I first heard this song in vrchat. Some guy with a slenderman skin was covering it on the map with a campfire, never saw him again, but if you're reading this, hey what's up
I can't explain to people how much I love the mountain goats and why. It's something that you cannot explain they either get it or they don't. It's just one of those things, it's just one of those things, it's just one of those...things. things...
i love the little audio glitch in this track. this whole song is so incredibly endearing and somewhat nostalgic for me, even though ive only listened to it for a couple of years now. holds a lot of memories for me
I keep expecting some word in this song to be drawn out in traditional mountain goat fashion like Andrew Eldritch is moving baAack to leeds but it's just calm simple and steady. It's nice. It's so mountain goats but also so refreshing
There's indifference on the wind But a faint gust of hope At a club nobody goes to With a musty velvet rope Guys in Motörhead jackets Who knew him way back when Haven't raised a drink in years But now meet up again To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day Nobody ever gets away Even the best of us come back some day To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds There's a rusted fog machine In a concrete storage space Letter-number combinations With no meaning on it's face They won't make these anymore It's a wooden coach-n-four No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for it's grave There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave No-one anticipates the rush The breezy feeling of the faceless crush At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds They don't throw him a parade He just comes in on a train One suitcase in his hand And an old army backpack From the second world war From a Leipzig secondhand store Pick the keys up from the agent Everything's been taken care of No big changes in the roadways Since you've left that I'm aware of A few old buildings gone to dust And some new ones in the way They'll look just like the old ones When the winds have had their say See the children bound for London, you'll all be back too Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through Come on boys that'll be enough You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
I heard a live version just the other day, from a radio broadcast or something. I can't believe there's gonna be a new album, it seems like yesterday since Beat the Champ came out.
He's got an incredibly fast output when you look over his career. 16 studio albums, 23 EPs, 6 Cassettes, 5 split albums over about 26 years. Not including the unreleased numbers, lost tracks and other bands hes fronted/collaborated with. Seriously the mans output is insane! The three years between Transcendental Youth and Beat the champ was one of the longer gaps of his career XD.
In other news, is anyone having difficulty buying tickets for his upcoming tour? Trying to buy a ticket or two for a show in June but the ticket page is just a dead link. Sadbois 2017 :'(
I accidentally played two of this track on top of each other with about a 30 second delay in between and the beats synched up perfectly and the layering was absolutely lovely. It was so mesmerizing and I actually prefer it that way!
I remember when this first hit and how it struck such a deep relatable part of me, as I'm sure it has so many others. I spent the first few years after high school just bumming around, thinking I would stumble onto whatever it was that I was going to make a core part of myself. And of course that never happened. Life just kept moving on for my friends so I just checked out and left to halfway across on the country on my own for a few years,, thinking this was at least part of what I was going to be. Once that fell apart and I returned to my home town, in a worse state than I would care to admit, it felt like a mixture of shame and relief. Looked around and saw that I wasn't alone in this, that the best of us had done the same and only ended up perhaps a smidge better than myself. This song speaks to the experience almost perfectly.
Bryce Rosenwald this kind of feels to me like an anti "going to" song, or the coda after a whole album of them. At the book tour stop in Seattle, John said that the "going to" series is about planning to go somewhere, anywhere new and exciting where you just know your life will be better, or at least different. in this one it feels like Andrew is returning home because he realizes he can't escape where he came from or who he is. that's how I interpreted it anyways, like a foil to them or the inevitable conclusion
I understand that it's about more than that, but I'm from near Leeds, and have moved away for university, and it kind of just reminds me of how grim the North of England can be but also how much more familiar and friendly. I don't know if I'll get away. I don't know if I want to.
I initially thought this song was a sad rumination on the impossibility, no matter how hard one tries, of breaking one's own innate characteristics. But I also think it could be an oddly comforting thing, the fact that home always stays the same in certain macro ways and that you will always end up back home, no matter what you do when you break free and escape and travel the world and do whatever it is you do. You always end up moving back to Leeds. And I guess it depends on how you look at it- depressing, or strangely comforting.
Bought the album. Every track is good, most are great. Shelved, Wear Black, and The GreyKing and the Silver Flame Attunement are probably my favorite tracks. Buy it now and do yourself a favor.
Actually, he's from Ely in Cambridgeshire... having to move back to Leeds from Munich or wherever he is now would be sad, but having to go back to his mum's in Ely would be another level of tragic... ;)
Still can't tell but i think this is may be my favorite off Goths. Idk, it might be Unicorn Tolerance. Whatever. Its jubilant when it should be grave, grave when it should be jubilant, so it's well done. This album grew on me in a big way.
