210: Divided Sky Lane

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today Joseph and John talk time signatures, why great songs don’t always make it onto great albums, and Divided Sky Lane, a song that didn’t end up on In League With Dragons. Featuring two versions of the song: the guitar version that was released as a bonus track earlier this month and a piano demo.

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	Welcome to I only listen to the Mountain Goats.
0:04.0	The only podcast for people who only and exclusively
0:09.0	neglecting a great wealth of music that is also good and often much better.
0:13.6	I mean a lot of music yeah.
0:15.6	Yeah and yet for these people only one band will do and that band is the Mountain
0:19.3	Goats and we're here to I only listen to the Mountain Goats.
0:21.6	Hi. Welcome to only listen to the
0:25.0	I only listen to the about goats. Hi, I'm Joseph Fink, podcaster and novelist, and this is the show where I talk with
0:29.4	John Darnieo, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, about what it means to be a fan, to be an artist, and to be both at once.
0:37.0	We are going song by song through the brand new Mountain Goats album in League with Dragons.
0:42.0	Today we jump forward to a cold winter day in Chapel Hill, days
0:46.3	after a statewide emergency was declared due to a blizzard and were sitting in a warm little
0:51.5	studio to talk about a song that did not make the album,
0:54.8	The Beautiful Waltz Divided Sky Lane.
0:57.8	We talk about why great songs sometimes don't make it onto great albums, and we also talk
1:01.9	about time signatures for a bit. A note that a final
1:04.7	version of this song was never recorded and so instead we'll be presenting two different demos.
1:09.6	First a piano version and then finally the original guitar version that was eventually
1:14.3	released as a bonus track this month. It is the last
1:25.0	December 13th. It is 4.54 PM. This is the last recording session for this season.
1:30.5	It is the last session for the season.
1:32.0	How you started? I feel decent. I just had I got
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