This Year 365 songs: January 8th
Jan. 8th, 2026 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
js_thrill To conclude what people in the youtube comments have dubbed the "Dairy Trilogy", today's song is "Ice Cream, Cobra Man":
This song seems like a sort of foreshadowing of the EP Darnielle did with John Vanderslice: Moon Colony Bloodbath. There is also foreshadowing here of the seeds of his novel Wolf in White Van. In other words, the cryptic and eerie and somewhat voyeuristic perspective of the narrator is one that he returns to not infrequently.
This track is interesting in charting themes that emerged early and recur in Mountain Goats/John Darnielle work, but it doesn't hit me with the same level of grabbiness that yesterday's track did. No real thoughts on the annotations today (which principally concern his attitude about the relationship between lyrics, poetry and prose and how they are written/recorded; maybe I'll have more thoughts about them as they sit with me and percolate).
This song seems like a sort of foreshadowing of the EP Darnielle did with John Vanderslice: Moon Colony Bloodbath. There is also foreshadowing here of the seeds of his novel Wolf in White Van. In other words, the cryptic and eerie and somewhat voyeuristic perspective of the narrator is one that he returns to not infrequently.
This track is interesting in charting themes that emerged early and recur in Mountain Goats/John Darnielle work, but it doesn't hit me with the same level of grabbiness that yesterday's track did. No real thoughts on the annotations today (which principally concern his attitude about the relationship between lyrics, poetry and prose and how they are written/recorded; maybe I'll have more thoughts about them as they sit with me and percolate).
