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 |
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US [4] [5] | US Heat.
| US Indie
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1987 | Devil Between My Toes- Released: February 15, 1987
- Label: Schwa (GBV0001)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1987 | Sandbox- Released: 1987
- Label: Halo (#1)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1989 | Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia- Released: 1989
- Label: Halo (#2)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1990 | Same Place the Fly Got Smashed- Released: 1990
- Label: Rocket #9 (OX846)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1992 | Propeller- Released: 1992
- Label: Rockathon (#001)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1993 | Vampire on Titus- Released: 1993
- Label: Scat (#31)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1994 | Bee Thousand- Released: June 21, 1994
- Label: Scat Records (#35)
- Format: LP, Cassette, CD
| — | — | — |
1995 | Alien Lanes- Released: April 4, 1995
- Label: Matador (OLE 123)
- Format: LP, Cassette, CD
| — | — | — |
1996 | Under the Bushes Under the Stars- Released: March 26, 1996
- Label: Matador (OLE 161)
- Format: LP + 12-inch, Cassette, CD
| — | 19 | — |
1996 | Tonics & Twisted Chasers- Released: 1996[6]
- Label: Rockathon (#002)
- Format: LP
| — | — | — |
1997 | Mag Earwhig!- Released: May 20, 1997
- Label: Matador (OLE 241)
- Format: LP, Cassette, CD
| — | 19 | — |
1999 | Do the Collapse- Released: August 3, 1999
- Label: TVT (TVT-1980)
- Format: LP, Cassette, CD
| — | 14 | — |
2001 | Isolation Drills- Released: April 10, 2001
- Label: TVT (TVT 2160)
- Format: LP, CD
| 168 | 8 | 6 |
2002 | Universal Truths and Cycles- Released: June 18, 2002
- Label: Matador (OLE 547)
- Format: LP, CD
| 160 | 3 | 10 |
2003 | Earthquake Glue- Released: August 19, 2003
- Label: Matador (OLE 574)
- Format: LP, CD
| 193 | 12 | 8 |
2004 | Half Smiles of the Decomposed- Released: August 24, 2004
- Label: Matador (OLE 612)
- Format: LP, CD
| — | 16 | 22 |
2012 | Let's Go Eat the Factory- Released: January 1, 2012
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-16), Fire Records (FIRECD/LP248)
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| — | 8 | 35 |
2012 | Class Clown Spots a UFO- Released: June 11, 2012
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-22), Fire Records (FIRECD/LP249)
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| — | 12 | — |
2012 | The Bears for Lunch- Released: November 13, 2012
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-27), Fire Records (FIRECD/LP259)
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| — | 9 | — |
2013 | English Little League- Released: April 30, 2013
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-34), Fire Records (FIRECD/LP294)
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| — | 21 | — |
2014 | Motivational Jumpsuit- Released: February 18, 2014
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-45), Fire Records (FIRECD/LP337)
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| — | 18 | — |
2014 | Cool Planet- Released: May 13, 2014
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-50), Fire Records (FIRECD/LP355)
- Format: LP, CD, Cassette
| — | 20 | — |
2016 | Please Be Honest- Released: April 22, 2016
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2017 | August by Cake- Released: April 7, 2017
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 2-LP, CD
| — | 22 | — |
2017 | How Do You Spell Heaven- Released: August 11, 2017
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | 20 | 37 |
2018 | Space Gun- Released: March 23, 2018
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2019 | Zeppelin Over China[7] - Released: February 1, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 2-LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2019 | Warp and Woof[8] - Released: April 26, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2019 | Sweating the Plague- Released: October 25, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2020 | Surrender Your Poppy Field- Released: February 20, 2020[9]
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2020 | Mirrored Aztec [10] - Released: August 21, 2020
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2020 | Styles We Paid For [11] - Released: December 11, 2020
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2021 | Earth Man Blues- Released: April 30, 2021
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2021 | It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!- Released: October 22, 2021
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2022 | Crystal Nuns Cathedral- Released: March 4, 2022
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2022 | Tremblers and Goggles by Rank- Released: July 1, 2022
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2023 | La La Land- Released: January 20, 2023
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
Welshpool Frillies- Released: July 21, 2023
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
Nowhere to Go but Up- Released: November 24, 2023
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — |
2024 | Strut of Kings[12] - Released: June 28, 2024
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc./Rockathon Records
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — | — | |
Year | Album details |
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1986 | Forever Since Breakfast- Released: 1986
- Label: I Wanna (605058X)
- Format: 12-inch EP
|
1993 | The Grand Hour- Released: 1993
- Label: Scat (#28)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
1993 | Static Airplane Jive- Released: 1993
- Label: City Slang (04939-7)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
1994 | Get Out of My Stations- Released: 1994
- Label: Siltbreeze (SB 028)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
1994 | Fast Japanese Spin Cycle- Released: 1994
- Label: Engine (VROOM-07)
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|
1994 | Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer- Released: 1994
- Label: Domino (RUG 11)
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|
1994 | I Am a Scientist- Released: October 15, 1994
- Label: Scat (#38)
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|
1995 | Tigerbomb- Released: November 14, 1995
- Label: Matador (OLE 168-7)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
1996 | Sunfish Holy Breakfast- Released: November 19, 1996
- Label: Matador (OLE 185)
- Format: 12-inch EP, CD
|
1996 | Plantations of Pale Pink- Released: November 19, 1996
- Label: Matador (OLE 208-7)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
1997 | Wish in One Hand…- Released: 1997
- Label: Jass (J001)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
1999 | Plugs for the Program- Released: December 3, 1999
- Label: TVT (TVT 1983-2)
- Format: CD
|
2000 | Hold on Hope- Released: March 7, 2000
- Label: TVT (TVT 1985-2)
- Format: CD
|
2000 | Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something and 5 - Released: April 2, 2000
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#5)
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
2001 | Daredevil Stamp Collector Do The Collapse B-sides
- Released: March 30, 2001
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#10)
- Format: 12-inch EP
|
2002 | The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet- Released: September 17, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#24)
- Format: 12-inch EP, CD
|
2013 | Down by the Racetrack- Released: January 22, 2013
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc. (GBVI-28)
- Format: 7-inch EP, CD
|
2018 | Wine Cork Stonehenge- Released: December 7, 2018
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
2018 | 100 Dougs- Released: December 7, 2018
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
2019 | 1901 Acid Rock- Released: March 29, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
2019 | Umlaut Over the Ozone- Released: March 29, 2019
- Label: Guided by Voices Inc.
