| Anti-Music Song | |
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Album |
Tropical Depression EP |
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Released |
1997 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
1:31 |
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Previous Track |
"Unforgivable Stuff" (Furniture Huschle) |
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Anti-Music Song is the third song on the split single Tropical Depression. It was re-released on the compilation Ghana.
Lyrics[]
I saw you on TV Doing a bad imitation of Van Morrison And I saw you on TV Doing a bad imitation of a second-rate songwriter from the eighties named Morrissey I never liked Morrissey And I don't like you I saw you on TV Doing an imitation of an imitation of Jimi Hendrix That's really pathetic And I saw you on TV Trying to figure out what Brian Jones would be like if he'd have lived 'til today I can tell you myself He'd be like Brian Wilson I don't like Brian Wilson And I don't like you I don't like you
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "The problem with 'Anti-Music Song' is that like both people I was calling out in that song I now love totally." -- 2011-06-26 - Rhino's Youth Media Center & All-Ages Club - Plan-It-X Fest - Bloomington, IN
- "The "bad imitation of Van Morrison" dude was the singer from Counting Crows, who I'm sure is a nice guy and all but gaaah. So now you know." -- Mountain-goats.com Forums
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
| Ghana |
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Track list: "Golden Boy" • "Pure Gold" • "Papagallo" • "Song for John Davis" • "Stars Around Her" • "Going to Port Washington" • "Blood Royal" • "The Only Thing I Know" • "Raja Vocative" • "Hatha Hill" • "Going to Kirby Sigston" • "Please Come Home to Hamngatan" • "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life" • "Orange Ball of Peace" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #8" • "Chino Love Song 1979" • "Wrong!" • "Going to Jamaica" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Wild Palm City" • "The Anglo-Saxons" • "Flight 717: Going to Denmark" • "The Admonishing Song" • "Anti-Music Song" • "Going to Hungary" • "Earth Air Water Trees" • "Creature Song" • "Pure Sound" • "Going to Maine" • "Noctifer Birmingham" • "Leaving Home" |
| Tropical Depression EP |
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Side Two: "Anti-Music Song" • "Going to Hungary" • "Earth Air Water Trees" |