The Guided by Voices discography includes dozens of releases, both official and unofficial. 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.
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
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:1.5em;" | Year
! rowspan="2" |Number
! rowspan="2" style="width:27em;" | Album details
! colspan="3" | Peak chart positions
|-
! style="width:2.5em;" | US<br />
! style="width:2.5em;" | US<br/>Heat.<br />
- Label: Rockathon <small>(#002)</small>
- Format: LP
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 1997
|11
| Mag Earwhig!
- Released: May 20, 1997
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 241)</small>
- Format: LP, Cassette, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 19 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 1999
|12
| Do the Collapse
- Released: August 3, 1999
- Label: TVT <small>(TVT-1980)</small>
- Format: LP, Cassette, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 14 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2001
|13
| Isolation Drills
- Released: April 10, 2001
- Label: TVT <small>(TVT 2160)</small>
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | 168 || style="text-align:center;" | 8 || style="text-align:center;" | 6
|-
| 2002
|14
| Universal Truths and Cycles
- Released: June 18, 2002
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 547)</small>
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | 160 || style="text-align:center;" | 3 || style="text-align:center;" | 10
|-
| 2003
|15
| Earthquake Glue
- Released: August 19, 2003
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 574)</small>
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | 193 || style="text-align:center;" | 12 || style="text-align:center;" | 8
|-
| 2004
|16
| Half Smiles of the Decomposed
- Released: August 24, 2004
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 612)</small>
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 16 || style="text-align:center;" | 22
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2012
|17
| Let's Go Eat the Factory
- Released: January 1, 2012
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-16)</small>, Fire Records <small>(FIRECD/LP248)</small>
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 8 || style="text-align:center;" | 35
|-
|18
| Class Clown Spots a UFO
- Released: June 11, 2012
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-22)</small>, Fire Records <small>(FIRECD/LP249)</small>
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 12 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|19
| The Bears for Lunch
- Released: November 13, 2012
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-27)</small>, Fire Records <small>(FIRECD/LP259)</small>
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 9 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2013
|20
| English Little League
- Released: April 30, 2013
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-34)</small>, Fire Records <small>(FIRECD/LP294)</small>
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 21 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2014
|21
| Motivational Jumpsuit
- Released: February 18, 2014
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-45)</small>, Fire Records <small>(FIRECD/LP337)</small>
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 18 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|22
| Cool Planet
- Released: May 13, 2014
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-50)</small>, Fire Records <small>(FIRECD/LP355)</small>
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 20 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2016
|23
| Please Be Honest
- Released: April 22, 2016
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2017
|24
| August by Cake
- Released: April 7, 2017
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 2-LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 22 || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|25
| How Do You Spell Heaven
- Released: August 11, 2017
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | 20 || style="text-align:center;" | 37
|-
|2018
|26
|Space Gun
- Released: March 23, 2018
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2019
|27
| Zeppelin Over China
- Released: February 1, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 2-LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|28
| Warp and Woof
- Released: April 26, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|29
| Sweating the Plague
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|31
|Mirrored Aztec
- Released: August 21, 2020
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|32
|Styles We Paid For
- Released: December 11, 2020
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| rowspan="2" |2021
|33
|Earth Man Blues
- Released: April 30, 2021
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|34
|It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
- Released: October 22, 2021
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| rowspan="2" |2022
|35
|Crystal Nuns Cathedral
- Released: March 4, 2022
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|36
|Tremblers and Goggles by Rank
- Released: July 1, 2022
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|rowspan=3|2023
|37
|La La Land
- Released: January 20, 2023
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|38
|Welshpool Frillies
- Released: July 21, 2023
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|39
|Nowhere to Go but Up
- Released: November 24, 2023
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2024
|40
|Strut of Kings
- Released: June 28, 2024
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc./Rockathon
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| rowspan="2" |2025
|41
|Universe Room
- Released: February 7, 2025
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc./Rockathon
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|42
|Thick, Rich & Delicious
- Released: October 31, 2025
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc./Rockathon
