Guided by Voices discography

Guided by Voices discography

Guided by Voices performing at Mississippi Nights in 2004.
Releases
↙Studio albums	15/16[1]
↙Live albums	1
↙Compilation albums	4
↙EPs	16
↙Singles	15
↙Video albums	6
↙Soundtracks	7
↙Box sets	4
↙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 1,000 songs.^[2] In addition to the official GBV releases, there have been numerous box-sets of unreleased material, notably Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000) and Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005).

Contents 1 Studio albums 2 Extended plays 2.1 Split EPs 3 Singles 3.1 Split singles 4 Live albums 5 Box sets 6 Compilation albums 7 Soundtracks 8 Video albums 9 Books 10 References 11 External links

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US [3]	US–HS [3]	US–IN [3]
1987	Devil Between My Toes Released: 15 February 1987 Label: Schwa (GBV0001) Format: LP	—	—	—
1987	Sandbox Released: 1987 Label: Halo (#1) Format: LP	—	—	—
1989	Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia Released: 1989 Label: Halo (#2) Format: LP	—	—	—
1990	Same Place the Fly Got Smashed Released: 1990 Label: Rocket #9 (OX846) Format: LP	—	—	—
1992	Propeller Released: 1992 Label: Rockathon Records (#001) Format: LP	—	—	—
1993	Vampire on Titus Released: 1993 Label: Scat (#31) Format: LP	—	—	—
1994	Bee Thousand Released: 21 June 1994 Label: Scat (#35) Format: LP, Cassette, CD	—	—	—
1995	Alien Lanes Released: 4 April 1995 Label: Matador (OLE 123) Format: LP, Cassette, CD	—	—	—
1996	Under the Bushes Under the Stars Released: 26 March 1996 Label: Matador (OLE 161) Format: LP + 12", Cassette, CD	—	—	—
1996	Tonics & Twisted Chasers Released: 1996 Label: Rockathon Records (#002) Format: LP	—	—	—
1997	Mag Earwhig! Released: 20 May 1997 Label: Matador (OLE 241) Format: LP, Cassette, CD	—	—	—
1999	Do the Collapse Released: 3 August 1999 Label: TVT (TVT-1980) Format: LP, Cassette, CD	—	—	—
2001	Isolation Drills Released: 10 April 2001 Label: TVT (TVT 2160) Format: LP, CD	168	—	6
2002	Universal Truths and Cycles Released: 18 June 2002 Label: Matador (OLE 547) Format: LP, CD	160	—	10
2003	Earthquake Glue Released: 19 August 2003 Label: Matador (OLE 574) Format: LP, CD	193	12	8
2004	Half Smiles of the Decomposed Released: 24 August 2004 Label: Matador (OLE 612) Format: LP, CD	—	16	22
2012	Let's Go Eat the Factory Released: 1 January 2012 Label: Guided by Voices Inc./Matador Format: LP, CD	—	—	—

Extended plays

Year	Album details
1986	Forever Since Breakfast Released: 1986 Label: I Wanna (605058X) Format: 12" EP
1993	The Grand Hour Released: 1993 Label: Scat (#28) Format: 7" EP
1993	Static Airplane Jive Released: 1993 Label: City Slang (04939-7) Format: 7" EP
1994	Get Out of My Stations Released: 1994 Label: Siltbreeze (SB 028) Format: 7" EP
1994	Fast Japanese Spin Cycle Released: 1994 Label: Engine (VROOM-07) Format: 7" EP, CD EP
1994	Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer Released: 1994 Label: Domino (RUG 11) Format: 7" EP, CD EP
1994	I Am a Scientist Released: 15 October 1994 Label: Scat (#38) Format: 7" EP, CD EP
1995	Tigerbomb Released: 14 November 1995 Label: Matador (OLE 168-7) Format: 7" EP
1996	Sunfish Holy Breakfast Released: 19 November 1996 Label: Matador (OLE 185) Format: 12" EP, CD EP
1996	Plantations of Pale Pink Released: 19 November 1996 Label: Matador (OLE 208-7) Format: 7" EP
1997	Wish in One Hand… Released: 1997 Label: Jass Records (J001) Format: 7" EP
1999	Plugs for the Program Released: 3 December 1999 Label: TVT (TVT 1983-2) Format: CD EP
2000	Hold on Hope Released: 7 March 2000 Label: TVT (TVT 1985-2) Format: CD EP
2000	Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5 Released: 2 April 2000 Label: Fading Captain Series (#5) Format: 7" EP
2001	Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides Released: 30 March 2001 Label: Fading Captain Series (#10) Format: 12" EP
2002	The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet Released: 17 September 2002 Label: Fading Captain Series (#24) Format: 12" EP, CD EP

