Guided by Voices discography | |
---|---|
Studio albums | 40 [1] [2] |
Live albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 12 |
Video albums | 7 |
EPs | 19 |
Singles | 39 |
Soundtrack albums | 7 |
Box sets | 6 |
Books | 2 |
The Guided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial. [3] 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. [4]
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.
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
US [5] [6] |
US Heat. [5] [6] |
US Indie [5] [6] | ||||
1987 |
Devil Between My Toes
|
— | — | — | ||
1987 |
Sandbox
|
— | — | — | ||
1989 |
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
|
— | — | — | ||
1990 |
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
|
— | — | — | ||
1992 |
Propeller
|
— | — | — | ||
1993 |
Vampire on Titus
|
— | — | — | ||
1994 | Bee Thousand | — | — | — | ||
1995 |
Alien Lanes
|
— | — | — | ||
1996 |
Under the Bushes Under the Stars
|
— | 19 | — | ||
1996 |
Tonics & Twisted Chasers
|
— | — | — | ||
1997 |
Mag Earwhig!
|
— | 19 | — | ||
1999 |
Do the Collapse
|
— | 14 | — | ||
2001 |
Isolation Drills
|
168 | 8 | 6 | ||
2002 |
Universal Truths and Cycles
|
160 | 3 | 10 | ||
2003 |
Earthquake Glue
|
193 | 12 | 8 | ||
2004 |
Half Smiles of the Decomposed
|
— | 16 | 22 | ||
2012 |
Let's Go Eat the Factory
|
— | 8 | 35 | ||
2012 |
Class Clown Spots a UFO
|
— | 12 | — | ||
2012 |
The Bears for Lunch
|
— | 9 | — | ||
2013 |
English Little League
|
— | 21 | — | ||
2014 |
Motivational Jumpsuit
|
— | 18 | — | ||
2014 |
Cool Planet
|
— | 20 | — | ||
2016 |
Please Be Honest
|
— | — | — | ||
2017 |
August by Cake
|
— | 22 | — | ||
2017 |
How Do You Spell Heaven
|
— | 20 | 37 | ||
2018 |
Space Gun
|
— | — | — | ||
2019 |
Zeppelin Over China
[8]
|
— | — | — | ||
2019 |
Warp and Woof
[9]
|
— | — | — | ||
2019 |
Sweating the Plague
[8]
|
— | — | — | ||
2020 |
Surrender Your Poppy Field
|
— | — | — | ||
2020 |
Mirrored Aztec
[11]
|
— | — | — | ||
2020 |
Styles We Paid For
[12]
|
— | — | — | ||
2021 |
Earth Man Blues
|
— | — | — | ||
2021 |
It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
|
— | — | — | ||
2022 |
Crystal Nuns Cathedral
|
— | — | — | ||
2022 |
Tremblers and Goggles by Rank
|
— | — | — | ||
2023 |
La La Land
|
— | — | — | ||
Welshpool Frillies
|
— | — | — | |||
Nowhere to Go but Up
|
— | — | — | |||
2024 |
Strut of Kings
[1]
|
— | — | — |
Year | Album details |
---|---|
1986 |
Forever Since Breakfast
|
1993 |
The Grand Hour
|
1993 |
Static Airplane Jive
|
1994 |
Get Out of My Stations
|
1994 |
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
|
1994 |
Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer
|
1994 |
I Am a Scientist
|
1995 |
Tigerbomb
|
1996 |
Sunfish Holy Breakfast
|
1996 |
Plantations of Pale Pink
|
1997 |
Wish in One Hand…
|
1999 |
Plugs for the Program
|
2000 |
Hold on Hope
|
2000 |
Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5
|
2001 |
Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides
|
2002 |
The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet
|
2013 |
Down by the Racetrack
|
2018 |
Wine Cork Stonehenge
|
2018 | 100 Dougs
|
2019 | 1901 Acid Rock
|
2019 | Umlaut Over the Ozone
|
Year | Split Details | Songs |
---|---|---|
1996 | Superchunk/Guided by Voices
[13]
|
|
1997 | 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV
[14]
|
|
2001 | Selective Service
[15]
|
|
Year | Song/Single Details | 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"
| |
1999 | "
Hold on Hope"
| |
2001 | "Chasing Heather Crazy"
|
Isolation Drills |
2001 | "Glad Girls"
| |
2002 | "Back to the Lake"
|
Universal Truths and Cycles |
2002 | "Cheyenne"
| |
2002 | "Everywhere with Helicopter"
| |
2002 | "Universal Truths and Cycles"
| |
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"
| |
2012 | "Chocolate Boy"
| |
2012 | "Keep It In Motion"
|
Class Clown Spots a UFO |