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
| style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2026
|43
|Crawlspace of the Pantheon
- Scheduled: May 29, 2026
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
| style="text-align: center;" |—
| style="text-align: center;" |—
| style="text-align: center;" |—
|}
Extended plays
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! style="width:28em;" | EP details
|-
| 1986
| Forever Since Breakfast
- Released: 1986
- Label: I Wanna <small>(605058X)</small>
- Format: 12-inch EP
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1993
| The Grand Hour
- Released: 1993
- Label: Scat <small>(#28)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| Static Airplane Jive
- Released: 1993
- Label: City Slang <small>(04939-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1994
| Get Out of My Stations
- Released: 1994
- Label: Siltbreeze <small>(SB 028)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
- Released: 1994
- Label: Engine <small>(VROOM-07)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|-
| Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer
- Released: 1994
- Label: Domino <small>(RUG 11)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|-
| I Am a Scientist
- Released: October 15, 1994
- Label: Scat <small>(#38)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|-
| 1995
| Tigerbomb
- Released: November 14, 1995
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 168-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1996
| Sunfish Holy Breakfast
- Released: November 19, 1996
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 185)</small>
- Format: 12-inch EP, CD
|-
| Plantations of Pale Pink
- Released: November 19, 1996
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 208-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| 1997
| Wish in One Hand…
- Released: 1997
- Label: Jass <small>(J001)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| 1999
| Plugs for the Program
- Released: December 3, 1999
- Label: TVT <small>(TVT 1983-2)</small>
- Format: CD
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2000
| Hold on Hope
- Released: March 7, 2000
- Label: TVT <small>(TVT 1985-2)</small>
- Format: CD
|-
| Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5
- Released: April 2, 2000
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#5)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| 2001
| Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides
- Released: March 30, 2001
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#10)</small>
- Format: 12-inch EP
|-
| 2002
| The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet
- Released: September 17, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#24)</small>
- Format: 12-inch EP, CD
|-
| 2013
| Down by the Racetrack
- Released: January 22, 2013
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-28)</small>
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| Wine Cork Stonehenge
- Released: December 7, 2018
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| 100 Dougs
- Released: December 7, 2018
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2019
| 1901 Acid Rock
- Released: March 29, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
| Umlaut Over the Ozone
- Released: March 29, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|-
|}
Split EPs
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! Split Details
! Songs
|-
| 1996
| Superchunk/Guided by Voices
- Released: 1996 (Australia)
- Label: Fellaheen <small>(JACK 046-2)</small>
- Format: CD
- Total length: 16:06
|
- Superchunk – "A Small Definition" – 4:01
- Superchunk – "Her Royal Fisticuffs" – 3:37
- Superchunk – "The Mine Has Been Returned to the Original Owner" – 3:27
- Guided by Voices – "Delayed Reaction Brats" – 1:07
- Guided by Voices – "He's the Uncle" – 1:38
- Guided by Voices – "Key Losers" – 2:16
|-
| 1997
| 8 Rounds: GVSB vs GBV
- Released: July 1, 1997
- Label: Radiopaque Recordings <small>(RR013)</small>
- Format: CD
- Total length: 24:19
|
- Girls Against Boys – "Learned It" – 3:42
- Girls Against Boys – "Vera Cruz" – 4:31
- Girls Against Boys – "Disco 666" – 2:43
- Girls Against Boys – "Kill the Sexplayer" – 3:55
- Guided by Voices – "Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy" [Live] – 1:58
- Guided by Voices – "Motor Away" [Live] – 2:22
- Guided by Voices – "My Valuable Hunting Knife" [Live] – 2:08
- Guided by Voices – "Shocker in Gloomtown/Some Drilling Implied" [Live] – 3:00
|-
| 2001
| Selective Service
- Released: December 10, 2001
- Fading Captain Series <small>(#16)</small>
- Format: CD
- Total length: 28:10
|
- Guided by Voices – "Dayton, Ohio–19 Something and 5" [Live] – 2:56
- Guided by Voices – "Travels" – 2:00
- Guided by Voices – "No Welcome Wagons" – 2:00
- Guided by Voices – "Selective Service" – 1:54
- Airport 5 – "Total Exposure" – 4:05
- Airport 5 – "Cold War Water Sports" – 3:26
- Airport 5 – "The Wheel Hits the Path (Quite Soon)" – 1:27
- Airport 5 – "Stifled Man Casino" – 3:18
- Airport 5 – "Peroxide" – 1:42
- Airport 5 – "Eskimo Clockwork" – 1:23
- Airport 5 – "In the Brain" [Bonus track] – 3:59
|}
Singles
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! style="width:22em;" | Song/Single Details
! Album
|-
| 1995
| "Motor Away"
- Released: June 6, 1995
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 148-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Alien Lanes
|-
| 1996
| "The Official Ironmen Rally Song"
- Released: February 27, 1996
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 184-7/OLE 184-2)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
| rowspan="2" | Under the Bushes Under the Stars
|-
| 1996
| "Cut-Out Witch"
- Released: June 17, 1996
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 218-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single (Picture Disc)
|-
| 1997
| "Bulldog Skin"
- Released: May 6, 1997
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 217-7/OLE 217-2)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
| rowspan="2" | Mag Earwhig!
