Archers of Loaf reunion?!

so is there a LES/Brooklyn FAP related to this show?

no?

i am going to the saturday wburg show; dunno about fappin

CAD and I no longer going to show ;_;. You can damn well were would have planned a FAP where that not the case. Hope it's great.

You can damn well were would have planned a FAP where that not the case.

I am apparently suffering from a broken brain.

I meant to say that you can be certain we would have organized something if we were still going.

bah i never did get tickets for any of these

what a bunch of bummers! i am still going to the chicago show and am still excited about it.

Guessing no one here got in for the Fallon taping. Wondering what song they'll do.

Harnessed in Slums would be my guess (Web in Front is only two minutes long). Mind would be blown if they bust out something rare.

yeah i was not invited alas

Wow they did "Wrong!"

Also, while everyone else looks about 13 years older than the last time I saw them, Matt Gentling has been preserved in amber and remains perpetually 20-something.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/990/qluv.jpg

:D

hahaha so cute

he's the best

They did a bonus performance of Harnessed...and it fucking smokes.

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/Archers-of-Loaf-%286/24/11%29/1337104

Wow, you're not kidding. That's pretty amazing on all levels.

tonight's songs (not in this order):

web in front
wrong
you and me
might
plumb line
slow worm
audiowhore
lowest part is free!
freezing point
revenge
what did you expect?
bacteria
harnessed in slums
greatest of all time
1985/fabricoh
nostalgia
smokin' pot in the hot city
scenic pastures
worst defense/attack of the killer bees
form and file
dead red eyes

opened with audiowhore/harnessed; bacteria was the last encore

some dude tried to get up on stage and dance during bacteria, but he had really poor timing and basically just got there after the first loud part ended; it was lol

matt gentling looks exactly the same and may have been wearing the same jeans from 13 years ago

eb is a v. large man, especially next to those guys

it was grebt and i am happy

fuck that fallon clip SMOKES!!!

so fucking excited for the chicago shows!!!

btw if any ilxors are at the archers of loaf show, look for me I'll be the mid-30s tall skinny bald guy with close cropped hair, dark glasses frames, wearing jeans and a plaid short sleeved collar shirt!

see you there! look for a small brunette in her mid 30s who is unable to control her enthusiasm.

aww

williamsburg set

tomorrow night in chicago y'all
see u there homies

All They Ever Wanted Was to Be Your Spine

I'm in the house

man this was so much fun, both shows were great

Listening to the Icky Mettle reissue: I guess it's been remastered? I can't tell tbh. It doesn't sound any clearer or fuller, maybe just louder. And the 2nd disc just has the AOLvsGOAT ep and a few other things that were already on The Speed of Cattle. So yeah, unless you've been hunting a copy of Icky Mettle on vinyl for a few years w/o any success, this whole thing seems kind of superfluous.

oh right. black cat next friday. lol i've had these tickets for a while.

After like a million years, I've finally come around (mostly) to White Trash Heroes.

I don't really see any great need for reissues, unless there's some weird trove of unreleased tracks that they're sitting on. Their live (on CD/LP/bootleg) stuff never seemed like any huge improvement over the original recordings, seems like the b-sides mostly got out already, and the quality of their CDs was never a problem.

I never posted about the show, but I have time now to say this: it was good. It was. I had fun and bounced around a lot. I saw a lot of men in their 30s. But honestly I missed the CF songs.

Outside of The Speed of Cattle, there are only four tracks (iirc) that are scattered:

Mark Price, P.I. - from the Lounge Ax compilation on Touch & Go
Big Joe and Phantom 309 - from the Step Right Up covers compilation of Tom Waits songs
Jive Kata - from a stand-alone 7"
Telepathic Traffic (acoustic) - from a split 7" with Monsterland

There may be some previously unreleased stuff the band is sitting on for later reissues, but if you're got all the albums and The Speed of Cattle, you have almost everything.

Coming to London!

Vee Vee reissue traxlist

CD1:
01 – Step Into The Light
02 – Harnessed In Slums
03 – Nevermind The Enemy
04 – Greatest Of All Time
05 – Underdogs Of Nipomo
06 – Floating Friends
07 – 1985
08 – Fabricoh
09 – Nostalgia
10 – Let The Loser Melt
11 – Death In The Park
12 – The Worst Has Yet To Come
13 – Underachievers March And Fight Song

