Guided by Voices discography
The Guided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial.[2] 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.[3]
| Guided by Voices discography | |
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| Studio albums | 38[1] | 
| Live albums | 2 | 
| Compilation albums | 12 | 
| Video albums | 7 | 
| EPs | 19 | 
| Singles | 39 | 
| Soundtrack albums | 7 | 
| Box sets | 6 | 
| Books | 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 [4][5]  | 
US Heat. [4][5]  | 
US Indie [4][5]  | ||||
| 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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| 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[7]
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| 2019 | Warp and Woof[8]
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| 2019 | Sweating the Plague[7]
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| 2020 | Surrender Your Poppy Field
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| 2020 | Mirrored Aztec [10]
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| 2020 | Styles We Paid For [11]
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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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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 | 
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Superchunk/Guided by Voices [12]
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| 1997 | 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV [13]
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| 2001 | Selective Service [14]
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Singles
    
| Year | Song/Single Details | Album | 
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | GBV / Jenny Mae Leffel[15]
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| 1994 | GBV / Grifters[16]
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| 1994 | GBV / Belreve[17]
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| 1995 | GBV / New Radiant Storm King[18]
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| 1997 | GBV / Cobra Verde[19]
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| 2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77[20]
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Live albums
    
| Year | Album details | 
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| 2007 | Live from Austin, TX[21]
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Heat. [4][5]  | 
US Indie [4][5]  | ||
| 1992 | An Earful O' Wax[22]
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| 1993 | Vampire On Titus/Propeller[23]
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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[24]
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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.[26] Steven Soderbergh wrote the foreword.[26] 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).[26][27]
 
 
- 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.[28] The book explores the unusual production of the album, the lyrics of Robert Pollard, and the influence the album has had.[28]
 
 
- Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices
- Written by Matthew Cutter.[29]
 
 
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.
 - "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
 
