We Shall All Be Healed is a 2004 album by The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats is an American indie rock band formed in Claremont, CA by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle himself, despite the plural moniker....

. 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

Methamphetamine

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 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

Tallahassee (album)

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, 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

John Vanderslice

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, 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

Weeds (TV series)

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.

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

John Darnielle

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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