The Mountain Goats are the greatest folk-punk band of all time. This website is an archive/index of set lists, banter, annotated lyrics, and other sundries. It remains perpetually under construction. It is also, especially when annotated with commentary, the opinions of one person, who is quite fallible and generally biased. You may wish to check out the excellent Annotated Mountain Goats and More Annotated Mountain Goats (hat tip for being the Best of the Internet, I stand on the shoulders of giants, etc) for a more strictly academic approach to parsing references, rather than this site's hodgepodge of banter, references, definitions, and unvarnished opinions about how hard a specific song goes or whatever.
Annotations alone may be found on individual album pages, indexed below. They are duplicated on individual song pages, which also contain transcribed banter related to that song, comprehensive list of performances with links to recordings (when available), and other supplemental material.
This website owes its genesis to the great Annotated TMG site, which is coming offline as of the end of 2025. Its content is being merged here slowly as I get to it. I have attempted to credit footnotes everywhere that is possible, but if something fell through the cracks, please reach out. More detailed thanks and credits are available here.
Broadly construed (includes EPs, live releases, etc), listed in reverse release order because that's how I like it.
Unreleased songs can be found in the song index. Miscellanea are scattered throughout. If I'm missing something big, please tell me about it.