Guided by Voices discography | |
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Guided by Voices performing in 2012 | |
Studio albums | 40 |
EPs | 19 |
Soundtrack albums | 7 |
Live albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 12 |
Singles | 39 |
Video albums | 7 |
Box sets | 6 |
Books | 2 |
The Guided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial. Robert Pollard, the main creative force behind the band, is an extremely prolific songwriter, having written or co-written more than 1,600 songs, with over 500 of them released under the Guided by Voices moniker.
In addition to official Guided by Voices albums, there have been numerous official singles, extended plays, split releases and compilations, as well as four box-sets of previously unreleased material known as "Suitcases" that each contain four CDs with twenty-five tracks each, for a total of 100 songs per release.
Studio albums
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
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US |
US Heat. |
US Indie | ||||
1987 | Devil Between My Toes
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1987 | Sandbox
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1989 | Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
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1990 | Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
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1992 | Propeller
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1993 | Vampire on Titus
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1994 | Bee Thousand | — | — | — | ||
1995 | Alien Lanes
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1996 | Under the Bushes Under the Stars
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— | 19 | — | ||
1996 | Tonics & Twisted Chasers
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1997 | Mag Earwhig!
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— | 19 | — | ||
1999 | Do the Collapse
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— | 14 | — | ||
2001 | Isolation Drills
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168 | 8 | 6 | ||
2002 | Universal Truths and Cycles
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160 | 3 | 10 | ||
2003 | Earthquake Glue
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193 | 12 | 8 | ||
2004 | Half Smiles of the Decomposed
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— | 16 | 22 | ||
2012 | Let's Go Eat the Factory
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— | 8 | 35 | ||
2012 | Class Clown Spots a UFO
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— | 12 | — | ||
2012 | The Bears for Lunch
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— | 9 | — | ||
2013 | English Little League
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— | 21 | — | ||
2014 | Motivational Jumpsuit
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— | 18 | — | ||
2014 | Cool Planet
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— | 20 | — | ||
2016 | Please Be Honest
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— | — | — | ||
2017 | August by Cake
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— | 22 | — | ||
2017 | How Do You Spell Heaven
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— | 20 | 37 | ||
2018 | Space Gun
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2019 | Zeppelin Over China
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2019 | Warp and Woof
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2019 | Sweating the Plague
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2020 | Surrender Your Poppy Field
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2020 | Mirrored Aztec
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2020 | Styles We Paid For
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2021 | Earth Man Blues
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2021 | It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
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2022 | Crystal Nuns Cathedral
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2022 | Tremblers and Goggles by Rank
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2023 | La La Land
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Welshpool Frillies
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Nowhere to Go but Up
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2024 | Strut of Kings
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Extended plays
Year | Album details |
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1986 | Forever Since Breakfast
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1993 | The Grand Hour
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1993 | Static Airplane Jive
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1994 | Get Out of My Stations
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1994 | Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
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1994 | Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer
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1994 | I Am a Scientist
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1995 | Tigerbomb
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1996 | Sunfish Holy Breakfast
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1996 | Plantations of Pale Pink
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1997 | Wish in One Hand…
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1999 | Plugs for the Program
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2000 | Hold on Hope
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2000 | Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5
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2001 | Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides
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2002 | The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet
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2013 | Down by the Racetrack
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2018 | Wine Cork Stonehenge
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2018 | 100 Dougs
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2019 | 1901 Acid Rock
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2019 | Umlaut Over the Ozone
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Split EPs
Year | Split Details | Songs |
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1996 | Superchunk/Guided by Voices
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1997 | 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV
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2001 | Selective Service
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Singles
Year | Song/Single Details | Album |
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1995 | "Motor Away"
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Alien Lanes |
1996 | "The Official Ironmen Rally Song"
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Under the Bushes Under the Stars |
1996 | "Cut-Out Witch"
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1997 | "Bulldog Skin"
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Mag Earwhig! |
1997 | "I Am a Tree"
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1999 | "Surgical Focus"
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Do the Collapse |
1999 | "Teenage FBI"
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1999 | "Hold on Hope"
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2001 | "Chasing Heather Crazy"
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Isolation Drills |
2001 | "Glad Girls"
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2002 | "Back to the Lake"
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Universal Truths and Cycles |
2002 | "Cheyenne"
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2002 | "Everywhere with Helicopter"
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2002 | "Universal Truths and Cycles"
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2003 | "My Kind of Soldier"
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Earthquake Glue |
2003 | "The Best of Jill Hives"
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2011 | "We Won't Apologize for the Human Race" / "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"
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Let's Go Eat the Factory |
2011 | "Doughnut for a Snowman"
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2012 | "Chocolate Boy"
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2012 | "Keep It In Motion"
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Class Clown Spots a UFO |
2012 | "Jon The Croc"
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2012 | "Class Clown Spots a UFO"
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2012 | "White Flag"
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The Bears for Lunch |
2012 | "Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere"
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2012 | "Hangover Child"
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2013 | "Flunky Minnows"
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English Little League |
2013 | "Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)"
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2013 | "Trash Can Full Of Nails"
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2013 | "Xeno Pariah"
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2013 | "Noble Insect"
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2014 | "Save The Company"
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Motivational Jumpsuit |
2014 | "Vote For Me Dummy"
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2014 | "Alex And The Omegas"
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2014 | "The Littlest League Possible" / "Jupiter Spin"
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2014 | "Planet Score" / "Zero Elasticity"
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2014 | "Authoritarian Zoo"
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Cool Planet |
2014 | "Males Of Wormwood Mars"
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2014 | "Table At Fool’s Tooth"
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2014 | "All American Boy"
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Split singles
Year | Split Details | Songs |
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1993 | GBV / Jenny Mae Leffel
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1994 | GBV / Grifters
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1994 | GBV / Belreve
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1995 | GBV / New Radiant Storm King
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1997 | GBV / Cobra Verde
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2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77
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Live albums
Year | Album details |
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2007 | Live from Austin, TX
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2018 | Ogre's Trumpet
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Box sets
Year | Album details |
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1995 | Box |
2000 | Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
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2003 | Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere
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2005 | Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
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2009 | Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
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2015 | Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
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Compilation albums
Each of the four Briefcase releases is a single LP compilation of songs selected from the associated 4-disc Suitcase box-set.
