Bitter Melon Farm

Compilation album by the Mountain Goats

Released

1999,
April 23, 2002

Recorded

1992–1996

Genre

Folk-rock, lo-fi, rock

Length

66:57

Label

Ajax,
3 Beads of Sweat

Producer

John Darnielle

the Mountain Goats chronology

Protein Source of the Future...Now!
(1999)

Bitter Melon Farm
(1999)

Ghana
(1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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Pitchfork Media	(7.5/10) link

Bitter Melon Farm is the second in a three-part series of compilations by the Mountain Goats, released in 1999 by Ajax Records. It is preceded by Protein Source of the Future...Now!, and followed by Ghana.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John Darnielle, except where noted.

No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Noche del Guajolote"	I Like Walt	2:03
2.	"Going to Bangor"	You and What Army?	1:36
3.	"Against Agamemnon"	Howl...a Farewell Compilation of Unreleased Songs	2:10
4.	"Going to Cleveland"	Transmissions to Horace	3:07
5.	"Early Spring"	Transmissions to Horace	2:20
6.	"Historiography"	Transmissions to Horace	2:53
7.	"No, I Can't"	Transmissions to Horace	3:25
8.	"Alpha Desperation March"	Transmissions to Horace	2:51
9.	"Going to Monaco"	Transmissions to Horace	2:40
10.	"Star Dusting"	Transmissions to Horace	2:15
11.	"Teenage World"	Transmissions to Horace	2:27
12.	"Going to Santiago"	Transmissions to Horace	2:27
13.	"Sail On" (Lionel Richie)	Transmissions to Horace	2:57
14.	"Black Molly"	In Release City	2:24
15.	"Rain Song"	I Present This	1:54
16.	"The Bad Doctor"	Songs for Petronius	3:39
17.	"Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina"	Songs for Petronius	2:43
18.	"Pure Intentions"	Songs for Petronius	2:14
19.	"The Lady from Shanghai"	Songs for Petronius	2:10
20.	"Pure Love"	Songs for Petronius	2:19
21.	"Song for an Old Friend"	The Wheel Method	2:25
22.	"Snow Song"	Dog So Large I Cannot See Past It	2:04
23.	"Faithless Bacchant Song"	Those Pre-Phylloxera Years	1:59
24.	"Short Song About the 10 Freeway"	Songs for Peter Hughes	1:47
25.	"No, I Can't"	Songs for Peter Hughes	3:36
26.	"Song for Dana Plato"	Songs for Peter Hughes	1:54
27.	"The Sign" (Jonas Berggren)	Songs for Peter Hughes	2:28

Personnel

John Darnielle - vocals, guitar
Rachel Ware - vocals, bass

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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