the Mountain Goats discography
Studio albums22
Live albums3
Compilation albums4
EPs18
Singles24
Demo albums10
Split EPs6

The Mountain Goats are an American, Durham, North Carolina–based band, led by American singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Darnielle began recording in 1991, and is known for his highly literate lyrics and (until 2002) his lo-fi recording style.[1] The Mountain Goats' albums have featured a constantly changing line-up of musicians, with Darnielle the only constant; when performing live, the band commonly comprises only Darnielle backed by Peter Hughes on bass guitar and Jon Wurster playing drums.[2] Their discography consists of 22 studio albums, four compilation albums, three live albums, ten demo albums, 18 solo extended plays, six collaborative extended plays, and 24 singles. In addition, three unreleased albums circulate amongst collectors.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[3] 		US
Indie
[4] 		AUS
[5] 		SCO
[6] 		UK
Sales
[7] 		UK
Indie
[7]
Zopilote Machine
  • Released: July 11, 1994
  • Label: Ajax, 3 Beads of Sweat
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 — — — — — —
Sweden
  • Released: August 7, 1995
  • Label: Shrimper
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 — — — — — —
Nothing for Juice
  • Released: August 19, 1996
  • Label: Ajax
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 — — — — — —
Full Force Galesburg — — — — — —
The Coroner's Gambit — — — — — —
All Hail West Texas
  • Released: February 19, 2002
  • Label: Emperor Jones
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 140 — — — — —
Tallahassee
  • Released: November 5, 2002
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 — — — — — —
We Shall All Be Healed
  • Released: February 3, 2004
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 — — — — — —
The Sunset Tree
  • Released: April 26, 2005
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 — — — — — —
Get Lonely
  • Released: August 22, 2006
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 193 19 —[A] — — —
Heretic Pride
  • Released: February 19, 2008
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 194 28 —[B] — — —
The Life of the World to Come
  • Released: October 6, 2009
  • Label: 4AD
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 110 14 — — — —
All Eternals Deck
  • Released: March 29, 2011
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 72 15 — — — —
Transcendental Youth
  • Released: October 2, 2012
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 86 16 — — — —
Beat the Champ
  • Released: April 7, 2015
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 65 5 —[C] — — —[D]
Goths
  • Released: May 19, 2017
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 89 4 —[E] 85 —[F] 25
In League with Dragons
  • Released: April 26, 2019
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl
 110 6 — 65 87 38
Songs for Pierre Chuvin
  • Released: April 10, 2020
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: Cassette, digital, vinyl
 152
[12] 		19
[13] 		86 13 21 5
Getting Into Knives
  • Released: October 23, 2020
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital
 162 34 — — — 44
Dark in Here
  • Released: June 25, 2021
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital
 — 40 — — 73 31
Bleed Out
  • Released: August 19, 2022
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital
 —[G] 37
[15] 		— 73 67 22
Jenny from Thebes
  • Released: October 27, 2023
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital
 — — — — —[H] 48
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
Sales
[16] 		US
Folk
[17] 		AUS
[18]
The Jordan Lake Sessions: 1 & 2
  • Released: December 4, 2020
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: digital
 59 9 90
The Jordan Lake Sessions: 3 & 4
  • Released: November 5, 2021
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: digital
 89 — —
The Jordan Lake Sessions: 5
  • Released: November 18, 2022
  • Label: Merge
  • Format: digital
 — — —

Compilation albums

No. Name Date Label Format
1 Protein Source of the Future...Now! 1999 Ajax CD
2 Bitter Melon Farm 1999 Ajax CD
3 Ghana 2002 3 Beads of Sweat CD
4 The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp 2012 Shrimper CD

Demo albums

Main article: List of cassette releases by Mountain Goats
Name Date Label Format
Taboo VI: The Homecoming 1991 Shrimper Cassette
The Hound Chronicles 1992 Shrimper Cassette
Transmissions to Horace 1993 Sonic Enemy Cassette
Hot Garden Stomp 1993 Shrimper Cassette
Taking the Dative 1994 Car in Car Cassette
Yam, the King of Crops 1994 Oska Cassette
Come, Come to The Sunset Tree 2005 Self-released LP
Heretic Pride Demos 2008 4AD Digital download
The Life of the World in Flux 2009 4AD CD
All Survivors Pack 2011 Merge Cassette

