We Shall All Be Healed

We Shall All Be Healed is a 2004 album by The Mountain Goats. The album focuses on semi-fictional accounts of band leader John Darnielle's years as a teenager, particularly his friends' and acquaintances' experiences in California and in Portland, Oregon as methamphetamine addicts. As The Mountain Goats' official website puts it: "All of the songs on We Shall All Be Healed are based on people John used to know. Most of them are probably dead or in jail by now." Like Tallahassee, but unlike the rest of Darnielle's repertoire up to its release, "We Shall All Be Healed" was recorded with a full band in a recording studio, and produced by John Vanderslice, as opposed to The Mountain Goats' previous practice of recording at home on a boom box with, at most, one or two backup vocalists or a bassist. "Palmcorder Yajna" (the primary single), when played in concert, is often played with the backing of members of one or more of the opening acts on tour with The Mountain Goats. The song "Cotton" was featured in an episode of the television series Weeds.

One of the provisional titles for the album was New Age Music Will Save Your Wretched Soul.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Darnielle

1. "Slow West Vultures" – 2:41
2. "Palmcorder Yajna" – 4:08
3. "Linda Blair Was Born Innocent" – 2:46
4. "Letter from Belgium" – 3:11
5. "The Young Thousands" – 4:34
6. "Your Belgian Things" – 3:49
7. "Mole" – 4:32
8. "Home Again Garden Grove" – 3:15
9. "All Up the Seething Coast" – 3:45
10. "Quito" – 2:03
11. "Cotton" – 3:25
12. "Against Pollution" – 3:43
13. "Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of" – 2:52

External links

• We Shall All Be Healed at MusicBrainz