The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
Despite its status as the capital of the US entertainment industry, Southern California was notably culturally distinct from the rest of the country during the early 1980s. The corporate consolidation of radio in the 1990s had yet to occur: local rock station KROQ foregrounded New Wave and post-punk...
[Verse 1]
The papers write about it back in England
It's practically a lifestyle in Berlin
There's probably some pockets in Ohio
Almost always something happening in Ohio
I heard some bad reports about Long Island
I don't trust what people say about Long Island
I heard some good things from some friends about Chicago
I gotta see with my own eyes about Chicago
[Chorus]
We do it different on the West Coast
We do it different on the West Coast
We do it different on the West Coast
We do it different on the West Coast
[Verse 2]
I heard they had a problem with some skinheads
At a show in a machine shop in Pomona
I feel like half my friends have moved to San Francisco
I think I'm gonna bleach my hair this weekend
And Dave went to New York -- I don't care
You can't shut people up once they get back from their Christmas out there
Skim through such magazines as I can get my hands on
Glue circuit boards to plywood on the weekend
Trellis modulation for the children
There's a whole new world just up around the corner
[Chorus]
We do it different on the west coast
We do it different on the west coast
We do it different on the west coast
We do it different on the west coast
[Chorus]
We do it different on the west coast
We do it different on the west coast
We do it different on the west coast
We do it different on the west coast
We Do It Different on the West Coast was written by John Darnielle.
We Do It Different on the West Coast was produced by Brandon Eggleston.
The Mountain Goats released We Do It Different on the West Coast on Fri May 19 2017.
John Darnielle in an interview with NPR:
There’s a song in the record called “We Do It Different On The West Coast,” which is about how West Coast goth kind of precedes, I think, the Batcave scene — I’m pretty certain it does. On the West Coast people were sort of flexing a little bit of a gothic l...