Extended plays

Title EP details Peak chart positions
US
Indie
[4] 		AUS
[19]
Songs for Petronius
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Shrimper
  • Formats: 7"
 — —
Chile de Árbol
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Ajax
  • Formats: 7"
 — —
Beautiful Rat Sunset
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Shrimper
  • Formats: 10", CD, digital download
 — —
Philyra
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Theme Park
  • Formats: 7"
 — —
Songs for Peter Hughes
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Sonic Squid
  • Formats: 7"
 — —
Songs About Fire
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Cassiel
  • Formats: 7"
 — —
Nine Black Poppies
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Emperor Jones
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — —
New Asian Cinema
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Yoyo
  • Formats: 12", digital download
 — —
Isopanisad Radio Hour
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Yoyo
  • Formats: 12", digital download
 — —
On Juhu Beach
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Nursecall
  • Formats: MiniCD, digital download
 — —
Devil in the Shortwave
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Yoyo
  • Formats: 12", digital download
 — —
Dilaudid
  • Released: March 21, 2005
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: Digital download
 — —
Babylon Springs EP
  • Released: April 3, 2006
  • Label: 4AD
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — 86
Satanic Messiah
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: 2x7", digital download
 — —
Selected Goths in Ambient
  • Released: May 19, 2017
  • Label: Merge
  • Formats: 12" (exclusive with pre-order for Goths)
 — —
Marsh Witch Visions
  • Released: October 6, 2017
  • Label: Merge
  • Formats: Digital download
 — —
Hex of Infinite Binding
  • Released: September 7, 2018
  • Label: Merge
  • Formats: Digital download
 44 —
Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session
  • Released: November 30, 2018
  • Label: Merge
  • Formats: Digital download
 — —

Split EPs

Title EP details
Why You All So Thief?
(with Simon Joyner)
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Sing, Eunuchs!
  • Formats: 7"
Orange Raja, Blood Royal
(with Alastair Galbraith)
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Walt
  • Formats: 7"
Tropical Depression EP
(with Furniture Huschle)
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Little Mafia
  • Formats: 7"
Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2
(with John Vanderslice)
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Bedside
  • Formats: 7"
Black Pear Tree
(with Kaki King)
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Cadmean Dawn
  • Formats: 12"
Takin' It Easy / Good Morning / Revolution Blues / Shot In The Dark
(with Mikal Cronin, Superchunk, and Mount Moriah)
  • Released: February 2014
  • Label: Merge
  • Formats: 2x7"

Singles

Title Year Album
"Jam Eater Blues"
(b/w "Store" and "Straight Six") 		2002 Non-album single
"See America Right"
(b/w "New Chevrolet in Flames") 		Tallahassee
"Palmcorder Yajna"
(b/w "Butter Teeth") 		2003 We Shall All Be Healed
"Letter from Belgium"
(b/w "Nova Scotia") 		2004
"Steal Smoked Fish" / "In The Shadow Of The Western Hills" 2012 Transcendental Youth
"Who You Are"
(Google Play exclusive) 		2014 Non-album single
"Blood Capsules" / "Dub Capsules" 2015 Beat the Champ
"Rain in Soho" 2017 Goths
"Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds"
"From the Lake Trials" Non-album singles
"Song for Sasha Banks" 2018
Welcome to Passaic

"Passaic, 1975" b/w "Get High And Listen To The Cure"

2019 In League with Dragons
"Younger"
"Sentries In The Ambush" / "Divided Sky Lane"
"Get Famous" 2020 Getting Into Knives
"As Many Candles as Possible"
"Picture of My Dress"
"Mobile" 2021 Dark in Here
"The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums"
"Dark in Here"
"Training Montage" 2022 Bleed Out
"Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome"
"Mark on You"

