The Mountain Goats - Bitter Melon Farm

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Colo, Iowa, March 1999
Released in 2002
Originally [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4450261-The-Mountain-Goats-Bitter-Melon-Farm]released[/url] by Ajax Records (2) in 1999.
Track 1. Taken from [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1849081-Various-I-Like-Walt]I Like Walt[/url] (7" compilation, [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/48719-Walt-Records]Walt[/url]). Recorded live at KSPC Claremont one early summer afternoon.
Track 2. Taken from release (cassette compilation, Sing, Eunuchs!)
Track 3. Taken from [url=https://www.discogs.com/master/398338-Various-Howl-A-Farewell-Compilation-Of-Unreleased-Songs]Howl...A Farewell Compilation Of Unreleased Songs[/url] (CD compilation, [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/9159-Glitterhouse-Records]Glitterhouse[/url] / [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/361764-Studio-Zuma]Zuma[/url], Germany)
Tracks 4 to 13. Taken from release (10-song cassette, Sonic Enemy). Written and recorded over the course of one week and released as-is.
Track 14. Taken form release (cassette compilation, Slowball, Sweden). Recorded live at the Tokyo Rose in Charlottesville VA, 9/2/996.
Track 15. Taken from release (7" compilation, Union Pole)
Tracks 16 to 20. Taken from release (5-song 7", Shrimper). This was the first single, and it sported [a] sleeve by Ian Smith's [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/1505346-JuggernautPress]Juggernaut Press[/url]. Its back featured a quotation from Nero and another, unattributed, from [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1015767-Colin-M-Turnbull]Turnbull[/url]'s "The Mountain People".
Track 21. Taken from release (7" compilation, [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/131036-Pottery-Records]Pottery[/url]). This was to have been the first song for a post-Mountain Goats band called the Orange Trees, which would have eschewed home recording entirely and made slick little pop songs.
Track 22. Taken from [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2925079-Various-Dog-So-Large-I-Cannot-See-Past-It-A-WPRB-Compilation]Dog So Large I Cannot See Past It[/url] (CD compilation, [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/249684-WPRB-FM]WPRB[/url])
Track 23. Taken from release (7" compilation, Box Dog Sound)
Tracks 24 to 27. Taken from master release (4-song 7", Sonic Squid, Germany). It was supposed to be called "Sons For Peter Hughes". Pressed in a limited edition of 600, the first hundred or so on [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2870525-The-Mountain-Goats-Songs-For-Peter-Hughes]red vinyl[/url]. The fade-out at the end of Track 25 was the idea of the nameless Czech engineer who, hearing the way we'd run out of tape while recording the song, couldn't deal with it and so muscled his way anonymously into history.
Thanks to the usual suspects, though I'd like to remember especially the people who initially released these difficult songs: Peter Hughes (2), of course, and Gregor and Herwig; Jeff Smith, Jeff Fuccillo and [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/249684-WPRB-FM]WPRB[/url], and Jason Rothenberg; Jonas Sevenius and all our friends in Sweden; Dan and Danielle Varenka; Jon Nall; and Dennis Callaci, whose early intercession is the *only* reason that any of this ever saw the light of day.
Ten bucks says my wife can kick your wife's ass.
The Mountain Goats burn and endorse incense from House of Mohan.
The Mountain Goats order and read poetry sold at a discount from Spring Church Book Company
The Mountain Goats have always wanted to give out free plugs whose good, fair business practices—oases of goodness in a weary world filled with faceless corporate monoliths—warrant it, but have always let aesthetic considerations get in their way until now.
The Mountain Goats use and endorse the third person plural and will do so until the cows come home.
The Mountain Goats persist in the belief that eventually the cows will in fact come home, and that they'll stay home once they get there.
© 1999 and ℗ 2002 by Cadmean Dawn (ASCAP)
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[url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1849081-Various-I-Like-Walt]I Like Walt[/url] compilation 7" ([url=https://www.discogs.com/label/48719-Walt-Records]Walt[/url], 1994)
release compilation cassette (Sing, Eunuchs!, 1994)
[url=https://www.discogs.com/master/398338-Various-Howl-A-Farewell-Compilation-Of-Unreleased-Songs]Howl...A Farewell Compilation Of Unreleased Songs[/url] compilation CD ([url=https://www.discogs.com/label/9159-Glitterhouse-Records]Glitterhouse[/url] / [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/361764-Studio-Zuma]Zuma[/url], Germany, 1994)
release 10-song cassette (Sonic Enemy, 1993)
release compilation cassette (Slowball, Sweden, 1996)
release compilation 7" (Union Pole, 1994)
release compilation 7" ([url=https://www.discogs.com/label/131036-Pottery-Records]Pottery[/url], 1995)
[url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2925079-Various-Dog-So-Large-I-Cannot-See-Past-It-A-WPRB-Compilation]Dog So Large I Cannot See Past It[/url] compilation CD ([url=https://www.discogs.com/label/249684-WPRB-FM]WPRB[/url], 1996)
release compilation 7" (Box Dog Sound, 1994)
master release 4-song 7" (Sonic Squid, Germany, 1995)
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This is volume two of three compilations of Mountain Goats songs that have graced various formats and labels over the years.
©℗ 2002 The Mountain Goats | Cadmean Dawn (ASCAP)
Other Mountain Goats titles available on 3 Beads of Sweat:
master release CD (3BOS 1001.2)
release CD (3BOS 1003.2)