Mountain Goats Hound Chronicles / Hot Garden Stomp CD

2012 two CD collection from the Alt-Folk band. 'The songs you find on this compact disc set originally appeared on two cassettes. To elaborate further about that, to say, for example, that the songs originally appeared 'on two cassettes that were released in ____ and ____', would misrepresent the spirit of their time. These tapes did not have release dates. No one anticipated their coming into the world, and very few noticed or cared. All previous eras cross at some point into the territory of the unimaginable, and so it is with the days of tape-trading. The obscurity in which these songs were incubated and born and brought into their faint light is a state of being which has passed into history.'- excerpt from John Darnielle's liner notes.

1. The Garden Song 2. Going to Wisconsin 3. Spilling Toward Alpha 4. Alpha Negative 5. The Torch Song 6. Untitled 1 7. The Cow Song 8. Untitled 2 9. Going to China 10. Standard Bitter Love Song #4 11. Going to Mexico 12. Lab Rat Blues 13. Going to Kansas 14. The Water Song 15. Going to Spain 16. Keep It on Your Mind 17. Pure Milk 18. Ice Blue 19. Water Song II 20. Sun Song 21. Going to Japan 22. Are You Cleaning Off the Stove 23. The Hot Garden Stomp 24. Love Hymn to Aphrodite 25. Beach House 26. Hello There Howard 27. Going to Norwalk 28. Fresh Cherries in Trinidad 29. Feed This End 30. 15-I 31. Thanks for the Dress 32. Tell Me on a Sunday