205: Cadaver Sniffing Dog

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, John Darnielle and Joseph Fink talk tea shops, guitar solos, expanding your musical vocabulary, and Cadaver Sniffing Dog from the Mountain Goats’ new album, In League With Dragons, out now on Merge Records. Featuring an exclusive demo version of the song.

For more information, go to ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com, and to order the album, go to mergerecords.com/in-league-with-dragons.

From Night Vale Presents. Produced by Christy Gressman.

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0:00.0	What's it? There's a few in the East Village that are like only tea places. Like for buying tea? No, I mean both you can drink tea there and also buy tea to take home.
0:08.6	Yeah, it's funny. I found a tea merchant guy in Chicago that I just happened to walk past when we were there well during
0:13.4	the when when we last saw you and it was one of those shops that like that guy's
0:18.0	been there selling bulk tea probably to restaurants or whatever for 50 years you know or more and I was like I don't think I asked that and
0:25.5	buy a pound. It's like well it will take me too long to drink a pound of tea.
0:31.3	Welcome to I only listen to the mountain, the show where we discuss where to buy tea in New York City.
0:36.0	But this was Chicago and it was called Monks Tea.
0:40.0	It was like some kind of vanilla. It was very nice, very nice, the Monks Tea tea. So monks tea recommended. I once went to that that what is the name of that famous tea shop in London? You know that one spot of tea. I don't know, but I and I bought why is John Worcester here so he can do ten
0:56.2	different what's the name of the London tea shop
1:00.1	hi i'm josephink podcaster and novelist, and this is the show where I talk with John
1:06.6	Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, about what it means to be a fan, to be an artist, and also about how few pop-cultural touchstones we have in common.
1:19.0	We are going song by song through the brand new Mountain Goats album in League with Dragons.
1:26.5	Today we speak to you from a distant Brooklyn summer when this album hadn't yet been mixed
1:31.5	and had a different name and track order. Let us dive in now together to
1:36.3	today's song, Kadaadaver sniffing dog.
1:47.0	Cadetver sniffing dog by the mountain goats.
1:48.6	By the mountain goats. What do you know about the mountain goats?
1:51.1	Mountain goats began in 1991 in a Norwalk studio apartment on the grounds of Metropolitan State Hospital.
1:56.0	And it was initially just me and the fact that it was just me initially has led people to continue claiming that to this very day even though we became a duo
2:04.7	well we were a duo by that by 1994 and then briefly it was just me again and then
2:09.2	it was me and Peter from 2001 to 2007 then we added a drummer then we added a woman's guy, but people will still often say
2:16.4	the mountain goats, mainly just John Darniel and a rotating cast of cohorts, which has
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