2012 | "Jon The Croc"
| |
2012 | "Class Clown Spots a UFO"
| |
2012 | "White Flag"
|
The Bears for Lunch |
2012 | "Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere"
| |
2012 | "Hangover Child"
| |
2013 | "Flunky Minnows"
|
English Little League |
2013 | "Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)"
| |
2013 | "Trash Can Full Of Nails"
| |
2013 | "Xeno Pariah"
| |
2013 | "Noble Insect"
| |
2014 | "Save The Company"
|
Motivational Jumpsuit |
2014 | "Vote For Me Dummy"
| |
2014 | "Alex And The Omegas"
| |
2014 | "The Littlest League Possible" / "Jupiter Spin"
| |
2014 | "Planet Score" / "Zero Elasticity"
| |
2014 | "Authoritarian Zoo"
|
Cool Planet |
2014 | "Males Of Wormwood Mars"
| |
2014 | "Table At Fool’s Tooth"
| |
2014 | "All American Boy"
|
Year | Split Details | Songs |
---|---|---|
1993 | GBV /
Jenny Mae Leffel
[16]
|
|
1994 | GBV /
Grifters
[17]
|
|
1994 | GBV / Belreve
[18]
|
|
1995 | GBV /
New Radiant Storm King
[19]
|
|
1997 | GBV /
Cobra Verde
[20]
|
|
2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77
[21]
|
|
Year | Album details |
---|---|
2007 |
Live from Austin, TX
[22]
|
2018 | Ogre's Trumpet
|
Year | Album details |
---|---|
1995 | Box |
2000 |
Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
|
2003 |
Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere
|
2005 |
Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
|
2009 |
Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
|
2015 |
Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
|
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 | |
---|---|---|---|
US Heat. [5] [6] |
US Indie [5] [6] | ||
1992 |
An Earful O' Wax
[23]
|
— | — |
1993 |
Vampire On Titus/Propeller
[24]
|
— | — |
1995 |
King Shit & The Golden Boys
|
— | — |
2000 | Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries)
|
— | — |
2003 |
The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
|
39 | 26 |
2005 | Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged – The Return of Milko Waif)
|
— | — |
2007 |
Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007
|
— | — |
2009 | Briefcase 3: Cuddling Bozo's Octopus
|
— | — |
2010 |
Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1
|
— | — |
2013 | Glue On Bicycle
[25]
|
— | — |
2015 | Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
|
— | — |
2022 | Scalping the Guru
|
— | — |
Year | Album details | Track details |
---|---|---|
1996 |
Brain Candy Soundtrack
|
|
1999 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
|
|
2000 |
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Soundtrack
|
|
2001 | Dean Quixote: The Soundtrack to the Film
|
|
2002 | ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie Soundtrack
|
|
2002 |
Scrubs Soundtrack
|
|
2006 |
Beer League Soundtrack
|
|
Year | Video details |
---|---|
1996 | Live at the
Whisky a Go Go
|
2003 | Watch Me Jumpstart
|
2000 | The Who Went Home and Cried
|
2002 | Some Drinking Implied
|
2003 | Watch Me Jumpstart: Expanded Version
|
2005 | The Electrifying Conclusion
|
2007 | Live from Austin, TX
|
Year | Album details |
---|---|
1994 |
Crying Your Knife Away
|
1995 | For All Good Kids
|
N/A | Live at The Embassy, London, ONT - October 26, 1995
|
1996 | Benefit For The Winos
|
N/A | @ The Garage, London, June 21, 1996
|
1996 |
Jellyfish Reflector
|
N/A | The Garage, London, October 8, 1997
|
N/A | Live at Bernie's, Columbus, OH - March 28, 1998
|
1999 | I'm Much Greater Than You Think
|
Guided by Voices discography | |
---|---|
Studio albums | 40 [1] [2] |
Live albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 12 |
Video albums | 7 |
EPs | 19 |
Singles | 39 |
Soundtrack albums | 7 |
Box sets | 6 |
Books | 2 |
The Guided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial. [3] 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. [4]
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.
