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.
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Dayton, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | indie rock, lo-fi, indie pop |
| Years active | 1983–2004 2010–2014 2016–present |
| Labels | Scat, Matador, TVT |
| Website | Official site |
| Members | Robert Pollard Tobin Sprout Mitch Mitchell Kevin Fennell Greg Demos |
| Past members | Jim Pollard Nate Farley Doug Gillard Kevin March Tim Tobias Jim Macpherson Dan Toohey James Greer Don Thrasher Chris Slusarenko Jon McCann Paul Comstock |
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:
Guided By Voices Media
Lead singer and principal songwriter Robert Pollard in 2006
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 Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
- 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 Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine (MP3s and other goodies)
- Largeheartedboy.com GBV Radio Archived 2006-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
- GbV music page Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine at Matador Records
- Epitonic.com: Guided by Voices
- Assorted Guided by Voices Reviews Archived 2006-04-28 at the Wayback Machine
Seeing
- Official Video Page at Guided by Voices website Archived 2006-06-26 at the Wayback Machine