@@2confrontational I keep wondering what he's up to and how he pays his bills. I've seen how little money the guys from Ministry and other equally popular bands of the time have and I can't help but wonder what he does with himself these days.
@@biggaywizard He has been going on tour every year with the band, and they ordinarily debut new tracks live. They have a huge back catalogue. I am sure Andrew is doing just fine.
@@2confrontational I literally own his entire back catalogue, I've been listening to him since they first came out. I know he plays new stuff live but it's not like I can listen to it after the show is over. The Sisters and Gary Numan are my two all time favorite bands. I wish Andrew were a tad more like Gary. I can pay extra to meet Gary before a show and I can join his Patrion page to watch him write an album. Andrew is brilliant at what he does and I wish I could support his art the same way financially. Hence my frustration.
@@biggaywizard Otherside of the coin is that if you stick around before and after Andrews gig you might be able to just go meet him. In Australia we often look down on meet and greet tickets because we'd rather go get a drink with the musos when they're done. To be honest though I think Andrew likes a few more degrees of freedom than most musicians because people are so obsessed with where he lives.
@@keithatwork2493 It's been fixed... I love this album, but couldn't listen to this song on TH-cam for a long time. I'd already bought the album, but could only use Google's music player to listen, which sucked.
Who is that guitar player? I got to find out who that is his playing is next level stuff I thought it was Steve Vai for a second there.. or maybe that guy from The Cure
yeah for real, its like the saddest shit in most verses,, but makes me so happy and content, just to be reminded that we all feel this way sometimes,, if you cat admit that, your a liar..
FruckFilms as someone whose moved away from Leeds and is soon returning back, this song just captures the mood surrounding it all. Leeds is a great place, but you can never really escape it as it is a place that never leaves you (both because of the pride from being from Leeds and the fact that most people don’t move away from there so there are big family units all in the same area so it’s inconvenient to move away). In the case of Andrew Eldritch, he is a musician who was apart of the Leeds Underground scene.
He really did move back to Leeds though. I don't know if TMG knew this - I'd like to think they did. Or at least he always kept a place there... between Hamburg and somewhere in Spain.
This song is about him moving back to Leeds after college, seeing Leeds (and its music scene) both decaying and bland without any change in sight, and then forming the Sisters of Mercy. I'm pretty sure John knew.
@@broceollomon That's nonsense. AE is not from Leeds, he moved there to go to college in the late 70s. Dropped out and formed TSOM and then went on to goth stardom, such as it is. Reasonably sure JD is using AE as a metaphor for all aging scenesters who move to the big city, and then move back to their home towns later in life, stink of failure clinging to them. It's just not particularly true in Andy Taylors actual life.
I saw John Darnielle at the zoo. I tried to tell everybody but they thought I meant the animals at the zoo has the world gone mad? I screamed in the middle of the grocery store "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!". I meant THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE BAND 🫤😲😊. HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD????? 😮😮😢
Gorgeous lyricism. Not sure how I feel about the dance groove... not the mt goats usual fare so it'll take some getting used to. Can't wait for the full release. Already have my tickets for the Seattle show :D
dewhi100 In time, it might sink in. I loved this when it first came out, but I disliked Rain in Soho. My fanaticism led me to buy the whole album, and personally I feel like the album's full course is a good trip, and while not every song is a hit - standalone or as the album, depending on your opinion - it's a super solid addition to the Mountain Goats canon.
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Just when I'm at my most hopeless, John Darnielle comes along and saves my soul. Praise be to the Goat.
Sean Belcher I hope you find a way to destroy the hopelessness someday. I love you!
When I find myself in times of trouble,
Father Darnielle comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds."
@@SigmAnalog Made me snort my coffee.
This is like if 70's Britain came home from college to find his room has been turned into his dad's home office.
William Smythe it's on his Facebook if you can't find it anymore
@@megabo3ed whaddya mean?!
Hahahahaha
I first heard this song in vrchat. Some guy with a slenderman skin was covering it on the map with a campfire, never saw him again, but if you're reading this, hey what's up
This is my favorite how I found this song story
Damn I hope you find him some way
hi joel
I can't explain to people how much I love the mountain goats and why. It's something that you cannot explain they either get it or they don't. It's just one of those things, it's just one of those things, it's just one of those...things. things...
i love the little audio glitch in this track. this whole song is so incredibly endearing and somewhat nostalgic for me, even though ive only listened to it for a couple of years now. holds a lot of memories for me
Where's the audio glitch?