|-
| 1997
| "I Am a Tree"
- Released: July 29, 1997
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 264-7/OLE 264-2)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
|-
| 1999
| "Surgical Focus"
- Released: June 22, 1999
- Label: TVT <small>(TVT-1981-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="3" | Do the Collapse
|-
| 1999
| "Teenage FBI"
- Released: September 28, 1999
- Label: Creation <small>(CRES 325/CRESCD 325)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
|-
| 1999
| "Hold on Hope"
- Released: November 1, 1999
- Label: Creation <small>(CRES 328)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2001
| "Chasing Heather Crazy"
- Released: March 13, 2001
- Label: TVT <small>(2162)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="2" | Isolation Drills
|-
| 2001
| "Glad Girls"
- Released: July 9, 2001
- Label: TVT <small>(020412)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2002
| "Back to the Lake"
- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#20)</small> / Matador <small>(OLE 564-2)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single (released August 19, 2002)
| rowspan="4" | Universal Truths and Cycles
|-
| 2002
| "Cheyenne"
- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#21)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2002
| "Everywhere with Helicopter"
- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#22)</small> / Matador <small>(OLE 552-2)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single (released June 3, 2002)
|-
| 2002
| "Universal Truths and Cycles"
- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#23)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2003
| "My Kind of Soldier"
- Released: July 29, 2003
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#28)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="2" | Earthquake Glue
|-
| 2003
| "The Best of Jill Hives"
- Released: September 23, 2003
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 598-2)</small>
- Format: CD Single
|-
| 2011
| "We Won't Apologize for the Human Race" / "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"
- Released: November 22, 2011
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE-973-7)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="3" | Let's Go Eat the Factory
|-
| 2011
| "Doughnut for a Snowman"
- Released: November 28, 2011
- Label: Fire <small>(BLAZE45188)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2012
| "Chocolate Boy"
- Released: January 17, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-17)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2012
| "Keep It In Motion"
- Released: March 20, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-18)</small>, Fire <small>(BLAZE45190)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="3" | Class Clown Spots a UFO
|-
| 2012
| "Jon The Croc"
- Released: April 17, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-20)</small>, Fire <small>(BLAZE45191)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2012
| "Class Clown Spots a UFO"
- Released: May 15, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-21)</small>, Fire <small>(BLAZE45192)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2012
| "White Flag"
- Released: October 29, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-24)</small>, Fire <small>(BLAZE45203)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="3" | The Bears for Lunch
|-
| 2012
| "Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere"
- Released: October 29, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-25)</small>, Fire <small>(BLAZE45202)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2012
| "Hangover Child"
- Released: October 29, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-26)</small>, Fire <small>(BLAZE45201)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2013
| "Flunky Minnows"
- Released: February 19, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-29)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="5" | English Little League
|-
| 2013
| "Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)"
- Released: March 5, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-30)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2013
| "Trash Can Full Of Nails"
- Released: March 19, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-31)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2013
| "Xeno Pariah"
- Released: April 2, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-32)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2013
| "Noble Insect"
- Released: April 16, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-33)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "Save The Company"
- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-40)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="5" | Motivational Jumpsuit
|-
| 2014
| "Vote For Me Dummy"
- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-41)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "Alex And The Omegas"
- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-42)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "The Littlest League Possible" / "Jupiter Spin"
- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-43)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "Planet Score" / "Zero Elasticity"
- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-44)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "Authoritarian Zoo"
- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-46)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
| rowspan="5" | Cool Planet
|-
| 2014
| "Males Of Wormwood Mars"
- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-47)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "Table At Fool’s Tooth"
- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-48)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|-
| 2014
| "All American Boy"
- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-49)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|}
Split singles
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! Split Details
! Songs
|-
| 1993
| GBV / Jenny Mae Leffel
- Released: 1993
- Label: Anyway <small>(ANYWAY 013)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
- A1: Guided by Voices – "If We Wait" <small>(Robert Pollard)</small>
- B1: Jenny Mae Leffel – "Red Chair"
|-
| 1994
| GBV / Grifters
- Released: 1994
- Label: Now Sound <small>(NOW #2)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
- A1: Guided by Voices – "Hey Mr. Soundman" <small>(R. Pollard, Tobin Sprout)</small>
- A2: Guided by Voices – "Announcers and Umpires" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
- A3: Guided by Voices – "Evil Speaker B" <small>(Jim Pollard)</small>
- A4: Guided by Voices – "Uncle Dave" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
- B1: Grifters – "I'm Drunk" <small>(Grifters)</small>
|-
| 1994
| GBV / Belreve
- Released: 1994
- Label: Anyway <small>(ANYWAY 021)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
- A1: Belreve – "The Sulk King"
- B1: Guided by Voices – "Always Crush Me" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 1995
| GBV / New Radiant Storm King
- Released: 1995
- Label: Chunk <small>(CH4520)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
- A1: Guided by Voices – "The Opposing Engineer (Sleeps Alone)" <small>(New Radiant Storm King)</small>
- B1: New Radiant Storm King – "I Am a Scientist" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 1997
| GBV / Cobra Verde
- Released: March 10, 1997
- Label: Wabana <small>(ORE 10)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
- A1: Guided by Voices – "Aim Correctly" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
- A2: Guided by Voices – "Orange Jacket" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
- B1: Cobra Verde – "Terrorist"
|-
| 2002
| GBV / Sin Sin 77
- Released: 2002
- Label: Devil in the Woods <small>(#53)</small>
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
- A1: Guided by Voices – "Cheyenne" [Live] <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
- B1: Sin Sin 77 – "Radio"
|}
Live albums
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! style="width:25em;" | Album details
|-
| 2007
| Live from Austin, TX
- Released: May 15, 2007
- Label: New West
- Format: 2 CDs
|-
|2018
|Ogre's Trumpet
- Released: March 9, 2018
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc.
- Format: 2×LP, CD
|}
Box sets
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! style="width:45em;" | Album details
|-
| 1995
| Box
- Released: February 28, 1995
- Label: Scat <small>(#40)</small>
- Format: 6 LPs, 5 CDs
|-
| 2000
| Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
- Released: October 17, 2000
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#6)</small>
- Format: 4 CDs
|-
| 2003
| Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere
- Released: November 4, 2003
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 550)</small>
- Format: 5 CDs + 1 DVD
|-
| 2005
| Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
- Released: October 4, 2005
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#37)</small>
- Format: 4 CDs
|-
| 2009
| Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
- Released November 3, 2009
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-8)</small>
- Format: 4 CDs
|-
| 2015
| Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
- Released November 20, 2015
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-65)</small>
- Format: 4 CDs
|}
Compilation albums
Each of the four Briefcase releases is a single LP compilation of songs selected from the associated 4-disc Suitcase box-set.
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! rowspan="2" | Year
! rowspan="2" style="width:35em;" | Album details
! colspan="2" | Peak chart positions
|-
! style="width:2em;" | US<br>Heat.<br />
- Released: 1992
- Label: Get Happy Records
- Format: LP
|—
|—
|-
|1993
|Vampire On Titus/Propeller
- Released: 1993
- Label: Scat Records/Matador
- Format: CD
|—
|—
|-
| 1995
| King Shit & The Golden Boys
- Released: February 2, 1995 (reissued January 27, 2015)
- Label: Scat <small>(#61)</small>
- Format: LP, CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2000
| Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries)
- Released: October 17, 2000
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#7)</small>
- Format: LP
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2003
| The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
- Released: November 4, 2003
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 565)</small>
- Format: CD
| style="text-align:center;" | 39 || style="text-align:center;" | 26
|-
| 2005
| Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged – The Return of Milko Waif)
- Released: October 4, 2005
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#38)</small>
- Format: LP
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2007
| Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007
- Released: May 29, 2007
- Label: Fading Captain Series <small>(#44)</small>
- Format: 2 CDs
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2009
| Briefcase 3: Cuddling Bozo's Octopus
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-9)</small>
- Format: LP
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
| 2010
| Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1
- Released: July 25, 2010
- Format: CD
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2013
|Glue On Bicycle
- Released: 2013
- Label: Fire Records, Guided By Voices Inc.
