Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina

Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
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Album	Nothing for Juice
Released	1996
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:33
Previous Track	"Heights"
Next Track	"Hellhound on My Trail"

Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
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Album	Songs for Petronius
Released	1992
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:43
Previous Track	"The Bad Doctor"
Next Track	"Pure Intentions"

Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina is the second song on the single Songs for Petronius. It was also re-recorded as the third track on the album Nothing for Juice. The version on Songs for Petronius was re-released on the compilation Bitter Melon Farm.

It is one of only two full songs (the other being "Going to Dade County") that belongs to both the Alpha and Going to... series.

Lyrics[]

I hear you starting up again
I see you standing on the deck
I hear your voice start to carry
I see the veins throbbing in your neck

And I know what you're saying
And I know what you're saying it for
But I'm not listening
I'm not listening anymore

And I see you come toward me
I see the sun climb down the sky
I hear your voice getting faster and louder
I see a stranger in your eyes

And I know what you're saying
And I know what you're saying it for
But I'm not listening
I'm not listening anymore

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

"It's about a boat." -- 2002-10-08 - McGarrigle's - Sligo, Ireland

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Nothing for Juice

Track list: "Then the Letting Go" • "Heights" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Hellhound on My Trail" • "Blueberry Frost" • "Alabama Nova" • "Moon and Sand" • "I Will Grab You by the Ears" • "It Froze Me" • "Full Flower" • "Million" • "Going to Bogotá" • "Orange Ball of Pain" • "Going to Kansas" • "Waving at You" • "Going to Reykjavik" • "I Corinthians 13: 8-10" • "Going to Scotland"

Songs for Petronius
Side One: "The Bad Doctor" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" Side Two: "Pure Intentions" • "The Lady from Shanghai" • "Pure Love"

Bitter Melon Farm

Track list: "Noche del Guajolote" • "Going to Bangor" • "Against Agamemnon" • "Going to Cleveland" • "Early Spring" • "Historiography" • "No, I Can't" • "Alpha Desperation March" • "Going to Monaco" • "Star Dusting" • "Teenage World" • "Going to Santiago" • "Sail On" • "Black Molly" • "Rain Song" • "The Bad Doctor" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Pure Intentions" • "The Lady from Shanghai" • "Pure Love" • "Song for an Old Friend" • "Snow Song" • "Faithless Bacchant Song" • "Short Song About the 10 Freeway" • "No, I Can't" • "Song for Dana Plato" • "The Sign"

The "Alpha" Series

Track list: "Alpha Aquae" • "Alpha Desperation March" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Alpha Incipiens" • "Alpha Negative" • "Alpha Omega" • "Alpha Rats Nest" • "Alpha Sun Hat" • "Alpha in Tauris" • "Alphabetizing" • "Letter from a Motel" • "One Winter at Point Alpha Privative" • "Spilling Toward Alpha" • "Fit Alpha Vi" • "Alpha Compunction" • "Going to Dade County" • "Tallahassee" • "First Few Desperate Hours" • "Southwood Plantation Road" • "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" • "The House That Dripped Blood" • "Idylls of the Kings" • "No Children" • "See America Right" • "Peacocks" • "International Small Arms Traffic Blues" • "Have to Explode" • "Old College Try" • "Oceanographer's Choice" • "Ethiopians" • "Alpha Chum Gatherer" • "New Chevrolet in Flames" • "Design Your Own Container Garden" • "Going to Federal Prison" • "Orange Ball of Hate"

"Going to..." Series

Track list: "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Flight 717: Going to Denmark" • "Going to Alaska" • "Going to Bangor" • "Going to Bogotá" • "Going to Bolivia" • "Going to Brazil" • "Going to Bridlington" • "Going to Bristol" • "Going to Buffalo" • "Going to California" • "Going to Chino" • "Going to Cleveland" • "Going to Dade County" • "Going to Dallas" • "Going to East Rutherford" • "Going to Federal Prison" • "Going to France" • "Going to Georgia" • "Going to Hell" • "Going to Hungary" • "Going to Jamaica" • "Going to Japan" • "Going to Kansas" • "Going to Kirby Sigston" • "Going to Lebanon" • "Going to Lebanon 2" • "Going to Lubbock" • "Going to Maine" • "Going to Malibu" • "Going to Marrakesh" • "Going to Mars" • "Going to Maryland" • "Going to Mexico" • "Going to Miami" • "Going to Michigan" • "Going to Monaco" • "Going to Morocco" • "Going to Niles" • Going to Norwalk" • "Going to Palestine" • "Going Through Pomona" • "Going to Port Washington" • "Going to Queens" • "Going to Reykjavik" • "Going to San Diego" • "Going to Santiago" • "Going to Scotland" • "Going to Some Damned English City" • "Going to South Carolina" • "Going to Spain" • "Going to Spirit Lake" • "Going to Tennessee" • "Going to Utrecht" • "Going to Wisconsin"