hypersongs

Quiet

The opening track of Young Mountain, a staple of their live openers.
This Will Destroy You, from Young Mountain (2006)

"Quiet" opens Young Mountain at 4:53, written by the band and first released as part of the 2005 demo and then on Magic Bullet in 2006. Punknews's Brian Shultz wrote in 2007 that a couple of precisely executed, epic drum slams mark the transition into its climax. The Hard Times, per a search summary, calls it a template of the early anthemic style. The song was used in the documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, in a trailer for The Purge and in the closing of the ESPN documentary The Fab Five.

Live, they have often opened with it: it was second in the set at Trees in Dallas on March 3, 2017, when the show was cut short after King broke a string, and the opener in Toronto on June 17, 2025, Los Angeles on July 10, 2025 and Portland on July 13, 2025, and reportedly on the June 2026 twentieth-anniversary dates for the self-titled album. We could not get a setlist.fm play count and found no covers, samples, chart history or video.

On stage

Sources

  1. Young Mountain, Wikipedia
  2. This Will Destroy You: Young Mountain, Punknews (2007-07-27)
  3. A night at Trees in Dallas with This Will Destroy You, Somewhere Cold (2017-03-10)