- Format: CD
|—
|—
|-
| 2015
| Briefcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War
- Released: November 20, 2015
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-64)</small>
- Format: LP
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|2022
|Scalping the Guru
- Released: October 28, 2022
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. <small>(GBVI-116)</small>
- Format: CD, CS, LP
| style="text-align:center;" | — || style="text-align:center;" | —
|-
|}
Soundtracks
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! Album details
! Track details
|-
| 1996
|Brain Candy Soundtrack
- Released: 1996
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 183-1)</small>
- Format: LP, CD
|
- #11 - "Postal Blowfish" [New version] <small>(Robert Pollard, Mitch Mitchell)</small>
|-
| 1999
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
- Released: October 19, 1999
- Label: TVT <small>(8300)</small>
- Format: CD
|
- #2 - "Teenage FBI" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 2000
| Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Soundtrack
- Released: August 22, 2000
- Label: Milan <small>(73138 35909-2)</small>
- Format: CD
|
- #12 - "Learning to Hunt" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 2001
| Dean Quixote: The Soundtrack to the Film
- Released: November 20, 2001
- Label: spinART <small>(SPART 99)</small>
- Format: CD
|
- #3 - "If We Wait" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 2002
| ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie Soundtrack
- Released: May 14, 2002
- Label: Hollywood <small>(162340)</small>
- Format: CD
|
- #5 - "Skills Like This" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 2002
| Scrubs Soundtrack
- Released: September 24, 2002
- Label: Hollywood <small>(162353)</small>
- Format: CD
|
- #8 - "Hold on Hope" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|-
| 2006
| Beer League Soundtrack
- Released: September 5, 2006
- Label: Lakeshore <small>(LKS 338812)</small>
- Format: CD
|
- #3 - "Bulldog Skin" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
- #9 - "Girls of Wild Strawberries" <small>(R. Pollard)</small>
|}
Video albums
{| class="wikitable"
|- "
! Year
! Video details
|-
| 1996
| Live at the Whisky a Go Go
- Released: 1996
- Label: Rockathon
- Format: VHS
|-
| 1998
| Watch Me Jumpstart
- Released: 1998
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 284)</small>
- Format: VHS
|-
| 2000
| The Who Went Home and Cried
- Released: 2000
- Label: Rockathon, MVD
- Format: VHS, DVD
|-
| 2002
| Some Drinking Implied
- Released: October 12, 2002
- Label: Rockathon
- Format: DVD
|-
| 2003
| Watch Me Jumpstart: Expanded Version
- Released: November 4, 2003
- Label: Matador <small>(OLE 596)</small>
- Format: DVD
|-
| 2005
| The Electrifying Conclusion
- Released: November 15, 2005
- Label: Plexifilm
- Format: DVD
|-
| 2007
| Live from Austin, TX
- Released: May 15, 2007
- Label: New West
- Format: DVD
|}
Unofficial albums
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Album details
|-
|1994
|Crying Your Knife Away
- Released: 1994
- Label: None/Simple Solution Records
- Format: LP, CD, Unofficial live album
|-
|1995
|For All Good Kids
- Released: 1995
- Label: None
- Format: LP, Unofficial live album
|-
|N/A
|Live at The Embassy, London, ONT - October 26, 1995
- Released: Unknown
- Label: None
- Format: CD, Unofficial live album
|-
|1996
|Benefit For The Winos
- Released: 1996
- Label: None
- Format: LP, CD, Unofficial live album
|-
|N/A
|@ The Garage, London, June 21, 1996
- Released: Unknown
- Label: None
- Format: Cassette, Unofficial live album
|-
|1996
|Jellyfish Reflector
- Released: 1996
- Label: None
- Format: LP, CD, Unofficial live album
|-
|N/A
|The Garage, London, October 8, 1997
- Released: Unknown
- Label: None
- Format: Cassette, Unofficial live album
|-
|N/A
|Live at Bernie's, Columbus, OH - March 28, 1998
- Released: Unknown
- Label: None
- Format: CD, Unofficial live album
|-
|1999
|I'm Much Greater Than You Think
- Released: 1999
- Label: None
- Format: CD, Unofficial live album
|}
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. Steven Soderbergh wrote the foreword.
- 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. The book explores the unusual production of the album, the lyrics of Robert Pollard, and the influence the album has had.
References
External links
- Official Guided by Voices website
- GBVDB – Guided by Voices Database
