专辑中文名: Ghana
歌手: The Mountain Goats
资源格式: MP3
发行时间: 2002年04月23日
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
简介:
专辑名称：Ghana
专辑艺人：Mountain Goats
专辑类别：欧美音乐1CD
发行公司：3 Beads of Sweat
发行日期：April 23, 2002
音乐流派：Indie Rock/Lo-Fi
专辑介绍：
早在签约4AD之前的Mountain Goats基本上是John Darnielle自弹自唱的个人乐队，音乐风格更倾向于Lo-Fi，情绪上和表达上也因为更加的直接坦白而更有力度，常常大段大段的直抒情怀（听这种音乐至少能将你的郁闷一扫而空），John Darnielle这种毫不做作的诚实的音乐风格为他赢得了非常众多的拥护者。2002年在3 Beads of Sweat厂牌下发行了3张系列精选专辑——《Protein Source of the Future》、《Bitter Melon Farm》、《Ghana》（可惜本人只有后面两张），几乎收录了他之前的所有非录音室作品，包括出现在合辑、盒带中的曲目、单曲和一些稀有的Demo和现场版本。可以说是对4AD之前的Mountain Goats一次全面的总结，为乐迷们节省了很多收集的时间和精力。
The 2002 release of the Mountain Goats' retrospective Ghana put an end to the trilogy of collections of hard-to-find rarities that the band had released in the 1990s. The term "band" is used loosely when referring to the Mountain Goats, who have always primarily been the creative output of singer/songwriter John Darnielle. More often than not, Darnielle performs the group's songs solo on acoustic guitar. Choosing not to focus the attention on himself, Darnielle's frantic musical output made it difficult, if not impossible, for his fans to collect all of his releases. Ghana followed the successes of Protein Source of the Future...Now! and Bitter Melon Farm. When it became clear that there was a great demand for many out-of-print recordings from various singles, cassettes, and compilations, Ajax Records agreed to release most of the rare songs on three discs. When Ajax owner Tim Adams shut down Ajax in favor of the new 3 Beads of Sweat label, the third in the series finally saw the light of day. Highlights on the disc include "Golden Boy," an ode to a rare brand of peanuts, as well as "Song for John Davis," a musical tribute to the Folk Implosion member who toured with the Mountain Goats in the late '90s. Four songs were taken from Darnielle's collaboration with Alastair Galbraith on the Orange Raja, Blood Royal EP, originally released on Walt Records. The only previously unreleased track on the disc is "Going to Kirby Sigston," which was originally slated for release on an Ajax Records compilation that never saw the light of day. "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life" is, not surprisingly, often pointed to as one of Darnielle's most powerful songs ever. Its bittersweet sound and precise execution result in a very powerful track. "The Anglo-Saxons" serves as a botched history lesson, as Darnielle often points to the song's inaccuracies when performing it live, while "Earth Air Water Trees" is an earnest and touching love song. On "Noctifer Birmingham," Darnielle shows impressive instrumental and vocal restraint. The disc ends, appropriately, with the casual "Leaving Home," with Darnielle serving as narrator at the end of the musical journey. With only two of the 31 tracks clocking in at more than three minutes, the music's simplicity (along with Darnielle's refusal to excessively repeat a song's chorus) is certainly one of the qualities that attract many to the music of the Mountain Goats. Darnielle has always worked at a feverish pace, and it's the output on collections like these that makes his genius so evident. The variety of songs is staggering. The songs on Ghana were originally
released from 1991 to 1999. The strength of the songs sheds light on the evolution of Darnielle's songwriting, from his humble lo-fi beginnings to his almost Woody Guthrie-esque approach to the craft. As with most of his releases, the aesthetic highlight of the disc is Darnielle's convoluted and witty liner notes, which add another dimension to his appeal. ~ Stephen Cramer, ----All Music Guide
专辑曲目：
1. Golden Boy
2. Pure Gold
3. Papagallo
4. Song for John Davis
5. Stars Around Her
6. Going to Port Washington
7. Blood Royal
8. The Only Thing I Know
9. Raja Vocative
10. Hatha Hill
11. Going to Kirby Sigston
12. Please Come Home to Hamngatan
13. The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life
14. Orange Ball of Peace
15. Standard Bitter Love Song #8
16. Chino Love Song 1979
17. Wrong!
18. Going to Jamaica
19. Alpha Gelida
20. Wild Palm City
21. The Anglo-Saxons
22. Flight 717: Going to Denmark
23. The Admonishing Song
24. Anti-Music Song
25. Going to Hungary
26. Earth Air Water Trees
27. Creature Song
28. Pure Sound
29. Noctifer Birmingham
30. Going to Maine
31. Leaving Home
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乐队介绍：
Official Website（点击）
John Darnielle: vocals, guitar（右）
Peter Hughes: bass, backing vocals（左）
相关资料：
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