@@Cree8Ball 1:51 ! It’s like a little record scratch noise
I keep expecting some word in this song to be drawn out in traditional mountain goat fashion like Andrew Eldritch is moving baAack to leeds but it's just calm simple and steady. It's nice. It's so mountain goats but also so refreshing
andrew eldritch is moving back to leeds
is the best Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra
for a specific type of existential sadness
Us mere mortals are unworthy. All hail the glory of the goats.
Always loved the Sisters of mercy and always will....
There's indifference on the wind
But a faint gust of hope
At a club nobody goes to
With a musty velvet rope
Guys in Motörhead jackets
Who knew him way back when
Haven't raised a drink in years
But now meet up again
To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away
And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day
Nobody ever gets away
Even the best of us come back some day
To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
There's a rusted fog machine
In a concrete storage space
Letter-number combinations
With no meaning on it's face
They won't make these anymore
It's a wooden coach-n-four
No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door
No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for it's grave
There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave
No-one anticipates the rush
The breezy feeling of the faceless crush
At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
They don't throw him a parade
He just comes in on a train
One suitcase in his hand
And an old army backpack
From the second world war
From a Leipzig secondhand store
Pick the keys up from the agent
Everything's been taken care of
No big changes in the roadways
Since you've left that I'm aware of
A few old buildings gone to dust
And some new ones in the way
They'll look just like the old ones
When the winds have had their say
See the children bound for London, you'll all be back too
Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through
Come on boys that'll be enough
You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough
Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
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Thank you!
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At the edge of things where the selvage* bleeds.... Selvage is the edge of woven cloth, which, when cut, unravels
I just discovered this song at the weirdest time. I can't explain but my god... What a weird Universe this is.
All Praise be to John D
Luke See hail him
Hail Satan
All hail West Texas
Hi, Joel.
A fantastic book and a sure to be fantastic album, this is nothing if not the year of the goat.
Anubis113 Still my favourite album this year
I heard a live version just the other day, from a radio broadcast or something. I can't believe there's gonna be a new album, it seems like yesterday since Beat the Champ came out.
He's got an incredibly fast output when you look over his career. 16 studio albums, 23 EPs, 6 Cassettes, 5 split albums over about 26 years. Not including the unreleased numbers, lost tracks and other bands hes fronted/collaborated with. Seriously the mans output is insane!
The three years between Transcendental Youth and Beat the champ was one of the longer gaps of his career XD.
The First and Last and Always,
Andrew Eldritch...
Saw John in Perth WA last Thursday, it really feels like his songs and stories he tells are just for you when you see the band play live.
I feel like I come back to this song every month. Every month I'm more willing to forfeit more and more of something that I can't quite put words to.
I know the feeling and I'm sorry, just saying
SO GOOD
In other news, is anyone having difficulty buying tickets for his upcoming tour? Trying to buy a ticket or two for a show in June but the ticket page is just a dead link. Sadbois 2017 :'(
It's possible that tickets for that show aren't on sale yet. Check the venue's website and it should tell you.
I had no trouble buying tickets for one in July, it may be a problem with your venue.
I accidentally played two of this track on top of each other with about a 30 second delay in between and the beats synched up perfectly and the layering was absolutely lovely. It was so mesmerizing and I actually prefer it that way!
Julia Keeler Peck please post
Now this is real lyricism.
I remember when this first hit and how it struck such a deep relatable part of me, as I'm sure it has so many others. I spent the first few years after high school just bumming around, thinking I would stumble onto whatever it was that I was going to make a core part of myself. And of course that never happened. Life just kept moving on for my friends so I just checked out and left to halfway across on the country on my own for a few years,, thinking this was at least part of what I was going to be. Once that fell apart and I returned to my home town, in a worse state than I would care to admit, it felt like a mixture of shame and relief. Looked around and saw that I wasn't alone in this, that the best of us had done the same and only ended up perhaps a smidge better than myself. This song speaks to the experience almost perfectly.
I wanted to aim for a meaninful comment, but the truth is I just want to express my love of The Mountain Goats. It fills my soul.
This is going to be such an awesome album.
Ha ha ha, what a funny subject for a song. I hope he hears this and it helps him cheer up
Anybody else getting some serious TMBG vibes from this?
Reminds me of a happier version of "Cry for Judas" - Musically, not lyrically.
Most definitely. I thought of TMBG immediately when I first heard this song.
Yeah, if someone had told me this was TMBG the first time I heard it I would have believed them.
Cry for Judas was my favorite song from "Transcendental Youth". The music video is amazing for it too.
That explains why I'm so into this when I'm not usually the Mountain Goats type...
It occurs to me now that this one could be called "Going to Leeds".
Bryce Rosenwald
he's always going somewhere
Bryce Rosenwald this kind of feels to me like an anti "going to" song, or the coda after a whole album of them.
