Songs For The Rats, Disc 1

Songs For The Rats is my personal Mountain Goats best-of collection, much like The Electrifying Contusion and Electric Turkey Tapes, seen previously on this very blog.

This is part one, the second part will be coming soon.



section 1 songs from "Get Lonely"
1. Half Dead
2. Woke Up New
3. If You See Light
4. Maybe Sprout Wings

section 2 songs from "Heretic Pride"
5. Sax Rohmer # 1
6. San Bernadino
7. Autoclave
8. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
9. Michael Myers Resplendent

section 3 songs from "The Sunset Tree"
10. You Or Your Memory
11. Lion's Teeth
12. This Year
13. Dance Music
14. Up The Wolves
15. Love Love Love

section 4 songs from "Tallahassee"
16. Have to Explode
17. First Few Desperate Hours
18. Game Shows Touch Our Lives
19. No Children
20. See America Right

section 5 songs from "We Shall All Be Healed"
21. Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
22. Your Belgian Things
23. Cotton
24. The Triumph Of The Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water
25. Against Pollution

section 6 miscellany from various EPs and tapes
26. Sinaloan Milk Snake Song

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An Audio Guide to the Pacific Northwest

This mix is a bit of a shout-out to my cousin and her husband, who live in Seattle. They're super-cool friends and people with whom I swap music on the regular.

An Audio Guide to the Pacific Northwest



1. Young Fresh Fellows - Rock N Roll Pest Control
2. Afghan Whigs - Dedicate It
3. Regina Spektor - Poor Little Rich Boy
4. Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat
5. Spoon - Eddie's Ragga
6. The Replacements - Color Me Impressed
7. Sunny Day Real Estate - Friday
8. Brassy - Parkside
9. Grade - Stole Bikes Ride Faster
10. Helmet - Pure
11. MIA - XR2
12. Skin - Faithfulness
13. The Killers & Lou Reed - Tranquilize
14. Hootie & The Blowfish - Be the One
15. The Mountain Goats - Autoclave
16. Paramore - Born For This
17. Liz Phair - Can't Get Out Of What I'm Into
18. No Knife - Your Albatross
19. Rilo Kiley - 15
20. Saul Williams - Break
21. Aesop Rock - The Harbor Is Yours (remix)
22. Mindless Self Indulegence - Capital P
23. Smoking Popes - Waiting Around (live)

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