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  • And the Fandom Rejoiced: As indicated by the page quote, there was a great deal of rejoicing when Darnielle started playing "Going to Georgia" live again.
  • Archive Panic: seventeen studio albums, three compilations, numerous singles and EP releases, many tour-exclusive or otherwise rare, as well as multiple songs never officially recorded...
    • To add to it, Darnielle will occasionally do things like hold auctions to sell cassettes that have no copies to raise money for charity.
  • Broken Base: A dwindling but still-vocal contingent holds the early super-lo-fi recordings above latter-day studio work.
  • Covered Up: Some fans may not realize live favourite "Houseguest" is actually by keyboardist Franklin Bruno's other band, Nothing Painted Blue.
  • Crowning Simile Of Awesome
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 In the way those eyes I've always loved illuminate this place

Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell

Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell

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 We were safe inside

And our new son cried,

San Bernadino welcomes you

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  • Genius Bonus: John Darnielle is one of the most well-read singers in music. He's written songs about everything from HP Lovecraft to obscure boxing champs to minor Greek political events. [1]
  • Growing the Beard: The Hound Chronicles is considered (even by Darnielle himself) to be the beginning of the signature Mountain Goats style, while Taboo VI: The Homecoming is... rougher.
  • Magnum Opus: Tallahesse or The Sunset Tree
  • The Masochism Tango: The Alpha Couple are the epitome of this trope.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • "Pure Love": "Hey, what are you doing, my love? / Hey, didn't i just tell you that such a thing would be over and above what's called for in this case? / Pull the ski mask away from your face. / It won't be necessary."
    • "Cut Off Their Thumbs" is about a hostage situation that almost surely will not end well.
    • "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace": "Someone will need to mop this floor for me."
    • The live cover of Furniture Huschle's "Terror Song."
    • The last verse of "Autoclave":
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 I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls

On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls

And the dream went on forever, one single static frame

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name

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    • "New World Emerging Blues"
    • "The Autopsy Garland"
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 "You don't want to see these guys without their masks on...or their gloves"

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  1. "Lovecraft in Brooklyn", Sonny Liston in "Love Love Love", and "Song for Cleomenes", respectively