Split EPs

• Superchunk/Guided by Voices (CD EP)^[4]
  • Released: 1996 (Australia)
  • Label: Fellaheen (JACK 046-2)
  1. Superchunk – "A Small Definition" – 4:01
  2. Superchunk – "Her Royal Fisticuffs" – 3:37
  3. Superchunk – "The Mine Has Been Returned to the Original Owner" – 3:27
  4. Guided by Voices – "Delayed Reaction Brats" – 1:07
  5. Guided by Voices – "He's the Uncle" – 1:38
  6. Guided by Voices – "Key Losers" – 2:16
  • Total length: 16:06

• 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV (CD EP)^[5]
  • Released: 1 July 1997
  • Label: Radiopaque Recordings (RR013)
  1. Girls Against Boys – "Learned It" – 3:42
  2. Girls Against Boys – "Vera Cruz" – 4:31
  3. Girls Against Boys – "Disco 666" – 2:43
  4. Girls Against Boys – "Kill the Sexplayer" – 3:55
  5. Guided by Voices – "Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy" [Live] – 1:58
  6. Guided by Voices – "Motor Away" [Live] – 2:22
  7. Guided by Voices – "My Valuable Hunting Knife" [Live] – 2:08
  8. Guided by Voices – "Shocker in Gloomtown/Some Drilling Implied" [Live] – 3:00
  • Total length: 24:19

• Selective Service (CD EP)^[6]
  • Released: 10 December 2001
  • Fading Captain Series (#16)
  1. Guided by Voices – "Dayton, Ohio–19 Something and 5" [Live] – 2:56
  2. Guided by Voices – "Travels" – 2:00
  3. Guided by Voices – "No Welcome Wagons" – 2:00
  4. Guided by Voices – "Selective Service" – 1:54
  5. Airport 5 – "Total Exposure" – 4:05
  6. Airport 5 – "Cold War Water Sports" – 3:26
  7. Airport 5 – "The Wheel Hits the Path (Quite Soon)" – 1:27
  8. Airport 5 – "Stifled Man Casino" – 3:18
  9. Airport 5 – "Peroxide" – 1:42
  10. Airport 5 – "Eskimo Clockwork" – 1:23
  11. Airport 5 – "In the Brain" [Bonus track] – 3:59
  • Total length: 28:10

Singles

Year	Song	Album
1995	"Motor Away"	Alien Lanes
1996	"The Official Ironmen Rally Song"	Under the Bushes Under the Stars
1996	"Cut-Out Witch"
1997	"Bulldog Skin"	Mag Earwhig!
1997	"I Am a Tree"
1999	"Surgical Focus"	Do the Collapse
1999	"Teenage FBI"
2001	"Chasing Heather Crazy"	Isolation Drills
2001	"Glad Girls"
2002	"Universal Truths and Cycles"	Universal Truths and Cycles
2002	"Everywhere with Helicopter"
2002	"Cheyenne"
2002	"Back to the Lake"
2003	"My Kind of Soldier"	Earthquake Glue
2003	"The Best of Jill Hives"
2011	"We Won't Apologize for the Human Race" / "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"	Let's Go Eat the Factory
2011	"Doughnut for a Snowman"