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
US [5] [6] |
US Heat. [5] [6] |
US Indie [5] [6] | ||||
1987 |
Devil Between My Toes
|
— | — | — | ||
1987 |
Sandbox
|
— | — | — | ||
1989 |
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
|
— | — | — | ||
1990 |
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
|
— | — | — | ||
1992 |
Propeller
|
— | — | — | ||
1993 |
Vampire on Titus
|
— | — | — | ||
1994 | Bee Thousand | — | — | — | ||
1995 |
Alien Lanes
|
— | — | — | ||
1996 |
Under the Bushes Under the Stars
|
— | 19 | — | ||
1996 |
Tonics & Twisted Chasers
|
— | — | — | ||
1997 |
Mag Earwhig!
|
— | 19 | — | ||
1999 |
Do the Collapse
|
— | 14 | — | ||
2001 |
Isolation Drills
|
168 | 8 | 6 | ||
2002 |
Universal Truths and Cycles
|
160 | 3 | 10 | ||
2003 |
Earthquake Glue
|
193 | 12 | 8 | ||
2004 |
Half Smiles of the Decomposed
|
— | 16 | 22 | ||
2012 |
Let's Go Eat the Factory
|
— | 8 | 35 | ||
2012 |
Class Clown Spots a UFO
|
— | 12 | — | ||
2012 |
The Bears for Lunch
|
— | 9 | — | ||
2013 |
English Little League
|
— | 21 | — | ||
2014 |
Motivational Jumpsuit
|
— | 18 | — | ||
2014 |
Cool Planet
|
— | 20 | — | ||
2016 |
Please Be Honest
|
— | — | — | ||
2017 |
August by Cake
|
— | 22 | — | ||
2017 |
How Do You Spell Heaven
|
— | 20 | 37 | ||
2018 |
Space Gun
|
— | — | — | ||
2019 |
Zeppelin Over China
[8]
|
— | — | — | ||
2019 |
Warp and Woof
[9]
|
— | — | — | ||
2019 |
Sweating the Plague
[8]
|
— | — | — | ||
2020 |
Surrender Your Poppy Field
|
— | — | — | ||
2020 |
Mirrored Aztec
[11]
|
— | — | — | ||
2020 |
Styles We Paid For
[12]
|
— | — | — | ||
2021 |
Earth Man Blues
|
— | — | — | ||
2021 |
It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
|
— | — | — | ||
2022 |
Crystal Nuns Cathedral
|
— | — | — | ||
2022 |
Tremblers and Goggles by Rank
|
— | — | — | ||
2023 |
La La Land
|
— | — | — | ||
Welshpool Frillies
|
— | — | — | |||
Nowhere to Go but Up
|
— | — | — | |||
2024 |
Strut of Kings
[1]
|
— | — | — |
Year | Album details |
---|---|
1986 |
Forever Since Breakfast
|
1993 |
The Grand Hour
|
1993 |
Static Airplane Jive
|
1994 |
Get Out of My Stations
|
1994 |
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
|
1994 |
Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer
|
1994 |
I Am a Scientist
|
1995 |
Tigerbomb
|
1996 |
Sunfish Holy Breakfast
|
1996 |
Plantations of Pale Pink
|
1997 |
Wish in One Hand…
|
1999 |
Plugs for the Program
|
2000 |
Hold on Hope
|
2000 |
Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5
|
2001 |
Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides
|
2002 |
The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet
|
2013 |
Down by the Racetrack
|
2018 |
Wine Cork Stonehenge
|
2018 | 100 Dougs
|
2019 | 1901 Acid Rock
|
2019 | Umlaut Over the Ozone
|
Year | Split Details | Songs |
---|---|---|
1996 | Superchunk/Guided by Voices
[13]
|
|
1997 | 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV
[14]
|
|
2001 | Selective Service
[15]
|
|
Year | Song/Single Details | 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"
| |
1999 | "
Hold on Hope"
| |
2001 | "Chasing Heather Crazy"
|
Isolation Drills |
2001 | "Glad Girls"
| |
2002 | "Back to the Lake"
|
Universal Truths and Cycles |
2002 | "Cheyenne"
| |
2002 | "Everywhere with Helicopter"
| |
2002 | "Universal Truths and Cycles"
| |
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"
| |
2012 | "Chocolate Boy"
| |
2012 | "Keep It In Motion"
|
Class Clown Spots a UFO |
