Present Joys

This was the first Mountain Goats bootleg I ever downloaded. I vividly remember listening to it and thinking, “hey, this band’s live stuff is mind-blowingly good; I think I will become obsessed.” This bootleg has got some really good renditions, viz. Tulsa Imperative, a rarity; pre-Heretic Pride versions of How to Embrace a Swamp Creature and In the Craters on the Moon; PPH-harmony-filled versions of Pure Milk and Tetrapod; and a Coroner’s Gambit where death’s “fingernails were glistening”. All in all, one of my favorite Mountain Goats bootlegs.