July 25 - Surrounded - Miscellany

One of the joys of the Mountain Goats, especially in their collaborations, is their ability to write songs about things nobody has covered before. There's so many songs that everyone's done.

I'm Leaving You? Covered
You're Leaving Me? Covered
I love You? Super covered
You Don't Love Me? Super duper covered
I Believe In Something? Ultra covered
Famous Nautical Disaster? Lightfoot's got it on lock

But which other band is going to give you an inside look on the ennui suffered by the workers on the moon based organ harvesting operation during their off-time in seclusion in Colorado? All right, maybe the Decemberists or the Mechanisms, but who else?

It also helps that it's a bop. A cheerful sad lonely bop about sadness and trauma.