- Format: 7-inch EP
|
|
Year | Song/Single Details | Album |
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1995 | "Motor Away"- Released: June 6, 1995
- Label: Matador (OLE 148-7)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Alien Lanes |
1996 | "The Official Ironmen Rally Song"- Released: February 27, 1996
- Label: Matador (OLE 184-7/OLE 184-2)
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
| Under the Bushes Under the Stars |
1996 | "Cut-Out Witch"- Released: June 17, 1996
- Label: Matador (OLE 218-7)
- Format: 7-inch Single (Picture Disc)
|
1997 | "Bulldog Skin"- Released: May 6, 1997
- Label: Matador (OLE 217-7/OLE 217-2)
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
| Mag Earwhig! |
1997 | "I Am a Tree"- Released: July 29, 1997
- Label: Matador (OLE 264-7/OLE 264-2)
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
|
1999 | "Surgical Focus"- Released: June 22, 1999
- Label: TVT (TVT-1981-7)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Do the Collapse |
1999 | "Teenage FBI"- Released: September 28, 1999
- Label: Creation (CRES 325/CRESCD 325)
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single
|
1999 | "Hold on Hope"- Released: November 1, 1999
- Label: Creation (CRES 328)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2001 | "Chasing Heather Crazy"- Released: March 13, 2001
- Label: TVT (2162)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Isolation Drills |
2001 | "Glad Girls"- Released: July 9, 2001
- Label: TVT (020412)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2002 | "Back to the Lake"- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#20) / Matador (OLE 564-2)
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single (released August 19, 2002)
| Universal Truths and Cycles |
2002 | "Cheyenne"- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#21)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2002 | "Everywhere with Helicopter"- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#22) / Matador (OLE 552-2)
- Format: 7-inch Single, CD Single (released June 3, 2002)
|
2002 | "Universal Truths and Cycles"- Released: May 21, 2002
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#23)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2003 | "My Kind of Soldier"- Released: July 29, 2003
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#28)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Earthquake Glue |
2003 | "The Best of Jill Hives"- Released: September 23, 2003
- Label: Matador (OLE 598-2)
- Format: CD Single
|
2011 | "We Won't Apologize for the Human Race" / "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"- Released: November 22, 2011
- Label: Matador (OLE-973-7)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Let's Go Eat the Factory |
2011 | "Doughnut for a Snowman"- Released: November 28, 2011
- Label: Fire (BLAZE45188)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2012 | "Chocolate Boy"- Released: January 17, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-17)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2012 | "Keep It In Motion"- Released: March 20, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-18), Fire (BLAZE45190)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Class Clown Spots a UFO |
2012 | "Jon The Croc"- Released: April 17, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-20), Fire (BLAZE45191)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2012 | "Class Clown Spots a UFO"- Released: May 15, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-21), Fire (BLAZE45192)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2012 | "White Flag"- Released: October 29, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-24), Fire (BLAZE45203)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| The Bears for Lunch |
2012 | "Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere"- Released: October 29, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-25), Fire (BLAZE45202)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2012 | "Hangover Child"- Released: October 29, 2012
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-26), Fire (BLAZE45201)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2013 | "Flunky Minnows"- Released: February 19, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-29)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| English Little League |
2013 | "Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)"- Released: March 5, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-30)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2013 | "Trash Can Full Of Nails"- Released: March 19, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-31)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2013 | "Xeno Pariah"- Released: April 2, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-32)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2013 | "Noble Insect"- Released: April 16, 2013
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-33)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "Save The Company"- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-40)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Motivational Jumpsuit |
