Biography

Led by former school teacher Robert Pollard, Dayton, OH's Guided By Voices pursued an aesthetic marked by structural brevity, lo-fi sound, bizarre lyrics, and a preference for early to mid-period Who and other primal pop-rock. Pollard continually shifted the group's lineup, with a new outfit backing him on nearly every record. On 1999's DO THE COLLAPSE, GBV polished its sound considerably, bringing in Ric Ocasek as a producer. GBV played their final show on New Year's Eve 2004, however Pollard continues to write and record as a solo artist and with various collaborators.

Top Tracks

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• A Farewell To Arms

• A Salty Salute

• A Trophy Mule In Particular

• As We Go Up We Go Down

• Auditorium

• Back To Saturn X Radio Report

• Beat Your Wings

• Break Even

• Bulldog Skin

• Captain's Dead

• Chasing Heather Crazy

• Cheyenne

• Chicken Blows

• Christian Animation Torch Carriers

• Dougnut For A Snowman

• Echos Myron

• Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (when I'm Not Looking)

• Everywhere With Helicopter

• Frostman

• Girls Of Wild Strawberries

• Glad Girls

• God Loves Us

• Gold Star For Robot Boy

• Hot Freaks

• I Am A Scientist

• I Am A Tree

• It's Like Soul Man

• Jabberstroker

• James Riot

• Kisses To The Crying Cooks

• Land Of Danger

• Laundry & Lasers

• Long Way To Run

• Lord Of Overstock

• Marchers In Orange

• Motor Away

• Murder Charge

• My Impression Now

• My Valuable Hunting Knife

• Never

• Portable Men's Society

• Postal Blowfish

• Pretty Bombs

• Shocker In Gloomtown

• Shrine To The Dynamic Years (athens Time Change Riots)

• Sing For Your Meat

• Stronger Lizards

• Teenage Fbi

• The Official Ironmen Rally Song

• The Unsinkable Fats Domino

• The Winter Cows

• Tractor Rape Chain

• Visit This Place

• Watch Me Jumpstart

• We Won't Apologize For The Human Race

• Who Invented The Sun

• Wings Of Thorn

Discography

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• Let's Go Eat the Factory

  GBV Inc.

  2012

• Live from Austin TX

  New West

  2007

• Half Smiles of the Decomposed

  Matador

  2004

• Universal Truths and Cycles

  Matador

  2002

• Isolation Drills

  TVT Records

  2001

• Do the Collapse

  TVT Records

  1999

• Mag Earwhig!

  Matador

  1997

• Under the Bushes Under the Stars

  Matador

  1996

• Jellyfish Reflector

  1996

• For All Good Kids

  1996

• Alien Lanes

  Matador

  1995

• Crying Your Knife Away

  1995

• Bee Thousand

  Scat

  1994

• Vampire on Titus

  Scat

  1993

• Propeller

  Scat

  1992

• Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

  Rocket Group Pty LTD

  1990

• Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia

  Halo Records

  1989

• Sandbox

  Halo Records

  1987

• Devil Between My Toes

  1987