Ghana (album)

Ghana

Compilation album by the Mountain Goats

Released

1999

Genre

Folk-rock, Lo-fi, Rock

Length

68:26

Label

Ajax,
3 Beads of Sweat

Producer

John Darnielle

the Mountain Goats chronology

Bitter Melon Farm
(1999)

Ghana
(1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork Media	^[1]

Ghana is third in a three-part series of compilations of songs by The Mountain Goats that have appeared on various releases. It is preceded by Protein Source of the Future...Now!, and Bitter Melon Farm.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Darnielle.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Golden Boy"	Object Lessons: Songs About Products	3:16
2.	"Pure Gold"	Songs About Fire	1:50
3.	"Papagallo"	Songs About Fire	1:54
4.	"Song for John Davis"	Songs About Fire	2:20
5.	"Stars Around Her"	Songs About Fire	2:14
6.	"Going to Port Washington"	The Wedding Record	2:04
7.	"Blood Royal"	Orange Raja, Blood Royal	2:04
8.	"The Only Thing I Know"	Orange Raja, Blood Royal	3:04
9.	"Raja Vocative"	Orange Raja, Blood Royal	2:06
10.	"Hatha Hill"	Orange Raja, Blood Royal	1:32
11.	"Going to Kirby Sigston"	Previously Unreleased	1:59
12.	"Please Come Home to Hamngatan"	We'll Sail Out Far... Maybe a Little Too Far...	2:52
13.	"The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life"	Cool Beans #4	2:11
14.	"Orange Ball of Peace"	Taking the Dative	1:25
15.	"Standard Bitter Love Song #8"	Taking the Dative	2:46
16.	"Chino Love Song 1979"	Taking the Dative	2:12
17.	"Wrong!"	Taking the Dative	2:18
18.	"Going to Jamaica"	Taking the Dative	2:34
19.	"Alpha Gelida"	Taking the Dative	1:59
20.	"Wild Palm City (aka Within You, Without You)"	Back to the Egg, Asshole	2:31
21.	"The Anglo-Saxons"	The Basement Tapes: Live Recordings at KSPC 1989-1995	1:49
22.	"Flight 717: Going to Denmark"	Corkscrewed	2:17
23.	"The Admonishing Song"	Corkscrewed	2:28
24.	"Anti-Music Song"	Tropical Depression	1:31
25.	"Going to Hungary"	Tropical Depression	2:30
26.	"Earth Air Water Trees"	Tropical Depression	2:18
27.	"Creature Song"	Goar #11	1:50
28.	"Pure Sound"	Goar #11	1:41
29.	"Going to Maine"	Hardcore Acoustic	1:41
30.	"Noctifer Birmingham"	Fast Forward 2	2:30
31.	"Leaving Home"	Cyanide Guilt Trip	2:41

Personnel

John Darnielle - Vocals, acoustic guitar
Rachel Ware - Bass guitar, backing vocals (2, 5, 6, 11, 21, 30)
Alastair Galbraith - Violin, etc. (7-10)

Cover versions

Michael and the G2s cover "Going to Port Washington" in their album "Michael and the G2s Cover Everything."

References

↑ "Pitchfork Media review". Pitchfork Media.

The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle Peter Hughes Jon Wurster

Albums	Zopilote Machine Sweden Nothing for Juice Full Force Galesburg The Coroner's Gambit All Hail West Texas Tallahassee We Shall All Be Healed The Sunset Tree Get Lonely Heretic Pride The Life of the World to Come All Eternals Deck Transcendental Youth Beat the Champ

Released demos	Come, Come To The Sunset Tree Heretic Pride Demos The Life of the World in Flux All Survivors Pack

Cassette releases	Taboo VI: The Homecoming The Hound Chronicles Transmissions to Horace Hot Garden Stomp Taking the Dative Yam, the King of Crops

EPs & singles	Songs for Petronius Chile de Árbol Beautiful Rat Sunset Philyra Songs for Peter Hughes Songs About Fire Nine Black Poppies New Asian Cinema Isopanisad Radio Hour On Juhu Beach Devil in the Shortwave Jam Eater Blues See America Right Palmcorder Yajna Letter from Belgium Dilaudid EP Babylon Springs EP Satanic Messiah

Collaborations	Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner) Orange Raja, Blood Royal (with Alastair Galbraith) Tropical Depression EP (with Furniture Huschle) Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2 (with John Vanderslice) Black Pear Tree EP (with Kaki King) Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)

Compilation albums	Protein Source of the Future...Now! Bitter Melon Farm Ghana The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp

Unreleased	Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg Jack and Faye

Former members	Franklin Bruno Richard Colburn Nora Danielson Lalitree Darnielle Alex Decarville Maggie Doyle Alastair Galbraith Erik Friedlander Christopher McGuire Scott Solter John Vanderslice Rachel Ware

Related articles	Discography

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