Robert Pollard 100 7″ Releases

Guided By Voices released two 7″ EPs in November 2018, the second of these being the rather brilliantly entitled 100 Dougs.

more mr gillards than you can shake a stick at

This release meant that Robert Pollard has, at time of writing, released one hundred* 7″ records under various band names, starting with 1993’s The Grand Hour EP.

10 x 10 is…

Should Uncle Bob wish to put together a companion piece to last year’s coffee-table book of 100 album covers (front and back) – as discussed here – this, with a bit of imagination, is what it might look like:

The 100:

1. Guided By Voices – The Grand Hour (1993)
2. Guided By Voices – Static Airplane Jive (1993)
3. Guided By Voices – Get Out Of My Stations (1994)
4. Guided By Voices – Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994)
5. Guided By Voices – Clown Prince Menthol Trailer (1994)
6. Freedom Cruise/Nightwalker – Cruise/Lucifer’s Aching Revolver (1994)
7. Guided By Voices – I Am A Scientist (1994)
8. Guided By Voices – Motor Away (1995)
9. Guided By Voices – Tigerbomb (1995)
10. Guided By Voices – Brighton Rocks (1996)
11. Guided By Voices – The Official Ironmen Rally Song (1996)
12. Guided By Voices – Cut-Out Witch (1996)
13. Guided By Voices – Plantations Of Pale Pink (1996)
14. Nightwalker – Firehouse Mountain (1997)
15. Guided By Voices – Wish In One Hand… (1997)
16. Guided By Voices – Bulldog Skin (1997)
17. Guided By Voices – I Am A Tree (1997)
18. Guided By Voices – Surgical Focus (1999)
19. Guided By Voices – Teenage FBI (1999)
20. Guided By Voices – Hold On Hope (1999)
21. Guided By Voices – Dayton, Ohio-19 Something And 5 (2000)
22. Airport 5 – Total Exposure (2001)
23. Airport 5 – Stifled Man Casino (2001)
24. Guided By Voices – Chasing Heather Crazy (2001)
25. Guided By Voices – Universal Truths And Cycles (2002)
26. Guided By Voices – Cheyenne (2002)
27. Guided By Voices – Back To The Lake (2002)
28. Guided By Voices – Everywhere With Helicopter (2002)
29. Guided By Voices – My Kind Of Soldier (2003)
30. Robert Pollard – Zoom (2005)
31. Robert Pollard – Music For ‘Bubble’ (2005)
32. Robert Pollard – I’m A Strong Lion (2005)
33. Robert Pollard – Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft (2006)
34. Psycho And The Birds – Check Your Zoo (2006)
35. Robert Pollard – Rud Fins (2007)
36. Robert Pollard – Spider Eyes (2007)
37. Robert Pollard – Current Desperation (Angels Speak Of Nothing) (2007)
38. Robert Pollard – Pill Gone Girl (2007)
39. Robert Pollard – Shadow Port (2007)
40. Robert Pollard – Count Us In (2007)
41. Robert Pollard – Dumb Lady (2007)
42. Robert Pollard – Youth Leagues (2008)
43. The Takeovers – Little Green Onion Man (2008)
44. Robert Pollard – Folded Claws (2008)
45. Robert Pollard – When We Were Slaves (2008)
46. Robert Pollard – The Killers (2008)
47. Robert Pollard – Miles Under The Skin (2008)
48. Carbon Whales – South (2008)
49. Boston Spaceships – You Satisfy Me (2008)
50. Robert Pollard – The Butler Stands For All Of Us (2008)
51. Boston Spaceships – Headache Revolution (2008)
52. Robert Pollard – Silk Rotor (2010)
53. Boston Spaceships – Camera Found The Ray Gun (2010)
54. Lifeguards – Product Head (2010)
55. Guided By Voices – We Won’t Apologize For The Human Race (2011)
56. Guided By Voices – Doughnut For A Snowman (2011)
57. Guided By Voices – Chocolate Boy (2012)
58. Guided By Voices – Keep It In Motion (2012)
59. Guided By Voices – Jon The Croc (2012)
60. Guided By Voices – Class Clown Spots A UFO (2012)
61. Guided By Voices – White Flag (2012)
62. Guided By Voices – Hangover Child (2012)
63. Guided By Voices – Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere (2012)
64. Guided By Voices – Down By The Racetrack (2013)
65. Guided By Voices – Flunky Minnows (2013)
66. Guided By Voices – Islands (She Talks In Rainbows) (2013)
67. Guided By Voices – Trash Can Full Of Nails (2013)
68. Guided By Voices – Xeno Pariah (2013)
69. Guided By Voices – Noble Insect (2013)
70. Robert Pollard – Tonight’s The Rodeo (2013)
71. Robert Pollard – Return Of The Drums (2013)
72. Guided By Voices – Vote For Me Dummy (2014)
73. Guided By Voices – The Littlest League Possible (2014)
74. Guided By Voices – Save The Company (2014)
75. Guided By Voices – Planet Score (2014)
76. Guided By Voices – Alex And The Omegas (2014)
77. Guided By Voices – Table At Fool’s Tooth (2014)
78. Guided By Voices – Males Of Wormwood Mars (2014)
79. Guided By Voices – Authoritarian Zoo (2014)
80. Guided By Voices – All American Boy (2014)
81. Guided By Voices – Motor Away (Live) (2015)
82. Ricked Wicky – Piss Face (2015)
83. Ricked Wicky – Mobility (2015)
84. Ricked Wicky – Death Metal Kid (2015)
85. Robert Pollard – Take Me To Yolita/Up Up And Up (2015)
86. Ricked Wicky – Tomfoole Terrific (2015)
87. Ricked Wicky – Jargon Of Clones (2015)
88. Ricked Wicky – Poor Substitute (2015)
89. Ricked Wicky – A Number I Can Trust (2015)
90. Circus Devils – Girl In Space (2015)
91. ESP Ohio – Royal Cyclopean (2016)
92. ESP Ohio – Lithuanian Bombshells (2016)
93. Cash Rivers – She Laughed I Left (2017)
94. Guided By Voices – Just To Show You (2017)
95. Guided By Voices – Space Gun (2017)
96. Guided By Voices – See My Field (2018)
97. Guided By Voices – That’s Good (2018)
98. Guided By Voices – You Own The Night (2018)
99. Guided By Voices – Winecork Stonehenge (2018)
100. Guided By Voices – 100 Dougs (2018)

