| Guided by Voices discography | |
|---|---|
 Guided by Voices performing in 2012 | |
| Studio albums | 43[1][2] |
| EPs | 19 |
| Soundtrack albums | 7 |
| Live albums | 2 |
| Compilation albums | 12 |
| Singles | 39 |
| Video albums | 7 |
| Box sets | 6 |
| Books | 2 |
TheGuided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial.[3]Robert Pollard, the main creative force behind the band, is a 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 | Number | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
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| US [5][6] | US Heat. [5][6] | US Indie [5][6] | |||
| 1987 | 1 | Devil Between My Toes
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| 2 | Sandbox
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| 1989 | 3 | Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
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| 1990 | 4 | Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
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| 1992 | 5 | Propeller
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| 1993 | 6 | Vampire on Titus
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| 1994 | 7 | Bee Thousand | — | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | Alien Lanes
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| 1996 | 9 | Under the Bushes Under the Stars
| — | 19 | — |
| 10 | Tonics & Twisted Chasers
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| 1997 | 11 | Mag Earwhig!
| — | 19 | — |
| 1999 | 12 | Do the Collapse
| — | 14 | — |
| 2001 | 13 | Isolation Drills
| 168 | 8 | 6 |
| 2002 | 14 | Universal Truths and Cycles
| 160 | 3 | 10 |
| 2003 | 15 | Earthquake Glue
| 193 | 12 | 8 |
| 2004 | 16 | Half Smiles of the Decomposed
| — | 16 | 22 |
| 2012 | 16 | Let's Go Eat the Factory
| — | 8 | 35 |
| 17 | Class Clown Spots a UFO
| — | 12 | — | |
| 18 | The Bears for Lunch
| — | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | 19 | English Little League
| — | 21 | — |
| 2014 | 20 | Motivational Jumpsuit
| — | 18 | — |
| 21 | Cool Planet
| — | 20 | — | |
| 2016 | 22 | Please Be Honest
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| 2017 | 23 | August by Cake
| — | 22 | — |
| 24 | How Do You Spell Heaven
| — | 20 | 37 | |
| 2018 | 25 | Space Gun
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| 2019 | 26 | Zeppelin Over China[8]
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| 27 | Warp and Woof[9]
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| 28 | Sweating the Plague[8]
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| 2020 | 29 | Surrender Your Poppy Field
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| 30 | Mirrored Aztec[11]
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| 31 | Styles We Paid For[12]
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| 2021 | 32 | Earth Man Blues
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| 33 | It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
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| 2022 | 34 | Crystal Nuns Cathedral
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| 35 | Tremblers and Goggles by Rank
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| 2023 | 36 | La La Land
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| 37 | Welshpool Frillies
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| 38 | Nowhere to Go but Up
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| 2024 | 40 | Strut of Kings[1]
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| 2025 | 42 | Universe Room
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| 43 | Thick, Rich & Delicious
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| Year | EP details |
|---|---|
| 1986 | Forever Since Breakfast
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| 1993 | The Grand Hour
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Static Airplane Jive
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| 1994 | Get Out of My Stations
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Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
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Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer
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I Am a Scientist
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| 1995 | Tigerbomb
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| 1996 | Sunfish Holy Breakfast
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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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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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100 Dougs
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| 2019 | 1901 Acid Rock
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Umlaut Over the Ozone
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| Year | Split Details | Songs |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Superchunk/Guided by Voices[13]
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| 1997 | 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV[14]
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| 2001 | Selective Service[15]
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| 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"
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| 1997 | "Bulldog Skin"
| Mag Earwhig! |
| 1997 | "I Am a Tree"
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| 1999 | "Surgical Focus"
| Do the Collapse |
| 1999 | "Teenage FBI"
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| 1999 | "Hold on Hope"
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| 2001 | "Chasing Heather Crazy"
| Isolation Drills |
| 2001 | "Glad Girls"
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| 2002 | "Back to the Lake"
| 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"
| 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"
| 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"
| 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"
| The Bears for Lunch |
| 2012 | "Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere"
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| 2012 | "Hangover Child"
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| 2013 | "Flunky Minnows"
| 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"
| 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"
| 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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| Year | Split Details | Songs |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | GBV /Jenny Mae Leffel[16]
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| 1994 | GBV /Grifters[17]
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| 1994 | GBV / Belreve[18]
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| 1995 | GBV /New Radiant Storm King[19]
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| 1997 | GBV /Cobra Verde[20]
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| 2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77[21]
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| Year | Album details |
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| 2007 | Live from Austin, TX[22]
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| 2018 | Ogre's Trumpet
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| 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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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]
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| 1993 | Vampire On Titus/Propeller[24]
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| 1995 | King Shit & The Golden Boys
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| 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
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| 2009 | Briefcase 3: Cuddling Bozo's Octopus
| — | — |
| 2010 | Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1
| — | — |
| 2013 | Glue On Bicycle[25]
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| 2015 | Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
| — | — |
| 2022 | Scalping the Guru
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| 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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| Year | Video details |
|---|---|
| 1996 | Live at theWhisky a Go Go
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| 1998 | 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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| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 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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