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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US Heat. |
US Indie | ||
1992 | An Earful O' Wax
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— | — |
1993 | Vampire On Titus/Propeller
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— | — |
1995 | King Shit & The Golden Boys
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— | — |
2000 | Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries)
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— | — |
2003 | The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
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39 | 26 |
2005 | Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged – The Return of Milko Waif)
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— | — |
2007 | Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007
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— | — |
2009 | Briefcase 3: Cuddling Bozo's Octopus
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— | — |
2010 | Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1
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— | — |
2013 | Glue On Bicycle
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— | — |
2015 | Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
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— | — |
2022 | Scalping the Guru
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— | — |
Soundtracks
Year | Album details | Track details |
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1996 | Brain Candy Soundtrack
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1999 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
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2000 | Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Soundtrack
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2001 | Dean Quixote: The Soundtrack to the Film
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2002 | ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie Soundtrack
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2002 | Scrubs Soundtrack
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2006 | Beer League Soundtrack
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Video albums
Year | Video details |
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1996 | Live at the Whisky a Go Go
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2003 | Watch Me Jumpstart
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2000 | The Who Went Home and Cried
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2002 | Some Drinking Implied
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2003 | Watch Me Jumpstart: Expanded Version
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2005 | The Electrifying Conclusion
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2007 | Live from Austin, TX
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Unofficial albums
Year | Album details |
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1994 | Crying Your Knife Away
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1995 | For All Good Kids
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N/A | Live at The Embassy, London, ONT - October 26, 1995
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1996 | Benefit For The Winos
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N/A | @ The Garage, London, June 21, 1996
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1996 | Jellyfish Reflector
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N/A | The Garage, London, October 8, 1997
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N/A | Live at Bernie's, Columbus, OH - March 28, 1998
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1999 | I'm Much Greater Than You Think
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Books
- Guided by Voices: A Brief History — Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in The Forests of Rock and Roll
- Written by James Greer and published by Grove/Atlantic in 2005, this is the first biography of GBV authorized by the band. Steven Soderbergh wrote the foreword. Author Jim Greer, a former editor of Spin magazine, was also a member of the band from 1994 to 1996 (he wrote the song "Trendspotter Acrobat" on Sunfish Holy Breakfast).
- Bee Thousand
- Written by Marc Woodworth and published by Continuum Books in 2006 as part of their 33⅓ series, this book is about the 1994 album Bee Thousand. The book explores the unusual production of the album, the lyrics of Robert Pollard, and the influence the album has had.
- Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices
- Written by Matthew Cutter.
References
- ^ Lapierre, Megan (April 16, 2024). "Guided by Voices Announce 'Strut of Kings,' Their Only Album of 2024". Exclaim!. ISSN 1207-6600. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
- Since the album Tonics & Twisted Chasers was originally released only to the GBV fan club, it is often not counted among the GBV studio albums.
- "Guided By Voices". Discogs. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- "Robert Pollard". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- 1,101 songs credited as "Songwriter" + 547 as "Co-Songwriter" = 1,648 songs in total; 539 credited to Guided by Voices
- ^ "Artist Chart History – Guided by Voices". Billboard.com. Nielsen Company. Retrieved September 4, 2008.
- ^ "Guided by Voices | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- Released the following year with bonus tracks.
- ^ "Music". Factory of Raw Essentials. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- "The Quietus | Reviews | Guided By Voices". The Quietus. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- Rowin, Michael Joshua (February 14, 2020). "Review: Guided by Voices's Surrender Your Poppy Field Serves Power Pop with a Twist". Slant. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
- Rowin, Michael Joshua (August 14, 2020). "Review: With Mirrored Aztec, Guided by Voices Gets Back to Basics". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
- Schatz, Lake (October 19, 2020). "Guided by Voices Announce Third Album of 2020, Share "Mr. Child": Stream". Consequence. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- "Superchunk/Guided By Voices [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices & Airport 5 - Selective Service [Split, Bonus Tracks]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices/Jenny Mae Leffel [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices/Grifters [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices/Belreve [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices/New Radiant Storm King [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices/Cobra Verde [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices/Sin Sin 77 [Split]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Live From Austin, TX [Live]". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Guided By Voices - An Earful O'Wax". Discogs. October 2, 1994. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- "Guided By Voices - Vampire On Titus / Propeller". Discogs. October 2, 1993. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- "Guided By Voices - Glue On Bicycle". Discogs. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- "Guided By Voices". Discogs. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
- ^ "Guided By Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years Of Hunting Accidents In The Forests Of Rock And Roll (By James Greer)". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Jim Greer". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- ^ "Bee Thousand (By Marc Woodworth)". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- "Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices (By Matthew Cutter)". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
External links
- Official Guided by Voices website
- GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database