Guided by Voices discography
Guided by Voices discography | |
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Guided by Voices performing at Mississippi Nights in 2004. | |
Studio albums | 23/24[1] |
Live albums | 1 |
Compilation albums | 6 |
Video albums | 7 |
EPs | 17 |
Singles | 39 |
Soundtrack albums | 7 |
Box sets | 6 |
Books | 2 |
The Guided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial. Only the official releases credited specifically to the band are documented below. 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.[2]
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 Heat. [3][4] |
US Indie [3][4] | ||||
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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— | — | — | ||
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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Split EPs
Year | Split Details | Songs |
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1996 | Superchunk/Guided by Voices [5]
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1997 | 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV [6]
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2001 | Selective Service [7]
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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[8]
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1994 | GBV / Grifters[9]
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1994 | GBV / Belreve[10]
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1995 | GBV / New Radiant Storm King[11]
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1997 | GBV / Cobra Verde[12]
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2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77[13]
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Live albums
Year | Album details |
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2007 | Live from Austin, TX[14]
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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. [3][4] |
US Indie [3][4] | ||
1995 | King Shit and 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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— | — |
2015 | Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
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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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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.[15] Steven Soderbergh wrote the foreword.[15] Author Jim Greer, a former editor of Spin magazine, was also a member of the band from 1994–96 (he wrote the song "Trendspotter Acrobat" on Sunfish Holy Breakfast).[15][16]
- 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.[17] The book explores the unusual production of the album, the lyrics of Robert Pollard, and the influence the album has had.[17]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Robert Pollard". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2013-10-01. External link in
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(help)- 1,101 songs credited as "Songwriter" + 547 as "Co-Songwriter" = 1,648 songs in total; 539 credited to Guided by Voices
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Artist Chart History – Guided by Voices". Billboard.com. Nielsen Company. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Guided by Voices | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ↑ "Superchunk/Guided By Voices [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices & Airport 5 - Selective Service [Split, Bonus Tracks]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices/Jenny Mae Leffel [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices/Grifters [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices/Belreve [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices/New Radiant Storm King [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices/Cobra Verde [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Guided By Voices/Sin Sin 77 [Split]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Live From Austin, TX [Live]". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - 1 2 3 "Guided By Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years Of Hunting Accidents In The Forests Of Rock And Roll (By James Greer)". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Jim Greer". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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(help) - 1 2 "Bee Thousand (By Marc Woodworth)". GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database. Retrieved 2008-09-05. External link in
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External links
- Official Guided by Voices website
- GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database