I was going to post Death Cab for Cutie's "The New Year" but since I'd rather shove a set of broken glass anal beads up my ass and then slowly remove them than align myself with anything emo, I decided not to. No offense to Death Cab, and it's not like the music I listen to isn't, uh, a bunch of pathetics whining about being pathetic, but, seriously, if I post Death Cab, where's all my indie cred go? I don't listen to them anyway so it would be unfair to you, the reader, to make you think I do.

I also, however, don't really listen to The Mountain Goats. I used to listen to this album, The Sunset Tree, a few years ago when it was released, but since then I just hear the occasional song off of it in my rotation and have never found anything else by the guy that I like. Considering the guy has released 12 albums, I guess that's sad.

But The Sunset Tree is all about his (John Darnielle's) relationship with his abusive father, and by relationship I mean fear & hatred of & desire to escape from, of course, (don't all boys feel that way about their fathers?) and while I can't relate specifically per se, I do feel that this whole album channels my mentality at any variety of my teen years. This song alone probably sums up how I felt between 13 and 18 years old.

As a cool side note, The Hold Steady reference this song and album in the song Girls Like Status, a bonus track/b-side from their own album, Boys and Girls in America.