Ghana (album)

2002 compilation album by The Mountain Goats

Ghana

Compilation album by

the Mountain Goats

Released| 2002
Genre| Folk-rock, lo-fi, rock
Length| 68:26
Label|
3 Beads of Sweat
Producer| John Darnielle
The Mountain Goats chronology
| Bitter Melon Farm
(1999)  | Ghana
(2002)  |

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Pitchfork| 8.9/10[2]

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

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All tracks are written by John Darnielle.

No.| Title| Original release| Length

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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

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* 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

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* Michael and the G2s cover "Going to Port Washington" in their album Michael and the G2s Cover Everything.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "Ghana - The Mountain Goats; Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
2. ^ "Mountain Goats: 'Protein Source of the Future... Now!', 'Bitter Melon Farm', 'Ghana': Pitchfork Review". Archived from the original on June 15, 2004. Retrieved March 9, 2024.

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The Mountain Goats

* John Darnielle
* Peter Hughes
* Jon Wurster
* Matt Douglas

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
* Goths
* In League with Dragons
* Songs for Pierre Chuvin
* Getting Into Knives
* Dark in Here
* Bleed Out
* Jenny from Thebes

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 and 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
* Hex of Infinite Binding

Individual songs|

* "Lovecraft in Brooklyn"
* "No Children"
* "Sax Rohmer #1"

Collaborations|

* Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner)
* Orange Raja, Blood Royal (with Alastair Galbraith)
* Black Pear Tree (with Kaki King)
* Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)

Compilations|

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

Unreleased|

* Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg
* Jack and Faye

Collaborators|

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

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* Discography

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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