ABOUT THIS ITEM

Remastered by Bob Weston and featuring new liner notes by MAGNET magazine editor Eric Miller, physical copies of Vee Vee will include sixteen bonus tracks and new cover art re-imagined by graphic artist Jay Ryan. Reissues of All the Nation’s Airports and White Trash Heroes will follow later in 2012. The first full-length produced by Bob Weston, Vee Vee was a slight departure from the previous bombastic noisepop that characterized Archers of Loaf’s previous work, and it proved that the band wasn’t just a flash in the pan.

The album became their best-selling album to date and landed them on the covers of most fanzines and at the top of college radio charts across the country. “Harnessed in Slums” and “Greatest of All Time” became anthems of the underground and led to successful tours with the Flaming Lips and Weezer. Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price formed Archers of Loaf in Chapel Hill, NC in 1991. Icky Mettle was the first of four studio albums for the band that seemed to personify what SPIN Magazine deemed "a tremendously optimistic time in underground music, that 15-minute period in the early 1990s when it looked like indie rock really might take over the world." The band never officially "broke up." Eric Bachmann had another project he was working on (Crooked Fingers) and the grind of the traditional album cycle and touring started to weigh on their desire to continue making music together.

Over the last 13 years, the band have kept in touch with each other and over the last couple years the band members began to develop an itch that needed to be scratched. They got together to practice a few times in late 2010, and things clicked much better than expected, so they decided to dip their toes in the water by performing the secret show in January 2011 at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC with the Love Language. The show proved they hadn't really missed a beat, and so a larger tour was booked in mostly smaller venues to replicate the raw live experience for which the band had always been highly regarded.

Disc 1:
1. Step Into The Light
2. Harnessed In Slums
3. Nevermind The Enemy
4. Greatest Of All Time
5. Underdogs Of Nipomo
6. Floating Friends
7. 1985
8. Fabricoh
9. Nostalgia
10 Let The Loser Melt
11. Death In The Park
12. The Worst Has Yet To Come
13. Underachievers March And Fight Song….

Disc 2:
1. Harnessed In Slums ’95 (Bob Weston Radio Mix, 1995)
2. Telepathic Traffic (“Harnessed In Slums” Single, Alias, 1995)
3. Don’t Believe The Good News (“Harnessed In Slums” Single, Alias, 1995)
4. Smoking Pot In The Hot City (7” Single, Esther, 1995)
5. Mutes In The Steeple (7” Single, Esther, 1995)
6. Mark Price P.I. (Out Of Print)
7. Bacteria (The Speed Of Cattle, Alias, 1996)
8. Equinox (unreleased) (J. Coltrane)
9. (Big Joe And) Phantom 309 (out Of Print) (T. Faile)
10. 1985 (Marathon Boombox Demo)
11. Fabricoh (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)