2012 | "Jon The Croc"
| |
2012 | "Class Clown Spots a UFO"
| |
2012 | "White Flag"
|
The Bears for Lunch |
2012 | "Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere"
| |
2012 | "Hangover Child"
| |
2013 | "Flunky Minnows"
|
English Little League |
2013 | "Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)"
| |
2013 | "Trash Can Full Of Nails"
| |
2013 | "Xeno Pariah"
| |
2013 | "Noble Insect"
| |
2014 | "Save The Company"
|
Motivational Jumpsuit |
2014 | "Vote For Me Dummy"
| |
2014 | "Alex And The Omegas"
| |
2014 | "The Littlest League Possible" / "Jupiter Spin"
| |
2014 | "Planet Score" / "Zero Elasticity"
| |
2014 | "Authoritarian Zoo"
|
Cool Planet |
2014 | "Males Of Wormwood Mars"
| |
2014 | "Table At Fool’s Tooth"
| |
2014 | "All American Boy"
|
Year | Split Details | Songs |
---|---|---|
1993 | GBV /
Jenny Mae Leffel
[16]
|
|
1994 | GBV /
Grifters
[17]
|
|
1994 | GBV / Belreve
[18]
|
|
1995 | GBV /
New Radiant Storm King
[19]
|
|
1997 | GBV /
Cobra Verde
[20]
|
|
2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77
[21]
|
|
Year | Album details |
---|---|
2007 |
Live from Austin, TX
[22]
|
2018 | Ogre's Trumpet
|
Year | Album details |
---|---|
1995 | Box |
2000 |
Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
|
2003 |
Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere
|
2005 |
Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
|
2009 |
Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
|
2015 |
Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
|
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 | |
---|---|---|---|
US Heat. [5] [6] |
US Indie [5] [6] | ||
1992 |
An Earful O' Wax
[23]
|
— | — |
1993 |
Vampire On Titus/Propeller
[24]
|
— | — |
1995 |
King Shit & The Golden Boys
|
— | — |
2000 | Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries)
|
— | — |
2003 |
The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
|
39 | 26 |
2005 | Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged – The Return of Milko Waif)
|
— | — |
2007 |
Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007
|
— | — |
2009 | Briefcase 3: Cuddling Bozo's Octopus
|
— | — |
2010 |
Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1
|
— | — |
2013 | Glue On Bicycle
[25]
|
— | — |
2015 | Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
|
— | — |
2022 | Scalping the Guru
|
— | — |
Year | Album details | Track details |
---|---|---|
1996 |
Brain Candy Soundtrack
|
|
1999 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
|
|
2000 |
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Soundtrack
|
|
2001 | Dean Quixote: The Soundtrack to the Film
|
|
2002 | ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie Soundtrack
|
|
2002 |
Scrubs Soundtrack
|
|
2006 |
Beer League Soundtrack
|
|
Year | Video details |
---|---|
1996 | Live at the
Whisky a Go Go
|
2003 | Watch Me Jumpstart
|
2000 | The Who Went Home and Cried
|
2002 | Some Drinking Implied
|
2003 | Watch Me Jumpstart: Expanded Version
|
2005 | The Electrifying Conclusion
|
2007 | Live from Austin, TX
|
Year | Album details |
---|---|
1994 |
Crying Your Knife Away
|
1995 | For All Good Kids
|
N/A | Live at The Embassy, London, ONT - October 26, 1995
|
1996 | Benefit For The Winos
|
N/A | @ The Garage, London, June 21, 1996
|
1996 |
Jellyfish Reflector
|
N/A | The Garage, London, October 8, 1997
|
N/A | Live at Bernie's, Columbus, OH - March 28, 1998
|
1999 | I'm Much Greater Than You Think
|