2014 | "Vote For Me Dummy"- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-41)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "Alex And The Omegas"- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-42)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "The Littlest League Possible" / "Jupiter Spin"- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-43)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "Planet Score" / "Zero Elasticity"- Released: January 21, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-44)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "Authoritarian Zoo"- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-46)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| Cool Planet |
2014 | "Males Of Wormwood Mars"- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-47)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "Table At Fool’s Tooth"- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-48)
- Format: 7-inch Single
|
2014 | "All American Boy"- Released: April 29, 2014
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-49)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| |
Year | Split Details | Songs |
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1993 | GBV / Jenny Mae Leffel[16] - Released: 1993
- Label: Anyway (ANYWAY 013)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| - A1: Guided by Voices – "If We Wait" (Robert Pollard)
- B1: Jenny Mae Leffel – "Red Chair"
|
1994 | GBV / Grifters[17] - Released: 1994
- Label: Now Sound (NOW #2)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| - A1: Guided by Voices – "Hey Mr. Soundman" (R. Pollard, Tobin Sprout)
- A2: Guided by Voices – "Announcers and Umpires" (R. Pollard)
- A3: Guided by Voices – "Evil Speaker B" (Jim Pollard)
- A4: Guided by Voices – "Uncle Dave" (R. Pollard)
- B1: Grifters – "I'm Drunk" (Grifters)
|
1994 | GBV / Belreve[18] - Released: 1994
- Label: Anyway (ANYWAY 021)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| - A1: Belreve – "The Sulk King"
- B1: Guided by Voices – "Always Crush Me" (R. Pollard)
|
1995 | GBV / New Radiant Storm King[19] - Released: 1995
- Label: Chunk (CH4520)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| - A1: Guided by Voices – "The Opposing Engineer (Sleeps Alone)" (New Radiant Storm King)
- B1: New Radiant Storm King – "I Am a Scientist" (R. Pollard)
|
1997 | GBV / Cobra Verde[20] - Released: March 10, 1997
- Label: Wabana (ORE 10)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| - A1: Guided by Voices – "Aim Correctly" (R. Pollard)
- A2: Guided by Voices – "Orange Jacket" (R. Pollard)
- B1: Cobra Verde – "Terrorist"
|
2002 | GBV / Sin Sin 77[21] - Released: 2002
- Label: Devil in the Woods (#53)
- Format: 7-inch Single
| - A1: Guided by Voices – "Cheyenne" [Live] (R. Pollard)
- B1: Sin Sin 77 – "Radio"
| |
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 |
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US Heat.
| US Indie
|
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1992 | An Earful O' Wax[23] - Released: 1992
- Label: Get Happy Records
- Format: LP
| — | — |
1993 | Vampire On Titus/Propeller[24] - Released: 1993
- Label: Scat Records/Matador
- Format: CD
| — | — |
1995 | King Shit & The Golden Boys- Released: February 2, 1995 (reissued January 27, 2015)
- Label: Scat (#61)
- Format: LP, CD
| — | — |
2000 | Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries)- Released: October 17, 2000
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#7)
- Format: LP
| — | — |
2003 | - Released: November 4, 2003
- Label: Matador (OLE 565)
- Format: CD
| 39 | 26 |
2005 | Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged – The Return of Milko Waif)- Released: October 4, 2005
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#38)
- Format: LP
| — | — |
2007 | - Released: May 29, 2007
- Label: Fading Captain Series (#44)
- Format: 2 CDs
| — | — |
2009 | Briefcase 3: Cuddling Bozo's Octopus- Released: November 3, 2009
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-9)
- Format: LP
| — | — |
2010 | - Released: July 25, 2010
- Format: CD
| — | — |
2013 | Glue On Bicycle[25] - 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. (GBVI-64)
- Format: LP
| — | — |
2022 | Scalping the Guru- Released: October 28, 2022
- Label: Guided By Voices Inc. (GBVI-116)
- Format: CD, CS, LP
| — | — |
|
Year | Album details | Track details |
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1996 | Brain Candy Soundtrack- Released: 1996
- Label: Matador (OLE 183-1)
- Format: LP, CD
|
|
1999 | - Released: October 19, 1999
- Label: TVT (8300)
- Format: CD
| - #2 - "Teenage FBI" (R. Pollard)
|
2000 | Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Soundtrack- Released: August 22, 2000
- Label: Milan (73138 35909-2)
- Format: CD
| - #12 - "Learning to Hunt" (R. Pollard)
|
2001 | Dean Quixote: The Soundtrack to the Film- Released: November 20, 2001
- Label: spinART (SPART 99)
- Format: CD
| - #3 - "If We Wait" (R. Pollard)
|
2002 | ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie Soundtrack- Released: May 14, 2002
- Label: Hollywood (162340)
- Format: CD
| - #5 - "Skills Like This" (R. Pollard)
|
2002 | Scrubs Soundtrack- Released: September 24, 2002
- Label: Hollywood (162353)
- Format: CD
| - #8 - "Hold on Hope" (R. Pollard)
|
2006 | Beer League Soundtrack- Released: September 5, 2006
- Label: Lakeshore (LKS 338812)
- Format: CD
| - #3 - "Bulldog Skin" (R. Pollard)
- #9 - "Girls of Wild Strawberries" (R. Pollard)
| |
Year | Album details |
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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[26]
| |