to Night Vale and Alice isn't dead and this is the show where I talk with John Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats about art, life, and his music. |
| 0:33.7 | We are back today in the basement of the Darniel household, the footsteps of children |
| 0:38.1 | upstairs, the waterfall sound through the pipes when someone runs the kitchen sink. One mattress on the floor, two microphones, three laptops. |
| 0:46.0 | We are going song by song through John's 2002 album All Hail West Texas. Today, as mentioned, we will be discussing the song Fault Lines. |
| 0:56.0 | Later, we will have another of my favorite musicians on who will do an amazing cover, |
| 1:00.0 | but for now, here the two of us are very professionally starting our show |
| 1:05.2 | What track number was that on the record anyway? Um that is this is in sequence fault lines is number five right after Jenny. Oh that's pretty cool. |
| 1:13.1 | Given that these are going to be released in track order that was probably the least |
| 1:17.1 | suspenseful moment for the listener. For the listener. |
| 1:19.3 | Yes. Which episode of my listening. |
| 1:22.0 | Since I didn't even realize I hadn't thought about it, |
| 1:25.0 | what order they were being done, |
| 1:26.0 | I was pretty excited about that. |
| 1:27.0 | I have to say the thing that really comes to mind |
| 1:29.0 | when I hear the stroming pattern on this |
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