At the book tour stop in Seattle, John said that the "going to" series is about planning to go somewhere, anywhere new and exciting where you just know your life will be better, or at least different. in this one it feels like Andrew is returning home because he realizes he can't escape where he came from or who he is. that's how I interpreted it anyways, like a foil to them or the inevitable conclusion
Troy M just stop.
@@girlspooptoo8567 always on the move
Haven't heard this song in a while but it's still absolutely great!
I understand that it's about more than that, but I'm from near Leeds, and have moved away for university, and it kind of just reminds me of how grim the North of England can be but also how much more familiar and friendly. I don't know if I'll get away. I don't know if I want to.
I initially thought this song was a sad rumination on the impossibility, no matter how hard one tries, of breaking one's own innate characteristics. But I also think it could be an oddly comforting thing, the fact that home always stays the same in certain macro ways and that you will always end up back home, no matter what you do when you break free and escape and travel the world and do whatever it is you do. You always end up moving back to Leeds. And I guess it depends on how you look at it- depressing, or strangely comforting.
pfffft jesus christ no it's not
Bought the album. Every track is good, most are great. Shelved, Wear Black, and The GreyKing and the Silver Flame Attunement are probably my favorite tracks. Buy it now and do yourself a favor.
Actually, he's from Ely in Cambridgeshire... having to move back to Leeds from Munich or wherever he is now would be sad, but having to go back to his mum's in Ely would be another level of tragic... ;)
Such a beautiful cathedral city, if you haven’t been to Ely, I highly recommend that you go!
Thematically and sonically similar to Pinklon, which is one of my favourite tMG tunes
Still the best song of 2017.
The Goats truly are the GOAT :D I'm so stoked for this!
THANK YOU BABY JESUS
title of the year
A distinct whiff of Tiny Dancers here. I like it.
so pumped for the new album. i considered getting the 3LP edition but the shipping is like 40$ so nah :/
Still can't tell but i think this is may be my favorite off Goths. Idk, it might be Unicorn Tolerance. Whatever. Its jubilant when it should be grave, grave when it should be jubilant, so it's well done. This album grew on me in a big way.
I wonder if Eldritch himself has heard this.
@Christie Malry chances are... he fucking hates it. Just a wild guess here.
@@2confrontational I keep wondering what he's up to and how he pays his bills. I've seen how little money the guys from Ministry and other equally popular bands of the time have and I can't help but wonder what he does with himself these days.
@@biggaywizard He has been going on tour every year with the band, and they ordinarily debut new tracks live. They have a huge back catalogue. I am sure Andrew is doing just fine.
@@2confrontational I literally own his entire back catalogue, I've been listening to him since they first came out. I know he plays new stuff live but it's not like I can listen to it after the show is over. The Sisters and Gary Numan are my two all time favorite bands. I wish Andrew were a tad more like Gary. I can pay extra to meet Gary before a show and I can join his Patrion page to watch him write an album. Andrew is brilliant at what he does and I wish I could support his art the same way financially. Hence my frustration.
@@biggaywizard Otherside of the coin is that if you stick around before and after Andrews gig you might be able to just go meet him. In Australia we often look down on meet and greet tickets because we'd rather go get a drink with the musos when they're done. To be honest though I think Andrew likes a few more degrees of freedom than most musicians because people are so obsessed with where he lives.
this is brilliant!
I totally thought that scratching was intentional but I absolutely love it and i dont know why
@copefinder I only hear it on this version on TH-cam but on other platforms the scratching isn’t there
U goth John?
He's metal af
the best ever death metal band out of denton
C'mon John, Leeds is nice! It's not an inescapable poor man's London at all! (Also this song is soooo good)
A good one.
Did the music of The Magnetic Fields have a baby with TMBG???? Great job Goats!!
I love how the guy in the green jacket is tfw dude.
desperately need you to come to vancouver
The song is amazing but what's with that scratching sound?
Robert Burleson thought it was my phone, because it doesn’t sound intentional?
It is intentional, every version I found uploaded has it. I don’t mind it but I wish it would mix better it fucks my ears if I’m wearing earbuds
@@dunemaroon I can't hear it - I listened a few times to try to catch it, but I don't notice.
@@keithatwork2493 It's been fixed... I love this album, but couldn't listen to this song on TH-cam for a long time. I'd already bought the album, but could only use Google's music player to listen, which sucked.
Who is that guitar player?
I got to find out who that is his playing is next level stuff
I thought it was Steve Vai for a second there.. or maybe that guy from The Cure
Damn, great arrangement.