Split singles

• GBV / Jenny Mae Leffel^[7]
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Anyway Records (ANYWAY 013)
    • A1: GBV – "If We Wait" (Robert Pollard)
    • B1: Jenny Mae Leffel – "Red Chair"

• GBV / Grifters^[8]
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Now Sound (NOW #2)
    • A1: GBV – "Hey Mr. Soundman" (R. Pollard, Tobin Sprout)
    • A2: GBV – "Announcers and Umpires" (R. Pollard)
    • A3: GBV – "Evil Speaker B" (Jim Pollard)
    • A4: GBV – "Uncle Dave" (R. Pollard)
    • B1: Grifters – "I'm Drunk" (Grifters)

• GBV / Belreve^[9]
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Anyway Records (ANYWAY 021)
    • A1: Belreve – "The Sulk King"
    • B1: GBV – "Always Crush Me" (R. Pollard)

• GBV / New Radiant Storm King^[9]
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Chunk (CH4520)
    • A1: GBV – "The Opposing Engineer (Sleeps Alone)" (New Radiant Storm King)
    • B1: New Radiant Storm King – "I Am a Scientist" (R. Pollard)

• GBV / Cobra Verde^[9]
  • Released: 10 March 1997
  • Label: Wabana (ORE 10)
    • A1: GBV – "Aim Correctly" (R. Pollard)
    • A2: GBV – "Orange Jacket" (R. Pollard)
    • B1: Cobra Verde – "Terrorist"

• GBV / Sin Sin 77^[9]
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Devil in the Woods (#53)
    • A1: GBV – "Cheyenne" [Live] (R. Pollard)
    • B1: Sin Sin 77 – "Radio"

Live albums

• Live from Austin, TX^[10]
  • Released: 15 May 2007
  • Label: New West Records
  • Format: 2 CDs

Box sets

Year	Album details
1995	Box Released: 28 February 1995 Label: Scat Records (#40) Format: 6 LPs, 5 CDs
2000	Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft Released: 17 October 2000 Label: Fading Captain Series (#6) Format: 4 CDs
2003	Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere Released: 4 November 2003 Label: Matador Records (OLE 550) Format: 5 CDs + 1 DVD
2005	Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow Released: 4 October 2005 Label: Fading Captain Series (#37) Format: 4 CDs
2009	Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now Released November 3, 2009 Label: GBV Inc. Format: 4 CDs

Compilation albums

Briefcase and Briefcase 2 are single-disc compilations, selected respectively from Suitcase and Suitcase 2, each of which is a 4-disc box-set.

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US–HS [3]	US–IN [3]
2000	Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries) Released: 17 October 2000 Label: Fading Captain Series (#7) Format: LP	—	—
2003	The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates Released: 4 November 2003 Label: Matador Records (OLE 565) Format: CD	39	26
2005	Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged – The Return of Milko Waif) Released: 4 October 2005 Label: Fading Captain Series (#38) Format: LP	—	—
2007	Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 Released: 29 May 2007 Label: Fading Captain Series (#44) Format: 2 CDs	—	—
2010	Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1 Released: 25 July 2010 Format: CD	—	—

Soundtracks

• Brain Candy Soundtrack (1996)
  • Track 11: "Postal Blowfish" [New version] (Robert Pollard, Mitch Mitchell)

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album (1999)
  • Track 2: "Teenage FBI" (R. Pollard)

• Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Soundtrack (2000)
  • Track 12: "Learning to Hunt" (R. Pollard)

• Dean Quixote: The Soundtrack to the Film (2001)
  • Track 3: "If We Wait" (R. Pollard)

• ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie Soundtrack (2002)
  • Track 5: "Skills Like This" (R. Pollard)

• Scrubs Soundtrack (2002)
  • Track 8: "Hold on Hope" (R. Pollard)

• Beer League Soundtrack (2006)
  • Track 3: "Bulldog Skin" (R. Pollard)
  • Track 9: "Girls of Wild Strawberries" (R. Pollard)

