Mountain Goats at the Society for Ethical Culture Now Available for Download

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Our famously particular hopes for solo, primitive Mountain Goats shows were amply fulfilled last Friday night, when John Darnielle took the stage in the high school auditorium that is the NYC Society for Ethical Culture. For purposes of extreme standom, no notes whatsoever were taken; the idiotic things other audience members said will remain forever unknown, and we will all instead emerge with our collective reputations intact, the record of our respective idiosyncrasies of fandom eternally, mercifully disappeared. We can attest to the reliable, stolid presence of the legendary nyctaper, however, who set up just down the row from us in the balcony and committed the whole freewheeling adventure to tape. In particular, we recommend what we'll call for these purposes two thirds of an unofficial New York trilogy: "Un Rêve Plus Long Que la Nuit," alias "November Love Song," with its nod to the Long Island Expressway, and "Going to Queens," one of the all-time sweetest and most good natured Mountain Goats love songs. "Going to Port Washington," Darnielle's ode to the Throgs Neck Bridge, was left unplayed, although we were sure he was gonna. Dude's full setlist after the jump.

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:25:02]
01 [introduction]
02 1 John 4:16
03 Woke Up New
04 [technical problems]
05 Song For Tura Satana
06 Cobscook Bay
07 Going to Lebanon
08 Un Rêve Plus Long Que la Nuit
09 Going To Kansas
10 The Last Limit of Bhakti
11 You or Your Memory
12 Going to Queens
13 [banter]
14 From TG&Y
15 Dance Music
16 [banter]
17 The Day The Aliens Came (or: Hawaiian Feeling)
18 Ontario
19 So Desperate
20 Color in Your Cheeks
21 Sign of the Crow 2
22 Steps Columns Pillars [JV]
23 [banter]
24 Surrounded [JV]
25 See America Right [JV]
26 No Children
27 [encore break]
28 The Sign (Ace of Base)