Other appearances

Name Date Label Song contributed
Back to the Egg, Asshole 1991 Shrimper "Wild Palm City (aka Within You, Without You)"
A Munchies Kinda Christmas 1992 Sonic Enemy "The Pieman (live)"
Pawnshop Reverb 1992 Shrimper "The Window Song"
Hard Core Acoustic 1993 Shrimper "Going to Maine"
I Like Walt 1994 Walt "Noche del Guajolote"
You and What Army? 1994 Sing Eunuchs "Going to Bangor"
Howl...A Farewell Compilation of Unreleased Songs 1994 Glitterhouse/Zuma "Against Agamemnon"
I Present This 1994 Union Pole "Rain Song"
Those Pre-Phylloxera Years 1994 Box Dog Sound "Faithless Bacchant Song"
The Basement Tapes: Live Recordings at KSPC 1989–1995 1995 KSPC "The Anglo-Saxons"
The Long Secret 1995 Harriet "Duke Ellington"
Corkscrewed 1995 Theme Park "Flight 717: Going To Denmark" and "The Admonishing Song"
Cool Beans #4 1995 Cool Beans "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life"
Fast Forward 2 1995 Brinkman "Noctifer Birmingham"
The Wheel Method 1995 Pottery "Song for an Old Friend"
The Wedding Record 1995 Walt "Going To Port Washington"
Our Salvation Is in Hand 1995 Theme Park "Hand Ball" and "Alpha Omega"
Goar #11 1995 Goar "Creature Song" and "Pure Sound"
Cyanide Guilt Trip 1996 Cactus Gum "Leaving Home"
Dog So Large I Cannot See Past It 1996 Dark Beloved Cloud "Snow Song"
In Release City 1996 Slowball "Black Molly"
Hey Dan K. Unreleased Ajax "Going to Kirby Sigston"
We'll Sail Out Far... Maybe a Little Too Far... 1997 Apartment "Please Come Home to Hamngatan"
Object Lessons: Songs About Products 1998 Inconspicuous "Golden Boy"
Acuarela Songs 2001 Acuarela "Saigon Shrunken Panorama"
Gold Kiss Gala: I'll Wed You 2001 Dark Beloved Cloud "Un Reve Plus Long Que La Nuit"
Comes with a Smile 11: Hope Isn't a Word 2004 Comes with a smile "Beat the Devil"
Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek 2005 Summersteps Records "White Box" (Jandek cover)
The Believer 2005 CD 2005 The Believer "Pet Politics" (Silver Jews cover)
Like A Version 2 2006 Australian Broadcasting Corporation "Wild World" (The Birthday Party cover)
n/a (specially commissioned song) 2008 Weekend America "Down to the Ark"
Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! 2009 Merge Records "Drug Life" (East River Pipe cover)
Stroke – Songs for Chris Knox 2009 Flying Nun "Brave" (Chris Knox cover)
Smooth Sounds: The Future Hits of WCKR SPGT (A 20th Anniv. Shrimper Comp.) 2010 Shrimper "Predator Eyes"
A.V. UNDERCOVER 2011 A.V. UNDERCOVER Studio "Boxcar" (Jawbreaker cover)
Our First 100 Days 2017 Secretly Group "Etruscans"
Almost Live From Joyful Noise 2017 Joyful Noise Recordings "From the Lake Trials"
Tick, Tick... Boom! (film) 2021 Netflix "Only Takes a Few (bonus track)" (Jonathan Larson cover)

Unreleased

Name Date Label Format
Nall's Picks 1993 Unreleased N/A[20]
Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg 1995 Unreleased N/A
Jack and Faye[21] 1996 Unreleased 7"

Notes

  1. ^ Get Lonely did not enter the Australian ARIA Albums Chart but peaked at number 17 on the ARIA Hitseekers Chart.[8]
  2. ^ Heretic Pride did not enter the Australian ARIA Albums Chart but peaked at number 15 on the ARIA Hitseekers Chart.[9]
  3. ^ Beat the Champ did not enter the Australian ARIA Albums Chart but peaked at number 19 on the ARIA Hitseekers Chart.[10]
  4. ^ Beat the Champ did not enter the UK Independent Albums Chart but peaked at number 16 on the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart.[7]
  5. ^ Goths did not enter the Australian ARIA Albums Chart but peaked at number seven on the ARIA Hitseekers Chart.[11]
  6. ^ Goths did not enter the UK Albums Chart but peaked at number 97 on the UK Album Downloads Chart.[7]
  7. ^ Bleed Out did not enter the Billboard 200 but peaked at number ten on the Top Album Sales component chart.[14]
  8. ^ Jenny from Thebes did not enter the UK Albums Chart but peaked at number 29 on the UK Album Downloads Chart.[7]

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References

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  3. ^ "The Mountain Goats Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2019.[dead link]
  4. ^ a b "The Mountain Goats Chart History: Independent Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  5. ^ "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 20 April 2020". No. 1572. Australian Recording Industry Association. April 20, 2020. ((cite magazine)): Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  6. ^ Peaks in Scotland:
  7. ^ a b c d e "The Mountain Goats Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  8. ^ "ARIA Report: Issue 860" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 23, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
  9. ^ "ARIA Report: Issue 939" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 23, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
  10. ^ "ARIA Report: Issue 1311" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 14, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  11. ^ "ARIA Report: Issue 1422" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 30, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  12. ^ "Billboard 200: April 25, 2020". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  13. ^ "Independent Albums: April 25, 2020". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  14. ^ "Top Album Sales: Week of September 3, 2022". Billboard. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  15. ^ "Independent Albums: Week of September 3, 2022". Billboard. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  16. ^ Peak positions
  17. ^ "Top Album Sales – Week of December 19, 2020". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  18. ^ "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 14 December 2020". The ARIA Report. No. 1606. Australian Recording Industry Association. December 14, 2020. p. 6.
  19. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 195.
  20. ^ "Three Previously Unreleased Mountain Goats Songs". Beats Per Minute. December 24, 2008. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  21. ^ "Jack & Faye". Themountaingoats.net. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  22. ^ "Merge Records - Artists, News, Music - Shop Vinyl, Merch, Music and More". www.mergerecords.com. Retrieved November 30, 2022.

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