A playlist with (most of) the songs from the 100 releases

* I made the executive decision not to include split singles other than those that only feature Robert Pollard-led bands e.g. Cruise/Nightwalker – the other fifteen 7″ records released, but not included in the video are:

1. Guided By Voices – Stabbing A Star: Out Of Cowtown Vol. III compilation (1993)
2. Guided By Voices – If We Wait: split single with Jenny Mae Leffel (1993)
3. Guided By Voices – Chicken Blows: Ptolemic Terrascope Magazine compilation (1994)
4. Guided By Voices – Hey, Mr. Soundman: split single with Grifters (1994)
5. Guided By Voices – Always Crush Me: split single with Belreve (1994)
6. Guided By Voices – Do The Earth: Bucketfull Of Brains flexi (1994)
7. Guided By Voices – The Opposing Engineer (sleeps Alone): split single with New Radiant Storm King (1995)
8. Guided By Voices – Tractor Rape Chain (Clean It Up): Magnet Magazine compilation (1996)
9. Guided By Voices – Scorpion Lounge Shutdown: Ptolemic Terrascope Magazine compilation (1997)
10. Guided By Voices – Aim Correctly: split single with Cobra Verde (1997)
11. Guided By Voices – Pantherz: Rebound Magazine compilation (1998)
12. Nightwalker – One Track Record: Sponic Magazine compilation (1998)
13. Guided By Voices – Cheyenne (Live): split single with Sin Sin 77 (2002)
14. Richard Meltzer, Robert Pollard, Smegma & Antler split single (2002)
15. Robert Pollard – Drinker’s Peace: split single with Bobby Bare Jr on Bloodshot’s Six Pack To Go boxset (2015)

split the difference

Some of them can be heard here, on what I reckon is a pretty neat little playlist (featuring as it does at least two of my all-time favourite GBV songs):

Many thanks, as always, to the indispensable Guided By Voices Database and my favourite vinyl pushers at (Long Live) Rockathon.

Please post your favourite A-side and B-side combination below. How about this to start?

I Am A Scientist b/w Real