This Year 365 songs: January 13th

 The song for today is Going to Norwalk:

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There was a period shortly after I got into the Mountain Goats when I basically didn't listen to anything else (I don't have too much to say about this song in particular or about the annotations today, so I guess I am just going to tell a story about me and my journey with the Mountain Goats, instead).

And during this period, I was hanging out with my brother, which is not super usual, because after college he and I have never lived particularly close to each other, so we see each other at holidays or for particular visits.  He must have been visiting me, because I wouldn't have been in charge of the music when visiting him.  Anyway, he was not enthused with my constant choice of Mountain Goats as the soundtrack in the car, and even though he had really not heard that much of it, he had an uncanny knack for imitating the cadence of Darnielle's singing, and for making up lyrics that were 100% not Darnielle-esque lyrics but which were annoyingly near enough to be very good "dismissive joke version of Darnielle lyrics."*

Anyway, this song reminded me of the time my brother did that so many times in one visit that I was like "ok fine, we can listen to something else, but that's not what this sounds like" and he said "Lew" (he is one of three people who calls me Lew), "that is exactly what it sounds like."

 

*To simulate this effect, you basically have to imagine someone talking about random things from their day, mixed with a sort of pastiche impression of Bob Dylan patter from Subterranean Homesick Blues, but, and I have to stress this, being very good at doing it on the fly.