The Mountain Goats discography

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, seven collaborative extended plays, and 24 singles. In addition, three unreleased albums circulate amongst collectors, and multiple unreleased or live-only tracks circulate as well.

the Mountain Goats discography
Studio albums	22
EPs	18
Live albums	3
Compilation albums	4
Singles	24
Demo albums	10
Split EPs	7

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	Released: June 10, 1997 Label: Emperor Jones Format: CD, vinyl	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Coroner's Gambit	Released: October 17, 2000 Label: Absolutely Kosher Format: CD, vinyl	—	—	—	—	—	—
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

Cassette releases & 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"
Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)	Released: 2009 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" and "Snakeheads")	2003	We Shall All Be Healed
"Letter from Belgium" (b/w "Nova Scotia" and "Attention all Pickpockets")	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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