Video albums

Year	Video details
1996	Live at the Whisky a Go Go Released: 1996 Label: Rockathon Records Format: VHS
2000	The Who Went Home and Cried Released: 2000 Label: Format: VHS
2002	Some Drinking Implied Released: 12 October 2002 Label: Rockathon Records Format: DVD
2003	Watch Me Jumpstart: Expanded Version Released: 4 November 2003 Label: Matador (OLE 596) Format: DVD
2005	The Electrifying Conclusion Released: 15 November 2005 Label: Plexifilm Format: DVD
2007	Live from Austin, TX Released: 15 May 2007 Label: New West Records Format: DVD

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.^[11] Steven Soderbergh wrote the foreword.^[11] 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).^[11][12]

• Bee Thousand
  • Written by Marc Woodworth and published by Continuum Books in 2006, this book is about the 1994 album Bee Thousand.^[13] The book explores the unusual production of the album, the lyrics of Robert Pollard, and the influence the album has had.^[13]

References

External links

• Official Guided by Voices website
• GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database

Guided by Voices Robert Pollard Tobin Sprout • Mitch Mitchell • Kevin Fennell • Greg Demos Former members Nate Farley • Doug Gillard • Jim Pollard • Chris Slusarenko • Kevin March • Jim Macpherson • Tim Tobias • Don Thrasher • James Greer Albums Devil Between My Toes (1987) • Sandbox (1987) • Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989) • Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990) • Propeller (1992) • Vampire on Titus (1993) • Bee Thousand (1994) • Alien Lanes (1995) • Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996) • Tonics and Twisted Chasers (1996) • Mag Earwhig! (1997) • Do the Collapse (1999) • Isolation Drills (2001) • Universal Truths and Cycles (2002) • Earthquake Glue (2003) • Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004) • Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012) • Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012) EPs Forever Since Breakfast (1986) • The Grand Hour (1993) • Static Airplane Jive (1993) • Get Out of My Stations (1994) • Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994) • Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994) • I Am a Scientist (1994) • Tigerbomb (1995) • Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) • Plantations of Pale Pink (1996) • Wish in One Hand... (1997) • Plugs for the Program (1999) • Hold on Hope (2000) • Dayton, Ohio–19 Something and 5 (2000) • Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do the Collapse B-sides (2001) • The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) Box sets Box (1995) • Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000) • Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (2003) • Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005) • Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (2009) Compilation The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) • Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007) Related articles Discography • Airport 5 • Boston Spaceships  • Circus Devils • Cobra Verde • Todd Tobias Robert Pollard solo albums Not in My Airforce (1996) • Waved Out (1998) • Kid Marine (1999) • Motel of Fools (2003) • Fiction Man (2004) • From a Compound Eye (2006) • Normal Happiness (2006) • Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) • Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) • Superman Was a Rocker (2008) • Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008) • The Crawling Distance (2009) • Elephant Jokes (2009) • We All Got Out of the Army (2010) • Moses on a Snail (2010) • Space City Kicks (2011) • Lord of the Birdcage (2011) • Mouseman Cloud (2012) Tobin Sprout albums Carnival Boy (1996) • Moonflower Plastic (1997) • Let's Welcome the Circus People (1999) • Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (2003) • The Bluebirds Of Happiness Tried To Land On My Shoulder (2010) Airport 5 albums Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001)  • Life Starts Here (2002) Boston Spaceships albums Brown Submarine (2008)  • The Planets are Blasted (2009)  • Zero to 99 (2009)  • Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010)  • Let It Beard (2011) Acid Ranch albums Some Of The Magic Syrup Was Preserved (2002)  • As Forever: A Manifesto Of Fractured Imagination And Wreckless Living (2005)  • The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great (2007) Circus Devils albums Ringworm Interiors (2001)  • The Harold Pig Memorial (2002)  • Pinball Mars (2004) • Five (2005) • Sgt. Disco (2007) • Ataxia (2008) • Gringo (2009) • Mother Skinny (2010) • Capsized! (2011)