| Guided by Voices discography | |
|---|---|
|  Guided by Voices performing in 2012 | |
| 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 | 
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]
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 
 | — | 19 | — | ||
| 1996 | Tonics & Twisted Chasers 
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| 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 
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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 
 | — | — | — | |||
Extended plays
| Year | Album details | 
|---|---|
| 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" 
 | 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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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 | 
|---|---|
| 2007 | Live from Austin, TX[21] 
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| 2018 | Ogre's Trumpet 
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Box sets
| Year | Album details | 
|---|---|
| 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] 
 | — | — | 
| 1993 | Vampire On Titus/Propeller[23] 
 | — | — | 
| 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[24] 
 | — | — | 
| 2015 | Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War 
 | — | — | 
| 2022 | Scalping the Guru 
 | — | — | 
Soundtracks
| Year | Album details | Track details | 
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 
|---|---|
| 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 | 
|---|---|
| 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
 
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Artist Chart History – Guided by Voices". Billboard.com. Nielsen Company. Retrieved September 4, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Guided by Voices | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ↑ Released the following year with bonus tracks.
- 1 2 "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.
- 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.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- ↑ "Jim Greer". Gbvdb.com. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- 1 2 "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