This Year 365 songs: March 3rd
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
js_thrill Today's song is Nine Black Poppies
I like this song a lot. The annotations explain that Darnielle took the name from a poem by Norman Dubie, who he was familiar with from being featured in the American Poetry Review and who he seems to have subsequently been a big fan of. This is the sort of Mountain Goats sound I appreciate, with lyrics that loosely allude to a narrative he thought of while reading a poem is exactly the sort of Mountain Goats track that I love.
The first stanza of the poem is:
(You can read the full poem here, if you have JSTOR access).
I like this song a lot. The annotations explain that Darnielle took the name from a poem by Norman Dubie, who he was familiar with from being featured in the American Poetry Review and who he seems to have subsequently been a big fan of. This is the sort of Mountain Goats sound I appreciate, with lyrics that loosely allude to a narrative he thought of while reading a poem is exactly the sort of Mountain Goats track that I love.
The first stanza of the poem is:
The junta was jubilant around the mortised fountain.
A solemn procession of century plants going to the bridge.
A solemn procession of century plants going to the bridge.
A dead chauffeur in the ditch.
You thought
you watched a quetzal bird fly from the bursting tin
of gasoline. Nine enemies of the junta.
(You can read the full poem here, if you have JSTOR access).