CD2:
01 – Harness In Slums (Bob Weston Radio Mix, 1995)
02 – Telepathic Traffic (Alias Single, 1995)
03 – Don’t Believe The Good News (Alias Single, 1995)
04 – Smoking Pot In The Hot City (Esther Single, 1995)
05 – Mutes In The Steeple (Esther Single, 1995)
06 – Mark Price P.I. (Out of Print)
07 – Bacteria (The Speed of Cattle, 1995)
08 – Equinox (Unreleased John Coltrane Cover)
09 – (Big Joe and) Phantom 309 [Out of Print Red Sovine Cover]
10 – 1985 (Marathon Boombox Demo)
11 – Fabricoh Worksong (Marathon Boombox Demo)
12 – Nostalgia (Marathon Boombox Demo)
13 – Let The Loser Melt (Vee Vee 4-Track Demo)
14 – Underdogs Of Nipomo (Vee Vee 4-Track Demo)
15 – Nevermind the Enemy (Vee Vee 4-Track Demo)
16 – Don’t Believe The Good News (Vee Vee 4-Track Demo)

This is awesome -- EB goes to Taiwan for 6 mo., teaches EFL to some kids, hates it, finds renewed zeal for music. Love this guy!!
http://www.dirtylaundry.tv/video/dirty-laundry-eric-bachmann

(He credits the EFL failure with the AoL reunion in the interview, among other things)

cool will watch that

kinda bummed they ruined the cover art on Vee Vee for the reissue

Yeah, I was a little disappointed in that too. I like the new one too, but it should have been like the cover for the inside booklet instead, imho.

apparently the original artwork for everything except icky mettle was lost, so they tried to make lemonade

Why doesn't it surprise me that the people at Alias would lose something important like COVER ART? Joke ass label.

apparently the original artwork for everything except icky mettle was lost, so they tried to make lemonade

haha, okay, I hadn't heard that

Can't wait to see how they ruin All the Nation's Airports then.

http://www.mergerecords.com/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/store/images/catalog/MRG435.jpg

Track listing:
1. Strangled by the Stereo Wire
2. All the Nations Airports
3. Scenic Pastures
4. Worst Defense
5. Attack of the Killer Bees
6. Rental Sting
7. Assassination on X-mas Eve
8. Chumming the Ocean
9. Vocal Shrapnel
10. Bones of Her Hands
11. Bumpo
12. Form and File
13. Acromegaly
14. Distance Comes in Droves
15. Bombs Away

Bonus Disc:
1. Density
2. Little Jets
3. Strangled by the Stereo Wire (4-Track Demo)
4. All the Nations Airports (4-Track Demo)
5. Scenic Pastures (4-Track Demo)
6. Trilogy (4-Track Demo)
7. Assassination on X-Mas Eve (4-Track Demo)
8. Chumming the Ocean (4-Track Demo)
9. Vocal Shrapnel (4-Track Demo)
10. Bones of Her Hands (4-Track Demo)
11. Bumpo (4-Track Demo)
12. Form and File (4-Track Demo)
13. Acromegaly (4-Track Demo)
14. Distance Comes in Droves (4-Track Demo)
15. Bombs Away (4-Track Demo)
16. Density (4-Track Demo)
17. Little Jets (4-Track Demo)
18. There Has To Be Something (4-Track Demo)
19. Total Failure (4-Track Demo)

http://www.mergerecords.com/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/store/images/catalog/MRG445.jpg

Track listing:
1. Fashion Bleeds
2. Dead Red Eyes
3. I.N.S.
4. Perfect Time
5. Slick Tricks and Bright Lights
6. One Slight Wrong Move
7. Banging on a Dead Drum
8. Smokers in Love
9. After the Last Laugh
10. White Trash Heroes

Bonus Disc:
1. Jive Kata
2. Fashion Bleeds (4-Track Demo)
3. Dead Red Eyes (4-Track Demo)
4. Slick Tricks and Bright Lights (4-Track Demo)
5. One Slight Wrong Move (4-Track Demo)
6. Banging on a Dead Drum (4-Track Demo)
7. Smokers in Love (4-Track Demo)
8. After the Last Laugh (4-Track Demo)
9. White Trash Heroes (4-Track Demo)
10. Untitled and Forgotten (4-Track Demo)
11. Walk of Shame
12. Untitled
13. Whooh!

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YES! After nearly 15 years, I'll finally have a digital copy of "Jive Kata" at my disposal without the pops and hiss of the 7" recording.

I'm about 5% disappointed they didn't play Fashion Bleeds or anything else off WTH at the reunion gig I saw.

Wow, they didn't even do "White Trash Heroes"? Sucks.

I caught two of their farewell 1998 shows and it was played at one and not the other, so I guess I should consider myself lucky.

i think they played dead red eyes last year? not certain

i saw 2 gigs in chicago, first night they played dead red eyes, next night nothing off of white trash heroes, really wanted to hear "fashion bleeds"

They were basically going for all the fast punchy stuff so it would have fitted right in.

All The Nations Airports...that's one of the big momentum killing records. Coming after Vee Vee it sounded so flat

In 1996, yeah. Now I really love it.

always loved killer bees > rental sting

but yeah it's a wholly different thing really