Mountain Goats Songs That Are About Portland, an Exhaustive Non-Exhaustive List
John Darnielle's brief, dark mid‑80s stay in North Portland profoundly shaped his songwriting, producing an unusually large number of Portland-centered Mountain Goats songs.
Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan reimagines theatrical showtunes to depict shipwreck survivors' dwindling resources, blurred reality, and shifting obsessions with freedom and liberation.