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GUIDED BY VOICES

Nearly everything written about Guided By Voices describes them as indie-rock gods, but looking at their discography, how could they (or more specifically, lead singer Robert Pollard) be anything but just that. Abundant influential recordings on numerous salient independent labels have marked Guided By Voices' career since their inception in the mid-eighties in Dayton, Ohio. The band's recordings, many extremely difficult to find, have turned a sea of devoted fans into a cult following of tape-traders. With the musicians having been in the GBV line-up numbering at least in the teens, the band's sustenance appears to be in Robert Pollard. Critics describe the band's music as a mix between a heavily-influenced jangly, brit-pop and prog-rock, and GBV has certainly wavered back and forth from one end of the spectrum to the other at various points over the years.

DISCOGRAPHY:

Forever Since Breakfast (EP)	1986	I Wanna
Devil Between My Toes	1987	e records gbv 0001
Sandbox	1987	Halo
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia	1989	Halo
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed	1990	Rocket #9
Propeller	1992	Rockathon
The Grand Hour (EP)	1992	Scat, scat 28-7
An Earful o' Wax	1993	Get Happy!!!
Vampire On Titus	1993	Scat 31
If We Wait (EP)	1993	Anyway #13
Static Airplane Jive	1993	City Slang Germany
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle	1994	Engine vroom-07
Bee Thousand	1994	Scat/Matador
Crying Your Knife Away	1994	Lo-Fi
Get Out of My Stations (EP)	1994	Siltbreeze
"Hey Mr. Soundman" (EP)	1994	The Now Sound
I Am A Scientist (EP)	1994	Scat
Alien Lanes	1995	Matador
Box	1995	Scat
For All Good Kids (live recording)	1995	(no label)
Tigerbomb (EP)	1995	Matador
Benefit for Wino's	1996	(no label)
Jellyfish Reflector	1996	Jellyfish
Plantations of Pale Pink (EP)	1996	Matador
Sunfish Holy Breakfast (EP)	1996	Matador
Mag Earwhig!	1997	Matador
Tonics and Twisted Chasers	1997	Rockathon
Wish In One Hand (EP)	1997	Jass Records
8 Rounds (EP)	1997	?
Crying Your Knife Away (CD only re-release)	1998	Lo-Fi
Plugs for the Program (EP)	1999	TVT/Newbery Comics
Hold On Hope (EP)	2000	TVT
Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft	2000	Fading Captain Series #6
Isolation Drills	2001	TVT
Universal Truths and Cycles	2002	Matador
Earthquake Glue	2003	Matador