106: Balance

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

John and Joseph discuss artistic restraints, Silver Age Latin, and why theaters should stop producing Shakespeare. Dessa joins to talk about and premiere her cover of “Balance.”

Buy Dessa’s cover of “Balance” 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	That's right, I only listen to the Mountain Goats. I'm Joseph Fink. I make Welcome to Night Vale and Alice isn't dead.
0:08.0	And this is the show where I talk with John Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, about, well in this case,
0:14.7	rhyme schemes, Latin, and touring.
0:17.2	We are coming to you this episode from the office of a Merge Records employee who was out that day.
0:21.8	Through the window it's another scorching
0:23.2	Durham afternoon. We talked around our microphone while watching Merge
0:26.2	folks head in and out of the breakroom for coffee. This season we are going
0:30.1	song by song through John's 2002 album All Hail West Texas, the only 14 track album ever recorded
0:37.0	about West Texas. Today we discuss the brilliant song Balance. We will hear one of my favorite
0:42.3	covers of this season later on in this episode
0:44.4	recorded by one of my favorite artists, but in the meantime we go to a small room in a brick
0:49.2	building on a summer's day in downtown Durham.
0:54.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to I Only Listen to Mountain Goats.
0:56.2	If you're just joining us which you are because we just started the show.
0:59.3	We were talking about how I think I've done seven or eight tours this year and you do for me especially as a father of two
1:04.8	I would like to be home more you know I'm very grateful for my job and I love playing music more than anything except
1:11.0	parenting which is like what I was made to do.
1:14.8	So yeah I get very romantic about guys like Thomas Pinchin who have literally never done a single
1:19.6	promotional appearance ever.
1:20.8	Yeah it's, I mean because that's the thing is, Megan I have talked about, you know, what if we stop
1:26.8	touring, what would that look like, and if we just, you know, I could just be a writer,
1:30.5	but then I remember that as part of releasing a novel this fall I am having to go to
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