109: The Mess Inside

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

John and Joseph discuss why simple songs have to be perfect and how our experience of a place will always be subjective. Amanda Palmer joins to talk about feeling compelled to finish books and recording her cover of "The Mess Inside" in an empty greenhouse.

Buy Amanda Palmer’s cover of “The Mess Inside” on iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever you buy digital music. It supports both the artist and the show!

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Amanda Palmer's video for “The Mess Inside” will be released in the first week of February. To find out about it first and get access to tons of Amanda's art and to play an active role in helping her to create it, join her Patreon! More info at: patreon.com/amandapalmer

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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	Thanks for joining us today on. I only listen to the mountain goats. The only
0:04.6	podcasts in which you can hear a dishwasher happening in the background.
0:08.0	As always, I'm Joseph Fink, podcaster and novelist, and this is the show where I talk with
0:15.8	John Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, about whatever we feel like
0:21.1	talking about, really. We bring you this conversation from a mattress in a basement in a Durham neighborhood in July
0:26.8	And we are going song by song through John's 2002 album All Hail West Texas.
0:33.0	Today's song, The Mess Inside.
0:35.5	Later, we will hear a brand new cover of the song,
0:38.1	recorded just for this podcast.
0:39.8	But for now, here's two folks hanging out in a basement.
0:44.1	Today we're going to be talking about the mess inside.
0:47.5	John, the mess inside, go.
0:49.2	It's in G.
0:50.6	That's good.
0:51.8	I'm trying to, we were doing it on the last happy night of your life tour
0:57.8	which was the tour I did with khaki king and it's one of the ones that I remember very vividly the last night of tour Webster Hall,
1:07.0	it being really good that night.
1:09.0	I don't know that we've played it much since, right?
1:12.0	You have some songs where you have some songs where you have a
1:14.1	night where you have a definitive version and you go, yeah I don't know whether there's any
1:17.7	point in doing it anymore. With Moon of our Goldsboro I've done it since, but there was a
1:21.6	version in Austin also on that tour I was like
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