| Artist: | the Mountain Goats |
| Studio: | 22 |
| Compilation: | 4 |
| Live: | 3 |
| Ep: | 18 |
| Singles: | 24 |
| Option: | 10 |
| Option Name: | Demo albums |
| 1Option: | 6 |
| 1Option Name: | Split EPs |
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.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [3] | US Indie [4] | AUS [5] | SCO [6] | UK Sales [7] | UK Indie | ||||||||||
| Zopilote Machine | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Sweden |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Nothing for Juice |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Full Force Galesburg |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| The Coroner's Gambit |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| All Hail West Texas |
| 140 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Tallahassee |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| We Shall All Be Healed |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| The Sunset Tree |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Get Lonely |
| 193 | 19 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Heretic Pride |
| 194 | 28 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| The Life of the World to Come |
| 110 | 14 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| All Eternals Deck |
| 72 | 15 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Transcendental Youth |
| 86 | 16 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Beat the Champ |
| 65 | 5 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Goths |
| 89 | 4 | — | 85 | — | 25 | ||||||||
| In League with Dragons |
| 110 | 6 | — | 65 | 87 | 38 | ||||||||
| Songs for Pierre Chuvin |
| 152 [8] | 19 [9] | 86 | 13 | 21 | 5 | ||||||||
| Getting Into Knives |
| 162 | 34 | — | — | — | 44 | ||||||||
| Dark in Here |
| — | 40 | — | — | 73 | 31 | ||||||||
| Bleed Out |
| — | 37 [10] | — | 73 | 67 | 22 | ||||||||
| Jenny from Thebes |
| — | — | — | — | — | 48 | ||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Sales [11] | US Folk [12] | AUS [13] | |||
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: 1 & 2 |
| 59 | 9 | 90 | |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: 3 & 4 |
| 89 | — | — | |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: 5 |
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| 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 |
See main article: List of cassette releases by Mountain Goats.
| Name | Date | Label | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Indie | AUS [14] | |||
| 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 |
| — | — | |
| Dilaudid |
| — | — | |
| Babylon Springs EP |
| — | 86 | |
| Satanic Messiah |
| — | — | |
| Selected Goths in Ambient |
| — | — | |
| Marsh Witch Visions |
| — | — | |
| Hex of Infinite Binding |
| 44 | — | |
| Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Session |
| — | — | |
| Title | EP details | |
|---|---|---|
| Why You All So Thief? |
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| Orange Raja, Blood Royal |
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| Tropical Depression EP |
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| Bedside Recordings Vol. 1.2 |
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| Black Pear Tree |
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| Takin' It Easy / Good Morning / Revolution Blues / Shot In The Dark |
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| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Jam Eater Blues" | 2002 | |
| "See America Right" | Tallahassee | |
| "Palmcorder Yajna" | 2003 | We Shall All Be Healed |
| "Letter from Belgium" | 2004 | |
| "Steal Smoked Fish" / "In The Shadow Of The Western Hills" | 2012 | Transcendental Youth |
| "Who You Are" | 2014 | |
| "Blood Capsules" / "Dub Capsules" | 2015 | Beat the Champ |
| "Rain in Soho" | 2017 | Goths |
| "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds" | ||
| "From the Lake Trials" | rowspan="2" | |
| "Song for Sasha Banks" | 2018 | |
| Welcome to Passaic | 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" |
| 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" | |
| 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) |
| Name | Date | Label | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nall's Picks | 1993 | Unreleased | N/A[15] | |
| Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg | 1995 | Unreleased | N/A | |
| Jack and Faye[16] | 1996 | Unreleased | 7" |