207: An Antidote for Strychnine
I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
Night Vale Presents
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, John and Joseph talk about their relationships to work, art, and family, our attraction to dark imagery, and what An Antidote for Strychnine is really about. Featuring an exclusive demo of the song.
The Mountain Goats’ new album, In League With Dragons, is out now on Merge Records. Get it at to mergerecords.com/in-league-with-dragons. For more information, go to ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com.
From Night Vale Presents. Produced by Christy Gressman.
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, I've just learned that Steve Wynwood is not the guy on Prokaharham's |
| 0:04.4 | Wider Shaded Pale, a song with which I'm obsessed this morning. |
| 0:07.0 | I've been, I think I've listened to seven or eight different versions of Wider Shaded Pale. |
| 0:10.3 | It's when I listen to Booker Ties. I listen to Willie Nelson's, I listen to Noel Harrison's, which is the one I used to think of as the superior and definitive take, but listen to it now I see why people found it was funny because the band, like they just sound like they're not very not inspired to do this. |
| 0:22.8 | Although I do like the more restrained reading. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello and welcome to I only listen to the mountain goats. |
| 0:27.6 | The only podcast where we discuss cover versions of Proklaherm's |
| 0:31.0 | whiter shade of pale until people cry uncle. My name is John |
| 0:34.2 | Darniel. I'd like you to meet Joseph Fink, Creative Night Vale. Go ask Alice and |
| 0:38.6 | no not go ask Alice Alice can't read. |
| 0:42.0 | No. |
| 0:43.0 | I did also under a different name write Go Ask Alice back in. |
| 0:47.0 | What was that the 70s? |
| 0:49.0 | Oh man, can we just do Go Ask Alice? |
| 0:50.0 | I know there have been like whole podcast devoted to it and stuff but man |
| 0:53.0 | Do you ever read the sequel? No. There's a sequel I forget the name of it but they wrote a second one |
| 0:58.1 | You like also by anonymous or I think it's I think it's continuing her story. |
| 1:03.0 | She'd die at the end of that. |
| 1:04.1 | Spoilers, I don't remember. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, no, she, well, it was claimed. |
| 1:07.7 | I mean, the thing is like, it was one of those, |
| 1:09.5 | the beauty of Go Ask Alice in a pre- Internet world |
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