The Mountain Goats - "Cry for Judas" (Official Music Video) video free download

his madness

Nick Oakley

It sort of seems like they took a bunch of scenes from some hit new drama show. Maybe called *Speak of the Devil*.Or *Full House*.

casvalcomet

So is Satan the father or what?

Michael Fox

I can watch this video without sound and still get goosebumps.

Ross James

JOHN OLIVER!Sorry, I love this video, but that's been bugging me for months.The dude looks like he could be John Oliver's brother.

Glen Shennan

This is the second Mountain Goats song I've found today that I"ve never heard before and which is absolutely wonderful. And I've listening to the 'Goats for many years by now. :)

Natalie Brotherton

this song makes me emo

Teddy C

Guys.. It's a song about self destruction and wanting to kill yourself. "Something you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel", "I am just a broken machine and I do things that I dont really mean" self destruction. "We are the ones who dont slow down at all, and theres no one there to catch us when we fall". But the biggest indication to me that it's a song about these themes is the line "Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by, hallucinate a shady grove where judas went to die". Judas gave up on god and hung himself after betraying christ. The video is weird. The video has characters each exemplifying each of these points. The young girl is a satanist, the other girl gets pregnant, the good husband kills a presumably innocent man. They're all betrayers just as Judas was. At least this is my oppinion. :) 

Andrew Ballard

Anyone else notiuce that the little boy has breasts?

Zevonfan524

Present & accounted for

eyekillcops

i really like the mountain goats, but this song is gay as shit

Michael Quinn

At first I figured that John had impregnated the girl, and that drove the brother to feel all disillusioned toward everything. The guy the girl looks at in the picture was her first father, and the guy who hugs her is a their stepfather. They're relationship was rocky, but he wanted to reassure himself of his love for his new family, so he killed John. This only wrecks the family more, and the boy (who actually saw his sister's BF as a father figure when he had none) goes all satanic bananas.

Joseph O

I think you're right. And I didn't think John was murdered either. Is that everyone thought? It looks like the father guy looks over and sees something in the corner (probably John's body) and looks disturbed, and when it cut back he is sitting beside the body and looking terribly upset. I thought either the redhead herself killed John or he killed himself.

pseizure2000

lol. newb.

realtntuser

What's with all the satanism?WTF?

Mike M

The book from the video (2:20 on) , THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL AND THE IDEA OF EVIL FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY by PAUL CARUS can be found to read at sacred texts. com. It's actually a rather interesting read, but was probably used mostly for it's brilliant cover art from this 70s edition.

The Sunset Tree

wait... DAFUQ!?

Chris Laguna

I don't think the point is necessarily about the details of the plot but more of the combination of the small portraits of life that display quick changes between celebrations of happiness and downright brutal struggles. The key line of the song for me has always been "Mistreat your alter boys wrong enough and this is what you get/sad and angry, can't learn how to behave, still won't know how in the darkness of the grave"

Brandan Adcock

i'm speechless. that was disturbing and twisted. i'm not even sure how to feel. there are some less than honest messages here.

Julian Barlow

does anybody know the significance of Jon Wurster in the photo at the very beginning of the video?

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