My Favorite Things is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats.
Lyrics[]
Champagne bubbled up through the neck of the bottle And sweet sounds came out through the radio It was John Coltrane God damn it, I love John Coltrane You danced across the living room floor And you kissed me once and then you kissed me some more You had your arms around my neck and it felt real fine And then your ankle knocked up against mine And resonating in my bones The precise, crisp drumming of Mr. Elvin Jones God damn it, I love John Coltrane
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "Right, there's somebody yelling for this song, not at the moment, but there has been...the only way you can know this song is if you have bootlegs. It's an old, old song, of the type that I stopped writing because I was showing up at the open-mic night at Pitzer where I went to college, and, I would show up, and I had these songs that were kind of funny, and then one night I was playing, and I heard somebody say 'Oh, it's that guy! He plays really funny songs!' You don't wanna be the guy who plays the funny songs, right? You don't wanna be that guy. It's okay to write funny songs, but once people say 'Oh yeah, he's funny!', that's when it's time to write about, you know, people getting ugly divorces. This, however, is a song about raw animal sex. -- 2002-10-23 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 1996-02-26 FSK Radio Session
- 1997-12-06 - The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL
- 1998-04-04 - Duke Coffeehouse - Durham, NC
- 1998-04-23 - Black Watch Pub - Claremont, CA
- 2001-04-21 - The Olde Club - Swarthmore, PA
- 2002-03-08 - The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL
- 2002-10-23 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
- 2003-02-06 - Spitz - London, England
- 2004-05-26 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
- 2005-05-07 - Northsix - Brooklyn, NY
- 2006-12-02 - Pitzer College - Claremont, CA
- 2009-03-07 - Harvest of Hope Festival - St. Augustine, FL
- 2009-03-24 - Pearl Street - Northampton, MA
- 2010-03-11 - Memorial Union Building - University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
- 2011-04-08 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
- 2011-12-06 - Second City - Chicago, IL
- 2012-01-24 - The Social - Orlando, FL
- 2016-03-25 - The Pour House Music Hall - Raleigh, NC
- 2023-02-12 - Skully's - Columbus, OH
- 2023-09-19 - Brooklyn Made - New York, NY