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Zopilote Machine
Studio album by
the Mountain Goats
ReleasedJuly 11, 1994
Recorded1994
GenreLo-fi
Length40:45
LabelAjax, 3 Beads of Sweat
ProducerJohn Darnielle
The Mountain Goats chronology
Hot Garden Stomp
(1993) 		Zopilote Machine
(1994) 		Sweden
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Sputnikmusic[2]

Zopilote Machine is the debut studio album by the Mountain Goats. ("Zopilote" is Spanish for buzzard.) It is the only full album to include the entirety of The Bright Mountain Choir.

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Darnielle

No.TitleLength
1."Alpha Incipiens"1:36
2."Azo Tle Nelli in Tlalticpac?"3:02
3."Alpha Sun Hat"1:24
4."The Black Ice Cream Song"2:03
5."Sinaloan Milk Snake Song"2:14
6."We Have Seen the Enemy"1:53
7."Standard Bitter Love Song #7"2:22
8."Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums"2:25
9."Orange Ball of Love"2:12
10."Orange Ball of Hate"2:09
11."Bad Priestess"1:29
12."Going to Bristol"2:02
13."Young Caesar 2000"2:17
14."Going to Lebanon"2:29
15."Grendel's Mother"2:20
16."Song for Tura Satana"2:03
17."Alpha in Tauris"2:09
18."Going to Georgia"2:15
19."Quetzalcoatl Is Born"2:21
Total length:40:45

Release history

Date Label Format Catalogue number
11 July 1994 (1994-07-11) Ajax Records CD AJAX 036
29 March 2005 (2005-03-29) 3 Beads of Sweat CD, LP 3BOS 1006

Personnel

John Darnielle — vocals, guitar

The Bright Mountain Choir (Rachel Ware, Amy Piatt, Sarah Arslanian, Roseanne Lindley) — vocals

References

  1. ^ Stewart Mason. "Zopilote Machine - The Mountain Goats". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  2. ^ valrus (7 January 2009). "The Mountain Goats - Zopilote Machine (album review )". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2014-06-13.

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