Guided by Voices

**Guided by Voices** (often called **GBV**) is an American indie band. Guided by Voices is very famous for making many albums. They were active between 1986 and 2004. The band reunited in 2010 but broke up again in 2014. In 2016 they reunited for a second time.

The band had many members who only stayed for a while. Robert Pollard is the most important member. Before becoming a full-time musical artist, he was a teacher at an elementary school. While he was teaching, he created lots of music for the band. Robert is a solo artist today. He is a great fan of rock music. His music, and the music of Guided by Voices, is inspired by the famous British band The Beatles and different music styles like post-British Invasion garage rock, psychedelic, prog-rock, as well as punk and post-punk.

## Studio albums

- _Devil Between My Toes_ (1987)
- _album_ (1987)
- _Devil Between My Toes_
- _Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia_ (1989)
- _Same Place The Fly Got Smashed_ (1990)
- _Propeller_ (1992)
- _Vampire on Titus_ (1993)
- _Bee Thousand_ (1994)
- _Alien Lanes_ (1995)
- _Under the Bushes, Under the Stars_ (1996)
- _Tonics & Twisted Chasers_ (1996)
- _Mag Earwhig!_ (1997)
- _Do the Collapse_ (1999)
- _Isolation Drills_ (2001)
- _Universal Truths and Cycles_ (2002)
- _Earthquake Glue_ (2003)
- _Half Smiles of the Decomposed_ (2004)
- _Let's Go Eat the Factory_ (2012)
- _Class Clown Spots a UFO_ (2012)
- _The Bears for Lunch_ (2012)
- _English Little League_ (2013)
- _Motivational Jumpsuit_ (2014)
- _Cool Planet_ (2014)
- _Please Be Honest_ (2016)
- _August by Cake_ (2017)
- _How Do You Spell Heaven_ (2017)
- _Space Gun_ (2018)
- _Zeppelin Over China_ (2019)
- _ Warp and Woof_ (2019)
- _Sweating the Plague_ (2019)
- _Surrender Your Poppy Field_ (2020)
- _Mirrored Aztec_ (2020)
- _Styles We Paid For_ (2021)

## Guided by Voices Day

In 2004, during the band's last concert tour before breaking up, many cities around the United States picked a day to be "Guided by Voices Day" in that city. Some of them are:
- Houston, Texas – October 1
- Newport, Kentucky – October 22
- Bloomington, Indiana – October 25
- Austin, Texas – November 5
- Dallas, Texas – November 6
- San Diego, California – November 11
- Los Angeles, California – November 12
- New York, New York – December 5
- Chicago, Illinois – December 30

## Other websites

- Official website
- Robert Pollard's Official Website
- Guided by Voices Database: large lists of albums and songs
- Postal Blowfish: Guided by Voices Fan eMailing List
- Disarm The Settlers: Guided by Voices Message Board
- TobinSprout.net
- Doug Gillard's official website
- Guided by Robert Pollard: large fan site
- Guided by Voices story from Allmusic.com

### Listening

- Official Multimedia Page at Guided by Voices website  (MP3s and other goodies)
- Largeheartedboy.com GBV Radio
- GbV music page  at Matador Records
- Epitonic.com: Guided by Voices
- Assorted Guided by Voices Reviews

### Seeing

- Official Video Page at Guided by Voices website

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Guided by Voices
- **img**: Guided by Voices Belly Up CA 2014 16.jpg
- **landscape**: yes
- **background**: group_or_band
- **origin**: Dayton, Ohio, United States
- **genre**: indie rock, Lo-fi music, lo-fi, indie pop
- **years active**: 1983–2004
2010–2014
2016–present
- **label**: Scat Records, Scat, Matador Records, Matador, TVT Records, TVT
- **url**: [http://www.gbv.com/ Official site]
- **current members**: Robert Pollard
Tobin Sprout
Mitch Mitchell (GBV), Mitch Mitchell
Kevin Fennell
Greg Demos
- **past members**: Jim Pollard
Nate Farley
Doug Gillard
Kevin March (musician/producer), Kevin March
Tim Tobias
Jim Macpherson
Dan Toohey
James Greer
Don Thrasher
Chris Slusarenko
Jon McCann
Paul Comstock