The Mountain Goats discography

Discography

the Mountain Goats discography

Studio albums| 22
EPs| 18
Live albums| 3
Compilation albums| 4
Singles| 24
Demo albums| 10
Split EPs| 6

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

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### Studio albums

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List of studio albums with selected chart positions and certifications  Title  | Album details  | Peak chart positions

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[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

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Title  | Album details  | Peak chart positions

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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

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### Compilation albums

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No. | Name | Date | Label | Format

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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

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Main article: List of cassette releases by Mountain Goats

Name | Date | Label | Format

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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

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Title  | EP details  | Peak chart positions

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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

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Title  | EP details

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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

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Title  | Year  | Album

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"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

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Name | Date | Label | Song contributed

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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

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Name | Date | Label | Format

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

## Notes

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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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1. ^ Nickey, Jason (2008). "The Mountain Goats: Biography". Allmusic. Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
2. ^ "the Mountain Goats FAQ". Themountaingoats.net. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
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:
* Goths: "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 – 2017 05 26". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
* In League with Dragons: "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 – 2019 05 03". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
* Songs for Pierre Chuvin: "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 17 April 2020 – 23 April 2020". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
* Bleed Out: "Bleed Out The Mountain Goats Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
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 22, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
9. ^ "ARIA Report: Issue 939" (PDF). ARIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 25, 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
* For The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 1 & 2: "Top Album Sales – Week of December 19, 2020". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
* For The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 & 4: "Top Album Sales – Week of November 20, 2021". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
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.

## External links

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* Discography on official site Archived March 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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The Mountain Goats

* John Darnielle
* Peter Hughes
* Jon Wurster
* Matt Douglas

Albums|

* Zopilote Machine
* Sweden
* Nothing for Juice
* Full Force Galesburg
* The Coroner's Gambit
* All Hail West Texas
* Tallahassee
* We Shall All Be Healed
* The Sunset Tree
* Get Lonely
* Heretic Pride
* The Life of the World to Come
* All Eternals Deck
* Transcendental Youth
* Beat the Champ
* Goths
* In League with Dragons
* Songs for Pierre Chuvin
* Getting Into Knives
* Dark in Here
* Bleed Out
* Jenny from Thebes

Released demos|

* Come, Come To The Sunset Tree
* Heretic Pride Demos
* The Life of the World in Flux
* All Survivors Pack

Cassette releases|

* Taboo VI: The Homecoming
* The Hound Chronicles
* Transmissions to Horace
* Hot Garden Stomp
* Taking the Dative
* Yam, the King of Crops

EPs and singles|

* Songs for Petronius
* Chile de Árbol
* Beautiful Rat Sunset
* Philyra
* Songs for Peter Hughes
* Songs About Fire
* Nine Black Poppies
* New Asian Cinema
* Isopanisad Radio Hour
* On Juhu Beach
* Devil in the Shortwave
* Jam Eater Blues
* See America Right
* Palmcorder Yajna
* Letter from Belgium
* Dilaudid EP
* Babylon Springs EP
* Satanic Messiah
* Hex of Infinite Binding

Individual songs|

* "Lovecraft in Brooklyn"
* "No Children"
* "Sax Rohmer #1"

Collaborations|

* Why You All So Thief? (with Simon Joyner)
* Orange Raja, Blood Royal (with Alastair Galbraith)
* Black Pear Tree (with Kaki King)
* Moon Colony Bloodbath (with John Vanderslice)

Compilations|

* Protein Source of the Future...Now!
* Bitter Melon Farm
* Ghana
* The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp

Unreleased|

* Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg
* Jack and Faye

Collaborators|

* Franklin Bruno
* Richard Colburn
* Nora Danielson
* Lalitree Darnielle
* Alex Decarville
* Maggie Doyle
* Alastair Galbraith
* Erik Friedlander
* Christopher McGuire
* Scott Solter
* John Vanderslice
* Rachel Ware

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