Nice! Sounds like Belle and Sebastian
Goddamn this song is good
yeah for real, its like the saddest shit in most verses,, but makes me so happy and content,
just to be reminded that we all feel this way sometimes,, if you cat admit that, your a liar..
im sorry but everytime i hear this song i expect a "hi. i'm joseph fink" at the start.
All hail!
Don't know who Andrew Eldritch is
Don't know jackshit about Leeds
This is even my first listen to a Mountain Goats album
But goddamn, I love this song
FruckFilms as someone whose moved away from Leeds and is soon returning back, this song just captures the mood surrounding it all. Leeds is a great place, but you can never really escape it as it is a place that never leaves you (both because of the pride from being from Leeds and the fact that most people don’t move away from there so there are big family units all in the same area so it’s inconvenient to move away). In the case of Andrew Eldritch, he is a musician who was apart of the Leeds Underground scene.
Check out the Sisters of Mercy, one of my all time favorite bands.
His somebody who doesn't exist when you don't see him.
GUYS AAAHHHHH
what is that glitch when he sings "no one anticipates the rush" just after 1:50? I hear it on the album, not just in this video
Does the audio glitch for anyone else? It makes this borderline painful to listen to which sucks bc I love this song :(
Rosie Clarke same here, and idk why
It's that way on the CD, Bandcamp, and this TH-cam clip right when he says "no one anticipates the *~rush*". I think the glitch is canon.
andrew eldritch from sisters of mercy?
vic hernandez yes. The godfather of goth rock
ONE OF THE BEST GOTH ROCK BAND !!
VISITED MEXICO IN 2017, GREAT CONCERT !!
He really did move back to Leeds though. I don't know if TMG knew this - I'd like to think they did. Or at least he always kept a place there... between Hamburg and somewhere in Spain.
This song is about him moving back to Leeds after college, seeing Leeds (and its music scene) both decaying and bland without any change in sight, and then forming the Sisters of Mercy. I'm pretty sure John knew.
@@broceollomon That's nonsense. AE is not from Leeds, he moved there to go to college in the late 70s. Dropped out and formed TSOM and then went on to goth stardom, such as it is. Reasonably sure JD is using AE as a metaphor for all aging scenesters who move to the big city, and then move back to their home towns later in life, stink of failure clinging to them. It's just not particularly true in Andy Taylors actual life.
I saw John Darnielle at the zoo. I tried to tell everybody but they thought I meant the animals at the zoo has the world gone mad? I screamed in the middle of the grocery store "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!". I meant THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE BAND 🫤😲😊. HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD????? 😮😮😢
What's with the Moutain Goats and their connection to goth? Frist a song about Rozz Williams now Eldritch?
LEEDS! LEEDS! LEEDS! Marching On Together! ;)
Only if the way is clear, the road is closed, the damage's done and the course imposed..
How surreal would it be for Eldritch to sing this song?
Yo what's wrong with the audio? Is it just me? This should be reuploaded
John Darnielle is such an impossible treasure what the fuck
Gorgeous lyricism. Not sure how I feel about the dance groove... not the mt goats usual fare so it'll take some getting used to.
Can't wait for the full release. Already have my tickets for the Seattle show :D
:')
listened through the album and only liked this one sadly
dewhi100 In time, it might sink in. I loved this when it first came out, but I disliked Rain in Soho. My fanaticism led me to buy the whole album, and personally I feel like the album's full course is a good trip, and while not every song is a hit - standalone or as the album, depending on your opinion - it's a super solid addition to the Mountain Goats canon.
thx for taking mercy on my meaningless goff soul lads
What is with the audio glitches
do kids these days even know who Andrew Eldritch is?
Dee Hughes they will now
my goth ass sure does
I sure as hell do
Not enough of them, lol!
Is it just me or is the audio file for this track corrupted? Horrible scratching through out.
I heard it at first and thought my headphones were broken but I think it might be intentional
Wonder what the real life Andrew Eldritch thought of when he found out that a song had been written about him…
I'm hearing TMBG + The Smiths. Think "Vicar In A Tutu" or "Girlfriend In A Coma".
Is this a song about Lemmy?
This song would be so much more enjoyable without the occasional scratchy noises
What IS that?
Omfg I thought my headphones were going out
Same, I know what you're talking about
not what i hoped, but its isnt all that bad
what'd you hope?
guitars
haha
he hoped he wouldn't have to move back to Leeds
but it isnt all that bad
Getting some Smiths vibes from this.
this fucking BLOWS
I just wrote a song called John Danielle used to be good.
Did you write a song in which you could spell?
is this what hipsters listen to
Must be.
This song incorporates all of the strogest elements of JDs work from the last decade.
Making this the closing track was a missed opportunity